On March 21, 2002, at the Shulan Hotel in West Gate, Chengdu, the first Chinese Go Southwest Chess Championship titled "Century Hongta Cup" ushered in the final final. After a fierce fast chess competition, the then 17-year-old Yang Yisi Duan Defeated Ding Wei Baduan, one of the "Seven Little Dragons", with 1 and 1/4 sons, and won the southwest chess championship for the first time.
Time slipped through 19 years. The 36-year-old Yang Yiliu looked back on the past and sighed a little, "At that time, I was relatively talented. It's just that if I'm not so greedy, I should have a better development on the road to professional Go. At that time, Yang Yi was undoubtedly a star of hope in the Chengdu chess circle, and after winning the first Southwest King Championship, the headline of the media report at that time was: "Yang Yi: I was born with Li Changhao", revealing a lot of domineering spirit between the lines. The king of Korea at the time, Lee Chang-ho, was born on July 29, 1975, and Yang Yize was born on July 29, 1984. In the hearts of this generation of chess players, Lee Chang-ho undoubtedly exists like a god. Having such a wonderful fate with Li Changhao undoubtedly doubled Yang Yi's confidence. It's just that "things backfire", 19 years later, Yang Yi said so.
Yang Yi recalled the first competition. "At that time, we had a lot of people in the Sichuan team, and the level was of course not as good as it is now. But the competition is also fierce. I remember that my teammate Liu Xi won the first set in the fourth stage, the Yunnan team Wang Yao won the fifth stage in the second set, the Guizhou team Nie Weiping won the third set in the ninth stage, and the Yunnan team Ding Wei won the fourth set in the eighth stage. I felt like I was in good shape and the race was easier. Later, the Southwest King's lineup is getting stronger and stronger, more than half of the world champions, and everyone is not good at winning the championship. ”
In that era, the Chinese chess world was still the world of Chang Hao and other "Seven Little Dragons", and it can be said that Yang Yi's championship still had a sufficient gold content. And Wang Yao of the Little Tiger Generation, in that era, and Gu Li were recognized as the two geniuses of the national youth team, both of whom played games well and had a high IQ. However, the results of the two are far apart in the end, and Yang Yi believes that this is because Gu Li's competition quality is outstanding, especially strong psychological quality.
At that time, the first Southwest King Tournament was still a slow chess game, and only the last game final was changed to a fast chess game in order to make the chess fans watch exciting and facilitate television broadcasting, using the 30-second one-hand rule of the Ahan Tongshan Cup.
"I'm excited to win for the first time." That year, Yang Yi also scored in the Samsung Fire Cup, and lost to Japan's Kobayashi Kyaw in the first round of the tournament.
The second Edition of the Southwest King, Sai Yang, once again reached the final four, losing to Gu Li in the semi-finals. In the final, Gu Li defeated Ding Wei to win the championship and crowned the Southwest King for the first time. This is also the only time that the world's eight-time champion Gu Li has won the Southwest King Championship. Yang Yi recalled that he "participated in at least 10 or more Southwest King's Tournaments." After the results were not good, the state was not good, and gradually did not participate. ”
Yang Yi studied from Chen Anqi Liudan from a young age, and then received the guidance of Song Xuelin Jiudan in the important stage of Chong's career, and made rapid progress, and later went to CITIC Wang Jiankun Seven Duan to learn chess, and then participated in the Weijia competition and got the help of Li Liang Liudan. He and Liu Xing, Wang Tan, Sheikh, Peng Quan, etc. are the same group of national players of similar age, and the relationship between them is also very good, but the results are not as good as theirs, "I grew up too smooth, and the national team selection is also very smooth." The grades were better than a while, and the grades were also ranked first. But soon they overtook me. I didn't work hard enough myself, and I didn't have enough computing power. And those top chess players, the computing power is particularly deep. I'm strong in layout, but lack the ability to make a final decision, and I lose the league in the second half of the game. I feel like I've had too little memory training, and deep memory is completely inadequate. ”
Recalling the past, Yang Yi couldn't help but sigh.
Yang Yi and Gu Li are good friends.
What he is still "indignant" about is that "obviously Gu Li and I often play together, and I don't see him training at all, but his results are just good." Even he had wondered if Gu Li was working silently when he couldn't see people. But he also had to admit that Gu li was extremely talented and efficient. His training for 3 or 4 hours a day is equivalent to 8 hours of training for the rest of the national team.
Ten years ago, Yang Yi returned to Chengdu from Beijing and turned coaching. Over the years, he spent most of his time with the Chongduan teenagers in Chengdu, wang Junxiao, Cheng Shijiao, Zhao Junzhe and others who had been in his key classes for several years. Yang Yi's teammate Li Jie, who is also the main player of the Chengdu Go team for many years, also returned to Chengdu from the national team shortly after Yang Yi, and then Li Jie chose to go to Hangzhou for development, as the coach of the Hangzhou Chess Academy, brought out a lot of Chong Duan teenagers, and now he is also establishing a family in Hangzhou and has a successful career. In contrast, Yang Yi stayed in Chengdu. In this regard, Yang Yi is also very calm: "I just like Chengdu, otherwise why would I sell my house in Beijing and return to Chengdu?" "The house he bought in Beijing for 2.38 million at that time would have doubled many times if it hadn't been sold." If I wanted to go to Hangzhou, I would have gone a long time ago. But I just love being in Chengdu. You see Guli has also returned to Chongqing. ”
More than ten years of teammates have a deep affection
"Life is like a dream, once a sea of vicissitudes." Looking back on the past years, Yang Yi is a natural optimist, "To sum up my career, it is a good talent, but the result is not satisfactory." But overall I am still very happy, life is short, always look to the future. I now feel that the body is the most important thing, and everything else is illusory. ”
Chengdu Daily Jinguan News Reporter Zhao Ting Courtesy of Yang Yi Chengdu Chess Academy Editor Wang Ling Proofreader Wang Juan