Chapter 45 Fujitsu Cup

"Fujitsu Cup" is the first worldwide professional Go game, but objectively speaking, it was Mr. Ying Changqi who first proposed a world professional Go game.It's just that he made a lot of noise and took a long time to prepare, so Fujitsu took the lead. In terms of the competition system, the "Fujitsu Cup" is much more formal than the "Yingshi Cup". It distributes the places for the competition to the Go associations of various countries, and each association selects and recommends them.It's not like "Ying's Cup" with a lot of "invitation".

On the evening of April 1, 1988, the first "Fujitsu Cup" World Go Tournament kicked off at the Prince Hotel in Tokyo, and I attended the opening ceremony as a participating player. In 1988, I was in a relatively good state, and I was lucky. I drew a European player in the first set and won it easily. The second set was against Masao Kato, and the win was also beautiful.When Kato met me, he never won a set. He lost two sets in the group arena, two sets in the Sino-Japanese Rivalry, and lost one set somewhere else, including this set, a total of six sets. But in the semifinals, I lost to Lin Haifeng.It was originally a winning game, but Hashimoto Utaro, who was in charge of explaining the game, stopped talking and accepted the game. At this time, something went wrong with me, and I lost the game.If there is nothing wrong with me in this game, Masaki Takemiya defeated Kobayashi Koichi in another game. According to my state at the time, the winning percentage against Takemiya is still relatively high.

Now I can only compete with Hikaru Kobayashi for third place.Before the match, the public opinion in Japan said that I was too smooth in the group arena, but in this kind of world competition, I will not work well, and I will definitely lose to Kobayashi Koichi. "Yomiuri Shimbun" even said that this is a real confrontation between Chinese and Japanese chess masters.At that time, Kobayashi Koichi was the champion of Japan's "Chess Holy War", and I had just been named a "Chess Saint".For this reason, the reporter also interviewed me specifically. I said that we are actually different. He is a chess master who has been played, and I am a chess master who has been rewarded for my contribution to Go. But no matter what, I must I will go all out to play this game of chess well.

I have always had a considerable advantage in this game of chess. When I must win, I have another big problem.Xiao Lin has a dead piece of chess, as long as I make a move, he will have to admit defeat.But I didn't make up for it, but went to the side to eat.But he didn't respond to me, but did a robbery in that dead chess.This time a chess game was played, and as soon as he robbed me, he made two consecutive moves in my space, punching through first, and searched me terribly.In the end, I had to do the work later, and he took the opportunity to glue Jie on, and made the piece of chess that was originally dead.I was dizzy at the time, how could I play such a stinky chess game? !As long as I make up a move, he has to stand up, and he doesn't know how much he has lost.If I encountered this situation now, I would have played chess, but at that time I was in a good state and refused to admit defeat easily.I immediately calmed down and clicked my eyes carefully. Fortunately, I haven't lost yet, and I can probably win half of my eyes, because the advantage just now is too great, but I can't make any more mistakes.At this time, my energy suddenly rose, and finally I caught him, and I won half an eye instead of half an eye.

Koichi Kobayashi was hit too hard by this game of chess. He hasn't won yet after I made such a big mistake, and his madness disappeared all of a sudden.At that time, the person who was in charge of explaining the board also thought that I must have lost. My chess pattern was too ugly.This is a bit like a boxing match. I knocked the opponent down with a combination of punches, and I couldn’t get up. Suddenly I staggered and fell to the ground. The opponent took the opportunity to get up and beat me up. Fortunately, I didn’t beat me to death. On the last count, I'm in the lead. This game of chess is very competitive. Unfortunately, this is not a competition for the championship, but only for the third place.Even so, I have ended the opinion that I am only good in the group arena and not good in other competitions.

In the second "Fujitsu Cup" competition, I passed all the way, but lost to Lin Haifeng in the final.Before coming to Japan, Xiao Kong always quarreled with me. The quarrel made me unable to rest. I couldn’t sleep well.Before the game, I should be as calm as water, but I ended up being very impetuous, which definitely affected my performance on the spot.And my luck is not good, every time I play against Lin Haifeng, I always draw white pieces.For several years, I would lose whenever I met Lin Haifeng, and I couldn't win a single game, and I was always caught by him in key games, which became my "nemesis".But after I turned around and beat him, he continued to lose in a row, and he hasn't won a game against me so far.On the chessboard, we are such "happy enemies".

