In mid-March, the first World Series of the 06-07 season kicked off, and Li Xiangping, together with Gu Dali, Kong Erjie, Xie He, Chen Xiaoqiang, Chang Hao, and Wang Lei Liuduan and other six chess players, went to Tokyo, Japan, to compete in the 3rd "Toyota Cup" 16:01 professional Go throne battle.

The "Toyota Cup" is still a traditional invitational tournament, with no open qualifiers, but there are no seeds, so there are 32 players participating in the "this tournament".

Obviously, with the achievements and status of Chinese Go in the world chess arena today, the 7 participation places are obviously a bit less, but the world professional chess world has always been like this, since the establishment of the first world championship, the host country has many more places than other countries.

This year's "Toyota Cup" is no exception, with Japanese players accounting for 12 of the 32 places in this tournament, followed by South Korean players 6 places, and the remaining places are allocated to all continents of the world.

It is precisely because of this that the so-called World Series in the Go world, the real competition often starts from the quarterfinals, and if there is a hedge between top masters in the first two rounds, it can only be said that these people have bad luck in the draw.

The luck of the Chinese team this time is quite good.

At least in the first round of the draw is not bad, so good that even Li Xiangping drew the ninth section of Japan's Takao Shinji, and even this opponent is already very weighty.

"Hehe, Heisei waste."

After stepping down after drawing lots, Li Xiangping's whispering was heard by Team Leader Hua:

"Huh? Xiangping, what did you just say? ”

Li Xiangping continued to bite his ears with Team Leader Hua, and he laughed and said, "Teacher Hua, haven't you heard such a sentence?" ”

"What's that?"

"Someone summed up that in the past few hundred years, Japan has been a Meiji monk, a Taisho country, and a Showa ghost, and then now it is Japan's Heisei era, do you know what they raised in the Heisei era?"

"What to raise?"

"Heisei pig breeding."

"Poof."

Although Team Leader Hua had already laughed out loud, by this time, he still hadn't forgotten his identity, and he forcibly said with a straight face: "Xiangping, you can't have the idea of underestimating the enemy, the person Takao is one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Heisei, and he just snatched the "Ben Yin Fang" from Zhang Xu, you can't be too careless." ”

Li Xiangping showed a strange smile, and then pretended to nod his head to be taught, and the reason why he smiled so strangely was that he remembered a sentence that was on par with the previous sentence:

"Heisei pig raising" corresponds to "Heisei waste", of course, this does not need to be explained, and then a few years later, when Japan "changed the dynasty", from the Heisei era into the Reiwa era, there was a new saying, called: Heisei waste, Reiwa's macho man.

To be honest, when he first saw this statement, Li Xiangping was shocked, and said in his heart that he was still a waste just now, how could this evolve into a macho man immediately?

However, when he saw the detailed explanation, especially when he saw a standard portrait of "Reiwa Macho Man" drawn by the Japanese themselves, Li Xiangping couldn't cry or laugh at that time.

The so-called "Reiwa's macho man" looks like a neutral person, but he is very similar to the "Brother Chun" in our country.

Therefore, it is not without reason that the population of Japan will become smaller and smaller in the future, and it will become a "low-desire society".

And about this, even some people in the entertainment industry can notice it-------- for example, in his previous life, Li Xiangping once watched a person in the entertainment industry speak out, and that guy mentioned the issue of "aesthetic safety".

What is the so-called "little fresh meat"? This statement was first seen in the rich woman circle in Pengcheng, when they went to the duck shop to find ducks, they used "little fresh meat" to call those ducks, and then it didn't take long for this word to become popular in the entertainment industry, and many young artists were even complacent, not ashamed but proud.

So the guy finally concluded, like the second dimension of small fresh meat, this can be used as an aesthetic supplement to retain the diversity of aesthetics, but this aesthetic cannot be allowed to occupy the absolute mainstream, otherwise the whole country and nation are in danger.

I have to say that considering the "waste of Heisei, the macho man of Reiwa" Li Xiangping thinks nothing else, at least on this point, Li Xiangping still agrees with the old man's point of view.

