Cover news reporter Chen Ganlu
On October 30, the 3rd China-Japan-Han Nie Weiping Cup Go Masters in 2021 landed in Du Fu Caotang, Chengdu. Like 2020, this year's competition is also a team competition, also online, chess Saint Nie Weiping Jiudan with Changgu Gaotuan, "Cosmic Stream" Wugong Masaki Jiudan and South Korea's Cao Li Master and Apprentice will appear in this competition, the old, middle, young and young generations of chess players gathered, bringing a Go feast for chess fans and friends.
The China-Japan-Korea Nie Weiping Cup Go Masters tournament was established in 2019 and is the first game in the history of Chinese Go to be named after a chess player. As a traditional tournament in the "chess city" of Chengdu, the third China-Japan-Korea Nie Weiping Cup Go Masters in 2021 fell du fu caotang.
This year's Masters tournament was upgraded again, and a total of 15 outstanding chess players from the three countries were invited to participate. There are not only representatives of the 50s, 70s and 80s in the Go world, but also veteran female chess players and emerging post-00s teenagers. The Chinese team was led by Nie Weiping, the "Chess Saint", with his disciples Chang Hao and Gu Li, the "newcomer king" Tu Xiaoyu, and the female national player Zhang Xuan; the Japanese team was led by Masaki Takemiya, one of the former "Six Supers", led by Keigo Yamashita, one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Heisei", as well as Kono Rin, Fukuoka Hangtaro and female general Kihisa Aoki; the Korean team once again sent Cao Kao-hyun Lee Chang-ho's apprentices, as well as Cho Han-seong, Moon Min-jong and Lee Jingyuan to compete.
Before the game, Qisheng Nie Weiping also briefly gave a speech, "Coming to Chengdu has the feeling of going home, the first time I came to Chengdu was in 1965, I can't calculate how many times I have come, but every time I have been deeply impressed, the most profound is this time, I hope to achieve good results this time." ”
The Masters were held in the scenic Du Fu Caotang for three days from October 30 to November 1. The game adopts the rules of the Go competition approved by the Chinese Weiqi Association, the black chess stickers are 3 and 3/4 sub, and the game adopts the team fixed platform system, with 5 players per team in each round. Each round counts 2 points for winning a round and 0 points for a negative round. The highest score of the game is counted as 2 points, the low score is counted as 0 points, and each team with the same score is counted as 1 point; if there is a chess game in which the rules cannot determine the winner or loser, the game is treated according to the chess game, and each score is counted as 1 point. On October 30, the first match between the Chinese team and the Japanese team was played. On the first day of the match, Nie Weiping regrettably lost to his old rival Masaki Takemiya, and Gu Li defeated Kono Rin with half an eye. In the end, the Chinese team lost to the Japanese team in the first round.
The relevant person in charge of the Chengdu Municipal Sports Bureau said that the Masters Tournament gathers the famous masters of Go from China, Japan and South Korea, which is an important platform for cultural exchanges and development and inheritance, and has now become a traditional event in Chengdu, the "Chess City", which has effectively promoted the construction of Chengdu World Tournament City.
Since the first tournament, the Masters has come to its third year, and the scale of the participants has also expanded from 8 senior chess players such as Nie Weiping, a Chinese "chess saint", Koichi Kobayashi, one of Japan's "six supers", and Liu Changhe and Xu Bongsu, one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of South Korea, to the four generations of chess players playing in the same hall. In fact, the development of Chinese Go today is inseparable from the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament more than 30 years ago and the later Sino-Japanese-Korean Go Competition, and Nie Weiping's 11 consecutive victories in the first four Sino-Japanese Go Tournaments and his later influence on Chinese Go have earned him the honorary title of "Chess Saint". The reason why Chengdu founded this tournament together with the China Weiqi Association is also to hope that it can better inherit the Culture of Go and make Chinese Weiqi better develop.
On the first day of the nie competition, the famous Go host Wang Yuan and Hua Xueming, vice chairman of the China Weiqi Association, also jointly hung up a game of chess in Du Fu Caotang Daya Hall, bringing the first round of Chinese and Japanese battle commentary to chess fans, attracting many Go fans to stop and watch.
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