Cherish the time

Not long after the Beidou Cup ended, Tetsuo Kaga aspired to the title of king general as a dark horse and became a dazzling rookie in the world of shogi.

Shinto and the others saw the scene of him being awarded the title on TV. After congratulating him one after another, they also unanimously expressed their discomfort with his serious style of wearing kimono.

Kaga accepted everyone's congratulations with a smile, and continued to kill the Quartet in the major arenas of the shogi competition.

During the same period, Ogata Seiji successfully defended the title of [-]th dan against the challenge of Yamashita [-]th dan. Judging from the chess records released later, his chess skills seem to have crossed a bottleneck that has troubled him for a long time. A qualitative leap has been made.

Both "Weiqi Weekly" and "The Way of Chess" dedicated a page to publish the game record of this game, and more or less attached a few paragraphs of explanations on the side-this is only a handful of chess games that stand at the top He was not qualified for the treatment last year, but this year's Wufanqi opened his mouth for him, allowing him to get a glimpse of the circle named "Top".

Ogata's promotion failed to stir up much waves in the professional chess world, and the news of Shinto defending the sixth championship did not move the slightly dull nerves of the chess players.

But after the news that Taya Yukihiro decided to go to the Samsung Cup came out, the chess world was in an uproar.

In front of the camera, Toya Yukihiro is a little thinner than before, but he is still in good spirits. The appearance of talking to the camera shows his current health, which makes those chess players who are worried about his physical condition relieved one by one. Worried, sincerely expressed his joy at his comeback.

For Shindo Hikaru, there is really nothing to say about what happened this year. There are only two things that can be called "concerned".

The joy is that he has entered puberty and started to grow taller. Compared with Xiaobang's one-centimeter change in height that day, the crackling sound of bones growing at night and the tooth-stinging pain have become insignificant.

As for the worry, he has not much time left.

Even with Zhusheng's once-a-month help, he is still gradually losing control over his body.

He could only consciously exercise his limb control according to the doctor's advice in his previous life. Fortunately, such exercise was effective. After that, he never had a chess piece fall out of his fingertips.

The good health gave him the strength to persevere.

After all, a person who can't hold chess pieces is unlikely to stand on the stage of those top Go tournaments.

It's another new year, and it's the same events every year.

During this year, the one that attracted the most attention was the [-]-dan challenge match between Shinto Hikaru and Ogata Seiji.

At first, this challenge did not attract many followers. Considering that this is not the first time these two have played against each other, although Ogata has improved, from the game record, his level is undoubtedly still below Shinto Hikari , There is not much suspense about the result of the game.

——In theory...it should be like this.

However, the development of things has exceeded most people's expectations.

In the first game of the Wubanqi final, Shindo Hikari lost to Ogata Seiji by an eye and a half.

The Japanese Go world is boiling again!

Different from Shinto Hikaru's stunning appearance back then, Ogata Seiji's current status and strength are obtained through hard work and steady play like most ordinary chess players-he is indeed talented, but it is only limited to good That's all, this kind of explosive progress shouldn't happen to him.

But it just happened.

Shinto Hikaru did not show surprise at his sudden strength, he still played very well, just like he has always played.

It's just that when the game was in the middle of the game, he missed a link in his thinking about the game.

——If his opponent at this moment is still the former Ogata Seiji, such a little mistake will not affect anything.

But this is only if after all.

Ogata caught it very well, and cleverly used and amplified this mistake, taking the opportunity to achieve fruitful results.

And Shinto Hikaru's fierce pursuit in the follow-up stage only regained the gap of about four eyes for him, and he was finally defeated by Ogata.

After the game record was issued, Ogata Seiji was finally recognized by most people, and became another top chess player recognized by the world, who can be placed with Taya Yukihiro, Kuwahara Hitoshi, Shinto Hikari and others.

So for a while, the ownership of the ten-dan title became a hot topic of controversy.

——It was Ogata who successfully defended the title and defended the title three times, so that Shindo lost three times in three games;

The game of meeting opponents has attracted countless attention, and tens of thousands of spectators are waiting with bated breath for the next round of the game.

A week later, the two sides met again on the field. Shinto did not give Ogata a chance to catch his feet. In this head-to-head battle, both sides showed their excellent layout and calculation level. In the end, it was still Ogata missed a move, and was defeated by Jin Teng with three eyes and a half.

In such a situation of one win and one loss, the two sides ushered in the third round of the ten-stage final.

In the third game, Ogata made a bad move due to a misjudgment, and was chased by Shindo, who had to admit defeat in the middle of the game.

As for the fourth game...

In this game, if Shindo wins, he will win directly and get the title, and if Ogata wins, then he will enter the final Wubanqi showdown with a 2-2 draw.

The fourth game of Wufanqi in the final of the ten-dan match.

Seiji Ogata made a move with the black chess, with an extremely murderous look, and immediately launched a strong attack on the white chess above.Quick attack on move 25.

Shinto didn't expect that he would attack so quickly, and fell into the first long test, and then the 26th move touched the upper right corner to get ready, and then crossed the right to fight head-on.

Not to be outdone, Ogata made another strong move, regained a little advantage in the upper right, and extended his intention to the center.

After some fights, although Ogata lost control of the upper right, he gained solid ground on the upper right and established external momentum in the center, while Shinto gained relatively little.

