The first two games of the 3rd "Samsung Cup" final ended in November 1999. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

There are only two months left in the last two months of this year, and in the last two months, the international arena will be full of good performances, the 3rd "LG Cup" semi-finals, the last three sets of the 3rd "Samsung Cup" finals, as well as the first "Qiuju Cup" final and the subsequent "LG Cup" finals.

Of course, there is also a new round of the Three Kingdoms Tournament, due to the impact of the financial crisis, the Three Kingdoms Tournament has changed sponsors, from the "Jinro Cup" to the "Nongshim Cup", and has become a New Year's Eve competition.

Among them, in addition to the "LG Cup" finals are still pending, Li Xiaoqiang will definitely not play in the early stage of the Three Kingdoms Tournament, and Li Xiaoqiang will participate in other competitions, at this time Li Xiaoqiang has become the center of the entire world chess world, and his performance in the last 2 months will also directly determine what kind of results he can achieve this year.

At the end of the first two sets of the "Samsung Cup" final, Li Xiaoqiang had about 10 days of leisure time, considering that the preparation for the final was inferior to Li Shifo, so he returned to the capital and returned to the Chinese Chess Academy. While recuperating, prepare to carefully prepare for the next games with the national team players.

It's a pity that the plan can't catch up with the changes, and another thing has ruined Li Xiaoqiang's preparation plan.

On the second day after returning to the capital, in a community near the China Chess Academy, Li Xiaoqiang was lying comfortably in his home. At this time, Li Xiaoqiang no longer lived in the dormitory of the chess academy, and the house given to Li Xiaoqiang by his uncle Hu Yi was already able to move in, and Li Xiaoqiang had just moved to a new home.

In the kitchen, Lin Mengyu is busy, of course she is the de facto hostess of this home, but she is still a name away from Li Xiaoqiang:

"Mengyu Mengyu, you can get more delicious food today. Half a month, you think I can only eat kimchi for the next half a month. You'll have to treat me well, and you can fry a few more dishes. ”

The last 3 sets of the "LG Cup" semifinals and the "Samsung Cup" finals will be played in South Korea, and if the games are full, then Li Xiaoqiang will indeed have to stay in South Korea for about half a month.

Whether it is in his previous life or in this life, Li Xiaoqiang belongs to the people who travel south and north all over the world, so his taste is not particularly good, and he can adapt to any diet, but in any case, if he stays abroad for so long and can't eat Chinese food, it is definitely a very uncomfortable thing.

In later reports on Go, Korean chess players often complained about the Chinese diet and used it as an excuse for their own losses. Li Xiaoqiang has always wondered about this, and he thinks that in this world are not only Chinese who are qualified to make such complaints? Thinking of going to South Korea to compete, Li Xiaoqiang misses the good old days, and thinks of the time when Coach Luo has not yet retired.

"I really miss Coach Luo infinitely." At the end, Li Xiaoqiang added such an emotion.

Lin Mengyu came out of the kitchen, and she handed a plate of freshly fried vegetables to Li Xiaoqiang:

"If you go to Korea, you won't have to complain, right?"

“。。。”

Li Xiaoqiang didn't dare to speak. Now the relationship between Li Xiaoqiang and Lin Mengyu is stable, but how to say it? But there are some things that can never be brought back. That's what the so-called "reconciliation is not as good as it was at the beginning". The biggest problem between Li Xiaoqiang and Lin Mengyu is, of course, Yukari Umezawa, so the topic of "going to Japan", and even this word, not only Li Xiaoqiang never mentions it, but in fact, Lin Mengyu usually pays attention to it, and rarely mentions "going to Japan" in front of Li Xiaoqiang.

"What's going on today, what's the good idea of going to Japan?" Li Xiaoqiang was secretly strange in his heart, and at the same time he was waiting for the following.

