The final of the 5th "Hope Cup" Go Contest has begun.

Lee Sedol is getting older and older, and he is not like Lee has just entered the chess world, and his mouth is extremely mean.

It is also possible that some edges and corners have been smoothed out by reality, and for the sake of the family, I have to make compromises.

Li Cai also knows that this time, it is estimated that it will be the last time he will meet Lee Sedol in the next ten games, and the remaining chess players who will challenge him are probably the younger generation of small spy Ke Jie, Park Yeonheng, who was once given his second son, and Iyama Yuta of the neon country.

In Li Cai's view, the pillar of Go between the three kingdoms in the future, the one with the greatest potential is his junior brother Ke Jie, the rest is Iyama Yuta, and the weakest is South Korea's Park Yanheng.

Ke Jie will become the world's No. 1 Go point in August this year, and will break countless records in the future, if it weren't for the appearance of Alpha Dog, Ke Jie would have been able to maintain the world's No. 1 position for a longer time, and he would enjoy more honors.

As for Iyama Yuta of the Neon Country, in the Neon domestic Ben Yin Fang battle the year before last, he got the right to challenge, defeated Yamashita Keigo 4:3 in the seven games, and then he will continue to dominate and achieve the achievement of seven consecutive hegemony, and even last year, he won the six crowns in the neon seven battles.

After Yuta Iyama also won the biggest and last title of chess saint in the Japanese chess world, he has become the third major slam player in the history of neon after Zhao Zhixun and Zhang Xu, and holds six championships at the same time, which can be said to be promising, and even the people of the neon country regard him as the future of neon Go, and he can defeat Li Cai in the "Hope Cup" in the future and become the first person in Go who deserves it.

Regarding the expectations of neon people, Li Cai can only smile disdainfully, after all, after the emergence of artificial intelligence, many people will catch up in different directions.

Among the Three Kingdoms, South Korea's Go leader Park Yeon-hyung, aside from chess quality, Li Cai feels that he has the lowest potential, and there is one of the most important reasons.

From the perspective of talent, Park Yanheng's talent can only be said to be average. Of course, this is only for "super-first-class" chess players, and among ordinary chess players, it is still quite good. Compared with several generations of Korean Go leaders, from Cao Yanzi, Li Shifo, Lee Sedol to Park Yanheng, Li Cai believes that this Park Yanheng's talent is the worst, and his future achievements are limited.

How do you want to describe his style of Go? In Li Cai's view, Park Yanheng's basic skills in Go are quite solid, and they are the product of his basic skills being practiced to the peak, which is very mechanical. But it must be admitted that this type of chess player is indeed very difficult to deal with, and there are few mistakes, but it cannot be denied that, limited by his talent, it is also very difficult for this type of chess player to reach a new level, a new height.

Just like after Alpha Dog came out, why was it not him, but Lee Sedol, among the Korean chess players he was looking for? Park Yeon-heng lacked a ruthless spirit, let alone a first-class winner and loser, and even an ordinary winner! No matter how high his ranking is, can he win compared to the computer's computing power? It can be said that a chess player of his type has no chance at all in the face of artificial intelligence.

Although Lee Sedol also failed miserably, his dedication to winning and losing, being able to play a winning hand, a clever move, and win a game of chess with Alpha Dog can be said to be very good.

After all, at that time, his Go strength was not at its peak for a long time, and it can be said that he was in his thirties, and his calculation was not as good as before.

In this year's "Hope Cup" competition, Lee Sedol estimated that he also knew that he might not have a chance to compete with Li Cai, so he tried his best and got the right to challenge, hoping to defeat Li Cai and prove himself when his strength declined more seriously.

Although Li Cai has not participated in Go competitions over the years, the current Go can be said to be the "era of online chess". Although there are two sides to everything, it is undeniable that the Internet has expanded the influence of Go a lot, and more people can have access to Go, but the atmosphere on online chess is far less than that of face-to-face games.

After all, many people on the Internet are not very good at Go, and people watching the game on the Internet like to talk nonsense, and they don't understand the chess products that are silent at all.

Therefore, Li Cai rarely plays chess with a large number on the Internet, because there will be many people who come to Guan Zhan to play chess with the rest of the professional chess players, and Li Cai speaks in private and opens a trumpet to play chess, and no one pays attention.

In the first game of the "Hope Cup" Shiban game, many people thought that Li Cai would still win easily, after all, Li Sedol is a year older, and his Go strength is no longer at its peak, although Li Cai is now distracted to do other things, but now is the golden age of chess players' computing ability, so many people think that there is no suspense, but the result is surprising, Lee Sedol actually won the first game.

At the end of the first game, Li Cai did not regret it, after all, he had not been in contact with Go for a long time, and if the time house could be used, Li Cai could go to a sparring partner and make his Go competitive state the best.

Losing the first game, although it is surprising, but many people feel that it is expected, just look at Li Cai's next performance, now Li Cai sits high in the clouds and has a transcendent position in the Go world. Losing a game or two once in a while does not affect his status at all.

It's just that this has made some South Korean media clamoring for their country's chess players to be the strongest.

But in the next game, Li Cai won four games in a row, showing an invincible attitude, which made the Korean media feel desperate, feeling that with Li Cai, the name of the world number one in Go would not be theirs.

Unless, it is proved that Li is their Korean, just like Confucius and Qu Yuan are their Koreans.

In the sixth game, Lee Sedol was worthy of his tenacity and hard as a stone, and pulled back a game.

However, in the next two games in a row, Lee Sedol did not apply for the rule of giving way first.

In this way, in the 14-year "Hope Cup", Li Cai won again and retained his status as the "uncrowned king" of Go.

In the international and women's categories, the champion and runner-up in the international category were Slovakia's Pavol Leeds, who entered the first European Professional Go Tournament this year, won the championship, and then Israel's Ali Jabarin won the runner-up.

As for the women's group, the champion is naturally Huaguo's nine-dan chess player Rui Naiwei, and the runner-up is Hei Jiajia.

Rui Naiwei was able to win the championship, in Li Cai's view, it is normal, after all, she is the first female chess player Jiudan in the history of Go, and even many top male chess players are not her opponents, and even when the 21st century just arrived, that is, in 2000, she defeated Li Shifo and Cao Yanzi, the pair of masters and apprentices, to win the Korean Go national hand championship, which can be said to have caused a sensation in the world chess world.

You must know that at that time, when Shifo began to be at its peak, the world's top chess player, as a female chess player, Rui Naiwei was able to do this, which is really amazing!

As for Hei Jiajia winning the runner-up, although it was a bit unexpected by Li Cai, I thought that since Hei Jiajia became the world Go ambassador at the same time as himself, he often asked himself for advice on the Internet, so it can be said that he is half his master, and it is reasonable to be able to win the runner-up.

In this way, the "Hope Cup" has passed, and Li Cai is also looking forward to the advent of Alpha Dog next year.