Chapter 57 Nie Daochang

In April 1998, Xu Ying, Jiang Hong and I set up a Yiyou Weiqi Culture Company. Xu Ying was the general manager and Jiang Hong was the deputy general manager.At the beginning, it was only engaged in Go training, compiled some Go teaching materials, and filmed the teaching film "Go Beginner Classroom".Later, Guizhou Satellite TV approached us, and together they planned and produced a special program "Playing in the Sea", which included news, elementary Go lectures, and a breakdown of famous games. It is also worth mentioning that at that time, an electric power company in Shaanxi invited me to lead a group of apprentices including Chang Hao, Gu Li, Wang Lei, Zhou Heyang, and Liu Jing to Shaanxi to promote and promote Go in order to express their support for Chinese Go. Yan'an.In front of the cave dwellings in Yan'an, they were surprised, saying that Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou lived in such a crappy place!I said what do you think?Living in this kind of place is not bad, the Long March was even more difficult than this!They are ignorant of the revolutionary traditions of the older generation.

This trip to Yan'an played a very important role in cultivating the patriotic spirit of these players, and it can also be said to have done a great deed for Chinese Go.Although this matter was suggested by me, the whole process was handled by Xu Ying with great efforts. But then something happened that split the company, that is, Xu Ying wanted to fire a man named Gao Si. The cause of the incident was: after the establishment of the company, Gao Si was asked to do training work.I don't know this person. He is just in his early twenties. He is an amateur chess player. His level of Go is not high, but he has a certain ability in training.At the end of the year, when the dividend was distributed, he felt that it was not enough for him, so he privately took away the training teachers and students, and opened another training point.He couldn't continue working for three months and wanted to come back again.Xu Ying disagreed.

He came to me that day and said that Xu Ying was going to fire him, crying.I couldn't see the past, and felt that making a mistake would not lead to dismissal, so I did not agree to dismissal.But Xu Ying said that no one wanted to expel him, he left by himself, and even drove away the teachers and students, and now it is impossible to come back.We had a serious disagreement on this issue. When I asked him to come back, Xu Ying resisted and refused to let him come back. She is the general manager, and she has this power legally, and I can't stop it.So I said that you must insist on firing him, and I will fire you.The two sides froze all of a sudden, it can be said that the face was torn apart.In the end, Xu Ying still didn't let him come back, and then she left too.

Later, Gao Si came to me again and proposed to establish Nie Weiping Go Dojo in partnership.Objectively speaking, the idea of ​​establishing a dojo was first proposed by Gao Si.I thought it was a good thing, so I agreed.As soon as I told Jiang Hong about this, she immediately reminded me: You invested in Yiyou Company with real money, and you set up a dojo outside, and let others use your name, which is different from your company. Go ahead, is there a problem?As soon as I thought it made sense, I said that Nie Weiping's Go Dojo could do it, but it had to be done by Yiyou Company. In this way, Nie Daochang was started, and Zheng Hong and others also participated.At the same time, I hope that Gao Si can also participate, after all, he has a certain ability to teach Go.He said he could come, but he had to give him 20 percent of the shares.

Let you do training, give you a reward, and you want 20% of the shares, saying that his experience is used as dry stock.Who has no experience!For example, I don't have dry stocks.Based on this one, we can't have it at all. Wherever you want to go, I definitely don't want it. From this point of view, Xu Ying should have fired him in the first place.Later, I apologized to Xu Ying several times, saying that I was wrong, and I was indeed negligent at the time. Afterwards, my relationship with Xu Ying has always been very good, but she didn't participate in the ashram anymore. Nie Daochang is the first Go dojo in China. Although the name is called Daochang, I think it is actually a Go school, an advanced Go school.General Go schools are enlightenment, we are advanced.

My consideration at the time was: the national youth team can only accept ten or twenty good Go seedlings each year, but in fact there are sixty or seventy such seedlings in the whole country. These children have nowhere to go if they are rejected by the national youth team. .If they are sent back to the original place, there will be no training atmosphere, no games, and it will definitely be over. This will affect the cultivation of the entire country's reserve force.If we can provide them with an occasion and an opportunity, they can continue to work hard and become useful talents. The dojo was originally designed for 20 people, with all board and lodging included.It quickly grew to forty people, and it couldn't fit in the same place.I found a second address, but at first I thought it was too big.After three years, the number of students had grown to 80, so we had to re-select the address and moved to the current place.

The dojo has also become another home for chess players other than the Chinese Chess Academy, with food and accommodation. Many professional chess players also live here when they compete in Beijing.The Japanese Kwon Dojo came to Beijing for competitions and visits, and they also lived here. The purpose of the Dojo is to first teach how to be a human being, and then teach how to play chess. Anyone who is not good at being a human being will definitely not be able to play chess. The teaching in the dojo has always been very comprehensive. Not only does it not relax in the aspect of "Chinese studies", in fact, many years ago, the freshmen in the dojo had military training subjects.The original commander of the 38th Army was a good friend of mine. Every year, I would bring freshmen into the barracks for training for about a month. Later, my friend retired, and Shijiazhuang was a little farther away, so the military training was changed to It was carried out in a barracks near Beijing. This is an indispensable lesson in the teaching of the dojo.

The students in the dojo often competed with the national junior team. At the beginning, the national junior team was slightly better than us, but the level was very close, and then it was completely tied. Later, with the changes in the situation of the national Go game, Nie Daochang gradually became an amateur, and went to the fixed stage.Every year, there are only 18 to 20 children who are given a fixed age group nationwide, and there are five or six children in Nie Daochang, accounting for one-third. In September 2009, at the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of Nie Daochang, Liu Siming, the president of the Chinese Chess Academy, Hua Yigang, the vice chairman of the Chinese Go Association, and Hua Xueming, the leader of the Chinese Go team, all came to support him, including Gu Li and Wang Lei. Two disciples also came to congratulate.I said in my speech: "In the blink of an eye, Nie Daochang has gone through ten years, and some of the people who came to the dojo with their noses to wipe their noses have now become national players." At that time, many national players were sitting below.This can also be said to be the greatest contribution of the Dojo to Chinese Go.

In the past ten years, Nie Daochang has trained more than 2,000 Go teenagers from nearly 20 provinces and cities across the country. There are 56 children who have been assigned in Nie Daochang. Currently, half of the players participating in the National Siege League are from Nie Daochang. Many outstanding chess players of the national team also came from Nie Daochang, such as Gu Lingyi, Zhu Yuanhao, Chen Yaoye, Pu Wenyao, Zhou Ruiyang, Tan Xiao, Sun Tengyu, Chen Xiaonan, Wang Haoyang, Wang Xiangyun and so on. With the development of the situation, in October 2009, Ma Xiaochun and I jointly established the "Dragon Yiyi Go Research Association".This is specially established for low-level professional chess players. Ma Xiaochun and I go to lectures at least once a month. In addition, we also regularly invite first-line chess players from the national team to review and arrange games, and organize these children to compete with the National Youth Team. competition.

I'm living a normal life now, and I don't have much to say.I often say that the group arena is like the Huangguoshu waterfall that flows down three thousand feet. It is very spectacular, but when it falls below, it turns into a gurgling stream.Everyone is like this. There are magnificent times and calm times, but most of them are calm. My current life is a very calm stream.