Ma Xiaochun

Ma Xiaochun

Ma Xiaochun, born on August 26, 1964 in Shengxian, Zhejiang Province (now Shengzhou City), is a professional nine stage go player in China. He is China's first go world champion. He once set a record of thirteen consecutive Chinese go celebrities. He was the head coach of China's go team from 2005 to 2009.

In May 1995, he won the 6th Toyo securities Cup World Go Championship, becoming China's first professional go world champion; in August of the same year, he won the 8th Fujitsu Cup World Professional Go Championship, becoming China's first go "double champion". His works include "thirty six strategies and go", "Xiaoao Wenzhen", etc.

Early experience

Ma Xiaochun was born on August 26, 1964 in an ordinary family in Chengguan, Shengxian County, Zhejiang Province. Influenced by the strong atmosphere of go in his childhood, his parents began to accept the Enlightenment of go because they felt it was safe to play go at home. In 1973, 9-year-old Ma Xiaochun made outstanding achievements in the local go team. He was first selected into the go team of Shaoxing Sports Committee, and then transferred to the junior go team of Zhejiang Province. In 1974, 10-year-old Ma Xiaochun took part in the Zhejiang children's go competition held in Tiantai as the champion of Shaoxing children's group. He broke into the competition, in which he used a single chip to defeat his opponent Chen Linxin and won the third place in the children's group. In the same year, he participated in the children's group competition on behalf of Zhejiang Province in the national go team competition held in Chengdu. He won the third set and helped the Zhejiang children's team get the third place. Shortly after the game, Ma Xiaochun was selected to join the Zhejiang Weiqi training team.

Sports career

Ascending section record

Before 1982, there was no Weiqi rank system in China. In March 1982, Ma Xiaochun was tentatively selected as a member of the seventh division, and was promoted to the eighth division in October. In November 1983, Ma Xiaochun, 19, was promoted to Jiuduan, becoming the fourth Jiuduan player in China after Chen Zude, Wu Songsheng and Nie Weiping. He was also the youngest Jiuduan player in China at that time.

