"Uncle, you eat vegetables."

"Yo, I'll do it myself, I'll do it myself......"

Hu Yi knows who is the one who serves him vegetables, the daughter of the Lao Lin family in the county, Li Xiaoqiang's middle school classmate, and is currently the most likely candidate to become his nephew and daughter-in-law. Hu Yi himself is a chess fan, and he has a nephew who is a world champion. Li Xiaoqiang and Yuka Umezawa's "scandal", he naturally knows something.

Not only do I know it, but my sister also knows it. If Li Xiaoqiang's game is broadcast on TV, her sister never watches it, it is said that she is afraid that her heart will not be able to stand it. But not watching the game doesn't prevent her from paying attention to gossip. Especially his son's gossip, Teacher Hu Ping is more concerned than anyone else.

Hu Yi observed Lin Mengyu carefully: quiet, beautiful, generous, like his nephew, he usually doesn't talk much. But as soon as it comes into contact, it gives people a feeling of spring breeze.

Hu Yi also noticed: From the moment he came in, Lin Mengyu didn't seem to give Li Xiaoqiang a good look. But all this girl's thoughts are actually on Li Xiaoqiang. For example, what tableware does Li Xiaoqiang need to use, or even napkins or something. It's always this girl who is handed to Li Xiaoqiang at the first time.

"It's a good girl." Hu Yi sighed in his heart.

Regarding Li Xiaoqiang's personal problems, Hu Yi naturally won't care about it, and he knows that he can't manage it. But Hu Yi knows that if Lin Mengyu really competes with that Japanese professional female chess player, it is likely that Lin Mengyu has a better chance of winning. At least her sister likes Lin Mengyu more. I once heard my sister complain once in a while. said that Li Xiaoqiang calls his family more times a month, sometimes not as much as Lin Mengyu. I want to know about Li Xiaoqiang's daily life, and I often have to go through Lin Mengyu to understand the situation.

"Uncle wants to hold a world series? Wow...... Local tyrant, what specifications does my uncle want to achieve? ”

Hu Yi's thoughts were interrupted by Zhao Dabao. Since this was a private party, Li Xiaoqiang did not call anyone from the chess court, and there were only 5 people at Liao Qiong's table.

"I think I can still do a Fujitsu Cup level. Hu Yi smiled reservedly.

"Huh? Looks like you've made some money in the past few years. ”

This time it was Li Xiaoqiang's turn to be a little surprised. Li Xiaoqiang knew that his uncle had developed smoothly in the past few years, but for his family. Li Xiaoqiang actually doesn't know very well.

A tournament of the level of the Fujitsu Cup, if you don't count the national qualifiers, is actually not very large, with only 24 players participating. The prize money for the Fujitsu Cup is about $100,000. The runner-up prize money is one-quarter to one-third of the championship. The top 4 and top 8 are then decreasing in order according to the principle of halving. In this way, if only 24 players are paid for the game, the total prize size is actually not large. It shouldn't be more than $300,000. If other expenditures were added, a total budget of $500,000 would be sufficient. If it is converted into RMB in this way, it will be about 4 million at the exchange rate of this era.

Holding a Go tournament is basically nothing rewarding. About 4 million yuan a year will be used to hold the competition. That person's assets must be at least 10 times or even more than 20 times this base. In this way, my uncle's current net worth is at least more than 50 million. Does he have so much money?

For a while, Li Xiaoqiang looked at his uncle with puzzled eyes.

Hu Yi understood what Li Xiaoqiang meant: "Hehe, Xiaoqiang, don't worry, your uncle is not the kind of unreliable person, since I want to hold a competition, I definitely can't just hold one session." I can't afford to lose that person. I don't have a lot of money now, but I can still earn ...... in the future."

"Huh."

Li Xiaoqiang really knows his uncle's strength now. Uncle wants to hold a competition, so he shouldn't be impulsive. At least he did a calculation. Li Xiaoqiang believes that he should still be able to get tens of millions now, but the scale of cash flow is definitely not hundreds of millions. His greatest courage, in fact, the last sentence lit up. "Won't you still be able to earn it in the future......

Li Xiaoqiang understands Hu Yi's self-confidence very well, and now China is actually a society with a shortage of goods, and it can make money by producing almost anything. Hu Yi is a pioneer. He already has a keen sense of smell in this area, and he can see countless opportunities in it. What's more, he's barely had a setback right now. People who go well are always confident. This is where Hu Yi's self-confidence comes from.

Of course. Li Xiaoqiang also has confidence in his uncle, because in his previous life, Hu Yi once proved himself. With an earlier start, better prepared, and with his own help, there is no reason why he should not be more successful than in his previous life.

"Xiaoqiang, I'm just asking you, do you support me to hold the competition? Also, you are an expert in Go, and you think it is best to play in any format. ”

"Hehe, of course I support my uncle in organizing the competition, but I have an idea, we either don't do it, or we will hold the world's largest Go competition. It's even a bit interesting to even run a dominant competition. ”

"Oh? What do you mean by "dominant"? You tell us what you think. ”

After listening to Li Xiaoqiang's words, Hu Yi didn't think about whether he had the strength to hold the "biggest competition" for the time being. He was very interested in Li Xiaoqiang's idea. He now wants to know: in Li Xiaoqiang's mind, what is the ideal mode of Go competition. Not to mention Hu Yi, even Zhao Dabao is very interested in this kind of thing. So a few people talked about it.

