Go Legend

  Chapter 69

After defeating Cao Xunxuan's ninth dan, Li Xiangping stretched his waist and was ready to stroll around the arena. After all, this is the arena of the World Series. Li Xiangping had never had such an experience in his previous life, not to mention that the second round of the competition was about to be held. The day after tomorrow, the lottery will be drawn tonight, and Li Xiangping also wants to take the opportunity to see the situation of other chess players.

   "Xiangping, here"

   It's a pity that he was stopped before he started shopping. The person who called him was Zhang Xiaoyong, a reporter from "Go World". He waved to Li Xiangping at the door of the research room next door.

Li Xiangping looked back and found that most of the games are not over yet, and at this time, most of the chess games should be at the critical moment when the winner is about to be decided, so watching the game at this time does not seem to be Too suitable.

   So Li Xiangping left the competition hall and walked in the direction of reporter Zhang Da. When he arrived at the door of the research room, reporter Zhang Da smiled and punched Li Xiangping affectionately:

   "It's amazing, Lao Cao was actually taken down by you, tsk tsk, Xiang Ping, come in and watch chess with us."

But Li Xiangping knew that the man in front of him was a fan of Lao Cao. He published a collection of Lao Cao's games a few years ago. It can be said that it was he who introduced the name "Soft Wind and Quick Gun" to China. chess enthusiast.

When    was walking on the road, Zhang Xiaoyong began to make an appointment to Li Xiangping:

"Xiangping, are you going to be okay tomorrow? If there's nothing wrong, I'll come to find you and give you a detailed introduction to today's game of chess. Tsk tsk, your move today is like a deep-water bomb. I don't think it's a problem to be selected as our magazine's best player of the year, so I'll ask you to explain it for yourself."

   "Tomorrow? I have to go to school tomorrow. Reporter Zhang should be at night. After the lottery in the evening, let's play this game together."

  Reporter Zhang Da was stunned at first, then he remembered that the guy in front of him was still an amateur chess player, a serious student of the second year of junior high school, and then he laughed:

   "Heh, that's fine, let's go at night, good evening. To be honest, I'm really impatient now. I want to know how you came up with this wonderful move during the competition."

   "It's not by chance" Li Xiangping sighed in his heart.

   Speaking from the bottom of his heart, this is actually the reason why he wants to take the initiative to explain this game of chess today. Through today's game of chess, Li Xiangping has a deeper understanding of his own chess skills, especially Shi Da Qi's mid-game strength, which makes him have the urge to introduce it.

In Li Xiangping's opinion, Lao Cao's loss to Lao Shi today is not accidental. Looking back, Li Xiangping believes that Lao Cao made a mistake in his strategic choice, because he "does not seek merit but seeks faultless" in the layout stage ", which gave him no advantage in the opening stages.

   What does this amount to? This seems to be equivalent to the fact that both sides of the game skip the layout stage and go directly to the mid-game wrestling. As for the result of the competition between the two sides, it seems that Lao Shi is slightly better now.

   When outsiders see this game of chess, they may praise Lao Shi's "deep-water bomb-like skill", but as the closest bystander, Li Xiangping knows the truth is not the case.

Because he had several exchanges with his plug-in during the game, so in the current Li Xiangping's view, that skillful move is a natural product, and it can only be regarded as the "last blow", not all of victory.

   People often praise the "successful hand accidentally", but to be honest, in the field of Go, a move that is not a "successful chance" is actually more valuable than a "smart hand accidental gain". Because the former means normality, means a higher level, and means that such wonderful moves can be made frequently.

   These are the reasons why Li Xiangping wanted to take the initiative to introduce this game of chess.

   Just between the words, the two came to the research room next door. The research room was very large and there were many people, but at this time, Li Xiangping did not see any famous chess players here. Li Xiangping was still strange at first, but he was relieved quickly after thinking about it.

Because although this is a world competition, it is only the first round after all, so the famous players in the Go world are either still in the game, and those who have not participated, Li Xiangping puts himself in his shoes and thinks about it, if it is his own , that of course is unlikely to come here at this time.

  The research room is mainly divided into several areas according to nationality. Reporter Zhang Da and Li Xiangping naturally came to the area where the Chinese are located.

   "Ha, our little hero has triumphed, okay, okay."

   Seeing the two sitting at the top, Li Xiangping politely stepped forward to say hello:

   "Good old Wang, good teacher Hua."

