Go Legend

   Chapter 696 Li Xiangping's Dominance

   The "Samsung Cup" final with Chen Xiaoqiang is over, and this season is drawing to a close. Next, there are two more competitions in the international arena, one is the "Nongshim Cup" and the other is the "LG Cup".

As for Li Xiangping, since he is the main player in the "Nongxin Cup", he will definitely not play until the third stage in March next year. Therefore, before the Spring Festival, he actually has only one game left, and that is There are three chess games against Xiao Li in the "LG Cup" final, and that game is still nearly a month and a half away from now.

  Since the end of the year, various summaries have begun to be released. In the entire Go world, of course, the most dazzling one this year is still Li Xiangping:

So far, he has won the "Fujitsu Cup", "Asian Cup", "Toyota Cup" and "Samsung Cup" this year, and has helped the Chinese team win the "Nongshim Cup" with a magical five-game winning streak. champion.

He has also entered the final of the "LG Cup". If the biennial "Chunlan Cup" is included in the next season, then this year, Li Xiangping has a great hope of winning his second "Golden Slam". .

Not only that, compared to the "Golden Slam" the year before, his dominance seems to be even better. In addition to winning 3-0 against Gu Dali in the "Phoenix Ancient City Cup", Li Xiangping's winning rate this year is also particularly attractive. people pay attention.

Since the "LG Cup" was defeated by Gu Dali last season, Li Xiangping has only lost two chess games this year. Lost to Zhang Xu in one game.

   It is precisely because of this that when 2007 is approaching, another record in the Go world has been repeatedly mentioned, that is, the highest winning percentage of professional players of the year.

   There are always two theories in the Go world about this record. One is that the holder of this record is also Da Li, who achieved a 41-game winning streak in the year with a winning rate of about 90%.

However, this statement is not accurate enough. The real holder of this record should be Mr. Eio Sakata in Japan. In a certain year in the 1960s, he had a total annual record of 30 wins and 2 losses, and the winning rate has exceeded 90%. .

The reason why this record is not recognized by some people is that in that year, Mr. Sakata also lost in some friendly games (similar to contemporary ranked games and non-ranked games), if only the official statistics In the case of the competition, then this record should still be attributed to Sakata Eio.

   However, no matter which record, as long as Li Xiangping does not miss the next "LG Cup", this record will definitely fall on his head.

   and undisputedly convincing fell to him.

   It should be known that Li Xiangping rarely participates in domestic competitions. In all his games, the hedging of the main general level of the armor is already considered a low-level competition.

   Therefore, the quality of his games is high, and the opponents he encounters are actually far superior to the two competitors.

   And to maintain such a high winning rate in such a high-quality game, this of course reflects the dominance of a professional chess player, a very terrifying dominance!

   It is also for this reason that when everyone started the year-end closing, when everyone mentioned Li Xiangping's dominance, a comparison of Professor Yang Zhenning was repeatedly quoted by everyone:

In the field of physics, it is generally recognized that Einstein is the first, but I am a physics student, so I know in my heart that the gap between the first and second in the field of physics is not as big as everyone thinks, at least not as big as Wu Qingyuan The gap between that year and the second is so big...

But when everyone compares Wu Qingyuan and Li Xiangping, everyone finds that Li Xiangping even surpasses Lao Wu if he simply compares his dominance. After all, observing Mr. Wu's entire career, even in his peak years, It seems that he has not been able to achieve the dominance of Li Xiangping this year.

   It is precisely because of this that when the New Year approached in 2007, some people could not wait to start discussing the historical status of Li Xiangping.

   "Wu Qingyuan and Li Xiangping, who is the real No. 1 in history?" has become a hot topic at the moment.

   It's just that the popularity of this topic didn't last long. The reason is very simple. Both parties came out to speak out.

  On the day that Li Xiangping won his 17th world championship trophy, someone interviewed Mr. Wu Qingyuan about this, and mentioned the comparison of the two by the outside world:

   "Haha, I think I'm not as good as him, and Li Xiangping is much better than me," Mr. Wu replied with a smile:

"I have been watching Li Xiangping's chess recently, no, it should be said that I have been learning, it is really a whole new world, there is an old saying in China, called Chao Wen Dao, you can die in the evening, I can be very clear Let me tell you, every time I watch Li Xiangping's chess, I will have a kind of joy to hear the Tao..."

   At the awards ceremony that night, a reporter relayed Mr. Wu's words to Li Xiangping and asked him to say a few words too.

  Li Xiangping thought for a while, and at first he was going to use Da Li's statement: "Even in secret, I never thought that I could compare with Mr. Wu..."

