Days outside -- an autobiography of the generation of chess Saint Wu Qingyuan (5)

Honorary Doctor of literature, Mr. Wu Qingyuan

Hong Kong Chinese university 31st honorary degree and advanced degree awards ceremony

The human mind can be used in art, science, industry and commerce, and politics to create splendid civilizations, but it can also be used to confront each other and bring about oppression, war, and destruction. Playing chess is fascinating, and it is probably because it provides a way to compete for intelligence, so that the desire to fight deep in human nature can be expressed in peace! The rules of Go are extremely simple and natural, but the changes are complicated and varied, far better than other chess games. Over the past one thousand years, it has penetrated Chinese people's lives and thoughts and has become an integral part of Chinese history and culture. After being transferred to Japan, it has been studied repeatedly, and its realm has been improved and even honored as a "national technology ", this is not accidental.

Chess is a reflection of the Way of Thinking. From the perspective of Ben pin, you can understand your personal character, and from the perspective of chess style, you can better understand your national character. For example, in our country, playing chess is an expression of talent and confidence, and it is also a symbol of freedom and leisure. Wang Xiaofu replays the game, Xie an's bad performance, and passes on to qiangu, it's fascinating. In Japan, it is a battle of technology, power, and Will. Chess and games are eager to fight against the name system in a strict competition for life, and even to show their skills, which often leads to tragic deeds such as chixing's death due to vomiting blood. As for Mr. Wu Qingyuan, who is standing in front of you today, he has become a national player for over ten years with extraordinary talents and diligence. After Dong du Fusang, he created a new era of go with "new layout, those who compete for the "world's first" Crown-less throne, who are willing to carry on, and have a lifetime of admiration for Religion and Peace, do not know from the perspective of a single nation. His chess game, and even his legendary life, should be the witness of conflicting and Harmonious Chinese and Japanese nationalities and cultures!

Wu Qingyuan's understanding and affection for go are the root cause of fear. He has been deeply immersed in the mysterious world of black and white since he was in contact with chess pieces at the age of seven. He has been hungry and eager to study his father's ancient music and his new music to Japan, 3. Four years later, he had outputted his foot in the Chinese chess scene in Beijing. When he was 12 or three years old, he became one of the two experts in the former big markets, such as Bu wubai and Huang longshi, even Japanese high-tech players that were far above Chinese people at that time were able to hack into China. However, he was not able to enjoy a leisurely career in the landscape like Shi Xixia and fan xiping: after his father died, his mother had to accept the invitation from the Japanese for life, in 1928, Wu Qingyuan dongliu Fusang, who was only fourteen years old, sought a new world for him.

After the arrival of the day, Wu Qingyuan's chess force was immediately confirmed, thus making an exception and obtaining three qualifications, laying the foundation for a professional chess player. In the next four or five years, I asked Mr. Yu xianxiao, a senior, to have a pleasant life and a vibrant spirit. in the competition, he ran the flag and jumped out of the crowd, close to the top of the chess industry. At that time, Wu Qingyuan and Mu Gu, who were five years older than him, were both powerful rivals and friends. In 1933, the two jointly created a "new layout" by taking the opportunity of traveling with the hellvalley hot springs ", it set off a go revolution. At that time, the "xiuce stream", which took the leading idea of taking a solid place as the principle, dominated Japan's Qi Feng for nearly a hundred years. The "new layout" was the opposite, boldly advocate various new ideas that focus on the central forces in a fast and mobile manner. As soon as this novel and open thinking was put forward, it attracted the chess and Chess fans and a large number of chess and Qi fans, and its advantages and effects were quickly confirmed, since then, Chen zude has become the mainstream player in the 20th century, and has set a precedent for the rising Chinese stream in 1960s and the popular "cosmic flow" of the martial arts tree. In this way, Wu Qingyuan, a young man, started a brand new go era in a foreign country with free and unrestrained talents.

However, the challenge to the traditional system is bound to pay a price. At that time, when China and Japan had both sides, it was inevitable that someone would look at him. Therefore, in the same year when "new layout" emerged, Wu Qingyuan boldly adopted the new method and the current chess court leader, Ben infang, to show off the celebrity confrontation, and immediately attracted the resentment and hatred of Conservative Members in the chess court, the young man, who was 19 years old, was under unimaginable pressure. His physical fitness has always been weak. After the rise of the section, the competition continued, and after years, the body gradually felt difficult to support. In 1935, he suddenly decided to return to Tianjin to attend the red # meeting. The next year he entered the Japanese nationality under social pressure, and the next year he spent the rest of his nursing home. It was not intended to be related to physical and mental fatigue. In 1939, he became ill and discharged from hospital. At that time, several hundred years of family portraits in Japan and representatives of recommended celebrities came to an end, it is a new era in which the "first man in the chess industry" is decided through the "competition.

