Go Legend

   Chapter 90 The Strongest Amateur Chess Player Showdown

   In early May, before the "Samsung Cup" semi-finals, the most important game in the world chess world should be the final of the 4th "Ying's Cup".

   In the third game of the final, Chang Hao, who was behind 0-2 in the first two games, played very tough, and he played a beautiful dragon slaying game, which also gave people a little hope of reversal.

On the day of the fourth game of the    final, Li Xiangping came to the Chinese Chess Academy to follow the game with the players from all over the world.

   "Brother Ding'an, have you seen it? The old man in the wheelchair is the "king" of the Go world in my mind."

   Since the first competition, Mr. Wu Qingyuan has been serving as the chief referee of the "Ying's Cup", so as long as it is the final stage of the competition, as long as his physical condition allows, he has never been absent.

Of course, although Li Xiangping admired Mr. Wu Qingyuan very much, but seeing that he was surrounded by a group of big players in the Go industry, Li Xiangping did not move up, but mixed with young players like Gu Dali and Kong Erjie to watch the game. .

  Because the two players who entered the finals were both players with a stable chess style, from the very beginning of this game, the two fought a lot of internal skills, and the chess game also showed an extremely subtle state of fine chess early on.

   Until about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Chang Hao, who was playing white, made a brilliant move, and the young chess players who were watching the game with Li Xiangping began to cheer:

   "Okay! Brother Chang played this chess beautifully."

   "Sharp! I can see that Brother Chang's condition is really good. With this move, this part should be cheaper by 2 games, right? And this game is played by Brother Chang playing white, so it seems that we should be able to see the final game."

Yes, Chang Hao's skillful move was to cut out 2 eyes in a local fire like chestnuts. Considering that this game has always been a fine chess game, and the "Ying's Cup" black chess has 7 and a half eyes, so from that time on, The Chinese laboratory is in an optimistic mood.

   This optimism continued until 4 pm and 5 pm. Unfortunately, just as the game was approaching the end, the global maximum was only the 3-point officer in the back:

   "This! Brother Chang, what does this move mean?"

   "Looks like, it seems that one less order is exchanged, right? Well, I guess Brother Chang is in a time panic now. He may be worried about being fined, so he made mistakes while busy"

   It’s a pity that there are no ifs in the game of Go, especially in the face of Li Changhao at his peak, it is unlikely that he will not catch him if he makes mistakes in the official stage.

   Starting from Chang Hao's mistake, after a series of unpretentious means, Li Canghao ate two of his opponent's sons. To be honest, the value of these two sons is really not great, they are only worth 4 goals and 2 goals.

   However, for this game of chess, having these 4 goals is enough for Li Changhao to win the final victory, and relying on these 4 goals is enough for him to win the championship bonus of 400,000 US dollars.

  3 to 1, just like in real history, Li Canghao defeated Chang Hao with such a score and won the championship of the 4th "Ying's Cup".

   "Brother Ding'an, what do you think of the number one player in the chess world today?"

   "The style of chess is delicate and precise, but little friend Xiangping, is this the "Heart A" in the Go world in your mind?"

   "Hahaha, it seems that Brother Ding'an is still a little unconvinced? Well, after 3 days, you can play well. As long as you pass the level of the next opponent, you should be able to go up and experience it yourself."

Li Xiangping's reaction to Lao Shi is not surprising at all. After all, Li Canghao's chess is like that, and Lao Shi is not the only one who doesn't like him, let alone Lao Shi who has not played chess with him. Many people who have played chess with Da Li, and even those who have been beaten to death by him, still look down on his style.

   "Li Xiangping, why are you smirking there alone? Come over here, Mr. Wu wants to see you."

"Oh?"

Led by Coach Wu of the National Junior Team, Li Xiangping came to Mr. Wu's side, and after coming over, Li Xiangping finally knew what was going on, because Lao Nie was sitting beside Mr. Wu, and he was talking to Wu. What is Mr.

   A chessboard was placed in front of them, and there was a chess pattern on the chessboard. This chess pattern was very familiar to Li Xiangping.

   "This change is the first thing you came up with? Well, very interesting ideas, genius ideas, you are very talented"

   In the face of Mr. Wu's praise, Li Xiangping could only smirk. After all, for such a "dog trick", he actually knew it and didn't know why. After this change was made in Go AI, of course he knew how to use it. However, Li Xiangping didn't know the logic of the game and the logical relationship between these moves and moves.

  Since he didn't know anything about it, of course he could only smirk.

  Li Xiangping didn't know what to say, but today's old Nie didn't know what was going on. Today was obviously the final of the "Ying's Cup", but he kept talking about Li Xiangping's chess:

   "By the way, Mr. Wu, he just played a game of chess recently, I would like to invite you to come and palm."

   Lao Nie placed it on the chessboard, which was the one that won Kisanyo Yamada in the quarter-finals:

   "Hehe, Mr. Wu, what do you think of this step of "jian rushing", is it a bit of your style?"

   Actually, Li Xiangping knew when Old Nie was swaying that he definitely wanted to let Mr. Wu see that "jian rush".

   Sure enough, after seeing that move, Mr. Wu's eyes lit up. At this time, he finally forgave Li Xiangping seriously, even more seriously than when he was "abducted from inside the big avalanche first".

   "Prodigy pill! Haha, congratulations, Mr. Nie, there is finally a prodigy pill in China."

  Because Mr. Wu was old after all, we didn't communicate for a long time. After he left this sentence, he was taken by the nursing staff to rest.

   "Haha, Ding'an, did you hear that, Mr. Wu praised you, and the "king" of the Go world praised you. He said that you are also a prodigy pill."

   "What prodigy bowl? The bowl that prodigy used?"

So Li Xiangping had no choice but to talk to the old Shi Kope again. After Mr. Wu Qingyuan went east to Japan, there were "three pills" in the Japanese Go world: "Shentong Pill" Wu Qingyuan, "Ghost Pill" Kiyaji, and "Ghost Pill" Maeda Chen'er .

"So Ding'an brother, "Shentong Pill" is actually his own nickname. He now says that you are also "Shentong Pill", in fact, he is complimenting you for your talent that is not inferior to his, so Ding'an brother, you must live up to your expectations. , at least in the game in a few days, you must win it for me"

The time came to mid-May, and the day of the "Samsung Cup" semi-finals finally arrived. The game was still held in South Korea. Therefore, on the first day of the game, Li Xiangping went to South Korea again, but this time it was not Lao Nie who led the team. Instead, he was replaced by the national team leader Hua. In addition, the Chinese Chess Academy also sent Shao Weigang, the captain of the national Go team, to go with him at 9 dan in order to express its importance.

After all, it has already reached the semi-final stage, so this game has attracted widespread attention in the world chess world, especially the three-game chess game between Li Xiangping VS Liu Changhe. He became a professional player at the age of 18 when he won the runner-up in the World Amateur Go Championship.

   Therefore, this game was dubbed by many chess fans as "the strongest amateur chess player duel".

   What will this matchup be like? What topics will come up?

   It seems that everyone has not been disappointed from the very beginning of the first game.

   In the first game, Li Xiangping guessed black chess. At about 10:30 in the morning, when the first chessboard was just passed to the Chinese Chess Academy, Gu Dali, who came to watch the game early in the morning, couldn't sit still.

   He started looking for people in the Chess Academy, and he was looking for Kong Erjie:

   "Haha, Kong Er, come and see, other people's excellent art has ordered 33 again, and he is the 5th hand to order 33"

   (end of this chapter)