Ke Jie
Ke Jie, the first master of Chinese Go in 2019, said in a variety show that he won four world championship titles, and the prize money could buy a house in the suburbs of Beijing. Ke Jie means that his bonus is too small, and he is not slow enough to spend. Nie Weiping bluntly said that if this was not enough to spend, Ke Jie was really a loser.
Mu Xiu Yu Lin, the wind will destroy it, and the views of Ke Jie and Nie Weiping have all caused controversy.
Nie Weiping
Ke Jie's four champions have about 6.3 million prize money, buying a house in the best location in Beijing is certainly not enough, to know that he is the top master of Go, the Go industry produces so many champions every year, so Ke Jie really has to participate in the variety show to make money. Nie Weiping said that Ke Jie was a loser, which was a bit heavy. But why would Nie Weiping accuse Ke Jie of saying this with a big mouth? I think it's the generation gap that causes it.
It is said that the new sports cup has been held since 1979, and Nie Weiping won the first five championships, that is, from 1979 to 1983. At that time, the prize money for the winner of the new Sports Cup was 80 yuan. You read that right, and I didn't write it wrong, this eighty yuan is equivalent to a month's salary income of ordinary workers.
In 1987, the first Chinese Tianyuan War was held. The championship prize is set high, one thousand yuan.
Because China was in the early stage of reform and opening up at that time, domestic Go matches belonged to the system. jin
Cao Dayuan
At that time, a college student who had just graduated in Beijing in China had a basic salary of 50 yuan a month, and 66 yuan per month after a year of regularization, plus subsidies, and the monthly salary was less than 100 yuan.
Who will spend this huge bonus of 1,000 yuan? At that time, the format was arranged in this way, Nie Weiping, Ma Xiaochun, and Cao Dayuan were three nine-dan directly shortlisted for the semi-finals. The final semi-finals were selected from 16 players. As a result, Liu Xiaoguang Eight Duan just won a thousand gold, and he advanced from the sixteen-person selection competition with four victories, which can be described as double happiness. Among the four people who have been shortlisted for the final four, the most optimistic is 25-year-old Cao Dayuan. Because Cao Dayuan not only rose to the ninth dan, but also threatened Ma Xiaochun's position as the first person in China in terms of achievements. However, Cao Dayuan was cleanly defeated by Nie Weiping, and he and Ma Xiaochun, who barely defeated Liu Xiaoguang to advance to the final, competed for the title of the first Tianyuan Battle, and finally the young Ma Xiaochun, who was only 22 years and 6 months old, became the champion of the first China Tianyuan War.
Earlier than this competition, in 1985, the first Sino-Japanese Go Tournament ended, and the National Go Training Team won a prize of 9,000 yuan, Jiang Zhujiu received 5,000 yuan, and everyone else received 1,000 yuan. Soon Jiang Zhujiu's hometown of Shanxi Province rewarded him with 5,000 yuan. This added up to 10,000 yuan, more than Nie Weiping. So the national team leader Hua Yigang found Jiang Zhujiu, Xiao Zhi with affection, moved to reason, Hua Yigang leader thought that it was not appropriate for him to take so much money alone, he wanted to divide it up for everyone, and after Jiang Zhujiu's money, beijing rewarded Nie Weiping with a bonus, but no one dared to share his money, which made Jiang Zhujiu depressed for a while.
Jiang Zhujiu
In 1974, the Japanese Go community founded the Tianyuan Battle, and the championship prize that year was 5 million yen, which was equivalent to more than 200,000 yuan. When Chinese chess players are jealous and scatter their wealth because they have an extra five thousand yuan, Japanese chess players have already lived a well-off life, poverty can limit a person's imagination, go abroad, open their eyes, people will be psychologically unbalanced because of unequal treatment, so Jiang Zhujiu's mood of hoping to go abroad, I can understand.
Before there was Jiang Zhujiu, then there was Rui Naiwei, Feng Yun, to the United States, to Japan, to South Korea, all of them, not that the Chinese Go industry can not tolerate talents, but the treatment environment provided here to chess players is too inferior.
By 2021, China's 35th Tianyuan War champion is Gu Zihao, who defeated the previous champion Yang Dingxin 2:1, and his current championship prize is 400,000 yuan, while the runner-up prize is 200,000 yuan. The winner of the Japan Tengen War is currently 13 million. Converted into RMB is 850,000 yuan.
