Forget which philosopher once said that a man without history is boring. The famous chess player Liu Dianzhong is not only a person with history, but also his history is very rich.
Hebei Xiangqi Team is a hard-working, high-level and strong chess team, which has many outstanding performances in various competitions and brilliant achievements, and is another chess team after Guangdong and Shanghai. As the founder, coach and team member of the team, Liu Dianzhong has not only made outstanding achievements, but also poured out his enthusiasm.
After Liu Dianzhong coached the Hebei chess team, he successively trained two special masters, Li Laiqun and Hu Ming, and 8 masters such as Huang Yong, Yan Wenqing, and Zhang Jiang. Among them, Li Laiqun was the first to let the national chess individual champion jump across the Yellow River, and Hu Ming was the person who won the most national women's championships and world championships so far.
Today, he is more than half a hundred years old, but his chess skills are still at their peak, and the newly announced chess player's rank score ranks fifth, which is extremely rare in modern chess players. (Note: The article was written in 2005)
Liu Dianzhong's chess attack and defense are comprehensive, and there are innovations and research on the endgames in the opening, especially the object chess theory has a unique insight, and people in the chess circle say that "Liu Dianzhong has developed chess theory", which is not excessive.
Liu Dianzhong was diligent in cultivation and devoted himself to chess. In addition to teaching and training, he uses his spare time to write books and lectures, and has published as many as 3.5 million words of chess monographs, which is the largest number of chess books in the chess industry. Some people say that Liu Dianzhong "is an old scalper during working hours, and a book-writing machine after work", which is also true.
Whenever people talked about Liu Dianzhong's achievements in chess and his contributions to the cause of chess, he always disagreed, and then smiled and said: "Looking back at the road traveled, don't have a taste in your heart."
How did Liu Dianzhong become a famous player in the chess world from a bitter child and a coal digger underground? Maybe you'll find the answer to your question from the text below.
In 1948, earth-shaking changes took place on the land of China, the cannons of the Liberation War were earth-shattering, the People's Liberation Army was invincible, and the good news of victory flew everywhere; the Kuomintang army was discouraged and retreated, and the Chiang family dynasty was facing extinction. The darkness is about to pass and the rising sun is rising.
On April 15 of that year, Liu Dianzhong was born in an ordinary miner's family in Nanfuzhuang, Tangshan City, Hebei Province. Liu Jiazu through Tangshan City, Fengnan County, the grandfather in the temple is a farmer, relying on farming to maintain the family's livelihood, the father in the temple is an underground worker in the Kailuan coal mine, doing some work to open the underground roadway, the monthly salary is only seventy or eighty yuan, the family has been living relatively poorly.
In 1953, when Liu Dianzhong was 5 years old, his mother died of tuberculosis, and there were two younger sisters behind him, because of the difficulties in the family's life, the younger sister was given to the family shortly after birth, and the eldest sister was also sent back to his hometown to let his grandfather and grandmother support him. Therefore, for a long time, only the temple and the father were dependent on each other in the family.
How can a small child stay at home alone? To this end, before Father Liu went to the mine every day, he had to give 5 dimes to the temple and let him buy some snacks or something. These 5 dimes, the temple can not bear to spend indiscriminately, whenever his father goes to work, he locks the door and plunges into the little man's bookstore. Looking at a penny, he can read dozens of books a day, at first he can only look at pictures, and gradually he can recognize some words.
Tangshan city has always been quite popular in chess, although there has not been any chess saints, chess kings and other figures, but people who like to play chess abound, in the streets and alleys, in the park, under the shade of trees, next to the street lamp, everywhere you can see someone playing a game.
"How I became obsessed with chess in the first place, I still can't tell. Since I was about 5 years old, I have been reading people's books or watching people play chess all day. In the streets and alleys near our house, there are always some old men playing chess. At first, I couldn't play, but I just crouched down and watched, and it was very interesting to see them pick up the chess pieces and attack and kill on the board, so I liked it. Liu Dianzhong recalled.
