After the founding of New China, the development of Chinese Go entered the fast lane. Especially in the 1960s, under the initiative of Marshal Chen Yi, the Sino-Japanese chess circles resumed exchanges, and up-and-coming stars such as Chen Zude and Wu Songsheng emerged one after another, racing on the road of catching up with Japan. In the 1970s and 1980s, Nie Weiping and Ma Xiaochun were even more fearful, especially Nie Weiping made groundbreaking achievements in the first three Sino-Japanese ring matches, and finally realized the instructions of Marshal Chen Yi and caught up with and surpassed Japanese Go.
The road to transcendence is not achieved overnight, today I will review the 10 landmark victories in the history of New China's Go, from here we can see the step-by-step footprints of Chinese Go on the way forward.
The first footprint is that Chen Zude defeated the ordinary Japanese nine-dan player in the first situation. Ever since witnessing Ito Tomoe's eight-game victory sweep through the Chinese chess scene in 1961, Chen Zude has held his breath. On September 27, 1963, he defeated the Japanese chess player Masao Sugiuchi in the first state, but this was only the first step in the long march.
Chen Zude played against Nie Weiping
Two years later, Chen Zude took another big step forward, defeating the Japanese Jiudan first. On October 25, 1965, Chen Zude defeated Tatsuaki Iwata with 2 and 1/2 of the black, becoming the first Chinese chess player to defeat Japan's nine dan first, breaking the myth that "Japan is invincible". This can be said to be the second step in the Long March of Chinese Go.
The winner of the Japanese Go Tournament was the third great victory of Chinese Go, completed by the unknown Shen Guosun. In 1973, in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament in China, Shen Guosun defeated the Japanese Sakata Eiko Kudan in the middle game, becoming the first Chinese player to defeat the Japanese Go title king. Sakada Eio was once the king of Japanese Go, and although he had gone downhill in 1973, he still held championship titles such as "Ten Dan Battle" and "Japanese Chess Academy Players' Battle", and his strength was still outstanding. Shen Guosun's victory seems to have played chicken blood on Chinese Go, which is very exciting. However, for various reasons, there was no proper publicity at that time.
The fourth distinctive footprint on the road was created by Nie Weiping, who blew a whirlwind in Japan in 1976. In that year's Sino-Japanese Go match, Nie Weiping defeated Hideyuki Tengen Fujisawa, amateur strongman Fumiho Murakami, Kada Katsuji Kudan, Ryo Setawa 8dan and Iwata Tatsumi 9dan, losing only one set to Hashimoto Masayoshi 29dan. The six wins and five wins included three nine-dan strong players, which surprised the Japanese chess community. The biggest test was in the final round, Nie Weiping faced the then Heavyweight player in the Japanese chess world, The champion of Benyinfang, Yoshio Ishida, and he won the final victory before the game. Thus achieving a total of 6 wins and 1 loss in this tournament, it set off a whirlwind in the Japanese Go world. Since then, Mr. Three Ear has almost become a household name in the Kingdom of Go in Japan, so this game is a game in which Nie Weiping is famous, and the weight is not light.
Nie Weiping, Ma Xiaochun and Luo Xiehe took a group photo
The fifth victory was Nie Weiping's first defeat of Japan's top-notch masters in the Sino-Japanese Ring in 1985. Before the start of the first China-Japan Ring, both China and Japan had the atmosphere that China would lose. Miraculously, Jiang Zhujiu unexpectedly won five consecutive victories and forced out the super-first-class chess player Kobayashi Koichi. Previously, chinese chess players against Lin Haifeng, Hero Otake, Masao Kato, Masaki Takemiya, Zhao Zhixun, Kobayashi Hikaru and other six super first-class, and Kobayashi also lived up to the expectations of all walks of life in Japan, came a wave of six consecutive wins, the Chinese team leader Nie Weiping invited out. However, Nie Weiping, who was holding his breath in his heart, dared to take a shot at the critical juncture of the chess game, and the soldiers were dangerous, and struggled to pull Kobayashi Koichi off his horse. Since then, it is no longer a legend that Chinese chess players have defeated Japan's super-first-class players.
Nie Weiping soon made a special award, he won the final victory of the Chinese team in the first Sino-Japanese Ring Tournament, which was the sixth landmark victory of Chinese Go. Nie Weiping had previously beaten Kobayashi Koichi and Masao Kato in a row, but if he lost to veteran Hideyuki Fujisawa, he would still have to swallow the bitter fruit of the failure in the ring. Fortunately, Nie Weiping was sober-minded, played normally, and defeated his opponent without any danger. The great significance of this game of chess is also that the great victory in the ring has since spread around the land of China, and at the same time, the seeds of Go have been spread, which have sprouted and thrived in all corners of the world.
The big win in the seventh battle was won by Ma Xiaochun, who won the 1995 Toyo Securities Cup semi-final against Cho Kao Hyun to ensure that the Chinese side won the championship and runner-up. The world Championship of Go, which began in 1988, had previously been won by Japan and South Korea, and China had nothing to gain and was extremely embarrassed. In the 6th Toyo Securities Cup, Ma Xiaochun and Nie Weiping both reached the final four, facing Cao Xuanxuan and Yamashiro Hiroshi respectively. At that time, Cao Xuanxuan had already been crowned four crowns, the first in the world in the number of world crowns, and his victory over Nie Weiping was obviously superior. At the critical moment, Ma Xiaochun stepped forward and struggled to sweep his opponent out of the door, and finally defeated his teammate Nie Weiping in the final to win the first world championship of Chinese Go.
Chang Hao won the Ying Cup
The eighth big win was chang Hao's defeat of Choi Chul-han in the 2005 Ying's Cup final, blowing the clarion call against the Hallyu. Since Lee Chang-ho entered his peak state in 1996, the Korean Wave has ravaged the world, completely beating Chinese and Japanese chess players to the ground, with almost no power to fight back. RenSheng Changhao also fell on the stage of the World Series finals for six consecutive times, but the seventh time Chang Hao finally came to his knees, and in the fifth Ying's Cup final, Yongke's Korean adept Choi Chul-han, known as Lee Chang-ho's nemesis, has since opened the prelude to the Chinese chess players fighting back against the Korean Wave.
In 2006, Luo Xiehe, the divine pig, won the Samsung Cup final with Lee Chang-ho and pulled him off the altar, which was the ninth happy victory in the Chinese Go world. Luo Xiehe, who has not been a blockbuster, has not had a particularly bright record before, but in this Samsung Cup, he burned five major generals such as Cho Han-seon, Song Tae-kun, Lee Sedol, Choi Chul-han, lee Chang-ho and other five members of the Korean team to win the championship trophy in his arms. What is more significant is that The Stone Buddha Lee Chang-ho was completely knocked off the altar by this blow, and although he reached the world series final many times since then, he has gained all the failures.
The tenth victory was in 2009 when Gu Li defeated Lee Sedol in the LG Cup final to win the 4,000-year war, thus creating the Gu Lee era of world Go. There are very few top masters who can create an era, but Gu Li and Lee Sedol jointly created their own era after the end of Lee Chang-ho's era, which is the first time for Chinese chess players, so the significance of Gu Li's victory is very huge.
Looking back, we can think that without these 10 major victories, Chinese Go will still have to grope in the long darkness, with no end.