20 minutes later, the "Fangyuan Chess and Card Room" in Beijing.

"Oh, you're talking about him. I know, I have a beard at a young age... Why do you think we can consider signing him?"

Li Xiangping laughed in his heart. When he heard Lao Cai's tone, he knew that he was definitely not familiar with "小小", he didn't know his level, and he was even less likely not to know what his chess characteristics were.

The most important reason why Lao Cai can "know" this person is his beard.

Li Xiangping thought about it now and he felt that this was actually normal.

Now more than 20 new first-class people have been born every year. Even if you put aside those children who are not ready to take the professional Go path, among the remaining group of people, the current "old age" is inconspicuous.

He has not achieved any achievements, nor has he even shown his own characteristics.

Unlike Chen Xiaoqiang and "Two Fried One Rice", he has shown his talent since childhood and has been trained by various teams. He is not even as good as Zhou Xiaoyang - Zhou Xiaoyang has made a name for himself at least. In recent years, the "drum beating golden hammer" has been famous and even praised "Jueyi".

And "Xia Lao" is not considered a famous family (his master is Wu Zhaoyi's 9th dan), not from traditional developed Go areas (not from Beijing and Shanghai, nor from Great Central Plains or Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but from Daqing, the border area)

So to be honest, it is difficult for a young chess player like "Xia Lao" to be noticed by various teams at this age!

Even his most eye-catching beard is not a plus for him, but more like a subtraction.

In most people's general perception, can a guy with a beard play a good game of Go? Can the style and temperament match? Not to mention a child with a beard, even those particularly famous beards, such as Su Dongpo, are just a stinky chess maker.

"Haha, it's not bad, Uncle Cai, I think that kid's chess is pretty good. If we sign him, I don't dare to say anything else now. It's definitely okay to be a substitute first."

"Oh, did Xiangping know him before?"

"Haha Uncle Cai looks at what you said, they are all chess players. With his beard, it's hard not to know him."

"Old Cai smiled slightly: I'm not talking about his people, but about his chess. Xiangping, do you still know that child's chess? I haven't heard you say it before."

Li Xiangping was really stopped by Lao Cai because it was the first time he had seen "Old Lao" since he came back from time to time. Lao Cai was not so easy to fool him. After all, he had a master of 4 or above, so ordinary lies really couldn't fool him.

"Well, I really didn't know him before. Today I went to the chess academy and happened to see him participating in the national youth team selection. I looked around and thought this kid's chess is really good and it's really worth signing him."

Old Cai opened his eyes wide: "You just took a few glances and thought this child was worth signing?"

Seeing Lao Cai's look at her now, Li Xiangping gritted his teeth and felt that it might be impossible not to use his ultimate move, because he had just seen that he was "Shou Lao". He was one of the "New Six Super Leagues" in the Chinese chess world in 13 years in his previous life, so he hurriedly came here.

Li Xiangping started to open his eyes and talk lies, and he nodded and said:

"That's right, although I only watched it for a while, I thought this child's chess was very distinctive. There was an idea that even I was so surprised when I saw it, so I hurriedly called you."

"real!?"

Lao Cai was really moved when he heard this.

You must know that this is what Li Xiangping said, and it is a praise from Li Xiangping.

Li Xiangping has been in the industry for several years. Has he praised his professional chess player?

Well, he has always been very polite to his senior chess players, but Lao Cai has never heard of Li Xiangping's praise for his junior or peer chess players.

For example, the kid from the Beijing team who had the best relationship with him, Lao Cai had heard Li Xiangping despise him and said why he was still learning to walk in Handan, and he didn't know what he had to do.

But that bearded child...

Lao Cai made a decision in an instant: Since Li Xiangping said this, this child is indeed worth signing. No, he should sign it immediately and sign it as soon as possible.

Li Xiangping saw Lao Cai's expression change.

After all, they are all so familiar, and Li Xiangping is still considering whether to flirt with someone else's daughter, so Li Xiangping still knows the psychology of a rich man like Lao Cai.

If you say that the reason why a rich man like him sponsors Go is basically not expected to have any commercial returns, commonly known as using love to generate electricity. In addition to his pure love for Go, there is actually another kind of happiness that cannot be ignored------

Be the happiness of "Bo Le"!

