Go Legend Chapter 187

Chapter 187 International debut

After winning Yitian 2-0 neatly, Li Xiangping did not rush back to China immediately, but waited for the tiebreaker between Ma Xiaofei and Li Shishi together with other members of the Chinese delegation.

"Ma Xiao, let me tell you, you want to cheer me up today, haven't you seen what the Internet says? Say your game of chess today is the "Battle of Tianwang Mountain" this year, let's Whether or not you can overwhelm Korea this year is up to you now."

Hearing that Old Nie actually talked to Ma Xiaofei like this before entering the arena, Li Xiangping laughed silently.

This game is very important and attracts a lot of attention from all quarters. And the reason why this game is so eye-catching is not only that these two players are considered to be the most influential figures in the chess world, but the more important reason is actually related to the overall performance of China and South Korea.

It should be known that there are only 6 individual professional competitions in the world chess world. There is no "Ying's Cup" this year, and the "Chunlan Cup" is held every two years. Only 4 individual professional championships will be produced this year.

So under the circumstance that Li Xiangping has already won the "Fujitsu Cup", if Ma Xiaofei can win today, it means that the Chinese chess player can win at least 2 individual world championships.”

God is pitiful, since the Koreans began to dominate the world chess world in 1993, and even since the establishment of the World Professional Go Championship in 1988, except in 1995, when the two world champions of Ma Xiaofei relied on Ma Xiaofei to rise to the top, when did China go? So beautiful?

Evil is precisely for this reason that everyone attaches so much importance to this game that decides the second championship, and even the melon eaters can't wait to shout that this will be the "Battle of Tianwang Mountain" for the whole year.

The game is so crucial and important, but the progress of this game is beyond the expectations of many people.

As early as 11 o'clock in the morning, that is, just over an hour after the game started, Old Nie's loud and loud voice echoed in the live viewing room:

"Hahaha, this horse demon, actually used this? The suspense is not too big. If there is no accident, the second championship should be stable."

Lao Nie's laughter made many Korean players look at each other in dismay. You must know that there are only more than 40 moves at the beginning, and the two sides have not finished practicing a set. Even in the eyes of many Korean players, Ma Xiaofei obviously still has "playing the wrong set". How can you see a bunch of Chinese smiling so happily?

Indeed, apart from Lao Nie laughing happily, Li Xiangping was the one who laughed the most. He never thought that Ma Xiao would actually "create" the "big avalanche" that he "created" today. Inverted omit exchange variant" is used.

It has been more than 2 years since this variation came out. The reason why Li Xiangping appeared in the World Championship so late is because Li Xiangping was only playing online chess at that time, and he was not famous at the time. , so this change, in addition to attracting a small number of domestic chess players, does not seem to have spread to the Japanese and Korean Go world.

The second reason is related to the direction of the flow of the Go world. Li Xiangping remembered that before 2000, specifically in the past few years of 1998, 1999, and 2000, the changes in the "Great Avalanche" were once very popular in the world competition. I really like the "big avalanche" in the game.

However, the popularity of the Go style is actually the same as women's skirts. This one is popular this year, and that one may be popular next year. In the first few years after entering the new century, no one knows the reason. "Avalanche" is suddenly not popular. This formula has suddenly become very rare in the World Championship. Coupled with the "original" Li Xiangping, he personally doesn't like "Big Avalanche" very much. He thinks this formula His starting style is too vulgar, so neither he nor Lao Shi have ever taken the initiative to provoke a "big avalanche" during the game.

And this "big avalanche abduction and omit the exchange variation", it is precisely the party who takes the initiative to get off the big avalanche to be able to provoke it, and it is for this reason that Ma Xiaofei has now taken the lead.

Seeing that Ma Xiaofei chose this change today, Li Xiangping was not like Old Nie, who thought that it was "not too suspenseful" after only 50 moves, but he still praised Ma Xiaofei's choice in his heart.

What would you say? Seeing this game of chess today reminds Li Xiangping of the fifth game of Li Shishi VS AlphaGo in the first season of "Man-Machine War". The opening of the game also had a change that no one had played before. The chess is Li Shishi playing black. Many people feel that the situation of black chess seems to be good after seeing the change. After all, at first glance, black chess has achieved quite a lot of ground. Among these "many people", Li Xiangping, who was watching the game at the time, was also included.

However, at the time of data analysis, "AlphaGo" clearly told everyone that the change was a loss for Black, and it still lost a lot.

In addition to "Alpha Dog", there were also many human players who had a clear picture of the overall situation at that time. They also saw the problem of black chess, such as Lao Nie and Yitian Jiji. Explain that the change should be a loss for Black.

