After bidding farewell to Ah Hanzong's two, it was already past 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and Li Xiangping and Team Leader Ma both retracted their attention and refocused on the situation of the first round of the game.

In addition to Li Xiangping this time, the other Chinese players who participated in the competition were: Chang Hao 9 Duan, Wang Lei 8 Duan, Gu Dali 7 Duan and Kong Erjie 7 Duan, and these 4 are still in the competition.

To be honest, the lineup participating in this competition is almost the strongest lineup that the Chinese team can send at present, so whether it is Team Leader Ma or Li Xiangping, they actually want to see how such a lineup can play.

At about 5:30 p.m., the first round of games was over, and the Chinese team passed smoothly except for Wang Lei, who lost in the eighth section.

Of course, knowledgeable chess fans know that in the first round of the professional Go World Championship like this, you can often encounter some opponents with very different strengths, so there is not much reference value in many cases, and it belongs to the standard "sentinel battle".

In the first round of the game, the only thing that caught Li Xiangping's attention slightly was actually Wang Lei's eight-dan losing game, which he lost to Japan's Zhang Xu nine-dan this time.

Recalling the "Fujitsu Cup" not long ago, Zhang Xu also beheaded Li Shishi under the horse, which of course made Li Xiangping impressed with him.

Zhang Xu is obviously moving closer to the dog now, which Li Xiangping can really feel, so he really wants to see what kind of changes can occur in this life as the only senior disciple of Mr. Lin Haifeng, or the only pro-disciple of Mr. Wu Qingyuan.

After the first round, the draw for the second round will be held immediately in the evening. When the results of the second round came out, Li Xiangping didn't feel much about his opponent------

South Korea's Kim Seung-joon 7th dan.

This is one of the four little kings of South Korea that year, and it can be regarded as the same level as Choi Myung-hoon's ninth dan.

What really interests Li Xiangping is the other two groups of matchups: Gu Dali VS Da Li, Kong Erjie VS Xiao Li.

As soon as the results of these two groups came out, not only did the team leader who led the team smile bitterly, but also attracted Li Xiangping's sideways.

Of course, although they are very concerned about these two games, Li Xiangping knows in his heart that the focus of his and Ma Xiao's team leader should be different, and team leader Ma has nothing to say, he should pay more attention to the results of the game, focusing on the overall results of the Chinese team.

As for Li Xiangping here, of course he pays attention to dog tricks and pays more attention to things at the technical level.

Or simply say: Now Li Xiangping watches other chess players play chess, and the use of "dog moves" by other chess players and their understanding of dog moves have unconsciously become a very important measure in his mind.

Take these four as an example, their talent is naturally undoubted, definitely the top group in this era, not to mention now, maybe the next few groups of young chess players are added, then in Li Xiangping's mind, there is only China's Ke Shaoxia and South Korea's Shin Zhenzhen, the talent of these two is the same level as the previous four. Or barely add China's Chen Xiaoqiang and South Korea's Park Tianzi, these four can be compared with the previous four.

So far, the pair of Li Canghao and Gu Dali, which should be the two best chess players to absorb the "dog move", at least in Li Xiangping's own opinion, he thinks that in today's chess world, if you only talk about dog moves and do not mention other technical characteristics, then these two are under him.

So what kind of content can the two closest to him put out, which will of course attract Li Xiangping's attention.

As for Kong Erjie and Lee Sedol, the situation of the two of them is a bit special, Kong Erjie tries hard to "break and then stand", but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be finished yet, and it is still in the stage of "breaking".

As for Lee Sedol, he is simply still there to "go his own way".

Of course, considering the talents of the two of them, and no matter what, the 'dog move' must have had an impact on them, so for such an alternative competition, Li Xiangping certainly wants to see what it can do in the end.

For example, like Xiao Li, don't look at him still "insisting on himself", but maybe under the influence of dog moves, it is possible that he can create more evil kung fu.

It's just that if you want to watch a good show, you don't have to rush for a while, after all, Li Xiangping still has a game task for herself, so on the next day's rest day, Li Xiangping still put aside all distractions and calmly prepared for his own game.

Li Xiangping's preparation time this time is not long-----

Key points: It's not that he doesn't want to prepare more fully, it's really because of the limited conditions, because he is now in Japan, and he searched on the Internet, but he didn't find a few opponents' chess games, especially in recent months, the chess games played are even rarer, Li Xiangping searched for a long time and only found two.

In an encounter like this, there is not much value in using old chess games to prepare for the battle, so Li Xiangping can only know his opponent through these two chess games.

An hour after dinner, Li Xiangping asked himself:

"Brother Ding'an, after watching these two games of chess, how do you feel now?"

Lao Shi's answer was also straightforward: "Well, it can be seen from these two games that this person is not a strong opponent, his knowledge structure is extremely old, and he is not deeply involved in dog moves, even if it is the part that he came out of himself, Ding'an thought that he was just following the trend, he didn't completely understand it, and he didn't have his own unique opinions, so Ding'an thought that as long as Xiangping Xiaoyou could play normally tomorrow, it should be easy to win this person." ”

After listening to Lao Shi's words, and remembering the status of the lottery yesterday, Li Xiangping couldn't help but be stunned.

