Go Legend Chapter 115

Chapter 115 It's time to improve your strength

The time has come to August 2001. In these days, the most important Go event in August is actually the "Fujitsu Cup" final held on the first weekend of this month every year.

The finalists this year are China's Chang Hao and South Korea's Lao Cao, who compete for the championship in Tokyo, Japan.

From the perspective of future generations, it is really difficult to understand Go in this era. Thinking that Lao Cao is now in his 40s, if this is left to later generations, it seems that he should have played "Happy Go" long ago. However, this This is not the case in the times. Since he won the first "Ying's Cup" championship in 1989, Lao Cao seems to have a second spring in recent years. He maintains an excellent competitive state and is very active in the international arena. He has entered the world championship four. Strong, finals, like a regular meal.

Even if he is competing with Chang Hao, who is in his junior round this time, for the championship, the pre-match predictions are mostly optimistic about Lao Cao.

Li Xiangping watched the game live in the "Fangyuan Chess and Cards Room" of Lao Cai's house. The progress of the game really matched the situation predicted by everyone before the game. His mental quality in the competition is obviously not enough. Although he once had the advantage, he retreated step by step under the advantage. At about 4:30 in the afternoon, the game of chess was settled, and Chang Hao's small defeat was a foregone conclusion.

Li Xiangping was watching the game with Lao Cai, reporter Zhang Da and others. Seeing that the outcome was decided, everyone started to discuss:

"Oh, it's a pity, it's a pity that Xiao Chang lost this game of chess. What a good situation ahead, but unfortunately he still couldn't hold Lao Cao."

Facing Zhang Da reporter's statement, Lao Cai sneered: "What a pity? I think it's still Xiao Chang's own problem. It's the same way of losing chess every time, which makes people speechless. If you go up, it will be impossible to export, isn't it Xiangping?"

As for Lao Cai's words, Li Xiangping smiled and didn't say a word, because this time he told the old man that the reason for not participating in the "Overlord Competition" was to ask Cai Shanshan to help him "remedial homework", so even if he pretended, it would be fine. The person who wants to find Cai Shanshan is just because of Li Xiangping's playful habit, he is doing a **** homework, so since the summer vacation, he has spent most of the time in this chess and card room. And Zhang Da reporter and others are more familiar.

Li Xiangping actually agreed with Lao Cai's words, but out of politeness and age, he was inconvenient to say some words. He believes that this year's Chang Hao does have the technical level of a world champion, but he does not have the psychological quality of a world champion.

In the real history, there are two famous "Lianya" in the world history of Go, the most famous is Li Canghao's later "Jiulianya", the other is actually Chang Hao's "Liulianya" at this stage.

It's a pity that Li Canghao's "Jiulianya" is too famous to cover up Chang Hao's "Liulianya". Otherwise, only Chang Hao's career will be seen. In the early stage of his "Liulianya", he won 3 in "Liulianya". A world champion, it's a perfect inspirational story.

Today's game of chess is actually a proof that Chang Hao is still struggling in the quagmire of Lianya.

Everyone has expressed emotion, and the topic naturally returned to Li Xiangping. Reporter Zhang Da asked with a smile:

"Xiangping, why don't you go to participate in the "Battle of Kings"? What, don't you like this level of competition?"

Among them, Lao Cai understands Li Xiangping better. After all, he is a local tyrant like Li Yuanhu. He knows that Li Xiangping is not someone who needs to earn bonuses to eat. Since he doesn't care about money, then in Li Xiangping's age group, academic and lower It's hard to say whether chess is heavy or light.

So Lao Cai smiled and helped Li Xiangping to talk; "Of course I don't like it, I said that the Chess Academy is also true, Xiangping is the world champion anyway, how come a domestic competition, even a seed player, still needs others to participate. What kind of preliminaries, if it were me, then I probably wouldn't go, right?" Xiangping?"

"There is actually a reason for not being seeded." Reporter Zhang Da explained to the two:

"The grading system has been fully implemented now. As long as the seeded players are determined in domestic competitions, now only the chess players' grading points are considered. The situation of Xiang Ping is quite special. He turned from an amateur chess player to a professional chess player. Let's just say that he didn't have a grade point before, so after he set it to ninth dan this time, he gave him the initial grade point of ninth dan, which means 2560 points. I just checked it a few days ago, and this score is currently ranked 18th in China, while This "Battle of Kings" is set with 16 seeds, so Xiangping was not able to rank."

