A week after returning to the capital, Li Xiangping participated in another round of armor.

This time it was still Lao Shi who played, it was still a rapid chess table, and this time the opponent was not strong, and he met a chess player who was ranked 50th in the ranking, so there was naturally nothing to say about such a game, and Lao Shi almost did not encounter much resistance, and won the opponent relatively smoothly.

And the rest of his teammates also counted as powerful, scoring 3-1 to win all three points to ensure that the team continued to lead the standings.

It's just that the second-ranked Yamashiro team is even more ruthless, and they simply came to a 4-0 in this round, so that although their big points are still 3 points behind, the "game points" have completely caught up.

In Weijia, the so-called "game score" refers to the total number of games won by 4 players.

Don't underestimate this thing, if the two teams have exactly the same big points in the end, then the "game score" will determine the ranking of the two teams.

This round is the 17th round of this year's Weijia, so with 5 rounds left, it's really hard to say who will have the last laugh.

It's just that although there is still suspense about the ownership of the championship, Li Xiangping's 16-1 performance made everyone look sideways.

After so many years of Weijia, it is extremely rare to have such a high win rate (except for the kind of situation where a substitute chess player only has a 100% win rate of only one or two games a year), and it is precisely because of this that "who can stop Li Xiangping?" "It's a hot topic again.

Of course, the "hot topic" mentioned here is only limited to the inside of the Weijia, mainly in the mouths of the coaches of each team, Li Xiangping himself does not care about this, and most non-senior chess fans do not care about this.

After all, international competitions are more attractive than Weijia, and now, the World Series is getting better, and one event after another will follow, so at this time, the topic of "Golden Slam" is once again frequently mentioned by the majority of chess fans.

Of course, it has only reached the level of "frequent mentions", and it has not yet "formed a hot discussion" on major websites.

After all, in the first two years, Li Xiangping had the opportunity to achieve this supreme honor, but unfortunately he failed to do it in the end.

And this year, due to the addition of an "Ying's Cup", and considering that Li Xiangping qualified for the "Asian Cup" for the first time, the difficulty of the "Golden Slam" must be much greater, to the extent that it cannot be formed into a "hot discussion".

It's just that then again, although the "hot discussion" has not been formed, it does not mean that everyone does not pay attention to it, especially for this year's "Asian Cup", which is not only the first international event to determine the champion this season, but also the first time Li Xiangping participated, so as the game approached, this short and fast event quickly became a hot spot in the chess world recently.

The "Asian Cup" is held in China, Japan and South Korea in turn, and this year it is China's turn, on July 25, the seven participating chess players gathered on CCTV to participate in the opening ceremony and the first round of the draw.

The seven players are China's Li Xiangping 9 dan and Kong Erjie 7 dan, Japan's Zhang Xu 9 dan and Mimura Tomoho 9 dan, and South Korea's Da Li, Lao Cao, and "Young Hero" Song Taikun.

Among them, Da Li is the defending champion, so not only did he automatically qualify, but he also had a bye in the first round.

The draw for the first round of 3 games of chess was very fast, Kong Erjie drew the ninth section of Japan's Mimura Zhibao, Zhang Xu took Song Taikun away, and finally left Lao Cao to Li Xiangping.

When shaking hands with Lao Cao, Li Xiangping really sighed in his heart, thinking about 4 years ago, Lao Cao was still at the tail of his personal peak, at that time he was still recognized as the second person in the world chess world, second only to Da Li in the international arena, and Li Xiangping participated in the World Series for the first time, and Lao Shi met the first opponent in the "this game" was Lao Cao.

However, as the saying goes: since ancient times, famous generals are like beauties, and they are not allowed to see white heads in the world, Lao Cao is really old now, he was still very good at fighting the year before last, but he was already very difficult last year, and it is difficult to see him in the top four of the World Series.

This year, however, he has taken a full back seat in domestic and international competitions, and can only occasionally make a name for himself in such rapid chess tournaments.

Not only that, Li Xiangping even has a feeling: with the rapid rise of young Korean chess players, and as the "dog moves" brought by himself become more and more popular, it should be difficult for Lao Cao to appear in the World Series.

At the very least, it should be difficult for me to meet this "King of Spades" in the Go world in the main tournament of the World Series.

Because a chess player like Lao Cao has his own pride, for example, in real history, Lao Cao never disdained to participate in any qualifiers.

Since he never competed in qualifiers and didn't study dog tricks as well as young people, he could only drift away on the international stage.

After the draw, the next day the competition will start immediately, because of this competition, CCTV is also one of the organizers, so each round of the game is broadcast live.

There was nothing to say in the first round of the game, CCTV picked Li Xiangping VS Lao Cao without thinking about it, so the two came to CCTV's studio hall to compete.

There is nothing to say about the result of the game, not even much suspense, at about 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon, the overall 245 hands, Li Xiangping, who holds the black, won the game with a 4 and a half eyes advantage, thus entering the next round.

