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I have used a clumsy pen to depict the deeds of Nie Weiping, Ma Xiaochun, Chang Hao, Gu Li, Ke Jie, Tang Weixing, Luo Xianhe, Park Wenyao, Chen Yaoye, Kong Jie, Tan Xiao, Lian Xiao, Ding Hao, Rui Yiwei and many other great players in the Chinese Go world, and have also dabbled in the deeds of Cao Xuanxuan, Li Changhao, Li Shishi, Fujisawa Hideyuki, Yi Tian Jiji and other famous Japanese and Korean generals.
A few days ago, I released the anti-Korean data of Chen Yaoye, Tang Weixing, and so on, and after a friend read it, he encouraged me to publish the relevant data of another anti-Korean hero, Hu Yaoyu, because he was the same as Tang Weixing, Chen Yaoye, Sheikh and other backbones of Chinese Go, and he was once a fighter on the front line of anti-Korean resistance, which is worth remembering.
In fact, when I talk about Hu Yaoyu, I think that he has a lot of labels. And let me take my time.
Hu Yaoyu and his people
Hu Yaoyu was born in Shanghai on January 18, 1982, began to learn Go at the age of 6, entered the dan at the age of 11 in 1993 and became a professional chess player at the age of 12, and became a national junior team at the age of 12, together with Gu Li and Kong Jie, known as the "Three Musketeers of the National Youth" and the "Three Little Tigers" of the post-80s. Hu Yaoyu's teacher is Liu Xiaoguang Jiudan, a famous Hercules in the Chinese chess world, but his chess style belongs to the balanced type, thick and steady and tough, which is completely different from the style of Naishi's "powerful hammer".
Hu Yaoyu's record in domestic competitions is not bad, and the accumulated gold cups include: the 6th Rookie Wang Zhan Champion in 1999, the CCTV Cup Quick Chess Tournament Champion in 2001, the 2nd Yongda Cup King of Kings Invitational Tournament in 2004, the 7th Ricoh Cup Champion in 2007, and the 3rd Weifu Fangkai Cup Chess King Championship Championship in 2007. In addition, he fought tenaciously with chang Hao, Qiu Jun, Liu Shizhen and other teammates, and won the crown of the League three times.
Hu Yaoyu vs. Lee Chang-ho
The 39-year-old is still fighting on the front line, which is admirable
If you look closely at the list of teams in this year's League One, you will be surprised to find that the 39-year-old Hu Yaoyu is still in the register. The specific members of the Shanghai team are: Li Weiqing eight dan, Wang Xinghao six dan, Huang Mingyu four dan, Xu Haofeng seven dan, Hu Yaoyu eight dan. Obviously, it was because of the unfortunate death of Fan Yunruo, the original main general of the Shanghai team, so that Hu Yaoyu could only be the old Ji Futuo.
At present, there are 90s players such as Luo Xianhe, who was born in 1977, Gu Li in 1982, Meng Tailing in 1987, Chen Yaoye in 1989, Yuta Iesan, Kim Ji-seok and Jiang Dongrun, but in fact, Luo Xianhe and Gu Li are only in name and have not played at all, and Hu Yaoyu, the real chess player, is undoubtedly the oldest.
In today's Chinese chess industry at the age of 25, it is a veteran general, and the only person who is close to 40 years old is Hu Yaoyu, who is indeed invincible, which is very admirable!
The saddest runner-up in the world
Because of his outstanding record in domestic competitions, Hu Yaoyu became a regular in the World Series, but due to various reasons, he failed to win the world competition, leaving a lifelong regret.