"Xiangping little friend, Xiangping little friend? Do you still disagree? ”

Li Xiangping came back to his senses and smiled: "Hehe, I don't have other different opinions, after reading these two chess games, I have exactly the same feeling as Brother Ding'an, but Brother Ding'an, I remembered another thing just now, so I was stunned." ”

"Oh, what's in mind?"

Li Xiangping continued to smile: "Hehe, Brother Ding'an, let me ask you, how did you generally prepare for the war before you fought with that Xiping senior?" ”

"Brother Xiping? Why do you mention my brother Siping? Although I don't know what Li Xiangping wants to do, Lao Shi, a kind person, still answered honestly:

"If I know that I will play against my Xiping brother the next day, then of course I will first think of the characteristics of Xiping brother's chess style, and see if I can make some targeted preparations, by the way, if there are conditions back then, I will also take a look at the chess that Xiping brother has played recently, see what he likes recently, see what special moves he likes to use, and then on this basis, make some more detailed preparations."

"Then you would have thought about using a dog trick at that time?"

"Dog tricks! What are you talking about? What did we ....... back then?"

Li Xiangping interrupted him and said: "Hehe, don't mention back then, then Brother Ding'an, let's talk about the first few years you just passed through, there were always dog tricks at that time, but why did the two of us still like to use traditional methods when we were preparing for the war?" That's right, that's what you just said, the way you prepare for your brother Xiping. ”

"This ......."

Before Lao Shi could speak, Li Xiangping immediately continued: "But Brother Ding'an, have you noticed, we have rarely used this traditional method in the past six months, and rarely think about the opponent's chess style and characteristics before the game, just like the last time I said to Yamashita Jingwu, if you didn't take the initiative to mention it, I wouldn't have thought in that direction at all, I would first think of dog moves, for example, we use dog moves to distinguish the level of the opponent like today, so Brother Ding'an, why do you think this situation happened?" Or simply say: What do you think this means? ”

"Hahaha," Lao Shi laughed loudly: "It turns out that Xiangping Xiaoyou was stunned just now, but he was thinking about such a problem?" Well, since you've been thinking about it for so long, what do you think that means? ”

Li Xiangping smiled a little complacently: "Brother Ding'an, do you mean that this means...... We've already made a breakthrough, right? At the very least, there has been some progress, and we may have initially established a certain system....... That's right, it's a layout system based on dog moves, Brother Ding'an, do you say that's the case? ”

"Huh."

"You......."

This time, it was Lao Shi's turn to interrupt Li Xiangping:

"Xiangping Xiaoyou, don't ask me what 'hehe' means, I just wanted to say that of course the two of us have made great progress, and there is no need to be presumptuous about this, but it is said that the system has been established, but Ding'an thinks it is still early, what the two of us are doing now, at best, we have laid a good foundation."

"Oh, then what do you think we need to do to establish a preliminary system?"

"At the very least, you have to fully see some of your dog's weaknesses."

"See the dog's weaknesses?"

"Yes, Xiangping Xiaoyou, don't forget, we have been learning dog tricks for so long, in fact, we are still learning the advantages of dogs, the shortcomings of dogs have not been involved at all, let alone three generations of dogs, even if it is a second generation of dogs and a generation of dogs, we are still mainly learning advantages, and there is little research on the shortcomings, and a real system, Ding'an thinks that both advantages and disadvantages are essential, Xiangping Xiaoyou, you say is this the case."

Li Xiangping was choked, and after a long time, he silently replied:

"Brother Ding'an, your heart is really big."

"Hahahaha......"

Shi Daqi Shengchang laughed: "Okay, Xiangping Xiaoyou, about the shortcomings of the dog, let's discuss it later, you rest early today, let's win tomorrow's game first." ”

On the second day, the seventh-section competition between Li Xiangping and Kim Seungjun officially began, and I don't know if there is a real gap in the strength of the two, or if Li Xiangping played extremely well------

At least to the onlookers, he did a great day.

Everyone not only sees Li Xiangping's grand ideas, but sometimes feels that he is meticulous.

Sometimes you think his moves are very strong, and sometimes you think he plays softly and delicately.

Just over 3 hours into the game, when Li Xiangping dropped the 92nd hand in the overall game, Kim Seungjun lost his fighting spirit in the seventh section and seventh paragraph, and he chose to admit defeat very gracefully.

Li Xiangping once again reached the quarterfinals of the World Series, which is his third World Series quarterfinals this year.

And he has never been eliminated before the quarterfinals.

No, if you really want to talk about it, apart from losing twice in the final, he hasn't even stopped in the semi-finals.

His performance is far more stable than that of Li Canghao back then, and even more than any top player in the modern professional Go system.

Only Li Xiangping himself has not thought of this problem.

After all, his own family knows his own affairs, and he knows that many of the previous championships were actually won by Lao Shi for him.

Therefore, when others pointed at him, Li Xiangping was unaware, and he watched with great interest the match between the two of Gukong against South Korea's Er Li.