The so-called "initial grade points" refers to the points given to chess players when the grade point system was first implemented. It is divided into a step of 40, 2560 for the ninth stage, 2520 for the eighth stage, and so on. However, this was the first time in China. There are two exceptions in the score, that is, Lao Nie and Ma Xiao set a score of 2600, which is one step higher than the normal 9 dan. It seems that this 2600 score is the super-first-class standard.

Lao Cai knew about this, so he continued to argue with reporter Zhang Da;

"That's not right. I think the chess institute is still not neat enough. After all, Xiangping is the second world champion in China after Ma Xiao, so why not just set a score of 2,600 points? If it's 2,600 points, then he must be a seed player, right? , isn't it, Xiangping?"

In the face of Lao Cai so praised himself, Li Xiangping really didn't know what to say. Thinking of his "restricted-level plug-in", he became more and more entangled in his heart. If 2,600 points make him a seed player, then he doesn't know what reason to find a reason to refuse the competition this time.

Thinking of this, Li Xiangping was not in the mood to stay here any longer. He politely bid farewell to the two of them, and then went home silently.

"It seems that I need to find a way to improve my strength now."

On the way home, Li Xiangping was thinking about this question silently, and his idea got a warm response from his own plug-in:

"Of course, Xiaoyou Xiangping, your idea is very correct."

Li Xiangping, however, was not fake to himself: "Brother Ding'an, don't talk to me, I don't want to talk to you now."

Of course, Li Xiangping really doesn't want to care about his cheating. You must know that all this is caused by his 15-game limit.

Since Lao Shi told him about this, Li Xiangping was in an endless entanglement. After nearly a month of entanglement, Li Xiangping found that he had no other way at all. It seemed that there was only one way to go.

To be honest, Li Xiangping has not thought about other ways in the recent period, the most extreme way, so he just announced his retirement at this time, and he will not take the professional Go path in the future.

However, such thoughts only flashed in Li Xiangping's mind. After all, such thoughts are too appalling, let alone others, Li Xiangping does not know how to explain to his old man, and secondly, Li Xiang In fact, Ping was a little reluctant himself. He hadn't enjoyed the flowers and applause enough. He was obsessed with that feeling.

Li Xiangping's second thought, isn't Lao Shi still able to play 15 sets in a year, then he can choose to participate in some games in the future. Although there are fewer flowers and applause, it is better than nothing.

It's a pity that Li Xiangping soon discovered that this idea seemed unrealistic. After all, from the competition between Lao Shi and Li Canghao, Lao Shi did not have the strength to crush them together. power, because you don't know when he's going to lose.

Li Xiangping is most afraid of this situation: Lao Shi may participate in several games at the same time. In other games, Lao Shi lost in the quarter-finals or semi-finals. However, he reached the final in a certain competition. Unfortunately, this is the case. when his 15-disc limit reached

As long as he thinks about this situation, Li Xiangping shudders a little. Could it be that at that time, he will let his weak industry level 6 rise to the top? The ugliness would be huge, and Li Xiangping had to find a way to prevent such a thing from happening.

But how to prevent it? After Li Xiangping thought about it, it seemed that the only way was to improve his own strength.

"Alas! It seems that in the next period of time, I may have to eat a lot of hardships"

When he was about to get home, Li Xiangping continued to frown. After all, he had formally learned chess in his previous life, and he also had experience and knowledge in his previous life. He knew very well about "improving one's own strength". It is easy to say and do. But it is difficult.

For example, compare Li Xiangping with the current Chen Yaoyue. Chen Yaoyue has just entered the stage and seems to be similar to Ye 6, and Li Xiangping believes that with his own experience and knowledge, if he only talks about his understanding of Go, then He must be much taller than Chen Yaoyue now.

However, all this is useless. If you play with Chen Yaoyue now, you will lose at least 8 and a half games in 10 games. Of the games you can win, half of them belong to the category of luck, and the other game? , I may be able to use the "dog tricks" of later generations to get a lucky game with Chen Xiaoqiang. As for the others, there is no doubt that they will lose chess. There is no doubt that they will lose without any suspense.

The reason why is like this is because his current basic skills are not good, and his basic skills are definitely not as solid as Chen Yaoyue.

And Li Xiangping has always believed that for himself at this stage, even for human Go, basic skills are everything.

As Wu Qingyuan said by his old man: What is the essence of Go? The essence of Go is actually life and death and officials.

Although he has experienced the era of Go AI, Li Xiangping still believes that Mr. Wu's words may not be valid for Go AI, but for human players, it is still a wise saying.

is also the direction that Li Xiangping needs to work hard at this stage.

(end of this chapter)

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