Later, due to my poor condition, I did not participate in the last few competitions. In the "Fujitsu Cup" competition, the matter of Qian Yuping's abstention must be mentioned. Qian Yuping's chess has already reached a very high level. He reached the final of the "Fujitsu Cup" in 1992. If he keeps going, he may become the first person in China to win the world champion of Go. But just before the final, he came to me suddenly, saying that he had a headache and was going to give up the "Fujitsu Cup" final.I was taken aback when I heard that, and immediately said absolutely not.I told him, this is a rare opportunity, you should cherish it.If you really don't go, then you will set a world record, because in the world competition, you have never reached the finals and did not participate because of a headache.You have to think carefully.

He said he had considered it for a long time and still insisted on his opinion. Such a big event spread quickly, and the leaders of the Sports Committee asked me what was going on, but I couldn't explain it to them, I couldn't explain it clearly.Later, Li Furong and I went to do his work together. I hope he can still participate in the competition, even if he loses, it doesn't matter.I even said that if you give up this opportunity, you may never have another opportunity in the future, and you will have to pay for it.The weight of these words is very heavy, somewhat threatening.

But no matter what we say, he still doesn't go, there is no way to do it, and we can't send another chess player to replace him in the game.In the end, I made a special trip to Japan to apologize to the organizer and Zhao Zhixun, and I had to lie on his behalf, saying that he really had some kind of illness and couldn't compete.I've never done anything against my will before, but it ruined me. As for the real reason, I think he is afraid of Zhao Zhixun, and he is very afraid.He has never won against Zhao Zhixun in the past, and he has a lot of fame and fortune, so he is very unwilling to lose to Zhao Zhixun in such an important competition.

There is a basis for me to say that he has a strong sense of fame and fortune.Once when we went out to compete together, many people on the plane recognized me and came to say hello to me. The flight attendant even invited me to sit in the first-class cabin in front, leaving him behind.When I came back, he suddenly said to me, Mr. Nie, why do they all know you but not me?I am also very famous!I said this is all temporary, and you may be very, very famous in the future.He said, yes, I must let everyone know me in the future.And I have said it several times, there is a strong desire to become famous.In this state of mind, he didn't want to fight with Zhao Zhixun, for fear that Zhao Zhixun would punch him hard, which would be a cowardly act of stage fright.

Another reason is that he was mentally hit after he was rejected by a woman when he was pursuing a woman.This lady is the referee of the Go team, has a husband, and is seven years older than him.Maybe it's because people treat him a little better, so he has unreasonable thoughts and tries to cling to them.One night Qian Yuping invited her to dinner, and after dinner they walked on the street all night.I didn't expect such a dynamic between them.Later, Qian Yuping proposed to marry her, but the other party never thought about marrying him, so of course he rejected him.He was greatly stimulated by this.He has also courted many girls, from the badminton team and the table tennis team... Seeing what he likes, he thinks that others like him too.He has suffered much from this stimulation.He did suffer from mental illness later, but it wasn't so severe that he couldn't participate in the competition. Zhao Zhixun was very surprised when he heard that Qian Yuping had abstained from voting, which seemed unbelievable to him. Zhao Zhixun suffered a serious car accident during the "Seventh Battle" of the defending chess champion. The challenger, Kobayashi Koichi, offered to postpone, but he still did not agree.On the day of the game, he was carried to the arena with bandages all over his body, except for his left hand.I think Kobayashi must have felt tremendous pressure when he saw this scene.In the end, Zhao Zhixun won the game of chess.If I met such a chess player, it would be very difficult to beat him. First of all, I would not be able to bear it psychologically. How can you imagine playing chess with a person whose whole body is bandaged and only one hand is exposed? I cite this example to illustrate the gap between our chess players and Japanese professional chess players. As a professional chess player, you can die beside the chessboard, but you cannot abstain from participating in the game for any reason.In any case, Qian Yuping's abstention has had a negative impact both at home and abroad.