Chapter 394: The Battle of Superben Yinfang (8 Ends)
The next part of the Zhulin report is a series of meeting minutes. Although there are missing chapters and pages, and they are reassembled from waste paper that was broken into strips by a paper shredder, it can be roughly restored from them the Chinese Chess Academy, the Korean Chess Academy and the
Nippon Chess Academy's negotiation process regarding the Super Honinbo Tournament.
In addition, there are three private meeting notes and a meeting recording restored from a mobile phone using technical means. The former is scrawled and rough, and the latter has no beginning and no end, but a lot of things can still be seen when combined with the meeting record documents.
Among this information, what naturally takes up a lot of space is the discussion of the various details of the opening ceremony. The reports on the Super Inbo War that can be seen from public channels are all awkward group photos with awkward smiles, and boring speeches full of bureaucracy.
And media clichés such as "Congratulations on the complete success" have almost no substance. In comparison, although this Bamboo Forest Report did not touch on the real secrets, it is undoubtedly quite precious and full.
In this part of the report, the most frequently occurring keywords are naturally "Yuta Inoue" and "Fumiyu Honinbo".
According to the tradition of the Honinbo sect, successive heirs will change their original surnames and live under the name of Honinbo. For example, the chess master Honinbo Shusaku was originally named Kuwahara Torajiro, and the last Honinbo Hideya was originally named Tamura Yasuju.
After entering the title battle era, this tradition is still respected, but the real name is no longer changed, but is used as a nickname. For example, Sekiyama Toshi 19th Dan, who won the first Honinbo Battle Championship, received a nickname from the Nippon Chess Academy
Honinbo Lisen.
The nickname of the current title holder, Inoue Yuta Kudan, is Honinbo Bunyu. The word Bunyu comes from the Bodhisattva Manjushri who holds the sword of wisdom to cut off troubles. Yu comes from the real name of Inoue Kudan, which has a unique artistic conception and is the name of Jakkoji Temple in Kyoto.
Gifted by the current abbot, Jakkoji Temple was the place where the original Honinbo became a monk, and it has a deep connection with the name of Honinbo.
According to the information in the Takebayashi report, the opening ceremony lasted for two days, and the location was naturally at the Kyoto Imperial Palace. The most important ceremony on the first day was held at the imperial garden. The current title holder, Honinbo Fumihiro, first dropped a black stone on the chessboard.
, sounding the first war drum for the Super Honinbo battle, and then another chess player will play a white chess piece, one black and one white, to play the game together, which is the opening of the game.
Although it is just a move, it is hardly a game, and it is more of a symbolic meaning, but for each chess academy, before that, they have already been on the battlefield, their positions at the chess opening ceremony, and the order of the representatives' speeches.
The selection of the chessboard, the coordination of logistics...almost every detail requires negotiation. Everyone hopes to obtain better conditions for their chess players before the chess match begins. Building momentum is equivalent to winning first.
The top priority among them is naturally the choice of another chess player. There is no doubt that Inoue Yuta will play the 9th dan game. However, it is not easy to decide on the chess player who will play this move. Each chess academy hopes to win this honor.
It belongs to its own chess players. For this reason, all parties have been arguing, and meetings have been held one after another, and no one is willing to give in easily.
Finally, the Nippon Chess Academy suggested that it be possible to choose a young chess player who has just entered Dan to play against Inoue's 9th Dan, so as to explore a chess path and pass on the legacy. In this way, long-established professional chess players can also accept it.
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This plan finally won support from all parties. The beginning and end of the recording are exactly related to this.
"Xin Guang, who is it?"
"That's Xiao Nie. You forgot, the kid who killed our 'Ke Zhen E' in two games online the day before yesterday. One of the games was a dragon-slaying comeback. I thought that kid could do it early on, so I just poured a lot of gold coins on him.
If you win, the result will be good for me."
"It turns out to be that little Nie. Haha, this kid Ke Zhe always makes random moves in online chess, but it's really not easy to beat him two games in a row. I even read the chess record of the dragon-slaying game you mentioned. At the beginning
Both sides didn't play too seriously, but the later ones were really exciting. If Xiao Nie can practice more, his future is limitless, and he might become another Nie whirlwind."
"That's a long way to go. There's still a lot to be done. The Go world is most indispensable for young geniuses, but there are only a few who can actually achieve results."
