Chapter 42 The fourth arena

The first match of the fourth group arena was between Yu Bin and Yitian Kiki. After the opening ceremony in the morning, I went to Deng Xiaoping's place to play cards in the afternoon and told him that the group arena had started.After hearing this, he asked, how is the situation now?I didn't watch chess when I came, so I immediately called the Weiqi club to ask, and the person who answered the phone asked who are you?There were a lot of people on the phone at that time, and he may have messed up.I said you couldn't even hear my voice, but he said he couldn't, so I had to say I was Nie Weiping.But this man said again, is it true or not?I was a little annoyed when I heard that, the old man here is still waiting for an answer, and I said bluntly that there are fake and shoddy ones?Only then did he recognize my voice and told me that Yu Bin's situation has been very good.Only then did I feel relieved, and I came back and told the old man, and then started playing cards.

Unexpectedly, shortly before the end of the game, Yu Bin suddenly reversed, and when I called to ask, he had already lost, just like a patient who had just reported a critical illness and died before you could react.I had no choice but to tell the old man truthfully that I lost.The old man is very good, playing cards while speaking in Sichuan dialect, it's okay, come again! After returning to the Go team, I encouraged the players below and said, the old man said, it doesn’t matter, let’s come again!Unexpectedly, Yitian won six games in a row, but gave us another six.This pushed me to the edge of a cliff, more dangerous than ever.

The game between Yoda and I was played in Japan again. At that time, the Olympic Games were being held in Seoul. "NEC" asked whether it could be postponed. The reason was that they wanted to broadcast the live broadcast of the game simultaneously throughout the day, but there was a conflict with the broadcast of the Olympic Games. They wanted to broadcast the game. Postponed until after the Olympics. They notified the Chinese Go Association of this strong request, but I must seek my opinion on this matter. If I say yes, I can do it.At that time, I was under a lot of pressure. Although Japanese Go is so popular, TV stations often broadcast it live, but usually it is from 4:00 to 6:00 in the afternoon, which is the second half of the game.There has never been a simultaneous live broadcast of Go games all day, which can be said to be unprecedented.Their real intention is to expect Yitian to kill me, and this group arena match ended with a score of 7-0, shave our heads, and get back all the losers in the previous three matches.And at that time, after Yitian won six games in a row, he was so imposing that he wanted to jump on you and bite you twice. This kind of opponent is too scary!

In this case, I can only fight and not back down.I agree with them to postpone and rebroadcast, but there is one thing, you must bring me the video of the whole day, and I have to see how you rebroadcast it to the Japanese. Later they really gave me a set, which was all about games and chess lectures.I watch this video when I have free time. I have watched it more than a dozen times. It is so exciting.This is something. Another incident happened before the game. I won the third place in the first "Fujitsu" Go Tournament and needed to go to Japan to receive the award.Coincidentally, the time to receive the award happened to be two days before the group arena.The group arena competition is sponsored by "NEC". I know that "Fujitsu" and "NEC" are rivals in the competition, but I have a good relationship with both parties, so I asked whether it is possible to combine the two activities together, and take care of me I will be responsible for my return air ticket, and the family will be responsible for one day during the extra two days, which saves me from running back and forth, which is also beneficial to them.Unexpectedly, my suggestion was opposed by both of them at the same time. They firmly stated that they would never cooperate with each other.I had no choice but to go to collect the award once, then fly back to Beijing, and then fly to Tokyo, which cost me a lot of energy invisibly.

For this competition, the country did not give me such high requirements. There are too many sets, and it is inevitable that there will be no mistakes.But the public opinion in Japan is really amazing. Instead of encouraging myself, they gave me the title of "Iron Gate", which means that they will never be able to enter the gate, and the remaining seven will have to lose.They even said that I am not a human being, but a god who came down to take care of them, which is terrible!This may also be a method used by the Japanese to motivate fighting spirit, but no matter what, I am determined to win Yida, and I can lose everything else, but this game cannot be lost.

Yitian was twenty-two years old, and I was thirty-six years old. Although he was fourteen years younger than me, I overwhelmed him in momentum as soon as he came up, and I always had an absolute advantage in chess.But at the end of the game, he suddenly caused me a lot of trouble with a ghostly plan, and the game was about to be reversed.At that time, I was sweating all over my body, and my clothes were soaked, as if I had walked a few times in hell. It was extremely painful!I just sat there and didn't give up, didn't give up, let myself calm down first, adjust my mentality, and then think of a way to deal with it.

I took the test for dozens of minutes, and Hao Keqiang, who was watching the game, was "tested" to the point of restlessness, knowing that I had a big problem, otherwise I wouldn't suddenly stop playing chess for dozens of minutes in a good situation. It’s also because God has eyes, I found a way to resolve it in the past few tens of minutes, but Yitian didn’t take advantage of it.When I finally won him, I was almost paralyzed, so tired! After the game, Lao Hao said to me, you are really admirable, we didn't want them to broadcast it. What am I afraid of?Why must he win?Didn't I win to promote us?The next day, Japanese newspapers said that Yoda would not be able to pass the "iron gate" after all, and would not be able to score goals.

