Hawk, a chess player in China and Singapore, is an ＂abstract＂ ＂live wizard＂
BEIJING, Beijing, April 22 (Reporter He Li Yuechuan) As a professional beginner, she is already the top player in the Go industry; She admits that her talent for playing chess is mediocre, but she is regarded as a rare "live wizard"; She has a low winning rate in her career, but the effect of popularizing Go is comparable to that of a world champion.
In extreme contrast, the fact that "a lovely girl whose real name is Hawk" is no longer abrupt.
Some people say that only Hawk can become Hawk.
Cartography: Yu Yiwen
Breakthrough and hot stem
Hawk’s "out of the circle" is known to more people, which stems from her "breaking defense" tears.
In the live broadcast, Hawk tried to read the "unfriendly" remarks about himself, but he never thought that he could not bear it completely and shed tears on the spot. However, this accident has greatly increased her popularity and fans, and it has also become a hot stalk that fans often use to ridicule.
Recalling that "breaking the defense", Hawk explained that it was because the comments of netizens were too real and he was poked.
"I remember the original words at that time, what happened to Hawk’s live broadcast? She couldn’t make money by playing chess, so she had to live broadcast, otherwise how could she let people live?"
Just two lines, but let Hawk suddenly have a feeling of jumping out of himself and looking at himself from the perspective of a bystander.
"That moment suddenly poked me and felt so sad. In fact, I know this is the case in my heart, but when the facts are in front of me, it is still unacceptable. So I couldn’t hold back at once, and I felt so miserable that I cried. "
Screenshot of Hawk live video.
When Hawk’s live broadcast attracted more and more attention, her Go experience was also known by more people. And this series of "bleak" past will inevitably become a topic of relish among fans.
"King of Eight Decisions" is one of the nicknames given to Hawk by Iron Powder. It originated from her eight consecutive Go-fixing competitions, and it was not until 2014 that she succeeded in fixing the stages and became the first stage of her career.
Hawk admitted that she was "late", but she also stressed that the concept was not as exaggerated as everyone imagined. When Hawk participated in the qualifying competition for the first time at the age of 12, she knew that she had no chance at all, but her parents wanted her to "feel the cruelty of the competition" and exercise a normal heart and a big heart to face the challenges in the future.
"12-year-old children go to the college entrance examination, and few people can get in." Hawk’s explanation has some persuasiveness.
However, she also admitted that compared with Ke Jie and Yu Zhiying, there is a gap between herself and other players: "I know that I am not a particularly talented player, and I have been working on my own step by step. Therefore, when I was 19 years old, I was older. "
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Hawk has also beaten talented players in her eyes. In 2006, 11-year-old Hawk, as the winner of the trials, got the opportunity to represent the Beijing team in the National Children’s Competition. In the competition, she defeated Yu Zhiying, who was less than 10 years old at that time.
"The children’s competition was the first time we met. At that time, I heard that she was excellent. As a result, I didn’t take it to heart, and I didn’t feel like I won the first woman’s Go in China in the future. "
Hawk won the runner-up in that competition, which directly prompted her and her family to make a decision to go north for professional training and take the road of professional Go.
In 2021, Hawk also had a high-light moment-it took about 7 hours, and she defeated Rui Naiwei, a 58-year-old legend of women’s Go in China.
Some netizens therefore nicknamed Hawk "Time Assassin"-she defeated the future first woman in China and now she defeated the past first woman in China.
Data Map: Rui Naiwei (in white) resumed after the game. Photo by Cao Qin
However, in that year’s Women’s League, Hawk’s total record was 2 wins and 16 losses, so "2-16" became the "talk handle" for fans to tease her.
Hawk said that it was actually a painful experience: "At that time, when I finished playing, it was particularly painful, and there was a heart to get rid of it. I thought in my hotel room every day during the competition, why I couldn’t win. So many coaches and classmates are looking at your achievements and losing their faces to the whole country … It is very painful, it should be said that the pain is extreme. "
It took her a long time to adjust her mentality: "I personally made achievements, and no one forced me. Although it stinks, I have to accept it. There is no need to find reasons for myself. "
Nevertheless, when the netizen mentioned this matter again in the live broadcast room, Hawk still had to bite the bullet to get on with it.
