Go Legend Chapter 580

Chapter 580 Fuji TV

Now, a domestic title battle can stop Li Xiangping, and of course it won't be because of anything else, just the word "chess master".

After all, "chess sage", what a noble title, it sounds full of strength, especially considering that Ren Lao Shi is a serious ancient chess sage, so Li Xiangping also moved a little, this is of course human nature .

And not only Li Xiangping himself, he knows that the domestic Go world has always been obsessed with "chess saints". It should be as early as 10 years ago, the domestic Go world had the idea of holding a "chess holy war".

It's a pity that there were still several obstacles in holding the “chess holy war” at that time.

The first obstacle is Lao Nie. After all, Lao Nie was an official "chess saint" back then. Therefore, if you want to hold a "chess holy war", you must first let Lao Nie give up this title.

Of course, the "obstacle" mentioned here does not mean that Old Nie himself will not agree. In fact, everyone in the Go world knows that if a "chess holy war" is really going to be held, then as a person of Old Nie, he guarantees that there will be no other words.

However, it is still the same sentence. Most of the players who play Go are really kind people. Even if Old Nie himself agrees, someone should be embarrassed to talk to him, right?

Especially considering that Old Nie himself was still at the top of the tail back then, and even Ma Xiaofei had not really replaced him, so although the Go world has the idea of holding a "chess holy war", it can only be shelved due to immature conditions.

After a few years, when Lao Nie really fell from the peak, and he also took the initiative to give up the title of "chess saint", the second obstacle appeared.

The second obstacle is nothing but the word "money" to put it bluntly.

Because according to the thinking of the Go world, since it is a "chess holy war", it must be of the highest standard and the highest level. If the bonus of "chess holy battle" is not comparable to that of "celebrities" or "Tianyuan", it is not even comparable to "Overlord" or "Robust Cup", isn't that ridiculous? The Go world feels that they can't afford to lose that person.

Therefore, according to the design of the Go world at that time, if you really want to hold a "Chinese chess holy war", two conditions must be met. First, this game must be the largest game in China, and all professional chess players must be able to participate in this game.

Second: This competition must have the highest prize money in the country. Referring to the champion prize money of "celebrity" and "Tian Yuan" at that time, they were all around 100,000 yuan. Everyone believed that the prize money of "chess holy war" must be doubled or even tripled. At that time, everyone set a lower limit for the championship bonus of "chess holy war": it must be more than 300,000 RMB.

The Go world at that time looked for sponsors according to this standard.

It's a pity that in the 1990s, in fact, less than 10 years ago, such a standard was already a very high threshold. The Go world searched for a long time and could not find a sponsor.”

Don't think it's unbelievable, let's not look at things more than 20 years ago with the eyes of 2020: at that time, such conditions were indeed very high.

You must know that holding a professional Go competition is not only about the championship bonus. According to the assumptions of the Go world, if you really want all professional Go players to participate, then the total budget of a "chess holy war" should be between 4 million and 4 million yuan. About 5 million, and if you want to run a traditional tournament, you can't just sign the contract for one year. The first condition in the Go world was a minimum of 5 years, and later it was reduced to a minimum of 3 years.

So from the perspective of sponsors, what kind of money is this amount of money in a year?

The most normal way of thinking seems to be that this money can be counted as advertising expenses and included in operation or promotion costs.

It's a pity that in the 1990s, no, it should be said that at any time, most sponsors could not convince themselves with such reasons.

The so-called "high and low" should be what it means. The image of Go is good and the quality is high. This is something that all sponsors know, but the high quality of Go has the image of how many products, or the temperament of the product. Can it fit?

Can match the building materials sold by Lao Cai? Can it match the house built by Li Datu?

If you think about it carefully, you will find that there are not many that can fit.

After all, in our country, Go can still be classified into the category of "traditional culture". However, throughout the 1990s, many domestic industries related to "traditional culture" were basically half-dead, and many of them were still waiting for others to transfuse blood. , The childhood has not been nourished by Go, so how can they sponsor Go in turn.

Well, if you really want to make it hard, Go can be regarded as a match with Melatonin. After all, people who play Go are considered smart people, and this type of health care products are often promoted to become smart after drinking, so it seems that there are So a little bit of fit.

