A few days ago, in a chess match in Shanghai, veteran Lu Qin and Hu Ronghua, who came to watch the game, met for a long time. Commander vs. Young Marshal, the two of them are half-worldly in the Chu River Han Realm, and it is worth saying well.
I. "Feud"
In the history of chess, Shanghai and Guangdong have a sense of "world hatred"!
Lü Qin's mentor, the era of a generation of "magic uncles" Yang Guanxuan, ended in the hands of the young Hu Ronghua. Hu Ronghua ruled the Chu River Han dynasty for 20 years with "ten consecutive championships", until it was terminated by Liu Dahua in the early 1980s, but soon Li Laiqun, who "crossed the Yellow River with the champion", rose, and in just a few years, Li Laiqun immediately threw himself into the Shanghai to temporarily leave chess... In terms of achievements and time, the one who can be called "the leader of the times" instead of Hu Ronghua is probably Lü Qin, the "young marshal of Yangcheng", and Xu Yinchuan, who follows.
"Commander Hu" has an unprecedented record of consecutive championships and a total number of championships in the national individual competition, but Lu Qinsheng is at the right time: on the one hand, various domestic invitational tournaments and cup competitions have been launched; on the other hand, chess has gone beyond the borders and opened up Asian and world championships. The young and powerful Lü Qin destroyed the city and pulled out the village, and the total number of champions of various competitions was unparalleled in the sea.
In terms of team events, compared with the perfect cooperation of "Lingnan Shuangxiong", Hu Ronghua, whose career began to decline gradually, appeared to be "difficult to support alone". As the commander grew older, the team performance of the Guangdong men's and women's chess teams also overwhelmingly surpassed the Shanghai chess team that "climbed the peak forever" and was once invincible in China. Of course, it is worth mentioning that in the first Xiangjia Professional League, Hu Ronghua took the lead and swore to wrestle Maotai and led the Shanghai Golden Bund team to win the championship, leaving another period of immortality.
In short, according to the general law of competition, Hu Ronghua and Lü Qin should be the intolerable opponents of Qiu Yan...
Second, disagreements
Another "disagreement" that is often mentioned by Shanghai and Cantonese chess fans is the judgment of the development situation of chess and the reform of the competition system.
At the beginning of this century, Hu Ronghua had insight into the bottlenecks and hidden dangers in the development of chess, so soon after the professional league system was launched, he publicly called for reform of the competition system. At that time, the development of chess in Guangdong was better (Lü Qin naturally contributed to it), so he was conservative in the way of reform. In particular, when Hu Ronghua's "lay disciple" Li Wenzhuang sponsored Xiangjia and founded the Super League and the Finals, and fully supported Hu Ronghua's reform ideas for "negative chess", the format of the game was changed several times, resulting in the achievements of many outstanding chess players who had been famous for a long time fluctuating greatly, and Lü Qin, as the director of the technical committee of the Chess Association, openly questioned, Hu Ronghua believed: "How to reform the competition system, there is actually no direct interest to Lü Qin, but he has a straightforward personality, and people with interests and influences will persuade him, he will feel reasonable, and he is willing to come forward to express his position." ......”
It is worth noting that in recent years, with Commander Hu "retreating to the second line", "Lü Shuai" has become a leader in vigorously advocating reform, and with the support of Guo Liping, director of the Chess Department of the China Chess Academy, the reform of the chess competition system has achieved initial results in leagues and cups in recent years, helping the further recovery of chess. Veteran chess players such as Lü Qin and Hu Ronghua often communicate about some undesirable phenomena that occur in chess games and discuss countermeasures. Shan Xiali, who is the same age as Lü Qin, also mentioned that he would directly communicate with Lü Qin if he had any ideas for chess reform, "He is very simple about chess, loves his career, and respects the market..."
Third, the origin
"46 years, so fast!" As soon as Lü Qin mentioned his first visit to Shanghai, Hu Ronghua would laugh knowingly.
In 1975, the third National Games chess tournament qualifier was held in Shanghai, and Yang Guanxuan, the main player and coach of the Guangdong team, brought The 13-year-old Lu Qin, who had just been recruited to the Guangzhou Chess Team for less than a year, to Shanghai to "see the world". "The first time I went out of Guangdong Province, the first time I met Teacher Hu, in addition to my own coach, Teacher Yang, Teacher Hu was like a god to us..."
In fact, even Yang Guanxuan himself is very close to Shanghai, "Teacher Yang used to talk to us about his past in Shanghai when he was young, when the chess atmosphere in Shanghai was the best in the country, and Teacher Yang also told the truth that out of the needs of the chess player's life, he came to Shanghai to make more money." Hu Ronghua added: "If it were not for Guangzhou running a "Chess" magazine at that time, and the leaders attached importance to it, according to Teacher Yang's income in Shanghai, he would have become a 'Shanghai chess player' a few years ago!" ”
In Lü Qin's eyes, Yang Guanxuan, who has the most contact, is "diligent in studying and practicing hard, and is most willing to work hard... The most direct benefit to our young chess players is to watch him dismantle chess, he often dismantles long chess, repeatedly dismantles, dismantles very finely", and Hu Ronghua's biggest impression on him is "full of spirit, dare to innovate", Lü Qin even used "worship" to summarize.
