Rihai became a monk at a young age. He was very talented. He not only studied the principles of Zen Buddhism, but also showed amazing talent in Go. Later, he became a disciple of the powerful chess player Immortal Yemen. His chess skills improved rapidly and he became the number one chess player in Japan at the age of 20.

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In 1578 AD, the twenty-year-old Sunkai was invited by Oda Nobunaga, a daimyo who was famous for his ambition to spread military power in the world, and played a game of handicap chess with him. Even if he gave up his five sons, Sunkai still won in one fight.

After winning the game, Nobunaga was impressed by Hikkai's chess skills and respectfully called him "Celebrity".

Since then, "Celebrity" has become the title of the number one player in the Japanese chess world. This is also the origin of the "Celebrity War", which is as famous as the "Honinbo War" among the seven major title games in the Japanese chess world.

Four years later, Oda Nobunaga was betrayed by his close retainer Akechi Mitsuhide and died in the Honnoji Incident. This was the most famous and mysterious coup in Japanese history. Legend has it that Nobunaga invited Hikkai and another

The master of Go, Toshiro Shikano, played against each other at Honnoji Temple. The two played an extremely rare cycle of three tribulations. The tribulations continued, and it was difficult to determine the winner. In the end, the game could only end in a draw.

That night, in the raging fire of Honnoji Temple, Oda Nobunaga, the hero of the Warring States Period who called himself the "Demon King of the Sixth Heaven", died in hatred, and his grand plan to unify Japan also died halfway. The cycle of three tribulations was thus infected with the most vicious evil.

The most dangerous and ominous name.

After Nobunaga's death, his general Toyotomi Hideyoshi completed the great cause of unifying Japan, named himself Taiko, and took over the political power. Hideyoshi was also a chess lover. He respected Hikkai so much that he not only worshiped Hikkai as his teacher to learn chess skills

, and also made him receive a salary from the imperial court and lead the country's chess players. From then on, real professional Go began to sprout.

After Toyotomi Hideyoshi died of illness, Tokugawa Ieyasu seized power in one fell swoop and established the Tokugawa Shogunate, which would rule Japan for more than 260 years. Tokugawa Ieyasu was also good at Go. After he took charge of Japan, he gave chess players more opportunities.

preferential treatment, established systems for awarding salaries to chess players, and identifying chess abilities, and created the official position of "Celebrity Qisuo" to symbolize the first person in Go.

At the same time, Nikkai changed its name to the Honinbo Sosatsu family and established the Honinbo family, the largest family in the Japanese chess world. Together with the Yasui family, the Inoue family, and the Hayashi family, they are known as the four major Go families. These four families are actually the four major Go sects, and each year there are four major families.

The strongest chess player is a general or

A castle chess battle was held in front of the emperor, betting on the rise and fall of a family and a faction, and fighting bloody battles on the chessboard for the ownership of the "Celebrity Qishuo". This type of castle chess, or Tianlan chess, is no longer just a game;

It is considered as solemn and glorious as a samurai duel.

The chess players were supported by the imperial court and were able to study Go with all their heart. In order to compete for the position of "Celebrity Qi Suo" as the leader of the martial arts world in the chess world, chess players from various schools and sects studied hard and continued to attack towards a higher state of chess.

.Professional Go was born.

Honinbo was highly skilled in sand counting, and was also good at dancing. He walked beside the three heroes of Japan's Warring States Period, and contributed to the birth of professional Go. In addition, he also abolished the seating system, so that there is no need to first play chess before playing chess.

Four seats, two black and two white, are placed on the star positions, and the stones can be placed at any of the 361 points on the chessboard. The world of Go is thus broadened. The calculation of sand is a well-deserved achievement for the first time in the history of Go.

Major changes.

After the sand calculation, the Honinbo family has always been at the top of the chess world. Talented figures such as Doze, Jowa, Hidekazu, Hideto, Hideei, etc. have emerged successively, and they have continuously promoted the development of Go. Among them, Honinbo Hidesaku, who is known as the strongest in the past, is the most shining.

, he spent his whole life in imperial chess battles

Undefeated, he has become a well-deserved chess master, and the tragedy of his untimely death in his thirties has made countless chess players still sigh with regret. Sa Wei in the famous Japanese Go comic "Go Soul" is based on Hidetoshi.

This is also the grief that future generations feel for this genius.

After the Meiji Restoration, the Tokugawa shogunate was submerged in the dust of history, the imperial chess game was terminated, and the worship of professional chess players was no longer continued. After that, the Go world entered the era of news chess games.

In today's society, the public's attention is occupied by a small number of politicians, businessmen and entertainers, and all the so-called traffic stars are everywhere. But in that era, chess players were the well-deserved top traffic. News and newspapers spent huge sums of money to promote this

News about chess games, and then serialized chess game records, chess viewing records, and anecdotes about chess players in newspapers to greatly boost sales. The second major revolution in Go was also gradually nurtured in that era.

Go originated in China and was revived in Japan. Perhaps there is some kind of destiny in it. At the beginning of the 20th century, two young chess players from China and Japan were galloping in the chess world with a bold attitude of seeking change.

Together, they set off the second wave of change.

These two young chess players, one is the Showa chess sage Wu Qingyuan who will be the unbeatable player in the world and is known as "the best in the world". The other is the founder and disciple of Kitani Dojo, the largest sect in the Japanese chess world.

Minoru Kitani, the Japanese Go master who has trained up to nine dans.

Wu Qingyuan and Kitani Minoru jointly created a new layout method, which greatly impacted the old layout of Honinbo Ichimen. The last two games of Honinbo Hideya's life were against Wu Qingyuan and Kitani Minoru respectively. He won one and lost one, which also announced the birth of Honinbo.

The end of a door.

Afterwards, with the active activities of the Mainichi Shimbun, Hideya Hideya gave the name of Honinbo to the Nippon Go Academy, and they organized the Honinbo Tournament. Every year, the winner of the chess tournament holds this title, which symbolizes the pinnacle of his Go game.

Sun Suhe tapped the briefing page lightly. The Super Honinbo Tournament was said in the briefing to be an international Go competition led by the Nippon Chess Academy and co-sponsored by the Chinese Chess Academy and the Korean Chess Academy. The winner will not only get the supreme "Hoinbo" in the history of Japanese Go.

title,

And you can also win a prize of up to 100 million yen. The opening ceremony of this chess game was held in the Kyoto Imperial Palace. Now it has ended successfully. Next, it will follow the old example of "Tianlan chess" and move to Dezhou.

We will fight another day in Nijo Castle in Kyoto built by Kawa Ieyasu.

The reason why Sun Suhe pays special attention to the keyword "Super Honinbo Battle" is that the time of the opening ceremony mentioned in the briefing is quite sensitive. November 11th and November 12th, combined with the Yin-Yang Province

The timing of taking action cannot be ignored.

Secondly, as the agency in the Japanese government that is in charge of the affairs of the emperor, the royal family and the imperial palace, the Imperial Household Agency has always been low-key and secretive as its code of conduct. This time it was actually willing to lend the venue in the Kyoto Imperial Palace as the venue for the Super Honinbo War. It can be said that

Much more than many people expected.

"Super Honinbo Battle, Super Honinbo Battle..." Sun Suhe frowned and thought. He had a vague impression that he had caught a glimpse of it on the news somewhere, but he didn't pay much attention at the time, and he never saw it again later.

Has it been deliberately kept low-key? Is there really something fishy in it? Or am I being overly sensitive, because Go news has never been a hot topic in this era, and if it weren’t for artificial intelligence
Chapter completed!