At the beginning of the 20th century, the Korean media selected the top ten magic hands of the 20th century, and the clever hands of Lee Chang-ho, Cho Hwan-hyun, Yoo Chang-hyuk, Oh Ching-won, and Cho Ji-hoon were selected in turn, followed by Sakata Eiko's clever hand. But Lee Chang-ho, a Legend of the Korean Generation, later said: "If it were not for the Selection of Korean Chess Players, this hand would have become the greatest player in history." Why did Sakata Eiko's clever hand get such a high evaluation from Lee Chang-ho?
Eio Sakata (Einan Sakata 15 February 1920 – 22 October 2010) was a famous Japanese Go player. In his lifetime, he won 64 championships, 14 Times japanese chess academy players' championships, and 11 times NHK Cup champion. The chess style is sharp, and it is known as "Razor", "Zhi lonely Sakata" and "Great Sakata".
Sakata Eio was the greatest chess player in the Japanese chess world after Wu Qingyuan, and once held all the titles in the chess world. Sakata is a thin chess player, extremely aggressive, far-reaching and exquisite, and often has a wonderful trick to make people shoot cases.
In 1983, the 63-year-old Eio Sakata won his 64th title, and on March 13, 1990, the 70-year-old Eio Sakata defeated 23-year-old Chinese chess player Yu Bin in the fifth Sino-Japanese Go Tournament. In 1990, at the age of 70, Sakata almost reached the final of the 45th Honinfang Tournament. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Eio Sakata, who was in his 50s and 60s, won 12 consecutive victories over the young Zhao Zhixun, which was arguably the most memorable memory of Zhao Zhixun's career.
Hideyuki Fujisawa (June 14, 1925 – May 8, 2009) was a famous Japanese Go player who reached the age of 57 in 1982. In 1988, at the age of 63, Masao Kato was eliminated to enter the final four of the first Ying Cup. In 1992, at the age of 67, he defeated Koichi Kobayashi to defend his title of Japanese Go throne, becoming the oldest Go champion in history.
Hideyuki Fujisawa has an upright layout, claiming to be the first in the world in the first fifty hands; he is thick and thick, just the opposite of Sakata Eio; the mid-game combat method is gorgeous and bold, and he is called "gorgeous Hideyuki". In major competitions, Hideyuki Fujisawa often bursts with amazing strength. Of the three great chess games of the twentieth century, Hideyuki Fujisawa occupied the second.
Eio Sakata and Hideyuki Fujisawa belong to the same era of chess players, but these two chess players have different styles of chess, and their understanding of winning and losing and Go aesthetics is also very different. Hideyuki Fujisawa and Eio Sakata have more fiery personalities, so when the two meet, they are always sword-fighting, gunpowder is very strong, and the mutual disobedience of the two is not only on the chessboard, but also in their usual speech. Hideyuki Fujisawa once openly declared: "It is a shame that someone like him (Sakata) dares to be the first in Japan."
The first battle between the two was in the 5th high-ranking battle in 1960, when Hideyuki Fujisawa won 3-1. Since then, the prelude to the two men's competition for chess has been unveiled. In the first celebrity war, Sakata Einan and Wu Qingyuan will become celebrities who win, but the two accidentally play a japanese game, which accidentally makes Hideyuki Fujisawa a celebrity. Unconvinced, Sakata Eio believes that Hideyuki Fujisawa is a celebrity who has been picked up, and the first celebrity should be his own, and Hideyuki Fujisawa will certainly not agree. The relationship between the two was therefore quite tense, even to the point of intolerable water and fire, and for several years the two did not speak to each other.
In the 20 years from 1959 to 1979, the two met 12 times in the championship final, with Sakata having an overwhelming 9-3 defeat and a 53-33 total result of Sakata vs. Fujisawa. The number of champions is 64 to 23, it can be said that in terms of results, Sakata occupies an overwhelming advantage, but when he was young, Hideyuki Fujisawa was overly addicted to casinos and sake stores, involving too much energy and affecting the results.
The history of the championship battle between Eio Sakata and Hideyuki Fujisawa:
In 1960, the 5th issue of the highest position battle was won 3-1,
In the 6th period of 1961, the highest position was 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss,
In 1961, he won the 8th Japan Chess Academy Championship 2-1.
1963 Issue 2 Celebrity Battle 4-3 win,
1964 11th NHK Cup win 1-0,
1964 3rd Celebrity Battle 4-1 win,
In the 21st issue of 1966, Ben Yinfang won 4-0,
In the 7th issue of 1968, he won 3-1 in the 10-dan battle,
In 1968, the 5th issue of the professional ten masters won 2-1,
In 1968, the 14th Battle of the Throne was won 2–0.
1970 18th Battle of the Throne 2-0,
In 1979, he won the 1st Japan Airlines Cup Quick Chess Tournament 1–0.
Hailed by Lee Chang-ho as the greatest player in the history of human Go, he was born in the 6th japanese supreme decision battle to challenge the first game of goku, with Hideyuki Fujisawa playing against Eio Sakata.
To the figure: to black 73, the middle abdomen of the white chess piece has not yet been settled, and the white chess piece below is not alive. White must not only prevent the black chess A position from breaking, but also consider the eye position and way out of the white chess pieces under the bottom, and dare not bump into the thick outer black chess pieces, otherwise it will harm the middle abdomen baizi, the situation at this time The white chess pieces can be described as a dilemma, and the situation is extremely passive. What kind of means will Sakata Eio, who is good at curing loneliness, use in front of Hideyuki Fujisawa, who is good at attacking dragon slayers, to turn the tide?
The tor of The White 74 is praised by Lee Chang-ho as the greatest magic hand in the history of human Go, and it is also a hand that strives to turn the tide and come back to life. According to the game record, the thinking time of the white 74 hands is 3 points, and the corresponding black 75 hands are 2 points. This shows that Sakata Eiko has already calculated the change in this hand, and Hideyuki Fujisawa's 2-minute thinking shows that even so, we must resolutely fight back.
So what's so wonderful about the White 74 Hand? First of all, if black 1 blocks and white 2 squeezes, the punch section of black 3 is no longer established.
If the black is in the 1st place to fight back, then the white 2 is broken, and if the following black continues to chase, the black chess suddenly collapses at 6 o'clock in the white.
The actual combat black chess had to be long in the 75th place, and the following two sides formed a conversion, and the white chess piece killed the black horn and preemptively strengthened the last weak piece of chess in the 86th bit, and the battle was a great success.
The two sides of the game killed extremely fiercely, and in the end, Bai Qi's 1-eye victory.
Two great chess players with different styles and opposing personalities have joined forces to dedicate the greatest magic hand in the history of human Go, which can be called a brilliant chapter and a fortunate event in the history of world Go.