During the New Year's Day holiday, Li Xiangping came to the "Fangyuan Chess and Cards Room" that he had not seen for a long time.

Well, although Li Xiangping has not played in Weijia for many years, as his former club, he still has connections with the club.

Especially Comrade Cai, who provided a lot of help to Li Xiangping when he first debuted, for which Li Xiangping has always been grateful.

It's a pity that because of Cai Shanshan's relationship, Comrade Cai desperately wanted Li Xiangping to be his son-in-law. However, it didn't work out now. Cai Shanshan went abroad to study again, so in the past six months, Li Xiangping has rarely come here.

He came here today to accept Comrade Lao Cai's invitation, saying that the club was responsible for the trials of the national youth training team, and asked Li Xiangping to go and have a look if he had time.

Please note that "National Youth Team" and "National Youth Training Team" are actually different.

If the "National Go Youth Team" can be considered a formal establishment, then the "National Youth Training Team" is equivalent to a large roster.

The formal establishment may only have 10 to 15 places, so the training team's roster may have 30 to 40 people.

As for the selection competition for the training team, it is actually a paradise for low-level chess players.

First of all, you must pass the national qualifying competition to become a professional chess player. However, according to our country’s national conditions, you may not be able to play chess after qualifying.

The entire Wei Jia can only accommodate 60 to 80 chess players at most. Even if Wei B and Wei C are added, it can only accommodate about 150 professional chess players at most.

However, the number of places for the annual stage race has remained at around 20 to 25 people for many years.

Needless to say, if you just look at the above data, you will know that in our country, even if you successfully qualify in the qualifying competition, you are still not considered a professional chess player in the true sense.

Not only in our country, but also in Japan and South Korea, the situation is similar. The market capacity of the entire professional Go market is so large.

There was a time when Korean Go's fixed-level quota was quite strict. Normally, there were 6 new first-level players every year, and at least there were only two places.

Why is it so strict? Without him, the market is too small to accommodate so many professional chess players.

So in our country, if a person really wants to make a living by playing chess, successfully determining a rank is the first step. The next step is to participate in the selection of the "National Youth Training Team" and hope to be selected into the 30 to 40-person team.

Big list.

However, this is not enough. In fact, entering the "National Youth Training Team" roster still does not guarantee that you will have chess to play. Only through more stringent selection and truly being selected for the National Youth Team can you basically guarantee that there will be a club and you.

Sign a contract.

And at this stage, there is no guarantee that you will be a team that is besieging A. It is very likely that a club that is besieging B or C will come to your door.

The living environment is so harsh, the competition is so cruel, and today, Li Xiangping came to participate in such an event. Comrade Lao Cai asked him to come, but actually he also meant to give him a hand------

Young people under the age of 15 in Yishui are all about the same age and level, and the "chess style" has not yet been finalized. I can't say whether it is good or bad at this time.

As for the basic quality and potential of young chess players, as long as they can pass the fixed-stage competition, who is not the best in the local area?

Which one has not been highly praised since childhood? Is it regarded as a chess player in the local area?

Therefore, at this stage, it is not that simple to be the "Bole" in the Go world.

Well, because Li Xiangping is a time traveler, he is qualified to pretend to be a magician for at least the next ten years. Therefore, after receiving a call from Comrade Lao Cai, he rushed to the scene with great interest.

The whole club is as lively as a vegetable market.

Because there were too many people and a small child, Li Xiangping relied on his own memory to try to identify the famous chess players of later generations.

"...Well, this old-looking guy should be Mr. Ding. Is he 12 or 13 this year? It seems that some people believe that he is 18. This...should be a continuous laugh, right? The guy is indeed quite handsome, no wonder he is sitting there

A flight can also make the flight attendant become a nymphomaniac, yo! Isn’t this little kid Ke Jie Ke Shaoxia..."

Li Xiangping actually saw Ke Shaoxia in the crowd, which made Li Xiangping interested:

"Hehe, brother Ding'an, are you interested in playing chess with that little brat? By the way, he is still from your hometown and is from Chuzhou, Zhejiang Province. If you have time, go and give him some guidance."

"Oh, there are so many chess boys, why are you interested in this one alone?"

Li Xiangping smiled slightly: "I forgot to tell you, just before you and I met in Huafang, this person was the number one player in the Chinese chess world at that time. No, no, at that time, it was impossible to say that he was the number one person in the world chess world.

Too bad, in the second season of Man vs. Machine, it was this person who represented the human chess players."

"Oh? It's this person. Haha, it's really time for the next game. Little friend Xiangping, please go and make arrangements."

There are many rounds of this kind of selection competition. When Li Xiangping said that he wanted to play a coaching game with a certain young chess player between games, of course no one would refuse.

Not only would no one refuse, but everyone was even quite curious. Ke Shaoxia's parents and coaches were even flattered. Today's Ke Jie is completely unremarkable.

He entered the dan in 2008 when he was 11 years old. He entered the dan at an early age, but his results were average. His record in the fixed-stage competition that year was 9 wins and 4 losses.

Well, his result is the same as the result of Li Xiangping in his previous life in the last fixed stage race. Under normal circumstances, this result is difficult to determine.

However, in 2008, there were many people with 9 wins and 4 losses, and many people even had the same score, so a special situation occurred that year:

than age.

With 9 wins and 4 losses, Ke Shaoxia was the youngest and ranked last in the group that year.

It has been almost a year and a half since he entered Duan, and Ke Shaoxia's results are still lackluster. Not only has he not been in the first round, he seems to have never even participated in the second round, and he is still clearly in a hard-working stage.

In real history, it seems that Ke Shaoxia had to wait until 2011, when he was promoted by another fellow player, Ma Xiaofei, before he had the opportunity to sign with Weijia.

However, at that time, Ke Shaoxia was still a rookie. He played nearly 20 games and only won 6 games, with a winning rate of barely over 30%.

In 2012, Ke Shaoxia had a record of 10 wins and 9 losses, with a winning rate of more than half.

In 2013, the winning rate that year had reached 75%.

When the time came to 2014, Ke Shaoxia ushered in his own big breakout. He was crowned the winner of the siege with a record of 20 wins and 2 losses throughout the year. At the same time, he won the "Ahan Tongshan Cup" that year, which was regarded as his official entrance.

Immediately afterwards, he began to win chess in the World Series. By the time Li Xiangping traveled through 2018, he was already the multiple champion of the World Series. At that time, he ranked first in the domestic rankings and was rated as the best by Japanese and Korean chess players.

The most difficult Chinese chess player.

It only took Ke Shaoxia just 4 to 5 years to go from a rookie to becoming a world-class chess player.

There is no doubt that this growth rate is indeed terrifying.
Chapter completed!