She was lying in a hospital bed, surrounded by various instruments, twitching with a breathing tube in her mouth, shaking from time to time, and there seemed to be wet tears in her eyes.
Before entering school, she was an amateur chess player and trained in Beijing. If it weren't for her sudden illness, she would be one of the most promising girls to become a professional chess player and struggle on the professional Go stage in Ningbo.
Although there is no evidence that her coma is related to the pressure of impacting professional players, Zhao Qi's six-year chess career in Beijing has been as monotonous and depressing as a black and white player in Go.
More realistically, for her, all the glory and dreams about Go seem to end in cruelty.
Life is only black and white.
Zhao Qi has been training and living in the "Wild Fox Go Research Association".
There are dozens of Go Dojo in Beijing, of which only four are the most famous, and the wild fox is one of them. In addition, there are Ge Yuhong Weiqi Dojo, Nie Weiping Weiqi Dojo and Ma Weiqi Dojo. In recent years, almost all the students in these four Dojo have successfully passed the professional chess exam.
Here, there is a round robin every week. Before each round robin, three players advance to the group and the last three drop to the group. This competition mode means that as long as they have the strength, "heavy-segment" teenagers can compete with professional chess players and get free learning opportunities.
Before going into a coma, Zhao Qi took part in his last round of round robin in Wild Fox. She scored eight points in the fourth group, ranking fourth, and had to face the healthy group. This result may be too unfair for her. Zhao Qi made special efforts in learning chess, especially after her father died in 2007, and her life was nothing but black and white.
At 8 o'clock every morning, she comes to the training room on time. It's slow chess in the morning and ends around noon 12. There will be an hour's lunch break after lunch, and the second game of slow chess will start at 2: 30 pm. After dinner, 6: 30 to 8: 30 is the resumption time, and 8: 30 to 10 is the examination time for life and death questions. Day after day, year after year.
In order to concentrate on learning chess, most children in Dojo don't take any cultural classes, and Zhao Qi is no exception. Therefore, Chong Duan's becoming a professional chess player has become the only dream of these young chess players.
Lose the most important game of chess with the smallest gap.
It was brought into this black and white world by his father Zhao.
Zhao Ceng is an amateur chess king in Heilongjiang Province. When his daughter was 8 years old, he noticed her Go talent. Unlike most children who learn chess, they have never participated in any training courses. From the simplest "four sons surrounded by one son" to the complicated middle game confrontation, and finally to the subtle means, Zhao taught them by hand.
200 1 In order to improve her daughter's chess learning environment, Zhao proposed to move her family from Jiamusi to Daqing. Five years in Daqing may be the happiest five years for this family. The atmosphere there is good. Under the leadership of Zhao, he made rapid progress and began to emerge in the competition.
When Zhao Qi 14 years old, her amazing Go talent made her parents decide to go to Beijing. To this end, the family almost put all of their own. In Beijing, his father Zhao went to various Dojo to teach chess, while his mother took care of her life at home full-time. Despite financial constraints, Li Tongtong believes that with Zhao Qi's strength, the good days of this family will not be too far away.
However, misfortune soon came to this family.
On June 7, 2007, Zhao moved to the living room sofa to sleep alone because she was worried that her snoring would affect her daughter's rest. But after this sleep, I never woke up.
After his father died, Zhao Qi worked harder and put pressure on himself, hoping to become a professional chess player as soon as possible and bring some income to his family.
This summer, she participated in the national Weiqi qualifier for the first time. In the total *** 1 1 round of women's team competition, Zhao Qi faced Yin Mingming, who had won nine games in a row before1round. Speaking of the chess game at that time, Yin Mingming, now a professional chess player and studying in the United States, still remembers it vividly. She said: "At that time, I had basically set the paragraph in advance, and there was no psychological burden. On the contrary, Zhao Qi may want to win too much, and there are psychological fluctuations under the advantage. In the end, I made an official mistake and won half an eye. "
In this way, Zhao Qi lost perhaps the most important chess game in her life with the smallest gap, and also missed the world of professional chess players.
From 19 in 2007 to 26th in 20 1 1, Zhao Qi has participated in the qualifying tournament for five years in a row, but its performance is getting worse year by year.
