Chess masters participate in the Go Mixed Doubles Tournament
Jiang Quansheng, the head of the Chengdu Chess Academy
Cover news reporter Jia Zhiruo
In 2014, Changshu, Jiangsu Province, the 18th Chess King of New China was born! At the moment of the final game, Zheng Weitong, a young Sichuan general who had been fighting on the chessboard for a long time, raised his head and smiled at Jiang Quansheng, the president of the Chengdu Chess Academy and a chess master standing not far away- that smile crossed the history of the Sichuan Provincial Chess Team for more than 30 years as black as an iron curtain, which was extremely comfortable and incomparably real. Since then, Sichuan chess, together with the power of the newly promoted chess king Zheng Weitong, has become a force that no one can ignore in the Chu River Han Realm.
The boat was naturally straight to the bridgehead, and for many years, Jiang Quansheng had always believed in this. His lifelong dream was finally realized by Zheng Weitong, a student, and he had a deeper understanding of the topic of "wide and narrow" in the field of chess.
• What is wide?
When he was frustrated, he created the first Sichuan women's chess champion
In 1981, when Jiang Quansheng stepped onto the national individual competition as the coach of the Sichuan Women's Team, his heart was full of frustration, because the pressure was too great to cause technical deformation, and in the provincial selection competition the previous year, he was not selected... For the young and vigorous Jiang Quansheng, such a rare situation is almost intolerable. However, the moment of willow dark flowers came at the end of the women's individual competition, and Lin Ye, a sichuan female team member he tried his best to assist, actually killed a dawn in the strong hand Ru Lin and the national women's first-class master! Winning the championship with its head held high, this fantastic ending is the most happy to see the Sichuan Chess Team established in 1978, because in 1979, due to the tragic elimination in the preliminary round of the National Games, the Sichuan Provincial Sports Committee even had the idea of disbanding the Chess Team...
Many years later, Jiang Quansheng reviewed these and said: "In fact, with Lin Ye's strength, it was basically impossible to compare with Shan Xiali and others who represented the highest level of domestic women, but the competition was always accidental, and she and I were very well prepared in terms of layout, plus the different mood brought by the consecutive wins, she finally succeeded in winning the national women's championship!" Later, the Sichuan Provincial Sports Committee issued me a first-class merit medal, which may be the only one in the history of Sichuan chess, and it has been treasured at home to this day. Looking back now, if I hadn't been frustrated by the auditions a year ago, if I had participated in the competition as a member of the Sichuan Men's Team that time, objectively speaking, I might not have had this women's champion. The biggest insight that this incident gave me is that life is not too narrow, and the lost east is harvested, as long as you never lose heart, there are always some surprises waiting for you in life. ”
The Sichuan chess team, which had gone through the bottleneck period, changed the embarrassing fate of "disbanding" and stabilized, and in 1987, the Sichuan men's team composed of Jiang Quansheng, Li Aidong, Gan Xiaojin and Huang Youyi cut through the thorns in the men's team competition of the 1987 National Games, and finally won the sixth place, transforming into a traditional strong team.
• What is narrow?
Say goodbye to your dreams and go from professional chess player to chess manager
In the chess world, becoming a national champion and becoming a "super big" is the common dream of every professional chess player.
Jiang Quansheng is also like this, young primary school chess, extremely talented, struggle for many years, the best place in the national individual competition is sixth, but he has never been able to break the window paper with the super first-class chess player. He and Hu Ronghua, the "commander" of the chess world at that time, have always been good friends, and once when he talked about wine, Hu Ronghua sighed: "It is a pity to win the total victory, if you were born in Shanghai and had my help, I think you will definitely be able to win the national championship!" Jiang Quansheng was greatly encouraged, but even if he invested more efforts than ordinary people, he could only call Li Aidong and called "the double sword of Shuzhong" and dominate one side. The reason, Jiang Quansheng said in an interview with this reporter: "The level has indeed not reached that step, more importantly, my teacher is Jia Titao, Jia Laoxian went early, and later my brother Liu Jianqing also taught me for a period of time, and Teacher Liu is much older than me, that is to say, when my career chess reached the peak of my personal peak, there was no key driving force for coaching." At that time, there was no artificial intelligence to assist training, and it was difficult for professional chess players to break through. So in 1998, I felt that professional chess was about to move, and I was already thinking: In the future, when I retire, should I become a chess manager? After that, Jiang Quansheng, who was the head coach of the Sichuan Provincial Chess Team, served for six more years as the director of the chess and card club, which was a second-level legal entity under the Chengdu Chess Academy, and in the past six years, Jiang Quansheng has accumulated rare experience in chess management. At the end of 2012, the then president Xie Zurui was about to step down, and Jiang Quansheng became the executive vice president who presided over the work of the chess academy, and in 2013, he officially took office.