However, the variation that came out in the actual combat today is actually a bit similar to that game of chess. Today's Ma Xiaofei is like the "dog of the generation" at that time, sacrificing some of the real profits in exchange for the overall openness, and in exchange for the overall situation.斺��

We must tell the truth, even Li Xiangping, who is fully mature, thinks that his understanding of Go is very problematic. Control, he has never reached the top of the human race.

Xiao Li in his prime is like that, let alone the "Bird Island Boy" who is just 20. Therefore, Li Xiangping believes that Ma Xiaofei's choice today is very smart, and today's trick is to restrain the "zombie flow" A good recipe.

Of course, Ma Xiaofei is not an AlphaGo after all. Go AI can make opponents into despair after leading the game. Ma Xiaofei, who is now nearly 40 years old, certainly does not have that ability. Therefore, the key to this game of chess, Li Xiangping believes that it is still in the second half of the game, whether Ma Xiao can resist Xiao Li's various ghostly comeback methods, this should be the focus of this game.

However, the progress of this chess game once again exceeded Li Xiangping's expectations. Today's Li Shishi statue is obviously not in the state. It was a little after 4:30 in the afternoon and when the overall situation was less than 200 moves, Li Shishi's situation was already very bad. He has been sentenced to death N times in the viewing room.

The death penalty is not enough. What's more important is that in the whole game of chess today, Li Shishi did not organize any decent resistance, let alone "zombie flow". .

At 5:00 p.m., the whole game was over. Li Shishi ended the game in a way of "euthanasia." In this way, Li Xiangping and Ma Xiaofei will join the finals of this year's "Samsung Cup".

Looking at Xiao Li who left in a hurry with a livid face, Li Xiangping sighed in his heart that it was really a terrible thing to have a judgment error in the Go game.

For example, in today's game of chess, you may say that Li Shishi is not playing well, or that he is not in a good state. However, Li Xiangping believes that the main reason is that he may still have a judgment error. Maybe after the change is over, He also thinks his situation is very good.

Even though he is losing money, he still thinks that he is in a good situation. Of course, this is very fatal, because people are not machines. People have all kinds of emotions, all kinds of joys and sorrows.

And Li Xiangping has always believed that at any time, human "optimism" or "advantage awareness" is the enemy in the game of Go, because at this time, your chess will become unconscious without knowing it. Enterprising, even becoming timid.

And Li Xiangping believes that Li Shishi lost in this place today.

After the whole game, Li Xiangping went up to congratulate Ma Xiaofei immediately:

"Mr. Ma, congratulations."

After winning chess, Ma Xiaofei also seemed very happy, with a heavy burden:

"Hehe, other people don't know you don't know, I can win this game, and I have to thank you"

Li Xiangping's congratulations were of course completely out of sincerity, but at this time no one knew that while Ma Xiaofei played a chess game, Li Xiangping also loosened a chess game. After all, after a Chinese chess player in the future finals, This greatly relieved the pressure on Lao Shi's 15-game quota, which would make Li Xiangping's next choice much easier.

After returning to China with such a good mood, Li Xiangping immediately focused his attention on the next "Nongxin Cup". The game will start on the 3rd day after he returns to China. The first 6 games will be played in Shencheng. Therefore, after Li Xiangping returned to Beijing, he hardly stayed, and immediately waited with Gu Dali and Luo Xihe. to Shencheng.

In fact, at this time, China has already decided to let Li Xiangping be the vanguard, but according to the rules of the "Nongshim Cup", the order of appearance does not need to be announced in advance, as long as the opponent is notified one hour before the game, so at this time, Even domestic chess fans don't know that Li Xiangping will be the vanguard.

The team leader Wang Lu Nanhua and others went to Shencheng with Li Xiangping this time. As soon as they arrived in Shencheng, the leader Hua found that something was wrong with Li Xiangping:

"Huh? Xiangping, what's wrong with you, where is the discomfort?"

"No no"

"Then why do I see the wrong look on your face."

Li Xiangping took a deep breath, and then said silently in his heart, this is my first show, my first show in the international arena, so I am a little excited now, even a little nervous, of course it is normal.

Of course no one knows his little excitement and little nervousness now. It's normal to think about it, who would have thought that the dignified two-time world champion, who has been invincible in all world competitions this year, would be nervous now?

I'm afraid no one will believe what Li Xiangping said.

"By the way, Xiang Ping, since you are the vanguard, you can go to the draw tonight. I guess the other two teams will also send their vanguards to draw lots, which is just to confirm who your opponent in the first round is."

"OK."

In the draw that night, the Japanese team had the best luck. They drew a first-round bye, so Li Xiangping will challenge the South Korean pioneer.

is Cui Zhehan!

Li Xiangping's first opponent was the later famous "Cui Du".

(end of this chapter)

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