The "Samsung Cup" final with Chen Xiaoqiang is over, and this season is also coming to an end, and there are two more competitions in the international arena, one is the "Nongshim Cup" and the other is the "LG Cup".

As for Li Xiangping, because he is the main general in the "Nongshim Cup", he will not play until the third stage in March next year, so before the Spring Festival, he actually only has one game left, that is, the "LG Cup" final trilogy against Xiao Li, and that game is still nearly a month and a half away from now.

Now that it has reached the end of the year, all kinds of summaries have begun to come out, and in the entire Go world, the most dazzling one this year is of course still Li Xiangping:

So far, he has won the "Fujitsu Cup", "Asian Cup", "Toyota Cup" and "Samsung Cup" this year, and has helped the Chinese team win the "Nongshim Cup" with a magical wave of five consecutive wins.

"LG Cup" he has also reached the final, if the biennial "Chunlan Cup" is included in the next season, then this year, Li Xiangping has a great hope of winning his second "Golden Slam".

Not only that, compared with the "Golden Slam" the year before, his dominance seems to be better, in addition to the 3-0 clean sheet against Gu Dali in the "Phoenix Ancient City Cup", Li Xiangping's winning rate this year is also particularly interesting.

Since last season's "LG Cup" was defeated by Gu Dali, Li Xiangping has only lost two games of chess this year, one is Weijia lost to Chen Xiaoqiang, and the other is the first game of the "Toyota Cup" final lost to Zhang Xu.

It is precisely because of this that as 2007 approaches, another record in the Go world has been repeatedly mentioned, and that is the highest annual win rate of a professional chess player.

There have always been two theories about this record, one is that the holder of this record is also Da Li, who achieved 41 consecutive victories in the year when he achieved a winning streak, and the winning rate of that year was as high as about 90%.

However, this statement is not accurate enough, the real holder of this record, that should be the Japanese Mr. Sakata Eio, who had an annual overall record of 30 wins and 2 losses in the sixties of the last century, and the winning rate has exceeded 90%.

The reason why this record is not recognized by some people is that in that year, Mr. Sakata also lost in some friendly matches (similar to the modern graded and non-graded games), and if only official matches are counted, then this record should still be attributed to Sakata Eio.

However, no matter what record it is, as long as Li Xiangping does not miss in the next "LG Cup", this record will definitely fall on his head.

And it was undisputed and convincing to fall on his head.

You must know that Li Xiangping rarely participates in domestic competitions, and in his games, the hedging of the main general level of the armor is already a low-grade game.

As a result, the quality of his games and the strength of his opponents are far greater than those of his two rivals.

And to be able to maintain such a high win rate in such a high-quality game is of course very much a reflection of the dominance of a professional chess player, a very terrifying dominance!

It is precisely for this reason that when everyone began to carry out the year-end end, when everyone mentioned Li Xiangping's dominance, a comparison of Professor Yang Zhenning was repeatedly quoted by everyone:

In the physics community, it is generally recognized that the first place must be Einstein, but I am engaged in physics, so I know in my heart that the gap between the first and second in the physics community is not as big as everyone imagined, at least not as big as the gap between Wu Qingyuan and the second back then.......

But when everyone compares Wu Qingyuan and Li Xiangping, everyone finds that if you simply compare the dominance, Li Xiangping even surpasses Lao Wu, after all, observing Mr. Wu's entire career, even in his peak years, it seems that he has not been able to achieve such dominance as Li Xiangping this year.

It is precisely because of this that on the eve of the New Year in 2007, some people can't wait to start discussing the historical status of Li Xiangping.

"Wu Qingyuan and Li Xiangping, who is the real number one in history?" , which has become a hot topic at the moment.

It's just that the heat of this topic didn't last long, and the reason is very simple, both parties came out to speak out.

On the day that Li Xiangping lifted his 17th world championship trophy, someone interviewed Mr. Wu Qingyuan about this and mentioned the comparison between the two by the outside world:

"Hehe, I think I'm not as good as him, and Li Xiangping is much better than me," Mr. Wu replied with a smile:

"I've been watching Li Xiangping's chess recently, no, I should say I've been learning, that's really a new world, there is an old Chinese saying, called Chaowendao, death can be carried out, I can tell you very clearly, every time I watch Li Xiangping's chess, I will have a kind of joy in Chaowendao......."

At the award ceremony that night, a reporter relayed Mr. Wu's words to Li Xiangping and asked him to say a few words.

Li Xiangping thought about it, and at first he was going to adopt Da Li's statement: "Even behind the scenes, I never thought that I could compare with Mr. Wu......."

