After reaching the final four of the sixth Fujitsu Cup in 1993, in the second round of the seventh Fujitsu Cup the following year, Masao Kato defeated the Korean genius Lee Chang-ho and reached the quarterfinals, but then, like the previous one, it was planted in the hands of Lee Chang-ho's teacher Cho Kao Hyun and failed to go further. At that time, the combination of Cao Li's master and apprentice's two swords had gradually formed, and almost no one could do it if he wanted to break through these two barriers in the world competition.
Since then, Masao Kato has faltered in the World Series, and the best result is only the third three-star Cup in 1998, winning consecutive victories against Xu Bongsu and Ahn Joo-young, and then losing to Ma Xiaochun.
In 1999, Mr. Kato fought again at the Fujitsu Cup, winning the first round against young Chinese chess player Zheng Hong, and the second round again encountering Lee Chang-ho. At that time, Lee Chang-ho was already in the world and was undoubtedly the first person in the world. In the Fujitsu Cup the previous year, Lee Chang-ho reversed Chang-ho in the final and became the champion of this event for the second time.
In the face of the defending champion and the world's first, Mr. Masao Kato, who is already 52 years old, once again burst out of the sky.
The 12th Fujitsu Cup Second Round
黑: Masao Kato Kyudan
White: Lee Chang-ho Nine Dan
A total of 235 lots
Black wins in the middle of the game
Date of the match: 12 April 1999
Matching location: Japan Chess Academy, Tokyo, Japan
This was Mr. Kato's third confrontation with Lee Chang-ho, and after winning the 7th Fujitsu Cup, he was shot by Lee Chang-ho in the second round of the 8th Toyo Securities Cup in 1997.
First spectrum 1-50
Mr. Kato took the lead in black, and the previous two duels between the two sides were won by the white side.
The black chess diagonal small eye, the white chess diagonal star, is likely to be interpreted into a battle situation.
Bottom left white 6 hanging corner, black 7 choose two high clips.
After the white 10 counter-clamp, the two sides ran each other, and the white 18 town head was better.
Black 19 or below is solidly shaped, aiming at the counterattack against the white chess.
Black 31 flying pressure good hands, white 32 want to take care of the horns.
Black 33 and white 34 each grab the big field, and black 35 or below are roughly connected, and there are forces, and the situation of black chess is open.
White 42 jump, Xu Xu Tuzhi, Lee Chang-ho style.
Black 43 below calm, leaving the means to impact white chess.
The white 50 is huge, and the chess game is inseparable.
Second Spectrum 1-50 (i.e. 51-100)
Black 1 below the discarded good hand, the first hand to block the white chess, itself becomes very thick.
Black 15 flew up a little better, and the black chess position on the right expanded.
White 18 kills in, Black 19 steady.
Lee Chang-ho is not immediately active on the right, and the white 20 is expected to expand the midriff while the white 20 invades.
Black 23, 25 beautiful feeling.
White 26 deep, black 27 below the force.
Black 31 breaks, the chess game into Mr. Kato's pace.
Black 35 eat first, it seems to be a good hand to send food, but it is a good hand that makes white chess tight.
Black 39 turns, and white chess cannot break through.
Black 45 attacked the top first, and Kato stretched out with degrees.
Bai Qi had to be wronged.
Third Spectrum 1-50 (i.e. 101-150)
Black 1 first hand-held, has gone thick, black 3 long, waiting for white chess to do work.
When Bai 4 asked for life, Black 5 played the lower left again, and the other big dragon of Bai Qi was still in a state of inactivity.
Lee Chang-ho also had to honestly swing his eyes.
Black 15 returned to the right, and Mr. Kato attacked wave after wave.
Black 23 tendons, black chess to follow the trend of the air on the line.
Bai 24 brazenly rushed down, and Lee Chang-ho desperately tried.
After the black 27, the three sons of white chess cannot run away, but there is a first hand in the middle abdomen, and live chess does not seem to be a problem.
White 28 and 30 fought back.
Black 31 once again sacrificed his tendons, and Mr. Kato completely found the feeling of the Celestial Star.
Black 35 and 37 first left a breakpoint for the white chess.
Black 39 below creates a robbery on the top, and the white chess piece is stretched.
Black 49 broken, white 50 forced to make up for the upper side, want to threaten the black chess right, Lee Chang-ho played with his life is also really fierce.
Fourth Spectrum 1-50 (i.e. 151-200)
How does the black 1 tip, the white chess dragon work?
White 2 stands long gas must.
After the white 12 sticky, because there is a first hand all the way, the white chess and the right lower contact.
However, Black 13 returned to the upper tiger, and the white chess could only be robbed.
Lee Chang-ho fought fiercely, and Kato had already seen the changes.
Black 33 supplements, the first hand on the right side of the white chess piece is gone.
Bai 36 forcibly eliminated the robbery, and Lee Chang-ho won the victory and defeat with a big dragon.
Black 39 blocked the crossing, 41 broken eyes, Kato drew his sword.
Black 45 mention, white chess dragon becomes robbery live.
Black chess judges the situation clearly, and it is enough to go 49th.
White 50 had to be replenished.
Fifth Spectrum 1-35 (i.e. 201-235)
After the white 8, the great dragon finally lived.
But the black 9 blocked, and the number of white chess pieces was tense.
Bai 10 continued to do robbery, and Lee Chang-ho's chess game was really tenacious.
Black 21 broken, the white chess dragon is not alive, do not dare to make the robbery in the lower left corner bigger, if the sticky robbery is tantamount to surrender.
White 22 pull, Lee Chang-ho is playing the general or looking for steps?
Black 23 robbery, white 24 continue to walk in the upper right corner, but here is only the number of eyes, does not affect the safety of black chess.
Black 25 broken eyes, white chess this big dragon is in danger.
Now it has become a life-and-death catastrophe for white chess, and black chess is free to retreat.
Black 35 looking for robbery, Lee Chang-ho saw that he could not support it, so he threw himself.
In this game, Mr. Kato made Lee Chang-ho, the number one in the world, helpless with a continuous attack, and once again knocked down the stone Buddha and reached the quarterfinals of the Fujitsu Cup. Lee Chang-ho, who failed to defend his title, has not won the Fujitsu Cup since then, and has finished second in three consecutive editions from the 20th to the 22nd, which is also a record in the world chess world.
However, Mr. Kato also failed to go any further, and the eight finals were 1 and a half black and 1/2 eyes were inferior to Ma Xiaochun. Since then, he has played in the Fujitsu Cup twice without success, and the victory over Lee Chang-ho became his last victory in the Fujitsu Cup, and it was also his last victory over Lee Chang-ho.
Masao Kato defeated Lee Chang-ho in 235
Mr. Kato who confronts Lee Chang-ho at the Nongshim Cup
A stone Buddha in its heyday