Liu Chao, the era when Go was full of charm and personality, was indeed a little too far away from us, and we usually wouldn't think of talking about it in detail.
However, the previous article wrote about the Japanese female chess player Fujisawa Risai, naturally mentioned her grandfather Fujisawa Hideyuki. Then a friend asked me in a private message, is Hideyuki Fujisawa counted as a six-super? I said no, the six super is the fifth disciple of Kitani Shi Karin Haifeng, and the friend asked again, you say that Fujisawa is so powerful, how come the six super is not counted? Why are these six people? Who gave it?
Well, Xiao Liu thought about it carefully, and felt that this matter was really not something that could be said clearly in a word and a half, so let's just have a good chat.
Just like the glory of Nie Lao, many of them come from the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament in 85 to 88 years, and the famous chess players of each era also have their own unique stage. To explain why the Six Supers are these six people, we must first understand their stage: Japan's Seven News Chess Games.
Chronologically, the earliest occurrence of the Seven News Chess Battles was the Honinbo War, which was retired in late 1938, and before leaving, he transferred the Honin-in-house position that had been passed down from generation to Yomiuri Shimbun and the Japan Chess Academy for 50,000 yen (about 10 million yuan now). Since then, the Honinbaya family, which has lasted for 300 years since the Edo period, has ended, and a new era has also begun.
In the following year (1939), the first phase of the Yomiuri Shimbun was funded by the Yomiuri Shimbun, which was held every two years, and the title challenge system was implemented, which was later changed to one year. The prelude to the news chess battle was kicked off, and after the war, there was a succession of throne battles and ten-dan wars.
After more than thirty years, japan's economy has achieved unprecedented prosperity, in 1976, the three major news chess battles of Xiaoqisheng, Celebrity and Tianyuan appeared in a pile, followed by 1977, Japan's largest Yomiuri Shimbun launched a big chess holy war with seven times more prize money than Xiaoqisheng. The grand scale of Japan's seven major chess battles has been built, and this series of chess battles represents the competitive stage of the world's top Go skills.
So in the order in which the seven chess battles appear, they are: Ben Infang: Sponsored by the Daily News, it began in 1939. The defending battle was held from May to July, with seven victories and losses, and the winner won 32 million yen and won the title of "Honinfang".
Throne: Sponsored by Nihon Keizai Shimbun, since 1953. The defending battle was held from October to December, and the winner won the title of "throne" with a prize of 14 million yen.
Ten Paragraphs: Sponsored by the Sankei Shimbun, it began in 1962 and was formerly known as the Morning Glory Battle. The defending battle was held from March to April, and the winner won five times, and the winner won 7 million yen and won the title of "Ten Dan".
Celebrity: Sponsored by Asahi Shimbun, it began in 1976 and was formerly known as the Professional Ten Masters. The title of "Celebrity" was held from September to November, with a seven-time winner and a prize of 37 million yen.
Tengen: Co-sponsored by Shimbun-san, it began in 1976 and was formerly known as the Battle of The Power of the Japanese Chess Academy and the Battle of the Kansai Chess Academy. The defending battle was held from November to December, and the winner won five times, and the winner won 14 million yen and won the title of "Tianyuan".
Akira: Organized by the Japan News Go League, it began in 1976 and was formerly the first decision-making battle in Japan. The battle to defend the title was held from July to August, with a five-fold victory and a prize of 8 million yen for the winner, who was awarded the title of "Qisheng".
Chess Sage: Sponsored by the Yomiuri Shimbun, it began in 1977. The defending battle was held from January to March, with seven victories and losses, and the winner won 45 million yen in prize money and won the title of "Chess Saint". Chess Saint Ben in fang celebrities are more than 30 million prize money, the most generous, also known as the three major.
Back to the main topic, which six super chess players are the six super players?
When we often say Liu Chao, we refer to the five super disciples who were instructed by Kitani Shikudan to open a dojo: Ohtake Hero, Masao Kato, Masaki Takemiya, Kobayashi Koichi, Zhao Zhixun, plus Wu Qingyuan's disciple, and Lin Haifeng, who is known as the Hero of the Bamboo Forest, along with Daitake.
In the twentieth century, Japanese Go was at the top of the world for a long time, of course, there are many chess players who can be called super first-class, not only these six.
