The next day, the seventh round of this year's national individual competition officially began.

At present, the halfway point of the tournament is over, and after this round, the bottom 40 players will be eliminated, and in this round, the most eye-catching and eye-catching is of course the game of Li Xiangping VS Kong Erjie.

One of them is one of the "Three Musketeers of the National Youth League", the "Chunlan Boy" of the year, and Gu Dali go hand in hand, and is regarded as the most important candidate for the next generation of Chinese Go leaders, so far in this individual competition, Kong Erjie has won all 6 games.

The other is Li Xiangping, who rose like a comet this year, the second world champion of Chinese Go, defeated Li Canghao for the first time in a chess tournament, and is known as the superstar of the world chess today.

Although Li Xiangping's record is not satisfactory so far, he is on the verge of elimination with 2 wins and 4 losses, but after all, he has just won the world championship, in other words, his aura has not been dissipated, so at this moment, whether it is his opponent or others, he still does not dare to despise him, and today's game is still regarded as the heaviest highlight of this round.

The competition started at 10 a.m. Beijing time, and Li Xiangping sat in his place 10 minutes early, his eyes closed and his expression serious.

Such a game, of course, there is no separate game room, all the games are placed in one hall, so Li Xiangping's appearance is naturally in everyone's eyes, of course, no one came to disturb him at this time.

A few minutes later, Kong Erjie also came to the seat, his expression was very relaxed, he was even ready to say a few jokes to Li Xiangping, but after seeing Li Xiangping's appearance, his joke was still not able to be said in the end, and as if he was infected by Li Xiangping, his expression gradually became serious.

"Hehe, let's take a look, I guess it's going to be a good show in today's game of chess."

After announcing the start of the game, the chief referee of this tournament, Elder Kim, said this to the rest of the staff. The others were impressed by the chief referee's opinion and nodded in agreement.

So is there any good play in this game?

This game of chess was Li Xiangping's black first, at least in the two hours of competition in the morning, everyone didn't see any good show. For no other reason, perhaps out of attention or out of prudence, the progress of this game in the morning was very slow, and it took two hours to play more than 30 moves.

With such a short number of hands, of course, there is nothing good to be seen.

As for the situation on the chessboard at this time, the staff headed by Lao Jin also couldn't see clearly, for no other reason, Lao Jin and others were amateur chess players after all, so in such a short number of hands, it was usually impossible to judge the situation, especially in the game, Li Xiangping sacrificed a relatively rare change in this era, so in the face of uncommon chess shapes, amateur chess players are of course even more unclear.

As for the opponent himself, I don't know what Kong Erjie thinks, but Li Xiangping himself thinks it's okay, I can't say that he has achieved any advantages, but at least he is not left behind.

In other words, Li Xiangping believes that at least in the layout stage, he should have carried a strong opponent.

However, it is a pity that Li Xiangping, with an extra 18 years of experience, only carried it in the layout stage, and as the game continued, he began to slowly feel the strong pressure exerted by his opponent.

Kong Erjie is a cultivator of Xuanmen authenticity, his moves are very peaceful, very "professional", it seems that every move is unpretentious, but it is these unpretentious moves that bring great pressure to Li Xiangping.

Especially at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when there were less than 80 chess moves in the whole world, Kong Erjie skillfully captured a few sunspots through a classic "winding attack" tactic, and made a lot of profits, and Li Xiangping already had a bad feeling.

"Could it be that in the face of a player of Kong Erjie's level, I can't even hold 100 hands......"

I don't know why, Li Xiangping, who realized that the situation was not good, calmed down instead, and he began to think intently and look for a way to open up the situation.

And just when Li Xiangping was thinking intently, Lao Jin and others started talking again:

"Tut, it's really unimaginable that Li Xiangping's state is so bad."

Judge Kim's words attracted everyone's echo, and then another staff member said:

"Yes, yes, the winding attack method of white chess just now, even my stinky chess basket can be seen, it's hard to imagine that Li Xiangping can't see it, is this still the chess of the world champion? After these pieces were eaten, the white chess pieces were empty and thick, and the black chess should be difficult to play. ”

After hearing the staff member's words, Lao Jin smiled. To tell the truth, he did not believe and disagreed with this person when he said, "Even he can see it." Because although this is also an amateur master, his chess strength is not as good as Lao Jin.

However, many methods in Go are like this, such as the "winding attack" that Kong Erjie just played, because this method is very classic and very common in Go, so after Kong Erjie played, this staff member could understand the meaning of this chess at a glance.

