Today is the 69th birthday of The Chinese Go giant Nie Weiping Qisheng, as a super chess fan, I would like to wish him health and peace, Shoubi Nanshan, happy family and happy birthday!
Nie Weiping was born on August 17, 1952 in Shen County, Hebei (now Hengshui Shenzhou City, Hebei), the son of an old revolutionary who loved Go. Influenced by his family, Nie Weiping learned Go at a very young age.
In 1995, during the Chinese Go Celebrity Battle Finals (Ma Xiaochun vs. Liu Xiaoguang) and the China-Japan Exchange Tournament held in my hometown, Nie Weiping came to visit, which made our Go town shine and shine. I was honored to be honored to receive the first day cover signed by Elder Nie. In addition to sighing, I would like to take this opportunity to review Nie Weiping's growth footprints and brilliant career today and share it with my friends.
The teenager is ambitious and full of spirit
Nie Weiping was born and raised in a cadre family, and his childhood and adolescence were happy and joyful. When he was a child, Nie Weiping could not play his younger brother, but his younger brother was greedy, did not care about Go, did not particularly like it, and did not invest much time and energy, while Nie Weiping was obsessed with Go, worked very hard, and soon surpassed his younger brother.
With the rise of fame, Nie Weiping was introduced by the founding hero Li Lisan to Marshal Chen Yi, who loved Go, and then played chess with Chen Yi, who was then vice premier and foreign minister, and two interesting things happened during this period, which I will share with you. First, when he played chess with Chen Yi for the first time, he entertained Nie Weiping to drink soda, and as a result, he tasted the delicious Nie Weiping for the first time, drinking bottle after bottle, and his father was embarrassed to reprimand in front of everyone, and as a result, Nie Weiping drank too much, and he was very uncomfortable after returning home, and he was also fiercely educated by his father. Another time was that after Chen Yi's move was played, he found that there was a problem and wanted to regret the chess, and as a result, the outstretched hand was held down by Nie Weiping, who refused to let the marshal move the chess pieces, and also said: There is no regret in the fall. It made the marshal and the others present laugh.
Marshal Chen Yi watched the battle
Under the personal promotion of Marshal Chen Yi, Nie Weiping's Go seedlings have been well cultivated, and in addition to the special guidance of his mentor, he has also received the guidance and guidance of Liu Dihuai, Zhang Futian, Lei Jihua, Chen Zude, Wu Songsheng and other senior chess players.
Nie Weiping, who was a young man with ambition and vigor, under the guidance of Marshal Chen Yi, became angry and strong, and vowed to surpass the Kingdom of Go, Japan.
The Northern Wilderness is tempered
During the Cultural Revolution, Nie Weiping, an intellectual youth, went up the mountain to the countryside and went to the northern wilderness of Heilongjiang, where he stayed for six years. In order to realize the ambition of catching up with and surpassing Japan, Nie Weiping constantly honed his spirit and will during the period of joining the team, and tried every means to study chess. In addition to playing chess and reading chess books, and playing blind chess with himself, he also traveled a long way to find chess friends to play chess, and also risked being punished, secretly returning to Beijing to meet chess friends.
During those years, although there were few opportunities to play chess, Nie Weiping believed that the life of Zhiqing broadened his horizons, enriched his experience, and accumulated a lot of life experience, which was very helpful for him to improve his chess skills.
Nie Whirlwind rises
Nie Weiping, who had finished his life as a young intellectual in 1972, returned to Beijing and was assigned to the Beijing Third General Machinery Factory along with young Go masters such as Chen Zude, Wu Songsheng, and Wang Runan. In addition to the work of latte hammer and hammer lifting, the task is to study Go for the Sino-Japanese friendship exchange competition.
In 1973, the Chinese Chess Academy was rebuilt, and Nie Weiping was selected into the thirty-member Go training team, opening a new chapter in Go. Since then, Nie Weiping's career has never left Go.
In the 1976 Sino-Japanese Go Friendly Tournament, Nie Weiping Lianke Ishida Yoshio Honinfang, Fujisawa Hideyuki Tengen and other seven major Japanese chess champions and nine-dan masters of the powerful faction, who had quietly risen in China, achieved 6 wins and 1 loss, which was the best record of Chinese chess players in the Sino-Japanese exchange competition so far, which was called "Nie Whirlwind" by the Japanese media.
