The stadium also hosts an amateur sports school. At the beginning, there were only two classes of table tennis and gymnastics, and the chess class did not dare to do it at that time, because the attitude of the upper echelons to chess at that time was not clear, and chess activities were not resumed on a large scale. In such an environment, all Li Yiting can do is to do miscellaneous work. His main job is to purchase equipment and clothing, and the well doubles as a warehouse for safekeeping, and how much equipment and clothing needs to be purchased and distributed in such a stadium? Therefore, Li Yiting's work can be imagined to be light and idle.
Li Yiting really re-engaged with chess in 1974. This year, the eight-year-old national chess tournament was finally resumed and prepared to be held in Chengdu, Sichuan. This national competition requires the participation of the province as a unit, and the provincial sports committee has long lost the talent in chess, and at this time, Li Yiting is thinking of it again.
The Provincial Sports Committee came to the Municipal Sports Committee to discuss the matter of Li Yiting, and the Municipal Sports Committee did not agree at first, on the grounds that when it comes to the selection of people, the province has priority, but you do not want Li Yiting, and now when it is time to employ people, only to think of people, where in the world is there such a cheap thing? It was not easy, after several iterations, the province did the work in the city, and it was stuck here in Li Yiting. In this matter, Li Yiting has emotions. When he first came out of the cadre school, the province did not retain him, of course, he was uncomfortable, and thought that the province did not attach importance to the chess he loved all his life, especially the statement that chess could not be professional was unacceptable to him. And emotionally speaking, he is still biased towards the city, always thinking of contributing more to the chess activities in Wuhan in the future. In this way, Li Yiting has been staying in the Municipal Sports Committee. Moreover, some of these twists and turns are also an important reason for him to bid farewell to the national chess world from now on, and now that I look back, I can't help but say that this is a great regret.
Although the people were not transferred, the provincial sports committee still entrusted the work of forming a team to participate in the national competition to Li Yiting, and he had full authority to handle it. Engaged in chess activities, Li Yiting of course had no complaints, so he enthusiastically accepted this task. For many years, he has been a leader in the Hubei chess circle, whose chess strength is how good, whether they are qualified to participate in the competition on behalf of the province, he knows it all too well, it is said that the matter of forming a team should go very smoothly, but he did not have the problem of participating because of the participation of a Zhiqing named Liu Dahua, which made him very difficult and difficult, and also took a lot of risks.
Mentioning Liu Dahua's name, in today's chess world, everyone naturally knows and knows, but at that time, he was just a decentralized intellectual youth who loved chess, when he was 24 years old. Liu Dahua's chess has long emerged in the chess circles of Hubei and Wuhan, and at this time it is recognized as a provincial strong hand. He was sent to Anlu, Hubei Province in 1968, but in the extremely harsh environment of the countryside, he did not give up the study of chess for a moment, so his level was more refined. Li Yiting knows all too much about Liu Dahua's experiences, and after returning to Han from cadre school, he has performed with Liu Dahua in public many times, and he likes this young man who loves chess in his heart and thinks that he has a bright future.
But what makes people feel strange is that Liu Dahua's first abacus is to participate in the national chess competition. It turned out that Liu Dahua had spent more than two years formal training in chess when he was a teenager, and with his profound chess skills, he had also reached a very high level of chess. At the end of 1973, when he learned that he was going to resume the national chess competition, the reason why he wanted to sign up for the chess program was because he considered that there were few people engaged in the project, which was unpopular and easy to produce results. For people like him, he wants to change his life path by making achievements in the national competition. In order to play the national championship, during that time, Liu Dahua ran back to Wuhan from the countryside of Anlu and played chess with Liu Chengwan (later the head coach of the Hubei Provincial Chess Team), Liu Dalu (Dahua's second brother, the provincial chess master) and other famous players every day, reaching the point of sleeping and forgetting to eat.
They practiced hard for several months "without hearing anything out of the window," but suddenly found themselves doing it in vain, because in early 1974 Li Yiting learned from the Provincial Sports Commission that Hubei did not report the name of chess, only chess and Go, five people each. In other words, if you want to participate in the national competition, you can only take the chess game. But to participate in the chess tournament, Liu Dahua really did not have any hope, because there are few chess masters, the provincial team must rely on them, and chess is different, Hubei talent is abundant, the famous figures are even more numerous, not to mention that he is a decentralized young man, there is no "name", it is of course very difficult to join the team.
