Go Legend

   Chapter 99 Eight or Nine

   It is the current President of the Chinese Chess Academy and Chairman of the Chess Association, Lao Chen, who convened everyone to discuss matters today. After arriving in later generations, Lao Chen's reputation seems to be not very good, and many people have said a lot of bad things about him. But to be honest, there are a lot of bad things about him that really don't need to be taken too seriously.

To say that Lao Chen is unlucky enough, the Chinese Chess Academy was actually spawned by the Sino-Japanese Go arena. During the period when Lao Chen was the dean, he was at a low point in catching up with Chinese Go, or the truth was actually not a low point, but The victories in the previous ring competitions seemed to give the Chinese a shot of blood, so compared with the state of blood, the current situation of the chess world in recent years seems to be at a low ebb.

  Secondly, in the past few years of Lao Chen's reign, he just caught up with the "Olympic Gold Medal Project", so one can imagine how difficult the days are for a non-Olympic sport like Go, especially a non-Olympic sport that has not performed very well.

Look at those who scold Lao Chen or say that they have an opinion on Lao Chen. In fact, most of them are local chess players or old chess players who are outdated. They belong to the kind of "victims" of the reform and those who need to suffer "labor pains". For some people, of course there are a lot of words that don't have to be taken too seriously.

   Seeing that no one took up the question he raised, Lao Chen ordered:

   "Old Nie, what do you think we should do about this?"

Strictly speaking, Lao Nie, who has now stepped down as the head coach of the national team, no longer belongs to the management. However, everyone knows that in the domestic Go world, Lao Nie has a detached status. Whether he belongs to the management is better than the management. It's perfectly normal to have him on occasion.

"Ah? Inappropriate or inappropriate! Because Li Xiangping has been learning chess, he doesn't even seem to be a formal 6th grader, right? He went to the finals of the World Championship with an amateur 5th dan, and was the No. 1 in the professional chess world. It is really inappropriate to think about people competing for the world championship of professional Go. But I think it is easy to do, reward! People who have achieved such good results should be rewarded. This is the fine tradition of our Go team. There's a precedent for that, so I don't really think there's anything to negotiate."

Old Nie is right, there is indeed a tradition of "awards" in China. For example, Jiang Zhujiu in the first session and Liu Xiaoguang in the second session were awarded "jumping sections" because of winning streak in the competition. Strictly speaking, Nie's "chess master" is a similar reward, just because he was already at the ninth dan at that time, and he could not be promoted. Among the two titles of "big national player" and "chess master", everyone finally chose The title of "chess saint".

   It is precisely because of this tradition in China that when Lao Nie proposed it, everyone naturally had no objection.

   Now the key question: how much should this "reward" be given? Or simply say, what rank should be awarded to Li Xiangping?

   This has no precedent in China, so when Lao Nie finished speaking, although everyone agreed with the "reward", what is the specific "reward" method? The guys continued to be silent.

   Seeing that everyone was silent again, Lao Chen ordered again: "Pharaoh, tell me what you think."

   Lao Wang, in Lao Chen's mouth, is the current vice president of the Chess Academy, and he will take over from Lao Chen's class this year as the second president of the Chinese Chess Academy, so Lao Chen asked him to speak.

   "Everyone heard the rumors from South Korea? It is said that they are holding a hearing to study how to reward Xiao Li."

   "Oh? Are you going to let Xiao Li go straight to the ninth dan? Has the result come out?"

   Everyone heard Lao Wang suddenly mention this, the atmosphere finally became more lively, and some people began to ask questions. What Lao Wang said is actually the reform of the rank system of the Korean Chess Academy, and the reason or the reason for their reform is actually because of their little Li Li Shishi.

After Xiao Li was promoted to the third dan, because he disliked the lack of bonuses in the dan dan competition, he announced that he would not participate in the dan dan competition. Therefore, he became a prince in the country and even won the first world championship in his personal career. As a professional third-dan, this even includes Liu Changhe. Because Liu Changhe is an amateur-turned-professional chess player, he only obtained the Korean professional first-dan status at the age of 18, so when he won the world championship for the first time In fact, it is also a professional three-stage identity.

   So now, the Korean Chess Institute is brewing reforms, preparing to make the world champions into nine dan.

Team Leader Hua, who had just returned from Korea, spoke at this time: "The result is out, all of their chess players will pass. In fact, thinking about it and knowing that no one objected to this, the current 9 dan is worthless, and Xiao Li will not be promoted to 9. It won't harm everyone's interests, and secondly, who would be so stupid to oppose it, isn't it afraid that Xiao Li will cry out and fight?"

   Hearing the words "disobedience to fight", all the participants laughed, and with everyone's laughter, the first resolution of the meeting was passed tacitly by everyone.

  The decision is: If Li Xiangping can win the championship this time, then the Chinese Go Association will grant him the title of professional nine-dan.