Hu Yaoyu has reached the semi-finals of the World Series six times, but in the key battle to knock on the door of the final, only one time has been successful. Among them, the 7th Samsung Cup semi-final in 2002 lost 0-2 to the later runner-up Wang Lei, the 8th Samsung Cup semi-final in 2003 lost 0-2 to the subsequent champion Zhao Zhixun, the 5th Chunlan Cup semi-final in 2004 was eliminated by the later champion Lee Chang-ho, the 2005 10th Samsung Cup semi-final defeat to the runner-up Lee Chang-ho, the 12th LG Cup semi-final in 2007 was defeated by the last champion of the cup, Li Sedol, the last champion of the cup, and the 4th BC Credit Card Cup semi-final in 2012 lost to Bai Hongshu. Complete opponents to advance to the final and win the only world championship.
In the 11th LG Cup in 2006, Hu Yaoyu defeated Japanese and Korean generals such as Cho Kao-hyun, Yamashita Keigo, Lee Chang-ho and Cho Han-seung all the way to the final triple-final against Zhou Junxun of Taiwan. Zhou Junxun also reached the final of the World Series for the first time, and there was no special superhuman result before, so everyone was generally optimistic about Hu Yaoyu before the game. The final began in March 2007, but due to the pressure on his back, Hu Yaoyu suffered from losses and losses in the game, unable to let go of his hands and feet, and Zhou Junxun was relaxed and had no baggage, Hu Yaoyu finally unexpectedly lost to Zhou Junxun 1:2, ranking second.
Some people say that Hu Yaoyu is the saddest of all the runners-up in the World Series, and he is compared with the hero of the ring, Nie Weiping, but I think that in addition to regret, he has made "ingenious" contributions to cross-strait exchanges and friendship.
Hu Yaoyu and Gu Li played against each other
Known as the "Hero of China", in fact, the anti-Korean record is not very good
During the period when the Korean Wave was raging, Hu Yaoyu won five consecutive victories in the 4th Nongshim Cup Three Kingdoms Go Tournament from 2002 to 2003 against Koichi Kobayashi, Kim Seung-joon, Masao Kato, Cho Kao-hyun, Noriki Ieda, etc., winning five consecutive victories, combined with his victories over Other World Chess Masters such as Lee Chang-ho and Lee Sedol in other world competitions during that period, so he was praised by the media as a "Chinese Hero".
But I counted his historical record with the Top Ten Korean Go masters in the number of matches, and found that his winning rate was actually average, and the specific data I listed is as follows:
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serial number
Top 10
Total match
Win
Defeat
Winning percentage
Match time
Korean War opponents
quantity
number
1
Lee Chang-ho
12
6
50%
2002-2007
2
Lee Young-joo
9
3
33%
2008-2012
Park Yong-hoon
7
5
29%
2001-2013
4
Zhao Hansheng
71%
2003-2014
Kim Ji Seok
2005-2018
Lee Sedol
17%
2003-2008
Mu Zhen Shuo
2001-2014
8
Park Young-hwan
20%
2012-2015
Cho Hwan-hyun
100%
2003-2007
10
Lee Dong-hoon
2014-2019
total
65
27
38
41.5%
From the above statistics, it can be seen that according to the winning rate, Hu Yaoyu and the world's first man, Lee Chang-ho, have a fight; with The other two leading figures in South Korea, Lee Sedol and Park Tinghuan, they are completely inferior; and the hero Cho Hwan-hyun is a complete victory, but it is not worth much.
I also counted Hu Yaoyu's matches against Gu Li and Kong Jie, the other two cadres in the Little Tiger Trio, and the result was that Hu Yaoyu and both of them had a total of 37 innings, and both were 13 innings and 24 innings, with a winning percentage of 35%. It seems that among the three musketeers, whether it is the actual results of the competition or the results of the battle between each other, Hu Yaoyu is in the last place.
The first person in the chess review
There was a time in the nineties when as soon as the TV station had a live broadcast of the World Series, I tried to watch it. Among the masters who talk about chess, those who left a deep impression on me were Nie Weiping, Hua Yigang, Wang Runan, and so on. I think their explanations are in-depth and simple, interspersed with some celebrity anecdotes, coupled with humorous and funny explanations, which make people feel more comfortable and relieved, but at that time, Chinese masters lost a lot, and the ending was depressing.
