"Li Yiting: From Prodigy to Master" Chapter 20 Preparation Training Class Chapter 20 Preparation Training Class

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In fact, the reason why Li Yiting is optimistic about Liu Dahua, in addition to the factors mentioned above, there is another big reason why he has not told others. Li Yiting summed up his life experience and was convinced of such a truth: since ancient times, Xiong has suffered many hardships and has never been a young man. He always believed that children from poor families were more likely to become talented in chess, because they often used playing chess as a way to change their life path. From the current Liu Dahua, Li Yiting saw his own shadow of that year. He firmly believes that he will not look at the wrong person.

In June, Li Yiting organized the Hubei team to conduct pre-match training at the Provincial Sports Committee Guest House on Xinhua Road. Intensive training is not only playing scores and dismantling chess, but also engaged in intra-team training matches, in training matches. Liu Dahua's results are the best.

This year's national competition was held in July, Liu Dahua was a fledgling, the results were not ideal, the top thirty to participate in the final he did not enter. But after the baptism of this national competition, Liu Dahua felt that he had gained a lot, and these things were slowly revealed in his future competitions.

In December of the same year, the Hubei Provincial Games were held, Liu Dahua performed amazingly in the chess competition, a total of 14 rounds of chess records of 11 wins and 3 and remained unbeaten, and he had already won 1 sum in the first 12 rounds, and the subsequent matches were already iron champions, which showed his great advantages. From this competition, it can be seen that Liu Dahua has become indisputably a leading figure in the Hubei chess world, and while people are impressed by him, they also increasingly admire Li Yiting's vision and his original decision.

Later, the situation was familiar to everyone, and Liu Dahua eventually grew into a chess superstar, and broke Hu Ronghua's domination and won the national championship. All this proves even more that Li Yiting's wise and heroic deeds were.

Today's Grandmaster Liu Dahua, whenever he talks about this past, he always feels a lot of emotions. He said that although Li Yiting and he did not have a mentor-apprentice friendship, he undoubtedly had great kindness to himself, and if it were not for his efforts to make himself participate in the national competition, what Liu Dahua would have looked like later, or even whether he was engaged in chess, is not an accurate matter.

Throughout his life, Li Yiting was very grateful to his master, Mr. Luo Tianyang, for his teachings and promotions, and under his influence, Li Yiting also inherited the virtue of educating people from him. After becoming famous, he felt that cultivating chess after learning was not only his unshirkable responsibility, but also a kind of joy in his life. Back in 1962. Li Yiting had run a chess training class in the Wuhan Gymnasium for two years, and later in that turbulent and upside-down era, he had more than enough heart and insufficient strength to do such a thing as running a class and teaching apprentices, so he had to give up.

After returning to the work of the Municipal Sports Committee, he felt that he had the conditions to realize his wishes again, not to mention that one of the tasks given to him by the leaders was to make the chess activities in Wuhan City sound and colorful again. Therefore, at the end of 1973 and the beginning of 1974, Li Yiting set up a chess training class. At that time, although there was only one chess coach in the city, Li Yiting was a chess coach, but from the beginning the training class was a horse on the triathlon of chess, chess and Go. At the time, this was unique in the country. The reason for this is that on the one hand, Li Yiting himself is interested in and researching the three chess pieces, on the other hand, it is a practical need, and the junior competition in the province at that time requires that all teams must participate in all three pieces at the same time.

It is also interesting to talk about Li Yiting's contact and interest in the other two chess pieces as a chess player.

In 1956, when the first National Chess Championship was held, the National Chess Exhibition Tournament was also held at the same time, and Li Yiting also began to dabble in sister arts in addition to the competition. Of course, on this, he could not have spent too much energy at that time, but because of his deep chess skills, his chess has also reached a considerable level.

For Go, his feelings are even deeper, and he once had a period of fascination. That was in 1957. At that time, he also borrowed a Go book from the famous Go player Gu Shuiru in Shanghai. Interest is interest, but he is not in a position to play More Go, because his job still has to play chess, whether it is from career or life. Because of this favorable condition of being good at three chess pieces, it is not very difficult for Li Yiting to run a training class for three pieces of chess.