"Everyone talked about this in a ridiculous way on the Internet. I was still very uncomfortable for the first few times. I was very concerned about it. I felt that this was a wound and was repeatedly salted and trampled. It is very painful, and I have to grow up quickly to accept it. "
Behind these "stalks", it was originally a bitter story. But now they have become the labels of Hawk and the "comedy code" that makes fans smile.
"Although it’s embarrassing, it really happened to me. I can’t cry every time someone mentions me. So accept it, and not reluctantly. Later, I felt that this is a part of me, a part of my life, and my mentality will be much better. In the words of netizens,’ still a little proud’. "
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In bilibili, "Chess Player Hawk" has almost 1.15 million followers. In contrast, on the same live broadcast platform, the number of fans of world champion Ke Jie is 1.506 million (as of press time). Not only in the field of Weiqi, millions of data rank "head" among all anchors in bilibili.
In a live broadcast at the end of 2022, the popularity of Hawk ranked first in the whole station.
This popularity shocked Hawk himself: "It really shocked me. I have never seen such a scene. I have already broadcasted it, but a bunch of people are still chatting in the live broadcast room. "
At that time, four words repeatedly appeared in Hawk’s mind: He De He Neng. "I he2 de2 he2 ability, so loved by everyone. Seeing that everyone supported me so much, I was so excited that I didn’t fall asleep at two or three. "
As for the cause of the explosion, some people say that it is "God rewards food"-not only good at live broadcast, but even the name has its own "effect", which attracts people’s attention.
Hawk explained that her name comes from her father’s occupation: fighter pilot. Before she was born, her parents agreed that both boys and girls would be named Hawk!
The number of fans in Hawk is close to 1.15 million.
"For the name, I have seen the most reaction is" shock ",think" Hawk "turned out to be a girl. What’s more interesting is that in the past, the book cover often didn’t need to write a name, because many magazines and posters used to cover the book cover wrote the word’ Hawk’. "
Apart from the name, in Hawk’s Go career, parents can only do a limited amount for her, and almost all of them have to rely on the little girl to "climb" herself. This kind of "climbing" began when Hawk was 12 years old, which was also the beginning of her life in the North for more than ten years.
The word "drifting north" is a recurring word in Hawk’s story about his career in Go. In order to enter the profession, accompanied by her mother, she was born in 1995 and went to Beijing to learn chess at the age of 12.
Different from people’s imaginary image of a sage-like, transcendent chess player, in the days of learning chess, Hawk traveled between the chess house and his residence almost every day, two points and one line. During this period, it is inevitable that every "northern drift" will be moved. "In Beijing, there are ten moves."
Seven years later, Hawk finally entered the stage. After entering the professional arena, it is still hard to fight hard in the League A. "I often play a game of chess for five or six hours, feeling that my body is hollowed out from head to toe. I’m so hungry that I can’t eat. It takes an hour to sit in the restaurant to ease the tension. "
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Even more cruel, at a very young age, she has to accept the fact that she is not excellent.
Hawk began to learn chess at the age of six and a half. At that time, in Hebei Province, Hawk was always the dominant player, regardless of whether she was compared with players of her age or against older sisters. "She won the championship despite her illness and fever".
But in Beijing, everything has changed.
"I heard that children who can come to Beijing to learn chess are the best." At that time, Hawk thought, who is not good? But soon she found out, "Oh, I’m not good."
The competitive environment that relies entirely on strength made Hawk realize early that "competitive Go is very cruel, and we must make every effort to improve our level."
This also drove Hawk to go to the Korean Go Dojo for further study in 2017, 10 years after drifting in the North. Once, with a high fever, she had to find a way to "pick" the medicine in the medicine box. "Take your mobile phone to translate the name of the medicine, don’t eat it wrong again, and eat yourself to death."