Everyone knows Mr. Wu Qingyuan, he just lived a hundred years old, born in 1914 and died in 2014, we take Mr. Wu Qingyuan as a standard, born after him, and the chess strength belongs to the superior chess players, there are almost fourteen or five.
The reason why these six people were ranked in the sixth super in the end was not because they were disciples of The Mugu Dojo and Wu Qisheng, but because they were ranked through the achievements of the seven chess battles. It is true that the child is not deceived.
Take a brief look at the distribution of winners in the seven major chess battles
Katsura Takakawa: Born in 1915, 15 + 11 = 26 :
Description: Takakawa Ge is his real name, famous for the flow of water does not compete for the first sentence in the chess world, self-titled XiuGe, so it is also right to call him Takakawa Shuge. In the statistics of the seven major news battles, Takakawa reached the final twenty-six times (including the right to challenge or defend the title) and won a total of fifteen of them, especially the miraculous Nine Consecutive Championships of Honinbo.
Sakata Yukio (razor), B.D. 1920, 48+11=59
Hideyuki Fujisawa (Ornate Grandmaster), born in 1925, 18 + 10 = 28
Lin Haifeng (two waists), born in 1942, 25 + 19 = 44
Hideo Otake (Aesthetics), B. 1942, 25+12=37
Masao Kato (Tenkosei, 1947), B., 32+15=47
Yoshio Ishida (electronic computer), born in 1948, 13 + 5 = 18
Masaki Takemiya (Cosmic Stream), born in 1951, 10 + 10 = 20
Koichi Kobayashi (subway stream), born in 1952, 35 + 13 = 48
Zhao Zhixun (drill mole), born in 1956, 42 + 8 = 50
Wang Licheng, born in 1958, 11 + 3 = 14
Noriki Iida (Tiger), born in 1966, 12 + 5 = 17
Keigo Yamashita, B.1978, 14+16=30
Zhang Xu (disciple of Lin Haifeng), born in 1980, 23 + 4 = 27
So at a glance in the table above, gasoline (chess friends) can easily notice a phenomenon, there is a clear chronological fault in the Japanese chess players, the extremely outstanding razor Sakata, the gorgeous Hideyuki, the nine consecutive tyō Takakawa Hidekatsu, including Mutani Shiki, Hashimoto Utaro, who is ten years older than Mr. Wu Qingyuan, and others, they belong to a generation, a generation before the war. Otake and Lin Haifeng, who started in 1942, belonged to another generation, another generation that grew up after the war.
In this later generation, the six super leagues not only appeared in a concentrated group, but also the record was obviously outstanding, and their active period was also the period with the largest scale and the highest level of news chess battles, known as the Showa Go Six Supers, which was indeed expected.
Of course, after Zhang Xu, the japanese chess world overlord belongs to Yuta Iyama, who was born in 1989. Since he defeated Zhang Xu in the 2009 Celebrity Battle to win the first title, he has been dominating the seven major chess battles since then, winning nearly 50 championships alone, and the number of titles won in each chess game is no less than five. In terms of domestic record alone, it is much more bullish than any of his predecessors.
Unfortunately, at this time, the rise of the world chess war, the Japanese news chess game after the 1990s, can no longer represent the highest competitive stage of Go, and it can no longer be the same as the world's top competitions. And in addition to Kato, the other five have won world championships, and Inoyama has followed Kato-sensei, so Iyama is called: and Roku-super is another era of Go.
It is worth mentioning that the worst record in the six super leagues is not the "Tenfu Star" Kato that many people have always thought, but Masaki Takemiya, who has an unrestrained personality and is committed to the pursuit of cosmic flow.
Therefore, Fujisawa Hideyuki, as a senior, said such a sentence that was comforting and encouraging, and it was even more justified for him: "Our chess score can be retained for five years and ten years at most, and the chess score of the Martial Palace can exist for fifty years and one hundred years." ”
For Xiao Liu, the first love is the most unforgettable, when he first learned chess, he read Kato's enlightenment booklet, so he has always admired Kato, including his type of chess player. I don't know who the chess friends like the most in the six supers?
Haha, maybe not the sixth super, in addition to the admired Master Wu, Sakata is probably the one with the most fans.