Chapter 29 The era of Nie Weiping

1976 was an "eventful year". Following the Tangshan Earthquake, a series of strong "earthquakes" occurred in China's political life: Mao Zedong died, the "Gang of Four" fell... When Mao Zedong died, I was participating in the preliminaries of the National Go Tournament in Zhengzhou.Liu Jianxun, Secretary of the Henan Provincial Party Committee, is very supportive of Go. Henan Go can be developed, and Liu Xiaoguang came out because he brought Luo Jianwen and others to Henan and trained these people.At that time he also wanted to transfer me, and I wanted to go too. Henan is always closer to home than Heilongjiang. Besides, Liu Jianxun and our family are family friends and have a good relationship with me.Unfortunately it didn't work out.Later it was said that Liu Jianxun was involved with the "Gang of Four", I couldn't believe it at all.When I played chess and chatted with him, he scolded the "Gang of Four" a lot, and scolded him very badly, especially at Jiang Qing, the bastard.He told me one thing in person. Once at the Great Hall of the People for dinner, Jiang Qing came in with Hao Liang, Liu Qingtang and others from a distance. Jiang Qing began to speak nonsense.

Liu Jianxun said that he was trembling when he heard it. Isn't this publicly embarrassing to Chairman Mao!He hated Jiang Qing to the core. I also know an uncle, Su Min, who is the deputy political commissar of the Heilongjiang Provincial Military Region and is a Yi nationality.His wife's name is Zhang Yu, and he was in the same class as my mother when he was in Yan'an. Li Bozhao, Jiang Qing, Ye Qun and others were also in the same class.Because of this relationship, when I was in Harbin, that is, after 1974, he took me to their home every week for dinner and weekends.At that time, he was really courageous, and often scolded Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao.I am so disgusted with the "Gang of Four" because of their relationship.But later he was also labeled as a pawn of the "Gang of Four", which I can't understand.In fact, I think there are unjust cases here, mainly because he didn't see Mao Yuanxin clearly.At that time, Mao Yuanxin was the political commissar of the Shenyang Military Region and also Chairman Mao's liaison officer.

Due to the death of Mao Zedong, the national competition in 1976 was also terminated. In 1977, I still represented the Heilongjiang team in the national competition, and won the championship again in the individual competition.Chen Zude did not take part in the competition because he participated in the investigation of the "Gang of Four". There was a problem in the team competition. Some people accused our Heilongjiang team of cheating.That's what happened.Since the competition is held in Harbin, the chief person in charge of the organizing committee is the director of the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Commission, and many specific tasks are also organized and implemented by the Heilongjiang Sports Commission.At that time, Wang Jialiang was in charge of arranging the game program, and it is said that he was very good at it.Before the lottery, he asked me which team would be the most promising in your group.I said Fujian team.There are only 12 representative teams in this team competition, and they are divided into six groups for the preliminaries. As long as the groups qualify, they can enter the top six.

According to the level of our Heilongjiang team, except for me, the other four players are very poor, and they can't make it to the top six. I know this very well, unless we are in the same group as the Fujian team, which is weaker than us. . As a result of the lottery, I was really divided into the same group as the Fujian team. I felt very lucky at first.But I didn't expect that this would arouse the opinions of the Go community all over the country, and they all came to me and said, how do you cheat!In good conscience, I did not cheat, I did not go to the lottery ceremony, I was not there at all, and I hate cheating the most in my life.But before the draw, I did say that the Fujian team is the opponent we want to meet the most. How could it be such a coincidence?I really can't speak clearly.

This incident caused a lot of trouble afterwards, and all the national teams accused us, and even printed big-character posters. Of course, the blame was not on me, but on the person in charge of the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Commission.Later, due to the fact that there was no evidence to investigate, we let it go, and we got the sixth place as we wished. Afterwards, I thought it might be cheating. As for how to cheat when the chief referee and captains of each team are present, I don't know how to cheat, and there is no evidence. It's just a guess.In any case, this incident is like eating a fly, which makes people feel very uncomfortable.

The national competition in 1978 was held in Zhengzhou. This time Chen Zude participated, and I lost to him.But he lost a few sets to others. In the end, I won the championship with the first total score, and he won the second place.During this period, only Chen Zude posed a threat to me, and everyone else was far behind.But this year Ma Xiaochun participated in the competition. I thought he was good, so I accepted him as an apprentice. At that time, it was called "one gang, one pair, one pair of red".He had just turned fourteen that year. There is also a ten-year-old girl, Zhang Xuan, who I also noticed.Now she is an eight-dan chess player and has become a leader among female chess players.

