Go Legend Chapter 122

Chapter 122 Dragging Knife Plan

On the second day, the seventh round of this year's national individual competition officially started.

At present, half of the game is over. After this round, the bottom 40 players will be eliminated from the game. In this round, the most eye-catching one is of course the match between Li Xiangping VS Kong Erjie Bureau.

One of them is one of the "National Youth Three Musketeers". The "Chunlan Youth" of the year, along with Gu Dali, is regarded as the most important candidate for the next generation of Chinese Go leaders. So far in this individual competition, Kong Erjie, who has won all six games.

The other is Li Xiangping, who has risen like a comet this year, the second world champion of Chinese Go, and the first foreign player who defeated Li Canghao in the Fanqi competition.

Although Li Xiangping's record has not been satisfactory so far, he is on the verge of being eliminated with 2 wins and 4 losses, but he has just won the world championship not long after all. At this moment, no matter whether it is his opponent or others, he still does not dare to despise him. Today's game is still regarded as the most important event of this round.

The game started at 10:00 am Beijing time. Li Xiangping sat in his seat 10 minutes earlier. He closed his eyes and rested with a serious expression.

Of course, there is no separate game room for such a game. All games are placed in one hall, so Li Xiangping's appearance is naturally seen by everyone. Of course, no one came to disturb him at this time.

A few minutes later, Kong Erjie also came to the seat. His expression was very relaxed. He even prepared to say a few jokes to Li Xiangping, but after seeing Li Xiangping's appearance, his joke finally ended. Still unable to speak, and as if infected by Li Xiangping, his expression gradually became serious.

"Hey, everyone will take a look, I guess, today's game of chess, there must be a good show to watch."

After announcing the start of the game, the chief referee of this game, Elder Jin, said this to the other staff. The others all agreed with the chief referee's opinion and nodded in agreement.

So is this game of chess any good?

In this game of chess, Li Xiangping played black first. At least during the two-hour game time in the morning, everyone did not see any good show. There is no other reason, maybe out of attention, maybe out of caution, the progress of this game of chess in the morning was very slow, and it took two hours to play 30 moves.

With such a short hand, of course there is no good show.

As for the situation on the chessboard at this time, the staff headed by Lao Jin can't see clearly. There is no other reason. After all, Lao Jin and others are amateur chess players, so with such a short number of hands, it is usually impossible to judge the situation. , Especially in the game, Li Xiangping made a change that is relatively rare in this era, so of course, amateur chess players are even more unclear in the face of uncommon chess shapes.

As for the opponent himself, it is unknown what Kong Erjie thinks, but Li Xiangping himself thinks it is okay. He can't say that he has achieved any advantages, but at least he is not down.

In other words, Li Xiangping believes that at least in the layout stage, he should be able to withstand a strong opponent.

However, it is a pity that Li Xiangping, with his 18 more years of knowledge, only managed to hold it in the layout stage. As the game continued, he began to slowly feel the strong pressure exerted by his opponent on himself.

Kong Erjie is an authentic practitioner of Xuanmen. His moves are very peaceful and "professional". It seems that every move is unpretentious, but these unpretentious moves have brought great pressure to Li Xiangping. .

Especially around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when the overall situation was less than 80 moves, Kong Erjie skillfully captured several black stones through a classic "entanglement attack" tactic. a feeling of.

"Can't I even hold 100 hands against a player of Kong Erjie's level?"

I don't know why, but Li Xiangping, who realized that the situation was not good, calmed down, and he began to think deeply and find a way to open the situation.

And just when Li Xiangping was concentrating on thinking, Lao Jin and others discussed again:

"Tsk tsk, it's hard to imagine that Li Xiangping's condition is so bad."

Chief Judge Jin's words attracted everyone to agree, when another staff member said:

"Yes, yes, White's entanglement attack method just now, even my stinky chess basket can see it, it's hard to imagine that Li Xiangping can't see it, is this still the world champion's chess? These stones were captured. In the end, white is empty and thick, black must have been difficult to play, if you want me to tell, Li Xiangping probably explained it again."

Lao Jin smiled after hearing what the staff member said. To be honest, he didn't believe or agree with him saying "even he can see it". Because although this person is considered an amateur master, his chess skills are not as good as Lao Jin.

However, many methods in Go are like this, such as the "twisting attack" that Kong Erjie played just now, because this method is very classic and very common in Go, so after Kong Erjie played it, the staff member knew at a glance Can understand the meaning of this game.

