Editor's note: This issue of "Osaka Tenzhao Go Club of Overseas Club Tour" will be introduced by the teacher "Find An Excuse to Be Quiet" born in Osaka, Japan, and the teacher Mei Yan Honglin, the leader of the Osaka Club, and the article will be written by the teacher "Find an Excuse to Be Quiet".
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Osaka is where I was born, and although I have always been an upright Chinese after returning home, I will find time to go to Japan for a few days every year before the outbreak of the epidemic. Every time I go to Osaka, I feel like I'm "back in my hometown", and I don't need to pull out my mobile phone to look at the map, and I can walk the road I often walked as a child.
Fortunately, in the big family of the city Go league, there is also my "hometown". Since Osaka joined the City Go League family in 2017, it has sent out some big names and young players every year. This year is no exception, in addition to the south Korean "talented girl" Zhao Huilian jiudan joined, making the overall strength of the team more solid. It is expected to hit higher rankings.
First of all, according to the convention, I would like to introduce the players of the Osaka Tensho Go Club.
★ Mei Yan Honglin: Cultivating talents for the Japanese chess community
Osaka Tenzō's team leader and team member, Red Forest Mei Yan Ii. Once a professional two-dan player of the Hubei Weiqi team, he studied in Japan in 1992, and established the "Mei Yan Go Classroom" in 2000, which cultivated a large number of talents for the Japanese chess community, and opened the "Japan Relay Tournament Go Association" to promote the development of the City Wei League in Japan and overseas, enhance international and regional exchanges, and make many contributions to the Weiqi community.
Honglin Meiyan 2nd Paragraph (Photo provided by me)
★ Satoshi Yuki: Three "Thousand Wins" chess players
Satoshi Yuki kudan is a famous player who enjoys the youngest thousand wins, the fastest thousand wins, and the highest winning percentage of Japanese Go. Becoming a student of the Kansai Chess Academy has only been a professional chess player for half a year, and it is still a topic that Kansai chess players cannot do without.
Satoshi Yuki not only maintains a high level of competitive status for a long time, but also often appears in the large-scale commentary scene of major events, and the commentary mixed with kansai accent is deeply loved by chess fans. Satoshi Yuki is also a loyal railway fan, and the names of stations in Japan are already cherished.
Satoshi Yuki kudan (Image from The Japan Chess Academy)
Satoshi Yuki's Q&A session:
—— You have won 5 championships in 6 years in the NHK Cup, can you share with chess fans how you achieved such a good result in the fast chess competition?
Satoshi Yuki: I usually play fast chess, and then do some simple dead and alive problems, so that I can exercise the calculation power of the moment, I think these trainings can improve the level of fast chess.
——I believe that you have left countless classic games with Chinese chess players, is there a game of chess that impressed you?
Satoshi Yuki: Any game of chess that I win has left me with fond memories, especially the game of chess against Coulee Kudan in the second round of the 2006 Fujitsu Cup, which was finally won in a very complicated situation, which impressed me.
——What is the goal of participating in the Siege of the City this time?
Satoshi Yuki: We reached the top 8 in 2018 and hope to continue this state and play at the best level.
★ Zhao Huilian: "Female version of Lee Chang-ho"
Cho Hye-jin became a professional chess player at the age of 12, became the fourth female nine-dan player in the world in 2010, and the first Korean female chess player to achieve 600 wins in 2019. Rui Naiwei Jiudan, who used to play as a guest chess player in South Korea, was called "Korea's Women's Final Two". Because of his accurate situation judgment and ability to restrain, he is known as the "female version of Lee Chang-ho". Zhao Huilian, 36 years old this year, is still competing in the Korean women's frontline.
Not only that, Cho Hye-lian graduated from the English Department of Korea University in Korea, translated the classical Chinese Go book "Xuan Xuan Qi" into English and successfully published it, and also taught himself Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and other languages, and published Go books in Japanese.
Cho Hye-lian nine paragraphs (photo from South Korea's daily economy)
Zhao Huilian's Q&A session:
── How do you think the Go world will develop in the future? To what extent has the level of Go in Europe and the United States improved?
Zhao Huilian: The progress of Go in the world is very remarkable. I think professional chess players in Europe and the United States have reached the height of professional chess players in China, Japan and South Korea. Unfortunately, due to the impact of the epidemic, the opportunity to popularize Go in the world has become much less recent.
Do you think the academic qualifications of chess players really matter?
