Today in history: October 7
There is a way that all history is contemporary history, and the major events that have happened today are only this one example, and at first when preparing the material, I still felt bland, who expected that with the process of this year's celebrity war, it became more and more intriguing. Frankly speaking of the 4th round of the celebrity battle the day before yesterday, it would be too interesting if Iiyama lost a tragic clean sheet. Of course, the reality is that Ikuyama pulled back a point, and there is still suspense in the attribution of celebrities, in fact, even if Ikuyama really reversed in the end, it did not hurt our respect for Takao Sōji in the slightest.
In 2010, in the 4th round of the 35th Japan Celebrity Battle Challenge, Yuta Iyama defeated Takao Shinji in the black mid-game.
This year's challenge was born between Takao Seiji and Zhang Xu, a former celebrity who was picked down by Ieyama the previous year. Zhang Xu was defeated by Satoshi Yuki in the second set, but the direct dialogue was Zhang Xu's defeat of Takao, interrupting the opponent's winning streak. The stalemate reached the final round of Takao Satoshi defeated Satoshi Yuki, but Zhang Xu was defeated by Masaki Koji, who was at the bottom of the ranking and had been relegated early, so that Takao directly won the right to challenge with 7 wins and 1 losses.
For Yuta Iyama, the first title defense in his life can meet Takao, which is really an ideal opponent. Because as of the start of the challenge, Inoyama held the absolute advantage of the 8:1 matching record against Takao in the official match, which can be described as how to win. This time, The Seven Chess Takao also had no choice but to face the bitter hand, and was directly dropped by Iyama for four sets of zero sheets. A month later, Iniyama, who had never won a chess match in a challenger decision battle, met Takao again in the chess battle, and easily and happily got his opponent, but he had a heart. The score between Iyama and Takao was widened to 15:1 at the highest level. At that time, Iyama Yuta was just over 21 years old, and Takao was 34 years old, although everyone understood that the future would be Iyama sooner or later, but in the face of the debut of Iyama, he lost like this, and when looking for a candidate who could compete with Iyama, Takao Gentori was probably the name that was first excluded.
As time went into 2011, everything started to look different. The two met again in the 11-year chess holy battle, but Takao won, during which Time Takao even gave Iyama a three-game winning streak. In 13 years, Takao won the right to challenge Honinbo with a 4:4 draw with Inyama since 11 years, and unfortunately lost seven sets. Then, in early 14 years, Inoyama, who holds six crowns, set out to capture the only fish that slipped through the net, but was defeated by Takao 5.5 5 in the battle decided by the Challengers of the Ten Dan Battle. Jingshan, who was eager to achieve the great cause of full crown domination, was severely blocked. At the end of the year, Takao and Daisuke Murakawa took advantage of the fire to rob and take advantage of the Ten Duan Battle of Iyama to be eliminated again, and the opportunity for bad emotions was pried away tengen and the throne respectively, which once reduced the territory of Izuyama to four crowns. During that time, Takao stressed on countless occasions that "my mentor, Mr. Hideyuki, has set a record for the oldest age to win the throne at the age of 67, and I will do my best to catch up." In the face of the most terrible strong man in the history of Japan's title war, Takao's words are tantamount to publicly expressing his devotion to Inoyama to the end.
However, it was Yuta Iyama after all, who attacked and defended Ino and Inoyama in 15 years, and fought 12 chess battles in the Celebrity Tengen War, resulting in the vengeful Iyama blowing Takao 7:0. At the end of April this year, Iizan finally got his wish, and in early May, the first person to climb the Honinbo challenge seat to ask for advice from the Seven Crowns was still Takao, but unfortunately he won one set before being swept by the gentleman. No one will ever harshly blame Takao again at this point, and whoever ever thought that Takao was still full of vitality. In the ongoing celebrity battle, Takao's unexpected three consecutive wins forced Iiyama into a desperate situation, counting the current 3:1 score of the celebrity battle, the historical hand-to-hand ratio between Takao and Izuyama was updated to 17:35. Think about the starting point of 1:15 at the beginning, and the 13-year age difference between the two, no matter what the final result of this year's celebrity battle, whether Takao can become the destroyer of the Seven Crowns Puzzle, he is no longer worthy of the teacher, worthy of the show.
If you only compare the number of champions, Takao can probably only accompany the last seat in the Heisei Four Heavenly Kings (he has to get this celebrity to talk about whether to overtake Naoki Hane), but if measured by Iyama, Takao is at least the most determined and effective resistance. In middle school, I paid attention to e-sports, and the buddies who played interstellar liked to say "we can't fight interstellar for a lifetime, but we can be friends for a lifetime", which seems to have been borrowed by many fields later. Go is not the case, chess can be the next life. As a chess fan, it is necessary to understand the story that is happening in Takao. So if one day a bear child asks you with a disdainful face, "The same is less than 20 years old peak, 25 years old downhill, please ask in addition to the bonus fame is far less than can not grass powder, the difference between Go and e-sports where is the difference", you will not be speechless.