There are rumors in the rivers and lakes that the old Shi Na of the "Giant" was really going to sponsor the "chess holy war".

It's a pity that although Lao Shi is smart, he is not stupid in the Go world.

So it was too high to be too low, and "China Chess Holy War" has never been able to find a suitable sponsor.

So later, Go wanted to find sponsors, and finally embarked on the old road of "generating electricity with love".

This old road is both the luck of Go and the tragedy of Go.

There is no need to explain the sadness, because Go relies too much on generating electricity with love, so this project has never been able to develop better.

Luck is of course easy to understand, because of the image of Go and the force of Go, so all along, Go is not worried about sponsors, and someone can always find someone to pay for it with love.

For example, "Chinese Chess Holy War", by the end of the 1990s, finally found a sponsor to pay for it with Ai Power.

And this competition is the "Chinese chess holy war" that Zhang Wendong Jiudan and Li Xiangping just said, and this year, it should be the 5th.

Do you want to sign up? Li Xiangping fell into deep thought at that time.

After thinking for a while, Li Xiangping still felt that he gave up:

"Hehe, Mr. Zhang, you see I'm going to take the college entrance examination this year, so, so"

Zhang Wendong graduated from the History Department of the National People's Congress. He is actually the first professional chess player in China to go to college at the peak of his career.

So when he heard Li Xiangping say this, he understood at the time, and he smiled at Li Xiangping:

"Oh, that's it, I understand, then Xing Xiangping, I won't help you sign up for this competition."

"Trouble teacher Zhang, and he even mentioned it to me. That's fine. I'm going to Japan tomorrow. I'll say goodbye first."

"Okay, goodbye to Xiangping"

After left the office of the competition department, Li Xiangping was still thinking about the "Chinese chess holy war".

At the same time, the reason why I refused to take the college entrance examination is of course only one reason, but the more important reason is

He knew that this year's competition was actually aborted in the middle of the game. It was the kind of Go event that ended the preliminaries, and then died in the middle of the game before the next few rounds.

The reason for the premature death is very simple. The sponsor, who loves power generation, did not manage well, suddenly encountered financial problems, and finally had to give up sponsoring the game.

This is the helplessness of "generating electricity with love".

Of course, what Li Xiangping was thinking at this time was not the "Chinese chess holy war" that had died prematurely, but the "Chinese chess holy war" that had been revived after about seven or eight years in real history.

Still the same sentence, the Go world really has an obsession with "chess masters", so in 2012 in real history, this game was forcibly resurrected.

By that time, the "Chinese chess holy war" has already matured, and there is already a little shadow of cultural tourism projects. Can Shaanxi has a long history of climbing, moving, and moving.

Li Xiangping now thinks: Maybe according to the characteristics of our country's vast territory and rich resources, according to our country's national conditions, the Go game should be made into a cultural tourism project, which should be the most suitable way for the development of Go.

But at the same time, Li Xiangping's other point of view has also not changed: it is not easy to take the road of cultural tourism projects, and this road is destined to be difficult.

If you want to do a good job in a cultural tourism project, you must be calm, endure loneliness, and avoid rushing for quick success. If you want to make quick money with a cultural tourism project, it is almost a dead end.

Regarding this point, the "Chinese chess holy war" that was recovered in later generations should be able to better explain this point.

There is no doubt that the "Longmen Grottoes Cup" Chinese chess holy war in later generations was of course not a success. After only two sessions, it was renamed the "Luoyang Baiyun Mountain Cup" Chinese chess holy battle.

As far as Li Xiangping's personal opinion is concerned, the reason for the failure of that project is nothing more than a few points: First, the economic strength of my Greater Central Plains Province and Luoyang City was not strong at that time.

Second, Go and the Longmen Grottoes are still not particularly compatible.

Longmen Grottoes are of course a very high-quality cultural heritage in our country, but unfortunately, this cultural heritage seems to have little to do with Go.

Although the above two points are somewhat related, they are not the main reasons for the failure of the project. To say that although the local economic strength is not strong, at that time, the cost of a Go game was not high, and a prefecture-level city could already bear it.