Cho Hye-lian: Now that the significance of Entering a University in South Korea is decreasing, everyone thinks that compared with graduating from a prestigious university, it is more likely to have a stable job as a civil servant, but I think that chess players studying in college will make more choices in life.
Cho Hye-lian: If there is no conflict with the time of the korean chess match, I am very happy to participate in the City Go League and play for osaka Tenzhao to win a good place.
★ Daiki Seto: It turns out that the character in the manga "Chess Soul" is based on him
Daiki Seto is the face value of Japanese Go, the "noble prince" of Kansai. He is known for the prototype of the comic version of "Chess Soul", and his strength should not be underestimated. 3 times ben in the square war cycle circle, 1 chess holy war cycle circle, many times joined the cycle circle "golden chair" family. In addition, he has participated in many League B leagues and taught himself Chinese.
Yu Masaki Hachidan and Seto Daiki Hachidan (right) (Image from twi: Kansai Chess Academy)
Seto Daiki's Q&A session:
--Daiki Seto-sensei is said to be the original character of the manga version of Kiyoharu of chess souls, is this true? Do you remember the scene and the state of mind?
Daiki Seto: Yes, I am the original character of Kiyoharu Shesita in the manga Chess Soul. At that time, Ryo Maeda came to us and said that Yumi Horida, the author of "Chess Soul", wanted to find some characters in the Kansai Chess Academy, and then fused me with the characteristics of Katsuma Shiro (Seven Duan), who liked "Tengen Hanging Horn" and "May 5Th opening game", and a character like Sheqingchun was born.
Because I watch Weekly Shonen Jump every week, it's really an honor to be able to play one of these roles in such a popular manga.
When I used to go to China often, it was when "Chess Soul" was the most popular, and many people in China felt that the light of Jindo was my prototype, and many people asked this question. This time there is just such an opportunity to make a correct explanation here.
In the personal introduction of the Kansai Chess Academy, you said that your stunt was "replayed with a simple Chinese", and you also participated in the Wei B League before, and you also saw you explain the situation with Chinese in the Lunar New Year Cup. Chess fans are very concerned about what reason do you learn Chinese, and then who is the best Chinese chess player?
Daiki Seto: I have played in the Wei B League 5 times and the Wei C League 1 time. Of course, I have also participated in countless competitions such as world competitions, international exchange competitions, and city siege federations, and I have been deeply impressed every time, and I am really grateful for this.
The reason I studied Chinese was that The predecessor of the Kansai Chess Academy, Yasuhiro Nakano Kudan, took me to the Chinese Chess Academy to hone my chess skills. After being exposed to the world's top chess game, I wanted to be able to communicate with them with Chinese. Now I don't learn much about Chinese, and I have fewer opportunities to say Chinese, but sometimes I look at news written in Chinese.
Every Chinese chess player is very good to me, and the best relationship is Wang Yao Liudan. Every time he invited me to dinner and then also played their futsal game and took great care of me.
Daiki Seto: The way the City Go League plays is very interesting, and I'm looking forward to it. Because it is a team competition, team cooperation will be very critical, this time there are strong teammates, hoping to impact the championship!
Seto Daiki Hachidan (Photo from Sankei Shimbun)
★ Sada Toshishi: I want to fight with Ke Jie and Tao Xinran
In recent years, Sada Tokushi Shichidan, who has begun to emerge in the circle of circulation in recent years, once won the 2019 Tengen Battle, winning the eight dan of Shida Tatsuya, the eighth dan of Kemi Motoki, the nine dan of Zhang Xu, and the nine dan of Kono Linjiu into the challenge of the challenger battle, infinitely close to the title battle challenge.
Toshi Sada was once an "executioner" who enjoyed swinging Masao Kato's chess scores. Later, under the run-in with AI, he gradually changed his chess style into a field faction, relying on officials and judgment to win.
Seven paragraphs of Sada Takashi (Image from the Mainichi Shimbun)
Tachibana Sada's Q&A session:
As one of the chess players closest to the title in the Kansai Chess Academy, I recently saw Sada-sensei share or star in the commentary on Twitter and YouTube, and the figure of sharing the charm of Go made me very respectful. What does the ideal professional chess player look like for you?
Takashi Sada: Thank you very much. As a chess player, AI now makes the situation numerical, so it is easier to learn the "correct solution" in the era. But in every game of chess, you can see situations that you have never experienced before, and you can also see new discoveries, which is the most interesting part of Go. On the road to the pursuit of truth, constantly making up for my own shortcomings, this is what I think of as the ideal chess player should look like.
