Teenagers don't care about temporary success or failure.

Teenagers don't retreat easily.

Because they will feel that temporary success or failure does not determine their life, they have a lot of "time" and an infinite "future".

And these middle-aged and elderly people who are about to complete the first half of their lives, and even many middle-aged and elderly people who are entering the second half of their lives, why can they be full of juvenile heart on the chessboard?

Huanhuan doesn't know this answer now.

This is not only because she has not yet reached their age, but more importantly, she only feels the charm of chess, and does not deeply understand the essence of chess.

It's not about the years, it's just about the "heart".

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Dao quickly found a job as a teacher at a local chess club.

Times are changing, and when someone was a child, learning chess was undoubtedly an act of injustice.

And decades later, it seems that today's children don't have any special talents, but more like they and their parents "don't do their jobs".

The average income of a small town determines the level of talent of the children in the small town.

Compared with music, which is more expensive, sports specialties, chess and Go seem to be more suitable for children in small towns.

First, because the equipment is cheap, compared to a pair of sneakers, hundreds or thousands, and a good musical instrument is tens of thousands, the cost of chess and Go rarely exceeds 100.

Second, because the cost of learning chess is lower, the cost of music lessons is hundreds, and the sports specialties need venues and coaches, and the public facilities in the town cannot meet the needs of children very well.

The lesson time of Xiangqi and Go is less than 100 per hour.

Of course, there is an extremely important reason why the class fee for Xiangqi and Go is cheap, and that is that there are not many teachers with a high level of Xiangqi and Go in this small city.

For example, in the chess club that someone else has newly joined, in addition to him, the highest-ranking professional chess player teacher is also at the level of a second-level chess player.

The second-level chess teacher's surname is Zhang, and he is also older, almost five cards short of one year old, and basically his career path is coming to an end as he grows older.

Mr. Zhang is a silent person, in addition to teaching children chess, he also teaches calligraphy to children part-time.

Teacher Zhang's calligraphy alone, at least in the eyes of someone in the Tao, can be described as a unique style and has everyone's demeanor.

But his vision does not represent the public's vision of calligraphers, Mr. Zhang has participated in many calligraphy competitions in recent decades, but the best result is only the third place in the provincial amateur calligraphy competition.

According to Mr. Zhang's own words, his calligraphy is far from reaching the level of professionalism.

In this regard, someone can't help but feel that it seems that with the progress of the times, the "threshold" for many traditional cultures to enter the industry has become higher and higher.

The chess club also values Dao, who used to be a chess coach in big cities, even though he only taught a group of children with disabilities, and although the best result he coached was only the top eight in the country.

But under the beautification of the planning department of the chess club, he was crowned with the title of gold medal coach.

He also refuted this, but gradually, he didn't know why, like a pebble falling into a pond, although there were waves of splashing, but slowly he seemed to lose the desire to refute and returned to calm.

Dao, who was packaged as a gold medal coach, was also in charge of half of the chess club's chess classes, and he also calculated, four classes a week plus one-on-one with several children a week, his monthly income was more than twice as much as before, reaching 20,000 yuan.

He can also obtain more wealth, after all, most parents in any era hope that their sons will become dragons and their daughters will become phoenixes. Most of them also prepare thick red envelopes and some expensive gifts in private, eager for someone to be special to their children.

However, not a single gift was confiscated by someone who said it.

It's not just the habit he has developed over the years of coaching, but more importantly, he doesn't feel that he can get more wealth now.

To this day, he still considers himself a loser, a chess player who has been eliminated by the times.

Especially after he left, he paid attention to the previous chess team, and after leaving him, the chess team still reached the play-in tournament, and faintly had a better momentum.

He is not a saint, nor is he a good man, on the contrary, he is a layman, and he is still a great mediocrity.

The sense of loss and powerlessness is more intense than the desire for blessings, and he has also wondered if he can do better than the new coach if he stays?

After thinking about it, he changed many possibilities, but the final result made the corners of his mouth astringent.

He shouldn't have this possibility, and the performance is better than the new coach.

He looked numbly at the national competition, after the chess team he once led defeated an old opponent who had never won before, he only felt a chill in his heart, what a gold medal coach, what a veteran professional player, and even the memories of others evaluating him as a genius chess player as a child, all of them were like scissors to cut apart the confidence and pride he had accumulated over the years.

The burning pain on his face made him wish it was all a dream, but even if it was, it must be a dream that he couldn't wake up from.

Fortunately, someone who had only been in the country for a few days quickly cheered up, and sent congratulatory text messages to his former students in a calm mood.

However, just a few students who had a good relationship with him replied to him, and most of the text messages made someone sigh about the cold state of the world like a stone sinking into the sea.

The inexplicable sense of grievance made someone more so-called motivation in his work, he was more attentive than before, and he was more strict than before.

But most of the children he taught were not very old, many of them were at a playful age, and they were different from the children who had been instructed by someone in the Tao, they were young and they didn't know what they wanted, and even many children thought that they played chess for their parents.

They have more expectations for the future and are full of their own understanding of the current world.

In their ears, the arguments of their parents and teachers that they can get a good job in the future and earn a lot of money by studying hard and learning skills well have long been reduced to jokes under the reflection of the Internet.

In their eyes, learning chess well is equivalent to choosing one more path in the future, and it is nonsense. Although chess has taken advantage of the wind of the Internet and swept the country in a short period of time, its gameplay has never been as hearty and enjoyable as video games, and perhaps when they grow up, chess will become the tears of the times.

I have to say that today's children are very smart and have a certain vision, they are more eager for freedom, novelty, and a sense of freedom.

And the teaching of chess to someone is really too constrained for them.