Go Legend

   Chapter 63 The first round opponent

  The time has come to early December, and the 5th "Samsung Cup" main game is about to start. The night before the game, Li Xiangping was going to the Chinese Chess Academy to participate in the opening ceremony of the main game, which was also the drawing ceremony of the first round of the top 32.

   "Xiangping, don't hesitate, the lottery ceremony started at 7pm, it's already past 6pm, you know the road conditions in the capital at this time"

   "Okay, right away."

   Li Yuanhu is urging Li Xiangping, but Li Xiangping is urging his plug-in:

"Okay, Ding'an brother, don't watch this person's chess today, you've watched it for more than a month, haven't you seen enough? By the way, this person is the defending champion of this competition, and also the No. 1 seed in the tournament. Player, what kind of character he is, you will know at a glance."

  Li Xiangping thinks it's funny when he thinks about it. Since the last time he was interviewed by a reporter from Zhang Da and came up with a "Li Xiangping version of the weapon spectrum", Lao Shi has put Li Canghao in mind. As if he wanted to find out why he was ahead of him, in the past month or so, Shi Daqisheng mainly watched Da Li's chess. Research.

   But he just studied it. He didn't want to say what he gained, or what he had learned. He also played a mystery to Li Xiangping, so that even Li Xiangping didn't know the specific situation of his cheating.

   But although he doesn't know how far his plug-in has grown, Li Xiangping still has a cautiously optimistic attitude towards the next game.

Because Li Xiangping can now be sure of two things: the first is that Shi Daqisheng didn't say anything about putting Li ahead of him, but Li Xiangping could feel his dissatisfaction. At the very least, he is now Must be suffocating.

The second thing is that in the last month of training, Lao Shi showed an excellent state. After all, even breaking the top five masters of the national team is not something that anyone can do casually, and Lao Shi last month In fact, only these 5 games were played, and the other 25 games were defeated by Li Xiangping.

   Li Xiangping didn't pay much attention to his shaved head. His own family knows his own affairs, and he knows his current true level, which is actually the level before the time-travel. In other words, that is actually the level of Li Xiangping when he was 31 years old.

As for the 31-year-old Li Xiangping, it must have been less than Li Xiangping's game when he was 13 years old. This is often said in the Go world. If nothing else, it is just a matter of proficiency, so let the current Li Xiangping, He was at least half the level of Li Xiangping when he was in the stage. Li Xiangping was naturally well aware of this, so he did not take these defeats to heart.

And the reason why he went to practice this time in such high spirits is that his feelings are at play. After all, Li Xiangping also had such a dream when he was competing in dan uan. This month, it can be considered that his wish has been fulfilled.

Second, after defeating Kobayashi Koichi in the final round of the preliminaries, Li Xiangping swelled up a bit. He mistakenly thought that he was really like that, but the past month made him completely sober, Li Xiangping Now I deeply know that with the true level of my deity, I may be barely considered a karma 6 now, but even in the karma 6 group, I may be the one who is relatively good.

   But fortunately, he now has a plug-in, a plug-in that can be ranked in the top 5 in history, and seems to be able to continue to improve, which makes him look forward to the next game.

   "Xiang Ping, Lao Li, go."

  When the father and son just went out, it was Lao Cai who ran up to pick them up. It was 10 minutes to 7:00. The three of them came to the Chinese Chess Academy and appeared at the draw for the 5th "Samsung Cup" top 32 match.

   After arriving at the venue, Li Xiangping immediately separated from the two. After all, he is a contestant and must sit with the contestants.

Li Xiangping sat next to Gu Dali. In this Samsung Cup, a total of 9 Chinese chess players entered the main competition, including Li Xiangping Gu Dali Kong Erjie and other 6 chess players who passed the preliminaries. In addition, there are three national seed players, Chang Hao, Wang Lei and Yu Bin.

It is worth mentioning that Ma Xiaofei, the runner-up in the previous competition, was also eligible to be exempted, but because of the small actions of South Korea in the last finals, this arrogant genius was a little annoyed, and he gave up this competition as soon as he was annoyed. , Li Xiangping looked around in the middle of the crowd. Today, he did not see the figure of this "horse demon knife" in China.