   The "Wang Lao" in Li Xiangping's mouth is Wang Lunan. He is currently the vice chairman of the China Go Association, and everyone knows now that he is about to take over another Chinese Go veteran, Chen Chaoyue, as the president of the China Go Academy.

The "Mr. Hua" in Li Xiangping's mouth is of course another veteran of Chinese Go, Hua Yigang. He is currently the director of the Go Department of the Chinese Chess Academy and the leader of the National Go Team, but he will be promoted to China in a short period of time. Vice President of the Chess Academy.

It should be said that the two of them are both bigwigs in the Go world, but at this time, Li Xiangping is not familiar with these two, let alone have any friendship, and in the same way, these two are also unfamiliar with Li Xiangping, after all In recent years, thanks to Lao Nie's blessing, more chess players are learning chess, and young men like Li Xiangping are gone.

It is for this reason that although the two bosses were very polite to Li Xiangping and their attitude was very kind, but after greeting Li Xiangping and congratulating Li Xiangping, everyone did not communicate more, and instead focused their attention. in other unfinished games.

Li Xiangping noticed that there were two chess games in front of the two bosses. These should be two games that were still going on. After listening to the discussion for a while, Li Xiangping knew that one of the games was Chang Hao's game, and the other one was Chang Hao's game. The plate is Yu Bin's game.

   As for why these two discs? This is of course very understandable. After all, these two are currently ranked in the top two in the domestic ranking, so when Ma Xiaofei does not participate in the competition, these two naturally have high hopes and are considered to be the best among all participating Chinese chess players. There is a competitive strength, so it is normal to attract the attention of the two bigwigs.

You must know that the perspective of these bosses is of course different from that of ordinary chess fans. For example, in the first round of the game, in the eyes of ordinary chess fans, it is of course that "Exquisite Art" VS Lao Cao is more eye-catching than Chang Hao VS Park Zhien. What do you think? Of course, Chang Hao's game of chess was more important. This is also the reason why the two big bosses will put these two games of chess in front of them.

   Seeing this scene, Li Xiangping certainly wouldn't have any emotions like "indignation", but as a rebirth, he had another feeling in his heart.

  From the perspective of future generations, the current Chinese Go is in an extremely low period, why is it so low? Li Xiangping believes that from the two games in front of him, he can actually manage the leopard.

   Are Chang Hao and Yu Bin qualified leaders? Li Xiangping really thinks that they are both unqualified. Needless to say, Yu Bin's Jiudan, he was born with the temperament of "the second child of ten thousand years", and although Chang Hao is already the first in the domestic ranking at this stage, Li Xiangping knows that he is far from mature now, and his shoulders are very immature. He simply can't afford the big game of Chinese Go.

   To tell the truth, in the current Chinese chess world, the truly reliable player is still Ma Xiaofei, but Ma Xiaofei cannot beat Li Canghao. This is the real main reason for the so-called "dark decade" of Chinese Go.

   "Well, with Lao Shi's ability to show his ability to 'not by chance', I wonder if he can shorten the dark period of Chinese Go by a few years."

   Just when Li Xiangping was thinking about it,

   "Xiang Ping, Xiang Ping", but Team Leader Hua took the initiative to talk to Li Xiangping, and Team Leader Hua said to Li Xiangping with a smile:

   "Can Xiangping help us judge the outcome of these two chess games?"

   Since these two chess games are nearing the end, and he still has a plug-in, Li Xiangping quickly gave a judgment, and he still made a very positive judgment:

   "Teacher Chang has already won, and Teacher Yu, I think he has lost."

   After 5:00 pm, the first round of each game began to end one after another. The second person to end the battle was Gu Dali, but he lost the game. He was actually defeated by Kato Masao, who was in his 50s, at 9 dan. It seems that the "Gu Lian" hat will continue to be worn.

   Immediately afterwards, Chang Hao defeated the Korean female chess player Park Ji-eun, Yu Bin lost to the Japanese chess player Wang Licheng, and Li Xiangping predicted two chess games accurately.

   Immediately after, Wang Lei won the opponent, Zhou Heyang won the game, and 4 Chinese players have entered the top 16.

  Unfortunately, after that, there was no news of Chinese players winning chess. As a result, by 6 o'clock in the evening, the game was all over, and the Chinese players had 4 wins and 5 losses, and only 4 players entered the top 16.

   At 7:30 p.m., the second round will be drawn.

   After confirming his opponent, Li Xiangping smiled, because he didn't know whether the draw was good or bad.

  Because his opponent is Kato Masao 9dan, who eliminated Gu Dali in the first round.

   (end of this chapter)