Go Legend

  Chapter 897

   Up to now, the "Asian Cup" TV Quick Chess Tournament is the only regular event that Li Xiangping is still participating in.

   The reason why this competition is still retained is not because Li Xiangping has a soft spot for this competition.

  Because this is an international event after all, which is different from the domestic "celebrity battle". .

  Based on the rules, the domestic "celebrity battle" is a challenge system. Since it is a domestic competition, Li Xiangping can return the honorary title of this "celebrity" to the Chess Academy, so that they can start anew.

   is also based on the rules. The defending champion of the "Asian Cup" can be exempted from participating in the next competition, which makes Li Xiangping feel that it is unnecessary.

   Anyway, the "Asian Cup" is just a pocket game. The defending champion only needs to start from the semi-finals, and there are only 2 games at most. If everyone has the ability, just play Li Xiangping.

   This is undoubtedly difficult.

  Li Xiangping's current strength has been recognized by everyone, and he is an unrivaled existence in the entire world of chess.

   But his fast moves are considered better than his slow moves.

  Li Xiangping noticed that just before the start of this "Asian Cup", South Korea's "Go" magazine also wrote an article to review a game many years ago.

   It was in the second year of Li Xiangping's debut. He participated in the "Nongshim Cup" for the first time, and then after a wave of six consecutive victories, he was knocked out of the ring by the deputy general Liu Changhe of South Korea.

  The reason why Koreans look back on this game is because they found out that Li Xiangping has been out for 10 years, of course he has lost a lot of slow chess, and even Fan chess has lost twice.

   But when it comes to fast chess, whether it is "Asian Cup" or "Nongshim Cup", or "Ahan Kiriyama Cup" and the domestic "CCTV Cup".

   He only lost that quick chess game in 10 years.

   The chess review of the review article was written by Liu Changhe Jiuduan himself.

   Technically, of course, there is not much description. Basically, the whole article is full of emotion. Liu Jiuduan is feeling that things are right and wrong. Since Li Xiangping's debut, the pattern of the whole world chess has changed.

On July 5th, Li Xiangping, together with Kong Erjie and Gu Lingyi, the champion and runner-up of the "CCTV Cup", went to Japan to participate in the 22nd "Asian Cup" TV under the leadership of the national team head coach Yu Bin Jiuduan. Quick chess game.

  The players representing South Korea are Dae Lee and Kang Dongyun. As for the host Japan, this time it is Yuta Iyama and the player of Kansai Qiyuan Yucheng Satoshi.

  Li Xiangping had a bye in the first round, and the other three matches were: South Korea's Da Li played against Japan's Jingshan, Kong Erjie played against Jiang Dongrun, and Gu Lingyi played against Japan's Yuki Satoshi.

When    was on the sidelines, unlike Yu Tou who paid attention to the two games involving Chinese players, Li Xiangping paid more attention to the game between Da Li of South Korea and Jingshan of Japan.

   Da Li at this period in real history was when he won nine "world runners-up" in a row.

  Although he never reached the top again, his stable state and active participation in world competitions are still very rare in the entire world chess world.

   In Li Xiangping's memory, Da Li really faded out of the world chess world, and that would have to wait until the semi-finals of the 7th "Ying's Cup" in 2013.

   At the beginning of that year, Li Xian watched the Chinese teenager Jiang Weijie be crowned the "LG Cup". While winning the last runner-up, he also witnessed a new era—

   That year, there were a total of six world competitions, and the six championships were won by six young Chinese teenagers alone. China's "New Six Super League" was officially born.

   Then in the second half of that year, Dali continued to reach the semi-finals of the "Ying's Cup".

   That was also the last time Dali killed the top four in the world!

   In that semi-final, Da Li met his compatriot, Xiao Park "Park Tianzi", one of the later Korean Go leaders.

   In that semi-final, Da Li estimated that he mustered up his last courage to fight to the death with his junior, and the two fought extremely fiercely.

   However, in that year, Da Li, who was born in 1975, was 38 years old.

   The so-called famous generals from ancient times are like beautiful women, and they are not allowed to appear whiteheads in the world. In the competition of computing power, Da Li ultimately fell short, and he was defeated by junior players in straight sets.

   After that, Dali finally drifted away and started to play Happy Go.

   Then wait another two years, Go AI Afagou was born, and the whole world of chess has entered a brand new era.

   But it's only 2010, and Da Li's combat effectiveness is still very good. Although he is no longer full of blood, he still seems quite confident when it comes to Japanese chess players.

  Li Xiangping observed the whole game, Da Li played smoothly all the way, as for his opponent Jing Shan, maybe the pressure was too much, maybe the experience in the world competition was not rich enough, and there were several problems in a row.