Now the chess world is popular in the network live broadcast, Meng Tailing, Liu Xing, Yu Zhiying and other people's style, I also learned a bit. But what I appreciate more is Hu Yaoyu's text column.
As long as I see Hu Yaoyu's chess review articles, I will savor them verbatim, sometimes even one or two times. The reason why his chess commentary attracts people's attention and becomes a feast for chess fans, I think there are three main reasons: First, pay attention to one or two details of the key points of victory and defeat, that is, the so-called winning and losing hands, and explain it in an all-round way, rather than covering everything, like a running account. The second is to explain the background of the chess game, the state of the chess players and their respective styles more clearly, rather than ambiguity, Wang Gu left and right him. Third, after the game, Hu Yaoyu will contact the warring sides and listen to their judgments on the chess game at that time, the reasons for the moves and related psychological activities, which makes the chess fans have a sense of sudden enlightenment and Mao Sai.
If I evaluate Hu Yaoyu's chess review with rave reviews, I think it is appropriate. To say that he is the first person in the world of Go criticism today, I think it is also worthy of the name.
Mr. and Mrs. Hu Yaoyu
Regrettably not promoted to nine dan
The great leader once said: Nine times out of ten people have a bad life. Although the Chinese chess world has achieved impressive results, there are also many regrets. Among the biggest regrets are: Nie Weiping has not been crowned the world champion in his lifetime, and Ke Jie has not yet become the ninth champion.
For Hu Yaoyu, in addition to not winning the world championship, he deeply regretted that he stopped at the eighth dan and failed to advance to the ninth dan. If you want to become a nine-dan, there are now two paths: One is to reach the nine-dan standard in the promotion stage or daily competition, but it is a pity that Hu Yaoyu, who was not born at the right time, if he participated in the chicken rib general ascension stage competition earlier, most of the low-dan chess players encountered, and he did not get enough points, so he sometimes knew that it was difficult to act, so he could only choose not to participate. Now he is quite old, fighting against a bunch of young generals in daily competitions, and he can't make much cheap. Second, with one World Series champion or two runners-up, he can be promoted to the ninth dan, but unfortunately Hu Yaoyu's World Series is not brilliant enough, and he has entered the top four of the World Series six times, and only once has he reached the final, which is a pity that he failed to obtain this qualification.
Go family
Hu Yaoyu was one of the first chess players of the "Little Tiger Generation" to enter the marriage hall. At the end of January 2008, "Chinese Hero" harvested perfect love, and he and Ruan Qi, a Girl from Wuhan, received a marriage license in Shanghai.
Hu Yaoyu's wife, Ruan Qi, is half a "circle person", and her father is Ruan Yunsheng, secretary general of the Hubei Provincial Go Association and coach of the Wuhan Yellow Crane Tower team. Although she was "born into a famous family", she did not know anything about playing Go. It is understood that the two did not know each other before. In the 2005 Ningbo Go Duan Tournament, Ruan Qi, a junior in college, followed her father who led the team to travel to Zhejiang, and as a result, Hu Yaoyu fell in love with her at first sight and launched an "offensive" on her through female chess players. Subsequently, although the two places were separated, the text message was interspersed, and finally the good couple was naturally formed, and the cultivation was a good relationship.
When someone asked Hu Yaoyu's parents-in-law at the wedding what they thought of their son-in-law, his mother-in-law said very humorously: My husband is seven dan, and my daughter is stronger than me, and she is married to eight dan. For his daughter to choose a professional chess player, Ruan Yunsheng smiled and said: How they started, I really don't know. During that time, I was busy with the Wuhan chess players, and finally I learned that they had talked about friends. Hu Yaoyu is like a chess player, thick and calm and resilient. I am very satisfied with my daughter's marriage.