Go Legend Chapter 647

Chapter 647 It's time to hit the record again

Time flies, and before you know it, April 2006, the first weekend of April, the world's oldest professional Go world tournament: "Fujitsu Cup" kicked off.

This year's "Fujitsu Cup" has a record-related point of view: that is, if Li Xiangping can win the championship this year, he will achieve the fifth consecutive championship of the "Fujitsu Cup".

There is no doubt that if he can do it, it will be a very impressive record.

Prior to this, the highest consecutive championship record in the international arena belonged to Mr. Takemiya Masaki, who achieved four consecutive championships in the first to fourth "Asian Cup".

Last year, Li Xiangping beat Gu Dali in the final of the "Fujitsu Cup", and he has already tied this record.

"Fujitsu Cup" is a slow game, the oldest professional Go world tournament with a champion prize of 15 million yen. The "Asian Cup" is fast chess, a smaller international tournament with a champion prize of less than 4.5 million yen.

Of course, the weight of the two is different, and their status in the minds of the majority of chess fans is also different.

More importantly, when Mr. Takemiya achieved that record, he was already at the tail end of his personal peak. After that, except for a "celebrity", he has never achieved another achievement.

The current Li Xiangping is different. He is only under 20 years old. He is in his prime, and his body is just right. Not only is he at his peak, he even seems to have room for improvement.

Because of this, many people think that Li Xiangping is really likely to achieve five consecutive championships and thus enjoy this record exclusively.

There is no doubt that in the field of competitive sports, "record" is always a hot topic for everyone, which also leads to this year's "Fujitsu Cup" coming, when everyone remembers that Li Xiangping has reached four consecutive games in this event. Therefore, "Can Li Xiangping achieve an unprecedented five consecutive championships?", and became the focus of discussion in the major Go forums in the fastest time.

As a client, Li Xiangping, who has been a little busy recently, didn't notice this. He didn't remember that he had won four consecutive championships in the "Fujitsu Cup" until the Internet started to buzz.

Li Xiangping thought it was a little funny.

To say that he has a lot of champions now, but in other world competitions, such as the "Samsung Cup" and "LG Cup", which are held once a year, let alone five consecutive championships, or even three consecutive championships. Even the championship has never been achieved.

Do you attach great importance to this competition? Or do you have a special relationship with this game?

Of course, there is no such thing as a special emphasis. In fact, in the international arena, Li Xiangping attaches equal importance to any game.

Well, when he participated in the "Fujitsu Cup" for the first time that year, he valued this competition a little more, and the reason why he valued it more at that time was really not enough for outsiders to say

He was still worried about Lao Shi's 15-inning quota, and the "Fujitsu Cup" was a single-elimination system with single-set finals. From the first round to the final, it was a single-set final.

Therefore, in the opinion of Li Xiangping at the time, among all the world competitions at that time, this "Fujitsu Cup" was the most "cost-effective", and he would not easily waste his quota for plug-ins, which led him to value it more at that time.

From the year before last, Li Xiangping actually didn't care about Lao Shi's quota at all, so he didn't pay special attention to it.

However, in this case, he can still win the championship all the way to last year in this event. Of course, there is no other explanation. Li Xiangping can only think that this is fate.

After all, as the saying goes: Competitive sports have no fate, but when you perform well in a certain event, and you can even win the championship for many times, then fate begins to be born. Others and even you will think that you have a special fate with this event. .

There is no doubt that Li Xiangping himself is in this state now.

Therefore, when he went to Japan to participate in the new "Fujitsu Cup" with the army again, when someone asked him about his prospects for the competition, he also talked about "destiny" there, with a high profile and a little joke. In his tone, he said that he and this game seem to have a "very good relationship". Since there are many chess fans who want to see the first five consecutive championships in the World Series, then he will strive to do so.

On April 3, the first round of the competition officially started. As the defending champion, Li Xiangping certainly did not need to play. He, together with the previous runner-up Gu Dali and others, watched the first round of eight sets in the viewing room.

In fact, in the first round of the competition, there were not many top players. For example, South Korean Xiaoli and others, they were also seeded players, but not long after the competition started, Gu Dali began to express his emotions:

"Look, boss."

"What are you showing me?"

"Look at the opening, you didn't watch the eight games today, but there are seven games that are "point three three" in the fifth hand."

Li Xiangping laughed silently, he remembered that in real history, the first season of the man-machine war was held in early 2016, and the second season of Ke Shaoxia's man-machine war was held in 2017.

The play of "Opening point three and three" was first seen in the second-generation dog "Master", and then this move was recognized by the third-generation dog "Afa Yuan", so from about 18 years ago, this move has been in the professional chess world. It was so popular that it almost informed the professional chess world at that time.

