In the chess world, Jiang Zhujiu and Rui Naiwei are the "divine eagle heroes" who have attracted everyone's attention. Both are nine-dan masters, and the jianghu people call them "eighteen-dan" couples. Some of the photos in this article were taken by writer Chen Cun.
In November 2020, Chen Cun was photographed in the "Eighteen Duan" couple's apartment
A few years ago, the "Eighteen Duan" couple ran a Go school in Shanghai called "Cast Jiuhui". Go to the new home of the "Eighteen Duan" couple to interview, this is a duplex apartment in Pudong, "Zhujiuhui" is run at home, downstairs is the children's classroom, the bedroom is on the second floor, upstairs there is also a tatami chess room of about ten square meters, a Go pier is placed in the center. When Jiang Zhujiu was teaching on the first floor, Rui Naiwei was upstairs playing scores and resting.
The "Eighteen Duan" couple has a clear division of labor, and Rui Naiwei concentrates on playing chess and takes care of housework in his spare time. Jiang Zhujiu is responsible for all the work of dealing with people, teaching chess, entertaining visitors, and facing the media.
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"Eighteen Duan Couple" Jiang Zhujiu and Rui Naiwei's "ZhujiuHui"
1. Inside
The 58-year-old Rui Naiwei and Hu Yaoyu recently won the Go Mixed Doubles Tournament in the 14th National Games, and Hu Yaoyu laughed and said that he was entrusted with the blessing of "Rui Lao". When Rui Naiwei was asked that this was the first time he had participated in the National Games and won a gold medal for the first time, Rui Naiwei, who now often plays chess players with his grandchildren, shyly said that he could not remember clearly. Writer Chen Cun called Rui Naiwei "Rui Lao" and said, "I shouldn't reiterate what firsts she pioneered." I feel that her presence points to a spirit, the vastness and depth of the 21st century. ”
Hu Yaoyu and Rui Naiwei participated in the Go project of the 14th National Games
Yu Bin, the current head coach of the national team and one of Rui Naiwei's former teammates, still remembers that when he was in the national team in the 1980s, the cup he drank water was casually placed on the chessboard, and Rui Naiwei saw it and said that this was disrespect for Go. Since then, Yu Bin has never behaved like this again.
"It is a great miracle that Elder Rui can still fight to this day." Yu Bin said that in the past, the career of chess players was relatively long, and the peak of their careers could be maintained until they were in their 40s, and now Go has become the world of young people. Indeed, in the 43rd year of Rui Naiwei's career, in 2017, the artificial intelligence AlphGo defeated the world's number one chess player Ke Jie in three battles, and Go entered a new era of AI. The training method of Go has completely changed, and the advantages of young players are quickly exerted, with good memory and the ability to memorize the stereotypes taught by The Go AI. In front of young people, Rui Naiwei's vision, high blood pressure, stomach disease, are all disadvantages.
Fortunately, Rui Naiwei's side had Jiang Zhujiu by his side. Everyone in the Shanghai Chess Academy knows that in Rui Lao's game, with Jiang Zhujiu, she is more at ease and the winning rate is higher. Jiang Jiu Duan, one meter eight tall, bearded. The two nine-segment families are stacked into eighteen-segment families, which are more complementary. Rui Naiwei's younger brother Rui Naijian said in an interview: "Jiang Zhujiu has a long drive and high emotional intelligence, and when he arrives at an unfamiliar environment, he can immediately open the situation." My sister is more sullen, can sink her heart, and be alone and fixed on doing something there. Rui Naiwei's focus on Go for more than 20 years is inseparable from jiang zhujiu's support and protection. ”
Rui Naiwei participated in the 15th "Jianqiao Cup" Women's Go Open Tournament
On weekdays, Jiang Zhujiu made a cameo appearance at home as a "leader" and directed another nine-dan. To visit the new home in Pudong of the "Eighteen Duan", Jiang Zhujiu accompanied us downstairs to drink tea and chat at the "Zhujiuhui" Go school, Rui Naiwei was upstairs, but the next day there was a game, really did not dare to be distracted, Jiang Zhujiu refused to meet for Rui Naiwei.
