He was a monk at an early age, he was not only a scholar of Zen Buddhism, but also showed an amazing talent for Go, and later entered the chess world of the powerful fairy Yemen, and his chess skills were greatly improved, and at the age of 20 he became the first chess player in Japan.

In 1578, at the age of twenty, Hikai was invited by Oda Nobunaga, a daimyo known for his ambition to take on the world, to play a game of handicap with five sons. Even though he gave up his five sons, Hikai still won the battle, and Nobunaga was impressed by Hikai's chess skills and respectfully called him a "celebrity".

Since then, "celebrity" has become the title of the first person in the Japanese chess world, which is also the origin of the "celebrity battle" that is now the same name as the "Honinbo Battle" among the seven major title battles in the Japanese chess world.

Four years later, Oda Nobunaga was betrayed by his confidant retainer Akechi Mitsuhide and died in the Honnoji Rebellion. This is the most famous and mysterious coup d'état in Japanese history. Legend has it that on the day Nobunaga invited Hikai to play against another Go master, Shikashio Rigen, at Honnoji Temple during the march, and the two played an extremely rare cycle of three tribulations, which continued to fight and difficult to distinguish, and finally could only end in a draw.

That night, in the raging fire of Honnoji Temple, Oda Nobunaga, a Warring States hero who called himself the "Demon King of the Sixth Heaven", died of hatred, and his grand plan to unify Japan also died halfway. The cycle of three tribulations has thus been given the most vicious and dangerous ominous name.

After Nobunaga's death, his subordinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi completed the great cause of unifying Japan, and took power by calling himself Taiko. Hideyoshi was also a chess lover, and he respected Hikai, not only worshipping Rikai as a teacher to learn chess skills, but also allowing him to be favored by the imperial court and lead the whole country. This is where the real professional game of Go began to sprout.

After the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu seized power in one fell swoop and established the Tokugawa shogunate, which would later rule Japan for more than 260 years. After he took charge of Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu gave more preferential treatment to chess players, established a system for awarding chess players and determining chess ability, and established the official position of "Celebrity Sho", which symbolized the first person to play Go.

At the same time, Nikai changed its name to Honinbo and established the first family in the Japanese chess world, the Honinbo family, which is known as the four major Go families together with the Yasui family, the Inoue family, and the Hayashi family. Every year, the strongest chess players of the four major families compete in the Imperial City Chess Battle in front of the general or the emperor, betting on the rise and fall of one family and one faction, fighting on the chessboard and competing for the ownership of the "Celebrity Throne". This kind of Gojo Chess, or Tenkan Chess, is no longer just a game, but is considered as solemn and glorious as a samurai duel.

The chess players were supported by the imperial court to study Go without distraction, and in order to compete for the position of the "celebrity Qi Institute", the leader of the martial arts league in the chess world, the chess players of various schools worked hard to study and continue to impact the higher realm of chess. Thus was born the professional game of Go.

In addition, he also abolished the seat system, so that before playing chess, there is no need to place two black and two white four seats on the star position, but can drop at will on the three hundred and sixty-one points of the chessboard, and the world of Go is wide. Counting sand deservedly achieved the first major change in the history of Go.

After calculating the sand, Ben Yin Fangjia has always been at the pinnacle of the chess world, and geniuses such as Daoce, Zhanghe, Xiuhe, Xiuce, and Xiurong have emerged successively, constantly promoting the development of Go. Among them, the most brilliant Ben Yin Fang Xiuce, who is known as the strongest in the history of the past, was undefeated in the Imperial City Chess Battle, and achieved a well-deserved name as a chess saint, and the tragedy of his untimely death in his thirties has made countless chess players still sigh to this day. Sawei in the famous Japanese Go comic "Chess Soul" is based on Xiuce, which is also the sorrow of later generations for this genius.

After the Meiji Restoration, the Tokugawa shogunate was submerged in the dust of history, and the battle of Gojo came to an end, and the worship of professional chess players was no longer continuing. After that, the Go world entered the era of news chess battles.

In today's society, the public's attention is occupied by a small number of politicians, businessmen and entertainers, and the so-called traffic stars are everywhere in sight. And in those days, chess players were well-deserved top traffic. The newspaper spends a lot of money to promote news chess battles, and then serializes chess scores, chess records, and anecdotes of chess players in newspapers...... In this way, sales will be greatly boosted. The second major revolution of Go was also gradually conceived in that era.

At the beginning of the 20th century, two young chess players from China and Japan galloped through the chess world with a heroic attitude of determined change, and jointly set off a second frenzy of change.

Of these two young chess players, one is Wu Qingyuan, a Showa chess saint who will be invincible all over the world in the future and known as "let the world be the first". The other is the founder of the Kitani Dojo, the number one school in Japanese chess, and the master of Japanese Go who has trained up to nine dans.

Wu Qingyuan and Minoru Mugu jointly created a new layout method, which greatly impacted the old layout of the Ben Yin Fang Gate. The last two games of the last Beninbo Hideya were fought against Wu Qingyuan and Minoru Mutani respectively, with one victory and one defeat, which also announced the end of the Beninbo Gate.

After that, thanks to the active activities of the Mainichi Shimbun, Hideya celebrities handed over the name of Honinbo to the Nippon Chess Academy, and they formed the Honinbo Battle, and every year the winner of the chess battle held the title that symbolized the pinnacle of Go.

Sun Suhe tapped lightly on the face of the newspaper, and according to the briefing, it was an international Go competition led by the Japanese Chess Academy and co-sponsored by the China Chess Academy and the Korean Chess Academy. The winner will not only receive the title of "Honinbo", the highest game in the history of Japanese Go, but also a prize fund of up to 100 million yen. The opening ceremony of this chess tournament was held at the Kyoto Imperial Palace, and now that it has been successfully completed, the next step will be to move to Kyoto's Nijo Castle, built by Tokugawa Ieyasu, to follow the example of the "Tenkan Chess" of the past, and fight again at a later date.

The reason why Sun Suhe paid special attention to the key word "Chaoben Yin Fang War" was because the time of the chess opening ceremony mentioned in the briefing was really quite sensitive, and November 11 and November 12, combined with the time point when Yin and Yang Province made some moves, no one could help but think about it.

Second, as the agency in charge of the affairs of the emperor, the imperial family and the imperial palace in the Japanese government, the Imperial Household Agency has always been low-key and secretive.

"Super Ben Yin Fang War, Super Ben Yin Fang Battle ......", Sun Suhe frowned and pondered, he vaguely felt a little impression, as if he had glanced at it on the news somewhere, but he didn't pay much attention at the time, and he didn't see it again.

Was it deliberately low-key? Is there really something wrong with it? Or am I overly sensitive, because Go news has never been hot in this era, if it weren't for artificial intelligence

Sun Suhe carefully scrutinized it, and felt that it was still necessary to follow up, it was very simple, just send the "Bamboo Forest" to investigate the Chinese chess players who had participated in the opening ceremony in China, and it would be clear at a glance whether they were really tired.