Looking back on that experience, Hawk said that he "didn’t cry less", but he felt that he couldn’t grow up without going through it. "Cry and cry."
Simplicity and abstraction
Different from the "misery" along the way, although Weiqi is still the main topic, Hawk’s live broadcast style is famous for its joy and "abstraction", and even called "abstract" anchor ceiling.
She will be like "shooting the sun with a bow" when tearing a ham sausage, and she will also appear in front of the camera as a realistic Mona Lisa to "sing a song" … Numerous secondary creation videos derived from this have been repeatedly "appreciated" by fans.
Hawk believes that because she is accompanied by her mother all the year round when learning chess, her personality is as extroverted as her mother, and at the same time she inherits her father’s childishness.
For example, she said that her father likes pit bulls very much and likes the "burning fighting spirit". Once I got a puppy doll, I hung it on Hawk’s bedside and attached a few words-not words to inspire or express love, but three simple words: pit bull.
Apart from personality reasons, Hawk said that she wanted to make her studio "interesting".
"On the one hand, playing chess is easy to understand, and the simpler some professional content is, the better, so that everyone can understand it before continuing to learn; On the other hand, I hope that the live broadcast room is interesting, not just talking about it, but doing something interesting with Go as the core and promoting it step by step. "
This attempt has achieved excellent results, and fans described Hawk’s strong personal style as "abstract".
About "abstraction", netizens explained it as something unexpected, unexpected and different from ordinary people.
"Abstraction can replace many things now. Someone who behaves differently from what you expected and says something different from what you expected can be called abstraction. " Hawk recalled netizens’ "popular science" and said.
Although regarded as the ceiling, Hawk said that she didn’t really understand "abstraction".
"They (fans) say that I am abstract, and I am particularly puzzled. I don’t know why. I am like this in my usual life. I don’t quite understand that I am abstract. "
As a top player in Weiqi, Ke Jie’s live broadcast is also known as "abstract". Lian Xiao, who started the "live broadcast business" briefly, was also labeled as "abstract".
Why is the vertex of abstract anchor a Go player? Hawk thinks: Because it is simple, it is abstract.
She explained that chess players have been far away from society and schools since childhood, and the growth environment has basically not changed.
"Playing chess and training every day is particularly simple and simple. As a result, when they came to the Internet, netizens were so eager to see how these people were different, and then they attributed it to abstraction. "
"For example, I like to eat something that children love in private. I bought fish sausage in the supermarket that day, but I have never been able to open ham sausage. Later, some netizens specially recorded videos to teach me. "
As for other reasons, Hawk thinks that it may be that people have always had misunderstandings about Go players, thinking that these people are "old thieves, wearing gowns and sitting cross-legged in the mountains".
Photo courtesy of respondents
"There is no such person! A large part of the Go players participating in the competition are young people and children, and they can also dress up very trendy. "
"Of course, we didn’t publicize it enough." Hawk said that she has been trying to promote Weiqi culture through live broadcast. The goal of the first stage is to let everyone distinguish gobang, go and chess.
When I first started playing chess live, someone would always ask the eagle, "Aren’t you five in a row?"
"This is a key popularization object, so we must let them know that Go and Gobang are not the same thing." Hawk is considering whether to make some serious courses, but she is worried that "pure dry goods" courses will affect everyone’s viewing experience.
In bilibili, the platform first certified Hawk as a "game upmaster", and later changed it to a "well-known upmaster and professional chess player of Weiqi".
How to rank these labels? Hawk did not hesitate to put "professional Go player" in the first place.
"I am a chess player myself. The live content is mainly Go. I can become an anchor because I can play chess and speak chess." In Hawk’s mind, she has always been a Weiqi player, just wandering in different positions in the industry with a distinctive personal style.
What labels do you want to add to yourself in the future? Hawk did not pause: "Hypotension healer, because every time I play games, I can make water friends’ high blood pressure’."
She gave this "abstract" answer very seriously. (End)
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