Go is an art and a war. It is gratifying that the chess and chess talents can be innovative. They must be able to stand on the foundation of the chess scene and surpass their predecessors, but cannot fight for the enemy's ten lines and 19 lines. The so-called "ten times of chess competition" is a traditional system used by the Japanese chess industry to determine the power of chess and determine the name of the game. If the player loses the game, the game score will be reduced, that is, the fate of the game status, for a chess player who is "life", this is a desperate bet on his life's reputation, so he is hailed as a "white-blade combat on the cliff ". During the Second World War, Wu Qingyuan and Mu Gu Shi started the famous "Ten innings of cangcang" in the Zen Room of Jianchang Temple ", three years since and after the first battle, Mu Gu was lowered to a level, that is, it ended with the "First phase. Wu's victory was not as powerful as winning him the power of a "root in nature" or "celebrity" in the past, but he was no longer an enemy. In the next 15 years, he connected to another 9 times of "10 times of chess" and met all the top players in the Japanese chess industry, including the previous "beninfang" after xiuzai ". In nearly a hundred rounds of chess and games, Wu Qingyuan was alone. In the face of all the top players in Japan who worked hard and tried their best, Wu Qingyuan was able to fight against the army, except for Jin huiyi, a veteran of the half-way fight, all opponents, such as fujizawa pengzhai, Hashimoto's word Taro, Akita rongnan, and Gao chuanxiuge, are forced to "first-in-first" or even "first-in-first", that is, the relatively low level 2 position. This unprecedented record in the history of Go creates an indisputable "Wu Qingyuan Era", proving that he is not only a talented go artist, but also a great go warrior, superb "Contemporary first man ".

However, the brilliant achievements and lofty titles did not bring about a stable position or generous treatment. After all, the real "chess competition" era has passed. The new players in the Dai Xing Title Open must start from the same starting point, and Wu Qingyuan, who beat all the strong players, is no exception. Cold Treatment and years of independent fighting made him feel tired and happy. By the end of 1950s, his light gradually began to hide. On October 16, August 1961, Wu Qingyuan, who was involved in the first phase of the "celebrity" War, was knocked down by a motorcycle in a traffic accident, resulting in a broken head injury. Due to the rashness of the diagnosis and treatment, the remaining migraine and nervous disorder that recurs from time to time. Soon afterwards, he realized that over the past thirty years, he was about to end his career as a chess player. Wu Qingyuan has never been a hero for nearly two decades since 1940s, but he does not know why, the titles of celebrities, throne, and ten-segment competitions that were not started in 1930s and that started in 1960s did not match him, even the "9-segment" title is delayed to be given and received. Normal Office
Wei Qing is undefeated, Li guangreactive power, thousands of loads, still can not help but sigh! He discovered Lin Haifeng, his only descendant, and won the title of "celebrity" and "beninfang" in the mid 1960s S, opening a new era in which young chess players dominated the game world after the war, that's even better than him.
Although the game is a peaceful match of intelligence, it takes years to think carefully and calculate it. For example, a professional chess player who stands up for peace in the fight, it is more harsh than the endless oppression on the battlefield. In order to achieve the adjustment and balance of life, Wu Qingyuan longed for the spirit from the young age, seeking for moisture and silence from his faith, and even abandoned go for years due to religious enthusiasm, to pursue another world with all our heart, chess is a world of victory and defeat, while religion is a peaceful world of civilization. Although he has suffered pain and failure in his pursuit of religion in the name of the game, he has no points on the two, and he also says, "When the clothes are getting wider, he will never regret it, this is the deep feeling of yundun. If you say that you are loyal to your life goals, and your progress is the embodiment of the great soul, then he will be able to combine the two worlds of war and peace, and gain a balance between the two, it just shows that he is still a Chinese who is deeply influenced by traditional culture.

Naturally, the checkerboard is like a world game. winning or losing is just a bit of an eye. It may not even be permanent, but an important milestone in human civilization. We know that a computer has become a strong player in checkers and a good player in chess. Although its go technology is still naive, it has already launched a large-scale parallel information processing integrated circuit that operates similar to the brain, driven by leap technology. The limits of computer capabilities are unpredictable. However, no matter how technology develops, Mr. Wu Qingyuan's infinite yearning for the highest realm of life and the pursuit of endless exploration have always been the most valuable manifestation of the human spirit and the driving force of cultural progress, it is always worthy of our low admiration.

Supervise you to praise Mr. Wu Qingyuan for his great contribution to go over the past 60 years, and to praise him for the lofty character he has presented in the painful conflicts and the power of integration among different nationalities, I would like to commend him for his devout pursuit of life. I would like to invite you to award an Honorary Doctor of literature to Mr. Wu Qingyuan.

October 30, 1986