The eruption begins with a lethal mood

In 2019, Li Xueyi, who represented the Guangdong Shenzhen Longgang team in the "Zhongyi Cup" National Chess League, unexpectedly broke out suddenly, and successively won the promotion of women's international grandmasters in the Portuguese Open and the Asian Individual Championships, and then won the last preamble points at the Shaoxing Open, successfully promoted to women's international grandmasters (four levels of chess titles). When the Yangcheng Evening News reporter congratulated Li Xueyi, she smiled lightly and said in a calm tone: "I am no longer a Guangdong player, because I have already applied for withdrawal from the team." ”

"Huh? Have you left the team? The reporter was taken aback and felt a little incredible. However, after the interview with Li Xueyi, the reporter expressed understanding and admiration for why she made such a decision.

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Enjoys playing chess and switching from chess to chess

Li Xueyi was born in Baoding, Hebei Province. Unlike most chess players, Li Xueyi's love of playing chess is not influenced by her relatives, in her words, to be associated with chess is "natural love".

"None of my family like to play chess. When I was more than six years old, I saw that there were often old men playing chess on the side of the road, and I didn't know why I liked it. Li Xueyi told reporters that because she liked to play chess, her family directly sent her to the chess class of the Children's Palace to learn chess.

"After about four years of studying at the Children's Palace, I suddenly felt that learning chess was boring, and I became interested in chess." Li Xueyi recalled that in these four years, she was able to participate in the children's chess tournament, the championships she should have won, including some national competitions, either champions or top three, and then learning chess has no attraction, "Plus the chess teachers and chess teachers at that time were very good, I said to change it, and then I went to the chess study class opened by Teacher Liu Renhui to learn chess."

Switching to chess, Li Xueyi also quickly showed his talent, learning chess less than three years to win the national Li Chengzhi Cup Junior Champion, was selected into the national junior team, three years later also served as the captain of the national junior team. During this period, she has won consecutive national middle school competition junior high school group, high school group individual, junior high school group group, high school group champion.

In 2010, Li Xueyi won the Li Chengzhi Cup Youth Group Championship (those champions of the Li Chengzhi Cup in the "college entrance examination" of the Chinese chess industry), and her excellent results were appreciated by Liang Jinrong, the head coach of the Guangdong Chess Team, and specially recruited her into the Guangdong team, and since then Li Xueyi has officially become a professional chess player.

Talk about leaving the team

Pursue ideals, do not try to comfortably choose solo training

After entering the Guangdong team, because Li Ruofan, Gong Qianyun, Kwong Yinghui and other famous players have retired and left the team, Li Xueyi, who is only 17 years old, directly provoked the burden of the "first sister" of the Guangdong team. But what is difficult to understand is that Li Xueyi has been tepid in the Guangdong team for eight years and has never been able to achieve brilliant results. She said it was because "this environment is not suitable for me."

Li Xueyi explained to reporters: "The salary of Guangdong team members should be regarded as the highest in the country (local professional team), even if it is not the highest, it can enter the top three." In the Guangdong team, you are not required to go out to compete and train at your own expense, nor do you what you are asked to do, as long as you go to the next team competition, and there is no high demand for results. It's very comfortable, but it's not for me. ”

Speaking of this, Li Xueyi seems to be unfinished, once again using "like" to emphasize his choice: "I play chess because I like, not for a stable salary." I know in my heart what I want, what I want is to play chess happily. ”

Li Xueyi believes that she is a more emotional chess player, so she often loses chess due to the influence of emotions in the game, which is also an important reason for her poor performance in recent years. "I used to play for Guangdong, I would feel pressured, even in an advantageous situation, I always thought that I had to win quickly, and the result was too emotional and easy to go to extremes." If the chess player (in the game) has emotions, it is difficult to play good chess, so I feel that the mood (in the Guangdong team) is not good, so I chose to leave. ”

However, although Li Xueyi has decided to leave the team, she said that she is very grateful to the two teachers of the Guangdong team, Li Shilong and Huang Minju, for helping her: "Teacher Li and Teacher Huang both know my personality, know what I want, they have given me a lot of help, and they also understand and support my choice." I am thankful from the bottom of my heart to the two teachers, they taught me technical things, enough for me to use for a lifetime! ”

Talk about the future

The next goal is to try to get another male grandmaster

Half a year after leaving the Guangdong team, Li Xueyi is currently mainly training at the "Chaoyue Chess Club" in Chengdu. She said that more people have been contacted here, so that her vision has also been opened, and the way of thinking about chess and the way of thinking about chess have changed. "In the past, playing chess in the Guangdong team, may be too strong, just think that you must play well, sometimes it will be very extreme, if affected by emotions, you will not be able to slow down after losing chess." But now I don't have this problem, each game is independent, this game will not affect the next game, as long as I know what is wrong next time don't make it, the game will be more arbitrary. Li Xueyi said.

Speaking of which, Li Xueyi won the li chengzhi cup youth group championship that year, and according to the regulations, she could be awarded the title of "national master", but she was dismissive and did not declare: "I think that certificate has no meaning to me, only the grand master has value." After eight years of silence, Li Xueyi finally "came to fruition" and directly crossed the "international master" to become a "special master". In this regard, she said with emotion: "In fact, I should have gotten it a long time ago on strength, but the mood has always been problematic, and the mood has always been stuffy." After I left the Guangdong team, I knew what I wanted to do, and the daily training arrangements were very reasonable, so I only got the women's super big (title) in only half a year. ”

Li Xueyi said that obtaining the title of women's international grandmaster is only to complete one of his basic goals, and the next goal is to take the title of male international grandmaster, "but this is more difficult, and more efforts are needed."

"Didn't you ever think of winning a national championship or even a world championship?" The reporter asked Li Xueyi.

"Hee-hee, it takes luck to win the national championship," Li Xueyi said with a smile, "there are some things that even if the technology is reached, luck is also necessary." As for the world championship, it is too far away, and it is something that cannot be sought. My idea now is to go slowly, step by step to achieve the goal, (play chess) until I don't like it. ”

Source: Yangcheng Evening News 2019