Evening News Cup Zheng Hongjiu Duan Talks About Learning Chess The origin of Go lies in indoctrination

January 12, 2017, "Yaozao Go, Danzhu Shanyi." Zheng Hong, the first master of the nine dans of Go in western China, said, "Yao invented Go not for competition, but to educate his son, who will be able to succeed him in the future." Zheng Hongjiuduan said after observing the 30th National Amateur Go Championship (hereinafter referred to as the "Evening News Cup") of the Evening News Hengyuanxiang Cup yesterday that in the process of teaching Go, he slowly realized that educating people with chess, improving culture with chess, and improving quality education should be the foundation of learning Go, he said: "Competition is only a very small part of The culture of Go. ”

Zheng Hongjiudan, who has been engaged in Go education and Go training for twenty years, was initially responsible for teaching the Stars of Hope for Go collected from all over the country, so dozens of professional chess players, including Zhou Ruiyang, have emerged among his students. In the Evening News Cup, he is also active in his disciples, such as this year's representative of the Lanzhou Evening News Go team, the current 9 rounds after 7 wins and 2 losses Ma Tianfang. "It was mostly for competition." He said, "It's a training to compete for the gold medal and win the championship." Zheng Hongjiu duan himself was also selected by the amateur sports school coach, and then grew up with hard work and tempering along the way. When looking back on his entire process of growing up Go, he believes that the biggest torture of competitive Go for people is winning or losing. "Many people can't accept cruel wins and losses, lose more and win less, and give up halfway." After all, the champion can only be one or two people, such as South Korea's Lee Sedol, in a certain period of time as long as he participates, you can only take the runner-up. Zheng Hongjiuduan believes that Go, as one of the four arts, is actually far more than winning or losing, he said, "A person may be very strong in some aspects, but he is not necessarily a very cultured person, a person with a high interest in life, and a person who is very useful to society." For example, some people have high academic qualifications, but they are prone to extremes, which is not good. In fact, playing chess is the culmination of life, entertainment, military and work. Although the chessboard is small, the world is very wide, and through playing chess, you can experience a lot of life principles. Chess is like a person, through Go can understand a lot of life, but also to bring us work, life to bring different feelings. Therefore, when learning Go, you should instill such a concept and awareness, rather than saying that you must be a champion. ”

Zheng Hongjiuduan believes that young people learn Go as the best stage. Because the child's concentration and plasticity are very strong, and the culture contained in Go itself is very beneficial to the growth of the child's future life. But now suffering from Go training can only exist in schools as interest classes, and cannot enter the school curriculum. "In the four arts of ancient China, calligraphy and painting can be understood as the current art, and the piano can be understood as a music lesson, while Go is not in the current children's curriculum. This is a great pity. "The bigger regret is that in the Go world, no matter how good you are, you don't have a relevant Go diploma." The Academy of Fine Arts and the Chinese Academy of Calligraphy and Painting can issue diplomas, but the Chinese Chess Academy is only an administrative institution and cannot issue diplomas, so that Go people cannot enter the school as teachers, so this is very unfavorable to the social education and popularization of Go, because the name is not justified. ”

Zheng Hongjiuduan said that the Evening News Cup is a household name in the industry, although it is an amateur event, but because of the historical accumulation and the characteristics of the media, the champion can get the amateur 7 dan, and can also represent the top chinese amateur masters to participate in the honor of the world amateur competition, so the influence is definitely the first in the country. In the context of today's social development and urgent needs for cultural life, and in the context of national leaders who love and attach importance to Go, he hopes to use the 30th anniversary of the Evening News Cup to call for a better platform for Go education and Go culture. "At least can I take more Go electives at university?" He said, "Ideally, the Ministry of Education will take the lead in designating or establishing a special Go school, which is too good for the development of Go!" ”

Source: Beijing Evening News, Beiwan New Vision Network reporter Li Yuanfei intern reporter Liu Jingtao