Go Legend

   Chapter 42 Samsung Cup Qualification

   Two days after the "LG Cup" final, Li Yuanhu came to the "Fangyuan Chess and Cards Room" near the Chinese Chess Academy.

  In this day and age, the place where the "chess and card room" is hung is often a mahjong hall, basically only "cards" but not "chess". This "Fangyuan Chess and Cards Room" is an exception. This is a rare activity room in Beijing that focuses on board games. The owner of this chess and card room is none other than Cai Zhixiong, the chairman of the "Fangyuan Group" in Beijing.

   When Li Yuanhu arrived, Cai Zhixiong just greeted him from inside:

"Ha Lao Li, you haven't been here for a while. Is it because of your chess addiction? Wait a minute, there seem to be no masters here today, but I already called reporter Zhang just now, and he said that he was done with the work he had. It's coming soon."

Before coming here, Li Yuanhu called Lao Cai. He heard that Lao Cai was in the chess and card room now. He didn't say what the matter was, so he came directly to the door, so Lao Cai mistakenly thought he had thought about chess. addiction.

   The "Reporter Zhang" in Lao Cai's mouth is a reporter from the "Go World" magazine. His name is Zhang Xiaoyong.

   "Reporter Zhang is coming later? But Lao Cai, I'm not here to play chess today, I'm looking for you for something."

   "Oh what's the matter"

   While talking, the two walked towards the inside.

   After a few minutes, Cai Zhixiong looked excited:

   "Haha, old Li, what are you talking about? Your kid wants to participate in the preliminaries for the Samsung Cup?"

   Compared with Lao Cai's excitement, Li Yuanhu looked helpless:

"Yeah, I don't know what's wrong with this kid. A few days ago, old Nie said that he would accept him as his disciple, but he pretended to be hypocritical, but yesterday he suddenly told me that he wanted to participate in the event. In the preliminaries of the Samsung Cup starting next month, they asked me if I could do anything. This stinky boy, when I am the chairman of the Chinese Go Association, what else can I do? My only way is to come to see you, Lao Cai. "

   "There may be a little trouble in the procedure, but it's definitely not a big problem."

Lao Cai still looked excited: "Don't worry, Lao Li, it's a good thing that he wants to participate in the competition, I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, now, I really want to see how "Exquisite Art" can come from the Internet to reality. There is no performance, so the matter of one sentence, the matter of signing up is covered by me."

   Li Yuanhu reminded: "You may not have noticed, Lao Cai? I have read the rules of the game, and it seems that there is no amateur group in this year's qualifiers."

"I know this," Lao Cai continued with a smile: "Among all the Go tournaments, the Samsung Cup is the most fickle, and every year there are some new tricks, so I noticed this year's rules as soon as they came out. The amateur group was cancelled and two women's groups were added instead."

"That's right"

   "But what if there is no amateur group?" Before Li Yuanhu could speak, Cai Zhixiong interrupted him:

"Samsung Cup is known as an open competition. Although there is no amateur group this time, it is not impossible for amateur players to participate in the competition. Do you think it is true, Lao Li? So just go to the chess institute and report it and indicate your children. It’s on behalf of the Chinese Go Association, so let my club come forward for the registration and say that your child is part of my team, so there’s definitely no problem with the qualifications.”

  Li Yuanhu knew that Lao Cai was very familiar in the Go circle, and this was just a voluntary preliminaries, and there was no problem of competing with others for places, so after hearing Cai Zhixiong say this, he felt relieved:

   "Okay, then I'll leave this to you, Lao Cai, thank you."

  Cai Zhixiong smiled and said: "What's there to thank for this kind of thing, it's just a little effort, by the way, why did your child suddenly think of participating in the qualifiers of the Samsung Cup?"

   "Who wants to participate in the Samsung Cup preliminaries?"

   The one who said this was Zhang Xiaoyong Zhang, a reporter from "Go World", who happened to appear at the door at this time.

  Because everyone is a chess friend, although I don’t usually have any deep friendships, I’m not unfamiliar. So after seeing him, Cai Zhixiong joked with him:

   "The No. 1 expert on the Internet, we are discussing the matter of letting him participate in the Samsung Cup."

  Compared to Lao Cai, Li Yuanhu is actually more unfamiliar with reporter Zhang, and the two have only cut a few plates in this area. After hearing what Lao Cai said, reporter Zhang turned to Li Yuanhu: "It is said that Jueyi is a young man who is in the rush. Is it true that the rumor is true, that he is really Lao Li's child?"

   After getting a positive answer, reporter Zhang Da looked surprised: "Oh, that's great, I'm looking for him right now, so are you, Lao Li, why didn't you bring him today?"

Lao Cai next to him joked, "Why did you bring him here? Reporter Zhang Da didn't tell me about you, but as long as you are at your level, it's okay to cut Lao Li, but if you want to face "Jingyi", you will definitely not be able to watch it. "

   "Haha not enough to see enough to watch, of course I know that I am not enough, but I don't want to play chess with him, but to interview him, or, in fact, I want to ask him to do me a favor."

   Hearing that he was helping, Li Yuanhu said, "Oh, help? How else can he help."

   "Help me complete the chess review for this "LG Cup" final."

Reporter Zhang Da said to the two: "You two big bosses certainly don't know that this kind of Chinese chess player losing chess review is actually the most difficult to write. I'm boring to write, and readers don't seem to be boring. However, this is the final again. There is no relevant content in the magazine and it will not work, so this time I thought, just focus on reviewing the 4th game, so if I want to review this game, I thought of Jueyi at that time, after all Liu Changhe himself has been in the game after the game. Said that the reason why he was able to win this game is thanks to a Chinese chess player who gave him a lot of inspiration."

   After listening to what reporter Zhang Da said, Li Yuanhu and Cai Zhixiong looked at each other.

   "Jingyi" won Liu Changhe 3 games in a row with a "Yi Gai" variant, and then Liu Changhe won the "LG Cup" with another "Yi Gai" variant, which the two of them know by now. But so far, there are not many people who fully know about this. After all, for things like this, you must be a chess fan who is very attentive and likes "technical flow" to collude with the whole thing.

   After listening to reporter Zhang Da, Lao Cai smiled at Li Yunhu:

   "By the way, Lao Li, do you think your child thinks that because of him, a Chinese chess player loses a championship, so he wants to win back a championship, so he wants to participate in the Samsung Cup?"

   "Hahahaha I said Lao Cai"

   Li Yuanhu laughed loudly: "I really can't tell, your imagination is quite rich, I am surprised, since your imagination is so rich, why is your chess still so good?"

   So what was Li Xiangping thinking?

   While the three were chatting, at home, Li Xiangping was also talking to Lao Shi:

"Brother Ding'an, you need to know that this game is very important, extremely important! This determines whether I will play chess in the future, and if I don't play chess, then you will definitely not be able to play chess. You know the stakes involved. ?"

   "You can rest assured, little friend Xiangping, Ding'an will save you."

   "Well, there are less than 20 days before the start of the game, so from now on, let's start special training on the Internet."

   (end of this chapter)