After the quarterfinals, before leaving Shencheng, Dean Wang Lunan asked Li Xiangping:

"Xiangping, are you going back to your hometown this time, won't you go back to the capital with us?"

Li Xiangping smiled, in fact, after entering June, "SARS" has been effectively controlled, and the new cases announced by the "News Network" every day have become fewer and fewer, but this thing is a new infectious disease after all, so in the epidemic announcement of this year, there is also the term "suspected case".

Li Xiangping hates this thing, if you really have a headache and brain fever, then maybe he will really find a room to isolate you.

It was because he was worried that the small black house would be closed, so Li Xiangping smiled at Dean Wang:

"Hehe, I don't want to go back for the time being, isn't there no competition in the past anyway."

Dean Wang Lunan nodded, and was not impressed by Li Xiangping's answer, after all, it is still in an extraordinary period, and what Li Xiangping said is also the truth, due to the impact of SARS, the arrangement of the recent Go tournament has been greatly disrupted.

The semi-finals of the "Chunlan Cup" were originally scheduled to be held in June, but now they have been postponed due to SARS.

Normally, there are 4 rounds of "armor" every month, but now it is also in the back.

Li Xiangping has signed up for the "celebrity battle" preliminaries, and I heard that he is preparing to wait until August to start the competition.

In recent months, not all Go tournaments have not been held, for example, the qualifiers for the "Samsung Cup" and "LG Cup" held by Koreans have started in the past few months, but there is nothing to do with Li Xiangping in qualifiers like this.

So far, the only official event for which Li Xiangping has been able to confirm a date is the upcoming Fujitsu Cup semi-finals, which will be held in Japan on the first weekend of July.

Dean Wang Lunan didn't say much else, and after explaining a few words such as "don't waste training" and "pay attention to maintaining good condition", everyone parted ways, and they went back to their capital, but Li Xiangping returned to his hometown to continue to be a pig.

Considering that the next game is against Zhang Xu, after returning to his hometown, Li Xiangping will of course prepare for this game in addition to continuing to practice the "combination of two swords" with Lao Shi.

Of course, at this stage, Li Xiangping will no longer engage in that kind of meticulous so-called "targeted research". After all, there is such a big treasure in his brain, so Li Xiangping's current training or preparation, he basically insists on "focusing on me", because he thinks that instead of having time to watch so many human chess games, it is better to have one more "dog move", the effect of the latter is definitely much better than the former.

It's just that Li Xiangping is so idle now, so he is still ready to take a look at the opponent's chess game this time, this kind of review is mainly to understand the basic situation of the opponent, such as what kind of chess the opponent likes to play recently? Do you have any special preferences?

There is also according to the content of the opponent's chess, (mainly depends on his error rate, a high error rate indicates that his recent form is not good, and vice versa, it means that he has been in good form recently).

After returning to his hometown, Li Xiangping was originally going to prepare for the game like this, but he forgot that this was in his hometown, and it was not so convenient to collect the opponent's chess games.

Well, Li Xiangping went to the Internet to ask for it, but unfortunately the Internet in this year can't be compared with later generations, Zhang Xu's chess games have not been awarded a few, and the news about the "Fujitsu Cup quarterfinals" just ended was given a lot by him.

Because he was teaching Zhang Xu a chess game, all he saw was news from Japan.

For the just-concluded quarterfinals, the Japanese Go community seems to be a little excited, and it is understandable to think about it, Japanese Go has been weak for so many years, so this time they were able to snatch two of the top four seats, which is certainly enough to make them excited for a while.

Among them, Zhang Xu's defeat of Li Canghao has become the focus of Japanese media reports, and various reports are also full of words like "great victory".

Li Xiangping happily flipped through various reports, because he found that watching the Go news of this era was really very different from later generations.

For example, he saw a report from Japan: "The era of young chess players dominating the era? In addition to celebrating the "great victory" of Japanese Go, the focus of the article is to mention the age structure of the top four: the oldest Ita Kiki is 37 years old this year, followed by Zhang Xu 23 years old, then Lee Sedol is 21 this year, and finally Li Xiangping is only 16 now.

Three of the top four players are around 20 years old, so they are lamenting whether the "era of young chess players dominating" has arrived.

Of course, this is different from the habits of later generations, if this is before Li Xiangping crosses, if it is also this lineup, then everyone's report will definitely focus on Yitian Kiki, thinking that he can still play the top four of the World Series at the age of 37, which is definitely a miracle achievement, and it will never be like now, 23-year-old Zhang Xu is still known as a "rookie".

