Go Legend Chapter 385

Chapter 385 Arrival as promised

On the day of departure, after Li Xiangping arrived at the airport, he was taken aback by the lineup of reporters accompanying the group. Compared with Lao Xie, who was only in the "sports world" a few days ago, this time, he was relatively well-known in China. The full-time Go reporters are basically listed.

Li Xiangping smiled and asked the reporter Zhang Da, whom he was most familiar with: "What's the situation? I didn't come last time, but all of them went this time. Isn't this all the semi-finals? Do you think this game is more important? Or is it Samsung? What benefit did it give you?"

Reporter Zhang Da said with a smile: "Of course the competition is a level, and there are no benefits. We all go this time because there are gimmicks in this competition."

"A gimmick?"

At this time, another reporter surnamed Zhang took over. He was Zhang Zhidong, a full-time Go reporter for the Shencheng Xinmin Evening News. Old Zhang was older than Zhang Xiaoyong. He smiled and said to Li Xiangping:

"Don't forget Xiangping, if you take down Xiao Li from Korea this time, you will set another record."

"Record?"

"The record of reaching all the World Series finals in one year, and doing this for two consecutive years, is amazing, in any case, this is a very impressive record in the Go world, so we all think of the game scene. To witness the birth of this record."

Li Xiangping was taken aback for a while, to be honest, he really hadn't thought about this before the game. After all, at this time, he was still thinking about winning a world championship that was completely his own.

And from this perspective, it can be seen that in quite a few times, the gap between your personal expectations and the expectations of the outside world is still quite large. For example, when Lao Zhang said just now that he was "preparing to go to the scene to witness the birth of the record", he never seemed to think that he would lose.

Old Zhang's qualifications are still quite deep, so Li Xiangping used honorifics:

"Hehe, Uncle Zhang, don't say that, it makes me feel a lot of pressure."

"Haha pressure?" As if he heard something funny, he joked with his peers:

"Everyone, tell me, did anyone feel any pressure when we were watching the Xiangping game?"

The reporters laughed and said that they didn't. The only female reporter Guo reporter further explained her feelings: Because she doesn't know much about chess, she is not sensitive to many technical things. When Li Xiangping first debuted, because I don't know this person at all, and I don't know his strength at all, so there is no pressure to watch him play, and I think he will definitely lose in the World Series.

And wait until he rises like a rocket, because he is invincible, everyone thinks he is a rare genius, a kind of monster beyond ordinary people, then watching him play is of course even more stress-free.”

Since it is a monster, how can a monster lose a game against a normal person?

The logic of a female fake chess fan caused everyone to laugh, and in the laughter of everyone, the elder Nie of the Chinese delegation appeared this time, and the old Nie waved his big hand with great momentum:

"Set off!"

was speechless all the way, the big guy arrived at the arena smoothly, but after arriving at the arena, Old Nie had something to say:

"Well, to say that this Samsung Cup is good for everything, it's just a little too shabby sometimes, Samsung Seminary? Why do they always like to put the game here."

Li Xiangping was delighted after hearing this, saying that the "Samsung Cup" and "LG Cup" held by the Koreans are of the same nature, with similar scale and format, and even the nature of the championship bonus and sponsors. Not much difference.

The only difference is that it seems to be the route of the two competitions. The "Samsung Cup" likes to take the route of being close to the people, and likes to set up the competition in some small places. For example, this competition, the competition venue is in a rural area in South Korea, and it is also a Samsung company. own academy.

As for the "LG Cup", they seem to prefer to take the elite route, and they prefer to choose some high-end five-star hotels.

This is actually one of the reasons why more reporters came this time. You must know that it is only 2003. According to the statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics this year, our country's GDP has just reached about one-third of Japan's this year. And everyone knows that in Japan, they are the Greater Bay Area of Tokyo, and their GDP just accounts for about one-third of the country's GDP. Therefore, in these days, there is "the whole country's GDP has just reached the level of a city in Tokyo. ".

Well, if you listen to this sentence in this era, of course it is a kind of sadness, but when you look at this sentence after more than 10 years, it is like a kind of pride. Who would have thought that in just over 10 years, our country's GDP has not only surpassed that of Japan, but also that the entire economy has in turn tripled its size in terms of year-on-year prices.

Therefore, Li Xiangping has always believed that the development of our country in the past few decades sometimes looks like a YY novel. Suppose there is such an online writer who travels back to the 1970s and 1980s. If there were YY novels in that era, then the online writer does not need any imagination at all. Develop and write it truthfully.”