Of course, what will become of the Japanese nation in the end, this is not what Li Xiangping cares about, and he will not worry about it, what he cares about now is the last generation of "Toyota Cup", how can he earn this last championship bonus.

At 10 a.m. the next day, the first round of the tournament officially began, with 32 players battling each other for a championship prize of about 30 million yen.

It's a bit strange, originally based on Li Xiangping VS Takao Shinji, one of the two is the first person in today's chess world, and the other is the Japanese reigning "Ben Yin Fang", which is already a heavyweight hedge in the first round.

However, the heavyweight game did not enjoy the heavyweight treatment, and the Japanese side not only did not choose to explain the game of chess, but even the positions of the two players were arranged in an inconspicuous corner of the competition hall.

What other people think can't think clearly, anyway, Team Leader Hua still understands: after all, Li Xiangping, who has been debuting for 6 years, has won all the Japanese chess players so far! Whether it was the "Six Supers" or the "Heisei Four Heavenly Kings" of that year, or Yitian Jiji, Wang Licheng and others, they were hard to win.

Therefore, in the view of the Chinese team leader: the Japanese side may think that this is a game that must be lost, since it is a game that must be lost, of course, don't want to enjoy much treatment.

What's more, not to mention anything else, even Team Leader Hua himself, he doesn't think there is much suspense in this game of chess--------

Li Xiangping's previous performance in the armor was seen in the eyes of Team Leader Hua.

It's not that in those four games, Li Xiangping played a lot better, but in the eyes of Team Leader Hua, Li Xiangping's chess sense is still keen, and there is no "hand-born" situation.

Since there is no "hand student", it means that Li Xiangping is still working hard, and he has not wasted his chess skills because of other things.

It is precisely because of this reassurance that during the morning game, Team Leader Hua did not pay much attention to Li Xiangping's game, but watched the games of other Chinese chess players.

Among them, especially Chen Xiaoqiang VS Iyama Yuta------ the two are both 89 years of "Pan 90s", Jingshan was selected into the Japanese lineup by virtue of last year's "Ahantongshan Cup" championship, plus after Li Xiangping and Jingshan played last year, he praised Jingshan and helped him say a lot of good things, so this game still attracted some attention in the Chinese and Japanese chess circles.

The two-hour game time passed quickly in the morning, and seeing that Chen Xiaoqiang's situation was superior, this made Team Leader Hua feel good, so that when Li Xiangping walked out of the competition hall, he already had a solemn expression, and Team Leader Hua didn't pay attention.

Team Leader Hua really noticed Li Xiangping's game of chess, which was already half past two in the afternoon, that is, the afternoon game had been played for an hour and a half, and the overall situation had been carried out to more than 80 chess.

"Team Leader Hua," reporter Zhang Da waved to Team Leader Hua: "Why don't you come over and have a look, how do I feel...... The situation in Xiangping seems to be a little wrong. ”

"Ah!!h

Team Leader Hua hurriedly rushed over, and when he judged the situation, his expression became solemn----- as solemn as when Li Xiangping came down at noon.

However, considering that this is a chess game played by Li Xiangping after all, Team Leader Hua is not very sure, he looked around------ this time he led the team to compete, so there were no other Chinese masters around.

But fortunately, there are no Chinese masters, there are still Japanese masters, and the Hua team leader quickly locked two people, one is the "cosmic flow" Takemiya Masaki, and the other is the senior brother of Takemiya, Mr. Yoshio Ishida, who was known as the "electronic computer" back then, these two are responsible for the live broadcast of today's game, one is responsible for live TV, and the other is responsible for on-site listing explanation.

"Mr. Ishida, Mr. Takemiya, please come and have a look......"

The two veteran super-first-class players quickly came over, and after carefully judging the situation, both of them showed surprise on their faces at the same time, and smiled at the same time.

Of course, it's still the same sentence, the shadow of the so-called famous tree, this is Li Xiangping's competition after all, so although both of them feel that Takao's situation has been clearly superior, they are unwilling to say it to their faces:

Yoshio Ishida said: "Hehe, this is Li Sang's game after all, and he has too many ghost methods, so I personally think it's still early, at least it will take a while." ”

Wu Gong immediately said: "Yes, yes, take a look at it, this chess still needs to be looked at again......"

