The world chess world has long entered the era of young people, and world champions in their teens and twenties are emerging in an endless stream. But for senior chess fans, I have always missed those predecessor heroes in my heart. They integrated Go into life, and they struggled all their lives, which is infinitely admirable.
The most famous "evergreen tree" in the chess world is Mr. Lin Haifeng. Japan's six super first-class champions, including five people out of the same door, The Kidani Dojo is famous all over the world. Only Lin Haifeng independently held up a big banner to compete with Mugu Qunying. In more than sixty spring and autumn professional chess careers, Mr. Lin's footsteps have never been abandoned by the times, he is a real evergreen tree in the chess world, and an immortal phoenix that can be reborn in the fire.
When he was young, Mr. Lin looked at the world and won the title like a grass mustard, but what he admired more admired was that as he grew older, he did not fade from the chess game, but continued to maintain a strong competitiveness. At the age of nearly 50, Mr. Hayashi reached the final of the Fujitsu Cup for three consecutive years, and defeated Nie Weiping in the third final to reach the top of the world championship. In 2001, Mr. Lam won the celebrity challenge at the age of 59 and once drew 2-2 with defending celebrity Noriki Ida. Although the challenge was ultimately lost, why should such courage ask "Honest and old, can you still eat?" In the same year, Mr. Hayashi also won the third place in the Fujitsu Cup, and his ambition was not worn down by the years.
Mr. Lin Haifeng is still at the forefront of chess battles, constantly improving his winning record. These more than 1,300 sets of victories have witnessed the deep footprints of a superstar's journey all the way, and the heroes' legends will not be erased.
Breaking Lin Haifeng's record for the most wins in the history of Japanese Go was Cho Ji-hoon. As one of the "three geniuses of ancient and modern times", Zhao Zhixun has been concerned by the chess community at a very young age, and he is now over sixty years old, but he is still a strong competitor in the Japanese chess world and even the world chess world. In April this year, Cho Ji-hoon won the fifth Daejean Cup in South Korea, the women's championship, which was his first professional laurel in his home country. He won a total of 74 championships in the Japanese chess world, far ahead.
"Tenacity" is the adjective we are most accustomed to adding to Cho Ji-hoon's name, and tenacity stems from the deepest love of chess. Zhao Zhixun once said: "There is no tomorrow if you lose chess." Compared with the current young chess players' ease of "losing this game and the next game", Ji Xun's "pessimism" is even more moving.
Fame can be achieved early, but for everyone, it is necessary to experience the general situation of life, which is the traditional understanding of Japanese Go. Geniuses such as Wu Qingyuan also reached the peak of their chess career in their thirties, which is very different from the later Lee Chang-ho, Lee Sedol, Ke Jie, etc. who were less than twenty years old to make the world famous. Therefore, in the history of modern Go in Japan, "late masters" have emerged repeatedly, and early geniuses can often fight until they are old, and few become Fang Zhongyong.
Wu Qingyuan's brother Hashimoto Utaro has had the reputation of "genius Utaro" since he was a child, but what ultimately made him famous in chess history was that he repeatedly won the championship and founded the Kansai Chess Academy after middle age, and even galloped to more than eighty years old in the first line, which is really an "immortal pine"!
Mr. Hidekatsu Takakawa, the nine-in-a-row bully of Honinbo, was 37 years old when he first became Honinbo, and at the age of 53 he was able to defeat Lin Haifeng and ascend the throne of fame. The first kudan Fujisawa tomosai in the history of modern Go became famous at a young age, and he was able to win the fast chess tournament until he was in his 50s.
Some chess players are not as loud as the above masters, and their achievements are inferior, but they have maintained a good competitive state for a long time and showed their strength from time to time. Handa Michigen's name is unfamiliar to young chess fans now, he and KitaniShi, Guan Shan Li and other divisions out of the same door, 44 years old to become the nine dan, 45 years old to win the throne laurels, 49 years old to win the title of ten dan, 50 years old to take the throne, is the influential chess world at that time. Hidehiro Miyashita is a member of Hideya Honinbo, who has won many chess championships and has a strong mid-game power, known as "Fukushima's Bull". Shimamura Toshihiro is older than Wu Qingyuan, but at the age of 65, he was able to defeat the rookie Yuichi Tian and ascend to the throne of Tianyuan, which is emotional.
Also known to today's chess fans are Hideyuki Fujisawa's "chess after the age of fifty" and the feat of seizing the throne at the age of 66. Age is not an obstacle to becoming a master, think of the 95-year-old Masao Suganai who still won in the official game and his wife Sugiti Shouko, think of Wu Qingyuan, who is still playing chess at the age of 100, is competitive Go just a young man's game?
Veterans such as Nie Weiping and Rui Naiwei in China are still fighting in professional competitions, and South Korea's Cao Xuanxuan and Xu Bongsu have also persisted in their dedication to chess until their twilight years. They may no longer be able to become stars of competitive Go, but their lifelong love for Go will always inspire future generations.
Qin Shi Mingyue Han Shi Guan, the old chess players who have been obsessed with chess all their lives are like a towering ancient city wall standing in the history of chess, the wind blows and eclipses, the wall has been refuted, but it is thicker and more atmospheric.