In 1979, in time for the Fourth National Games, the Go tournament was also included in the National Games.This year I still represent Heilongjiang.In the individual competition, I didn't lose a set and won the championship.We won the runner-up in the team competition, which was a bit beyond my expectation. From 1975 to 1979 can be said to be my heyday.During this period, I repelled the challenges of outstanding chess players time and time again, and firmly grasped the national championship crown in my hands.In the internal training competition of the National Go Training Team, I have created an excellent record of 23 consecutive victories.In the game against Japanese chess players, he also performed outstandingly.Therefore, people in the chess world called these five years the "Nie Weiping Era".

However, during this period, there was one opponent that gave me the most headaches, and he was Huang Dexun of the Sichuan team.In the national team competition from 1975 to 1980, I lost him six sets in a row, which was also a record, so some people called him "Nie Weiping's nemesis". Huang Dexun is about the same age as me, but his qualifications are much older than mine.His chess is fierce and easy to kill, and he is extremely good at calculation. He is one of the representatives of the "strength fighting type".Ordinarily, in 1975, there was a gap between his strength and mine. In normal training games, he could hardly beat me, but when we met in national competitions, I would lose to him in a daze.The first two times I lost, I was very annoyed, because they were lost by a lot of advantages.Especially the game I played against him in the national competition held in Harbin in 1977 made me dumbfounded.

At that time, I was determined to avenge the "one arrow" in 1976, so I played very cautiously with black chess, and soon drove him into a desperate situation.A big corner of white chess was "pointed to death", and the outcome was a foregone conclusion.But he frowned tightly, held his head in thought, and refused to admit defeat.Could it be that he still has some clever tricks?Puzzled, I carefully analyzed the situation again, and I was sure that he was "unavoidable to escape the law", so I waited happily for him to stop the clock and admit defeat.At this moment, he suddenly took a step, which no one expected, he actually made this corner into a "dead move", and then desperately entangled and attacked the two black pieces around me.In fact, this kind of weird play was out of helplessness for him. I still had a lot of chances of winning, but under the impatience, I still lost in a dizzy way.

From now on, every time I meet him in a national competition, I will beat the drums in my heart, and the more I want to win, the more I can't win.As a result, in the subsequent games, if it was Huang Dexun the next day, someone would come to cheer me up: "You have to pay attention to Huang Dexun tomorrow!" It made me feel even more furious.Sure enough, I lost again the next day. Regarding the fact that I always lose to Huang Dexun, there are many discussions in the chess world. Some people say that I underestimate the enemy, some people say that Huang Dexun is lucky, and some people say that it is because of the style of chess. Words are one thing and one thing.I am also very puzzled by this.Later, in an article published in the monthly "Go" magazine, Huang Dexun told the truth.He wrote: "Nie Weiping is indeed better than me in chess, but he carries the burden of being a champion. On the one hand, he is eager for success and wants to gain an advantage quickly; It’s two incompatible psychology, when they collide, the marksmanship will be a little messed up. But I don’t have any burdens, and I try my best to fight as soon as I come up, so I can often win in the chaos.” Thinking about it carefully, these words really make sense , I did lose psychologically.

In addition, there is another thing I lost to him, which is unknown to outsiders. When I was just training in 1973, I once ate dumplings in the cafeteria. I had just returned from the farm at that time, and I had a huge appetite, and I liked eating dumplings since I was a child, so I ate seventy of them at once.At this time, Huang Dexun also said that he had eaten seventy.So someone next to us urged us to compete to see who could eat the most, and the first to eat a hundred.I was also young and energetic at the time, seeing that Huang Dexun was smaller than me, and his belly must not be as big as mine, so I agreed.We ate one, and the person next to him counted one. When I reached the ninety-fourth one, he ate two in a row. I couldn't eat anymore, so I gave up on the spot.I felt very strange afterwards, how could he eat ninety-six?It must be that the first seventy have moisture. This matter was over at that time, but fifteen years later, in 1988, Vice Premier Fang Yi praised me at a national awards conference at first, and suddenly made serious criticisms of me while talking.He said he saw in the newspaper that I bet on dumplings, how could this be possible? !He said: "You can't ignore your body because of your own interests. Your body does not belong to you alone. It is not easy for the country to train you. You should be responsible for the country." Fang Yi's words touched me deeply. Make me understand that I can't do whatever I want.Later, I was very self-disciplined. For example, I never gambled. I never played anything that gambled money, including playing mahjong.Another example is drinking, you are better than me, and I am not better.One is to pay attention to physical maintenance, and the other is not to cause unnecessary burdens on the country. I have a good relationship with Huang Dexun. I am very proud that he won, and it was when I was "going alone".I really turned around in 1981. I overcame my psychological barrier and completely defeated him, and I never lost to him again.This incident taught me a lesson, never underestimate the influence of psychological factors on the outcome of a chess game.