On the basis of the previous dean's solid foundation, Jiang Quansheng, who became the head of the Chengdu Chess Academy, has made great innovations in recent years and achieved a series of achievements - Zheng Weitong became the king of chess and won the national individual championship; Dang Yifei soared into the sky, winning the LG Cup World Chess Championship in early 2017, filling the gap for Sichuan in the field of Go; Go, chess, and chess now have Sichuan teams competing in the top domestic leagues, and each chess piece has a successor, and in addition, various competitions held by the Chengdu Chess Academy every year. According to statistics, the number of participants has exceeded one million, and the so-called national fitness, Chengdu Chess Academy has been at the forefront of the local area.
"In fact, every professional chess player will face the time when the career route is wide and narrow, and the speed of the replacement of the chess world is so fast, which is a natural law." Therefore, on this road where width and narrowness intersect, everyone must consider the transformation in advance. From the current situation, my personal transformation is undoubtedly more successful, I give my personal example, not complacent, but want to tell the future generations of the chess world: when you in the career path to a very narrow and narrow bottleneck that can not be broken, do not be discouraged, at that time, you need to see farther than others, but also to be prepared for the future. ”
• What is the width and narrowness of chess?
Start with "500 years of horse artillery competition"
AI is the way, is the technology of chess getting wider and wider, or is it getting narrower and narrower?
In this regard, Jiang Quansheng's answer was yes, and the wider he went, the wider he went. "Different from Go, the big picture of chess has slightly lower requirements for people, and I personally believe that artificial intelligence cannot create a new layout for chess, it can only find some blind spots in the subtle layout, and then give humans a rare technical supplement." But in the middle and back game, with the reduction of the number of pieces, with the improvement of the force on the plate, chess can be said to be wider and wider. This is the key time, and it is also the most test of the chess player's skill, so strictly speaking, the level of the endgame is higher than the opponent, and you can win the next game. This is also the secret of Lü Qin, Zhao Guorong, these veterans, who can still fight in the front line of chess, why? Because their level of endgame is very high, their skills are indeed not comparable to ordinary chess players. Jiang Quansheng said.
Of all the chess layouts, which is the most "wide" example? In this regard, Jiang Quansheng believes that it is "the head cannon against the screen horse", because from amateur beginners to professional top masters, this layout will be discharged, and the branch changes of this layout can be said to be all-encompassing, and it can also be said that no one can exhaust it so far. "Because this layout is difficult to control, and some changes are extremely dangerous, the average top master will not rush to use it." Let me give you an example, in 2014, when Zheng Weitong attacked Wang Tianyi in the final of the individual competition, he used this layout and finally successfully 'loaded' the opponent in and won the victory. Now Zheng Weitong is also a top master, you see his usual layout of the Xiangjia League, basically will not use the 'head cannon against the screen horse', his tactic is to smoothly drag the chess game into the middle and back game, and then use his own skills to encroach on the opponent and solve the problem. Jiang Quansheng said.
As for what changes will artificial intelligence bring to chess in the future? Jiang Quansheng said: "First of all, human technology will be improved, and secondly, the game will eventually be under people and people, not human-machine wars, so human games will become more and more exciting, and will not be because of the strength of artificial intelligence, chess will go down." Finally, in the new era of chess brought by artificial intelligence, I would like to use a sentence from Teacher Hu Ronghua to summarize, when the media asked him 'Chess and Go, who is more complex', this question can actually be said to be a set, but Teacher Hu answered very cleverly, he said: Very complex, anyway, for the human brain, whether it is the change of Go or chess, it is infinite. Of course, I admit that from the current point of view, the highest market value of chess is indeed Go. ”
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