Although Weiqi and Longmen Grottoes are not particularly compatible, but if you think about it carefully, another relatively successful cultural tourism project in China, "Tongli Cup Tianyuan Tournament", Tongli Ancient Town and Weiqi are also not particularly compatible, at least they can't be told. What a great story.

The real main reason for the failure of that project: too quick success.

According to Li Xiangping's previous life's understanding, after the project has been in operation for two years and has not seen obvious benefits, when the local chief officer is replaced, the system is mixed, especially the person who is the main leader of the same place, who likes to do it the most One of the things that has happened is to overturn some of the previous practices and start over.

"Chinese Chess Holy War" was renamed again for this reason.

So the later "Luoyang Baiyun Mountain Cup", Li Xiangping has serious doubts about how long this title can last.

"Hey~~~ Brother Ding'an, let's wait a few years. After a few years, my buddy will also have money, then consider taking over this chess holy war, and then let Brother Ding'an go and become a truly worthy of the name. The chess master, Ding'an brother, do you think it's okay?”

"Hehe, it doesn't matter if I can get the chess master or not. If little friend Xiangping can really organize a successful tournament, that's the real merit."

Li Xiangping laughed: "Hahaha, the merit is infinite? Brother Xingding'an, then you can wait for the day when my merit is infinite, but now, let's go home and pack our things first, we are only 12 now. There are already 13 champions, and Da Li has already entered the "Chunlan Cup" final, so there is still a long way to go beyond him."

On the second day, Li Xiangping and other members of the Chinese delegation converged and started the official journey of the new season.

The Chinese delegation is headed by Team Leader Hua, and now, the trend of younger members is becoming more and more obvious. For example, this time, in addition to Li Xiangping, the other 4 chess players are Ding Wei 9th dan, Gu Dali 7th dan, Kong Erjie 7th dan, and Chen Xiaoqiang.

The youngest of the "Seven Little Dragons" turned out to be the oldest chess player.

The first two rounds were nothing to say. In the first round, Li Xiangping, Gu Dali had a bye, and the other three players played.

The other three players all passed the first round.

In the second round, Li Xiangping was considered a good draw. He encountered a Japanese veteran, the former "infiltration flow" Yamashiro Hiroshi 9th Dan.

Yamashiro Kudan, the current director of the Nippon Chess Academy, has already put part of his energy on management, so there is nothing special about this game worth mentioning.

153 hands, Li Xiangping won the middle game.

It's just that in this round, the Chinese team lost two generals, Kong Erjie lost to Xiao Li in the mid-table, and Chen Xiaoqiang accidentally missed the ninth section of Takao Shen Road in Japan, and the two generals of the Jingcheng Weijia team were eliminated like this.

Coincidentally, in the draw for the quarterfinals after the game, Li Xiangping happened to meet the 9th section of Gaowei Shenlu, who had just eliminated Chen Xiaoqiang.

Li Xiangping didn't feel much about such a signing.

Although his opponent is also a little famous, he ranks among the "Four Heavenly Kings of Heisei" in Japan, but with Li Xiangping's current state of mind, he has no feelings for others except for a few people such as South Korea's big and small Li and Gu Dali. .

If you have to say something, Takao Shenlu is the only direct disciple admitted by the old **** of Fujisawa, which makes Li Xiangping feel a little bit.

"Hey, old **** stick, it seems that you haven't lived for a few years."

Just when Li Xiangping was thinking of the old magic stick, it just so happened that after the lottery ended, something related to the old magic stick Fujisawa really happened.

As soon as he walked off the lottery stage, Team Leader Hua said to him:

"Xiang Ping, the Japanese side informed me just now that people from Japan's Fuji TV station are waiting to visit you."

"Fuji TV in Japan? I don't know them, why?"

Before Li Xiangping could finish speaking, Wang Yi Wudan from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs led two Japanese people over:

The two Japanese people are still very polite. After seeing Li Xiangping, they all bowed in earnest.

"Hi, Li Sang, hello,"

"I am Fukuda Masao,"

"I am Oshima Guiyi,"

"Please advise."

It's actually the end of the month, so let's ask for a ticket.

Please note that the main purpose is to ask for the guaranteed monthly pass for next month!

(end of this chapter)

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