{"id":144244,"date":"2026-01-15T11:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144244"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:57:06","slug":"nie-weiping-chinese-go-master-known-for-dramatic-victory-over-japanese-rival-dies-at-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144244","title":{"rendered":"Nie Weiping, Chinese Go master known for dramatic victory over Japanese rival, dies at 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostNie Weiping, a legendary Go master in China, died in Beijing at the age of 73 on Wednesday.<br \/>\nNie is best remembered for his dramatic victory in the first Japan-China Super Go in 1985. Few had hope that China would win because its players had long lagged behind Japanese competitors in the strategy board game.<br \/>\nBy the time it was Nie\u2019s turn to play in Tokyo, Japan\u2019s top player, Kobayashi Koichi, had already won six straight games against his Chinese counterparts. Nie was the only Chinese player left&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3340042\/nie-weiping-chinese-go-master-known-dramatic-victory-over-japanese-rival-dies-73?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostNie Weiping, a legendary Go master in China, died in Beijing at the age of 73 on Wednesday. Nie is best remembered for his&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}