As one of the representatives of classic martial arts novels, Jin Yong spent most of his life in swords, lights, swords, shadows, and sounds and horses. But what few people know about other than that is that Mr. Jin Yong has another big hobby, that is, chess. For Go, he lamented, "Go training has a different revelation for me. One of the tricks is "change", the other is "slow", and the magic of which requires people to meditate and taste carefully. He believes that Go can help people have a deeper understanding of life.
Jin Yong is also very virtuous in chess, and he has never had a solipsistic mind. In his later years, when he played against Wu Qingyuan, who was known as the "Chess Sage", he did not hesitate to praise him at all, and generously evaluated the other party as a grandmaster with philosophical ideas and a background in enlightenment.
At the age of 60, Jin Yong admired the superb level of professional chess player Nie Weiping and did not hesitate to worship Nie Weiping, who was dozens of years younger than himself, as a teacher, which was admirable.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > "young" master Nie Weiping</h1>
Nie Weiping is a well-known professional chess player and coach in the Chinese Weiqi community, and also the vice chairman of the Weiqi Association and the director of the technical committee, and he has many titles related to Go.
But from the perspective of titles aside, his Go skills are certainly not behind, and from the fact that he is 28 years younger than Jin Yong and has insisted on being worshiped as a master by Jin Yong, it is enough to see the depth of his skills.
Born in 1952 in Shen County, Hebei Province, Nie Weiping loved Go from an early age due to the influence of his father, and often played against people at the age of nine.
While studying hard, he also received guidance from Zhang Futian, Lei Jihua, Chen Zude and other famous teachers, so in a short period of time, his chess skills improved a lot at a young age. At the age of ten, Nie Weiping won the championship at the Junior Go Tournament held in Beijing, and began his Go life.
Later, in the context of the times, he spent a period of rich experience and experience. It was not until 1972 that Nie Weiping finally ended his life as a young man, and when he returned to Beijing, he picked up Go again, and when the Chinese Chess Academy was rebuilt, Nie Weiping was unsurprisingly selected.
In 1974, a delegation from the Kansai Chess Academy of Japan visited, and in the nine-dan game with Naoto Miyamoto, who had set a record of six consecutive wins, Nie Weiping won consecutive victories and showed his strength. He then won the Chinese Go Championship five times in a row from 1975 to 1981.
During this time, he won almost all the domestic chess championships, which is called the "era of Nie Weiping" in the history of Chinese Go. Nie Weiping was also eventually awarded the Nine Dan Chess Player, and his peak era came.
During the 1980s, when China's development was still very backward, Nie Weiping was re-elected as the main player for several consecutive terms in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, and repeatedly made great contributions, achieving a major breakthrough in the victory of Chinese chess players over "Japanese super-first-class chess players" and putting the honor of the Chinese team to the peak.
Just when Nie Weiping was 33 years old, the 61-year-old Mr. Jin Yong insisted on paying homage to him regardless of the difference in age in order to improve his chess skills, and Jin Yong, who was deeply adhering to the traditional Chinese morality at that time, also wanted to perform the ritual of three kneels and nine prayers with him. Although he was finally stopped by Nie Weiping, every time they met after that, Jin Yong would call the other party "Master".
These two are also worthy of being masters and apprentices, and in addition to the competition, Nie Weiping's personality performance is obviously with Jin Yong's chivalry. He met his friend Shen Junshan, who had the title of one of the "Four Princes", in Jin Yong's home, and Nie Weiping thought that this was the fate of all of them.
He compares this friendship to Liu Zhengfeng and qu Yang, the elder of the Demon Sect in Jin Yong's "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", who are hostile to each other but still use music to form a friendship, but the difference between them is a chessboard.
After many years of separation, when he saw Shen Junshan again, he was already a thing and a person, and when he saw the other party lying sick in bed, Nie Weiping was mournful, and he wrote at the head of the bed:
"Look forward to a miracle, and then relive the beauty of the past."
This passage contains his strong desire and profound remembrance, just like the hermit hero in Jin Yong's book, when he talks about the jianghu to people, he reveals his regret and obsession.
In 1999, Nie Weiping was named one of the "Top Ten Outstanding Figures in the New Chinese Chess World", and he left an immortal mark in history.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Showa chess saint Wu Qingyuan</h1>
Nie Weiping once said:
"What I admire most about Mr. Wu Qingyuan is that at all times, he always maintains a childlike heart for Go and never hesitates to teach his descendants."
