Go Legend Chapter 290

Chapter 290 Nine versus fifteen

On the second day of the match, Li Xiangping walked from the hotel to the stadium according to his usual habit. Since the distance this time is still far away, Li Xiangping left the hotel earlier, and the earlier he left, the earlier he arrived. At 9:40 in the morning, Li Xiangping arrived at the stadium nearly 20 minutes earlier.

However, when he arrived at the stadium, he found that Zhang Xu had arrived earlier than him, and had already done all the preparations before the game.

"Ouch, sorry, sorry"

Since they arrived so early, it was impossible for the two of them to sit like that, so Li Xiangping started chatting with Zhang Xu. Zhang Xu is Chinese after all, so there is no problem in language communication, and when Li Xiangping went to Japan to compete, he was often received by Chinese chess players such as Mr. Lin Haifeng and Wang Mingwan. Therefore, although he and Zhang Xu are not particularly familiar, they are also very familiar with each other. Not to the point where the two of them stared at each other.

The topic of the two started from today's "Japanese game".

Because today's game is held in a place like "Tenshukaku", the organizers have ingeniously arranged the whole room into a traditional Japanese "Japanese-style game room", that is, a high-pier chessboard is placed on the tatami, and the players It is necessary to use the "kneeling" method to play the game.

Li Xiangping started chatting from here. After all, he has never played chess on the tatami before. Well, when he came to the game yesterday, he tried to sit down for a while. Forget about it.

However, he found that it was extremely uncomfortable to "kneel down" like this. If he kept the correct posture, Li Xiangping thought he couldn't hold on for 10 minutes, let alone a game that lasted six or seven hours.

"You don't have to do this all the time. When there are reporters taking pictures, you can use this sitting posture to pose. After the reporters leave, you can do this."

Speaking of this Xu Xu sitting cross-legged: "It's much more comfortable to sit like this."

"Hehe, thank you, thank you." Li Xiangping thanked Zhang Xu, and then he asked curiously:

"What about you, I heard that you came to Japan to learn chess when you were very young, so how are you now?"

"I'm already used to it." Zhang Xu smiled shyly. His Mandarin is actually quite good, but it may be because he doesn't speak much, his speech rate seems to be slower:

"Xiangping, you should know that the most important games in Japan are still playing on tatami mats, and since I came to Japan, I have always longed to play chess in the "Youxuan" special game room of the Japanese Chess Academy. So over time, I'm used to it now, and I'll tell you the truth, now, every time I come to the critical moment of the game, I will unconsciously change from sitting cross-legged to sitting upright, thinking that this is how I can concentrate."

"Hehe, I heard you mentioned "Youxuan", I forgot to congratulate you, congratulations to you on the throne of "Benyinfang"."

In Japan, the traditional "Big Triple Crown" is a symbol of a chess player's status.

"chess holy war", "celebrity war", "honinbo war", as long as you can win one of these three titles, you can be called "big chess player" in Japan.

And not long ago, Zhang Xu just won the title of "Honinbo" from Masao Kato, which greatly improved his status. And judging from the situation in real history, this year is also the last year of the transition of old and new in the Japanese chess world. At this time, the "chess master" is still Wang Licheng, the "celebrity" is Yitian Jiji, and the "Benyinfang" is Zhang. Xu.

Then wait until next year, Zhang Xu "double-kill" Yitian Jiji in the "Celebrity Battle" and "Beninfang Battle", and Wang Licheng's "chess master" was also snatched by other young chess players, which means that the Japanese chess world officially entered In the era of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Heisei", the rule of these four people lasted for about 10 years. In 2013, 10 years later, with Zhang Xu's "chess saint" being taken away by Iyama Yuta as a sign, the Japanese chess world officially became official. Enter the era of Jingshan **** of the world.

The two chatted like this. The start time was coming soon. At around 9:55, the referee and staff such as notation came in. The referee was fine. One of the notators aroused Li Xiangping's interest, because this was not someone else. , it is the sixth dan of Kobayashi Izumi, who is currently in power in Japan.

Kobayashi Izumi is the daughter of Mr. Kobayashi Koichi. She originally had a title like her, so she would not be a notator under normal circumstances, but she still has an identity. She is Zhang Xu's now. Girlfriends, and they are the kind who chase after each other. In real history, the two of them should get engaged in the second half of this year, and then officially get married next year.

"Hehe, it's not easy to do, I'm guessing it will be quite difficult for me to play this chess today."

It is none other than Zhang Xu's mentor, Mr. Lin Haifeng, who is serving as the "Lihe person" today. After listening to Li Xiangping's words, he asked curiously:

"Why is this chess difficult to play today?"

