The most legendary man in the history of chess, who won the national individual championship four times, went to the sea to do business at his peak

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To say that the most legendary people in the chess world, many people will have an answer in their hearts, such as Yang Guanxuan, Hu Ronghua, Lü Qin, Xu Yinchuan, Jiang Chuan, Wang Tianyi and so on.

But the following chess player must be an important choice for many people.

This is Li Laiqun, a chess master from Hebei, Yan Zhao Jiaozi.

Born in 1959 in Handan, Hebei Province, Li Laiqun showed a talent that was different from ordinary people in chess when he was very young.

Li Laiqun is good at calculation, especially good at long-distance calculation, is named the chess god operator, how strong his calculation power, once known as the most poisonous chess game in the history of chess, it is rumored that Li Laiqun played.

With his powerful and superior computing power, Li Laiqun soon came to prominence in Hebei and the national arena.

In 1978, at the age of nineteen, Li Laiqun had already entered the top four places in the national competition, and a chess player made a brilliant appearance.

Subsequently, in the 1980s and 1981, Li Laiqun won the third and second places in the national competition respectively, steadily rising, one step away from the national laurels.

Finally, in 1982, the twenty-three-year-old Li Laiqun won the national individual championship with a strong performance, achieving a leap from the fourth, third, second to the first, four steps.

Li Laiqun's victory was the first time that the champion of the national individual chess championship crossed the Yellow River and ascended to another highland.

Li Laiqun was extremely powerful, followed by three national championships in 1984, 87 and 91.

Just over thirty years old, with four crowns in hand, Li Laiqun, who was at his peak, made a move that surprised everyone and went to the sea to do business.

It is reported that because in the process of participating in a competition, Li Laiqun went to sit in a sleeper, and found that his sleeping place was occupied, and people did not give way, saying that the chess champion was nothing, Li Laiqun was angry, but he wanted to earn back some face in the society.

After that, Li Laiqun also achieved great success in business, becoming a Confucian businessman who was both good at chess and business.

Now Li Laiqun is 62 years old, although he has not been in the chess world for many years, he still cares about chess, and he knows who participates in the national competition every year, who wins the championship, and what good chess he plays.

Li Laiqun said that if conditions permit, he really wants to come back to play chess again, simply enjoy the happiness brought by chess, in his heart, chess has taken root deeply, he can not leave chess for a lifetime.

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