Not to mention Zhang Xu, even Chang Hao, who is four or five years older than him, has not won the world championship yet, so some media say that he is "still immature", saying that he still needs to continue to hone before he can become a talent.

searched the Internet again, and saw that there was nothing nutritious to teach, so Li Xiangping put the matter down. He decided that for the rest of the period, he would stick to his own training. After all, improving one's own strength is the king, and if one's own strength can be truly and effectively improved, then it doesn't matter if you encounter any opponent next.

Li Xiangping began to frequent the old TOM again, after all, in the current environment, this is almost the most effective way to train.

However, after returning to his hometown this time, Li Xiangping no longer uses the vest of "Seven Dead and Eight Alive", although this vest is now very bullish, and it is more dazzling than the previous "mastery", but the virtual network, Li Xiangping has always believed that the greatest pleasure of the virtual network is never to wear a shiny vest to swagger through the market, but to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger.

Now the "Seven Dead and Eight Alive" straight 9 has also been raised, the banner has been erected, and even all kinds of forced people who should be pretended have also been pretended, so of course it is not good to be so swaggering every day, this person always needs to change his taste.

So it took a few days for Li Xiangping to order a few tattered vests------

Well, it's the kind of account that has no features and a bland record, and it has everything from 7D to 9D, and Li Xiangping started his bad taste.

But although it's a bad taste, but now Li Xiangping's morale is also high, he can't pick amateur chess players to play, how can he be a professional chess player to satisfy his appetite.

Fortunately, this is an extraordinary time, and the vast majority of professional chess players are actually as idle as him, so in the next period of time, he will not worry about not having a target.

On this day, when Li Xiangping had just landed on the game platform, he quickly determined a goal:

"Brother Haha Dingan, this is the person today, get ready, if he can agree to the application of the game, let's find a way to try to kick him to the grassroots level for exercise."

"Hehe, do you mean this "elf", who is this person? ”

Li Xiangping smiled, of course people with the memories of two lives know who this is, the later "leopard head" Chen Yaoyue.

To say that although Chen Xiaoqiang entered the section in 2000, but it is not a rise yet, he just played in the Weijia last year, but the results are average, last year only served as a substitute in the Beijing team, and only promoted to the main force this year.

In fact, in today's online chess world, the longest online time, the most active chess, in fact, is represented by Chen Yaoyue "Little Leopard" chess players, their activity is far greater than that of Xiaolong and Xiaohu, and the best among them will naturally become the Internet celebrity of the game platform, otherwise Li Xiangping would not have found him as soon as he came up.

Li Xiangping began to try to send a game application to the "elf", but it was a pity that he sent N in a row, but the other side did not react at all.

This is actually the helplessness of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, you wear a tattered vest and want to play chess with a star-level Internet celebrity, which largely depends on luck, or the mood of the other side.

Li Xiangping is not a professional landmine after all, after several consecutive failed invitations, he gave up his insistence, and saw that the account of the "elf" had been displayed as "playing", so he simply ran to the room to watch the game, wanting to see how the former little brother was doing now.

Waiting for Li Xiangping to squeeze into the room, and when he saw the opponent of the "elf" clearly, Li Xiangping was simply overjoyed.

"Drum Urn Golden Hammer"!

The "elf" turned out to be fighting against the "drum urn golden hammer".

Internet veterans who have experienced this era certainly know that this "drum urn golden hammer", that is, another representative of the "little leopard generation" thinks Zhou Ruiyang.

So as long as you know that these two have fought each other, the veteran old birds will of course smile.

Because the relationship between these two is not ordinary.

The two of them are the first two players of the "Little Leopard Generation" to play the Weijia, so they are two real "head leopards".

In real history, Chen Xiaoqiang has a total of 3 world championships, but Zhou Xiaoyang has only one, but Xiaoyang's only world championship happened to be won in the hands of Xiaoqiang, and the score was still 3-0.

Not only that, the official record of the two is completely one-sided, and Xiaoyang is leading by a big score, so many chess fans say that Xiaoyang is Xiaoqiang's nemesis and bitter player.

That's all, the two have another layer of relationship, that is, before Li Xiangping crossed, Xiaoyang's "current girlfriend" was actually Xiaoqiang's "ex-girlfriend".

"Hehe, Brother Ding'an, let's stop playing chess today, let's see these two fight."