Go Legend Chapter 184

Chapter 184 Three major battles

At the end of September, the last round of this year's rounds.

When it was almost 5 o'clock in the afternoon, as the opponent signaled to admit defeat, Li Xiangping raised his head and said:

"Old beauty, let it go."

That's right, Li Xiangping's opponent today is actually the first master "Gourmet" of the "Lianzhong Beggar Gang" a few years ago, and he is also the main member of the Pingmei team.

The Pingmei team is a team of "industry sports associations" these days. Their team does not have star players. At the same time, the strength of several players in this team is relatively average, so their team does not have a fixed leader, and Li Xiang In fact, I didn't know before the screen game that I would meet this former "friend" today.

"Hey, Bai Yi, you're welcome, why admit it? Let me tell you, I tried my best today to use up all my strength to suckle, but I still can't beat you. Congratulations, Bai Yi."

Hearing "Gourmet" calling himself "White Clothes", Li Xiangping's heart was touched.

Li Xiangping knew Lao Mei in his previous life. He is a professional chess player with great self-discipline and excellent character, and when Li Xiangping was in dan, Lao Mei gave him a lot of help.” Quietly invaded the end of the world and lowered the mold.

Therefore, although Li Xiangping failed to succeed in the final stage, it did not prevent him from considering the other party as a good teacher and friend.

To tell the truth, in the deepest part of Li Xiangping's heart, he actually didn't want to meet the old beauty in this game. After all, this was a rather cruel relegation battle. Before this game was over, the two teams played fast chess. The stage of the game has already ended first, and it was Li Xiangping's team that won. If Lao Mei loses this game, he and his team have actually been relegated to the second level.

"Old beauty, I'm sorry"

Seeing Li Xiangping stuttering and expressing his apology, on the contrary, the "gourmet" seemed more open-minded:

"What nonsense is Bai Yi talking about? What's there to be sorry for? You won in a dignified manner, but I also lost plainly. Alas, in the end, my skills are not as good as others. In fact, it's normal to think about it. Who are you Bai Yi now? What should I do? Maybe it's your opponent, it's because I was too self-aware before the game, and even took the initiative to ask you to play a white shirt with you. If you want to be really worthy of me, then make persistent efforts in the future and strive to win more championships in the World Series. It also makes me have more bragging rights in the future, saying that Li Xiangping has also accepted my guidance, haha"

Seeing Lao Mei pretending to laugh with ease, Li Xiangping, of course, could only laugh along, he nodded heavily and said:

"Don't worry, Lao Mei, I will."

But to be honest, although Li Xiangping felt a little sorry for his friend by winning this game, he still felt his progress more clearly in this game.

Lao Mei's current rating is probably ranked 30 to 40 in the country, which is the most standard "backbone chess player" in China. A year ago, like Lao Mei, it was definitely Li Xiangping's standard." Let's get started." Li Xiangping and them went down, it was basically like a three-seven to four-six.

However, through today's game of chess, Li Xiangping already feels completely different. It cannot be said that this ratio has been completely reversed, but Li Xiangping thinks that he should already have the upper hand against the level of the old beauty.

Li Xiangping believes that this should not be too much to evaluate.

If this assessment is really objective, it proves that he has indeed made great progress.

After the siege competition was over, Li Xiangping didn't talk much with Lao Mei because he was going to Japan to participate in the semi-finals of the "Toyota Cup" soon, but just left a sentence "come to see me when you come to Beijing to play", He said goodbye to the other party and went back to pack his bags and prepare to leave.

In the evening of the second day, Li Xiangping and the Chinese delegation appeared at Tokyo Haneda Airport.

Because Chang Hao and Li Xiangping entered the semi-finals this time, Lao Nie got the job of the head of the Chinese delegation, and since he got off the plane, Lao Nie's big mouth has not been idle:

"The three major battles, the last three major battles in the Go world this year, tomorrow will be the first battle, I said Chang Hao, you have to give me a good fight this time, this first battle is your most important task, you If I can get off to a good start tomorrow, I think I can beat the Koreans once this year."

The "three major battles" in Lao Nie's mouth refers to the three competitions of "Toyota Cup", "Samsung Cup" and "LG Cup". These three competitions have already decided the top four, and the champions will be in the near future. Even the latest "LC Cup" final will be played before the Spring Festival in 2003, so it was called the last three major battles of the Go world in 2002 by the domestic media.

By the way, there was originally a "Chunlan Cup", but the "Chunlan Cup" has now been changed to every two years. The games after the quarter-finals will be held next year, so this game is excluded by everyone. outer.

In these "three major battles", due to Li Xiangping's strong rise, he has entered the semi-finals in all three competitions, which makes the Chinese team's overall results so far look quite good.

In the "Toyota Cup", Li Xiangping and Chang Hao entered the semi-finals. In the "Samsung Cup", Ma Xiaofei and Li Xiangping entered the semi-finals. In the "LC Cup", Li Xiangping and Yu Bin entered the semi-finals. .