"When it comes to professional sports, football and tennis are the two most popular sports in the world. Football is dominated by the World Cup, while tennis is dominated by the 4 Grand Slams. Although there is no comparison, today's professional Go model is somewhat similar to that of tennis. Tennis is divided into hard courts, mud courts, grass courts, etc. This point is actually very similar to Go, for example, the current Three Tournaments of Go, the rules of Go used are different. Although they all claim to be world competitions, the champions produced are also world champions. But in fact, neither of them can overwhelm the other two. Wouldn't it make more sense if we could really hold a super tournament and a real "Go World Cup......

Li Xiaoqiang told his thoughts. To be honest, this is actually a dream buried in Li Xiaoqiang's heart. For example, in today's world chess world, is the biggest competition really the "Ying Cup"? Probably not. In terms of the total budget of the tournament, the biggest tournament is the "Chess Holy War" in Japan. In terms of the competition system, the Japanese "Chess Holy War" is also divided into three steps: "All-stage Battle", "Supreme Chess Player's Decisive Battle" and "Challenge Match". It looks a lot higher than the World Series.

Therefore, this phenomenon is only found in the professional Go world. A country's Go competition is even higher than the standard of a world competition. Like Kobayashi Koji and others, they obviously pay more attention to domestic competitions. They did this, but they can't blame them yet. Because the true meaning of professional competition is to compare money.

If there is a World Series, the prize money for the championship will be higher than that of Japan's "Big Triple Crown" combined. Is there a reason why Japanese chess players should not take it seriously? Do they dare to say such things?

"The prize money of the "Ying's Cup" is only 400,000, if it is higher than the sum of the three crowns, how much will it cost."

"No, let's not compare it with the Ying's Cup, I think it's really comparable. Just like chess. As a chess event, Go is much more complicated than the national elephant, and the prize money of the world champion of Go is always a little higher than that of the national elephant. ”

"Hiss......"

Everyone was stunned by Li Xiaoqiang's ambition. A few years ago, Chinese chess players had just won the women's world championship of the national elephant. Therefore, everyone is no stranger to chess. For example, the current "double card competition", everyone here has more or less heard of it. In the world, the national elephant is much more popular than Go. For example, the World Chess Federation (FIDE) used to be the sporting organization with the largest number of member states.

Of course, in a few years "Deep Blue" defeated Kasparov. Don't look at the national elephant on the surface, it is still beautiful, but in fact, the blow to this project is huge. For example, in the future national elephant world championship competition, there is often no sponsorship. But it's actually quite understandable. Think of it this way: if the highest level of a project is to be two computers. Then people participate in the competition. Naturally, there will be a lot less interest.

At this point, Go has an advantage, at least for a long time, and the victory of the computer over the human brain is still far away.

"The national elephants compete for the appearance fee of the world championship. It will cost about $1 million. We don't have to be too tall in Go. The total prize money of the final is 2 million US dollars, and the champion and runner-up are divided between 2 people, which is not too much. ”

"What about the format? It is said that Go is the best juban. But it is clearly inappropriate. Do you also learn Japanese Shichiban? ”

When talking about this, Hu Yi no longer mentioned the matter of holding the competition immediately. How so? Now a few people are like YY in there.

"If you're going to run the biggest competition, why don't you have to be a little higher than them? Seven games are not enough, let's do nine games. By the way, didn't they say that they were "2-day"? Let's have a few in the finals. 3 games of "2 days", 3 games of 3 hours, and the remaining 3 games of rapid chess for 1 hour. This is the best way to do this, and this will test the overall quality of the chess player the most. Who would dare to say that a chess player who wins such a tournament is not a true world champion? ……”

"It's better to adopt a floating prize money system in the finals, if it's 5 to 0, then it can be 1.8 million to 200,000. If it's 5 to 4, it's 1.2 million to 800,000. Other scores and so on. If this system is implemented, then the final is important to ensure the excitement of the game......"

"There were 5 games in the semifinals, 3 games in the round of 8, and two defeats in the round of 16. To guarantee the prize money of reaching the top 4, it is equivalent to the prize money of the champion of other competitions. This will highlight the weight of the tournament and make it the most important tournament for all players......"

"With the Open Tournament format, the number of people entering this tournament has been expanded to 128. This has the advantage that it is conducive to the eventual unification of Go rules......"

Several people sketched out this dream game. Finally calculated the total budget. Hu Yi gasped. To hold such a competition, the total cost of one competition is more than 10 million US dollars.

Lin Mengyu scolded with a smile: "A group of crazy people." ”

Li Xiaoqiang didn't care, he smiled and patted Hu Yi on the shoulder:

"Uncle, you should work hard in this direction, I hope that in the new century, you can hold such a competition......"

"Well, I promise."

Hu Yi looks ambitious. (To be continued......)