Lee Chang-ho is the world's first Go Grand Slam winner, before 2007, he did not fall, all won the championship, even the "Go maniac" Ke Jie sighed.
Ke Jie
Ke Jie said in an interview that Lee Chang-ho won 17 world championships, and he only had a fraction of him (7), and it was difficult to surpass him. We know that Ke Jie is extremely talented and has a very high self-esteem, and the person who can make him sigh like a man is indeed a hegemon.
However, Lee Chang-ho is in the Go world, leaving Go but it is difficult, when he was a child, he could not even wear shoes, and his master and mother commented: He does not understand human life, and his ability to perceive life is worse than that of ordinary people.
Lee Chang-ho, born on July 29, 1975 in Jeonju, South Korea, three generations of the family have opened a watch shop, when he was a child he did not show extraordinary talent, according to his father's words: Chang-ho was just an ordinary child when he was a child.
Lee Chang-ho
The turning point in his life occurred when he was 6 years old, his grandfather went to the chess academy to play Go, put him aside to play, Lee Chang-ho felt bored and pointed out a few steps, the result was that his grandfather turned defeat into victory, and from then on, his family let him start to formally learn to play chess.
In just two years, Lee Chang-ho won the children's Go championship, he worshiped Tian Yongshan Seven Dan as a teacher, only one year, Tian Yongshan felt that there was nothing to teach, so he recommended him to study with the Korean legend Cao Xuanxuan.
Cho Hwan-hyun is the first generation of Korean Go prodigies, who spent his early years under the Japanese Go master Se Yue-hyun and went out with the "chess saint" Wu Qingyuan. Before Lee Chang-ho, Cho Hyun-hyun was the "Emperor of Go" in the minds of Koreans: he entered the professional dan at the age of 9, was the first Korean chess player to be promoted to nine dans, and the Korean full champion was regarded as a Korean national idol.
Cho Hwan-hyun
It is such a world-renowned Go master, but when he was 31 years old, he was shocked by the 9-year-old Lee Chang-ho. Lee Chang-ho meets Cho Hyun for the first time, and the two play two sets of chess to make 3 sons, the first set, Lee Chang-ho loses, and the second set, Lee Chang-ho wins flawlessly.
Years later, Cho's wife, Jeong Mi-ho, recalled that her husband was surprised to find a miracle that day. Just two months after the first meeting, Cho went to Jeonju in person and told Lee Chang-ho's parents that he wanted to take Lee Chang-ho as a disciple and take Lee Chang-ho home to live together, always pointing out his chess skills.
Lee's parents were ecstatic and immediately set up a table of wine at the most luxurious restaurant in the area, inviting Cho and celebrities from the local Go community to witness the ceremony. Tian Yongshan, who has always been greedy for cups, as Li Changhao's enlightened master, drank a lot on that day, and he said: In his life, he has never drunk as much as he did that day.
Discipleship is a Japanese Go tradition that is rare in Korea, and Cho has never had the desire to be a disciple, but after meeting Lee Chang-ho, he feels his responsibility to train a chess player for Korea that shocks the world.
Everyone is happy for Lee Chang-ho, but he himself is not happy.
Perhaps because he left home at such a young age, Lee Chang-ho, who had just arrived at his master's house, was very uncomfortable, and whenever his father and grandfather went to Seoul from Jeonju to visit him, the child who had not yet graduated from elementary school would show a happy expression, and when his relatives left, he would be very afraid and often did not dare to turn off the lights all night.
Zheng Meihe later recalled: "(Lee Chang-ho) In my family's 7 years of inner disciple life, he spoke less and less, basically saying two sentences, 'I went out' and 'I came back'. ”
In the first two years of life in the Cao family, Lee Chang-ho didn't even know how to wash his hands, face and bathe, and he had to ask Zheng Meihe to teach him. The introverted personality makes Lee Chang-ho not very good at communication, he can't tie his shoelaces, and every time Zheng Meihe ties him, he will wear shoes for several days without unraveling, and each time he wears them directly.
Later, Zheng Meihe directly bought Lee Chang-ho a "one-foot pedal" without shoelaces, which solved a big problem in his life.
Chung Mi-ho describes Lee Chang-ho as a "feelingless" child who can stand in a place for a long time, doesn't know what he's thinking, and doesn't understand human life except Go.
When he grew up, Lee Chang-ho was not interested in anything other than Go, his ability to adapt to the environment and his ability to perceive life was far less than that of ordinary people, but his understanding of Go was shocking, whether sitting, standing, awake or asleep, he always thought about Go.
Lee Chang-ho is extremely strong in mental calculation, has amazing point calculation ability, often can predict the victory or defeat of half a goal by fifty or sixty hands in advance, once he went to Japan to participate in the competition, invited to the commentary room to observe, the host asked him who can win the game, Lee Chang-ho looked at the chessboard and murmured: "BaiZi seems to have a favorable half eye." Later, Shirako did win with half an eye.
Lee Chang-ho knows nothing about life, but he can do everything in Go, life is like this, when we focus all our vitality on a certain aspect, we can indeed exchange for a brilliant result, but it can not hide the withering of other aspects of life.
Want a life of blooming, addiction, or a peaceful life, savoring? One is to look at talent, the second is to rely on fate, and the third is to choose personally.