Team Leader Hua's face became darker------ how to say that he was also a chess player who came over in that era, so the expressions of the two Japanese masters now, Team Leader Hua knew at a glance.

But Team Leader Hua has no other way, he can't force people to say it directly, and he can't replace Li Xiangping to play chess, so Wu Gong said that he would have to take another look, of course he could only look at it again.

A little more than 3 o'clock in the afternoon, just over 100 hands in the whole world, Li Xiangping, who was holding black, suddenly used force, and he forcibly attacked a big dragon of white chess-------

This move drew exclamations from two Japanese players, and then Team Leader Hua felt a sense of foreboding.

Because in the eyes of Team Leader Hua, Li Xiangping's hand was too reluctant, and the white dragon didn't look like it was attacked at all.

Therefore, Li Xiangping's chess hand is actually just a "winning and losing hand", and it is a "winning and losing hand" that does not have much success.

Exercising such a means as soon as the overall situation arrives at the hundredth hand, of course, only shows one problem: Li Xiangping himself must also feel that his situation is unfavorable, otherwise he would not be like this.

But after all, it was a "winner and loser", so from that chess hand, the research room began to be lively, and everyone began to study the offense and defense of that generation.

It's just that the more he studied, the darker the face of Team Leader Hua became, and the smiles of the two Japanese masters became even bigger------ because everyone found that Li Xiangping's method just now could not be established at all, because there were too many flaws in his own chess shape, and the opponent could take advantage of these flaws and easily deal with his big dragon.

By about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when the game had reached about 130 hands, the research room returned to silence again-------- Takao walked out of the way everyone studied, which was a more classic and relatively large "roll pack", this is the weakness of black chess itself, as long as white chess takes advantage of this weakness, then its own big dragon has been dealt with.

By now, this "roll-and-pack collection" has appeared on the chessboard, so after the offensive and defensive battles in this area are over, Li Xiangping's black chess is categorically disadvantaged.

Mr. Takemiya seemed to suddenly remember something, and he whispered a few words to his senior brother and a few words in Japanese, and after Mr. Ishida heard it, he smiled and nodded frequently, and after politely saying goodbye to Team Leader Hua, he left in a hurry.

Team Leader Hua's face was even darker at that time, because he understood Japanese, and Mr. Takemiya clearly said just now: Please ask Mr. Ishida to apply for a revision of the live broadcast content, this game must be broadcast, and it is good to report the "good news" that the Japanese chess player defeated Li Xiangping for the first time.

"Alas~~~ This Li Xiangping, it seems that he can't be distracted too much......"

So Team Leader Hua began to think, he thought about how to do Li Xiangping's ideological work after returning to China.

It's a pity that this question is really not so easy to think about, because Li Xiangping is not an ordinary person after all, so Team Leader Hua has been thinking about it for a long time, and he doesn't know the essentials at all.

Unconsciously, 20 minutes passed, and Team Leader Hua was still thinking there.

In the end, it was Li Xiangping himself who pulled him back to reality, because at around 4:20 in the afternoon, the match between Li Xiangping VS Takao Shinji had ended, and the two walked out of the game room one after the other.

Team Leader Hua saw at that time: the current Li Xiangping's face was swollen and red, and he was embarrassed----- he was embarrassed to "rest of his life after the catastrophe".

On the other hand, his opponent Takao Shinji is now a look of chagrin, a look of dementia, demented to the point that his eyes are blank, staring at a place that he doesn't know what to do.

"What's going on, is this chess a win for Xiangping......"

Before Team Leader Hua could fully come to his senses, it was reporter Zhang Da who rushed over happily:

"Haha unjust case, the biggest unjust case of the year, Takao Beninfang lost really wrongfully....... but then again, Xiangping's final reversal is indeed exquisite, and he is definitely qualified to be selected as one of the top ten best players of the year......."

Team Leader Hua lazily listened to Zhang Da's reporter in Na Luoli, he quickly arrived at the final chess game early, and then set up the final process.

