There are many short games in the history of world Go, but their influence is relatively limited. The game promoted today is "famous", not only because there are only 59 hands, but also because it is a match on the big stage - the Japanese Honinfang Battle Challenge, and what is more enjoyable is the way the chess game ends - the opponent of the game is wrong! Of course, the sign itself is also very wonderful...
Veteran chess fans must already know which game of chess they are talking about, and the two protagonists are Wang Minghuan and Zhao Shanjin, who have been in the Japanese chess world.
Zhao Sunjin is a Korean chess player in Japan, born in 1970, he can be regarded as a late bloomer, only to appear on the stage of the Seven Chess Challenges in 1999, but unexpectedly 4-2 to pick out Zhao Zhixun, who is the ten consecutive masters of Benyinfang, and became famous overnight! That year, he also reached the final of the fourth Three Star Cup (0-3 defeat to Lee Chang-ho), and became the top player in the Japanese chess world for a time.
The following year, Zhao Shanjin's Benyinfang defended his title against Wang Mingwan, a Taiwanese chess player in Japan. Born in 1961, Wang Mingwan did not specialize in teaching, but mainly taught himself to become a first-class strong man in the chess world. His chess style is elegant and elegant, and he has the reputation of "strange wrist", and has defeated Lee Chang-ho and Nie Weiping in the second Fujitsu Cup, which has attracted the attention of the chess community. To add, Wang Mingwan's wife, Liu Li'er, is more influential than him, a famous female writer, journalist, and commentator in Taiwan and Japan, and has a large number of heavyweight works.
Wang Minghuan's challenge to Zhao Shanjin was an important contest between Chinese and Korean players in the Japanese chess world, and most people before the game thought that this was a battle of equal strength, which must be very fierce. Unexpectedly, the first game of the seven victories and losses appeared a very dramatic scene...
The first round of the 55th Honinbo Challenge in Japan
Zhao Shanjin won the black mid-game victory over Wang Mingwan
Date of the match: 24 May 2000
Match Location: Seoul, South Korea
Wang Minghuan's chess talent is outstanding, but under the squeeze of Liu Chao and the "young four heavenly kings" Yamashiro, Wang Licheng, Kobayashi Jue, and Satoshi Kataoka, it has been difficult to find a good opportunity to get out, and this challenge to Ben infang is also his first impact on the big title.
The first game of the seven wins and losses was arranged in Seoul, South Korea, Zhao Shanjin's hometown.
First spectrum 1-30
The first inning was preceded by Zhao Shanjin.
White 4 two high hanging, Wang Mingwan's favorite technique.
Bai 6 looked away again, and in his first seven victories and defeats, Wang Minghuan maintained a dashing style.
Black 7 guards the lower right corner, and White 8 returns to the upper right to complete the set.
The exchange of black 13 and white 14 may be premature.
Black 15 expects white chess to guard the corner, but the white 16 pinch is Wang Mingwan's first-class idea.
Black 17 only had to enter the corner, white 18 jumped seal, and the upper forces were integrated.
Black 19 points shot, and then 21 flew to the fourth road, Zhao Shanjin was also quite jealous of the outside world of white chess.
White 22 volleys a town, the atmosphere is magnificent!
Black 27 two-way flying too much pursuit of the field, white 28 re-town, chess game into Wang Mingwan's pace.
Black 29 lean, white 30 calm.
Second Spectrum 1-29 (i.e. 31-59)
The black chess piece is afraid of damaging the left side, and the lower left son does not dare to move for the time being.
Black 1 below to seek stability, white 2 strong, the two sides began a contact war.
Black 13 leaned, out of the head, Zhao Shanjin seemed to find the tone.
White 14 pull, black 15 is a rare hand, Zhao Shanjin is already aiming at the weakness of Bai Qi's tightness.
Wang Minghuan was unconscious, white 16 pairs, 18 consecutive wrenches, hard abdominal emptiness.
In fact, the white 18 is in the 19th position, and the white chess situation is very good.
Black 19 dozen, 21 long, very normal walk.
White 22 stickers, Wang Minghuan is still not alert...
Black 23 stickers, white chess can only be pulled, so that the two sides fight, white chess is still not bad.
But Wang Minghuan did not expect that his thick chess would have problems, 24 painfully grown...
Zhao Shanjin endured for a long time and finally waited for the big pie that fell from the sky, black 25 digging to eat, and then 27, 29 to eat...
What the? Can this chess piece actually be eaten? In the upper right corner is the external situation of white chess!
However, this external situation just can't play a role in inducing the sign, and the black chess piece will hunt down and kill, and the upper right three sons of the white chess piece will be wrapped in until the bottom line is all the way, and finally the Dragon Sign is formed!
It's not complicated to calculate, but it's hard to imagine that such a shape would actually be eaten. The dashing Wang Minghuan suffered a big loss of not being rigorous enough, and smiled bitterly. The 59-hand also set a record for the shortest number of hands in history in the three major chess battle challenges of the two-day system.
Zhao Shanjin won the victory in the old national flag, but Wang Minghuan was not depressed because of the super faint move, he showed the true face of the "strange wrist" in the subsequent competition, and finally succeeded in the 4-2 challenge, ascended to the throne of Ben infang, and repelled Zhang Xu's challenge 4-3 the following year, successfully defended the title, and became one of the representative figures of the Japanese chess industry at the beginning of this century with the actual achievements of two phases of Benyinfang.
Zhao Shanjin won the black 59 hand to defeat Wang Minghuan
Fluttering chess player Wang Mingwan
Wang Minghuan and Xie Yimin played in the mixed doubles match
Wang Minghuan sang songs with his wife Liu Li'er
Zhao Shanjin, who was once a hero