Chapter 31 Leshan fiasco

In 1979, my Go career seemed to have reached its peak.In this year, I not only won the national championship for the fourth time in the Fifth National Games, but also won the first "New Sports Cup" championship and the first "World Amateur Go Championship" held in Tokyo. "champion.In addition, in all the 25 rounds of matches against Japanese nine-dan masters, I won sixteen rounds, drew two rounds, and lost seven rounds. For this reason, I won the Sports Medal of Honor issued by the National Sports Commission and was selected as the The first national "top ten" athletes.

According to my game results and competitive status, many people in the chess world believed that Nie Weiping would still dominate the next ten years.On this view, someone once asked me how I feel.I replied: After all, ten years is too long. I dare not say that no one can surpass me, but at least within five years, no one will be able to threaten me.When I said this, I was really full of ambition! Unexpectedly, just as I was proud of the chess world, a gust of wind that hit Nie Weiping had already rolled up under my feet... In the early autumn of 1980, the national competition was held at the Dongpo Building of Lingyun Temple in Leshan County, Sichuan Province.Lingyun Temple is a famous tourist attraction, and the famous "Leshan Giant Buddha" is here, but I couldn't enjoy it.

Before that, we went to Kunming to participate in a "Yunzi Competition", and I won the championship with a record of 100% victory, so I am full of confidence in this national competition, and there is a tendency that "the champion must be mine". I didn't expect that in the second round against Henan teenager Liu Xiaoguang, I would stumble, which immediately cast an ominous shadow on my defending title. Originally, winning or losing is a common matter for military strategists, but I am too eager to defend my title, and I become impatient when I suffer setbacks.In the fourth game against Ma Xiaochun, he turned against his own style of chess and took the initiative to fight with the opponent, but lost again.Afterwards, he was "defeated like a mountain" and lost to Chen Zude, Hua Yigang, Huang Dexun one after another, and finally failed to enter the top six.

It was a veritable fiasco, not only undreamed of by me, but also by the entire chess world. "Sports" also listed my Leshan fiasco as one of the top ten sports news in 1980.The opinion of the public opinion is: the battle of Leshan undoubtedly marks the end of the era when Nie Weiping dominated the chess world, and rookies such as Liu Xiaoguang and Ma Xiaochun are rapidly rising.Of course, there were more people who were surprised and confused, and speculated one after another: How did Nie Weiping do it?Is it really necessary to "change the dynasty"? In fact, the real reason is only understood in my heart, but it is inconvenient to say it out.After returning from Leshan, I have carefully studied all my games. It is undeniable that Liu Xiaoguang, Ma Xiaochun and other young chess players have indeed made great progress. The gap between us has been greatly narrowed, but I am sure that they have not yet Enough to beat me.I am still defeated by my abnormal performance.Why am I so out of order?This starts with our new team leader Hu Changrong.

Hu Changrong is a serious person with profound knowledge, and we often chat together.He also became a doctor after a long illness. Once he told me that he thought I had endocrine problems and suggested that I go to the hospital.I really went to Tongren Hospital and saw a well-known old Chinese doctor Wan Haihong. He said that I was too yang, which caused the imbalance of yin and yang and needed adjustment.He let me take Chinese medicine.I said it’s okay to take traditional Chinese medicine, but I don’t like to take soup that needs to be boiled. First, I don’t have time to boil medicine, and second, I don’t know how to boil it.Besides, I often go to other places for competitions, so I can't always carry a medicine jar everywhere!I asked if I could take pills.He said pills were not readily available, but they could be made at a pharmacy.So I took the prescription he prescribed and went to various pharmacies to make it up, and after it was made up, I took it to the pharmacy to make a large batch of pills.

I showed the prescription to Hu Changrong at the time, and he said that Dr. Wan was very aggressive, but I had to follow the doctor's orders and listen to everything the doctor said.At first I was not used to it, but after a few days, I felt inseparable, and the effect was very good. After eating it, I felt that my mind was very clear, my mind was really clear, and I always won in chess. Very happy. Before going to Leshan, I went to Kunming to participate in the "Yunzi Cup" National Invitational Competition. I thought the medicine I brought was enough.After the game, I went directly to Leshan from Kunming. When I arrived in Leshan, I found that the medicine was gone.The medicine is very powerful, and I have gotten used to it, but suddenly I don’t need it, to put it in a bad way, it’s like quitting drugs suddenly. I felt extremely uncomfortable in those few days. I couldn’t sleep well at night, and I often suffered from insomnia. Not in the mood during the day.In that game, I really caught whoever lost, and just a week ago, I caught whoever won in Kunming, and I didn't lose a single game.

I have never talked about this matter to the outside world. I am afraid that people will find excuses if they say that I have lost.What I said now is that people are not computers. In competitions, in addition to technology, people's emotions, thoughts, mentality, fatigue, and even health can play a big role. Will have a big side effect on the game. This time I learned how powerful the medicine is. Even though it is really useful for me, I dare not take it again in the future. What to do in case myrrh occurs again, it is better not to take it. In this competition, due to my disastrous defeat, Liu Xiaoguang and Ma Xiaochun won the championship and runner-up respectively, and they got up all of a sudden.It’s a bit like the chess game Naoki Miyamoto lost to me. Sometimes the old chess players have to lose to the young chess players to help them up. It’s like using your own shoulders to let them step on it, whether you like it or not. .This is indeed very "cruel", but this is the law in the arena, and it does not depend on human will.

In any case, the disastrous defeat in Leshan sounded the alarm for me. It will not be easy to regain the lost championship. What awaits me in the future will be a more difficult journey. In 1981, I returned to my original appearance. In the national competition in Wenzhou, I defeated all the strong opponents with great strength, and regained the championship with a relatively large advantage.But in the schedule, I lost to Luo Jianwen, who was relatively low in strength. I couldn't understand how I lost.Luo Jianwen's style of chess is erratic and unpredictable.I have learned a lot from him in "turning around lightly", but unfortunately his chess sometimes is too "light and subtle", and it seems that his strength is insufficient.I often jokingly refer to his chess as "light bones".If Luo Jianwen played chess thicker, his chess must be very powerful.But to put it bluntly, Luo Jianwen is a genius who doesn't work very hard. After 1980, his interest once turned to cooking. In his own words, "the higher the cooking skills, the worse the chess game". Of course, this is his self-mockery.But what's interesting is that in this national competition, he caught whoever lost and lost in a row, but he just won the championship and runner-up Ma Xiaochun and me, which is really amazing.So he jokingly declared that this was because the unknown people were not beheaded under the sword.

Then, in the "New Sports Cup", I defeated the challenger Cao Dayuan by an overwhelming advantage of 3 to 0.In addition, I also won the first "National Hands Tournament" championship held by Beijing Chess Academy.In this way, within one year, I won all the champions of all Go games in China at that time, and with three crowns in one body, I became the "overlord" of the chess world.