Because today's reversal is not particularly complicated, with the level of the Hua leader, he quickly discovered the problem.

The problem lies in that "roll-on-roll-out".

Yes, the very common "roll pack and collect" in Go, and the "roll pack and collect" that is completely large-scale.

To be more specific, the problem is the penultimate step in the whole "roll-on" process, at that time, Takao Honinbo had just taken a step to "pounce", which was the kind of "pounce" that pounced

Of course, those who have played Go know that if there is a "roll, pack and receive" in Go, then such a "pounce" will usually accompany it.

This kind of "pounce" sometimes has practical significance, for example, sometimes it is a matter of eye position, so if you "pounce" like this, it is likely to directly remove one eye of the opponent.

Of course, sometimes, such a "pounce" has no practical significance, for example, people are already live chess, and it doesn't matter if you pounce or not.

Takao's "pounce" today actually doesn't have much practical significance, because the piece where Li Xiangping was "rolled and packed" is itself a live chess, and the key to today is not there, the focus is on the one that was attacked in front.

Of course, those who have played Go also know that no matter whether such a "pounce" is meaningful or not, but when encountering "rolling and packing" in actual combat, the vast majority of chess players will choose to "pounce".

Whether you are an amateur or a professional chess player, most people choose to give it a flutter.

There is no other reason, because after such a "pounce", you can often beat the opponent into a piece of "big cake", forming an extremely ugly and ugly chess shape.

Of course, it is uncomfortable to form a "foolish type" by yourself. But if you play the opponent as a "fool", of course, there will be a sense of pleasure.

So most people will definitely "pounce", in fact, they are pursuing this kind of pleasure.

It's clear that Takao Honinbo is actually pursuing this kind of pleasure today.

It's a pity that it was precisely because he pursued a momentary pleasure that he made a big mistake in the end, and was directly turned over by Li Xiangping, because Li Xiangping ignored his step of "pounce", but "peeped" outside.

That's right, there's nothing wrong with using the word "peep" here, because the front of this piece is where white can pick up pieces-------

Because Li Xiangping ignored the "pounce", the more than ten chess pieces that caused him to be "rolled and packed" are now only one breath.

This piece of chess punch can't be rushed, otherwise it can't be called "rolling and packing".

In fact, Li Xiangping didn't rush, he seemed to ignore the more than ten chess pieces, but "peeped" outside.

However, it was a move that led directly to the reversal of the overall situation.

Because Takao suddenly found that in the face of Li Xiangping's seemingly strange hand, he didn't dare to eat the more than ten chess pieces.

Because Li Xiangping's chess hand can actually help to slay the dragon, with the response of this chess piece, Li Xiangping can really kill it.

Li Xiangping was eaten more than ten chess pieces, and there were only about 20 goals, but if Takao's big dragon was killed, the value would definitely exceed 30 meshes, so this kind of unequal conversion, Takao Beninfang knew that it would not work.

But if he goes back and deals with his big dragon now, Takao knows that it won't work either.

Because if this happens, it means that the previous "roll-out packing" has completely failed, and the good "roll-out packing" has turned into a "Western-style package".

Such a loss of mesh, of course, is also Takao Ben Infang can not afford, because this means that his own big empty is broken, Li Xiangping every time he rushes one more chess piece, Takao has to lose at least 2 more than 2 mesh.

Li Xiangping can rush to four or five moves casually, which means that Gao Wei will lose about 10 moves casually.

In a professional game of this level, such a big loss is certainly impossible to afford in any case.

It is precisely because of this that when Takao discovered his problem, when he calculated all the changes, he was not in the mood to continue.

All of this is a matter of "pounce", if he was eating honestly outside at the time------- to tell the truth, Li Xiangping would have been ready to stand up.

Fortunately, because of Takao Motoinbo's inadvertent mistake, he continued to win against the Japanese players.

Li Xiangping came to Team Leader Hua with a flushed face, but Team Leader Hua said to him coldly:

"Hmph, Heisei waste."

"Hah!"

Li Xiangping was embarrassed at that time.

It's really embarrassing to capitalize.