On this day, 37 years ago, on March 26, 1988 (February 9, 1988, the lunar calendar), Nie Weiping was awarded the title of "Chess Saint". Nie Weiping, who won the first World Amateur Go Championship, was awarded the China Go Saint Certificate issued by the China Go Association at the celebration ceremony for the China Go team's three consecutive victories in the China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament. "Chess Saint" is the highest honor for a Go player, and Nie Weiping deserves this title. Since 1975, Nie Weiping has dominated the chess world in China. He has often won national championships,"New Sports Cup" competitions, and national chess competitions. He has ranked first in the top ten Go competitions in China for three consecutive times. In the 1976 China-Japan Go match, he set off a "Nie Whirlwind" in Japan with a record of 6 wins and 1 loss. In the world-renowned China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament, Nie Weiping was re-elected as the champion of the fifth China team. In the first three competitions, Nie Weiping defeated Japan's generals at a time of crisis, including Japan's top chess players Koichi Kobayashi and Masaki Takemiya, honorary chess saint Hideyuki Fujisawa, and Masao Kato, who has won the four titles of Japan's "Celebrity","Ten Dans","Chess Saint" and "Throne". Nie Weiping not only set a illustrious record of nine consecutive victories, but also contributed to China's winning three consecutive victories in the China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament. Fang Yi, honorary chairman of the China Go Association, called Nie Weiping the "Confucius" of the Go world in China. Nie Weiping fulfilled Boss Chen's last wish, made great contributions to China's Go overtaking Japan, won glory for the motherland, and won many honors for himself. He has been named National Model Worker, Special Model Worker in Beijing City, winner of the "May Day Labor Medal", Top Ten Athletes in the Country and Top Ten Athletes in Asia. In August 1990, Nie Weiping ranked first among the top ten outstanding young people in China with 761562 votes. Of course, Nie Weiping is not a winning general. In the 4th China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament and the finals of the 1989 "Yingshi Cup" World Professional Go Championship, he suffered successive setbacks. But he was not discouraged. In the 10th to 12th New Sports Cup Go Match, Nie Weiping won the championship three times in a row; in the 2nd Go King Match, Nie Weiping won the throne of Go King with 4 wins and 3 wins; In the 5th China Go Top Ten Battle, Nie Weiping defeated the previous champion and regained the top of the top ten; in the 5th China-Japan Go Tianyuan Battle, he defeated Japanese chess player Lin Haifeng and achieved a zero breakthrough for Chinese Go players in the China-Japan individual Go match... Nie Weiping made great contributions to China's Go overtaking Japan, and also triggered a Go craze in China, making the Go movement flourish. In the past two years, the chess saint Nie Weiping has participated in Go competitions on the one hand, and written books and essays on the other hand to promote the popularization of Go. He edited several sets of Go standard textbooks, putting the popularization and research of Go on the road of standardization and serialization.