The article on the 1st said mr. Masaki Takemiya, which aroused the resonance of many chess friends with the flow of the universe. Brother "Lei Peng" said in the message: "The sky does not descend to the Martial Palace, and the eternal ages are like a long night." The fixed dead-and-alive problem of climbing the gutter is certainly useful, but it is only useful for lovers of high-grade root organs. For inferior rooters who are born without this tendon, such as my lovers, is the door to Go closed? Fortunately, Wu Gong sent a grand idea of cosmic flow in the upper hall and the lower kitchen. "Yu Louyue is like yesterday" Brother said: "What really led me into the hall of Go was Mr. Wu Gong's book "Actual Combat Research on Go", which is still read from time to time until now. Maybe the concept is different, I have no interest in dog moves, I am obsessed with the beauty of the chess shape, the majesty of the momentum, although the ideal on the chessboard always loses to reality, but I have the process! "There are also many chess friends who express their admiration for Mr. Takemiya and the flow of the universe, and the feelings of chess fans are sincere and frank, which is also the biggest charm of human Go." So Brother Qing Shui Nian Hua said, "Who said that Mr. Wu Gong didn't have many acquaintances?" A big fan of amateur chess players! ”
After talking about Masaki Takemiya, you can't help but mention another name- Koichi Kobayashi. They are the black and white sides of Go, they are the two pursuits of life, ideals and reality, airplanes and subways, all so real, carrying our steps forward.
Japanese Go has been in decline in the international arena for many years, and the current king of Japanese chess is Yuta Iyama, who has set a series of historical records, and new chess fans are no longer familiar with the iron-blooded dynasty created by Kobayashi Koichi. But we should not forget him, he was once the symbol of Japanese Go, an iron man in the world chess world.
Say heroes Who are the heroes? Each era has its own heroes, and the Japanese Go of the 1980s and 1990s belonged to the six super-first-class, especially to the "absolute double pride" Zhao Zhixun and Koichi Kobayashi. Cho has dominated the Japanese chess world since the early 1980s, but due to the busy events and his status as a Korean chess player, he had little communication with Chinese chess players in his first heyday. Koichi Kobayashi was only a "highly anticipated chess player" when he visited China in 1983 and was not yet a prince who divided the territory, but then he broke out in the Sino-Japanese ring and the Japanese domestic chess war, shaping an iron-blooded dynasty in the annals of Go history.
It is somewhat strange that in China, relatively few texts were written for Kobayashi Koichi, and even in his heyday, there were not many critics who praised it. Compared with Zhao Zhixun's "Fighting Soul" and "King of Reversals", which have long been flooded with praise, Kobayashi Koichi seems to be flat, except for the slightly arrogant expression after winning the chess, he has no more colorful face. Personally, the last familiar face of the Six Supers was Koichi Kobayashi, even though he was already a Japanese chess saint at the time.
This roughly reflects a state of mind. People prefer heroes with full personalities, Maradona, Agassi, and Zhao Zhixun, who not only show great talent in the field of professional technology, but also have endless charm off the field. Koichi Kobayashi's life is a little thinner, in addition to Go or Go. He is a pure chess player, not a Go artist.
In fact, Koichi Kobayashi has a special meaning for Chinese Go. Chinese chess fans who are obsessed with Go and love Go because of the victory in the Sino-Japanese ring cannot erase the memory of Kobayashi Koichi, and to some extent, Kobayashi Koichi "grew up" with Chinese Go. One of the most hardcore Chinese chess fans witnessed Kobayashi's strongest moment, and he was once a god of Go who was more difficult to shake than Lee Chang-ho and Lee Sedol.
The first Sino-Japanese tournament belonged to only three people: China's Jiang Zhujiu, Nie Weiping and Japan's Koichi Kobayashi. Kobayashi's six-game winning streak had allowed the Japanese team to master three match points, but it was destined that it should not be his brightest moment. The defeat to Nie Weiping in the ring was Kobayashi's first defeat in a confrontation with a Chinese chess player, and looking back many years later, this game made Nie Weiping and also chinese Go, which has similar significance and effect to Nie Weiping's defeat to Cao Xuanxuan in the final of the Ying Cup. Nie Weiping was on the verge of a desperate situation in the course of the match, relying on strong luck to pass the pass, and his subsequent battles with Masao Kato and Hideyuki Fujisawa generally controlled the situation and did not have much risk. Unlike Nie Weiping's defeat at The Ying Clan Cup after his defeat to Cao Xuanxuan, his own record gradually declined, and the failure of the ring match allowed Kobayashi Toeiichi to "cut his ambitions", and soon replaced Zhao Zhixun with a succession of celebrities and chess saints to become the new generation of Japanese Go overlords, at that time, he was also the undisputed first person in the world of Go.