Jin Yong also said:
"There are two people I admire the most, one is the ancient Fan Li, and the other is the present Person Wu Qingyuan."
These evaluations seem to be not high today, so what kind of person is Wu Qingyuan, who can make these people feel admired? This also starts with the last century.
Born in 1914 in Fujian Province, Wu Qingyuan played chess with his father and showed outstanding talent in Go in his early years. At the age of 11, Wu Qingyuan became a chess player under the valve of the Beiyang Army, and often came and went to the "Laijin Yuxuan Chess Table" where many social celebrities gathered. At the age of 14, he officially began his go career in Japan.
By 1933, Wu Qingyuan, who was only 19 years old at the time, played against the famous chess player Ben Yinfang Xiuya, and in the theory of Go, his self-created "new layout" ideas aroused strong repercussions from the public, thus opening a new chapter in the history of Go.
Since then, in the ten years after Wu Qingyuan became a Japanese citizen, he swept through thousands of armies, defeated almost all the super-first-class chess players of his generation in the "Juban Lifting Chess", and created the myth of the Go world, and he was known as the "Showa Chess Sage". In 1950, Wu Qingyuan was promoted to the highest Go dan position in the ninth dan class.
However, in his later years, he focused his main energy on promoting backward progress, developing Go with China, and promoting the internationalization of Go. With a lifelong realization, he came up with a bold idea, that is, the "chess of six" that combines art and ideas in the 21st century, which has brought modern Go to a new level.
Not only that, before the first Ying's Cup, of which Wu Qingyuan was the chief referee, there were many famous chess players who disputed the rules, but he tried to overcome the public opinion: the non-conformity of the spell can only be verified by the game. His persistence eventually enabled the Ying Cup to be held smoothly.
Later, Wu Qingyuan wrote in his autobiography "The Spirit of Zhong":
"In order to be one step closer to the truth, I hope to live to be 100 years old. In order to fulfill the mission of Go and the desire to achieve international friendship through Go, I will ask myself to study day and night. "
After retiring, Wu Qingyuan also wrote a memoir according to his memories, "Friends of Yiwen", which is based on the culturally similar Chinese and Japanese countries and tells the real situation behind the legendary story he created.
In his lifetime, Wu Qingyuan successfully completed the transformation from "God of War" to "Chess Saint", he not only showed superb and superb chess skills, but also became the promoter and practitioner of the world Go revolution.
These performances all reflect the big pattern of a chess player, making people understand that Go is not a trail, but an avenue. In this regard, Jin Yong said:
"His yi art, with a background of philosophical thought and enlightenment, can be called a generation of great masters. Masters are common, but grand masters are rare in thousands of years. "
The reason why Wu Qingyuan has such a high status in Jin Yong's heart is because when Jin Yong was seven years old learning chess, the books he used were Wu Qingyuan's "Black Layout" and "White Layout", so this name also became a god-like existence in Jin Yong's heart.
He compares Wu Qingyuan to the character Feng Qingyang in his book "Smiling Proud of the Rivers and Lakes", because Wu Qingyuan's chess game and Feng Qingyang's moves are the same, and they can also be ever-changing by opponents, as the sentence describes: "The lonely nine swords, endless changes." "Innovation is taken to the extreme, so no one can beat it."
Later, in Jin Yong's "A Historic Game of Chess", he described Wu Qingyuan's Go story in a colorful way, and one of the games with Xiuya was described as follows:
"When the two sides descended to one hundred and forty or fifty hands, the situation was basically settled, but Wu Qingyuan occupied a huge piece in the lower left. However, after 15 hands, the other party made a fierce and ingenious son, invaded Wu Qingyuan's sphere of influence, and the final result showed that Xiuya almost won a son, and the dignity of Ben in fang Xiuya was finally barely maintained! Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. "
Jin Yong's admiration for Wu Qingyuan cannot be summed up in three words. He believes that the most important aspect of the Go culture festival is to create an atmosphere, and whether it can cultivate talented chess players is secondary, after all, the top masters like Wu Qingyuan can be encountered but not sought. He watched every game of Wu Qingyuan and wrote an article for this purpose:
"Not long ago, I saw a Japanese magazine published in Beijing, "People's China", which introduced Go with a game of fan xiping and Shi Ding'an, and the chess strength is indeed rare in ancient and modern times, and only the modern Wu Qingyuan can reach it."