In this way, out of the total of 12 semi-finals seats, the Chinese team grabbed 6, which is exactly half.

On the other hand, the South Korean team, Li Changhao has been eliminated in the "Samsung Cup", and he still survived in the "Toyota Cup" and "LG Cup", which can be regarded as grabbing two of the 12 seats, and Lao Cao entered the "LG Cup" four. Strong, Xiao Li broke into the "Samsung Cup" semi-finals. In this way, the South Korean team has only 4 places in the 12 semi-finals, 2 less than the Chinese team.

The other two semi-final seats are occupied by Japanese players. In addition to Wang Mingwan's 9-dan who will play against Li Xiangping tomorrow, the other is Yida Jiji, who broke into the semi-finals in the "Samsung Cup".

The performance of the Japanese team is not a problem. Anyway, everyone can see their decline clearly. However, this time they were able to overwhelm the Koreans in numbers, which made the domestic media excited. Everyone feels that they have been suppressed by Korean Go for so many years. Finally, this year, I finally have the opportunity to turn over and become a master once.

In particular, there has been a "Fujitsu Cup" champion who has made the bottom, which makes everyone more confident. They think that this year's total score is better than the Korean Go, so it should still be very hopeful.

It is for this reason that after entering October, the domestic media began to discuss the issue of "turning over to become the master", that is, in this context, the statement of "three major battles" was called out by everyone. And this statement seems to be very hot and lively. No, now even Lao Nie is citing this statement and taking the opportunity to educate his disciples.

Facing Old Nie's chatter, the honest boy Chang Hao smiled humbly:

"If you play well, you will play well, but if you want to say how confident you are, you must know that my opponent is Da Li. Alas, he has lost to numbness after losing so many years."

"Look at how promising you are."

It can be seen that Old Nie was obviously dissatisfied with the disciple's words. After he hummed dissatisfiedly, he simply ignored Chang Hao, and instead talked to Li Xiangping, and when he was talking to Li Xiangping, the old man Nie's tone was more "kind".

Lao Nie said to Li Xiangping "kindly":

"At the critical moment, Xiangping is still reliable. How about Xiangping? It should be no problem this time, right?"

Since Chang Hao's modesty was due to Old Nie's dissatisfaction, then Li Xiangping certainly couldn't follow his modesty in this situation. He said to Old Nie:

"Well, Wang Mingwan's 9-dan chess style is rather strange. He is a famous strange chess player in today's chess world. I think if he can avoid his familiar routines, there should be some hope of winning."

"Okay, hahahaha"

Old Nie seemed very satisfied with Li Xiangping's answer. After he laughed, he actually turned around to "teach" Chang Hao:

"Chang Hao, listen, listen, do you know what people Xiangping is called? This is called domineering, you, you, if you want to say that your child is good in everything, it is just a little less domineering, you need someone to Xiangping With this kind of temperament, then your current grades will not be like this."

Chang Hao didn't know how he felt when he heard this. Anyway, Li Xiangping didn't know whether to laugh or cry. What I said just now was obviously just a cliché, or simply said it was nonsense without any nutrition.

It is true that Wang Mingwan's 9th dan is currently recognized as a "weird chess player", and Wang Mingwan's "weird" is manifested in the fact that he likes "outside the eyes", "high eyes" and these unusual openings, or chooses some unusual defenses. angle method.

Please pay attention to what Li Xiangping said just now, "If you can avoid the routines he is familiar with", it is obvious that these things in the opening of Go can be avoided if you want to avoid them?

So even Li Xiangping knew that what he just said was actually nonsense, and he couldn't understand it. How could Lao Nie see "domineering" from these nonsense?

After a nutritious exchange, everyone arrived at the hotel where they were staying and was speechless all night. Before walking on the field the next day, Li Xiangping said to himself:

"Brother Ding'an, you heard it yesterday, the characteristic of our opponent this time is "weird", you must be prepared, right?"

Lao Shi responded, "Don't worry, little friend Xiangping, Ding'an is ready."

Li Xiangping smiled and said: "Okay, Ding'an brother go well, I'll wait for your good news."

Li Xiangping is indeed more at ease about this game. You must know that you should not look at the "zoo system" used in ancient chess. However, only by careful observation, you can know that in the handicap of ancient chess, the beginning of the game is almost never "star position". Or "small eyes", more than 90% of the starting hands are "outside the eyes" or "high eyes".

Lao Shi, as a chess master of medieval chess, may have played more handicap games than his opponent games in his life.

In other words, the study of these uncommon moves by players like them is definitely much deeper than most people think.

In fact, it did not exceed Li Xiangping's expectations. Although Wang Mingwan's 9th dan is famous for his "weird", his strange power is still no match for Lao Shi's wrist strength. Half of the winners beat Wang Mingwan and once again reached the finals of the World Series.

On the other side, the result was within everyone's expectations before the game. After a hard fight, Chang Hao still lost by a half-dead disadvantage.

Lao Shi and Li Changhao met in the World Series finals for the second time.

(end of this chapter)

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