   After seeing the Chinese delegation, Li Xiangping couldn't help but look in the direction of the Korean delegation. Today's Korean Go is definitely at its heyday.

   Cao Xunxuan, Xu Fengzhu's sword is not old, Li Canghao, Liu Changhe is in full bloom, Li Shishi, Cui Zhehan are emerging. When Li Xiangping saw Li Shishi, he remembered that it seemed that this year, Li Shishi defeated Liu Changhe in the "Fujitsu Cup" final and had officially entered the world championship club.

   South Korea's "Four Heavenly Kings" plus Xiaoli, these five are world champions. Compared with their prosperous lineup, whether it is the Chinese delegation or the Japanese delegation, they are much more shabby.

After seeing the Korean delegation, Li Xiangping's eyes swept to the Japanese delegation. Compared with China and South Korea, the Japanese delegation was the smallest. Only 6 players entered the top 32 this time. In fact, compared with China, they The number of seed players is the same, but the declining Japanese Go is not good in the qualifiers, and often can't get a few tickets.

   "This is Lao Zhao, this is Kato, this is Yitian, this is Xiao Linjue, this is Mr. Wang Licheng? This is"

   Among the 6 Japanese chess players who participated, the other 5 were quickly recognized by Li Xiangping, but the last one, Li Xiangping could not remember his name.

   Fortunately, Li Xiangping saw it. He saw the sign next to him with the words "Yamada Kisansheng" written on it. After seeing the name, Li Xiangping couldn't help but take a few more glances at the chess player.

Because if he remembers correctly, this "Samsung Cup" is the most glorious moment for this chess player. He won the runner-up of this competition, which is also his only world runner-up, and even his only world championship semi-final. .

Seeing the runner-up naturally thinks of the champion. Li Xiangping remembers that in real history, the champion of this competition seems to have been won by Liu Changhe. From 1998 to 2003, it was the peak of this chess player, just in the past few years. , he won 5 of his total 6 championships,

   When Li Xiangping looked at Liu Changhe again, his gaze was interrupted by Gu Dali:

   "Master, don't look at it, you are a dignified master, do you have a good demeanor, so get ready, this time you may be the first to draw lots."

"Oh?"

  Because he won another game with Gu Dali last month, plus the previous game of Xiuqin VS Xiudou, Gu Dali now jokingly calls Li Xiangping a "master".

  Gu Dali leaned in front of Li Xiangping and whispered: "Who made you the youngest among the top 32? The rules were announced just now, and this draw will start from the youngest."

Hearing this, Li Xiangping focused his attention, because he knew that a lottery like this was more complicated and needed to take care of two principles. One of them was the well-known principle in the Go game that "the players of the country do not meet in advance", and the second principle was The principle is that in the first round, "seeded players do not meet in advance", that is to say, the first round of competition is a match between 16 seeded players and 16 qualifiers.

   It is precisely because the rules are more complicated, coupled with various "leader's speeches", etc., that the official lottery will not start until around 7:40. However, Li Xiangping was not the first to go to the lottery. You must know that there were two women's groups in the qualifiers. Based on the principle of women's priority, the first to play the lottery were two female chess players.

  The two female chess players are Chinese Rui Naiwei and Korean Park Ji-eun. It is a pity that both of them are representing Korea. Not long ago, "Brother Nai" just became a guest player of the Korean Chess Academy.

  The luck of the two female chess players is still "good". Park Zhien was the first to play, and she was the first to draw Chang Hao. At present, the first player in China's Go ranking has been drawn. When Rui Naiwei came on stage, she was drawn by the old Japanese super-first-class master Zhao Zhao Zhixun.

   It was finally Li Xiangping's turn to play, and when he unfolded the small note in his hand, he even laughed.

   is Lao Cao!

   In the first round, Shi Daqisheng's first opponent will be South Korea's Cao Xunxuan Jiudan.

   (end of this chapter)