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > combination of chess and chivalry - Jin Yong</h1>
Although Jin Yong admires many chess players, he has his own different views on chess. In the 1930s, when Wu Qingyuan killed all the invincibles in the Japanese ring, Jin Yong was just starting to play chess pieces.
Because Jin Yong's Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas have always been popular for Go, he has paid a lot of attention to Go since he was a child, and his hometown of Haining has played chess saints Fan Xiping and Shi Ding'an in the Qing Dynasty.
In addition, in Jin Yong's home, his grandfather also specially opened a place to play chess with people, and there were two lines written on the outside: "People's hearts are not counted, and the national hand has a time to lose." This kind of embodiment has planted a seed in the heart of the young Jin Yong.
In Jin Yong's eyes, the chessboard pattern constructed by the black and white chess pieces is like the jianghu in the martial arts world, which is fascinating. He has made it clear about the relationship between the two:
"I am often asked about the various processes of playing Go, and I think that in terms of influence and relationship, the reasoning part of playing Go is closely related to the organizational part of creating a martial arts novel, including the structure and process."
Therefore, in Jin Yong's pen, there are many descriptions of Go, and you can often see characters who use chess pieces as props, which is even more exciting.
For example, Chen Jiake in "Book of Swords and Enmity", Mu Sang Daochang in "Green Blood Sword", and Duan Yu, Duan Yanqing, Huangmei Monk and so on in "Tianlong Babu", although these characters have different personalities, they are all masters in one of the "chess".
In terms of chess, in the "Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", there is a "Zhenlong" residual chess piece that no one can solve as an examination paper, which initially overwhelmed many heroes and good men. In the end, unexpectedly, the pure-minded monk False Bamboo accidentally cracked it by mistake and obtained the lifelong skill of Wuxiazi.
This symbolic chess game actually represents Jin Yong's inner judgment of human nature. Chang Hao, who also studied Nie Weiping and was familiar with Jin Yong's works, commented on him in this way:
"The Go involved in Mr. Zhou's novels often does not contain competitive aspects, but more about life and philosophy."
Later, at the dinner of the Ahan Tongshan Cup China Go Open, Lin Jianchao, a comrade of the Weiqi Association, also said in an interview:
Jin Yong's theory is based on the understanding of "chess theory" and "chess way" to expound, through the understanding of life, martial arts, jianghu and other things to convey his concept, this sincerity is very touching. "
While burying his head in the head of the case for many years, Jin Yong also poured a lot of effort into improving his Go level. In his spare time, he would hold the chess book and play the score whenever he had the opportunity, and then he would not be ashamed to ask for advice. In his heart, as long as the chess skill is better than him, regardless of age, he can be called a "teacher".
In the cause of Go, he will also use his strength and fame to enhance the status of Chinese Go in the world.
"Master" Nie Weiping said:
"Jin Yong is not only a literary master, a titan in the martial arts novel world, but also an enthusiastic supporter of the Go cause, and through his wonderful depiction of Go in the novel, he makes people realize that his influence and contribution in this field are very great."
He believes that in Jin Yong's martial arts stories, in addition to the description of the rivers and lakes, it is more about popularizing China's excellent traditional cultural knowledge; not only in the moral feelings between the lines, but also in the cultural show. According to Nie Weiping's recollection, the most noteworthy thing is the Yanhuang Cup Chinese Go Tournament held by Jin Yong with Lin Haifeng, Shen Junshan and himself, which is an important move in the Weiqi community.
Not only that, Jin Yong also practiced and personally attended. Later, in order to thank Mr. Jin Yong for his strong support for the cause of Chinese Go, he was awarded the title of "Honorary Six Duan".
Although this martial arts literary hero has passed away, the works he left behind still affect every generation, whether in chess or literature, Jin Yong has done a good job.
One of his sentences is "The great hero is for the country and the people." How many people's blood and pride have been ignited; the later "chivalrous one, acting arbitrarily", has broken free from the bondage of many people's hearts. Now this sentence, why can't it become "the great hero is a chess saint"?
Just as the so-called "sword is like a dream, there is no regret in falling", a small chessboard on one side can also carry the feelings of Ping's shadow and happiness and revenge, and the black and white chess pieces show the true nature of chivalry between you and me.
Unlike many people in the reality of a corner of the "idle knocking chess pieces and falling lights and flowers", in the fantasy of sleepwalking in the rivers and lakes; Jin Yong's life, is a river and lake.