Later, a reporter asked me which chess game impressed me the most in my life, and I would always say this game. The next chess player is Awaji Shuzo, his chess style is tenacious, and it is not easy to defeat him. The Japanese call him a reversal expert, and he is good at making mistakes when the situation is not good. I didn't give him a chance this time, and won the game in one go. After winning two games in a row in Japan, Hao Keqiang, Luo Jianwen and I drank and celebrated together. When we were happy, we wanted to sing to vent, but the karaoke in that Japanese tavern did not have Chinese songs, which was really disappointing.

Coming out of the tavern, it was already late at night, and walking on the streets of Japan, we suddenly sang "How many winds and rains, how many springs and autumns" loudly.Why do you sing like that?In these years, we have experienced several storms and springs and autumns in the group arena, and we only showed our skills in times of crisis.This song is very high, and I sang it at the top of my voice even if I couldn't sing it. I just want to vent the suppressed emotions just now. Others must think we are crazy.At that time, there was also a Taiwanese reporter who followed in the interview.

The next round of competition will be moved to Guangzhou, and Hane Yasho will attack. Hane and Yu Shiraishi behind him are actually the softest in the Japanese lineup this time. The two of them have never won a game against me in the past.In fact, by the middle of the game, Hane had already lost a lot. As long as I stopped my moves, I could easily win without any mistakes. I have always been calm in the group arena, and I have never been impatient and aggressive, but at that time, I didn't know why, and suddenly I had a very strange idea, why can't I win him a big and show my face?So I started to "cooperate" with him.At this time, if he can't beat me alone, but with my "cooperation", I want to eat him, he will take the opportunity to run out, slap, slap, slap, several moves in a row, and he eats me all at once.A simple anti-kill chess was misunderstood, and he lost two eyes and a half.

This game of chess was unimaginably lost, and after the game, I sat in front of the chessboard in a daze, and couldn't believe that I would lose.But the truth is relentless. This loss also ended this group arena. I feel very sorry for the Cantonese.This time I came to Guangzhou to live in the presidential suite of the State Guest Hotel. The round-trip convoys are treated like the president, and there are police cars clearing the way. It’s amazing!And it was the first time to play a game in Guangzhou and lost, how dare to go in the future? ! After playing chess, I had to meet the audience as usual. I was so uncomfortable, I wished I could find a crack in the ground and cry aloud.In the end, it was still put in front of the TV and broadcast live across the country.At this time, chess fans sent a lot of flowers, most of them were for me, and some were for Hane, not many.Chess fans came up to shake hands with me and cheered. I had an illusion at the time, did I lose or win?Give me flowers if I lose?The audience in Guangdong is really wonderful.People said that I was in tears at the time, but I can’t remember if I was in tears, but I was very excited anyway, the scene was so touching! This time Japan also followed many reporters, and the headline of the report they sent back was that I finally found out that I am a human being, not a god, and sometimes I make mistakes. It's strange to say that when I don't make mistakes, I don't always make mistakes. Even if I make mistakes, they make bigger mistakes than me, and I don't lose no matter what.But when it's time to lose, no matter how good a game is, it loses. So far, I have won eleven games in a row in the group arena, and this is the twelfth game.After that, I made a lot of mistakes in the group arena. They were all low-level mistakes. I lost half of the chess that shouldn't be lost, and I lost several times. This may be God's will. Originally, Li Ning asked me to go to Shenzhen to attend one of his farewell parties after the game, to cheer him up, even if I lost the game, I couldn't go.At that time, Li Ning said that you should come after the competition.It's over if you lose, and it's over if you don't lose. His words are a bit unlucky. As far as I know, people who play Go are a little bit superstitious, all people have it, and there is no one.For example, which shoes you wear and which socks you wear are very particular.If you lose that time, you will definitely be eliminated. If you win, you must give up your clothes and wear them next time. It's very superstitious. For example, I can't eat a Japanese dish called "Shock Skate" before the game. Once I eat it, I will definitely lose. I have never won, and it is very effective.For example, in the "Asian Cup" with Wang Licheng in South Korea in 1998, for some reason the night before, it was arranged to eat "Scared and Scared". Played a lot of bad chess, very wronged!This happened not once or twice, and I can't tell.And eating beef in hot pot rarely loses.At noon, I only eat some watermelon. If I eat something, the blood will go to the stomach, and the brain will become sleepy due to lack of oxygen.Because chess is tense, there will be no feeling of hunger. After this competition, there were two people who moved me in particular.One was Hu Yaobang, who called me the very night I lost.He was no longer in leadership positions at that time and was recuperating in Changsha, less than four months after his death.He said on the phone, knowing that you lost, I must feel uncomfortable. If you are free, come to me to relax.How well you say that!The other leaders are also very concerned about me, but they are not as open-hearted as Yaobang.It is a pity that I will go to the United States to compete on the 20th, and the schedule cannot be arranged.In addition, if I knew that he had passed away soon, even if I flew there at night, I would leave early the next morning when I met him.What is gratifying is that I spent the Spring Festival with him in 1989. The other one is Chen Haosu. As soon as I returned to Beijing, he called me and asked me to go to the Great Wall Hotel. He said that when you won, I would not join in the fun by sending flowers. Now that you lose, I want to treat you to dinner.Chen Haosu is just not ordinary.