Go Seigen's Full Record of the Ten-Game Match Tournament

Author: Ma Zheng
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: Among the spectators was a Japanese businessman named Yamazaki Yumitomo, who was familiar with the famous Japanese Go player, Takahashi Kozo. He wrote a letter to Takahashi, saying that there was a Go genius boy in Beijing. Later, as an agent for Wu Qingyuan, he exchanged over fifty letters with Takahashi, discussing Wu Qingyuan's study in Japan. When Wu Qingyuan was eight years old, his father began teaching him how to play Go and had him study Go books brought back from Japan. At the age of ten, his father took him to tea houses like "Haifeng Xuan" to play Go and met some famous players of the time. By the age of eleven, some veteran national players like Wang Yunfeng were no longer a match for him, and he was hailed as a prodigy. At that time, there was a "Japanese Club" in Beijing, which heard of Wu Qingyuan's reputation and invited him to play. His opponent was a professional player at the first dan level, but Wu Qingyuan won. This book collects the following matches:
1. Wu Qingyuan vs. Takahashi Kozo, Ten-Game Match;
2. Wu Qingyuan vs. Hani Kinichi, Ten-Game Match;
3. Wu Qingyuan vs. Fujisawa Kojun, First Ten-Game Match;
4. Wu Qingyuan vs. Hashimoto Jutaro, First Ten-Game Match;
5. Wu Qingyuan vs. Iwamoto Kaoru, Ten-Game Match;
6. Wu Qingyuan vs. Hashimoto Jutaro, Second Ten-Game Match;
7. Wu Qingyuan vs. Fujisawa Kojun, Second Ten-Game Match;
8. Wu Qingyuan vs. Fujisawa Kojun, Third Ten-Game Match;
9. Wu Qingyuan vs. Sakata Eizan, Ten-Game Match;
10. Wu Qingyuan vs. Takahashi Kaku, Ten-Game Match.