   Just considering that he has learned a lot of dog tricks after all, and besides, when the outside world sees his performance, he is actually not alone, which also includes Lao Shi, so he decided to put it another way, using the later generation Jingshan Yutai's statement:

   All I can say is that after so many years of hard work, the Go world may finally catch up with Mr. Wu….

   Both of them have such an attitude, of course things are not fun. how to say? It's like tearing up. If the two parties are not convinced by each other, they think they are stronger than the other party, so that the outside world will be enthusiastic and they will be eager to eat melons there.

   However, both parties are so humble, and they are bragging about their opponents, which is of course meaningless.

   After the award ceremony, Li Xiangping is ready to return to the capital. Although there is no competition in January, he is still a college student. The final exam is approaching.

   "Li Daqisheng, open the door!"

  Li Xiangping opened the door and saw that it was Zhao Daokai who came as promised. Li Xiangping looked around:

   "Hey, what about Da Tiantian?"

   "Ha, the little girl is too shy to come to see you."

   "What's so shy about that."

   "It's still the three major illusions in life," Zhao Daokai said with a smile:

   "Li Daqisheng, you don't even think about it. You took so much pains this time, and even invited a designer from abroad to design her dress. That little girl doesn't want to be crooked?"

  Li Xiangping had a black line on his face: "You know what's going on, and you won't explain it to me this time."

"Ha, what to explain? How to explain? It's not like you don't know, it's just this kind of thing, it's usually more and more black and white. Besides, you have to think about it for me. How do you ask me to tell her directly? Saying you don't like her, this time is purely to repay her favor?"

   "Go, go, I want a fart for you."

  Li Xiangping was too lazy to talk to this guy, but considering that everyone has already come over and the designer is still waiting there, it is impossible to give up halfway.

So on the second day, Li Xiangping led Da Tiantian to meet the designer, but when they met, Li Xiangping couldn't take it anymore, and the designer was fine, but Yang Na started to gossip there again, from time to time. She winked at Li Xiangping, with a "you have good eyesight" expression.

Li Xiangping finally couldn't take it anymore, so he had to rush back to school to take the exam on the excuse that he left the rest to Zhao Daokai to deal with, but before leaving, Li Xiangping still left the money, but thought of that high-order dress Rao is that Li Xiangping is not bad at the price of money now, but it still hurts a bit.

  Tsk tsk 800,000 US dollars, this Nima is said to have given a friendship price because the designer is his own fan, and for such a piece of broken clothes, it is enough to win two "Ying's Cup" champions.

   No, you have to pay taxes for winning the Go championship, and you have to pay the management fee to the chess institute. Only about half of them are in hand, so you need to win 4 "Ying's Cup" champions.

   After Li Xiangping returned to the capital, the time finally entered 2007, and he was facing the exam soon, so after returning, Li Xiangping put Go aside for the time being, and dealt with the exam in front of him first.

   Fortunately, for students like him, the school also treats them as mascots. Although they keep saying that they will treat them equally, when it comes to the real exam, they will not be too embarrassed for him.

   After half a month, the exams were all over. Although he couldn't compare to a real scholar, Li Xiangping passed all of them and didn't fail, which gave him a relatively happy mood to prepare for the last game of the season.

   While he was preparing for the exam wholeheartedly, Li Xiangping encountered good news and bad news.

  The good news is that he was selected again in this year's "Top Ten National Athletes" selection.

   This is not only the fifth year in a row that he has won this honor, which is unique among active athletes, but he also received a particularly large number of votes this year, ranking first among all athletes.

This result surprised many people, and even Li Xiangping was surprised. You must know that the 2008 Beijing Olympics are not far away, and Go, as a small non-Olympic sport, can actually rank first in such a selection. Of course it exceeded many expectations.

   "Hi! What's so strange about this, I think it's normal."

  Li Xiangping stared at Zhao Daokai: "What do you say?"

"First, your dominance." Zhao Daokai raised a finger: "Let's not talk about the issue of whether Go is a niche or not. If you just compare your dominance, among this year's top ten athletes, your dominance should be Is it the strongest?"

  Li Xiangping nodded after listening, this is not to be modest. If you simply compare the competitive performance, then in the past 2006, there was really no domestic athlete who was more dominant in their respective events than him.

   "Since you said first, there must be second."

"Hey, this is the second one, it should be related to the big national players, because of this drama, more people know you now, especially the recent scandal between you and Da Tiantian, tsk tsk, you Shi Xiangxia actually played My wife, Fan Xiping, those entertainment paparazzi are not crazy."

   That's right, this is the bad news for Li Xiangping, so he said to Zhao Daokai with a black line:

   "Fuck off!"

   (end of this chapter)