Li Xiangping can guarantee that this realistic novel, which is extremely realistic, was considered excessively YY in the eyes of most people at the time. Maybe a good urban book will be classified as a fantasy type by everyone.

After Li Xiangping thought about it like this in his heart, he didn't think about it further. After all, as a member of the Transmigration Army, the path he chose was different from others. Others depended on YY, but he relied on the next. Chess, he now thinks that only if he plays the game well, he may not be able to live up to this time travel.

There is nothing else to say, let's go directly to the theme, the second day after Li Xiangping arrived in South Korea, this year's "Samsung Cup" semi-finals officially started.

In addition to Li Xiangping VS Li Shishi, the other side is Da Li against Japanese Lao Zhao. Although in real history, Lao Zhao is the champion of this "Samsung Cup", but considering his one-sided record against Da Li, it is really hard to find a victory with Da Li, and in real history he won the championship. That time, I didn't meet Da Li in the game.

So now don't say that others think that the game may not have any suspense, even if Li Xiangping is a transmigrator, he also has nothing to say about the game over there, and even faintly feels that if he can pass Xiao Li this time. , then it is more likely to touch Da Li.

Of course, the premise of all this is that you must pass Xiao Li first.

At 10:00 a.m. Korean time, the referee gave an order and announced the official start of the first game of the three-game chess game. Today, the chief referee is none other than Liu Changhe, the king of Korean chess.

The dignified king-level figure, but now he has been reduced to sitting in the referee's seat because of a major change in his life, which made Li Xiangping shudder, and also made him feel a little sorry for Liu Langguan.

It's just that Li Xiangping will soon have no time to feel sorry for others. In this game of chess, Xiao Li guessed black chess. In the first 10 or so moves, both sides moved quickly. In less than a quarter of an hour, both sides posed in the lower left corner of the chessboard. After a common set, the two sides have reached the 20th move.

There is nothing to say about the first 20 moves. This is a very common opening routine. It is a common move where black takes the ground and white takes the potential.

On the 20th hand, Xiao Li's black gets a fat corner in the lower left corner, while Li Xiangping's white controls a black piece, and the situation is relatively open. The approved "two-point" approach.

Under normal circumstances, when the 20th move is partially over, most players always think about it during the 21st move.

But Lee Sedol did not.

He dropped the 21st hand of the overall game almost without thinking.

And this move immediately became the first major divergence point in this game.

At 10:15 in the morning, Li Xiangping's hand stopped in the face of Xiao Li's move just now.

To tell the truth, facing such a hand, he couldn't even think about it.

"Tsk tsk tsk, it really came as promised. I knew for a long time that when I was playing against Xiao Li, such a move would definitely be inevitable, but I never thought about it before. on the chessboard"

That's right, in Li Xiangping's eyes, Li Shishi's move just now was an "irrational hand".

At the very least, this is a slightly excessive "excessive breakup".

Li Xiangping has always believed that this kind of play between unreasonable and excessive is Xiao Li's signature move, which is his uniqueness and the essence of his "zombie flow".

It is precisely because of this that Li Xiangping's previous preparations were mainly aimed at this point. How to prevent himself from being attacked, and how to punish Xiao Li's unreasonable hand, this is almost Li Xiangping's preparation before the game. , all his thoughts.

Well, according to common sense, Xiao Li's move "arrived as promised", Li Xiangping should be happy, at the very least, he should feel "right in the middle".

It's a pity that Li Xiangping doesn't have it now.

For no other reason, this chess approach was expected, but the timing was not.

Li Xiangping never imagined that this was just the beginning of the first game, and the opponent would come right away. He was so straightforward, even judging from the speed and demeanor of his moves just now, he was so Resolutely, so without hesitation.

"Hey, master style, I said Xiao Li, Xiao Li, you are a few years older than me anyway, you don't talk about master style at all, give me this so early"

Li Xiangping complained in his heart, but because of Xiao Li's move, he was still "stopped" by his opponent. In the face of Xiao Li's unconventional approach, of course he had to think about it. Of the policy.

"Well, this chess piece was dispatched so early, and it was still shot from the slit, so what do you think of my external force? It doesn't matter if you don't agree with me, you must know this external force, even the dog agrees. Yes, if this doesn't give you some punishment, it would be a waste of my time to study the dog tricks for so long"

At 10:20 a.m. Korean time, Li Xiangping started the first long test of this three-game chess game.

(end of this chapter)

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