This kind of happiness really cannot be ignored, especially for a rich man like Lao Cai, this may be considered a very advanced happiness.

There is no need to mention other examples. Take Li Xiangping himself as an example. Why did he care so much about his own affairs back then? Of course, it was not that he really regarded Li Xiangping as his son-in-law at that time. In addition to his relationship with Li Da’s rich man, the pleasure of “being a man” was another most important reason.

It is obvious that after hearing Li Xiangping's words, Comrade Lao Cai seemed to be moved again, and he seemed to want to be a mentor again.

"By the way, Xiangping, you said that the kid's master is Wu Zhaoyi Jiuduan, right? I have Wu Jiuduan's phone number here, so I'll call him now."

"Don't worry, don't worry Uncle Cai..."

Seeing that Comrade Lao Cai was so straightforward, he immediately made a decision because of his words, which made Li Xiangping hesitate a little.

Of course, he was not skeptical about the talent and talent of "Shou Lao". In fact, compared with other peers, this child has grown up a bit slowly and can basically be classified as "late-up".

In Li Xiangping's memory, the "Shen Lao" at this time was really inconspicuous. In real history, it seemed that it would take three or four years later.

And it was interesting that he was noticed. It was because he participated in the "Chess Cup" of that year, and finally reached the semi-finals or the finals, which also won Kong Erjie in one set.

In fact, the results are not the key point. "Shou Lao" showed some characteristics through that game of chess, especially those who saw his super computing power, and then were reported by "Go World", which made the team in the A-level decided to sign him and give it a try.

Then in this test, we will try the main force of the "Little Leopard" and try the "New Six Super League".

It is precisely because of the attribute of "Xia Lao" that Li Xiangping hesitated, and the more determined Lao Cai is, the hesitant hesitated.

You know that he had never watched the "Shou Lao" competition just now, and he really didn't know how good this guy is at the current level.

If you really sign it rashly, if this guy still enters the fast lane of growth like he did in his previous life, he will be in three or four years before officially entering the fast lane of growth------

Needless to say, where will Li Datiancai put his face in the next three or four years?

It is precisely because of this level that Li Xiangping thinks he should be more cautious and he can't sign, but Li Datiancai's face must not be lost.

"Don't worry, Uncle Cai, I said it just now. I just watched it for a while. His chess is indeed quite distinctive. However, what level is he? Especially whether he has reached the level of a squad. I really didn't see clearly this. So Uncle Cai, are we more cautious? At least we should evaluate him in other aspects?"

Of course, people who like to be a mentor like to assess others, so Lao Cai said happily:

"Haha, okay, then Xiangping, how should we evaluate him? Or you and Coach Wu..."

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no need to be so troubled..." Li Xiangping hurriedly interrupted Comrade Lao Cai, thinking that I was joking with dogs, and who would have time to assess a future star destined to become famous.

"Uncle Cai, I don't think it's so troublesome. When it comes to the assessment conditions, isn't there a ready-made one? He is participating in the National Youth Selection Competition. Do you think we should just take this selection competition as an assessment for him?"

"Good idea......"

So the two began to discuss clear assessment conditions.

It is obvious that if you are only selected for the national youth team, it will definitely not meet the standards for participating in the AFC, so the assessment requirements must be higher than this one. But what specific standards are better? The two discussed for a while.

Lao Cai said at the beginning that he would sign him immediately as long as he won the trial championship, but he soon felt that the standard was too high, so he dropped to the top three.

In other words, the two discussed: as long as "Xia Lao" can achieve the top three in this national youth team selection competition, he will be given a contract for the AFC.

But at the end, Li Xiangping felt that there was still a little less, so he gave Lao Cai another idea.

At the suggestion of Li Xiangping, Comrade Lao Cai happily called Wu Zhaoyi's 9th Duan.

".........Oh Mr. Cai! Thank you, thank you, why did you suddenly fall in love with Jiaxi?"

"Haha, I don't hide it from you. It's not that I like him, but that Xiangping likes his chess. You don't think about it. Just like me, a bad chess, you need to have the ability to like that."

"Ah?!Xiangping?Xiangping fell in love with Jiaxi's chess talent?"

