Today in history: October 4
According to the original plan, it was supposed to be the turn of the Japanese chess battle today, but in the past few days, the sad news of Toei has been frequent. The day before yesterday, Hai つばさ announced on Twitter that he was about to retire, and yesterday came the news that Palulu had officially died from akb48. As soon as I see the Japanese characters now, my heart will burst with reluctance and sorrow. So today I decided to tell the story of a korean unlucky egg to mourn the youth that was destined to wither like a cherry blossom.
In 1999, in the 4th round of the 30th Korea Celebrity Battle Challenge, Lee Chang-ho defeated Choi Myung-hoon by 5.5.
In an era when Korean Go still took advantage of more than a dozen title battles every year, Lee Chang-ho was like a spider with a web, waiting for haojie from all sides to send him to the door, and then eat them one by one, stealing more than half of the championships. In the autumn of that year, Liu Chang-hyuk accompanied Choi Myung-hoon to squeeze apart Dae-lee's mentor Cao Xuan-hyun and launch an attack on the Stone Buddha. Liu Changhe, who was about to get married in October, was first blocked by Lao Cao in the last round of the throne battle cycle to break the undefeated golden body, and then the plus big Liu completed the overtaking at the official stage, took back the challenge, and gave Da Li a downside with a game of kung fu chess in the first game of the throne battle. Unfortunately, after five rounds of fighting, Liu Changhe was still repelled by Da Li 3:2, and finally failed to get the new wedding gift he liked. Probably in the heart of the stone Buddha at the peak, the red and pink skeletons, the white bone and flesh, everything is illusory.
Choi Myung-hoon defeated Lao Cao 2:1 in the Celebrity Battle Challenger Decision Battle and returned to the Celebrity Battle Challenge after three years. At the end of 1996, Choi Myung-hoon won the right to challenge celebrities and chess saints for the first time, and won two rounds of Lee Chang-ho in the challenge match, but the decisive moment was ultimately not as stable as his opponent who had experienced hundreds of battles, and only then ended the twelve chess battles with Lee Chang-ho at 2:3 and 2:4 respectively. At that time, Seo Bong-so's anger became more and more obvious, and the call for Choi Myung-hoon to be inaugurated as the "Fourth Heavenly King" sounded in South Korea. In 1997, Choi Myung-hoon and Lee Chang-ho hunted the lg essential oil cup, and in 1998, they set off the Tianyuan &lg essential oil juban chess battle, but the three times the total of the chess only won one game.
This time in 1999, at the end of July, Choi Myung-hoon won the Big Lee round in the quarterfinals of the Beida Wang Battle, the momentum was good, and when the celebrity war began, there was Liu Chang-hyuk, a strong lord, who attracted hatred on the side, and after losing one set first, Choi Myung-hoon also held the white to equalize the score. But as Lee Chang-ho got the bridegroom officer,the last two innings of the Celebrity War also lost suspense. The youthful vigor was gradually worn away, and Choi Myung-hoon, like countless chess players of his time, had become a habit of losing to Lee Chang-ho. The expectations of the "Fourth Heavenly King" are still in the ears, and all the titles of Choi Myung-hoon may be destroyed in the hands of the Stone Buddha. If there is not even a champion, how can it be worthy of the name of the king?
With this defeat, there is little time left for Choi Myung-hoon. A few months later, Rui Naiwei overthrew Cao Li's apprentices in the national hand battle, blowing up the increasingly silent backwater of Korean Go. Next, Lee Sedol turned out to be born, with 32 consecutive wins to win two consecutive championships, and there was no suspense in the genus of the new four heavenly kings. Not to mention Ahn Joo-young, Cho Han-sung, Park Yong-hyun, and Choi Chul-han, who were also eager to ascend to the throne. Choi Myung-hoon and Lee Chang-ho are only 2 months apart in age, which directly leads Choi Myung-hoon to bump into The peak of Lee in the rising period. In his record of more than 40 innings against Lee Chang-ho, only 7 sets of wins can be found at the peak of Choi Myung-hoon. At this moment, if you are willing to look back at the previous article, you will find that these 7 hard-won victories have been mentioned in the above two paragraphs.
In 1994, Yoon Sung-hyun, Yoon Hyun-hyun, Choi Myung-hoon, and Leung Kin, four young chess players born between 74 and 75 years, were elected by South Korea as the "Four Little Heavenly Kings" and issued a bold statement that "Lee Chang-ho will be completely defeated within three years". This sentence has long become a famous laughing stock in the chess world, and was repeatedly mentioned by people in the era of Lee Chang-ho's invincibility. Some people say that successful realization cannot be regarded as crazy talk, so the efforts that have not been successfully realized are naturally worthless. At least among those four little kings, Cui Mingxun is the one who really handed over the results, but unfortunately all this does not even reflect the strong qualifications of Da Li, if you want to hold Da Li, shake his and Cao Liu Ma Chang's record of fighting is enough, who is interested in paying attention to how Da Li ravaged Cui Mingxun? Under the silent dynasty of Lee Chang-ho in those years, there were the blood and tears of countless people like Choi Myung-hoon who tried so hard to put it into flowing water.