Rui Naiwei game, if Jiang Zhujiu can not accompany and take care of her, he will also call the coach leader of the Go team to repeatedly advise, "You must follow Rui Naiwei, because everyone will go to her side, all kinds of people will come to take pictures with her, you must block her, don't let people disturb her rest." ”
Rui Naiwei has never smelled smoke, so Jiang Zhujiu will never allow anyone around Rui Naiwei to smoke. It is said that a friend has a seizure of smoking addiction, which can only be discharged by holding a cigarette without lighting a fire. Writer Chen Cun is a good friend of the "Eighteen Duans", it is rare to have a party to eat together, Jiang Zhujiu will also quip Chen Cun: "You must not smoke, if you smoke, then what to do, then we have to get up and leave." ”
In 2015, Rui Naiwei participated in the "Towel - Green Forest" peak showdown
To watch Rui Naiwei play chess, she first put on her myopic glasses, and then applied a little gold oil ointment to her temples. Rui Naiwei's vision is very poor, once myopia of 1000 degrees, laser surgery, these years have rebounded, coupled with the perennial staring at reflective black and white chess pieces, her eyes are photophobic, and even sometimes have to wear sunglasses in competition. In 2015, she caused an eye disease due to high blood pressure, and she almost couldn't see it, and it took half a year of treatment to ease up. Before this, Rui Naiwei could not sleep at night for more than two years, when she was training in the national team, and when she arrived in winter and spring, she was prone to coughing, and her breathing was very heavy, like a cold, and then somehow eased up. The game of Go is the most physically demanding, in the words of Jiang Zhujiu, "Rui Naiwei will be easy to stay after playing chess." "Because Rui Naiwei is concentrating all her willpower and spiritual strength on the chess in front of her, when the chess is finished, she is like a prostration."
Rui Naiwei was able to have such a long go lifespan until now, in addition to Jiang Zhujiu's help and protection, another reason was that she had already crossed the victory and defeat of Yu Nei.
In the "Cast Hisakai" hangs calligraphy by many Go master Ken Setsukoshi, who once said that the process of working hard for the answer is Go. Setsukoshi's three most outstanding apprentices in his life were Yutaro Hashimoto, the Japanese, Wu Qingyuan, Chinese, and The Korean Cho Kao-hyun. Rui Naiwei was a student of Wu Qingyuan. In 1993, Wu Qingyuan, who had been retired for 9 years at that time, officially accepted Rui Naiwei as his closed disciple. After retiring, Wu Qingyuan still insisted on playing chess for 6 hours a day, and if one day was not completed because of something, he still had to find a way to make up for it the next day. Not for victory or defeat, not for honor, simply to explore the unknown territory of Go, he dedicated his life to Go. Jiang Zhujiu said that from Setsukoshi to Wu Qingyuan, these masters had a great influence on Rui Naiwei's spirit, enabling her to put aside temporary victories and utilitarian gains in Go and grasp Go from a higher perspective.
Second, the outside
The daily life of the "Eighteen Duan" family is like this, Jiang Zhujiu is responsible for teaching chess to support the family, and Rui Naiwei is responsible for cleaning up and cooking. Looking at Japan and South Korea, Jiang Zhujiu is the only nine-dan player who teaches an introductory course on Go. However, Jiang Zhujiu said, "Teaching chess is my second favorite thing, the first is to be a chess player." Jiang Zhujiu naturally had the opportunity to ask Wu Qingyuan to guide his chess, and he found that Teacher Wu would praise him, "This step is not bad", and for Rui Naiwei, Wu Qingyuan was always critical. Jiang Zhujiu was keenly aware that his chess was not good. After that, every time he saw Wu Qingyuan praise anyone, he sighed in his heart, "Another Jiang Zhujiu."
Jiang Zhujiu and Rui Naiwei, Chen Cun, 2015
Jiang Zhujiu and Rui Naiwei's Go school is called "Zhujiuhui", and there are 60 or 70 students. We went to Jiang Zhujiu's Go class with a group of children, the children were divided into classes based on the degree of chess strength, and there were also children who knew nothing about Go with zero foundation, Jiang Zhujiu told the children that before they came out, they could not touch chess. In the chess class of "Zhujiuhui", in the first lesson, every child and parent will get a Go record book, the cover of which is Jiang Zhujiu's calligraphy and the Tang Dynasty Wang Jisheng's Go Ten Duels. The first commandment reads, "Do not be greedy.