"Haha, that's it, so Wu Jiuduan, I want to congratulate you. I have taught a good apprentice, but I tell you that when Xiangping was here just now, he also proposed an additional condition."

"The additional conditions for Xiangping lifting... Mr. Cai, you said you said."

"There is nothing else, and it's the same as we said before. As long as Jiaxi wins the championship of this National Youth Trial Championship, I will give him a contract for the main player. If he only gets the second or third place, then give him a substitute contract first. Xiangping's only condition is to ask you to notify him in advance."

"Notify him in advance?"

"Yes, it means that you should not hide this from your child. He has just participated in the selection now. I hope you will find a suitable opportunity to talk to your child about this within the last one or two days."

Wu Jiuduan is also a master of Go, so he quickly understood the meaning of this sentence:

"Xiangping means that, I actually want to see the child's ability to withstand pressure?"

"Haha, that's right, that's what we mean, and you know that Wu Jiuduan also knows that it's not convenient for us to say this kind of thing. It's better to bother you, a master, to say, how about it? Isn't this a problem?"

"Haha, no trouble, no trouble, Xiangping's opinion is very good. Since you want to be a professional chess player, how can you do without some psychological tolerance? In short, Mr. Cai thanks you. No matter how he competes this time, I sincerely thank you, thank you for giving him a chance..."

After the two hung up the phone, Li Xiangping and Comrade Lao Cai looked at each other and smiled. Li Xiangping said silently in his heart, "I'm sorry, Lao Xiao, I have set up so many obstacles for you, but I also sincerely hope that you can pass the assessment."

After saying goodbye to Comrade Lao Cai, Li Xiangping remembered his daughter again. He stood at the door of the chess and card room and was stunned for a while. Li Xiangping shook his head and finally decided not to flirt with her.

No matter how Li Xiangping thought, she still felt that she was not in line with Cai Shanshan. She was the kind of strong woman who was "heroic" in her previous life. This was not Li Xiangping's dish at all. Anyway, at least so far, Li Xiangping never thought of finding such a person. Since this is the case, of course it would be better to flirt less.

Since he can't flirt with girls, of course he can only flirt with Go. After leaving the club, he began to take stock of his next stage schedule, especially the next October event.

First of all, of course, the "Ahan Tongshan Cup" was temporarily added. Although the competition has just begun the qualifying and has not entered the "this competition" stage, Li Xiangping still does not know the specific time and location of the game.

But the entire game was basically in October.

Because now, the time for the Sino-Japanese Championship Confrontation has been determined. On November 5, the competition location is at "Snail An" in Kyoto, Japan.

If you really have the chance to play chess, Li Xiangping will need to win at least 5 games in a row, and these 5 games will basically be completed in October.

Compared with this competition, the schedule of the World Championships in October is relatively loose, and it is just a "Samsung Cup" quarter-finals and a "LG Cup" quarter-finals.

However, once these two competitions are passed, Li Xiangping will be very busy.

Next, the "Toyota Cup" semi-finals, the "Sanxing Cup" semi-finals, the domestic "Celebrity Battle" five-game challenge, the "LG Cup" semi-finals, the "Yingshi Cup" finals, etc. will follow one after another.

These games are basically chess, and one game is more important than another, so of course he can't help relaxing.

Of course, Li Xiangping never thought of relaxing.

"...Hehe, don't they all say that I'm the best if I win? There are so many top-notch people in this world..."

With this idea, Li Xiangping returned home and first prepared for the next important game: the "Samsung Cup" quarter-finals kicked off in early October.

Li Xiangping's opponent in this game is Wang Lei's Badan. Although the game itself is nothing, Li Xiangping has no intention of relaxing ------

The reason is nothing special. So far, the two Korean two Lees are still alive in the "Samsung Cup" competition. This is the first time that the two of them have survived in the same game at the same time in the game that has already started this year.

In addition, with Gu Dali, the "super first-class" selected by chess fans actually survived three people at the same time. This is the reason why Li Xiangping attaches importance to it.

"Hehe, Brother Ding'an, why don't you play for me in this game?"

Li Xiangping never expected that Lao Shi simply refused:

"No, if you pass this level, I can consider the subsequent games."

Li Xiangping was stunned when he heard this, thinking that Lao Shi, can he be so tempered as a cheater?
Chapter completed!