"The reason why I ranked Huang Longshi second is simply because of his terrifying dominance, because his chess really surpasses his contemporaries."

After Li Xiangping said such a sentence briefly, he shut up again, and Zhang Da waited for a while, and saw that Li Xiangping actually had no follow-up, so he asked:

"Well, dominance? Ahead of contemporaries? It's as simple as that? For this reason, you rank Huang Longshi second? ”

Li Xiangping smiled: "Is this reason still simple?" Reporter Zhang: I would like to ask you, it has been thousands of years since the birth of Go, let's not talk about it in ancient times, let's just say that in the last few hundred years, these hundreds of years should be regarded as a number of famous masters, right? However, among so many masters, how many have truly "surpassed their contemporaries"? ”

Reporter Zhang Da became interested: "Okay, let's count." ”

Reporter Zhang Da and Li Xiangping counted such characters with great interest, and if you really want to count them carefully, you will find that there are really not many such characters.

In about 20 years, Mr. Wu Qingyuan used 10 Shiban chess to reduce all the masters of his contemporaries to "the first", showing quite terrifying dominance, and it can be considered that his strength is significantly higher than that of other contemporaries, which is of course "beyond his contemporaries".

And apart from him, there are only a few people who can barely compare with him. Among them, there should be only two people who are closest to Mr. Wu's achievements, one of them is the ancient chess saint Huang Longshi, and the other should be the Japanese ancient chess saint Daoce.

Mr. Wu's deeds have nothing to say, let's talk about these two, first talk about the ancient chess saint Huang Yuetian.

Huang Longshi was born in the Shunzhi era, and everyone knows that from the early Qing Dynasty to the middle of the Qianlong period, it was the development of ancient chess to an unprecedented heyday, during which there were many famous players, each leading the way. Among the many famous masters, Huang Longshi is undoubtedly the most outstanding one.

Since the third year of Kangxi, Huang Longshi, who was only 13 years old at the time, began to roam the rivers and lakes. At the age of sixteen or seventeen, he was invincible and had a brilliant record, and was known as the "victorious general".

When he was 18 years old, he played against the famous leading national player in Beijing who had been galloping in the chess world for more than 50 years, and won seven victories in seven battles. The victory over Shandayou marked that Huang Longshi reached the pinnacle of chess skills in the early Qing Dynasty and established Huang Longshi's status as a "chess saint".

At his peak, he was simply invincible and had no rivals. At that time, the so-called "Huanglong Zhou Hu", Huang refers to Huanglongshi, Zhou is another national player Zhou Donghou in the Qing Dynasty, it is funny to say, the reason why everyone juxtaposes the two is really not because the strength of the two is evenly matched, just because in the chess world at that time, no one dared to challenge Huanglongshi except Zhou Donghou.

Not only that, the reason why Huang Longshi is "sacred" is more important is his contribution to Go, and the greatest contribution of Huang Longshi's game practice to the development of Go lies in his transformation of the style of Go. Before him, the chess style was narrow and dignified. Huang Longshi made a great change in the style of chess, and after that, the situation was open, light and changeable, and the thinking was far-reaching. Or to paraphrase the words of Mr. Masaki Takemiya: "The chess played by the ancient chess players is actually the blessing of Huang Yuetian, even if Fan Shi and the two later, Li Xiangping believes that they have not departed from Huang's framework."

If you want to evaluate Huang Longshi's chess, it may be the next generation of overlords after Huang Longshi, and Xu Xingyou, who was once his third son, summarized and commented the most expressive:

"The parasitic farmer is in the turbulence, and the god is handsome outside the body, the so-called form of the person and I am invisible, and I am empty, so I can have everything."

"One breath is clear, branches and leaves, nothing else, its stagnation and boring realm, so that the enemy has to suffer. Detachment, not spotty, the best of the best. ”

Tsk, seeing Xu Xingyou's evaluation, Li Xiangping can only say that modern chess players may be better at chess than Xu Xingyou, but if they are more literate than words, everyone may be illiterate in front of him. Huang Longshi, who was commented on by Xu Xingyou, said that he "surpassed his contemporaries" without dispute, and Li Xiangping believed that the "little king" in the Go world deserved his name.

Interestingly, in Li Xiangping's mind, the only one who can compete with Huang Longshi for the status of "Xiao Wang" is a chess player who is about the same age as him. I don't know if it's a coincidence, just when Huang Longshi dominated the Chinese chess world, the Japanese chess world also gave birth to an unborn genius, that is, their fourth Ben Yin Fang, known as the "Mysterious Dao Strategy" Dao Ce Chess Saint.

In the Japanese chess scene at that time, Daoce's dominance was also very terrifying, and his chess skills were clearly outstanding in Japan at that time, and the first-class Japanese masters of the same era had to be at least conceded to the first or more than two sons.

