<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > Chapter 17 The Squeeze Drama</h1>
Li Yiting's final battle was a direct duel with Yang Guanxuan, although winning can also win the championship, but this competition is too difficult. Because this battle should be his backhand, not to mention the opponent is Yang Guanxuan, who is strong and has a steady and solid chess style. Thinking left and right, the Hubei delegation believes that there is little chance of making waves in this battle. Despite this, in order to strive for better results, there is a point of hope to carry out a hundred percent effort, Li Yiting is still ready to fight with Yang Guanxuan in this final decisive battle, and plans to use the most intense and complex Fighting Shun Cannon to meet the battle.
Interesting to say, just when Li Yiting's side was preparing for the battle, Yang Guanxuan's side was not easy on their side. Although Yang Guanxuan's battle can be completed as long as he plays peace, and he still has the advantage of being ahead of the curve, because it is a matter of winning or losing a gold medal, the Guangdong delegation is still facing a great enemy. Some people believe that in order to ensure that Li Yiting will get the runner-up, Wang Jialiang, who is not less than 8 points, may seek stability and take the screen horse. However, some people thought that Li Yiting would still go along with the gun, and at the end of the discussion, they all agreed with the latter statement. So everyone helped Yang Guanxuan study the Shun Cannon. After dismantling the shun cannon and considering safety, he still practiced the screen horse for a while, and then he put his mind at ease.
The exciting squeeze drama of the first National Games finally kicked off on the 25th. Yang Guanxuan reached out and placed his cannon, which could not be separated from his sect, while Li Yiting unsurprisingly greeted him with a shun cannon. The two masters have guessed each other's thoughts and routines, and the following depends on who has sufficient preparation and strong adaptability.
Although shun cannon is a relatively sharp change in the struggle at the beginning of chess, if the first party fights steadily and carefully, it is also a very difficult thing for the people who go behind to make a big move, and if they do it recklessly, it will make the situation difficult to clean up. Yang Guanxuan was well aware of this feature, so from the beginning of the layout, he put up a frame style that did not seek merit but sought no fault, patrolled the river with two cars to guard the key points, and then removed the middle cannon to fly up the middle phase, and built a formation like an iron barrel, and then saw what kind of immortal moves Li Yiting had to break the city.
In the face of Yang Guanxuan's strict barriers, Li Yiting still did his best to create an opportunity to win, and after exchanging a car and a cannon, he did gain a certain anti-first status, but unfortunately, the other side's city was really strong, and the chess game did not make substantial progress. Under these circumstances, Li Yiting also knew that the matter had reached this point and could not be forced, so he accepted the plan of the big exchange in a smooth manner, and in the end, the two sides had to make peace.
In this way, Yang Guanxuan became the champion of the historic first National Games with an undefeated record of 5 wins and 2 draws, and Li Yiting and Wang Jialiang were tied for the runner-up with 3 wins and 4. The top three all maintain an unbeaten record, which has never been seen in the past national competitions. Compared with the national champion of the previous year, Li Yiting's runner-up this year is undoubtedly a step back in the ranking, but in the eyes of the leaders of the Sports Committee, the runner-up of the National Games is more valuable than the champion of the general national competition.
Purely from the ranking point of view, compared with last year's national champion, Li Yiting's runner-up this year is undoubtedly slightly inferior, but because the National Games are different from ordinary national competitions, not to mention that this is the groundbreaking first National Games, the weight is even more added, in the eyes of the leaders of the local sports committees, of course, this is regarded as the top priority, so the value of Li Yiting's current runner-up is obviously better than the champion of the previous year.
As mentioned above, Li Yiting entered the Sports Department of the Hubei Provincial Sports Committee after the 1958 national competition, and from 1959 onwards, the provincial and municipal sports committees began to engage in merger work, and the result of the merger was to return to the city, and the relationship between Li Yiting and Li Yiting remained in the municipal sports committee. After the National Games, his monthly salary was raised to 66. 5 yuan, which was as high as the salary of the old athletes and coaches in the central and southern region at that time. Later, his salary rose to an enviable 80 yuan. The reason why he has such a high salary standard is partly because of the national championship, and more importantly, because he is the runner-up of the National Games. Good things don't stop there. In 1959, the national evaluation of senior intellectuals, the entire Hubei provincial sports system only two people were honored to be shortlisted, one was the famous provincial basketball coach Liu Guiyi, the other was Li Yiting. There is also a Rong Ting that Makes Li Yiting more important, that is, he was elected as a member of the Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in the same year.
