Japan's 69th Battle of throne finals won the first round on October 29 in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Yuta Iyama, known as the "strongest challenger", re-ascended to the stage where he had won the championship six times, and won the first point in the black 205 hand to win the Shibano Tiger Maru.
The Royal Park Hotel Yokohama hosts go tournaments all year round, and the calligraphy works of "Tenyuan Crane Flying High" are hung in the game room.
Yuta Iyama challenged Zhang Xu to win the throne in 2012, repelled Zhang Xu's challenge in 2013, and unexpectedly lost to Daisuke Faomuragawa in 2014. In 2015, it made a comeback, defeating Daisuke Murakawa, Yu Zhengqi, and Yili Liao (twice) in succession, achieving four consecutive hegemonies, but in 2019, he was ousted from the throne by Shibano Tiger Maru at the threshold of obtaining honorary title qualifications, and the three games won by Shino in that year only won 2 and a half eyes, giving people the impression that "young people win in the official" and "the Izan Dynasty is gradually coming to an end".
In 2020, Shibano Tiger Maru defeated Xu Jiayuan to defend his title, but in 2021 he was in a clear state of silence, and now there is only one championship left in his hands. On the contrary, the thirty-two-year-old Iizama Yuta became more and more courageous, not only winning the three crowns of chess saints, celebrities, and Ben infang, and breaking through the powerful Liao, but also falling behind 1-3 against Shibano Tiger Maru in the Battle of Ben inland Fang, and also pulling three major reversals in a row, equaling Zhao Zhixun's ten consecutive hegemonic feats, showing the arrogance of "the king is not old".
Sitting in the referee's seat, the Grandmaster of the First Generation, Kobayashi Mitsuru, had a shallow connection with the throne, losing two challenges in 1985 and 1992, once crashing into the iron wall of Masao Kato's eight consecutive masters, and the other achieving the myth of Hideyuki Fujisawa's sixty-seven-year-old champion.
This year's throne battle, Yuta Izuyama, starting from this tournament, has passed four levels of Andali Chang, Satoshi Yuki, Zhang Xu, and Yili Liao, in which the challenger decided to match against Yili Liao on September 20, which is the middle of Irisan Yuta and Yili Liao's competition for celebrity. Jingshan lost two points in a row in the celebrity battle, but in exchange for the victory of the throne battle, it is lamentable that it is worthy of being a battle-hardened and experienced.
In addition, this tournament almost created a female miracle, starting from the lowest level of preliminaries, Suzuki Bu streak defeated Daisei Matsubara (at the beginning of the year to send Nakaitsu to upgrade the youngest second-dan cosmic stream disciple), Oyanagi Isumi (just defeated Ueno Aishami crowned the rookie king, almost became a record background board), Kuroryu Masanaki, Kobayashi Koichi, Ando and Shigeru five male chess players, pre-selected a decisive round to defeat Okuda Sai, enter the final preliminary, as long as you win another set can become the first female player in the seventy years of the history of the Throne War to enter the sixteen-a-side tournament, Unfortunately, he lost to Nagoya chess player Kazushi Tsuruta.
The defending champion Shibano Tiger Maru grabbed 13 white seeds first, and Yuta Iyama guessed correctly, and the black one went first.
According to the winning percentage shown by ai, this game is The complete victory of Yuta Iyama. At the beginning of the Game Shibano Tiger Maru to pursue orientation, white 34 with black chess pieces to strengthen the outside world, although the left white sky can count nine ways, but because of the bad taste is very easy to play chess, suffered from the irrevocable bad evaluation of ai.
Sure enough, in the afternoon, Jingshan Black 71 dug, Black 73 Second Road was determined to move, and Black 75 made up his mind to riot. Shibano did not dare to take a duel on the inside as recommended by ai, but connived at the black chess pieces to draw through the chess tendons, and the situation was suddenly very poor. After that, Jingshan calmly took a piece of life on the left side, and the original huge void of the white chess piece was full of sores. There was no obvious opportunity for the official to fight Shibano, and eventually the "crane" of Iiyama flew away, and the "tiger" of Shibano flew into the air.
Almost at the same time as the game ended, Kobayashi Sat next to the two chess players to study together, ignoring the blocking of the live camera, which is also the embodiment of Kobayashi's status in the Japanese chess world.
Both players ordered Chinese cuisine for lunch, which is in line with the characteristics of Yokohama, the venue of the game.
Shibano Tiger Ball Lunch: Assorted fried rice, steamer dim sum, almond tofu, oolong tea.
Yuta Iyama Lunch: Sichuan-style Dan dan noodles, steamer dim sum, almond tofu, oolong tea.
Shibano Tiger Maru Afternoon Dessert: Mont Blanc cake with autumn style, iced coffee.
Yuta Iyama's afternoon dessert: a gorgeous fruit platter of mango, honeydew melon, sweet orange, grapefruit, grapes, etc., and iced lemon tea.
The second round is scheduled to take place half a month later in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, during which Yuta Iyama and Ichiritsu will have an extremely exciting celebrity battle tiebreaker from November 4 to 5.