Jiang Zhujiu told the children the story of "Su Bingtian replaced the starting foot with the left foot". Here, children learn not only about Go, but also about how to manage their own lives – the core of the philosophy of "Cast Hisakai". Children know that on the chessboard, chess players have to fight alone, carefully plan their chess games, and take responsibility for the pieces that fall at each step, and they also need to do the same in the long road of life. When they lose, they know that they can only cry three times, and they will thank their opponents for their strength, carefully review the game, and prepare for the next game.
Once, Jiang Zhujiu asked Rui Naiwei to talk about chess, and the children were very excited. When it came to the question-and-answer session, they rushed to raise their hands and asked her, Teacher Rui, why is this move so played, and what about the move, can you change the way? Rui Naiwei patiently answered the children's questions. A 7-year-old girl desperately raised her hand, she asked Rui Naiwei a move, only to hear the chess player who had played chess for most of his life answer, "I don't know what to go", a little naughty, a little innocent, but completely calm, "I have to study it." ”
Jiang Zhujiu is guiding the children of the "Cast Jiuhui"
Jiang Zhujiu said: "Playing chess is a small experimental field for personal life. The child definitely needs to be brought by the master, but it cannot give him the feeling that the master is teaching you, but let him feel that he has found the way out by himself. Every time we have a new child here, we will say, Teacher Jiang, which one should I go? The older kid next to him would shoot him and say, you should ask yourself first, you are the teacher. ”
Outside of the chessboard, the "Eighteen-Dan" couple wanted to pass on their Go concepts to the children who came to learn chess, which were passed on to them by the masters such as Kensaku Settsu and Wu Qingyuan. You are a person, specializing in the art, and causing each other, in order to imperceptibly transform the child's instrument.
The writer Yu Jun is a good friend of the "Eighteen Duan" couple, and his evaluation of Jiang Zhujiu and Rui Naiwei is: "These two people are really Tangzheng. I have to sigh, for people to be upright, what a high-skilled and clear game of chess, if people also have a rank, Jiang Zhujiu and Rui Naiwei should also be able to get "eighteen dan".
A chessboard, white paper and black lines, large and small chess grids. The "eighteen-dan" couple off the chessboard has their own persistence. When the "Eighteen-Dan" couple talked about Li Changhao finally finding a suitable wife, they showed their heartfelt happiness, they said that this girl was very simple and quiet, this is what chess players need, too much vanity, it will hurt chess.
Yu Jun has always said that he wants to write out the story of the "eighteen-dan" couple pouring water as a "world speaks the present language". One day, Chen Cun, Yu Jun, and the "Eighteen Duan" couple went to see the exhibition together, and then went to a restaurant on Yuyuan Road to eat together. The hotel is not big, and only two round tables can be placed upstairs. Chen Cun, Yu Jun, and the "Eighteen Duan" couple occupied a table, and the other table was seven or eight old ladies and an old man, who were talking about homely things. Rui Naiwei saw that the teapot on the table was out of water, so he stood up silently and went to the counter on the second floor to add water. The restaurant business was so good that the waiter girls were busy giving dishes to this table and that table, and they couldn't take care of the upstairs. Rui Jiu Duan poured water, turned around, the old ladies at the next table looked at Rui Jiu Duan in a sports suit, sneakers, the old eye flower when she was a waiter here, calling for tea. Rui Jiuduan smiled, poured tea for each of the seven or eight old ladies sitting there, and then returned to the counter to fill it up. Jiang Jiuduan looked at Rui Naiwei, watched her smile, and happily talked to the old ladies. (Shen Qihua)
The writer Chen Cun has a deep friendship with the "Eighteen Duan" couple, and here is attached the old text that Chen Cun wrote for "Rui Lao" in his early years for the readers.