Li Xiangping smiled and said, "Mr. Lin, think about it, I'm only 19 dan, but Zhang Xu and sister Quanmei have 15 dan, and these 9 dan against 15 dan, can you play chess well? "

After listening to Li Xiangping's words, everyone who understood Chinese laughed. Mr. Lin had the kind smile of an elder, and Zhang Xu smiled shyly. Li Xiangping noticed in particular that Miss Kobayashi Quanmei seemed to understand, so she showed a smug smile.

"Tsk tsk, this sister Quanmei is still amazing. Not only does she have good eyesight, but she is also quick and hateful to start. It seems that she is a few years older than Zhang Xu, right? She eats this tender grass really fragrant"

10 o'clock arrived soon. As Mr. Lin announced the start of the game, Li Xiangping also got rid of all distracting thoughts and focused on the current game. After guessing first, Li Xiangping guessed black in this game.

I must tell the truth, before coming to Japan this time, and even for a long time after the game started, Li Xiangping was still very confident in this game.

The source of his confidence is nothing but the fact that he is facing Japanese players this time.

In later generations, what is the concept of "Japanese chess player"? Well, Li Xiangping thinks that Chinese football can be compared with it. There are rumors in the rivers and lakes that some young chess players in China went to participate in the qualifiers of the World Championships at the time before Li Xiangping crossed.

The young chess players usually don't answer the question directly. A simple sentence "I met a Japanese in this round" basically explained the problem.

It is precisely because the weakness of Japanese chess players has impressed everyone so deeply, so there is no doubt that Li Xiangping, who is a transmigrator, is no exception. optimism".

However, after the game started, Li Xiangping felt something was not right. As early as in the morning, he felt that this chess was a bit awkward.

It must be pointed out that the two sides only played less than 50 moves in the morning. Although Li Xiangping didn't think he had any advantage, he didn't think his chess was too bad. The main reason is that the pattern formed this morning was completely inconsistent with what Li Xiangping expected. He never expected that he would become like this with Zhang Xu.

The pattern formed in the morning is a typical "terrain" confrontation pattern in Go. Li Xiangping, who is in black, is madly on the ground, while Zhang Xu, who is in white, manages his own appearance wholeheartedly.

Such an extreme pattern of certainly exceeded Li Xiangping's expectations.

Of course, Li Xiangping despised Japanese chess players subconsciously. After all, he is not the kind of crazy person, so in order to play this game well, he has done the necessary preparations. You can watch it before the game. I have read a few Zhang Xu's recent chess scores.

According to his previous and present understanding of Zhang Xu, he believed that Zhang Xu's chess actually belonged to the "evil master" of the genre of Sakata Rongnan Zhao Zhixun Chen Xiaoqiang Lianxiao. Most of the people in this genre are lacking in the "big picture", but they are very sensitive to the ground, and they are very sharp for some small measures.

In addition to these common characteristics, Li Xiangping has another feeling after reading Zhang Xu's chess manual, that is, compared to other people, Li Xiangping feels that Zhang Xu's chess is more flexible, which should be his personal greatest an advantage.

Because of this, Li Xiangping thinks that his strategy today is all right, don't you like to make money? Then I'll take the first step, so that you can't make any money.

However, although Li Xiangping thinks that his strategy is ok, the progress of the actual battle in the morning is a bit beyond his expectations.”

In Li Xiangping's expectation, he thought that when he was fishing wildly, his opponent should not be outdone. According to his style, Zhang Xu should rush to fish with him.

However, what Li Xiangping did not expect was that the opponent's strategy today is not "not to be outdone", a more accurate description should be "tit for tat".

Zhang Xu chose not to be moved by Li Xiangping's maddening tactics. Not only was he unmoved, but his attitude was extremely firm. He devoted himself to managing his own appearance.

Since this is the case, then this typical "terrain confrontation" pattern is of course inevitable. Not only that, because Zhang Xu's attitude is very firm, and Li Xiangping can't adjust his strategy soon after the game starts, so today The pattern on the chessboard is even a bit extreme, an extreme "topographic confrontation" pattern.

To tell the truth, it is precisely because of this "extreme" that Li Xiangping is a little awkward.

It is not because of anything else, because this extreme pattern in Go is actually difficult to master most of the time, and most of the selection points on the board are usually "virtual" ��

Since he talked about the "virtual calculation road", Li Xiangping still has this self-knowledge. He believes that at this stage of himself, of course, the "real calculation road" far exceeds his own "imaginary calculation road".

Well, since he played like this today, Li Xiangping has a feeling of being in the middle of the game. He thinks that this chess is not on the path he is familiar with today.

However, there is no way. Now that the pattern has been formed, Li Xiangping certainly has no time to regret it. He must compete with his opponent in this extreme pattern.

During the 2-hour game time in the morning, the overall situation is exactly 49 moves, which means that the first move in the afternoon will be Zhang Xu's move.

This move is very important, because Zhang Xu's move will actually determine the skeleton of the game.

"Where will the opponent be?"

Li Xiangping began to think about this issue at the moment of closing the market at noon.

(end of this chapter)

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