The person who convened everyone to discuss today is Lao Chen, who is now the president of the Chinese Chess Academy and the chairman of the Chess Association. After arriving in later generations, Lao Chen's reputation does not seem to be very good, and many people have said a lot of bad things about him. But let's be honest, there's a lot of bad stuff about him that really doesn't need to be taken too seriously.

To say that Lao Chen is also unlucky, the Chinese Chess Academy was actually born from the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, and during the period when Lao Chen served as the president, one was to catch up with the Chinese Go at a low point, or the truth is actually not a trough, but the victory in the previous ring matches is like a shot of chicken blood for the Chinese people, so compared with the state of playing chicken blood, the current situation of the chess world in recent years seems to be at a low ebb.

Second, Lao Chen has been in office for many years, just in time for the "Olympic gold medal plan", so non-Olympic sports like Go, especially non-Olympic sports with not very good results, can be imagined to be sad.

Look at those who scold Lao Chen or have opinions about Lao Chen, in fact, most of them are local chess players or outdated old chess players, who belong to the "victims" of the reform, and those who need to bear the "labor pain", then of course there are many words that don't have to be taken too seriously.

Seeing that no one answered the question he raised, Lao Chen nodded:

"Lao Nie, what do you think should be done 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, but everyone understands that in the domestic Go world, Lao Nie has a transcendent status, and he is not a management but is better than the management, and it is really normal to have him on this occasion.

"Huh? Not suitable, not suitable! Li Xiangping has been learning chess formally, he doesn't even seem to have a formal career 6, right? It's really inappropriate to go to the finals of the World Series with the title of an amateur 5th dan, and compete for the world championship of professional Go with the first person in the professional chess world. But I think it's easy to do, reward! People should be rewarded for achieving such good results, this is a fine tradition of our Go team, and there is a precedent in the ring, so I really don't think there is anything to discuss. ”

Lao Nie is right, there is indeed a tradition of "prize segments" in China, such as Jiang Zhujiu in the first session and Liu Xiaoguang in the second session, all of whom were rewarded with "jumping segments" because of their consecutive victories in the competition, and even Lao Nie's "Chess Saint" is strictly speaking a similar reward, just because he was already nine sections at the time, and there was no way to rise, in the two titles of "Great Player" and "Chess Saint", everyone finally chose the title of "Chess Saint".

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

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

There is no precedent for this in China, so when Lao Nie finished speaking, although everyone agreed with the "reward", what should be the specific "reward" method? The group remained silent.

Seeing that everyone was silent again, Lao Chen nodded again: "Lao Wang, tell me your opinion." ”

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

"You've heard the rumors in South Korea, right? It is said that they are holding a hearing to study how to reward Xiao Li. ”

"Oh? It's going to let Xiao Li go straight to the ninth dan, right? Are the results out? ”

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

After Xiao Li was promoted to the third dan, because he disliked the promotion tournament without bonuses, he announced that he would not participate in the promotion tournament, so when he became a prince in the domestic siege of the city, and even won the first world championship in his career, he was actually a professional third dan, which even includes Liu Chonghe, Liu Chonghe because he is an amateur professional chess player, he only obtained the status of the first professional in South Korea at the age of 18, so when he won the world championship for the first time, he was actually a professional third dan.

So now, the Korean Chess Academy is brewing reforms, preparing to make the world champions become nine dans.

Team Leader Hua, who had just returned from South Korea, spoke at this time: "The results are out, their chess players will all pass, in fact, if you think about it, you know that no one opposes this matter, first, the current nine sections are not valuable, Xiao Li will not be promoted to nine will not affect everyone's interests, and secondly, who will be so stupid to oppose it, aren't you afraid that Xiao Li will shout out a disobedience to the battle?" ”

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

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

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

"Okay, good, of course it's best to win the championship, then anyone has nothing to say to a nine-dan, I'm afraid I won't be able to get it now, after all, this opponent is Da Li, and the final is still five chess, it seems that so far, Da Li has not lost to a foreign chess player in the chess tournament, right? Let's discuss the runner-up now, first, if Li Xiangping wins the runner-up this time, then what rank should we award him? Second, will this award of ours be 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 again 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 take into account Li Xiangping's current age, and think that following the practice of the ring match that year, it is okay to reward three or five paragraphs, such as letting Li Xiangping become "Li Sanduan" or "Li Wuduan" after the final.