It's just that considering that he has learned a lot of dog tricks after all, and the outside world sees his performance, he is not alone, which also includes Lao Shi, so he decided to change his statement and adopt the statement of Jingshan Desire in the later generations:

All I can say is that after so many years of hard work, the Go world may have finally caught up with Mr. Wu.......

With such an attitude on both sides, of course things are not fun. How so? This is like tearing up, if the two parties are not convinced by each other and think that they are stronger than each other, then the outside world will be energetic and will be interested in eating melons there.

However, both parties are so modest and praise their opponents there, which of course doesn't make much sense.

At the end of the award ceremony, Li Xiangping is ready to return to the capital, although there is no competition in January, but he is still a college student, this final exam is approaching, he usually does not have a problem with classes, but it is impossible to miss the exam.

"Li Daqi Sheng, open the door!"

Li Xiangping opened the door and looked, but it was Zhao Daokai who came as promised, Li Xiangping looked left and right:

"Hey, where's Da Tiantian?"

"Ha, the little girl is shy and doesn't dare to come to see you."

"What's so shy about this?"

"It's still the three major illusions of life," Zhao Daokai said with a smile:

"Li Daqisheng, you don't want to think about it, you took such painstaking efforts this time, and invited a designer from abroad to design a dress for her, so the little girl doesn't want to be crooked?"

Li Xiangping's face was black: "You know what's going on, and you won't help me explain this time." ”

"Hah, explain what? How to explain it? , It's not that you don't know, it's just this kind of thing, it's usually more and more described, besides, you have to think about it for me, how can you let me tell her, directly say that you don't like her, this time it's purely to return her favor? ”

"Go, go, I'll give you a fart."

Li Xiangping didn't bother to talk to this guy, but considering that everyone had already come over and the designer was still waiting there, it was impossible for this matter to be abandoned halfway.

So on the second day, Li Xiangping led Da Tiantian to meet with the designer, but when they met, Li Xiangping couldn't stand it anymore, and the designer didn't have anything, but Yang Na began to gossip there again, and squeezed her eyebrows at Li Xiangping from time to time, with a "you kid has a good eye" expression.

Li Xiangping finally couldn't stand it, and under the pretext of rushing back to school to take the exam, he handed over the rest to Zhao Daokai to deal with, but before leaving, Li Xiangping still left the money, but thinking of the price of the high-end dress, Rao is Li Xiangping is not bad for money now, and it is still a little painful.

Tut-tuk 800,000 US dollars, this Nima is said to be because the designer is his fan, and he gave a friendly price, and just such a ragged dress, he has to win two "Ying's Cup" championships.

No, you still have to pay taxes and pay management fees to the chess academy to win the Go championship, and only about half of them are in hand, so you need to win 4 "Ying's Cup" championships.

After Li Xiangping returned to the capital, the time finally entered 2007, and he was about to face the exam, so after coming back, Li Xiangping put Go aside for the time being, and dealt with the exam in front of him first.

Fortunately, for students like him, the school also treats them as mascots, although they keep saying that they treat everyone equally, but when it comes to the real exam, they really won't embarrass him too much.

Half a month later, the exams were all over, although they couldn't be compared with the real scholars, but Li Xiangping passed them all and didn't fail the course, which made him have a happier mood to prepare for the last game of the season.

And just when he was preparing for the exam wholeheartedly, Li Xiangping encountered good news and bad news.

The good news is that he was once again selected in this year's "National Top Ten Athletes" selection.

Not only is this the fifth year in a row that he has received this honor, the only one of its kind among active athletes, but he has also received a particularly large number of votes this year, topping the list of all athletes.

This result surprised many people, and even Li Xiangping himself felt strange, you must know that the 08 Beijing Olympics is not far away, and Go, as a niche non-Olympic sport, can actually rank first in such a selection, which is of course beyond many people's expectations.

"Hey! What's so strange about this, I think it's normal. ”

Li Xiangping stared at Zhao Daokai: "What do you say?" ”

"First, your dominance." Zhao Daokai raised a finger: "Let's not talk about the problem of whether Go is niche or not, if you just compare the dominance, among the top ten athletes this year, you should be the strongest, right?" ”

Li Xiangping listened and nodded, this is not modest, if you simply compare the competitive results, then in the past 2006, there is really no domestic athlete who can dominate his own events stronger than him.

"Since you said the first, there must be a second."

"Hehe, this second, it should be related to the big players, because of this drama, more people know you now, especially the recent scandal between you and Da Tiantian, tsk, you Shi Xiangxia actually soaked me Fan Xiping's wife, those entertainment paparazzi are not crazy."

That's right, this is the bad news of Li Xiangping, so he said to Zhao Daokai with a black line on his face:

"Fuck off!"