Original Address:https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/serial/jidai/20210120-OYT8T50088/
Hara: [Witness of the Times] Living with Go Zhao Ji < 28 The final life > can I enjoy life?
Excerpt from: Yomiuri Shimbun
Author: Zhao Zhixun Honorary Celebrity
Translation and Finishing: Making Excuses for Quiet 4 months is finally over
A little earlier, I was troubled by one thing: "Go, when am I going to play?" Because I think that chess players who have created an era should not show their weak side to others as they get older. However, from the perspective of sumo wrestling, many players will always stand on the field until they are forced to go down from the level to the curtain. I think that attitude is very remarkable.
But which way I had to choose, I never got the answer I wanted. Half a year ago, I thought more about the former. So I said to Yutayoshi Iyama, "If you think my chess is too much to look at, tell me that I will retire." Of course, this has caused Iyama too much trouble, but recently my thinking has changed.
My hobbies are karaoke and golf, and I think my level is OK, but I don't know why, when I sing, the people around me say, "You don't sing anymore." But golf is fine. But compared to these two hobbies, the level of Go is not ashamed to show and the public. So I think it's better that I play chess like singing karaoke and golf.
After all, I still have a lot to do in the future. I love nagging, I like to make people laugh, and I want to experience the world of art. Not only Is it Go, I also want to learn about the bigger world.
Zhao Zhixun, an honorary celebrity who likes to laugh, his personality is vividly displayed in the "Troubled Paradise, Zhixun's Life Talk Room" in "Weekly Magazine". A single edition of this column was also published in 4 volumes.
I don't think I personally chose my own life. By the time I came back, I had come to Japan and wanted to become a professional chess player at the age of 10. After becoming a professional chess player, he said: "I can't go back to my hometown without taking celebrities." When I was creating one project after another, I unconsciously passed more than 50 years. So, if I had the next life, I would never say, "I want to be a chess player."
If you want to become a professional chess player, you also have to decide for yourself after experiencing various things. Plus the world of Go is not easy to walk. Start practicing chess in your 10s, but you may not win even one championship in your career. But even if it's 1 championship, I think it's the same joy as the 75 championships I've won.
"If there is a next life, I want to choose my own path in life." If other people see this sentence, they will also think it is a very luxurious sentence.