<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > Chapter 3 Heilongjiang Team's "Little Radish Head"</h1>
The "three years of natural disasters" have finally passed, and living conditions have gradually begun to improve. With the continuous improvement of the level of chess, Liu Dianzhong had few opponents in Tangshan, and during that time he only went to the Palace of Culture to compete with some first-class chess players in the city.
At the beginning of 1963, the 15-year-old Liu Dianzhong participated in the Tangshan City Chess Tournament for the first time, and he won the championship in one fell swoop, which caused quite a stir in Tangshan City. He then competed in the Hebei Provincial Chess Tournament. The venue is located in the Tianjin Gymnasium, each city has two people, only Tianjin has 3 places. Liu Dianzhong successively defeated Deng Yuru, an old chess player in Shijiazhuang City, and Wang Jiayuan, the first master in Tianjin at that time, and finally won the runner-up.
Although Liu Dianzhong failed to win the championship, he pushed him into the field of the national competition.
In 1964, the National Chess Individual Championship was held in the beautiful scenery of Hangzhou, and the participants were the chess champions of all provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in the country. Before the game, the Hebei Provincial Sports Committee made a report to the National Sports Commission, hoping to increase the number of participants, so Liu Dianzhong was lucky to get this opportunity.
In the first round, Dianzhong defeated Jiangsu master Zhou Shunfa, and then defeated Guangdong Chen Baixiang, Zhejiang Liu Yici and other famous players, and finally saved the capital with a score of 7 wins, 7 losses and 4 draws, ranking 16th. Although this result is not remarkable, if measured according to the current promotion criteria, it has reached the master qualification.
It was also in this competition that Liu Dianzhong met the famous "Northeast Tiger" Wang Jialiang. After the game, Wang Jialiang pulled Liu Dianzhong aside and asked, "Would you like to go to the Heilongjiang Chess Academy?" Liu Dianzhong nodded and replied, "I am willing to go." ”
On March 1, 1965, although it was already spring, the northern ice city of Harbin was still very cold, and the cold wind stabbed the face like a knife. On the wide road of Heping Road, a small teenager is walking forward with tired steps. He wears a half-worn, half-new black cotton jacket, a striped cotton hat on his head that covers his ears tightly, and a simple luggage roll on his shoulders. This teenager was Liu Dianzhong.
Why did Liu Dianzhong leave his hometown and break into the Kanto alone? It turned out that at that time, the Hebei Provincial Sports Committee did not have the intention of building a chess team, and the palace felt that Wang Jialiang was famous and could learn chess when he arrived in Heilongjiang, and the Heilongjiang team was a regular chess academy, and he could no longer worry about eating. In this way, Liu Dianzhong became a member of the Heilongjiang team.
Liu Dianzhong grew up because of the difficulty of living in the family and insufficient nutrition, so he has not grown much. When he first entered the Heilongjiang team, he was thin and small, and at that time, the team members were popular to watch "Red Rock", and everyone said that he looked like the little turnip head in the book. So the nickname of "little radish head" spread. Until now, some old chess players, although they do not call him "little radish head", but still call him "radish" when joking.
At that time, the Heilongjiang chess team had Wang Jialiang, Jin Qichang, Zhang Donglu, Li Zhongjian and several other chess figures, plus Liu Dianzhong, and the strength was not weak. Liu Dianzhong played chess with Wang Jialiang and Jin Qichang all day long, studying chess skills, but also got along very well. Soon after Liu Dianzhong arrived in Heilongjiang, he first participated in the Xiangqi Invitational Tournament in Heilongjiang, Guangdong and Beijing provinces and cities, and as a result, he defeated Fu Guangming, Zang Ruyi, Chen Baixiang and other famous players, and won the first place with a good result of 3 wins and 3 draws. Then he participated in the chess invitational tournament in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Guangdong and Beijing without stopping, and also achieved impressive results. People commented: "The 'little radish head' of the Heilongjiang team is really powerful!" ”
In 1965, the National Chess Individual Tournament was held in Yinchuan, Ningxia, and a total of 40 masters from all over the country participated in the competition, and Liu Dianzhong finally won the 12th place. The back hall said: "It is said that it should be better, but the main problem is that I am too optimistic and too greedy in the game, resulting in some winning chess situations that are not well controlled and overturned." ”
Since then, Liu Dianzhong has conducted key research on the chess of hu Ronghua, a number of national chess champions. He believes that the best chess theory at that time was Hu Ronghua, Wang Jialiang and He Shun'an. From then on, the hall also began to conduct systematic research on the theories of walking, layout, dispatch of the eldest son, seizure of powerful positions, sub-force connection, and formation structure.
After a year of experience, Liu Dianzhong's chess skills have improved again, and he ambitiously threw himself into the 1966 National Chess Individual Chess Championship held in Lankao, Henan. However, in the game, although he took advantage of the layout, he was repeatedly overturned by the opponent. For example, if he wins one set in the last two sets, he can steadily advance to the top 4, but he loses them all and only finishes 7th. Later, Dianzhong recalled: "This shows that at that time, my kung fu to control the situation was not yet home, and I lacked experience in playing chess with the masters. ”
After returning to Harbin from Lankao, just as Liu Dianzhong was redoubling his efforts and preparing to rush to the peak, the unprecedented "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" began. The wave of "revolution" swept the country, and the Heilongjiang chess team did not become a safe haven, and Liu Dianzhong was inevitably swept into this storm.
"At that time, I was still young and relatively naïve, and at that time I thought that this was a revolution with Chairman Mao, pulling the flag and rebelling, writing big posters all day, marching, engaging in criticism and fighting, and tossing and turning quite badly. I used to be a petty leader of a faction, fooling around for years, wasting my time. Liu Dianzhong recalled.
Chess is the life of Liu Dianzhong, he can not leave chess, let alone without chess, but in the "Cultural Revolution" chess was listed as one of the "four olds", and even chess pieces and chess sheets were burned. How much Liu Dianzhong wanted to sit down and practice chess!
After the implementation of military control in the sports circles, the staff, athletes, and coaches went to the countryside to take the road of "May Seventh Cadre School" and carry out labor exercises. This was followed by the cleansing of the ranks of the classes, where the temple was imprisoned and criticized for making inappropriate remarks. Finally, it was released due to the red seedlings and the young age.
Later, Liu Dianzhong came to the countryside as a member of the ideological propaganda team, became a village official, had jurisdiction over three production teams, organized peasant studies, engaged in class struggle, purchased grain, and fought with the peasants. Speaking of this, the temple said: "It is also very interesting to think about that period of life, I have done a lot of good things, and I have done a lot of wrong things. I have undergone training and tempered my will, which is very good for me to play chess in the future. ”
In 1970, the reform of the sports team was nearing the end, and the Heilongjiang chess team was dismounted. The leaders of the provincial sports committee wanted to leave Dianzhong as a seed athlete, but at this time Liu Dianzhong's father came with a letter and resolutely asked him to return to Tangshan. After much consideration, Liu Dianzhong felt that his father's life was difficult to violate and decided to return to Tangshan.
Liu Dianzhong picked up the luggage roll and embarked on the road back to Tangshan. What awaits him?