No one is surprised by Li Xiangping's winning moves, what is strange is his winning move, because in today's game, Li Xiangping did not use any dog moves, it was really not a single step! He is completely using the classic routines of human chess players in the past to play around with Lao Cao.

It was Lao Nie who was responsible for explaining this game of chess on TV, and after watching Li Xiangping's performance, Lao Nie was depressed at the time-------

Because Lao Nie has been studying the "Mysterious Prologue" during this time, he feels that he has already learned a lot and is preparing to perform on TV, but Li Xiangping is like this today, which almost made Lao Nie hold back his internal injuries, and seriously doubt whether he has studied fake dog tricks.

Not only Lao Nie is strange, but even the plug-in Lao Shi is a little strange:

"Hehe Xiangping Xiaoyou, you are ....... today Why all of a sudden? ”

"Brother Ding'an, do you remember the story I told you?"

"Story?"

"It was nearly a hundred years ago, on behalf of the last celebrity Xiuya in the old era of the Dongying chess world, in his retirement chess, at that time, through layers of selection, the last chess player named Mu Gu Minoru obtained the qualification to play this game, Brother Ding'an, you must know, at that time, Mu Gu Minoru and your Wu Quan juniors together to study the new layout, the epoch-making masterpiece "New Layout Revolution", was jointly signed and published by the two, and in that game of retreat chess, Mu Gu Minoru predecessors completely abandoned the new layout of the play, Just use the most traditional way of playing that Dongying Go to deal with the predecessors. ”

"Hehe, I see."

Li Xiangping smiled: "Hehe, I already knew, Brother Ding'an must understand it as soon as he hears it....."

"Well, I now know that Xiangping Xiaoyou is not only talented, but also ......"

"What else?"

"I don't know how to describe this, I can only use your current words, Xiangping Xiaoyou is still a little sullen and a little hypocritical......."

Li Xiangping had a black line on his face at that time: "Get out!" ”

After having no way to communicate with his own plug-in, Li Xiangping began to watch the other two games of chess, Kong Erjie's game of chess was not good-looking, don't look at the opponent's nine duans, he is only seven duan, but the strength of the seventh duan is obviously much higher.

At the end of Li Xiangping's game, the game was actually about the same, and Kong Er's winning move was close to being a certainty.

Li Xiangping's focus is on watching Zhang Xu VS Song Taikun's game, these two are considered to have a deep study of dog tricks, so Li Xiangping wants to take a good look.

After watching it for about 10 minutes, reporter Zhang Da came over:

"Xiangping, how's it going?"

"Well, it doesn't look like the Japanese team will be wiped out in the first round."

"Oh? In this way, the South Korean team was completely wiped out...... No, no, they still have a big Li, so I don't know who he will meet when the draw is drawn. ”

In a game of chess close to 200 hands, Li Xiangping's judgment of the situation is still relatively reliable, half an hour later, the first round of the game is over, and it is Kong Erjie and Zhang Xu who enter the next round.

The schedule of the "Asian Cup" is short and fast, and it only takes 4 days before and after.

There was no rest between the first two rounds, and there was only one rest day in between the finals, and even later, even this rest day was canceled, so the draw for the semifinals was held immediately after the end of the match.

Big Lee!

As soon as Li Xiangping went up, he took away Da Li, who had a bye in the first round.

This is also the first time after half a year that he and Da Li met again in the international arena.

Of course, this is not surprising, after all, with the current level of the two of them, it is a high probability event to encounter several times a year, and if this is not encountered once a year, it is a real strange thing.

Therefore, after seeing the two of them holding hands together, Zhang Da reporter did not have any other feelings, but sighed that Li Xiangping first passed Lao Cao and then met Da Li:

"Tut-tut, the former master and apprentice Iron Curtain, Cao Li's master and apprentice Iron Curtain! This combination has frightened many heroes and heroes, although in the past few years, Xiangping has long broken the myth of the iron curtain of master and apprentice, but why this time, I feel that the iron curtain of master and apprentice is vulnerable? What we used to believe in turned out to be a fragile myth......"

Since it is Li Xiangping VS Da Li, of course there is nothing to say, of course CCTV still chose this game of chess for live broadcast, and the commentator still chose Lao Nie.

The only thing that played a little trick was ------Well, it may be that I am tired of watching "male and female matching", this time I chose Gu Dali and Lao Nie to match.

In the afternoon of the next day, the game officially began, and the game was still played by Li Xiangping.

After only a dozen moves at the beginning, Lao Nie was happy, not because of anything else, because Li Xiangping seemed to be back to normal today, and he began to make new moves again.

Especially this recent change, which is exactly what was just studied in the "Mystery Prologue------

A "dog move" derived from the traditional, classic, human Go routine.

encountered this kind of opportunity to show off, of course Lao Nie would not miss it:

"Haha vigorously," Lao Nie pushed his glasses:

"What do you think of Xiangping's step "Little Flying Pressure"......"