Chapter 82 Long Yi Research Society
"Old Nie, are you teaching your disciples?"
"Haha, you're wrong this time. This person is really not my disciple. By the way, he is Li Xiangping, the most popular person in our Go world recently. He came to ask me a few questions..."
With the arrival of Ma Xiaofei, the previous guidance was naturally interrupted temporarily, and the two Go masters began to exchange greetings. Li Xiangping noticed that when Lao Nie introduced himself, Ma Xiaofei seemed to look at him twice more.
Ma Xiaofei obviously came to see Lao Nie for something, but the two of them did not avoid the crowd when they talked about the matter:
"Hey, Ma Xiao, you rarely come to my house. What's the matter today?"
"Yes, there is something. It's what we mentioned a few days ago. I came here today to ask what we should do next."
"The thing you mentioned a few days ago? What is it?"
It can be seen that Ma Xiaofei was speechless about Lao Nie's carelessness. He made a gesture:
"It was during the competition in Tongzhou two days ago that we mentioned the cooperation between the two dojos."
Old Nie laughed: "This matter? Haha, I just said it casually at the time, I didn't expect that you, Ma Xiao, actually took it seriously..."
Since they did not avoid everyone when talking about the matter, Li Xiangping quickly knew what they were talking about, because this incident seemed to have happened in real history, that is, "Nie Dojo" and "Ma Dojo" cooperated to establish the "Longyi Research Institute".
Li Xiangping smiled as he listened to the two people discussing this matter while recalling the factors that led to this incident.
The so-called Go Dojo is actually a Go training institution in China, and the "Nie Dojo" founded by Lao Nie has always been the most famous, strongest, and earliest Go training institution in China.
After "Nie Dojo" is "Ma Dojo". In the early years, these two Go training institutions have always ranked top two in the country and are considered the leaders in the industry.
However, starting from last year, this situation began to change. The "Ge Dojo" founded by teacher Ge Yuhong suddenly emerged as a powerful force. The students from their dojo actually grabbed nearly half of the seats in this year's Dan ranking tournament. The number of students who were ranked Dan even exceeded the total of "Nie Dojo" and "Ma Dojo", which seriously threatened the status of "Nie Dao" and "Ma Dao".
That alone would be fine, but what made the two big guys in front of them even more unbearable was that they were both top professional chess players, and were considered the leaders of two generations in the domestic chess world, while Teacher Ge was just an amateur chess player. In real history, Li Xiangping had played chess with Teacher Ge, and his level was about the same as Li Xiangping in his previous life.
A dojo founded by an amateur chess player actually beat the dojo founded by two top chess players. How could the two of them feel? So, partly for the sake of students and market share, and another more important reason, of course, was for face, so the "Long Yi Research Society" appeared.
The "Long Yi Research Society" that appeared in real history was, to put it bluntly, a powerful combination of resources from the two dojo. Well, it was similar to the "enhanced classes" and "improvement classes" in school, which should be about the same meaning.
What Li Xiangping didn't expect was that he actually met Lao Nie and Ma Xiaofei discussing this matter face to face. However, how should I put it? It should be said that although their ideas are good, the two dojos also have demands in this regard, and their interests are consistent. But the two in front of him are just chess players after all. When it comes to some specific matters, such as the training venue, the source of students and teachers, and the fee issue, etc., they are a little confused.
Fortunately, it didn’t matter, because there was the big boss Cai Zhixiong next to him. With such a great man like him around, many specific mundane matters could be resolved on the spot.
"Okay! I think this is a good idea! By the way, if you set up a new research institute, you will need an activity base or a training ground. I think, how about this, don’t I have a chess and card room... Yes, that's the 'Fangyuan Chess and Card Room', why don't you just use my place as the training ground..."
Talking about such specific matters is certainly not what Lao Nie or Ma Xiao are good at. In fact, after finalizing the intention to hold a research meeting, they did not talk too much about specific trivial matters. The two of them mainly talked about two things:
First, how should the members of this research group be composed? Second, how can we conduct more effective teaching?
"Let's do the selection. We'll start with the two dojos, and pick out those with relatively higher skills and better prospects for reaching the professional level. We'll put them in this research institute. By the way, in order to increase competitiveness, I think we can also absorb some capable low-level professional chess players into this research institute..."
When Old Nie said this, he smiled at Li Xiangping:
"For example, for someone like Li Xiangping, we can definitely let him join our research group. If we have someone like training with those teenagers who are trying to get a dan, then I believe our passing rate will definitely increase..."
Li Xiangping blushed, and he interrupted Old Nie a little embarrassedly:
"Well... Mr. Nie, I haven't even reached the professional level yet."
The heartless Old Nie looked as if he had suddenly realized something: "Ah?! Hahaha, I forgot, with your level, I always thought you were a professional chess player."
Old Nie's blunder finally caught Ma Xiaofei's attention. He finally spoke the first words to Li Xiangping. He smiled at Li Xiangping and said:
"You are Li Xiangping? You are good at chess and have your own unique skills. You are a good candidate."
"Yes, yes, yes, good seedlings, good seedlings..."
Old Nie's train of thought is different from that of ordinary people. After hearing Ma Xiaofei mention Li Xiangping, he stopped talking about the research group and started talking about Li Xiangping:
"Ma Xiao, you may not know this, but the one in front of you is Jueyi, the top online chess player who is said to be amazing. His chess skills do have their own characteristics. You know the 'Avalanche Wrong Move' incident, right? That's when I started to pay attention to it..."
Seeing that Old Nie was going off topic, Ma Xiaofei interrupted him with a smile:
"Of course I know Jueyi." Having said this, Ma Xiaofei turned to Li Xiangping and said with a smile:
"Actually, I played chess with you before."
"Ah?! Then what will happen to you after two hits?"
Facing Old Nie's questioning, Ma Xiaofei refused to say more, and just said lightly: "Of course I didn't take advantage of you, I just got it back recently."
Hearing Ma Xiaofei say this, Li Xiangping had a strange expression on his face. It was not because of anything else, but because since he had the plug-in, he only lost to two people online. One was "Big Knife Guan Sheng" Lao Nie, and the other was "Qiantang Gang*Shorty Winter Melon".
Since Ma Xiao just said that, it is very likely that among the 129 winning games of "Jueyi", he won one of them, and then he won one game back using the alias of "Qiantang Gang*Shorty Winter Melon".
Thinking about Ma Xiaofei, who is known as the "chess fairy", he actually used a pseudonym like "Shorty Winter Melon". Li Xiangping felt so jealous.
Li Xiangping's sourness was interrupted by someone, and it was Old Nie:
"Okay, then let's establish this research association, Xiangping, Li Xiangping."
"Ah? What's going on?"
"Would you like to join this seminar?"
"Yes, I do."
Old Nie smiled widely and said, "Okay, then you will be the first member of our research association."
