On this day, 46 years ago, on March 17, 1979 (February 19, 1979, the lunar calendar), Nie Weiping won the first World Amateur Go Championship. Nie Weiping is a famous Go player. In 1982, he was promoted to nine-stage chess player and was awarded the title of "Chess Saint" in 1988. Nie Weiping learned chess at the age of nine and won the championship in the Beijing City Children's Go Competition at the age of ten. After being guided by Zhang Futian, Lei Buhua, Guo Tisheng, Chen Zude, and Wu Songsheng, he has made great progress in chess skills, agile thinking, accurate path calculation, and flexible and changeable. During the Cultural Revolution, Nie Weiping demoted Heilongjiang to queue for six years. Although he rarely has the opportunity to play chess, Nie Weiping believes that it is the "realm" where Beidahuang has honed the way of Go. Nie Weiping returned to Beijing in 1972. In 1974, when the Japanese Go delegation visited China, Nie Weiping defeated Naoshi Miyamoto, who won six consecutive games and showed his brilliance. In 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, and 1981, he won the championship five times in the National Go Championships. In 1979, he won the championship in the first "New Sports" Cup (and maintained the "five consecutive championships"), and in the same year, he won the championship in the first World Amateur Go Championship. In the 1976 China-Japan Go Match, Nie Weiping, who led a delegation to visit Japan, defeated Japan's top player Yoshio Ishida, a nine-stage player. With a score of 6 wins and 1 loss, he was known as "Nie Xuanfeng" in Japan, a powerful Go country. From 1974 to 1980, he played 30 games with Japanese nine-dan chess players, winning 17 games, drawing 2 games, and losing 11 games. The period from 1975 to 1979 is generally referred to in the Go world in China as the "Nie Weiping Era." In 1979, Nie Weiping was awarded the title of "Top Ten" Athlete by the State Sports Commission. In 1981, Nie Weiping advanced to the nine-stage chess player. Deng Xiaoping loved to play bridge (Nie Weiping from the right, Deng Nan from the right)