   Seeing the preliminary results of the meeting, Lao Chen was very happy:

"Okay, good, of course it's best to win the championship. No one can say anything if you give a nine-dan. Now I'm afraid that I won't be able to get it. After all, this time the opponent is Da Li, and the final is still a five-game chess game. It seems that So far, Da Li has not lost to a foreign chess player in a fan chess tournament, right? Let's talk about the runner-up now. First, if Li Xiangping wins the runner-up this time, then we should award What rank is he? Second, is our reward awarded to him before the final or after the final?"

   Lao Chen's second question is actually not controversial. Everyone agrees that it is most appropriate to award it after the game. After all, if it is awarded before the game, then no matter what rank is awarded to him, what if he really wins the championship? Wouldn't that be awarded once after the game? That's not the equivalent of slapping yourself in the face.

However, for the first question, there is still some controversy. Some people consider Li Xiangping's current age and think that following the convention of the ring competition in the past, it is enough to reward three or five paragraphs. "Li San Duan" or "Li Wu Duan" or something.

Some people think that this kind of reward may be too low. After all, Li Xiangping has achieved an impressive 10 consecutive victories since the qualifiers this time. Among them, there are many top players in the world, from the qualifiers Koichi Kobayashi to this competition. At this stage, Lao Cao, Kato, and Da Liu, there are as many as 4 super-first-class masters recognized by everyone.

   With such an outstanding record, it is obvious that the low rank awarded to the professional is relatively low, so it should start at the seventh dan, and one should choose one of the professional seventh dan or the professional eighth dan.

   Slowly, the latter opinion prevailed.

"I really want to say, it's not easy to be a runner-up in the world. Think about it so far, apart from Ma Xiao and the two world champions, only Lao Nie, Yu Tou and Xiao Chang have participated in the finals of the World Championship. Therefore, Li The achievements of this child Xiangping so far have actually been ranked in the top 5 in China."

   This is a sentence that Luo, another senior member of the management, said at the end of the meeting, and this sentence actually made a conclusion for the whole meeting:

  If he wins the runner-up, then Li Xiangping will be awarded the title of eighth dan professional.

   "Hehe, I think it's so good, so good, the champion is 9 dan, and the runner-up is 8 dan" After the result was negotiated, Lao Nie's big mouth spoke again:

   "What did I just say? It's not difficult to solve this problem, think about it, even Xiao Li in Korea can jump nine directly, so what's so great about our Xiao Li giving an eight or a nine."

  To be honest, what Lao Nie said was purely unintentional, but his words aroused the interest of others.

   "Oh? What do you think, Old Nie, is it our Xiao Li or the Korean Xiao Li?"

   "Hey! Just that Xiao Li in Korea" I must admit that Xiao Li's chess in this era is very inaccessible to Old Nie's eyes:

"How should I put it, they are world champions after all, so I can't just talk nonsense and say that our Xiao Li is better than him now, but if I tell the truth, I think our Xiao Li has more potential than him. "

   "Huh?! Old Nie, are you so optimistic about this child Xiangping?"

   "Of course." Some time ago, Li Xiangping humbly treated him as a disciple, and we all know that with old Nie's urination, he doesn't blow when he blows at this time:

"Korean Xiao Li and Gu Dali are in the same year, Xiangping is a few years younger than him, let's not talk about the others, just a few years younger, it should be able to replace a lot of potential, even if you don't mention these, just talk about chess If it is reasonable, then the Korean Xiao Li can't be compared with our Xiao Li. I am not talking about comparing them with the same age, but the Korean Xiao Li who is now the world champion. I don't think they are comparable. Xiangping now."

   "Hehe, the evaluation is so high?"

   Regarding what Lao Nie said, except for Leader Hua, who chimed in with this sentence, everyone else knew his temper, so they all smiled and said nothing.

"Hey, it seems that everyone doesn't believe me, right? Then I'll leave the words here, not to mention their little Li, even their big Li, I think Li Xiangping has the ability to rush, just Take this final as an example, I know that everyone is not optimistic about Xiangping, but I think the gap is definitely not as big as everyone thinks, and it is impossible to be one-sided.”

  Pharaoh suddenly interjected: "Then, Old Nie, what do you think will happen to this final? Three-seven or four-six?"

"What is three-seven? What is four-six? Of course I can't say the final result now, but I think it should be 55 to 51 this time, 49 to 51. The reason why I am a little more optimistic about South Korea's big Lee is because of For the sake of his more experience, from a purely technical point of view, I think our Xiangping is not bad at all. Even if we almost lost this time, I still say that. I put it aside and shake the Li Canghao dynasty. That person, that must be our Li Xiangping!"

   "Heh, that's fine, that's fine"

   It was obvious that everyone didn't want to hear Lao Nie's big mouth continue to babble, so Lao Chen interrupted him:

   "Lao Nie will worry a lot about the preparations during this period of time."

  Old Nie didn't realize it, he slapped his chest loudly:

   "No problem, wrap it on me."

   Because of illness, I have been off for a few more days. I'm sorry to everyone. Today is a new month, and this book still asks for your support.

   (end of this chapter)