In this opening, Ogata had a clear advantage—even Taya, who was sitting in the broadcast room, couldn't help but sweat for Shinto.

With the potential on the right side, Ogata's 53rd move flew from the lower right to the middle abdomen.

If the right side is really black and solid as Ogata imagined, then Baizi will stop everything.

Shinto finally couldn't bear it, and chose the deepest entry at this moment-this was a dangerous move, but it was a helpless move.

In the case of thick black pieces and advantageous levy pieces, Shindo Rakuko was quite tough, and the 62nd move grew to the right, vowing to fight Ogata.

Under Jinteng's pressing step by step, Ogata was negligent at this time, causing the direction of black 63 to be wrong. Shinto took the opportunity to abandon the son for plastic surgery, cut off the three sons on the right in time, and completed the task of breaking the formation to a considerable extent , the situation has indeed improved.

By this time, the originally thick piece of chess above Ogata had a tendency to become thinner.

Before the game was closed at noon, Shindo Hikaru played another strong hand and tried his best to break into the bottom. The two sides made another switch between the field and the external situation.

At this time, Shinto was already thinking about the game in the afternoon, focusing on expanding the appearance on the left side.

But until the closing, the situation is still Ogata dominant.

In the follow-up battle in the afternoon, Fengqi started.

Due to the good decision in the morning, Shindo's pressure was greatly reduced, and he was able to take time out from blindly defending to turn to the field competition.

After that, the two sides exchanged several hands peacefully, and each got something.

Immediately afterwards, Ogata entered the white formation on the left in the 95th move, and a battle to determine the final outcome began in the center.

At this point in the chess game, the central hinterland has been split into several large pieces, and the black and white pieces are intertwined, adding a bit of difficulty for no reason.

In this battle that is related to victory or defeat, Ogata did not make good use of the taste of the black chess in the center, but Shinto was still able to take care of the big officials during the battle, and became very alert.

So the situation reversed, and the balance of victory that had been leaning towards Ogata before finally began to quietly fall to Shindo's side at this time.

As for the official stage at night.

Shinto played better than before, and he was still able to distract Ogata in the lower right corner to create a lot of trouble.

Ogata wanted to make amends with his backhand, but because he couldn't take care of both ends, he could only sit and watch the right-hand chess shape being swallowed and destroyed by Shinto Whale.

As a result, Ogata suffered heavy losses, and the situation was hard to reverse.

Shinto took advantage of the momentum to pursue, and he was relentless, gradually expanding his advantage to above the stick.

In the 214th move, Ogata pitched and conceded in the middle game.

Shinto successfully challenged with a score of 3-1 and won the tenth dan title. At the same time, he also became the first chess player in Japanese history to achieve the honor of "seven crowns".

At the same time, Shindo Hikaru's chess score was silently written, and it was about to draw the final period.

During these nearly three years, he silently wrote a total of 940 four chess records, which recorded the game between Shinto Hikari and Taya Ryo in the previous life.

From the game when the two met, Sato held the hand, to the game that was controlled by Taya after the Honinbo final, after deleting some games that I can't remember clearly, the total remaining 940 four games of chess.

He held his slightly trembling right hand, and after a short rest, he picked up a pen and wrote down the last number on the chess record.

224.

——This is Taya Ryo's... last move.

He sat quietly and looked at the chess record for a while, then reached out and opened the drawer on the left hand side, and put the last chess record in it.

Putting away many worries, Hikari's life became more and more comfortable.

Playing chess and reading books every day, and occasionally going out for a walk to play soy sauce, his whole mentality became more peaceful, and the realm of Go became more and more harmonious, and he seemed to be approaching perfection.

This year is the year when the "Shindo Hikari Era" officially kicked off.

This year was also the year when Japanese Go officially rose internationally.

With Hikaru Shinto as the leader, the younger generation of Japanese chess players have traveled all over dozens of international competitions, including the Hokuto Cup, Onshi Cup, LG Cup, Nongshim Cup, Samsung Cup, Fujitsu Cup, Asian Cup, and Toyo Securities Cup. , and all achieved good results.

Shindo Hikari himself won the championships of a total of twelve major tournaments including the recognized six international Go tournaments within two years, achieving the World Go Grand Slam at a speed unimaginable by ordinary people, becoming the successor to Lee Chang-ho The second person to achieve the Grand Slam achievement of a world-class event after that.

More than two years later, Shinto Hikari has won the title of No.30 Sehoninbo and the second honorary chess master in history, while Toya Ryo and Ogata Seiji are recognized as the strongest under Shinto Hikari, Further down there are Kurata, Wada, Zhang Yu, Yijiao and others. The Japanese Go as a whole presents a row of vigorous new atmosphere.

In June of the year Shinto turned 19, Taya defeated other challengers for the second time and successfully entered the final of the Honinbo Title Tournament.

And in the first game of the seven-ban chess final, Shindo Hikaru suddenly passed out on the field and was rushed to the hospital by an ambulance, so the final had to be suspended.

Mitsuko Shindo almost fainted when she heard the news. Fortunately, Masao Shinto, who was busy running around the country on weekdays, happened to be at home and was able to support his frail wife, which prevented both mother and son from being admitted to the hospital.