By the banks of Raccoon Creek, talk by hand. On November 1, the three-day 2021 3rd China-Japan-Han Nie Weiping Cup Go Masters tournament was held in Du Fu Caotang, Chengdu. In three days, in the grass hall, which is as quiet as ever, the first-class chess players of China, Japan and South Korea are connected in time and space, taking the former residence of "Shisheng" as the starting point, and the black-and-white dialogue across the space has become a beautiful cultural landscape. In Chengdu, which has the reputation of "chess city", the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" of Sino-Japanese and Korean Go has come to fruition. In the third round, the Chinese team lost 2-3 to the South Korean team, and in the end, the Japanese team led by "Cosmic Stream" Masaki Takemiya won the first place, the South Korean team led by Cho Kao Hwan-hyun Lee Chang-ho won the second place, and the Chinese team led by The Chess Saint Nie Weiping won the third place.
Nie Weiping in the game
The Masters Tournament is hosted by the China Weiqi Association, Chengdu Municipal Sports Bureau and Chengdu Qingyang District People's Government, and hosted by Sichuan Weiqi Association, Chengdu Chess Academy, Chengdu Qingyang District Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau.
Winners: Japan team - Masaki Takemiya, Keigo Yamashita, Rin Kono, Kentaro Fukuoka, and female player Kikuyo Aoki
Runners-up: South Korea – Cho Hwan-hyun, Lee Chang-ho, Cho Han-seong, Moon Min-jong and female player Lee Kyung-won
3rd place: China team - Nie Weiping, Chang Hao, Gu Li, "newcomer king" Tu Xiaoyu, women's national player Zhang Xuan
Praise for the innovation and integration of the competition
In fact, as the original intention of the "Nie Weiping Cup", the victory or defeat is not the most important, and the China-Japan-South Korea Nie Weiping Cup Go Masters Tournament, founded in 2019, is the first game named after the player in the history of Go in China. The tournament brings together the famous masters of Go from China, Japan and Korea, and is an important platform for cultural exchanges and development inheritance. Nowadays, it has become a permanent event of the "chess city" Chengdu, which has effectively promoted the construction of Chengdu World Tournament City.
Gu Li (front row left), Chang Hao (front row, second from left) review
As Lin Jianchao, chairman of the Chinese Weiqi Association, said - Chengdu is a chess city with a deep cultural heritage, especially in this tournament held in Du Fu Caotang. The event combines historical and cultural resources, tourism resources and event resources, and the integration and innovation of this event not only expands the influence of the event, but also spreads the traditional culture of Chengdu and contributes to the construction of Chengdu World Event City.
In addition, the purpose of holding this tournament is to learn, carry forward and promote the spirit of Nie Weiping's Go. It is this spirit that our young and excellent chess players need to inherit and strengthen the most. This is not only the performance of Go created by Nie Weiping, the exquisite game technology he has, but more importantly, the spirit of calmness, calmness, courageous fighting and daring to win that he has shown at the key moments of major competitions.
Nie Weiping and Zhang Xuan
With a history of more than 2,300 years of city building, Chengdu has always been a place of cultural prosperity, Wen Weng, Sima Xiangru, Zhuo Wenjun, Zhuge Liang, Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Shi, Yang Shen... Jinsha Ruins, Dujiangyan, Wuhou Ancestral Hall, Du Fu Caotang, Wenshu Monastery, Qingyang Palace... History shines together step by step;
In recent years, the Go tournaments held in Chengdu have landed cultural attractions, chess and culture integration, chess and tourism are connected, has created a Chengdu characteristics of the event culture. Chang Hao, Gu Li, and Hua Xueming, the leader of the Chinese Go team, all praised the innovative way of running the game that combines Chengdu's Go with traditional culture.
One of the four traditional Chinese arts with Du Fu Caotang
As one of the four traditional Chinese arts, Go is inextricably linked to literati and scholars, even the poet Saint Du Fu is no exception.
"The chess game moves with the bamboo stream, and the robe remembers the boat on the lake."
"Put the wine under the high forest, watch the chess and accumulate the waterfront."
"And the chess will be passed, and the wine will be used for the year."
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For Du Fu, Go is a leisurely and elegant thing for Du Fu, and it is also Du Fu's understanding of the historical situation.
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 won him the honorary title of "Chess Saint".
In the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament that year, Nie Weiping and Takemiya Masaki fought in the Battle of the Century. This duel in Beijing, CCTV "groundbreaking" the whole live broadcast, and finally Nie Weiping Zhibai defeated Wugong and won the "Battle of the Century", and then he still achieved brilliant results in the next two tournaments, leading the Chinese team to win the three consecutive championships of the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament with the posture of turning the tide, and the "Nie Whirlwind" of that year is still talked about and remembered vividly.
In the opening match of the second China-Japan-South Korea Nie Weiping Cup Go Masters last year, the 68-year-old Nie Weiping defeated his 69-year-old rival Masaki Takemiya. This year, Nie Qisheng and the "Cosmic Stream" met again in the opening battle, and in the "battle of feelings" between the two evergreen trees in the chess world, Nie Weiping regretted defeat.
Nie Weiping's fate with Chengdu
In April this year, at the 20th China Go Southwest King Tournament, Nie Weiping came to Du Fu Caotang and hung a game of chess under the statue of Du Fu in Dayatang Square, staging a spiritual covenant with Shisheng spanning thousands of years. And this time, Nie Weiping was already the owner of the Caotang - at the closing ceremony of the Southwest King Competition, he was specially hired by du Fu Caotang Museum as the honorary president of the Caotang Chess Club.
In fact, "Qisheng" and Du Fu Caotang have long been related.
In 1965, at the age of 13, Nie Weiping went to Chengdu to participate in the national Go children's competition and won the championship. In an interview with Red Star News, he said with emotion: "That was the first national championship in my Go life. ”
In the 56 years from 1965 to 2021, Nie Weiping admitted that the number of times he visited Chengdu was too many times for him to count.
In 2019, the first China-Japan-Korea Nie Weiping Cup Go Masters Tournament was founded in Chengdu, and it was Nie Weiping who chose Chengdu, and it was also Chengdu that chose Nie Weiping. In the past three years, the participating chess players have also witnessed the rapid progress of the "chess city" Chengdu in the goal of being a world cultural city and a world famous city.
"The biggest charm of Go is that it can greatly improve the quality of people's spiritual civilization. And Chengdu's rich historical and cultural heritage, every time you come to Chengdu, you can touch and feel. Nie Weiping said, "Chengdu has hosted many world competitions, and next year's World University Games will also be held here." I feel that Chengdu has the ability to host a higher level of multi-sport events. ”
Red Star News reporter Meng Wubin Courtesy of the organizer
Edited by Ou Peng
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