Author: Yi Fei
(Image from Shanyang News)
As a Go organization that competes with the Japanese chess academy, the Kansai chess academy has not been willing to participate in only the major competitions sponsored by the Japanese chess academy since its inception. So in 1957, the "First Decision Battle of the Kansai Chess Academy" was founded at the expense of The Sanyo Shimbun, a news unit in Okayama Prefecture. This is a tournament exclusively for players from the Kansai Chess Academy.
Over the past 60 years, well-known figures in the Kansai Chess Academy, such as Utaro Hashimoto, Shoji Hashimoto, Michigen Haneda, Hidechi Wauchi, Naoto Miyamoto, Kunihisa Honda, Yuichi Enada, Tetsuya Kiyonagi, Shunya Imamura, Satoshi Yuki, Hidetoshi Sakai, and Daisuke Murakawa, have won many championships. Among them, Shoji Hashimoto won the 12th championship and was awarded the title of "Honorary First Place of Kansai Chess Academy". In 1980, at the age of 73, Utaro Hashimoto won the championship, setting a record for the oldest champion.
The Kansai Chess Academy was the first to decide that the battle format has changed several times, and the current format is the three stages of preliminaries, this tournament, and the challenge, and as the champion of the previous year, he directly entered the challenge, which is Satoshi Yuki, who has won the championship eight times in a row. Satoshi Yuki had his first taste of "Kansai No. 1" in 1996, and for 20 years he has been appearing in the chess world as the number one player of the Kansai Chess Academy.
The first person in the 61st Kansai Chess Academy decided to fight in the first round of this tournament, and a group of "strong men" was drawn, and the two strongest kansai chess academy,90s, Daisuke Murakawa and Yu Zhengqi, who were the strongest in the Kansai Chess Academy, met in the first round, and Yu Zhengqi, who won the middle game, entered the no-man's land, winning the challenge right in a row, winning the challenge. The challenge was won three times on September 7 and October 5 in the Kansai Chess Academy, and Satoshi Yuki was in extremely poor form this year, losing seven games in the chess holy war circle, and although he tried his best in the defense battle, he still lost with two one-and-a-half eyes.
Yu Zhengqi set a section in Taiwan in 2006, when he was only eleven years old. After becoming a Taiwanese professional second dan, he joined the Kansai Chess Academy in Japan in 2009, where he studied under the Chinese chess player Zhang Luxiang Liudan and became a beginner player in the Kansai Chess Academy. Eight years later, Yu Zhengqi, who has repeatedly entered the round-robin circle of the three major competitions, challenged the title, and won the runner-up repeatedly, finally won his first official championship, topped the "Kansai First", and became the first non-Japanese chess player to win the first decision battle of the Kansai Chess Academy.
After introducing the topic of the competition, we should have selected several wonderful clips of Yu Zhengqi's winning score. But this time, what makes people shine is not the content of the chess game, but the commentary. As the first player of the 61st Kansai Chess Academy to decide the second game of the three-game challenge, a nine-dan chess player of the Kansai Chess Academy, born in 1970, defeated many chess players including Satoshi Yugi this year and reached the final of the 13th Sankei Cup Pro-Am Tournament. However, when Yu Zhengqi, who was in charge of black, dropped the 7th hand, the famous "alphago fly"—
The narrator actually lamented that in this situation, the black chess two high clamps are more common, and the actual combat flying is rare in actual combat cases, such as the first hand of the Edo period.
If this is because the commentary is usually independent and does not care about other people's chess scores, the next explanation is very interesting. He said that in such a situation, only two games were recorded in thirty-five years, the most recent of which was the match between Masao Kato and Mitsuhisa Yukawa on February 3, 1994.
Flipping through the old classics, the shape of the above picture does appear in the game score (see below) between the late Kato Kudan Andō Kudan and the Kansai Chess Academy's Yukawa Kudan. It can be seen that this jiudan teacher is by no means unfamiliar with the vast example of Go, but the limitations are stronger.
Is there some relationship between this limitation and the long-term downturn in Japanese Go?