Liu Dianzhong: Footprints of Wind and Dust Chapter 6 The Rise of the Hebei Chess Team Chapter 6 The Rise of the Hebei Chess Team

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In 1977, Liu Dianzhong was 29 years old, and in January of that year he got married, and after starting a family, he naturally wanted to start a business.

In the Tangshan earthquake, although Liu Dianzhong was not injured, after the earthquake, his chess skills slipped, in his words, "when playing chess, he always can't find the tune." At this time, he did not think too much about how to change this situation, but spent his main energy on the preparation of the Hebei Provincial Chess Team.

At the end of 1977, the Handan Municipal Sports Committee held the "Handan Cup" National Chess Invitational Tournament. All the masters from all over the country, except for Yang Guanxuan and Hu Ronghua, were all dressed up. In a total of 12 rounds of the competition, Li Laiqun achieved 11 wins and 1 loss, and won the championship, which not only caused a sensation in Handan City, but also caused a sensation in the national chess world, and the chess teams in Anhui, Gansu, Heilongjiang and other provinces were scrambling to come. In particular, Wang Jialiang, a "Northeast Tiger" who is good at discovering chess talents, wants to transfer Li Laiqun to the Heilongjiang chess team.

Li Laiqun's father came to Liu Dianzhong and said, "Due to the difficulties in family life, I don't want my son to play chess, and I want to find him a job as soon as possible." The leader of the Handan Municipal Sports Committee also approached Liu Dianzhong and said, "Let Li Laiqun stay in Handan, or let him go to other provinces and cities, we can't make up our minds." Some leaders even said, "We don't have a chess team, don't miss the future of the group, or let him go."

How to do that, if you let the group go, I won't play chess in the future. The temple secretly made up its mind. He went to the provincial sports committee one after another and talked to several directors. The Provincial Sports Committee finally agreed, and decided to let Li Laiqun first enter the Hebei Provincial Sports Team as the "advance troop" of the Hebei Team, so Li Laiqun only supported the façade of the Hebei Chess Team as a team member. At this time, Liu Dianzhong's personnel relations were still in the Kailuan Coal Mine, and because he was seconded to Shijiazhuang, he had not yet entered the Hebei Provincial Chess Team, a situation that continued until 1978, when the Hebei team won the fourth place in the national team competition.

The geese flew into the distance. After Liu Dianzhong was officially transferred to the Hebei team, the first thing he did was to form a team. He went north to Tangshan and south to Handan, and with a pair of wise eyes, he looked everywhere for "thousands of horses" that could "cross the Chu River and cross the Han Boundary." In this way, Huang Yong, Yan Yusuo, Yan Wenqing, Hu Ming, Gang Qiuying, Hao Juhua and a number of other team members entered the team one after another, and the Hebei team was successfully formed in a short period of time. Subsequently, with the continuous development and growth of the team, the number of Hebei team members also increased, the number of male team members increased to 6, and the female team members increased to 3. Under the strict requirements of Liu Dianzhong, after just a few years of training, the players' chess skills have improved by leaps and bounds.

In 1979, the newly formed Hebei team participated in the national team competition for the first time, and everyone in the team fought bravely and competed for the lead, and the result was a good result of fourth place. In 1981, he took the next level, finishing third, and in 1982 he won the second place. It seems that their next goal is to rush to the top.

In the National Chess Team Tournament held in Harbin in 1983, the Hebei team united their wills, worked together, fought all the way, successively defeated Anhui, Liaoning, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Heilongjiang, Hubei and other chess giants, fought and fought against the previous champion Guangdong team, and won the championship in 13 rounds with 11 wins, 1 loss and 1 draw. This is also the fourth chess team to reach the top in the national chess team competition after the three teams of Shanghai, Guangdong and Liaoning.

After the official establishment of the Hebei Provincial Chess Team, it took less than five years to ascend to the national team championship. As a result, the Hebei team suddenly sprung up, and its prestige was greatly enhanced, forming a three-legged trend of Guangdong, Shanghai and Hebei in the chess world.

In the decade from 1986 to 1996, due to the impact of the Olympic strategy and market economy, some of the main players went to the sea for business, and some went to work in the special zone, which made the overall level of the Hebei team decline, and although the national team basically remained in the top six, it was always unattached from the championship. Liu Dianzhong was not discouraged by this, but pulled the plow of chess and continued to cultivate in the garden of chess. In the 1997 national team competition, they re-ascended to the top of the Jade Emperor. In the national team competition held in Kunming in 1998, they "will be at the top" for the fourth time. In this competition, Liu Dianzhong, as the president of the Hebei Chess Academy, coach and team member, although he is already a person who knows the destiny of heaven, he is not old, sits in one, and with an undefeated record of 4 wins and 5 draws, he has made great contributions to the Hebei team to win the championship.

Turning over the history of hebei chess team, what is in front of us is a brilliant chapter, from 22 national team competitions after 1978, the men's team has entered the top 6 20 times, of which 4 have reached the top, 3 times have been runners-up, and 5 times have been third places. Among the harvest fruits, which one did not have the painstaking efforts that Liu Dianzhong had bet on? The Hebei team started late, from scratch, from weak to strong, and wrote a brilliant chapter in the history of Chinese chess, it is no exaggeration to say that Liu Dianzhong played the role of "big stroke"!