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

In today's era, the places where the "chess and card room" is hung are often mahjong halls, and basically only see "cards" but not "chess". However, this "Fangyuan chess and card room" is an exception, which is a rare activity room in Beijing that focuses on board games. And the boss of this chess and card room is none other than Cai Zhixiong, chairman of the Beijing "Fangyuan Group".

When Li Yuanhu arrived, Cai Zhixiong happened to come out from inside:

"Ha Lao Li, you haven't been here for a while, it's a chess addiction, right? Wait a minute, it doesn't seem that there are any masters today, but I have already called a reporter just now, and he said that he will come over as soon as he is busy with the business at hand. ”

Before coming over, Li Yuanhu had called Lao Cai, and when he heard that Lao Cai was now in the chess and card room, he didn't say what was going on, so he came directly to the door, so Lao Cai mistakenly thought that he was thinking about chess.

The "Reporter Zhang" in Lao Cai's mouth is a reporter from the "Go World" magazine, named Zhang Xiaoyong, who is not only a famous person in the Go circle, but also a 6 master in the industry.

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

"Oh what's going on......"

The two of them walked inside as they spoke.

A few minutes later, Cai Zhixiong looked excited:

"Haha, Lao Li, what are you talking about? Your kid wants to go to the pre-selection for the Samsung Cup? ”

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

"Yes, this kid doesn't know what kind of madness he has, a few days ago, Lao Nie said that he was willing to accept him as an inner disciple, but he pretended to be hypocritical there, but yesterday he suddenly said to me again, saying that he wanted to participate in the Samsung Cup qualifiers starting next month, and asked me if there was a way, this stinky boy, when I am the chairman of the Chinese Go Association, what else can I do? The only way I can do that is to come to Lao Cai. ”

"There might be a little bit of trouble with the formalities, but it's certainly not a big problem."

Lao Cai still looked excited: "Lao Li, don't worry, it's a good thing that he wants to participate in the competition, I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, I'm now, I really want to see how the "Jueyi" can perform from the Internet to reality, so the matter of one sentence, the matter of signing up is on me." ”

Li Yuanhu reminded; "Lao Cai, you may not have noticed, right? I've looked at the rules of the tournament and it doesn't seem like there is an amateur group in this year's qualifiers. ”

"I know this," Lao Cai continued to smile and said: "Among all the Go events, the Samsung Cup is the most fickle, and every year a little new tricks have to be made, so as soon as the rules of this year's competition came out, I noticed that this year's amateur group was canceled, and two women's groups were added." ”

"That's right....."

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

"The Samsung Cup is known as an open tournament, although there is no amateur group this time, but it is not said that amateur chess players are not allowed to participate, Lao Li, do you say? Therefore, just go to the chess institute to report and indicate that your child is participating on behalf of the Chinese Go Association.... In this way, let my club come forward to sign up, and say that your child is a member of my team, so there must be no problem with qualification. ”

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

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

Cai Zhixiong smiled: "What is there to thank for this kind of thing, it's just a gesture, by the way, how could your child suddenly think of participating in the qualifiers for the Samsung Cup......"

"Who wants to go to the Samsung Cup qualifiers?"

It was Zhang Xiaoyong and reporter Zhang of the "Go World" who said this, and he happened to appear at the door at this time.

Since everyone is a chess friend, although they don't usually have any deep friendships, they are not unfamiliar. So after seeing him, Cai Zhixiong joked with him:

"The number one master of the Internet, we are now discussing the matter of letting him participate in the Samsung Cup."

Compared with Lao Cai, Li Yuanhu is actually more unfamiliar with Reporter Zhang, and the two have only cut a few plates in this place. After hearing Lao Cai say this, reporter Zhang turned to Li Yuanhu: "It is said that Jueyi is a young man who rushes to the duan, is the rumor true, he is really Lao Li, your child?" ”

After receiving an affirmative answer, reporter Zhang Da looked surprised: "Oh, that's great, I'm looking for him now, Lao Li, you too, why don't you bring him today." ”

Lao Cai next to him joked: "What did you bring him for?" Reporter Zhang Da didn't say you, at your level, it's okay to cut Lao Li, but if you want to deal with "mastery", then you will definitely not be enough. ”

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

Hearing that it was help, Li Yuanhu spoke: "Oh, help? How else can he help? ”

"Help me complete the chess review of the "LG Cup" final. ”

Reporter Zhang Da said to the two: "You two big bosses must not know that this kind of chess review of Chinese chess players losing chess is actually the most difficult to write, I am boring to write, and readers seem to be actually boring." However, this is the final again, and there is no relevant content in the magazine, so this time I thought, just focus on the fourth game, so if I want to evaluate this game, I thought of the mastery at that time, after all, Liu Chonghe himself said after the game that the reason why he was able to win this game of chess was thanks to a Chinese chess player who inspired him a lot. ”

Listening to reporter Zhang Da's words, Li Yuanhu and Cai Zhixiong glanced at each other.

"Jueyi" used a "leaning on the cover" variant to win Liu Chonghe in 3 sets in a row, and then Liu Chonghe used a "leaning on the cover" variant to win the "LG Cup", which the two know now. But so far, not many people know about it completely, after all, something like this has to be a very intentional chess fan who still likes the "technical stream" to collude with the whole thing.

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

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

"Hahahaha, I said Lao Cai ......"

Li Yuanhu laughed loudly: "I really can't see it, your imagination is quite rich, I'm surprised, since your imagination is so rich, why is your chess still like that......"

So what did Li Xiangping think in his heart?

Just when the three of them were chatting, at home, Li Xiangping was also talking to Lao Shi:

"Brother Ding'an, you need to know that this competition 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, do you know the stakes? ”

"Xiangping friends can rest assured, Ding'an can be saved."

"Okay, it's less than 20 days before the start of the competition, so from now on, let's start special training on the Internet."