Heroes of the Ring
After experiencing the two stages of the Sino-Japanese Friendship Exchange Tournament and the Confrontation Tournament, the Japanese side put forward the idea of holding a Sino-Japanese ring match in order to reflect its absolute strength. At that time, the domestic chess world was a bit troubled by gains and losses, and was afraid of losing very ugly, but the pro-faction led by Hao Keqiang, editor-in-chief of New Sports Magazine, and Nie Weiping believed that if you lose, you can start all over again, in case you win!
The ring is won
In 1985, the first Sino-Japanese ring match was officially launched, the Japanese pioneer Noriki Ida won the first set, and then the second Chinese player, Jiang Zhujiu, unexpectedly achieved a five-game victory, becoming the first heroic figure in the history of the ring. But what immediately followed was the stage of the super-first-class Kobayashi Koichi performance, and a wave of six consecutive wins invited the Chinese team's main player Nie Weiping out. Nie Weiping, who had never defeated Japan's super-first-class record before, lived up to expectations at a critical moment, picked Kobayashi down, and then defeated another super-first-class Masao Kato and Japanese main player Hideyuki Fujisawa to win the final victory for the Chinese team. This inspiring victory made Nie Weiping, like the Chinese women's volleyball team, a national hero of that era.
After that, Nie Weiping continued to prancing horses and spread the news frequently, and won five consecutive victories in the second Sino-Japanese ring match, once again making great contributions to the Chinese team's defeat of the Japanese team. In the third tournament, he defeated Masao Kato in the main tournament and won the three consecutive championships for the Chinese team.
In order to praise Nie Weiping's great achievements, the Chinese Weiqi Association awarded him the glorious title of "Saint of Weiqi", and Vice Premier Fang Yi personally issued him a certificate.
It should be noted that Nie Weiping won a total of 11 consecutive victories in the ring, a record that remained until the new century, before being surpassed by South Korea's Lee Chang-ho with 14 consecutive wins.
Vice Premier Fang Yi presented the award
Spare no effort to cultivate backwards
Since 1986, Nie Weiping has served as the head coach of the national Go team and the director of the technical committee of the China Weiqi Association. In 1993, under the impetus of the Chinese Weiqi Association, Nie Weiping and Ma Xiaochun took apprentices together, and the form at that time was a two-way choice, resulting in the six new talents Chang Hao, Zhou Heyang, Wang Lei, and Liu Jing becoming Nie Weiping's apprentices, and Shao Weigang and Luo Xiehe were taken under Ma Xiaochun. After the 21st century, Gu Li and Tan Xiao became the high feet of Nie Qisheng. Among them, Chang Hao, Gu Li, and Tan Xiao all became world champions, sweeping away Nie Weiping's regret that he did not have a world championship title.
Nie Weiping has many famous disciples in the business and cultural circles, the most famous of which is the martial arts novel master Jin Yong. This has made a huge contribution to the development of Go.
In order to better train students, Nie Weiping later opened a Go dojo and spared no effort to guide the future, among which Ke Jie, Gu Zihao, Zhou Ruiyang, Tan Xiao and other world champions had studied in Nie Weiping Dojo when they were young.
Anti-cancer fighter
In 2013, Nie Lao had symptoms such as physical discomfort and weight loss, and after going to the hospital for examination, he found that he unfortunately suffered from advanced rectal cancer. When choosing the treatment method, he decisively chose the risky minimally invasive surgical resection plan, and after the operation, he fully cooperated with the doctor to carry out chemotherapy. In terms of lifestyle, Nie Weiping, a wine immortal who has been drinking for decades, had to temporarily quit drinking, and his diet was adjusted accordingly. Nowadays, the chess saint, who was originally known as four pounds, drank no more than two or two per drink, and changed from "Nie Four Pounds" to "Nie Two Two". Nie Wei pingqisheng's eight years of anti-cancer road has achieved unprecedented success.
Finally, I would like to dedicate this article to my idol Nie Weiping Qisheng for more than 30 years, and once again wish Nie Lao a happy birthday and health forever!