The conclusion is that the income of Chinese chess players has increased significantly, and the income of Japanese chess players is still not bad.
In 1989, the championship prize of the Ying Cup was 400,000 US dollars, Nie Weiping won a two-to-one lead in Hangzhou and Ningbo, the fourth and fifth sets were placed in southern China according to the original plan of Ying Chang period, the championship was best left in China, Cao Xuanxuan said I opposed, but his voice was very weak, the last two games were basically not considered in South Korea, and finally the place of the game was compromised in Singapore, Nie Weiping lost two consecutive games, because the runner-up was only 100,000 US dollars, so in the end he and Cao Xuanxuan actually gambled three hundred thousand US dollars. But even if Nie Weiping wins the championship, how much of this four hundred thousand dollars do you think he can take? I think at least half of it, hehe, you're wrong. If Nie Weiping wins the championship, he will receive up to one-third of the prize money.
In 2005, Chang Hao defeated South Korea's Choi Chul-han 3:1 to win the fifth Ying's Cup for China, and the championship prize was 400,000 US dollars, and Chang Hao could only get 28% of the total, that is, only 112,000 US dollars were actually in hand. The specific algorithm is to pay 20% of the tax first, 65% of the tax to the general administration of sports and the management of the Chinese Chess Academy, and the remaining 35% can be owned by the champion chess player himself. For example, in 2016, Tang Weixing won the eighth Ying's Cup championship, and the proportion he handed over to the state was 48%, and he could get 52% of his income, about 1.4 million yuan.
Park Young-hwan
Since the prize money of the domestic Go game has come up, the income of the top chess players can ensure that they can live a decent life, so it is logical that Rui Naiwei and Jiang Zhujiu returned to China in 2012, and it is not difficult to understand that we look at the date of their return to China from a common point of view, the motivation may not be lofty, and there is no need to raise it, but I have no doubt that they have a heart to serve the motherland at any time, which is beyond doubt.
I looked up a lot of information, for example, the most expensive chess game now is actually the Japanese chess holy war, the championship prize of 45 million yen is about 2.97 million yuan. The prize money for the Ying Cup is 400,000 US dollars, about 2.83 million yuan, and the winner of the Japanese Celebrity War is 33 million yen, about 2.17 million yuan. The fourth place in the championship prize is the Tianfu Cup, and the championship prize is 2 million yuan.
This information shows that even if Shin Shin-chan pockets both the Tianfu Cup and the Ying Cup, his total income may not exceed that of Yuta Iyama. For example, in 2018, Ke Jie and Park Tinghuan both made a lot of money, and the bonus income was extremely rich, almost reaching 7.1 million yuan, but the first place in the total income of International Go was still Yuta Iyama, even if his international ranking was only about 20, Yuta Iyama relied on his ability to pocket the seven championships of Japan, with a total income of more than 7.5 million yuan.
Lee Sedol
As another example, on November 19, 2019, Lee Sedol announced his retirement, and it is said that he received a total of 19.8 billion won in prize money from entry into retirement, or about 59 million yuan, including a prize of 5 million yuan for the juban chess championship with Gu Li.
Ke Jie now participates in the Weijia League every year, and the prize money he wins a game of chess is about 150,000 yuan, if he can win about 20 games a year. It's the equivalent of winning two World Series titles.
In April 2016, Lee Sedol signed a contract with Google, and his and Alpha Dog's championship prize money was one million US dollars, and Lee Sedol believed that the significance of the competition itself was greater than the prize money.
Lee Sedol's appearance fee is $30,000 per game, and the winning prize is $20,000. The prize money is twenty thousand dollars. So Lee Sedol's fourth inning was the most valuable.
In May 2017, under the fight of the Chinese Weiqi Association, the first person in the ranking, Ke Jie and Alpha Dog, played a Go summit duel in Wuzhen, at which time Google had raised the championship to $1.5 million, and Ke Jie's appearance fee per game was $300,000. Yes, you read that right, the playing fee per innings is three hundred thousand dollars, which is worth Ke Jie's best efforts, as we all know, Ke Jie lost, there was no chance, Ke Jie tears on the spot.
We are pleased to see that the income of the top Go masters has been greatly improved compared with a few years ago, of course, this is insignificant compared with those entertainment stars, seeing this, do we have some sympathy and understanding for The programs that Ke Jie has received many variety shows?
Yuta Iyama