Later, the "Chess Saint" said, "It is hard for anyone who has never played chess with Chen Zude to imagine how his offensive power on the chessboard is overwhelming."
It was Chen Zude who made Nie Weiping breathless on the chessboard. It was he who stepped forward when China Weiqi was out of breath in front of Japanese Weiqi and lit the first bonfire of China Weiqi.
Fight back against Japan
Weiqi was invented by China and brought to Japan by Japanese envoys in the Tang Dynasty. After centuries of development, it has become a traditional game in Japan, with a fairly high level of competition, profound cultural heritage and a huge group of chess fans. However, China Weiqi gradually declined after a short period of prosperity in the Qing Dynasty.
1960 was initiated by Chen Yi and Kenzo Murakami, a member of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party. The first Japanese Weiqi delegation visited China, which took the first step in the exchange of Weiqi between China and Japan in modern times.
Japan has a strong lineup, consisting of Kenzo Seto, Ryutaro Hashimoto and Rongxiong Sakata. China was led by the then chess players Guo Tisheng and Liu Dihuai, and 16-year-old Chen Zude became a new force against Japanese Go.
Due to the disparity in strength between the two sides, despite the best efforts of China players, they lost with a score of 2 wins 1 32 losses. Fu Rong Sakata, the Japanese chess king, wore slippers, which was in sharp contrast with the struggle of China players, which greatly touched the young Chen Zude.
If Sakata's arrogance can be tolerated because he is not as good as others, then the 196 1 year of Sino-Japanese Weiqi exchange is an indelible shame for Japanese Weiqi.
Because the first year's competition has demonstrated the strength of China Weiqi, the Japanese delegation's lineup has been reduced by two grades. Even so, in eight games, China players still lost with a disparity score of 5 wins 1 minus 35 losses.
This unspeakable pain stimulated Chen Zude's efforts and vowed to defend the dignity of the country where Weiqi originated.
The disastrous exchanges between China and Japan in Weiqi for two consecutive years have made the chess world face up to the gap with Weiqi powers. 1962 After the national competition, the Chinese Go Association was established.
Chen Yi personally wrote a four-word Go poem to encourage China players: sitting on tattoos/calmly talking about soldiers/learning chess skills/bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new/playing chess all the way/noble character/China's stunt/long history/inheriting and carrying forward/respecting Hou Kun/respecting sages/winning the championship.
From 1965, China Weiqi bid farewell to the previous Japanese methods of "concession" and "guidance" and entered the stage of "winning or losing the real sword".
Break the myth
1964, Chen Zude won the national championship for the first time, which established his leading position in China chess and set the first milestone in the history of China Go: defeating Japanese Jiuduan. Duan is another name for the "first person" in modern Japanese history. Even so, most of the "celebrities" who dominated Japanese chess at that time were eight paragraphs, and they dared not pretend to be nine paragraphs easily.
Undoubtedly, JiuDuan is the peak of every Japanese player's dream, and defeating JiuDuan is the dream of China players in the Anti-Japanese War.
1963, the Japanese Go delegation visited China for the third time. After a fierce battle between Beijing and Shanghai of 1 1, the Japanese team won with 33 wins 19 losses 1 draw. Compared with the previous two encounters, Japanese players made remarkable progress, especially young Chen Zude, who won five games against China.
In the fourth game, Chen Zude challenged the Japanese team leader Masao Sugiguchi. After 10 hours of soul-stirring fighting, he finally defeated Sugiyama with a slight advantage, so that Qiangjiu Duan, who had twice challenged the Japanese boxing champion, fell in front of China players for the first time.
This is the hardest, longest and most important game that Chen Zude has experienced since he entered the chess world. At that time, he was suffering from severe stomachache and almost exhausted all his physical strength until the victory was over.
1965655438+00, Chen Zude defeated Japanese chess player Akihito Iwata in the sea battle, and finally took a historic step forever.
Crazy traffic is coming out
With the improvement of strength, the embryonic form of chess style of China players has gradually taken shape.
Top chess players, led by Chen Zude, began to study and explore the layout routines suitable for their own style. In this context, according to the structure of chess pieces, a layout called "bridge type" is produced.
Because of its advantages of fast speed, strong fighting and rapid terrain change, it quickly became popular in the chess world in China. By 1965, Chen Zude had a battle of wits with Japanese master Beowulf, and the application of bridge reached its peak, which was called "China Stream" by Japanese players.
The combination of three chess pieces on the chessboard, in its "infant age", embodies the painstaking efforts of senior players such as Chen Zude to defeat powerful enemies, which is the crystallization of China Weiqi's courageous exploration in poverty and weakness.
go beyond oneself
In the early 1980s, with the rise of Nie Weiping, Ma and other outstanding players, Chinese and Japanese Go entered the eve of competition. However, Chen Zude, who accompanied China Weiqi through Cang Sang years, suffered from stomach cancer when China Weiqi reached its peak, and had to stay away from Weiqi shuttlecock, which had been in battle for 20 years.
In the following years, Chen Zude surpassed the record of the history of the new China Go in his hospital bed. Chen Zude in his later years still played an important role in the development of China Weiqi.
He devoted more energy to the study of China's ancient Weiqi score, and compiled a series of 16 volumes of "China Weiqi Score", which left a valuable fortune for China Weiqi circles.
What moved the whole chess world was that Chen Zude ended the last chess game of Volume 14 with his own life in the East Hospital of Union Medical College five days before his death, and entrusted the compilation of the last two volumes to Liu Jiuduan.
Chen Zude's death is a great loss to the world chess world.
Two months before Chen Zude's death, South Korean King Li Shishi Jiu Duan made a special trip to visit his home and learned the news of Chen Zude's death. Li Shishi wrote on his personal blog: "He is an elder whom I respect very much, and I feel very sad. I believe he must have gone to a better place. "
Today, China Weiqi is becoming the strongest player in the world. All this is closely related to the efforts of pioneers represented by Chen Zude.
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