"I'll give myself a hundred points!" Ke Jie, a 17-year-old teenager in Zhejiang, is so confident. "I like the voice singer Li Wenqi!" He was so brash again. "Let your opponent's blood splash five steps!" He was so heroic. These are all the media reporters' accounts of Ke Jie after ke jie won the world championship for the first time. Indeed, Ke Jie, who is sunny and atmospheric, is so endearing.
Ke Jie, as China's second eight-time champion, is a top player familiar to chess fans across the country. Today's text is not to study his flamboyant personality, heroic language, and superb chess skills, but to explore the names of his many nicknames and their origins.
Some chess players are very pitiful and do not have a nickname; some masters only have one or two "honorific titles"; of course, there are also big players who have a lot of aliases, such as the famous Nie Weiping Jiudan, there are titles such as "Mr. Three Ears", "Chess Saint", "Nie Whirlwind", "Nie Dazui", "Nie Cannon" and so on.
Ke Jie and Nie Weiping
But if you want to evaluate the number of nicknames, Ke Jie can definitely enter the top three, or even rank first. Let's count his names: Ke Jie the Great, Ke Zhen Evil, Ke Qi Scum (Ke Sc), Lurker, Secret Agent, Ke Daxia, I Ke (Worm Shell), and so on. These are known, landed, and perhaps some of the names are still on the road, not known.
So who gave these trumpets to Ke Jie? Let me elaborate. First, Ke Jie the Great. This title is very high-end and atmospheric, and it has the connotation of expecting him to dominate the world chess world. The first time I saw this name was in a news reporter's report after Ke Jie won the world championship for the first time. The reporter said in the article that chess fans call Ke Jie so, because the young Ke Jie, at the age of 17 years and 4 months, reached the top of the World Series, second only to Lee Chang-ho and Fan Tingyu, it may be that the majority of chess fans eagerly expect Ke Jie to do more, so they gave him this magnificent title.
Second, Ke Zhen evil. Ke Jie was very early because of his greed, and his performance in the national junior team was relatively outdated, often the last place in the internal competition. Later, when he grew up, he was ashamed and then brave, suddenly enlightened, coupled with concentration and diligence, his achievements improved by leaps and bounds, and he became extremely high in the national junior team, so his friends gave him a nickname "Ke Zhen Evil".
Ke Jie spoke
Third, Ke Qi slag (Ke slag). This is Ke Jie's heartache after losing chess once, and he posted the following self-deprecating text under his own account in a self-media: I am a chess scum. So chess fans and friends followed his meaning and called him Ke Qi Scum (Ke Scum).
Fourth, latent. This is the name of Ke Jie playing net chess on a certain Go network, and later gradually became an honorific title for him by chess fans, and was widely cited and praised.
Fifth, secret agents. This simplicity is latently derived. Lurkers, underground workers, aren't they spies. This is also the title of chess fans for him.
Sixth, Ke Daxia. This title should also be a journalist or chess fan. Ke Jie's breathless speech, sunny personality, flamboyant style and star-like temperament, very chivalrous, very similar to Jin Yong's martial arts master, is a nickname that I prefer. But there was a chess fan, somehow, left a message at the back of my text saying that he didn't like to call Ke Jie that way.
Young Ke Jie
Seventh, I Ke (volute). This is also the love name of chess fans for Ke Jie, I Ke, have their own people or their own family meaning, representing the chess fans' high recognition and love for him. The volute is a harmonic sound.
I don't know if the above has been all-encompassing, if there is a fish that has slipped through the net, please advise friends.
Writing this, I find a phenomenon that seems to be roughly proportional to the number of nicknames. South Korea's leading figures, in addition to Park Tinghuan, other big chess players such as Cho Hyun Hyun, Lee Chang Ho, Lee Sedol, Shin Jin-woo and so on, have many nicknames, such as Cho Kao Hyun has the titles of "Emperor of Go", "Soft Wind Fast Gun", "Cao Yanzi" and so on. China's Nie Weiping, as I mentioned earlier, Ma Xiaochun has nicknames such as "Demon Knife", "Ma Xiaofei", and "Flowing Stream", as are Chang Hao and Gu Li. Chess fans, do you think so?