Next.
Two-level reversal.
Change of position between host and guest.
After reciting poems for a while, it was already ten o'clock in the morning.
Originally, the second incident was about to begin, but Li Jie's cell phone suddenly rang.
The call came from the Chess Academy. The Chess Academy knew that Li Jie had returned last night. Today's call was to ask him to go to the Chess Academy.
Although Li Jie announced that he would no longer participate in professional competitions, he is still a chess player who has won the world championship. If he continues to hold the title of amateur, it will always look bad.
Moreover, the chess academy is also planning to let Li Jie go to the chess academy to serve as a sparring partner for other chess players.
Therefore, the ninth-dan rank still needs to be issued.
For such a good thing, Li Jie naturally refused to accept anyone who came. He chatted with the leaders of the chess academy for a while and agreed to go to the chess academy tomorrow morning.
As for today, I definitely want to spend more time with Tang Li.
Continuous battles not only consumed physical strength, but also caused some physical damage.
Is it a manly thing to leave someone alone at such a time?
Not long after Li Jie hung up the phone here, Tang Li's phone rang over there.
The two of them looked at each other and realized, good guys, this is the phone number from the chess academy.
While answering the phone, Tang Li coughed twice, trying to make her voice less hoarse.
After making preparations, Tang Li stood up and leaned on the bedside to answer the phone.
The reason why Tang Li wanted to sit up was mainly out of respect. The sounds a person makes when lying down are different from the sounds they make when sitting.
"Hello, Mr. Nie."
Upon hearing the word 'Nie Lao', Li Jie immediately understood the identity of the caller. Apart from that person, who else in the chess world would be called 'Nie Lao'?
"Xiao Tang, I'm not disturbing you by calling you so early, right?"
Everyone in the Go circle knows that Mr. Nie is a night owl, and staying up late is completely common. Ten o'clock is indeed a bit early for him.
"No no."
After saying that, Tang Li glared at Li Jie and pushed away the troublesome hand.
"Mr. Nie, what are your instructions?"
There was a hearty smile on the other end of the phone.
"It's nothing. Are you still in Yanjing?"
"here I am."
"Well, it's good to be here. Are you free tomorrow morning? If you are free, come to Qiyuan."
"If you're free, what time will you arrive tomorrow morning?"
Hearing this, Tang Li vaguely understood something.
Li Jie answered the call on the front foot, and she also received the call on the back foot. Although it was not from the same chess academy leader, the time was the same.
"Anywhere around seven or eight in the morning."
"OK."
Tang Li agreed immediately. Then, she hesitated for a while and asked.
"Mr. Nie, can I take the liberty to ask, is going to the chess academy tomorrow related to 'Gao Qiang'?"
"oh?"
Mr. Nie was surprised at first, and then he seemed to think of something, and a rather weird laughter came from the other end of the phone.
"It seems he has told you everything."
Immediately afterwards, Mr. Nie said frankly.
"It has something to do with Xiao Gao. So, given the relationship between the two of you, let me talk to you first."
"No, next year, no, isn't the Chunlan Cup going to start in March this year?"
The full name of Chunlan Cup is 'Chunlan Cup World Professional Go Championship', an event jointly organized by the Chinese Go Association and Chunlan Group.
China's Chunlan Cup and Yingshi Cup (hosted by Wanwan), Neon's Fujitsu Cup, Bangziguo LG Cup and Samsung Cup are all the five major professional Go cups in the world.
(After 2009, there will be a BC Credit Card Cup organized by Bangzi, but the history of this cup is very short. It started in 2009 and stopped in 2013)
Among the five major cup competitions, only the Chunlan Cup is held in mainland China. Although China is a large country, for the chess academy, the Chunlan Cup is held at home.
If the results of a competition held at home are not good enough, not only will the chess institute be embarrassed, but the chess players will also not be happy, and even the chess fans will not be happy.
Although Chinese players swept all the top four in the last Chunlan Cup, according to regulations, Chinese players accounted for nearly half (11) of the 24 quotas for this Chunlan Cup.
But there is a saying in the art of war that those who make good use of troops must first consider defeat.
If you think that you can win the Chunlan Cup with half of the quota and continue the glory of the previous tournament, then you would be underestimating the enemy.
This time, although there are only four contestants from Bangzi Country, big and small Li compete together.
(In this era, Da Li generally refers to 'Li Changhao', and Xiao Li refers to 'Lee Sedol')
These two people are the number one enemies in this competition.
The leader of the chess academy called Tang Li, mainly because he wanted to use her connections to invite the 'new world champion' to the chess academy as a sparring partner.
Looking for Tang Li was actually a helpless move.
Who made Li Jie rise so suddenly, and he rarely communicated with the Go community? Tang Li had the best relationship with him in the entire Go community.
And the relationship between the two is suspected to be a couple.
The reason why it is 'suspected' is because the two have not admitted it publicly.
However, Tang Li somewhat misunderstood what Mr. Nie said.
She interrupted Mr. Nie for the first time.
"Mr. Nie?"
"you say. "
Hearing this, Tang Li's heart suddenly tightened. Her move just now was too bold!
Although Mr. Nie's voice was calm and did not sound angry, it was well known that Mr. Nie had quite a temper.
Of course, this is a description of low emotional intelligence.
The description of high emotional intelligence should be 'true temperament'.
However, the words had been spoken and the deal was done. Tang Li mustered up the courage to continue.
"I...I want to say that if you want me to persuade Gao Qiang to participate in the Chunlan Cup, I may not be able to do it."
"Ha ha."
After saying that, Tang Li was about to apologize, but was interrupted by Mr. Nie's laughter.
"Xiao Tang, you have misunderstood me."
"Here, I would like to express my position on behalf of myself and the Chess Academy. Since Xiao Gao has said that he is not willing to continue participating in the competition, we will definitely respect his ideas."
I have to say that Lao Nie does have the confidence to say this.
The last Chunlan Cup won all the top four, and this Chunlan Cup, if nothing else goes wrong, Chinese chess players won seven of the top eight seats in one fell swoop!
Except for Shi Buddha, all chess players from other countries were eliminated.
Although Shi Fo was very powerful and made it all the way to the finals, he still lost to Chang Hao in the finals and only finished second.
"Actually, the Chess Academy and I just want Xiao Gao to come to the Chess Academy to guide the participating players."
"I'm sorry, Mr. Nie, I misunderstood you."
Upon hearing that she had made a misunderstanding, Tang Li immediately apologized.
"No, no need to apologize. I'll leave this task to you. Xiao Tang, you have to pay more attention."
Tang Li didn't hear anything when she said this, but Li Jie on the side did hear something meaningful.
"well."
Tang Li dared to refuse when the elder said something.