Fourth, grab talent
In turn, Hu Ronghua was also very impressed with this 13-year-old teenager, "He is very young, his eyes are particularly bright, and he is very focused when watching chess." Although he did not participate in the game, I heard that others played chess with him, and his chess skills were already a bit strong. ”
Later, a year later, when Hu Ronghua heard that Lü Qin had left the team, he immediately called Uncle Mo: "Are you still thinking about Lü Qin's entry into the team?" You really don't want it, then we want him in Shanghai! ”
In this regard, Lu Qin revealed himself, it turned out that there was a reason for leaving the team at that time, "I entered the team for 2 years of training, it was on Ershatou Island, I was young, the weather in Guangzhou was hot in the summer, I went down to the Pearl River to swim, I couldn't swim back from the shore, and fortunately a rowing team that was training together saved me." In that atmosphere, I was a relatively difficult athlete to manage, so I was sent back. But the next year I won the Guangdong Provincial Junior Championship, and in 1978 I won the National Youth Championship..." And this "talent grabbing" phone call behind Hu Ronghua also played a role in Promoting Lu Qin's return to the team.
Another thing that was very crucial to Lu Qin's growth was that Guangzhou held the "Five Sheep Cup" every year, sponsored by Mr. Fok Yingdong, and only invited a few national champions to participate. At that time, Yang Guanxuan, who represented the host, was old and had insufficient energy to participate in the competition, and it was under the leadership of Hu Ronghua that the organizing committee of the event made an exception to let Lü Qin replace Yang Guanxuan to fight, and as a result, Lü Qin, who had been baptized by the "Five Sheep Cup" arena, broke the "window paper" of his chess career the next year and won the national individual championship for the first time, and the "Five Sheep Cup" was also known as the "cradle of champions"...
This fully shows how good this chess king is in addition to fighting for his life on the chessboard.
5. Alcohol consumption
Everyone in the chess world knows that Hu Ronghua likes to drink, and he is slightly drunk when he drinks a little, but if he drinks all the time, he will find it difficult to get drunk, which can be described as "bottomless". Lü Qin's good drinking is also well known to everyone in the chess world, and Lü Qin's wine style is particularly good, and those who come do not refuse, even if they drink too much, they do not make trouble, and they just sleep soundly. This time the two talked about drinking again, and Hu Ronghua revealed that in fact, Lu Qin rarely drank when he was young, "all for sponsorship." Lu Qin also admitted that what promoted the "qualitative change" of his alcohol intake was indeed at the beginning of the professional league...
"I'm a coach, I have to manage every chess player, I'm the director of the chess and card center, and when I first started to do professional leagues, the sponsorship had to run on my own." At that time, the custom in Guangdong was that there was no wine and no drinking, and the boss would not give you sponsorship if you did not drink..." So Lu Qin "opened up" for the chess team, and "deep feelings, a mouthful" is a common thing.
Hu Ronghua loves to drink liquor and rice wine, and Lü Qin is influenced by the atmosphere of Guangshen to drink foreign wine. One year, When Lü Qin came to Shanghai to participate in the "Nine Cities Cup Super Master", Hu Ronghua specially cared for Li Wencheng: "We must let Lü Qin drink well", and Li Wencheng took out a bottle of 2 kilograms of collector's wine. How expensive is it? A table of people pushed the cup to change the cup, the bottle of wine saw the bottom, Hu Ronghua intervened: "You are not allowed to drink, I will not drink, the rest belongs to Lu Qin." Li Wencheng added: "Good wine is for Master Lu to enjoy exclusively, so let's be aggrieved and drink Lafite!" ”
The real reason is that the Guangdong chess team has maintained a good development trend for a long time, continuously achieved good results, and the sponsorship is relatively stable, and there is no need for Lu Qin to use the way of "sacrificing his life to accompany wine" to ask his grandfather to tell his grandmother.
6. Retirement
Another secret that Lü Qin revealed this time was, "When the leader asked me to be the director of the chess and card center, I also specially consulted Teacher Hu, who thought that this would be beneficial to Guangdong chess, so I made up my mind to take it." In this position, Lü Qin took the lead and worked diligently, from strict management, training to industrial operation, laying a solid foundation for Guangdong's chess and card industry. But on the other hand, administrative duties often give Lu Qin, who is bent on participating in more competitions, a headache.
"I'm retiring next year, but I'd better retire today so I can concentrate on playing chess." Like this time, I obviously feel that there are not as many games as the younger opponents, and they are not as familiar as they are. Lu Qin also complained that he was going out to compete, and was often criticized by the leaders, "Your main business is administration, you don't have to do the right thing." This is probably the biggest distress of "technical cadres". At this point, he quite admired Shan Xiali, who was the same age, "Her administrative work ability and organizational ability are stronger than mine!" When you look at the shanghai competition, it is always much more standardized than other competitions..."
Hu Ronghua laughed: "I have been retired for more than 10 years!" Now I can't play chess, and the biggest problem is that without passion, I have experienced too many things. From this point of view, you can completely get down, you have passion, physical strength is also good. If you really retire, you may be in better shape than you are now. Seeing that your aura has not yet come out, there are more games, and the invisible sword qi is coming, and it is entirely possible to glow the second spring. ”
I believe that true chess fans are all looking forward to the scene of "Commander Hu" and "Young Marshal Yangcheng" meeting again on the field and composing a famous game together...