I didn't think Li Xiaoqiang was strange, Lin Mengyu was even more strange:

"I see you're so happy today because you're going to Japan again soon, what? Don't you know it yourself? ”

Going to Japan? Li Xiaoqiang didn't react at once. I don't have any Japan-related competitions lately, do you? Just when Li Xiaoqiang was confused.

"By the way, I forgot that you just came back, and you may not know that Mr. Fujisawa Hideyuki has just issued a statement: he is ready to officially retire."

"Huh!?"

"He wants to play retirement chess with a Chinese chess player, especially you, and has officially proposed it to the chess academy. Considering your busy schedule, Team Leader Hua asked if you would like to go to Japan to participate in Mr. Xiuxing's retirement ceremony, and if you are not willing to run, then be ready to let Chang Rensheng go. ”

Li Xiaoqiang smiled, Fujisawa Hideyuki is a strange existence in the Go world. The face of the old god stick is still very big, other chess players have retired, it is great to have a game of retirement chess, and his old man is 3 games at once. For example, in real history, at the retirement ceremony of Fujisawa Hideyuki, he played three games of retirement commemorative chess, and one chess player from each of the three countries participated.

On the Japanese side, it is Takao Shinji, the only personal disciple recognized by the old god stick, and the South Korean is Cao Yanzi, who is also a teacher and friend of the old god stick, and China is Chang Rensheng.

In this life, because of his appearance, his relationship with the old god stick seems to be a little closer than the relationship between Chang Rensheng and him. Therefore, it was quite normal for him to want to attend his retirement ceremony by himself.

Do you want to go to Japan? This is certainly not a problem. Thinking of the help that the old god stick had helped him since he was a child, and his support, Li Xiaoqiang said without thinking about it: "Go, of course go, I have no reason not to go." ”

Lin Mengyu pursed her lips and smiled: "I knew that when it came to going to Japan, you would be energetic... ”

"Of course ... No, no, no, hey, don't think crooked, I'll go this time, it's really because of the old god stick... ”

In November 1999, Mr. Fujisawa Hideyuki, a superstar of a generation of Japanese chess and an honorary chess saint, was officially retired, and Li Xiaoqiang went to Tokyo to participate in his retirement ceremony.

The retirement ceremony of the old god stick is both lively and unusually low-key. Speaking of excitement, it was a very large number of people who attended his retirement ceremony, including not only well-known people in the Go world, but also many ordinary chess fans. In addition, due to the wide range of old gods, many Japanese cultural circles and politicians also came to cheer.

It is said that with the status of the old god stick, it is normal for his retirement ceremony to be lively. But why is it unusually low-key? This is because not long ago, the old god stick and the Japanese chess academy had a conflict, and the two sides had a very unpleasant quarrel, and the old god stick was even removed from the Japanese chess academy for a time. Therefore, this retirement ceremony was not organized by the Japan Chess Academy.

Although China and South Korea both sent people to Japan this time, they were afraid of some things on the scene, such as Li Xiaoqiang and Cao Yanzi, and everyone came to Japan in a private capacity.

The reason for the conflict between the old god stick and the Japanese chess academy is very simple. Some time ago, I didn't know that the old god stick was wrong, and he suddenly bombarded the amateur rank certificate issuance system of the Japanese Chess Academy, thinking that Japan's amateur rank was too watery.

There is nothing in the first place, and everyone knows the water of the amateur rank in Japan. As long as you send 2 chess games to the Japanese Chess Academy, let the professional chess players give you "appraisal", and the professional chess players think that you have a few paragraphs, they can issue you a few certificates.

How to describe it? The rank certificate issued in this way is no different from the so-called "spending money to buy a diploma" in China, and the level is completely conceivable.

If the old god stick is just bombardment, then there is actually nothing, because everyone in the Go world knows this kind of thing. With the status of an old god, he only said two words that no one would take seriously. However, the old god stick did something out of the ordinary, he announced his independence from the Japanese Chess Academy, and he Fujisawa Hideyuki also had to issue amateur rank certificates separately.