Of course, he also hired some helpers to be part-time coaches. He invited Chen Peifang, who won the 1959 all-army championship; Go invited the famous mr. Liu Bingwen; chess invited Liu Chengwan. These three part-time coaches can receive a subsidy of six yuan per month from the Municipal Sports Committee, of course, the money is very small, but everyone is very serious, even relish. In addition, Li Yiting also invited some famous players to the training class at any time to accompany the trainees to play chess and "sharpen their knives" to enhance their actual combat ability. There must be a place to run training classes, and each of the three chess pieces must have at least one room. At that time, there was a simple two-story building next to the stadium, the first floor below was the staff canteen, and the second floor had several rooms, mainly as a temporary warehouse, where some miscellaneous items were stored. Li Yiting started the idea of these rooms. He sorted out three of the small rooms, added some tables and chairs, and the training class was officially opened.

Each chess type generally enrolls about 12 students, and no more houses can accommodate it; most of the students are students in the third and fourth grades of primary school, of course, there are some larger or smaller ones. The training class is held twice a week: Thursday afternoon is the time for the teachers in the school to study politics, and students are free to move and come to the training class; another is scheduled on Sunday. As the head coach, Li Yiting also often gives lectures to the students of the chess class. He talked the most about it in The New Edition of Yilin written by Yang Guanxuan, which mainly focused on the middle endgame. After the students finished playing chess. He was always eager to explain to them. In the hearts of his disciples, although Teacher Li never lost his temper and did not speak loudly, they were still more afraid of him and thought that he was not easy to approach. Because he doesn't smile and is serious. Even when he was guided by his disciples, he was sitting on the edge of the situation, meticulous and admirable. This characteristic of his left a deep impression on his disciples and benefited greatly from it.

Li Yiting is known for his seriousness, especially on issues of principle, so much so that many people say that he is stubborn and unkind. In 1981, Li Yiting was promoted to vice president (because there was no main field director, in fact, Li Yiting lost all the money), and the stadium was "in power". At that time, the society danced vigorously, and the stadium was not exempt from customs, as long as there was no other more important arrangement, a dance party was held every night to increase income. Naturally, there are always some people who want to dance and are not willing to spend money, so they find Li Yiting to take the "back door". To their surprise, no matter how good these people's relationship with Li Yiting is and how big their face is, no one can achieve the purpose of white dancing, because Li Yiting is a person who will not trade principles. For this, he offended many, many people.

In the early 1970s, housing at the Co-op Road Lighting Stadium began to tighten, and the training class had to find another place. In the Riverside Park along the Yangtze River, there is a two-story river crossing headquarters, which was built in the 1960s for the then activities of crossing the Yangtze River. After the river crossing activities were not carried out, this command headquarters was basically idle. After li yiting's investigation, he immediately set his eyes on this place. The property rights of the command belong to the Municipal Sports Committee, but the right to use belongs to the Jiang'an District Sports Committee. Li Yiting then went to consult with the Jiang'an District Sports Committee on behalf of the Municipal Sports Committee. Unexpectedly, things went smoothly unexpectedly, and the leaders of the district sports committee listened to it and felt that this was a good thing, and immediately expressed their willingness to fully cooperate. Some money was allocated from the competition funds as a starting fee for the new site of the training course, and when the work was ready, they moved to the second floor of the headquarters.

It is also interesting to say that the Jiang'an District Sports Committee was influenced by this training class and also decided to use the conditions of the command headquarters to set up a chess room and open it to the public. As a result, the chess room was located next door to the training class, named "Binjiang Chess Room". The park was originally a place where people came and went, coupled with the fact that it was immediately followed by the Yuehan Wharf, and the conditions were even more superior, so the Binjiang Chess Room soon became a sacred place in the minds of amateur chess players in Wuhan. It is safe to say that all the young and middle-aged famous chess players in Wuhan, whether professional or amateur, have not been honed and absorbed in the Binjiang Chess Room. In the amateur world, if someone is a regular visitor to the "riverside", the level is not ordinary.