The acquisition of all these benefits made Li Yiting grateful to the party and the organization, so he often reminisced about the past and compared the treatment of chess players before and after liberation, and could not help but sigh with emotion, deeply realizing that the new and old society had made chess players have a world of difference in life. He felt grateful that he should work harder. In this way, we will repay the love of the party and the people.
The 1960 National Individual Championship was held from October 16 to November 4 at the Working People's Cultural Palace in Beijing, and this tournament is of great significance in the history of Chinese chess: first, the first national team competition and women's exhibition competition; second, the 15-year-old Shanghai Hu Ronghua "turned out to be the world" and won the national championship for the first time, thus beginning his unprecedented "ten consecutive hegemony"; third. Marshal Chen Yi, Vice Premier of the State Council, visited the competition twice during the competition, and finally delivered a warm speech at the closing ceremony of the conference, and personally awarded awards to the teams and individuals who won the championship.
Marshal Chen Yi pointed out in his speech: Chess activities can temper people's morality and mind. Playing more chess after labor is very beneficial. In the future, it is necessary to extensively carry out this activity that is beneficial to physical and mental health among the broad masses, solemnly advocate it, pay attention to and cultivate talents in chess, and continuously improve the level of chess. Comrade Chen Yi also pointed out that this time, Hu Ronghua, a 15-year-old young chess player in Shanghai, won the Chinese chess championship, which is a very gratifying phenomenon. In the future, we will continue to pay attention to the cultivation of new forces.
Chen Yi's personal presence and speech gave great spiritual encouragement to the chess players, and everyone truly realized that in the new society, the status of chess players has been greatly improved.
At this edition of the competition. Li Yiting finished sixth.
Due to natural disasters and various man-made reasons, the economic life of the whole country was becoming increasingly difficult at that time. Many sports and cultural programs were cancelled in 1961, and the supposedly annual National Chess Tournament was not held as a result.
In this year, the Sports Committee divided Li Yiting into a set of high-end housing, which greatly improved his living conditions. The building is the "Kochi Building", a five-storey building with five units, whose residents bring together celebrities and authorities from all walks of life in Wuhan, and it is located on Jiefang Avenue, the main artery of Wuhan. Li Yiting was assigned a two-bedroom and one-hall, using an area of more than 60 square meters, and the director of the sports committee at that time did not have such a good condition of housing. Such a good house, the rent is very cheap, only pay 7 yuan a month, but also can be reimbursed a third.
By the end of 1962, the country's economic situation had eased a little, and the Sixth National Chess Championship was held from November 4 to November 30 in Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province. The race was a one-round single round, with 26 runners and a total of 25 rounds of "marathon" competition.
At the beginning of the competition, the three national champions Yang Guanxuan, Hu Ronghua and Li Yiting left others behind and formed the "First Group", and this competitive situation continued until the end. In the sixth round, Li Yiting defeated Hu Ronghua, the "new branch champion" in 1960, and the points followed Yang Guanxuan in the first place, and he was in good shape. By the 9th round, the three champions competed for a 15-point lead, and the competition was even more intense. After that, the three people either sink or float, but always do not leave the "first group", just to see who is the "leader".
In the 23rd round, the three champions came together with 37 points, dazzling people, not knowing who the crown would end up with, so they had to bet on their idols. Everyone also understands that the chess game has entered the "sprint stage", and every game of chess at this time has a decisive significance, and there can be no mistakes, where to think, it is at this moment that Li Yiting has encountered "misfortune". In the 24th round, Yang Guanxuan and Hu Ronghua both broke through another level, and Li Yiting encountered the desperate resistance of He Shun'an in Shanghai.