Chapter 38: Promotion to the Ninth Dan
Through the back door, the master and apprentice arrived at the venue in the Huaguo Chess Academy.
It's all ready, just waiting for Li to come.
And Wang Lao, who was sitting and waiting, looked at the time and said to the secretary next to him: "You go and make a call to urge Nie Whirlwind, and tell him to hurry up and bring his apprentice over, so as not to delay the start time of the conference." ”
Just when the secretary wanted to go, Nie Whirlwind came in through the back door with Li Cai.
Seeing that the main master was coming, the "Three Elders of Go" of Huaguo greeted him, and they all said to Nie Whirlwind: "Yes, Old Nie, a good apprentice to teach!"
Then he said to Li Cai: "Yes, I won the world championship at the age of eight, which gave us Huaguo a hard breath, so that these Korean guys dare not underestimate us." ”
Before 04 years, under the influence of the "Korean Wave", Huaguo did not get a world championship, all of them were taken by South Korea, and even the world champion of the 04 Samsung Cup, if it wasn't for Li Cai to eliminate Lee Sedol, otherwise according to historical inertia, this championship is still South Korea's Lee Sedol, and Huaguo has no chance.
05 years, in addition to Li Cai won the Fujitsu Cup championship, Li Cai's brother Chang Xiaohao also won the "Go Olympics" known as the Ying's Cup championship, it can be said that the six major international Go competitions, in the first half of the four competitions Huaguo took half, only South Korea's Samsung Cup and LG Cup have not been held.
Li Cai was praised by the old chess players and leaders in the chess academy, which made Li Cai embarrassed.
There are so many people in the venue, all of whom are older than Li Cai, and Li Cai has to take the initiative to greet everyone he meets. After all, Li is still eight years old, and he has to take the initiative to say hello to his elders.
After the greeting, Li Cai felt more tired than the next game of chess.
Finally, Li Cai came to the table where the senior brothers were sitting.
Seeing Li Cai with a chicken nest on his head and a painful expression, they all laughed.
Especially Gu Dali, the senior brother who has the best relationship with Li Cai, saw Li Cai's appearance and joked to Li Cai: "What's the matter, our little champion, looks like he is in pain, isn't he happy to win the championship." ”
Li Cai was helpless, so he had to say: "Where, I have to die of happiness, just now, greet everyone, everyone has to touch my head, if I go bald after you, I will blame them." ”
Listening to Li Cai's words, the senior brothers all laughed, and the most exaggerated was the senior brother Gu Dali, who laughed so much that tears were about to flow out.
After a while, Li sat down in a chair and started talking with the senior brothers.
Among Li Cai's many senior brothers, only Chang Xiaohao won the world championship, and Gu Dali will not be able to win his first championship in the LG Cup next year.
Because they are all professional chess players, the common topic can only talk about things related to Go.
Senior brother Gu Dali quickly thought of Li Cai's new layout in the finals, and hurriedly asked Li Cai to come.
Hearing Senior Brother Gu Dali's question, Li Cai explained, and said Master Wu Qingyuan's Liuhe Chess and some of his own opinions.
After listening to Li Cai's words, all the senior brothers were thoughtful, if it weren't for the award ceremony now, there would be no chessboard here, Li Cai, these senior brothers would play chess with Li Cai and discuss Li Cai's new layout.
A man's voice came from the podium, signaling the people in the room to be quiet.
The award ceremony began.
In China, the leader's speech should summarize the past, then look forward to the future, and then invite the next leader to speak, at least repeat it several times, and the content is roughly the same.
Li Cai listened drowsily, and it took more than an hour just for the leader to speak.
Hearing the applause, Li Cai also hurriedly applauded, looked up, and the last leader finished speaking.
Finally, it was time to present Li Cai with a certificate of honor for the ninth dan and Li Cai and Chang Xiaohao to win the world championship for a celebration party.
First, Li Cai was awarded a nine-paragraph certificate.
According to the promotion of Go, if there are no special circumstances, it takes a lot of games to accumulate if you want to rise to the ninth dan, and then slowly move up the stage, and it is very good to be able to move up one stage a year.
And Li Cai has only been in the section for two years, and he has been promoted to the ninth dan, because of the international Go promotion regulations, if you get a world championship, you will be directly promoted to the ninth dan, even if you are still the first dan, it can be said that Li Cai has risen to the ninth dan faster than riding a rocket.
Looking at Li Cai, who had just reached his waist, Chen Lao was full of emotion, and said to Li Cai: "You can be so good at a young age, and the Go class will be your world in the future." ”
Li Cai just smiled, took the nine-stage certificate in Chen Lao's hand, and already thought of the future alpha dog in his heart, and said softly: "My goal has always been artificial intelligence! ”
Chen Lao heard Li Cai muttering a word, but he didn't hear what Li Cai was saying clearly, thinking it was something like thanks, so he didn't care.
After the award ceremony for Li Cai was over, after the celebration party, the Huaguo Chess Academy and the General Administration of Sports also gave the media a political task, asking them to report the news that Li Cai won the championship at the age of eight, after all, this is an exciting moment.
And the media naturally understood this, and gave all of them the most central pages, hyping up Li Cai's glorious achievements.
On the Internet, government supervision is not as perfect as it was later, and there will always be some anti-social, jealous or Ha Han people who are blacking Li Cai, and after the mainstream media reports, they all stop talking, just preparing to wait for Li Cai's next loss, and they are blacking Li Cai, and even the reason for spraying has been thought of.
And Li Cai doesn't care about these things, he doesn't bother to pay attention to the trolls on the Internet, thinking that they are just stupid forks with an unbalanced heart, who complain about the unfairness of the world if they don't work hard, but can't see how much effort other people have put in behind their success.
And the Nie family's master and apprentice finally got together for a meeting, so they naturally stayed and held a celebration banquet for Li Cai in private.
According to Gu Dali's words, Li Cai and Chang Xiaohao must bleed profusely and eat their two world champions well.
As for Li Cai, he also donated the top Kobe beef he got in the neon country.
After all, it is better to be happy alone than to be happy with everyone, and there is something delicious to share with everyone.
Seeing that Li Cai had contributed all the top Kobe beef, everyone else encouraged Chang Xiaohao to come out with some sincerity.
Chang Xiaohao couldn't help it, and also took out the treasured wine.
At dinner, everyone ate happily, except for Li Cai, a child who couldn't drink, everyone else was drunk, including the teacher Nie Whirlwind.
There was no way, Li Cai had to call his wife and ask her to pick up the teacher, and the others were casually thrown in the hotel.
After the competition, the award ceremony was also held, and Li Cai also had a relaxing holiday.
But Li Cai plans to go to his godmother's place and prepare to learn music.