Some people also think that such a reward may be low, after all, Li Xiangping has achieved an impressive 10 consecutive victories since the qualifiers this time, including many of the world's top masters, from Kobayashi Koichi in the qualifiers, to Lao Cao, Kato, Da Liu at this stage of the competition, there are as many as 4 super-first-class masters recognized by everyone.

With such an outstanding record, the award of the low stage of the profession is obviously low, so it should start from the seventh dan, and you should choose one of the seven or eight dans of the profession.

Slowly, the latter opinion prevailed.

"If you really want me to say, in fact, it's not easy to be the runner-up in the world, think about it so far, in addition to Ma Xiao's two world champions, we have participated in the finals of the World Series only Lao Nie, Yu Tou and Xiaochang 3 people, so Li Xiangping's achievements so far have actually been able to rank in the top 5 in China."

This is a sentence said by another veteran of the management, Lao Luo, at the end of the meeting, and this sentence actually made a conclusion to the whole meeting:

If he wins the runner-up, then Li Xiangping will win the title of professional eight-dan.

"Hehehe, I think it's so good, it's so good, the champion is nine dans, and the runner-up is eight dans......" After the result was discussed, Lao Nie's big mouth spoke again:

"What did I just say? This problem is not difficult to solve, think about it, even South Korea's Xiao Li can jump nine directly, so what's the big deal about our Xiao Li giving an eight or nine. ”

To tell the truth, Lao Nie's words were purely unintentional, but his words aroused the interest of others.

"Oh? Do you think Lao Nie is our Xiao Li or South Korea's Xiao Li is powerful? ”

"Hey! As far as South Korea's Xiao Li ...... "I must admit that Xiao Li's chess in this era is very incompatible with Lao Nie's eyes:

"How can I say it, after all, he is now a world champion, so I can't talk nonsense, saying that our Xiao Li is better than him now, but if I want to be honest, I think our Xiao Li has a lot of potential than him......"

"Huh?! Lao Nie, are you so optimistic about this child in Xiangping? ”

"Of course......" Some time ago, Li Xiangping was very humble to give him a disciple salute, and everyone knows that with Lao Nie's urine nature, when will he blow if he doesn't blow at this time:

"South Korea's Xiao Li and Gu Dali are in the same year, Xiangping is a few years younger than him, let's not talk about the rest, just a few years younger, it should be able to replace a lot of potential, even if you don't mention these, just talking about the rationality of chess, then South Korea's Xiao Li can't be compared with our Xiao Li, I'm not talking about them at the same age, but South Korea's Xiao Li, who is now the world champion, I don't think it's as good as the current Xiangping."

"Hehe, such a high evaluation?"

Regarding Lao Nie's words, except for Team Leader Hua's funny echo of this sentence, everyone else knew his temper, so they all smiled and said nothing.

"Hehe, it looks like everyone doesn't believe me, right? Then I'll leave it here, don't say it's their Xiao Li, even if it's their big Li, I think Li Xiangping has the ability to rush, take this final as an example, I know that everyone is not optimistic about Xiangping's child, but I think the gap is definitely not as big as everyone imagined, and it is impossible to be one-side......d."

Lao Wang suddenly interjected: "Then Lao Nie, what do you think will happen in this final?" Three-seven or four-six? ”

"What Sanqi? What four-six? Of course, I can't say the final result now, but I think it's okay, this time it should be quasi-five-five, 49 to 51, the reason why I am a little optimistic about South Korea's Da Li is that it depends on his more experience, purely technically, I think our Xiangping is not bad at all, even if I almost lost this time, but I still say that, I put the words on hold, the person who shook the Li Canghao dynasty, that must be our Li Xiangping! ”

"Oh, that's good, that's good......."

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

"Then during this period of preparation, Lao Nie will have to worry a lot."

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

"No problem, wrap it up on me."