The Sino-Australian mixed-race Hei Jiajia became an Internet celebrity because of her sweet appearance and elegant and ethereal temperament, and when she went to Japan to develop, she was called "a beautiful chess player once in a millennium" by the Japanese media.
Today, let's get to know the "evolutionary history" of this Go goddess.
Born in Brisbane, Australia in 1994, hei jiajia's father is Australian, her mother is Taiwanese, she grew up versatile, passionate about swimming, pipa, piano, yoga and Go.
When he was 5 years old, his mother bought back Go and chessboard, Hei Jiajia began to learn backgammon, hoping to continue learning after winning the whole family, at the age of 6 it was when he began to learn Go, he learned from the four-dan tutor Zhou Keping, the tutor said to the versatile Hei Jiajia:
Because Hei Jiajia is not only excellent in Go, but also has good talents and academic achievements, she is destined to become a star, and it is a pity to only be a professional chess player.
However, at the age of 7, Hei Jiajia decided to become a professional Go player and gave up piano and pipa lessons.
At the age of 11, due to the change of his father's position, the family went to live in the United States, and Hei Jiajia met the chess player Wu Jiao on the Internet and began online teaching.
"In order to play Go, I started looking for opponents on the Internet. However, most of the stronger masters are Asian chess players, and the time difference with the United States is, so I get up in the middle of the night on weekends to play against them, and I don't want to give up any opportunity to play with the masters. "
At the age of 13, Hei Jiajia went to Wuhan to learn chess for 2 months, studied under Ruan Yunsheng, and at the age of 15, he trained for three months at the China Chess Academy in Beijing, and was deeply guided by Yu Bin Jiudan, Wang Lei Baduan and many other teachers, benefiting a lot.
Today, Hei Jiajia is the seventh dan of the Taiwan Chess Academy's Go profession, and the highest female chess player in Taiwan, who has won the runner-up in the women's world championship.
Hei Jiajia admitted that he had a lot of interests when he was a child, and the support of his parents was also very much, he liked to try what he liked, learn gymnastics, piano, pipa, ballet and Go, and joined the swimming school team in elementary school, and chose to quit school after becoming a professional chess player at the age of 14.
Go is thousands of years old, but it has never been the same as two games.
Since childhood, her parents have told her that winning or losing is not important, and they have comforted her when she loses chess, and she must learn her mistakes and play chess to make more progress.
Don't compare yourself to others and don't put too much pressure on yourself. Try more things you like, you can slowly find interest, Go wins and loses, but life is your own, keep a normal heart is the most important.