From the first Ying's Cup Nie Weiping regrettably defeated Cao Xuanxuan, to Gu Li's first world championship, the Korean Wave hanging over the Chinese chess world has raged for nearly 20 years. In the meantime, three generations of Chinese chess players have all marched forward in the dark night, looking for the faint light. The one who struck the Chinese chess players the most was Cao Li's master and apprentice. The apprentice, Li Changhao, has destroyed two generations of Chinese leaders.
In the most bleak years at the end of the century, it was even more difficult to win against Lee Chang-ho. However, the appearance of Zhou Heyang has made Chinese chess fans see a bright color. From 1997 to 2000, Zhou Heyang achieved a total victory over Lee Chang-ho in three battles. Shi Fo Nemesis, Ji Gong ye.
In 2004, Zhou Heyang ushered in a heavenly opportunity at the Chunlan Cup. Zhou Heyang, who began fighting from the second round, won consecutive victories over the previous runner-up Naoki Hane and the hot post-80s rising stars Gu Li and Peng Quan, reaching the final of the World Series for the first time. His opponent, the defending champion, Seok Fo Lee Chang-ho.
Although Lee Chang-ho eliminated Zhou Heyang in the previous Chunlan Cup and achieved a second consecutive win. But in the hearts of chess fans, Zhou Heyang's image of Li Changhao's three consecutive victories when he came to the world was like a giant. On March 14, 2005, the two sides began to compete in the first set. Zhou Heyang, who was in charge of white, mishandled the robbery in the middle and back games, and the black chess pieces had taken a clear lead. You know, in the face of Li Changhao, who is the only official in the world, even if he has a slight advantage to lead into the finale, he cannot ensure victory, not to mention that he is already inferior. However, this time, it was Zhou Heyang who laughed to the end. The clever hand of the official stage, coupled with Lee Chang-ho's slight mistakes, finally won a 1/4 reversal.
This victory gave the Chinese chess community a shot in the arm. Lee Chang-ho's official son is by no means invulnerable!
However, this victory also gave the Chinese chess community some expectations that were not there. Lee Chang-ho has not previously lost to any non-Korean player in the final of the World Series. Shi Fo Nemesis, is this time really going to break Lee Chang-ho's undefeated golden body?
In the second set, Lee Chang-ho won the equalizer and the two sides came to the final battlefield. Zhou Heyang guessed the white chess as he wished, and he was full of confidence. In the battle of the prologue, Li Changhao's one-step greedy eating made the black chess fall into passivity, Zhou Heyang's white chess was empty and thick, and the situation was promising! (See link for chess scores)
Lee Chang-ho (black) vs Zhou Heyang
However, Zhou Heyang's successive pulls became a regrettable defeat. If the simple A-bit retreats, the white chess piece can still have a concise advantage. Lee Chang-ho calculated accurately and successfully made the left side of the white chess piece a double-handed double-handed move. Zhou Heyang, who lost more than 15 meshes of blood in the First World War, lost his hand with the champion.
To this day, I still remember the kind of loss I felt when I heard the report on the news that day, and it felt like my whole heart was hollowed out, and it was as if I woke up from a dream. Without hope, there is no disappointment, which is my biggest feeling about this final from the perspective of a chess fan.
Zhou Heyang was not unaware that the situation of single retreat was favorable, nor was it that he could not smell the dangerous atmosphere. Having experienced and witnessed too many Lee Chang-ho-style reversals, it is difficult to have the confidence to maintain the advantage to the end, so as to choose to go desperately. That generation of chess players, under the oppression of Lee Chang-ho, stumbled on self-confidence, which is the tragedy of an entire generation of chess players. The player's despair and burden, bitterness and bitterness, are faintly recorded in black and white on the chess sheet. Today, many years later, opening this chess score again, you can still read Zhou Heyang's state of mind at that time.
Fate always makes people. No one could have imagined that Lee Chang-ho's championship before his 30th birthday would become lee Chang-ho's last title in the World Series. Less than a year later, Lee Chang-ho's undefeated golden body against foreign chess players in the World Series also ended with the divine pig. With the outbreak of the new generation of chess players, the mentality of Chinese chess players has also been renewed, and it is becoming more and more difficult to read the existence of pressure from the chess score. On the contrary, South Korea's emerging talents, led by Park Tinghuan, have become the hardest hit areas of collapse.
However, for Zhou Heyang himself, he always left regrets. A year later, in the final of the Fujitsu Cup, Zhou Heyang once again lost to South Korea's Park Zhengxiang, and has gradually faded from people's vision since then.
This issue ends here, and the next issue of "viper" Cui Zhehan.
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