But what about before a few dozen moves? Let him come up with it himself? Lao Jin didn't believe that he could use such a method.

It's just that everyone is a colleague after all, and Lao Jin is not good at comparing himself with him in public, he just made a haha, and said in a joking tone:

"Hehehe, you're amazing, but if you want to say that even Li Xiangping didn't pay attention to this method, it's probably unlikely, maybe people did it on purpose, and maybe there are other ideas hidden behind it."

What even Lao Jin himself didn't expect was that a joke he casually said turned out to be a prophecy, and the most critical victory and defeat of this game, the most exciting show, was to start with those few sunspots that were eaten.

When Li Xiangping just calmed down to find a countermeasure, his eyes immediately fell on the few chess pieces that were eaten. It should be that his way of thinking is of course very normal, after all, those few children are eaten, which is the culprit that leads to the overall backwardness, so the source of his thinking must start here.

Li Xiangping's first thought was to find out if there were any other means to save those children, but unfortunately, after thinking hard, he didn't find any suitable means, let alone come up with any subtle tesuji.

It took Li Xiangping a few minutes to confirm one thing: those black chess pieces were eaten to death.

After confirming this, Li Xiangping was so depressed that he stared at the chess pieces in a daze.

However, when Li Xiangping was stunned, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and he suddenly noticed another problem.

This problem that Li Xiangping noticed should be regarded as a weakness in the white chess shape, a weakness that is easily ignored by chess players! And this weakness of white chess also provides Li Xiangping with another way of thinking.

First of all, let's talk about the problem that Li Xiangping discovered, that is, he suddenly discovered: although white chess has eaten a few of his chess pieces, the encirclement of white chess, or a large piece of white chess, is a large piece of chess that has eaten a few black pieces, but they are not alive as a whole!

That's right, Li Xiangping, who passed the long exam, found this problem, don't look at those sunspots that have been eaten to death, if you give one more hand of chess in it, it will become the famous "plum blossom six" in Go, a classic "death sentence".

It must be admitted that this discovery made Li Xiangping excited:

"If I use a 'plum six' to kill Kong Erjie......"

The more Li Xiangping thought about it, the more excited he became, and his thinking became more and more active, but as his thinking extended, when he began to conceive a specific battle plan, he slowly calmed down.

Li Xiangping, who calmed down, smiled bitterly in his heart, because he suddenly found that although his idea was good, it was extremely difficult to implement.

The first difficulty, if you want to make the plum blossom six "gathering and killing", this belongs to the category of dragon slaying in Go, and the first element of dragon slaying, that is, your encirclement must be solid enough.

Li Xiangping calculated carefully, because this "plum six" did not appear in the corner, but in the edge of the chessboard to the middle of the belly, and because Kong Erjie just let his encirclement take shape in order to eat his own chess pieces, but this encirclement is not solid enough, if you really want to eat the whole white chess, you must at least strengthen one or two chess hands on the periphery.

The second specific difficulty, although the "plum six" is a standard dead type, but it is the kind of dead type that has a "big eye", in other words, such a shape is actually full of elasticity, especially when the chess shape does not appear in the corners, such a chess shape is actually easy to make the second eye, let alone a real eye, even if the opponent makes a "robbery eye", in fact, it is easy to lead to the failure of the dragon slaying.

Li Xiangping checked again, if he wants to really slay the dragon, then he also needs to add one or two moves to the periphery to ensure that the other eye positions of the white chess are eliminated.

The third specific difficulty faced by Li Xiangping is actually the most difficult problem, that is, the chess form of "Plum Blossom Six", which the opponent can easily perceive.

At this time, Li Xiangping didn't know if his opponent had discovered this hidden danger, but he knew that it didn't matter if Kong Erjie didn't find it at this time, as long as he was ready to start slaying dragons, he found this problem at any time, and then added a hand, then his dragon slaying plan would immediately go bankrupt.

It was precisely because of the thought of so many specific difficulties that Li Xiangping thought hard in his heart again. Because he suddenly found that although his plan looks beautiful, it doesn't seem to be realistic, after all, Go is played by one person, and if he wants to implement this plan, he still owes so many moves, among them, as long as one link is not in place, then the whole plan will immediately go bankrupt.

What to do?

Li Xiangping continued to bury his head in thinking, and gradually, a huge plan to hide from the sky and cross the sea was brewed by him.

"Hehe, Kong Erjie is known as the most professional professional chess player, now it's just a matter of seeing if he will fall for my dragger......"