The woman on the chessboard
Chen Cun
That guy used to be the absolute champion among women. None of us expected that that person would defeat Cho Hyun Hyun in the National Hand Battle. We have always been optimistic about Ma Xiaochun and Chang Hao, just as we used to be optimistic about Nie Weiping — in short, only looking at the first few of the one hundred and eight generals of the Chinese Chess Academy. Of course, they are good men, and they have always made great achievements in battle, but unfortunately, in recent years, they have broken feng shui and are a bit depressed. If they lose chess, amateurs like me will complain and lose their souls. Although we are not registered with the Chinese Chess Academy, we are accustomed to the thinking of the Chess Academy, and we also did not expect that the Chinese outside the Chess Academy would also win.
That person repeatedly defeated Lee Chang-ho, who could not be killed and could not be defeated. Naturally, we are happy. We think that Mr. Li is strictly self-disciplined and not close to women. Once the hand talks, you can't eat the intimacy of one person and one hand, the feet are in turmoil, and there is also a sad beauty pass. It can even be seen as male humility. It is not that Mr. Li played a fake chess game like a "fake ball", but that he could not bear to kill. As the old saying goes, retreat. The old saying does not say and the ancient book says that after retiring three times, the six relatives will not recognize it. So, that person is lucky once, can he get lucky again and again? Can she really become Ma Xiaochun's Lee Chang-ho?
The strangest thing is that the man was once reduced to a non-professional chess player. Displaced, with nowhere to register, isn't it a waste of the profession? Being rejected by various competitions did not reward her with an amateur status? I love to watch TV and talk about chess, and the master of the game from time to time has to mention how professional chess players think, and then add a sentence synonymously, amateur chess players can't think of these. Of course, I don't think the smell of talking is right, because the top masters have also played the top stinky chess. Naturally, "stinky chess" is the proper noun of amateur chess players, and the stink of the master should be called "fainting", which means that it can be seen, and the first faint is missed. Now that person has become an amateur chess player, it is difficult to understand who can see the chess.
There is an old man in the chess world, the undisputed first master, who enters the old age and does not want to retire, but accepts that person as a closed apprentice. The old man whimsically designed a strange trick called "21st Century Go", and the real profits that did not compete for the corners were dead set on the middle abdomen. The old man's design is actually not a strange move, basically just contributing a line of thought, he has no energy to complete his own composition. The other masters praised the good, but they were not interested in doing that experiment, and they did not want to go through the prize money of the competition. The man worshiped under the old gentleman's door, and must have heard a lot of truths about that kind of chess. Later, that person was actually transcendent and had great chess strength. In this life, I had the privilege of seeing the old man' home, admiring his immortal wind Dao bones, and respectfully asking him to sign the book: Wu Qingyuan. At the time of the master's signature, the man was on the sidelines, performing a disciple salute to the old gentleman. I originally wanted to talk to her for a long time, but when I saw the indifference in her eyes, I felt that it was very wrong to disturb people for no reason. Besides, although I can't play Lee Chang-ho's chess, I also have Lee's siblings who are at a loss.
Speaking of which, a strange thing came to mind. The Korean chess academy actually took the person in, let her participate in the game fairly, and became a real professional chess player again. She attacked the city and defeated their national treasure, but they did not see them angry and killed her. The only thing that appears on the board is always the content of the chess. What appears outside the board is also the content of the chess. She called Mr. Cao her teacher. She would never say, "How can he understand my chess?" "Writing this, I am deeply impressed by her depth and breadth. She has the best spirit in Go.
In the news of many Go games, I read too many country names, too many genders, too many interests. And the art of Go that attracted our ancestors and me to me was pushed to the secondary. Now, the man has appeared and can stop for a moment. We can not talk about chess by nationality, not by gender, and not by prize money. In the news later, in my articles later, maybe it is time to forget some things off the board.
The person on the chessboard who died and was born later was named Rui Naiwei.
I shouldn't reiterate what firsts she pioneered. I feel that her presence points to a spirit, the vastness and depth of the 21st century. There are many very good words in Go, such as Tianyuan, so majestic. Go has long fallen into the dust, accumulated too many vitriol and mean fly camp dogs, gathered too many utilitarians, and now, there is a reason to be a little better.
(Chen Cun, 2000.3.13)