Dao Ce played a game of chess that year, so that at that time, a "master" (in fact, it was a professional seven dan) 2 sons only lost 1 goal, the seven dan later became a "quasi-celebrity", that is, the professional eight dan at that time, according to the local practice of making 2 sons with a difference of five dan , so the Japanese said that Dao Ce's chess power was as high as 13 dan.

As an aside, this is actually the original origin of the "thirteen paragraphs" statement. It is precisely because the Japanese say this that when the Japanese asked Mr. Wu Qingyuan to evaluate Huang Longshi's predecessors, Mr. Wu also used this statement, saying that Huang Longshi's killing power also has the level of thirteen ranks.

Like Huang Longshi, Dao Ce is not only strong, but also truly "beyond his contemporaries", and the reason why Dao Ce is revered as a chess saint is also because of his contributions to Go theory, such as the famous "hand cutting" analysis method, which was created by Dao Ce.

Before Dao Ce, Japanese Go was also based on force fighting, and Dao Ce was the first person to advocate the theory of Go that the whole is more important than the part, so he is known as the originator of modern Go in Japan, and has many fans in Japan and even around the world, and even many modern top masters regard Dao Ce as an idol.

Insert two digressions again, the first fan of Daoce's predecessors, that may be Mr. Kobayashi Koichi who just lost to Li Xiangping. Kobayashi Mitsuichi is a great admirer of Daoce, and he figuratively assumes that he plays chess with Daoce, and due to the advantages of modern Go layout theory, he may have a slight lead at the beginning, but he will soon be overtaken by Daoce in the middle game.

Because of extreme respect, Kobayashi even once named his son "Kobayashi Daoce", but later changed it, when others asked him why he changed, Mr. Kobayashi's answer was very interesting, he said that his son would always let him learn chess in the future, but at the beginning of learning, he thought that he was going to say: "Dao Ce, you are not playing like this", "Dao Ce, your chess is too stinky"......

Xiao Lin felt that he couldn't stand it, this was a great disrespect to his idol, so he changed his son's name.

The second digression about Dao Ce is related to the later generation of Go AI, when Google's second-generation dog "master" conducted a public test on the Internet, played a total of 60 games with human chess players, and defeated human chess players with a record of 60 wins and 0 losses.

In one of the games, the "master" made a very eye-catching "touch", which has never been played by a professional chess player in modern professional chess battles, so many people think that it is a "dog move".

It's just that some good people later found out that the move was not a "dog move", as early as hundreds of years ago, Daoce's predecessors played that hand of chess, and the idea of moving chess was exactly the same as that of Go AI......

This is another footnote to "genius promotes Go", so once again, Shenma's "technical accumulation"? Shenma "evolution"? Li Xiangping has always believed that for Go, such a thing is simply a "mystery theory", and believing in such a thing is completely a matter of course.

"Hahaha, if Mr. Wu Qingyuan and Huang Longshi's predecessors are the kings of the Go world, then the Dao Ce seniors are the aces of spades in the Go world, Xiangping, do you think so? Then let me ask you again, in terms of combat achievements and contributions, Huang Longshi and Dao Ce seem to be similar, so why do you rank Huang Longshi in front, is it because Huang Longshi's predecessors are Chinese? ”

Li Xiangping said with a smile: "Of course there is this factor, but not exactly, I just think that the environment in which the two of them were in at that time, the overall level of the Chinese side was higher, and the competition faced by Huang Longshi was also more intense, and then it was inferred that Huang Longshi's level may be slightly stronger than Dao Ce, so he was ranked first." ”

Reporter Zhang Da was surprised: "Do you think Huang Longshi's level is higher?" Even the overall level of China at that time was stronger? Your view is not mainstream, you must know that many people think that Dao Ce may be more powerful, such as Lao Nie...... Teacher Nie once said that although Huang Longshi is powerful, he may not be able to make a decision. ”

Li Xiangping continued to laugh: "I think this is probably a kind of prejudice. ”

"Prejudice?"

"Yes, reporter Zhang, you should know that aside from the specific techniques, the idea of modern Go is actually in the same vein as Japanese Go, but the concept of ancient chess I think has broken the bloodline, it is precisely because everyone's concept is closer to Taoism, then everyone will be more comfortable watching his chess, pleasing to the eye, and it is normal to think that he is stronger than Huang Longshi."

"Hahaha, your perspective is also unique."

Reporter Zhang Da said that this is the end of the matter, after all, he mentioned Lao Nie just now, and besides, such a dispute will not have a result, and there will be no result in another 10,000 years of dispute.

"Okay, you just mentioned the "ace of spades" in the Go world, but there are 4 "A", but what about the other 3 "A"? Xiangping: Who do you think the other 3 "A's" are? ”

"Other 3 "A" "Ah......"

Reporter Zhang Da's exclusive interview with Li Xiangping continues.