Go Legend

   Chapter 850 The sixth day of the new year

  On the afternoon of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the Spring Festival holiday was not over yet, but the small office of the dean of the Chinese Chess Academy was crowded with people today.

Not only the owner of this office, Dean Hua, but also the original owner, Dean Wang, (Old Wang is now the chairman of the China Go Association), the national team leader "Elder Xiao Hua", and the head coach of the national team, Yu Bin, Jiudan, and they were scattered. The immortal old Nie and Ma Xiao both showed up today.

   So many big players in the Go world didn't speak now, and all turned their attention to the only outsider in the room, Lao Xu, who was sitting next to Li Xiangping.

   Lao Xu is now looking at something, a piece of statistical data. After he finished reading the document, Lao Xu finally spoke:

   "Oh, the world competition with the highest prize money is still the Ying's Cup? Hehe, I still have some impressions of this competition..."

   said that this old Xu turned his attention to old Nie: "This game should have something to do with Nie Qisheng, right? Time flies so fast, it's been more than 20 years."

Old Nie was a little embarrassed when he heard it—because older chess fans know that the "Ying's Cup" is indeed related to Old Nie. It was his outstanding performance in the Sino-Japanese Go arena that made Ying Changqi The husband saw the hope of the Chinese to win the championship, so he founded the Ying's Cup.

   It's a pity that the first "Ying's Cup" has become a pain in Lao Nie's life. Not only did he greatly reduce his "chess master", but he also fulfilled the Korean Lao Cao in one fell swoop, and made Korean Go a unique pole in the world chess world.

   Of course, Old Nie has already cultivated to perfection, so his embarrassment is only for half a second. After that half second, Old Nie laughed:

   "Haha yes yes, I'm ashamed to say it. When I think about it now, I feel a little sorry for Mr. Ying, but it's okay..."

Speaking of this old Nie pointed to Li Xiangping: "Three years ago, Xiangping finally helped the Chinese hold the Ying's Cup. I heard that Mr. Xiao Ying also deliberately burned the final chess sheet on Mr. Ying Lao's grave. , it can be regarded as a consolation to the spirit under the spring, Xu, you are right, the Ying's Cup has been more than 20 years old, but its championship bonus is still the highest, the highest of all world competitions."

   Hearing that Lao Nie finally returned his words, the people in the chess world nodded secretly, thinking that Lao Nie's EQ has finally improved a little at this age—

   To create a professional competition, the first task is to clarify the amount of the championship bonus, because this is a sign, a symbol, which directly represents the specifications of the competition.

   Everyone was talking about this just now, so when Lao Xu suddenly mentioned the "Ying's Cup", everyone present was actually a little excited--

   Because what kind of person is Lao Xu? Not to mention the well-known Evergrande football team, the most famous dog in the Chinese sports world, Lao Xu actually sponsors the Chinese women's volleyball team and is the largest sponsor in the Chinese volleyball industry.

  It's alright now, Lao Xu suddenly said that he wants to set up a Go competition, so with your big dog's temper, you mentioned the Ying's Cup in the first sentence, so why would your championship prize be lower than the Ying's Cup?

   Of course, although everyone expects Lao Xu to offer a higher price, but this price is not available to others, and Lao Xu can only say it himself--

  Everyone thinks that Lao Nie's EQ has improved and that's what he means. He put the words back, just to remind Lao Xu not to go too far. Now it's your turn to make an offer.

   And when Lao Xu was pondering, Li Xiangping suddenly spoke up, he smiled at Lao Xu:

   "Since Mr. Xu mentioned the Ying's Cup, you may not know it yet. Although the Ying's Cup has the highest prize money in all world competitions, it is not the one with the highest prize money in all Go tournaments."

   "Ah? There is such a thing, what game has a higher prize money than the Ying's Cup?"

   "Japan's chess holy war, as well as their celebrity battle, the prize money for the champion of these two games is higher than the Ying's Cup."

Hearing Li Xiangping suddenly mention these two competitions, everyone present sighed with emotion, thinking that Li Xiangping is more ruthless. He is indeed the son of a big local tyrant. You can see that he is not even satisfied with the Ying's Cup, and he has to be the champion of the new competition. The prize money is not more than these two games.

So everyone who understood it began to give Xu popular science, especially "Elder Xiaohua". She even took out a calculator and did some exchange rate conversion between Japanese yen and US dollars, and clearly told Xu Xu this. The prize money for the champion of the two games is indeed more than the Ying's Cup, especially the Japanese chess holy war, which is close to 500,000 US dollars.

   After Xiaohua finished his popular science, everyone consciously shut up and waited for Lao Xu to make a new round of quotations.

   Lao Xu didn't ponder for long this time, he directly asked Li Xiangping's opinion:

   "Hehe Xiangping, you know that I'm a layman in Go, so come and help me with my staff. How high would you say the championship bonus should be?"

  Li Xiangping did not answer directly, he smiled at Lao Xu:

"By the way, Mr. Xu, I heard that you are not going to renew the contract with XX next season, right? Yes, it is the foreign aid you signed last year for 5 million euros. It is right not to renew the contract, that is obviously A parallel import, saving the 5 million is enough to hold a high-level Go tournament."