"I don't think much of it. Who could have imagined that Mr. Nie could achieve an astonishing eleven consecutive victories in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament? Heroes make times, and times make heroes. Who can say it accurately?"
"Are you so optimistic about Hao Xinguang?"
"Of course I am optimistic, but... haha, in the final analysis, it still depends on the strength on the chessboard. Everything else is empty. Even if the wind comes, you still have to have the ability to soar to 90,000 miles. By the way, this matter
Will the Korean Chess Academy agree? We will definitely have to fight again. What will we say then?"
"What can I say? If you want to fight, let's talk with chess. I haven't heard of any good young talents in Korea in the past two years. I think they are a bit inactive. There should be no one who can win against our little Nie."
Sun Suhe listened to the recording and flipped through it, and sure enough, it was finally decided that at the opening ceremony, Inoue Yuta's 9th dan would play black first, and Nie Xinguang's first dan would play white second hand. The old and new generations of professional chess players would each play a piece to compete for the Super Inbo.
Kick off the show.
After this, except for boring but necessary activities such as speeches, group photos, interviews, etc., another highlight of the chess opening ceremony is: connecting chess. The specific method is that the professional chess players participating in the competition each find an opponent, and the two
Each person plays five pieces and uses this as his name for participating in the competition.
After the game is over, two other chess players will join in, and they will complete the game together. This game is expected to be played for two days. The first day will be in Yuchiting, and the second day will be moved to Yuneiting. In these two places
In the palace gardens with their own characteristics, you can enjoy the red autumn leaves while starting the peak battle of chess.
Using chess as a name post to announce one's official participation in the Super Honinbo Tournament is a very appropriate and elegant thing for a professional chess player. However, this plan of the Nippon Chess Academy caused huge controversy as soon as it was proposed.
The problem is that the proposal to play a game of chess for two consecutive days involves a key point that every chess academy attaches great importance to, and that is the game time system.
International chess matches generally use the "3 hours, 3 times, 60 seconds" time system, that is, each player on both sides has 3 hours to use freely. After the 3 hours are used up, the countdown period begins, and each move must be within 60 seconds.
If the move exceeds 60 seconds, it will be counted as a timeout. If you timeout three times, you will automatically lose the game.
Japan's three major title matches: Celebrity, Go Master, and Honinbo have always used the two-day time rule, that is, each player on both sides has 8 hours of free use, rests overnight, and finishes the game in two days. After the 8 hours are used up,
Enter the 60 second countdown.
Both time systems have their own advantages and disadvantages, but there is no doubt that everyone hopes to compete under the time system they are used to.
The Nippon Chess Academy insists on using the two-day system and has spent a lot of time and energy lobbying for this.
"Although fast chess is intense and exciting, it is a chess game full of regrets. The moves are more based on feeling. You will inevitably have a lot of regrets when you review the game. Only when you have enough time can you fully exert your full strength and play chess without regrets.
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"There is no difference between the two time-consuming systems for artificial intelligence. No matter how difficult it is, every move it makes can be completed within a few seconds. But for humans, if they encounter a difficult situation that requires a long test, is there enough time?
, the results will be worlds apart. Facing the eternal imaginary enemy of artificial intelligence, human chess players must rethink the time system of Go."
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There are nearly ten pages of lobbying words like this from various angles in the meeting minutes. Perhaps these lobbyings worked, perhaps out of respect for the host, or perhaps because of one of the most important reasons, the two-day meeting
Players who are accustomed to playing fast chess often have difficulty adapting to fast chess, but players who are accustomed to playing fast chess will hardly be affected by playing two-day chess. In the end, all parties successfully reached a consensus, and the time rules for super-honinbo battles were determined.
Two-day system.
After carefully reading the Bamboo Forest Report twice, Sun Suhe opened the car window. The night breeze ruffled his hair and made him feel refreshed. He already knew the entire process and details of the chess opening ceremony. As for that day
Whether some unknown incident occurred is another mystery.
They were approaching the airport ahead, and a plane could be vaguely seen rising into the sky in the night sky. Sun Suhe once again confirmed his previous feeling. Tonight, right now, he needed to go to Tokyo immediately.
Go to the Nippon Chess Academy headquarters in Tokyo.