Of course, I also have a lot of handsome and strong teachers around me (laughs). So I wish I could get closer to my chess fans. I feel that I have a lot of go charms that I want to share with you, so I also want to continue to learn.
IF YOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY AGAINST TWO CHINESE PLAYERS, WHICH TWO CHINESE PLAYERS WOULD YOU WANT TO PLAY AGAINST?
Tachibana Sada: Teacher Ke Jie and Teacher Tao Xinran.
Ke Jie gave me 2 sons on the Wild Fox four years ago, and then I lost to him. I was very impressed by this game, so I wanted to confirm whether the gap between myself and him was closer.
Teacher Tao Xinran's tiger often appears in actual combat in some unseen situations, so I would like to know how he studies, I hope he can teach me a few moves, it is best to study the chess game with him.
Tachibana Sada: During the epidemic, there are very few opportunities to participate in international competitions, and it is very rare to be able to hold a tournament in this situation, so every game of chess wants to cherish and enjoy it.
★ Eiichi Kawa: A stalwart chess player at the Kansai Chess Academy
HaEiichi Rokudan, a Japanese Korean III, was an indispensable stalwart chess player in the Kansai Chess Academy. The first time I saw Ha Eiichi was in the NHK Cup and defeated the new chess player of the year, He Jiayuan Jiudan. He dared to try, and once said in an interview with a newspaper: "The former Japanese Go is no longer suitable for the current Go world, and in this regard, it feels that Chinese and Korean players are making rapid progress." He has also traveled to South Korea many times to participate in training camps, sharing his experience of participating in the Siege Of The City Online.
Ha Ei 16 paragraphs (Image from twi: Ei Kawa Ichi)
★ Shizuka Nishiyama: Expected to impact the women's title
Nishiyama Shizuka, although 22 years old, started late among professional chess players, but Dingduan soon entered the semifinals of the women's stream Honinfang, and is a chess player in the Kansai Chess Academy who is expected to impact the women's title. Her sister Nishiyama Tonka is a famous shogi player, and now her sister has won the title of shogi woman, and looks forward to Nishiyama Shizuka being able to get the title as soon as possible and achieve the feat of all sisters getting the title.
Nishiyama Jingjia first paragraph (Photo from Daily News)
★ Nishimura Kintaro: The third place in the strongest game of Go in Japan
Nishimura 6-dan studied at Ritsumeikan University, where he won the 63rd All Japan University Go Tournament and defeated his opponent in the final. In his personal competitions, he set a record for the youngest girl to participate in the Go Tournament for Girls, and after entering the university, he won the third place in the strongest game of Go in Japan.
Nishimura Kintaro 6 paragraphs (second from left to right) (Image from twi: Ritsumeikan University Go Research Department)
★ Sato Yukiya: Represented two cities in amateur celebrity battles
Sato Yukiya, who has a record of four encounters with Yuta Iyama, won 1 win with 2 sons. In addition, he participated in the Asahi Amateur Go Celebrity Tournament as a prefectural representative several times, and represented Shizuoka Prefecture twice. After he became a regular employee of the Kansai Chess Academy and moved to Osaka, he successfully represented Osaka in amateur celebrity battles, and was one of the few chess players to represent two cities in amateur Go celebrity battles.
Sato Yukiya 6 paragraphs (Photo from Asahi Shimbun)
This is all the members of osaka tenzhao this year, including veteran players who have become strong and strong, young chess players who have recently made rapid progress, as well as stalwart chess players who have stabilized the hearts of the military, and amateur chess players who have given people unlimited surprises.
Finally, the sponsor of Osaka Tianzhao, Yang Zhao, general manager of Hubei Tianzhao Intelligent Fire Engineering Co., Ltd. This is a heroic entrepreneur who is passionate about Go, obsessed with Go, and does not hesitate to support chess players and Go activities at any cost. When the Osaka team needed help the most, it was a good answer. No matter what the team's achievements are, every time there will be a big banquet to entertain the team members, the chess players and Yang Zong drink together, and taste the delicious taste of the mountain treasures is the happiest moment.
Group photo of Cong jiuduan and General Manager Yang Zhao (right) (photo provided by Honglin Meiyan)
As Daiki Seto said, I hope that the team can beat the championship, in the special format of the Castle Siege League, everything is possible, and I also hope that Osaka Tenzhao can make a breakthrough in this year's event and refresh the top 8 results set in 2018, so as to advance to a higher stage.
Photos of the 2019 competition (Photo courtesy of Teacher Mei Yan Honglin)