Huang Longshi

Huang Longshi, also known as Xia, is from Jiangyan, Tai County, Jiangsu Province. According to the book Game Spectrum of Jianshantang, he was born in Shunzhi, Gan Qing in the eighth year (165 1 year) or the eleventh year (1654). Huang Longshi was talented and became a chess player in Wenda neighborhood when he was young. When he grew up, his father took him to Beijing to find a famous chess player to play chess. Since then, Huang Longshi's chess skills have greatly improved. In the third year of Kangxi, when he visited the tea village in Menningdu, his chess skills were far from those of the national players. When he met Du for the second time, he was already a national player. He played seven games with Shanda, which has enjoyed a long reputation in the chess world for more than 50 years, and won a great victory. Lu said that he played chess like "Huaiyin fought invincible". In the early Qing Dynasty, Huang Longshi stood out from the crowd, "looking down on everything" and dominating the country. Zhou Donghou, a senior, is now under Huang Longshi, and other chess players dare not compete with him. People regard Huang Longshi as a chess saint, and he is also known as the "Fourteen Saints" with thinkers such as Huang Zongxi and Gu. Unfortunately, Huanglong University died in middle age.

Huang Longshi has a unique set of chess negative, which seems unremarkable at first glance, but it is deeply imperceptible to his opponent. If he dares to use force, he will improvise and take it by surprise, forcing his opponent to be dwarfed and trap himself. Deng praised: "Long's family used his thoughts to be intimate and went deep into Austria. When it comes to life and death, the wisdom of the group can be subtle, benefiting from clever use, ethereal change, and death. " He said, "The Dragon is like a fairy, and there is no dust to think about." At that time, people even called him "fourteen couples" with Huang Zongxi and Gu, and called him "chess saint", which shows its great influence.

Huang Longshi's greatest contribution to the development of Weiqi is that he changed the style of Weiqi. Before him, the chess style was narrow and dignified. Huang Longshi greatly changed the style of chess. After that, the situation was open, light and changeable, and far-reaching thinking.

There are many comments on Huang Longshi's chess style. Xu Xingyou summed up Huang Longshi's chess game like this: "Send the fiber farmers to the deep water and put the gods outside the skeleton. The so-called shape man and I are invisible, and I can do nothing and do anything." "One breath, leafy, nothing more. Its dull and boring state makes the enemy have to accept it. " You can surpass the world without being touched by dust. "In general, Huanglongtu considers the game to be comprehensive, accurate in judgment, active and changeable, and does not take attacking and killing as the main means of winning.

Huang Longshi's chess works include An Outline and Complete Map of Huang Longshi. In addition, Deng also integrated Huang Longshi's 70 chess games into Mr. Huang Longshi's Chess Manual, which collected most of the essence of Huang Longshi's chess manual.

In particular, it is worth mentioning that Huang wrote a preface for The Complete Map of Huang Longshi. This is a valuable summary of Huanglongtu's own rich experience, which comprehensively shows the strategy and tactics of Go, and his insights are original and incisive and thought-provoking. As he said, the layout and overall strategy. "Expanding territory is nothing more than an outline. You can be a capital near the danger and make a short-term interception. This is the general idea of starting. " When talking about the principles and tactics of attack and defense, he said: "The soil borrows from each other and the front edge is connected. If you fight, the sheep master is unique and invincible in front of you: the code is harmonious and one person keeps it, and the seven chivalrous men abolish it. " The general trend of attack and defense on this side and abdomen. "When it comes to sizing up the situation, he said:" If the land is distributed equally, the strong will be strong, and there will be strong competition, and the wise will win. You will envy your ancestors first, and you will be humiliated after entering the customs. This plan will fall through. When it comes to strategy, he said, "The similarity between reality and emptiness is just a wonderful thing, and it is only to judge what is appropriate, to give up what is appropriate, and to clarify each other's priorities. "These are Huang Longshi's insights from the actual competition, and they also show Huang Longshi's own chess style.

Today, the Japanese chess world is still amazed at his superb chess skills. Huang Longshi's game is light and changeable, with harmonious thinking, open situation and great verve. His book Yi Kuo has a preface, which is a summary of his actual combat experience. His insights are incisive and thought-provoking. Among them, he wrote: "The border is open to the outside world, and there is nothing outside. It is very dangerous to build a capital, which is a summary." This is the layout of the speaker, to occupy the main points on the field, "to seize the capital" and "to block", to make chess stand on its feet and to attack and defend the fortress; It is necessary to consider the future development from the local idea to the overall starting point in order to achieve "excellent spiritual realm". In addition to Yi Kuo, Huang Longshi also wrote The Complete Map of Huang Longshi, ten self-made scores and four major plays, which became the precious wealth of China traditional culture.

Later generations called Huang Longshi "Chess Saint".