   Li Xiangping announced Jing Shan's death early in the game just after 100 moves. This chess game might be able to be disturbed by himself and Lao Shishang, or by Xiao Li, but if a Japanese chess player...

   Less than two hours into the game, Da Li defeated Jing Shan in the middle set and won the first of three sets.

   An hour later, the other two games ended one after another. Kong Erjie defeated Jiang Dongrun, and Chinese teenager Gu Lingyi was eliminated by Yucheng Cong.

   It is worth mentioning here that Xiao Gu, a young player from Sichuan Province, is actually the product of the first batch of "online training" in China.

  Before Li Xiangping made his debut, Chinese Go at that time was being suppressed by the first generation of "Four Heavenly Kings" of Korean Go.

   In the Chinese chess world at that time, the "Seven Little Dragons" headed by Chang Hao were still on the front line.

   It happened that Shao Weigang and Luo Xihe created the Go website "Qingfeng".

   Feeling that these people are being suppressed, so the "Seven Little Dragons" also want to make some contribution to the country, thinking about training several young chess players for the country through online teaching.

   So he held a selection contest on the "Qingfeng" website, and finally Xiaogu stood out and became the nominal inner disciple of "Seven Little Dragons".

   It’s a pity that in those days, the Internet environment was just like that, and the “Seven Little Dragons” themselves were not considered the world’s top players, and no one in later generations became an excellent Go teacher, so the disciples they cultivated were just like that.

   Xiaogu, let alone winning the flag in the World Series, even in the Weijia arena, the Sichuan team led by Xiaogu is ups and downs, and he has to go to Weiyi to exercise from time to time.

  The schedule of the "Asian Cup" is still relatively compact. The first round has just ended, and the semi-final draw will be held that night, and then the game will be played in the afternoon of the next day.

  Through the lottery, Li Xiangping got the Japanese chess player Satoshi Yuki, and Kong Erjie faced the Korean big Lee.

   As soon as this draw comes out, from the perspective of viewing, most people still pay more attention to the match between Kong Er and Da Li.

   After all, Dali was the king of the past, and Kong Er was the best performer in the international arena last year.

   The other two have similar chess styles, and Kong Er is called "enhanced version of Li" by many people.

   And thanks to Li in the past, in today's world chess world, their style of chess still has a huge fan base.

  These factors together determine the attention of this game.

  Looking at the match between Li Xiangping and Satoshi Yuki, who is Satoshi Yuki? Maybe old chess fans still remember the old saying in the Japanese chess world that "East is based on Tian, ​​West is in the city", but that was the old Chinese calendar twenty years ago.

   In everyone's opinion, Yuki's 9-dan is not even eligible to be selected for the World League. The comparison of strength in this game is too great. Li Xiangping is like a routine, and this game is not worth paying attention to at all.

   In fact, this match has indeed been neglected to a certain extent. Taking the live TV broadcast as an example, not only China and South Korea also chose to broadcast the match of Da Li VS Kong Er.

   Even in Japan, as the host, they will broadcast both games of chess live, but when they chose to explain the game, they chose to focus on that game.

As for Li Xiangping himself, um, he also thinks this game is like a routine, especially after the training for the past six months, he feels that his chess skills should improve again, and his understanding of chess is also deeper. If the goal is reached, then such a game of split first chess against human players.

  Especially for a split-first player who is not considered the top player in the Japanese chess world, it is definitely not a problem to win by himself.

   However, as soon as the game started, Li Xiangping felt a little strange. He felt that the game was very awkward today.

   At first he said he didn't care at all—

   After all, I haven't played a game for more than half a year. After all, I'm still a human, not a machine. There will always be times when I'm a little rusty, and such rustling can be quickly adjusted.

   However, as the game continued, this awkward feeling became stronger and stronger, not only him, even Lao Shi felt the awkwardness of today's game.

It doesn't matter if it's just awkward. Today is a quick 30-second move, so the progress is still relatively fast. After more than 40 minutes of the game, when the game reached more than 80 hands, Li Xiangping felt that his own situation was at a disadvantage. .

   For a non-world-class chess player, he was at a disadvantage in a split-first game.

   "Brother Yo Ding'an, you said today... what the **** is going on?"

   "Hey, if you don't break it, you don't stand up. If you break it, you stand up. I think that's where our awkwardness today comes from."

   Li Xiangping smiled wryly when he heard it, because he understood what Lao Shi said at once.

   In the past, he has been learning dog tricks and forming deep-rooted ideas in his mind.

   But now, he is trying to find the flaws in the dog, which is actually to break the theory of the past.

   This is of course self-contradictory, which led to many contradictions in Li Xiangping's chess game today.

   And this should be the reason why the situation is backward today.

   Of course today is fast chess, Li Xiangping must have no time to think so much.

   The most important thing today is to ensure victory.

   It would be really embarrassing to lose a game like today.

   (end of this chapter)