In April 1974, Wuhan held a chess tournament, Liu Dahua was not eligible to participate because he was still a knowledge, but he loved chess and ran to the arena every day to watch the game. At that time, people in the chess community thought that this was the selection of Hubei Province to participate in the national competition, in fact, Li Yiting only used this as a reference for the team, and he had other criteria for selection. The top three in the city competition are Chen Jiakuan, Zhang Run and Shen Zishi.
On the issue of the quota for participation in Hubei Province, some changes occurred at this time. Liu Chengwan really did not want to miss the opportunity to participate in the national competition in a thousand years, so he has not given up his efforts to fight for a place for the National Sports Commission. Even if it is a reward for paying, under the repeated requests of Liu Chengwan, the State Sports Commission finally agreed that Hubei Province will each set aside a quota for chess under the premise that the total number of ten places remains unchanged. In this way, the chess players in Hubei can only choose four people.
After a long period of weighing and even "fighting", Li Yiting finally decided to send these four people to represent Hubei in the national chess tournament. They are Chen Jiakuan, Zhang Run, Chen Fugui and Liu Dahua. The first two were the champions and runners-up of the city competition that year, and everyone had nothing to say; this Chen Fugui was not from Wuhan, but worked in the Xiangyang Cotton Spinning Factory in Shashi, Hubei Province, and had won the provincial championship many times, which was also a matter of course. Only this Liu Dahua's selection has been criticized and opposed by many people.
And some people's statements also made Li Yiting feel the pressure on his shoulders.
The most serious kind of accusation is: Liu Dahua's family composition is not good, his father is an "enemy", let someone like him play the national competition, what kind of successor does Li Yiting really want to cultivate? Youjin even ran to the provincial sports committee to file a complaint and threatened to "make Li Yiting unable to eat and walk around." At that time, it was still the late stage of the "Cultural Revolution", the political atmosphere was depressed, and this "hat" was buttoned down, which was not affordable for ordinary people.
So how did Liu Dahua's father become an "enemy"? If this matter is detailed, it is a long story, but to put it simply: In 1958, Liu Dahua's father committed suicide by throwing himself into Hanshui because he could not bear the pressure of the "anti-rightist" struggle, but because he had not been able to find the body since then, some people with ulterior motives took it for granted that his father hated the Communist Party, smuggled himself to Taiwan, and became a Kuomintang agent. In fact. His father couldn't swim at all, so how could he talk about "surrendering to the enemy"? Committing suicide by throwing oneself into the river is a more logical reality.
This so-called family "historical problem" has always been a huge shadow that has entangled Liu Dahua's life, and he has repeatedly "obstructed" the issue of his return to the countryside and returning to the city, and unexpectedly, he has once again been used by others as a "cannonball" to attack him.
There is another reason for those who oppose Li Yiting's decision, that is, to blame him for choosing some "villagers" to participate in the national competition. They believe that Liu Dahua of Chess and Liu Chengwan of Chess are still young people who have delegated knowledge, and that they should be paid upside down to the Provincial Sports Committee to play the national competition, that is to say, to take more competition funds.
In the face of various statements, Li Yiting is not unscrupulous. He found Liu Yimin, director of the Competition Division of the Provincial Sports Committee, the leader of the Hubei chess team. When talking about Liu Dahua's problem, Li Yiting made a clear statement: "Liu Dahua's technology, I can guarantee. Although he has been down for many years, his enthusiasm for chess has not diminished, and he has not interrupted the study of chess, and his state has remained very good. In addition, from the perspective of cultivating talents, I think Liu Dahua is a good training object, because he is young and he is really fascinated by chess. As for his family issues, I don't know much. Let the organization decide. ”
In the Hubei chess world, Li Yiting's authority is beyond doubt, and his words actually define Liu Dahua's future. Liu Dahua thus ushered in the most significant turning point in his life path.
Unfinished to be continued ~ a little attention does not get lost