  Since Li Xiangping reported the specific numbers, Lao Xu immediately followed suit, he laughed and said:

   "Haha, that's fine, I'll listen to you. The 5 million euros I saved should be regarded as the total budget of the first Evergrande Cup Professional Go Championship."

   Hearing what Lao Xu said, everyone present was surprised and delighted except for Li Xiangping.

You must know that 5 million euros this year, but more than 30 million is close to 40 million RMB, and if there is such a budget for a Go game, even if it is about a hundred people, the championship bonus can be set at 5 million to 8 million RMB In between, far exceeding all current Go events.

   But at the same time as the surprise, everyone present was actually a little sad—

   Mainly because Li Xiangping said just now that 5 million euros is only enough to sign a parallel professional football player, but with the same amount of money, he can even hold a top-level Go game.

After the first item was finalized, especially seeing that the total budget was so sufficient, everyone was eager to promote the second item, which was to discuss the scale and specific format of the competition, but Li Xiangping came out to interrupt again, and I saw him. Said to Old Xu:

"By the way, Mr. Xu, I forgot to remind you one thing. Now the Chess Association has a rule. If anyone wants to start a Go competition, especially the World Championship, they must first pay a certain deposit to the Chess Association. Elder Wang?"

"Oh?"

  Old Xu was taken aback for a while, and he also turned his attention to the old dean Wang Lunan.

This time, it was Li Xiangping who was the villain. He personally explained to Lao Xu that this was mainly because Go was too niche, not marketized enough, and had no profitability. Therefore, to start a Go competition, it used to rely on Go. Hobbyists use love to generate electricity.

   It’s just that in the early years, some people didn’t think that way. Maybe they always felt that they were different and their marketing skills were extraordinary. Starting a Go game by themselves might not only be famous, but it might not even be profitable.

As a result, in the past ten years or so, there have been a large number of short-lived events in the domestic chess world. Some people ran to the chess court. At the beginning, their chests were slapped loudly, and the cows were blowing bigger than the other, and the blueprint drawn was also the same. A beautiful match.

  Chess Academy was bothered by them, but it was not easy to offend them, so they set a threshold and introduced a security deposit system.

   "Oh, how much is this margin?"

  Li Xiangping stretched out three fingers:

   "The Chess Association now stipulates that whoever starts a Go competition, especially a world competition, must first pay the total budget for three years."

  Li Xiang paused, then continued to explain to Lao Xu:

"Of course, in fact, the chess association won't ask for a penny for this money, just to ensure that a game can be held at least three times. By the way, holding three times is the minimum requirement, and there is no upper limit. Mr. Xu, like you, it’s impossible to let the Evergrande Cup survive for three years, let’s not talk about building a century-old store, but why do we have to hold the tenth and eighth sessions first?”

   Lao Xu smiled wryly when he heard this, thinking what was going on? I listen to what you mean, I will not pay the deposit for the tenth and eighth sessions first, as if my company will go bankrupt.

   The budget for one term is 30 million to 40 million, then 30 to 400 million in 10 years, and to pay so much money at one time, to be honest, Xu is still a little hesitant.

   Just waiting for him to see Li Xiangping looking at him calmly, thinking that this guy was in Haojiang that day, he won so much money in one night, and he felt that his calmness was very normal.

   is a scene person, so how could Lao Xu admit that he was a coward, so Lao Xu laughed and said:

   "Haha, yes, I listened to Xiang Ping. As long as the details are finalized, I will pay the total budget for 10 sessions at one time."

  Other people were surprised and delighted again, and at the same time, they felt again in their hearts that it would be good to have Li Xiangping in the Go world. Look at him, the second-generation super rich, not only can he play Go well, but his bargaining power is also top-notch.

   Now that the money matter is completely settled, the next step is to discuss other details.

  Inspired by Li Xiangping, the discussion that followed was very lively, and everyone talked a lot, and started to make a specific competition system design for the next "Evergrande Cup".

   And at this time, Li Xiangping stopped talking. Listening to him, he suddenly remembered a Go novel he had read in his previous life. A guy called the dead and the dead designed a very strange game system:

  The finals used Jiufan chess. In fact, there were 3 quick chess games, 3 normal games of 3 hours, and 3 games of learning the Japanese "two-day system".

   Really don’t say it, don’t look at that guy’s reading, and he hasn’t written a masterpiece for so many years, but the Go novel he wrote really has some international influence—

  For example, after he designed the competition system, it was really used for reference in real life.

   However, it is not the Go world that borrows the game system, but the Japanese shogi world.

   Soon after the novel was finished, there really was a shogi competition in Japan that borrowed that system. And a person in the Japanese shogi community personally admitted that the reason why the competition system came up was inspired by a Chinese online novel.

   "Well, no wonder later generations, Japanese shogi is much better than Japanese Go, which also makes sense..."

   Just when Li Xiangping was thinking about it.

   "Xiang Ping, tell me your opinion."

"what?"

   (end of this chapter)