Competition experience

In 1978, Ma Xiaochun won the second place in the Chinese youth go championship and was selected into the go training team of the National Sports Commission. At that time, China did not have the rank system of go, so it became a professional go player when it entered the national team. In August 1979, Ma Xiaochun won the championship in the final of the National Junior go game with five victories and five battles. In 1980, Ma Xiaochun represented Zhejiang Province in the national go team competition held in Tunxi, Huangshan. In the seventh round, he won the national individual competition held in Leshan, Sichuan Province in September that year. In the national go individual competition, Ma Xiaochun won the second place and defeated Chen Zude, which attracted the attention of Chinese and Japanese chess circles. In June 1981, the Chinese go team played the fifth of the six games with the Japanese go delegation visiting China in Hangzhou. Ma Xiaochun, who has not yet won the title of section, defeated the Japanese Kojima Kojima in the black middle. On June 13, 1982, Ma Xiaochun participated in the Chinese go delegation's visit to Japan as the main player. In Tokyo, Ma Xiaochun defeated Japanese player Daping Xiu, who had an unbeaten record against Chinese players. On June 23, Ma Xiaochun defeated Japan's go Jiuduan Yuantian Yongyi in Hangzhou, which was the only losing game of Yuantian Jiuduan's visit to China. In September, Ma Xiaochun lost to Nie Weiping at the national individual competition held in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. In the autumn of 1982, Shanghai Weiqi monthly held the "Weiqi championship". Ma Xiaochun, as the national go champion of that year, was invited to participate in the men's group competition to fight Nie Weiping. From September 23 to November 2, Nie Weiping and Ma Xiaochun fought in Beijing and Shanghai for the first time. In the first four games of the war, the two sides drew 2-2. In the decisive game, Ma Xiaochun lost to Nie Weiping by 3 / 4 and lost the championship by 2-3. Since then, the Chinese chess world is generally considered to have entered the "Niema era". This era lasted about 10 years. In November 1983, at the age of 19, Ma Xiaochun became the youngest Chinese Jiuduan player at that time. Afterwards, Ma Xiaochun won the individual champion of national go in 1984, 1986, 1987 and 1991, and won many laurels in various domestic competitions. in October 1984, the first China Japan go challenge competition began and ended in 1996. In the challenge arena, Ma Xiaochun, as the Deputy commander-in-chief, is always under orders in the autumn of crisis. In the first session, Kobayashi lost five consecutive victories; in the second session, Kobayashi won five consecutive victories over Japan and successfully pulled the lead; in the third session, Kobayashi won Yamaguchi and then takemiya masaku, the founder and deputy commander of cosmos; in the seventh session, Kobayashi, Yamaguchi and katoka won in succession. He has participated in a total of 10 competitions, 13 appearances, 7 wins and 6 losses, the winning rate is 54%. In 1989, Ma Xiaochun defeated Liu Xiaoguang 3-0 and won the second China Go Championship. From then on to the 14th China go celebrity war in 2001, Ma Xiaochun dominated 13 celebrities in a row, creating an unprecedented record. In 1992, Ma Xiaochun defeated Kobayashi Kobayashi Kobayashi, the first person in the Japanese chess world, 2-1 in the 5th China Japan celebrity competition, reversing the previous history of losing to Kobayashi Kobayashi 0-2 in the three China Japan celebrity competitions. At the beginning of 1992, Ma Xiaochun defeated Nie Weiping in the challenge of Chinese chess king in Hong Kong, and won the Grand Slam of Chinese go by integrating celebrities, new sports cup and chess king. Coupled with Ma Xiaochun's excellent record in the challenge arena competition between China and Japan at that time, Chinese go entered Ma Xiaochun's era. In 1994, Ma Xiaochun defeated Japanese celebrity Kobayashi Kobayashi 2-1 in the 7th China Japan celebrity competition, ending the competition and the 7th China Japan celebrity competition. In the first half of 1994, Ma Xiaochun's achievements in China were unparalleled. He not only won five championships, but also won the final with three straight sets of undisputed advantages. Nie Weiping even failed to challenge Ma Xiaochun's laurels. In this case, Xinmin go, which was just published, decided to hold a new seven-year tournament after 12 years The "battle between Niema" of Fanqi. In May 1994, the war between Nie and Ma was opened in Beijing. In the first three innings, Nie Weiping was in charge of black, white and black, winning 3 / 4, 1 / 4 and 2 and 3 / 4 respectively. In the next three innings, Ma Xiaochun took charge of the black, the white and the black respectively, and won the middle, 2 1 / 4 and 1 3 / 4 games. The two sides were tied 3-3. On February 8, 1995, the decisive seventh inning started in the blue sky hotel in Jiangwan, Shanghai. When Ma Xiaochun took the lead before the final set, he mistakenly thought that he was behind in the second reading. As a result, he ruined the victory and lost 1 / 4. 38 days after the end of the "Niema war", Niema took part in the semi-final of the sixth Toyo securities Cup World Go Championship in Seoul. In the semi-final, Nie Ma beat South Korea's Cao xunxuan and Japan's Hiroshi Yamaguchi 2-1 to reach the final. In April 1995, Ma Xiaochun first defeated Nie Weiping 3-1 in the 9th China go Tianyuan competition, and then defeated Japan's new Tianyuan Liu Shixun 2-0 in the 8th China Japan Tianyuan decisive battle. From April to May 1995, Ma Xiaochun participated in the final of the sixth Toyo securities cup in Seoul. The final is divided into two stages, two games first and three games after one month. In the first stage, Ma Xiaochun's black victory over Nie Weiping in the first inning, and the white defeat in the second inning resulted in a draw between the two sides. In the third inning on May 22, Ma Xiaochun won in the black middle. Then, in the fourth game on May 24, Ma Xiaochun won the final with a total score of 3-1. Ma Xiaochun won the first world go champion for China. On June 3, 1995, in the third round of the eighth Fujitsu Cup World Professional Go Championship, Ma Xiaochun, the new world champion, defeated Lin Haifeng in the black middle and entered the final four. On June 29, Ma Xiaochun narrowly won the final of the 8th Fujitsu cup by winning the world's top chess player Zhao Zhixun and Japanese Ben Yin Fang. Fujitsu's victory over China's Ma Xiaochun in the World Cup final on May added another advantage. At that time, Ma Xiaochun was 30 years old. In a short year, he won two titles in a row and became the "double world champion". At that time, only South Korean Cao xunxuan Jiuduan won this honor in 1994. In 1996, Ma Xiaochun entered the finals of the 7th Toyo securities cup and the 9th Fujitsu cup. In the end, he lost 1-3 and 0-1 to Lee Chang ho of South Korea, and won the second place twice. In 1998, in the final of the third Samsung fire cup, Ma Xiaochun lost to Li Changhao 9 times, 2-3, and missed the championship. In 1999, Ma Xiaochun lost 3-0 to Li Changhao in the final of the 3rd LG world chess championship, and once won the second place; in the final of the 12th Fujitsu cup, Ma Xiaochun lost 9 sections to South Korea's Liu Changhe in the middle of the game, and missed the champion again. In 2000, in the final of the 2nd Chunlan cup, Ma Xiaochun lost to Japan's Wang Licheng 1-2 and won the second place again. In 2002, Ma Xiaochun began to enter the first-class go League of China, representing Zhejiang Xinhu team and won the third place in the league; in 2003, he represented Guizhou satellite TV team

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