In the "Three Kingdoms Championship" of Go, in addition to the early Sino-Japanese Go Tournament and the later Zhenlu Cup (the predecessor of the Nongshim Cup), the Asian Cup TV Go Fast Chess Tournament (hereinafter referred to as the Asian Cup) is also the focus of the Three Kingdoms Tournament. The Asian Cup was founded in 1989. The tournament is organized by three TV stations in Japan, NHK, Kbs in South Korea and CCTV in China, as well as the Japanese Chess Academy, the Korean Chess Academy and the Chinese Chess Academy. The contestants were the champions and runners-up of the Japan NHK Cup, the Korea KBS Cup and the China CCTV Cup that year, as well as the previous champion 7. The rules of the game stipulate that one hand is taken in 30 seconds, and there are 10 maneuvers with a total of 10 minutes, and the round ends in about 2 and a half hours. The tournament is played on a single-elimination system, in which the previous champion went directly to the semi-finals bye in the first round.
The last champion and runner-up, Kim Ji Seok Lo Hyun
In the history of the Asian Cup, Masaki Takemiya's four consecutive championships can be said to be unprecedented in the history of the ring. Only Kong Jie's three-in-a-row can be compared. For example, Kong Jie Lee Chang Ho and Yi Tian Ji Ji Lee Sedol have also won the Asian Cup three times, but they are not Lian Ba (Kong Jie). Therefore, Takemiya Masaki's four consecutive Asian Cups will be unprecedented. According to the convention of the Asian Cup, the last champion directly entered the semi-finals in the first round bye, that is, Masaki Takemiya directly entered the semi-finals at the fifth Asian Cup, so how did he "dream of five consecutive hegemons"?
Masaki Takemiya
Materials for this issue: 1993 Fifth Asian Cup, the undead bird angrily slashed the cosmic stream
Masaki Takemiya, who studied under Shigeru Kitani, is one of the "Six Supers", and he is also the first professional Go World Championship Fujitsu champion, and defeated Lin Haifeng in the first two finals to achieve consecutive championships. That year, he won two Fujitsu Cups and the Asian Cup, making him the chess player with the most world titles (at that time, the world champions were only three Takemiya and two Cho Kao Hyun).
Cosmic Stream Ancestor Wu Palace
The chess people of The Martial Palace are called "cosmic streams", and they always like to grab the middle abdomen and give up the corners, and the beauty of the content is amazing. Hideyuki Fujisawa once said: After many years, the chess we play will be forgotten by future generations of chess players, but the chess club of Takemiya will always be passed on to future generations. This shows the wonderful content of the Wugong Masaki chess game. Having said that, masaki Takemiya never ascended to the throne of the first person in Japan. In the front there was Yoshio Ishida, the second there was the Hero of Ohtake, and in the middle were the executioner Masao Kato, the giant Zhao Zhixun and the strongest ten-dan Kobayashi Koichi, from 1976 ishida Yoshio won the thirty-first issue of "Honinbo" to 1988, because Cho Zhixun and Kobayashi Koichi, takeya Masaki Takemiya's title was almost all taken away by both of them, leaving only Honinfang.
Koichi Kobayashi
Zhao Zhixun
In 1988, the first professional Go World Championship Fujitsu Cup was born, and the spring of The Martial Palace came, defeating Lin Haifeng twice in the previous two tournaments. In 1989, the Asian Cup was born, and the spring of Wu palace came again, thus beginning the four consecutive hegemonies in the Asian Cup, if 1994 was the "year of Cao Xuanxuan", 1995 was the "year of Ma Xiaochun", then 1989 was the "year of Wu Gong Zhengshu". This "Year of the Martial Tree" lasted for four years at the Asian Cup. Until the 5th Asian Cup in 1993 was broken by Seo Bong-so.
Seo Bong-so is a unique scenery in the Korean Go world and even the world Go community.
Seo Bong-so
Can not make a fixed style, without the guidance of the master, and even in the early years of the poor can not afford to buy Go with stones instead, completely self-taught. Its chess style is ridiculed as "wild", and anyone can win when they can win, and anyone can lose when they can lose. However, it is this ordinary Xu Fengsu that makes the originator of the "cosmic stream" WuGong Masaki dream of the Asian Cup.
In 1993, the fifth Asian Cup was held in Beijing. The Chinese representatives are Nie Weiping and Ma Xiaochun, and the South Korean players are Seo Bong-so and Lee Chang-ho. The Japanese players are Noriki Itada and Masao Kato plus the current champion Masaki Takemiya.
Many years later Nie Weiping and Wugong Masaki
Masao Kato
In the first round, Ieda Ji defeated Lee Chang-ho 1 and 3/4, and Nie Weiping beat Masao Kato in the middle of the game.
Seo Bong-so has 3/4 son to beat Ma Xiaochun.
Therefore, Ma Xiaochun and Masao Kato Lee Chang-ho are out. Nie Weiping, Xu Fengsu, Noriki Ieda plus the champion Masaki Takemiya entered the semifinals.
On July 20, 1993, in the semi-finals, Inada Noriki defeated Nie Weiping 2 and 1/4, and Xu Bongsu slaughtered The Dragon of Wu Miya Masaki. Imagine: Nie Weiping, the biggest bitter hand of Takemiya Masaki, is out, and if Wugong eliminates Xu Fengsu to advance to the final against Yitian Kiki, according to the score of wugong against Yitian at that time, it is not difficult to win Yitian, and it will achieve five consecutive championships. History, however, has no ifs.
Finally, let's simply use the level of my karma 5 to comment on it: personally, I think that Wu Gong's "cosmic flow" is good, but the layout of the black cloth cosmic flow is even better, when Xu Bongsu black 5 corners, white 6 Xiaofei can also be, white 8 shou angle is also good, and white 40 jump, is simply to give the upper left to Xu Fengsu, personally feel. White 130 should go all out to cure the lonely mid-belly black chess, so that perhaps the five-in-a-row hegemony will no longer be a hypothesis.