If a man is good, he will be fascinated by it. Once Liu Dianzhong learned the method of walking and simple attack and defense, he officially became one of the old men. His father went down to the well every day to do coal work, and Liu Dianzhong worked chess all day in the hutongkou, although no one officially taught it, but after continuous actual combat, his chess skills improved rapidly, and later, the old men were no longer his opponents.
Liu Dianzhong entered the school with his school bag on his back when he was 7 years old, and even then he spent all his spare time playing chess, and the world of chess was getting wider and wider. There is a park near the Tangshan Railway Station, where the most people play chess, and the sound of generals is heard from morning to night every day. One day, just after school, he couldn't go home and went straight to the train station with his school bag. From afar, I saw a lot of people surrounding a chess stall, and the temple hurriedly stepped forward, only to see an old man posing a chess posture, and the onlookers were talking about it, but no one could understand it. After some careful calculations, Liu Dianzhong's mind suddenly opened up, and he could not suppress his excitement and said, "I can solve this chess game." But when he touched his pocket, his face suddenly turned red, and there was nothing in his pocket.
At that time, Tangshan's chess stalls had an unwritten rule, generally speaking of a chess piece of five dimes, which is called plate money. If the chess solver first pays five cents to the stall maker, if the solution cannot be opened, it is lost, then the five dimes belong to the stallholder; if the chess piece can be dismantled, the stall maker must not only return the money you paid for the plate, but also find your five cents. Although the temple was able to crack this chess game, it was shy in its pockets, so it had to stand aside and be silent.
At this time, someone in the audience said, "Since you can crack this chess game, then solve it quickly."
The temple said, "I don't have any money."
Someone next to him patted his chest and said, "You're going to lose this chess game, I'm going to give you money, you're going to win, let's buy something to eat." After saying that, the man happily took out five cents and handed it to the stallholder.
The temple squatted down, and after some attack and killing, he quickly killed the other party's veteran general in the Ninth Palace.
All the chess postures placed on the chess stalls are the chess games of the rivers and lakes as the saying goes, generally speaking, they are all chess pieces, and the chess posture of this stall maker is a winning and losing chess, so it was broken by the temple and lost five dimes. Afterwards, the temple learned that this person turned out to be the grandfather of one of his best classmates, and he had no money on hand, so he copied several chess games from the book, hoping to win some money, but he did not expect that the first chess game he laid down was cracked by Liu Dianzhong. Later, Liu Dianzhong recalled: "All those who set up chess stalls generally have a difficult time living at home, and if you win others, it is equivalent to smashing other people's rice bowls." So until now, whenever I bring it up, I still feel very embarrassed. ”
With the continuous improvement of the level of chess skills, Liu Dianzhong's chess addiction has also become larger and larger, and the streets and parks of Tangshan City have left his figure of a prancing horse everywhere.
In his childhood, in addition to his love of chess, he liked to read "idle books". Although his father's education level is not high, he always likes to borrow some martial arts and other novels from outside, and Liu Dianzhong also follows suit. Therefore, when he was in elementary school, he read a lot of books in this regard, which laid the foundation for him to read military books and battle strategies and study chess theory in the future. In addition, Liu Dianzhong also likes to watch old dramas, and some scenes are still deeply rooted in his mind.
It was a cold winter night, after Liu Dianzhong finished playing chess, a club director took him to see a play, and the stage was played by the ghost play "Li Huiniang". When the scene of Li Huiniang's ghost asking Jia Rudao for his life was played, the temple was very scared, and on the way home, he always had the scene in the play in his mind. At this time, for Liu Dianzhong, the shaking of the shadows under the cold moon and the cold stars, and the wind chirping of the treetops, were all ghosts and gods. From this, he thought of the tragic death of a neighbor in their courtyard nicknamed "Big Copper". "Big Copper" is an underground worker who was killed by a landslide while digging coal underground. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, so he ran away, and when he got home, he slipped into the bed, but he couldn't sleep. He thought of his father, who worked underground all day, thought of his future, and his mind was blank, and secretly said: When I grow up, I will say that I will not work underground. But what can a miner's son do?
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