But before dozens of moves? Let him figure it out for himself? Lao Jin did not believe that he could do such a thing.

It's just that everyone is colleagues after all, and Lao Jin is not good at being serious with him in public. He just made a haha and said in a joking tone:

"Hehehe, you're amazing, but to say that even Li Xiangping didn't pay attention to this method, it's probably unlikely. Maybe they did it on purpose, and maybe there are other ideas hidden behind it."

Even Lao Jin himself did not expect that a joke he said casually turned out to be a prophecy. The most critical victory or defeat in this round, the most exciting drama, started from those few sunspots that were eaten.

When Li Xiangping just calmed down and looked for countermeasures, his eyes immediately fell on the captured pieces. It should be that his way of thinking is of course very normal. After all, those who were eaten are the culprits that lead to the overall backwardness, so the source of his thinking must start from here.

The first thing Li Xiangping thought about was to find out if there were other means to rescue those children, but unfortunately, after thinking hard, he did not find any suitable means, nor did he come up with any exquisite hand tendons.

It took several minutes for Li Xiangping to confirm one thing: those black pieces were eaten by others.

After confirming this, Li Xiangping was so depressed that he stared at the chess pieces in a daze.

However, the sky is pitiful, just when Li Xiangping was stunned, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and he suddenly noticed another problem.

This problem that Li Xiangping noticed should be regarded as a weakness in the white chess form, a weakness that is easily overlooked by players! And this weakness of White also provided another way of thinking for Li Xiangping.

Let's talk about the problem that Li Xiangping discovered, that is, he suddenly found out that although White has eaten a few pieces of his own, the encircling circle of White, or a large piece of White's pieces, is only able to eat and hold a few black pieces. A large piece of chess, but they are not alive as a whole!

That's right, Li Xiangping, who passed the long test, discovered this problem. Don't look at those black stones that have been eaten. If you send an extra hand in it, it will become famous in Go." Plum Blossom Six", a classic "death penalty".

must admit that this discovery made Li Xiangping very excited:

"If I use a 'Plum Blossom Six' to get rid of Kong Erjie"

Li Xiangping became more and more excited, and his thinking became more and more active, but as his thinking extended, he slowly calmed down when he began to conceive a specific battle plan.

Li Xiangping, who had calmed down, smiled bitterly in his heart, because he suddenly found that although his idea was good, it was extremely difficult to implement. After simply sorting out his ideas, Li Xiangping found three specific difficulties.

The first difficulty, if you want to make a six-plum "gathering", this belongs to the category of dragon slaying in Go, and the first element of dragon slaying is that your encirclement must be solid enough.

Li Xiangping calculated it carefully, because this "Plum Blossom Six" did not appear in the corner, but from the edge of the chessboard to the middle of the belly, and because Kong Erjie just wanted to eat his own pieces, he let his own The encirclement is beginning to take shape, but the encirclement is not solid enough. If you really want to eat and live a whole piece of white chess, you must reinforce at least one or two moves on the periphery.

The second specific difficulty is that although "Plum Blossom Six" is a standard dead form, it is the dead form with a "big eye". In other words, such a shape is actually very flexible, especially if the chess form does not appear in the In the case of the corner, such a chess shape is actually very easy to make a second eye, let alone a real eye, even if the opponent makes a "robbing eye", it is actually very easy to cause the dragon to fail.

Li Xiangping checked again. If he wanted to really kill the dragon, he would need to add one or two moves to the periphery to ensure that other eye positions of White were eliminated.

The third specific difficulty faced by Li Xiangping is actually the most difficult one, that is, the chess shape of "Plum Blossom Six" is easy for the opponent to detect.

At this time, Li Xiangping doesn't know if his opponent has discovered this hidden danger, but he knows that it doesn't matter if Kong Erjie doesn't find it at this time, as long as he is about to start slaughtering dragons, he can discover this problem at any time , and then add another hand, then his own dragon slaying plan will go bankrupt immediately.

It was precisely because he thought of so many specific difficulties that Li Xiangping thought hard in his heart again. Because he suddenly discovered that although his plan looks beautiful, it doesn't seem to be realistic. After all, Go is played by one person and one player, and if he wants to implement this plan, he still owes so many moves. Among them , as long as one link is not in place, the entire plan will go bankrupt immediately.

what can we do about it?

Li Xiangping continued to ponder, and gradually, a huge plan to hide the sky and cross the sea was brewed by him.

"Hey, Kong Erjie claims to be the most professional professional chess player, now it's just to see if he will fall for my trick."

(end of this chapter)

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