Saying that Kobayashi Koichi is an "underground" is not only a metaphor for his solid personality, but also a metaphor for his chess style. Kobayashi is a true master of realism, and in this regard, he is actually far more stubborn than Zhao Zhixun. Kobayashi's Go idea is: how to win the game is how to play, although Lee Chang-ho himself did not say, but I believe that the stone Buddha who later dominated the world chess world must have drawn a lot of nourishment from Koichi Koichi Kobayashi's Go thought. Therefore, the same chess holy battle with Masaki Takemiya seven times won and lost, Zhao Zhixun can join hands with Mr. Takemiya to perform the passionate collision of heaven and earth, leaving a very gorgeous chess score, Kobayashi Hikaru will only curb the genius of The Martial Palace with the ordinary but very practical "Taizu Long Fist". Twice 4-1 to repel the challenge of The Martial Palace, Kobayashi Koichi will be satisfied with such an achievement, and Masaki Takemiya will only depressed the hero useless. "Realism" not only refers to liking the field, Cho Ji-hoon is more able to fish than Kobayashi, but he also starts with the three-star and Chinese flow in major competitions from time to time, and he is more willing to try the feeling of soaring in the unknown world. Kobayashi Koichi will never be angry to seize the corner land when he is encroaching on the other party's appearance, he is better at introducing chess games into his familiar field, with clear goals, and is the favorite case figure of today's various so-called "success science" promoters.
From the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament to the Sino-Japanese Celebrity Battle, Kobayashi Koichi carved too many deep scars on Chinese chess players. Ma Xiaochun, in particular, fell, got up, and fell again in front of Kobayashi's chariot again and again... It was an almost desperate helplessness, and the iron-blooded and cold-faced Kobayashi Hikari transformed into a fierce-looking demon king.
Ma Xiaochun finally persevered and defeated the king Kobayashi, but it is more accurate to say that Kobayashi Mitsuichi lost to the years. From Japan's Yamashiro Hiroshi and Shuzo Awaji to China's Ma Xiaochun and Liu Xiaoguang, as well as Cao Kao-hyun and Lee Chang-ho, who debuted on the international stage, Kobayashi Koichi was once an insurmountable mountain. However, even the strongest people will have a time of decline, and from the beginning of Ma Xiaochun's 2-1 defeat to Kobayashi Hikaru in the fifth Sino-Japanese celebrity battle in 1992, the Kobayashi iron wall has loosened. The 1995 Fujitsu Cup final was Ma Xiaochun's "gift of gratitude", and Kobayashi Koichi was defeated by an opponent he personally forged, and his heart must have mixed feelings. In the same year, he lost 1-4 to Masaki Takemiya in the Celebrity Defense Battle, and an era came to an end.
What is admirable is that Kobayashi Koichi has not sunk in this, he is still the honorable student. The Fujitsu Cup in 1997 was the last time a Japanese player to reach the top of the tournament and the last time a Japanese chess player has won the world championship so far (later the Chinese Wang Licheng and Zhang Xu, and the Korean Cho Ji-hoon won the championship). In Japan, Kobayashi once regained Tengen, Shidan, and Kisei, and once became the five crowns. Although he can no longer command the chess world, he is still a mighty Go samurai.
So far, Kobayashi has won 60 titles, second only to Cho, Eio Sakata and Yuta Iyama, who has been plundering wildly for nearly a decade. As the most outstanding representative of The Japanese native chess players before Iyama, Kobayashi Has spent countless world heroes for more than 10 or 20 years, and at the same time, he himself has been consumed by years. His signature phrase "I represent Japanese Go, I can't lose!" "It's a gladiator's steel oath that it won't go with the wind."
Kobayashi Hikari has been climbing silently, accumulating strength for flying higher mountains. When he finally flew over, he found that there were higher peaks in front of him.
A hero's big dream, after flying high mountains, the hero is still a hero, and the dream is still a dream.
The Era of Go without Koichi Kobayashi would not have been complete, and even after the age of sixty, even without titles, the three honorary titles of Honorary Chess Saint, Honorary Celebrity, and Honorary Qisheng still made him the first highest position after the reigning title King (now Yuta Iyama, Shibano Toramaru, and Ichiri Liao) on the list of chess players in the Japanese Chess Academy. The times are developing rapidly, the subway is getting more and more accessible, and Kobayashi's name has been rarely mentioned, but he has long been integrated into our hard-fought and repeatedly hot-blooded youth...