Dogs contributed to the popularity of this move for nearly a year.

As a human chess player, it took less than 6 years to contribute to the popularity of this play.

Although he is far from the dog, Li Xiangping still feels proud.

It's just that after being proud, Li Xiangping is also wary of the hot locusts, the pods, the scorpions, the scorpions, and the trees. V-tube sulphur dark curtain

"Pfft."

At this time, Gu Dali seemed to remember something funny, and he actually laughed out loud to himself.

Li Xiangping looked at him, Lao Xie Zhang Da and others also looked up at him at the same time.

"Old Xie," Gu Dali said to reporter Xie alone:

"Do you know when I first saw this kind of opening with three-three?"

Everyone became interested at that time and asked when he was. Reporter Zhang Da said:

"If I remember correctly, the first time Xiang Ping used this move in the World Championship, it seems that in two games of chess with Liu Changhe, the two played the super complicated "Li's Flying Knife" at that time. , as a result, Da Liu was blown up at that time, right?"

Hearing Zhang Da reporter say this, Li Xiangping had a strange expression on his face at the time, because the "Li's flying knife" in his mouth was actually "Mi's flying knife", but the current classmate Xiao Mi was just in his early 10s, so There is no way to change the name of this flying knife.

"No," Gu Dali said: "The first time I saw the 5th hand in the opening, I scored 33. It was actually a training match within the national team."

Gu Dali turned to Li Xiangping again and said, "The boss didn't seem to have become a world champion at that time, right? Yes, it should have been at that time. As a result, you used this trick to cut Xiaomei's game, which made him doubt life at that time, and directly followed up with him. I yelled that he wanted to retire."

Everyone laughed when they heard it.

Indeed, since Li Xiangping was not yet famous at the time, a trick like this seemed very amateur at the time. Kong Xiaomei was defeated by such a trick, and his doubts at that time were normal.

"But everyone see," Gu Dali continued, "Now the starting point is three-three, but it has become Xiaomei's favorite. Others can hit one or two at most, but he is a good game of chess, and three of the four corners are all three. Three, I just thought of this past event, and I couldn't help laughing out loud."

After Gu Dali finished explaining, everyone's attention was also focused on Kong Erjie's game. Not only did the three corners appear "point 33", in fact, his opponent today was Park Yongxun, who was in the first round of eight sets. , that is, this game of chess seems to have the most weight.

In the previous life, before the fully mature Kong Er was most afraid of Xiao Li, he was basically not afraid of other chess players, especially for the "Cow Calf Three Gang" in South Korea, he always had a relative advantage.

It was like this in the past life, and it seems to be the same in this life. In the "Toyota Cup" not long ago, Kong Er was eliminated by Xiao Li, but today he faces Da Pu, but he is very handy all the way and always has a certain advantage.

At a little after 5:00 pm, Kong Erjie won the middle game, and after more than half an hour, the first round of the game was all over, Li Xiangping stretched:

"Go, Brother Gu, prepare to draw lots."

In fact, in the second round of the "Fujitsu Cup", the strong and weak are basically clear, because the eight seeded players in the first round bye did not meet in this round. Not only that, Li Xiangping is actually a player from the same country like Kong Erjie The same cannot be met, so the other remaining players have extremely limited opponents.

Li Xiangping faced the Japanese veteran Yamashiro Hiro 9dan in the second round.

And the former "Infiltrator", in the first round, defeated a European and American amateur chess player to sit in front of Li Xiangping.

There is not much to say in this game, and there is basically no suspense. Li Xiangping defeated his opponent relatively easily and broke into the "Fujitsu Cup" quarterfinals again.

The Chinese chess players who joined him in the quarter-finals were none other than Gu Dali and Kong Erjie.

It's just that the results of the quarter-finals that night came out, and the two of them did not have the good luck of Li Xiangping. Kong Erjie encountered Xiao Li again, and Gu Dali directly fought against Da Li.

Compared with the two of them, Li Xiangping's opponent is South Korea's backbone Kim Seungjun, which is already too good to sign.

It seems that from this point of view, Li Xiangping is indeed more related to the "Fujitsu Cup". When the result of the lottery comes out, Li Xiangping is ready to hit a new record.

It's just the quarter-finals of the "Fujitsu Cup", which is already in June. Even if Li Xiangping prepares again, he must finish other things first.

As soon as he got home, Zhao Jiadong immediately found him:

"Xiang Ping, tell me honestly, is it your idea to let Dao Kai play Fan Xiping?"

(end of this chapter)

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