The former "Seven Little Dragons" of Chinese Go once flourished, carrying countless hopes for chess fans. Shao Weigang, the eldest brother of the Seven Little Dragons. Born in 1973, he is a native of Shanghai, designated as the first dan in 1986, and promoted to the ninth dan in 1998. Shao Weigang was mentored by Ma Xiaochun and became famous in 1992 when he won the national individual championship. Since then, Shao Wei has just won domestic competitions such as newcomer Wang Zhan, NEC Cup, Friendship Cup and so on, with remarkable results.
In the international arena, Shao Weigang also had an outstanding performance, and in the sixth Fujitsu Cup, he defeated Liang Zaihao, becoming the only Chinese chess player to reach the quarterfinals. In the 3rd LG Cup in 1998, Shao Weigang was the two Korean masters of Lien Ke Lee Sedol and Liu Chang hyuk, reaching the quarterfinals, and then looking forward to a new breakthrough. The current LG Cup Chinese and Japanese chess players performed well, with three each advancing to the quarterfinals, where six Chinese and Japanese players played each other in the quarterfinals, and Lee Chang-ho against Chow Chun-hoon of Chinese Taipei.
Shao Weigang's opponent was Yamada Norizo, the japanese throne holder at the time. Yamada was very active in both Domestic and International Competitions in those years, and the following year of the LG Cup, he reached the final four of the 4th Samsung Cup, and the next year he reached the final of the Samsung Cup.
Will Shao Weigang be able to break through the danger and reach the final four of the World Series?
The fourth LG Cup quarterfinals
Shao Weigang won the black mid-game victory over Yamada Norisei
Date of the match: 26 October 1998
Born in 1972, Yamada is the same age as Shao Weigang, and the two have played each other as early as the 1990 Sino-Japanese confrontation, and Shao Weigang won.
In the first two rounds of this LG Cup, Yamada won consecutive victories over Lee Sung-jae and Leung Jae-ho, two South Korean powerhouses.
First spectrum 1-50
Shao Wei just took the lead in black.
Black 7 two high hanging, white 10 back concise.
White 14 continues to be steady, and Yamada Norizo has the intention of not fighting and yielding. At that time, the LG Cup had already implemented the rule of 6 and a half meshes of black paste, and the situation of playing white chess more loosely appeared from time to time.
Black 17 below is a positive stereotype.
For the exchange of white 24 thorns or less, white chess is not necessarily cheap.
Both the attack and defense on the upper side are very solid, and the black chess piece holds the upper right corner, and the first step is fully efficient.
White 40 is good, and the trend surrounds the left side, but the vitality of the three sons such as white 24 suddenly decreases.
Black 47 jumps up, and the scale below is grand.
The merits of The White 48 are difficult to judge.
Black 49 is intended to swallow the three sons of white chess on the left side of the whale.
Second Spectrum 1-50 (i.e. 51-100)
Black 1 and 3 consolidate the upper right corner, but at this time it is a slow hand.
White 4 jump huge.
Black 7 is better to go up all the way and make up the chess.
The white 8 is compressed below the black chess, and the situation is suddenly complicated.
However, the white 16 is a big fallacy, and at this time, the situation of white chess is open to suppressing the middle abdomen.
Black 17 turned the point, but then black 19 went 20 places as well.
White 20 saw the needle in the seam, entering the stage of attack and defense with a lot of clues, and the black chess was more difficult.
The white 34 should belong to the beating general in the second reading, and the black 35 is sensitive.
Black 39 first hand tiger, 41 cover, attack and defense reversal.
Black 43 is not as sharp as the right side, and the actual battle is still a scuffle.
Third Spectrum 1-29 (i.e. 101-129)
The white 6 pulled down and swallowed the upper left black chess piece, and the harvest on the ground was huge.
Shao Weigang had no choice but to plot the White Chess Dragon.
White 18 mentioned that Yamada misread the dragon above dead or alive.
Black 19 pulled, 23, 25 first hand, white chess dragon is not alive.
By black 29, the chess game came to an abrupt end.
Shao Weigang quickly defeated Noriko Yamada and reached the final four of the World Series for the first time, making a major breakthrough in his career. In the other two Sino-Japanese confrontations, Ma Xiaochun defeated Zhao Zhixun and Yu Bin to eliminate Norio Kudo, and the Chinese chess players broke into the LG Cup semi-finals for the first time and joined forces to encircle and suppress Lee Chang-ho, who defeated Zhou Junxun.
In the semi-finals, Shao Wei just met Lee Chang-ho, and he lost 2 and a half eyes to the white, and regrettably failed to advance to the final. In the final, Lee Chang-ho defeated Ma Xiaochun 3-0, and his hegemony was indestructible.
Shao Weigang took the black 129 hand to win the yamada nori sansheng
Shao Weigang, a young student
Shao Wei just got married
Shao Weigang played Rui Naiwei in the LG Cup qualifiers