This will be a hornet's nest, and if this is left in China, this is called a typical "individual confrontation organization".

Don't think that this kind of thing is not tolerated only at home, but all over the world. If the Nippon Chess Academy is compared to a university, the issuance of a rank certificate is compared to the issuance of a graduation certificate to a student. And Hideyuki Fujisawa is a well-known professor at this university, so the issue of graduation certificates will always be a matter of the school, no matter how famous you are as a professor, even if you are the most well-known professor in this school, it is not your personal business.

What's more, the issuance of amateur rank certificates is the main source of income for the Japan Chess Academy. As an "independent legal person", the Japanese Chess Academy itself does not have much source of income, and its main sources of income are mainly two, one is to collect part of the management fee by hosting various competitions, which is actually a common practice in the Go circles of the Three Kingdoms, and compared with the Chinese Chess Association, the management fee of Japan and South Korea is small, such as holding a "chess holy war", with a total budget of several hundred million, and the championship bonus is tens of millions of yen, but most of the bonuses are obtained by the chess players, and the chess academy withholds very little.

In this case, the issuance of amateur rank certificates is very important for the Japanese Chess Academy. In fact, everyone knows that the indiscriminate issuance of amateur rank certificates is a way to quench thirst, but the Japanese chess academy has no way, they are all forced to be poor. Later, Chinese Go also learned from the Japanese practice of Go and began to issue amateur rank certificates, and some people found a reason for this: they thought that relaxing the requirements for amateur rank certificates could increase the enthusiasm of Go enthusiasts. In fact, this is a self-deceptive statement.

Take Li Xiaoqiang in his previous life as an example, the amateur rank in the early years was quite strict, for example, an amateur 5th dan must be in the top 6 or even top 3 in the provincial competition. I remember when Li Xiaoqiang finally obtained the karma 5 certificate after a lot of hard work, he was so happy in his heart. But later, when industry 5 became more and more watery, it was also industry 5, Li Xiaoqiang sometimes let other industry 5 have four sons, and Li Xiaoqiang never said that he was industry 5 again.

When a certain certificate, or a certain system, when no one is proud of it, but is ashamed of it, the system is not far from extinction.

This is the reason for the collapse of the professional rank system, and in the future, the collapse of the amateur rank system is not due to this reason.

But even with all the drawbacks involved, the issuance of certificates is always an "organizational" thing. Practices like Fujisawa Hideyuki are definitely intolerable in the Japanese Chess Academy, and it is not surprising that the old god stick will be removed.

Although Li Xiaoqiang and Fujisawa Hideyuki have a good relationship, Li Xiaoqiang still thinks that the old god stick is not doing well. As for why the old gentleman did this? Li Xiaoqiang believes that in addition to Fujisawa Hideyuki's dissatisfaction with the current situation of Japanese Go, it is also related to his character.

The old god stick is famous for being in the limelight, and now that he is older, he is gradually fading out of everyone's sight, so it is normal for him to do one or two things out of the ordinary to attract everyone's attention.

But is that the real reason? In the end, Cao Yanzi still has to know the old god stick better. After arriving in Japan, when everyone talked about it together, Lao Cao laughed and said:

"How can there be so many reasons and reasons, the reason why Mr. did this, there is only one reason, he must have gone where to gamble and lost all his money, he needs money now."

Li Xiaoqiang suddenly realized:

"Then Mr. Cao is here this time..."

Lao Cao continued to smile:

"I came to Japan this time, in addition to commemorating Mr.'s retirement, of course, I also think about Mr. and a few treasures."

An unexpected situation occurred, after Li Xiaoqiang arrived in Japan, his Fujisawa Hideyuki's commemorative chess had not yet started, and he and Cao Yanzi fought first.

After the two saw the old god stick, Li Xiaoqiang smiled and said to Lao Cao:

"Cao Guoshou, I won't fight with you for other treasures, but I am determined to win this chessboard, because this chessboard has special meaning for me." (To be continued.) )