The middle group is Zhao Qi's weakness, especially when faced with many clues and choices, she always seems hesitant. A chess player who is familiar with Zhao Qi said that the girl is always afraid of being defeated in the battle, so she often chooses the simplest and clearest chess, and she can bear it.
However, chess is like life. Many times, "not avoiding war" is the only way to win.
No one can guarantee that. You're not next.
Saturday, June 9th. Zhao Qi sent a short message to her mother on her way home after a week of training: "I have a cold and a headache. Buy me some fruit when you come back. "
Li Tongtong didn't think much, for children who play chess, headaches are a common thing. So, after work at nine o'clock in the evening, she found some cold medicine for Zhao Qi, and Zhao Qi fell asleep after eating.
After her husband died, Li Tongtong had to shoulder the heavy responsibility of maintaining the family's livelihood. While opening a restaurant, she held a training course on Go, gradually neglecting the care for her daughter. Even the weekend before Zhao Qi was admitted to the hospital, she didn't take the time to accompany her to the hospital.
On June 13, Zhao Qi, who was ill, decided to go out with her mother because she had an appointment with the children in the training class.
"That day, Zhao Qi went downstairs very slowly. I asked her what was wrong. She said she had a terrible headache. " Li Tongtong recalled. 10 o'clock, Zhao Qi suddenly said that he wanted to go to the bathroom, then he sat on the ground, shook his head hard and shouted "I want to throw up, I want to throw up".
Li Tongtong tried to pull her daughter up, but Zhao Qi was so strong that she had to call 9 1 1. The ambulance took Zhao Qi to Yanjiao People's Hospital nearby. After a simple examination, it was confirmed that Zhao Qi was infected with the central nervous system. The doctor on duty sedated her and used antiviral drugs at the same time.
The next day, Zhao Qi, who was completely unconscious, suddenly deteriorated and began to twitch all over, and was transferred to Union Medical College Hospital. The doctor told Li Tongtong that he must use a ventilator, or his life would be in danger. But the situation has not improved. Zhao Qi's convulsions became more and more serious, and his heart rate was abnormally high until he was sent to ICU.
"When Zhao Qi was sick this time, many children were very sad when our Dojo organized donations, especially the girl who had a good relationship with Zhao Qi." The head of a famous Weiqi Dojo in Beijing said, "Headaches are so common here that no one can guarantee that he won't be the next person to get meningitis coma."
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There are such a group of children in Beijing. Their ages are between 10 and 17. The number is small, about 300 to 400, but they represent the highest level of amateur Go in China. In a few years or even longer, the world Go champion will also be born from them.
In Weiqi Dojo, children spend more than 12 hours every day on playing chess, resuming games and doing problems.
Whether successful or not, these chess boys bear not only one person's future, but also the expectation and glory of the whole family. On the one hand, it is the enthusiasm of parents, on the other hand, it is the danger that chess boy becomes a professional chess player. Take 20 1 1 as an example. There are 19 men and 3 women who become professional players by stages. However, millions of people all over the country are learning Go.
Ge Yuhong, the head of "Ge Yuhong Weiqi Dojo", calculated an account: a family accompanying students has an average monthly rent of 3,000 yuan, tuition of 2,400 yuan, living expenses of 3,000 yuan and small class fees of 2,000 yuan. Plus going out to compete, the annual cost is about 1.6 million to 1.7 million. According to the average five-year career, the total expenditure is 800,000 to 850,000, which is definitely not a small sum.
On April 24th, Los Angeles Times reported that Tang Ke, an American Go genius, won the national junior Go championship at the age of 10. His parents didn't want to delay his talent in this field, so they sent him to the Go Dojo in Beijing to learn chess. I thought I would be able to fly freely after playing in the Dojo known as the "Devil's Academy" for two years. Unexpectedly, after studying for a year and a half, Tang Ke quit. Even after returning to the United States for a long time, the former "genius boy" didn't want to touch those black and white again.
In the eyes of Zhao Gang (a pseudonym), the head of the Dojo, "this road is too cruel". He said: "Since I was six years old, I lost all my happiness and gave everything, but I may not succeed." In the world of Go, there are many sad examples than happy ones. "
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