After the lottery ceremony, Li Xiangping has been silly, but when others asked him why he was laughing, he pretended to be unwilling to say, and when he was preparing for the next day's game with Lao Shi in the evening, even his plug-in noticed his abnormality:

"Xiangping little friend, but what is it that makes you happy?"

"Hehe, it's nothing, it's just that after drawing tomorrow's opponent, it reminds me of two Yilin anecdotes, so I always want to laugh."

"Yilin's anecdote? How could Xiangping Xiaoyou have time to think about Yilin at this moment? Need to know that tomorrow's game is on ......"

"Brother Ding'an, don't worry, one of the two Yilin anecdotes that I thought of is related to tomorrow's opponent, I even think that as long as you hear his story, you can have a general understanding of his chess style, so do you want to hear it?"

"Oh?" From Lao Shi's tone, it was obvious that he was skeptical, but he still said:

"Let's hear about it."

Li Xiangping smiled slightly: "Before talking about these two Yilin anecdotes, I would like to ask Brother Ding'an a question first. ”

"But what else do you need to ask me? Go ahead. ”

"Let me ask you, when Brother Ding'an is playing against each other on weekdays, can he accurately judge the final result when he has more than 70 chess moves?"

"This ......" Shi Daqisheng hesitated slightly:

"At the time of more than 70 chess moves, Ding'an may be able to roughly see which is good and which is bad, but to accurately judge the final result, Ding'an has no such ability."

Li Xiangping continued to laugh, smiling even more happily: "Brother Ding'an needs to know that there is a mountain outside the mountain, you can't do it, but there were once people who claimed to be able to do it." ”

"Ahh There is really such a god man, Ding'an is leisurely fascinated, is this person ...... Is that the Wuquan descendant you once said? ”

Li Xiangping couldn't help laughing: "This time it's not your Wuquan junior, but a Dongying player, his name is Zhanghe, his age.... It seems to be a little smaller than Brother Ding'an. Well, if you really want to talk about it, this person's status in the Dongying chess world is a bit similar to that of Brother Ding'an, who was once called the "Hou Sheng" by the Dongying Chess World to distinguish him from their "former saint" Dao Ceye. ”

I heard that it was still a person of about the same era as himself, Shi Da Chess Sage became interested, and tomorrow's opponent didn't want to study it for the time being: "Then can you let me see what this person plays?" ”

"Let me look for it."

This search really took Li Xiangping a lot of time, he didn't find Zhanghe's chess game, it's just a historical chess player, Li Xiangping wants to find his masterpiece is the best, and as the Japanese ancient chess saint's "just wrist Zhanghe", his first masterpiece is of course the game of "Zhanghe three wonderful hands", especially one of the wonderful moves, and even known as "ancient and modern unparalleled magic moves". And his second masterpiece is actually the so-called "more than 70 hands know the end".

It's a pity that Li Xiangping didn't find these two games of chess, so he retreated and found Zhanghe VS Shinomiya Mizo's "Let 2 Sons Shiban" show Lao Shi.

Of course, Lao Shi is knowledgeable, and after he finished reading all 10 games of chess, he said to Li Xiangping:

"Xiangping Xiaoyou is here to tease me, this person can know the end game with more than 70 hands? Dingan doesn't believe it. ”

Li Xiangping said with a smile: "I don't believe it either, it's just that someone in Dongying once said something like this, deceiving ignorant people, by the way, Brother Ding'an has seen these ten games, what do you think of this person's level?" ”

This time, Lao Shi didn't answer directly: "Xiangping Xiaoyou doesn't know, these 10 games are 2 sub-games, and if you only look at 2 sub-games, it is not good to judge the level of getting started." ”

"Oh? If you can't see how to start, then let's say start, what level do you think is the level of the four palaces? ”

Lao Shi also did not answer positively: "Hehe, I look at this person's chess style, but it is quite similar to Brother Zhaolin, his chess strength should be similar to Brother Zhaolin, but in terms of chess talent, this person is quite inferior to Brother Zhaolin." ”

"Brother Zhaolin? Could it be that Brother Ding'an is talking about another good friend of yours, Yangzhou salt merchant Hu Tietou? ”

"That's right, it's this person."

"Do you still think that this Sigong Mizang's chess talent is not as good as Hu Tietou?"

"Exactly, if Brother Zhaolin and this person divide ten times, I will definitely bet on Brother Zhaolin to win."

Li Xiangping smiled at the corner of his mouth, and he didn't ask anymore. Yozo Shinomiya was a famous amateur chess player in ancient Japan, and later won the "exemption" of three dans, and he and Zhanghe played this handicap 2 sons and ten chess, and finally Zhangwa 5-4-1 and barely won a small victory.

And our Hu Tietou, he was rated as "second-hand" in ancient chess, but it is a relatively watery "second-hand", he was better when he was given 2 sons by Lao Shi, and he was barely able to win a few games, but in the face of another giant of the same era, Fan Xiping, "Hu Tietou" is basically hard to win.

Li Xiangping smiled at the corner of his mouth, he didn't expect that Shi Daqisheng was actually a sullen person.

Zhanghe let the 2nd son and the fourth palace Mizang be on par, and he himself let the 2nd son easily beat Hu Tietou, but now he said that this Sigong Mizang is definitely not Hu Tietou's opponent....... What does this mean? Of course, what he meant was that the Japanese "Hou Sheng" Zhanghe was not the opponent of his great chess saint.

So speaking of which, Li Xiangping was of course embarrassed to continue to ask.

However, what Li Xiangping didn't expect was that he was not ready to continue asking, but Lao Shi took the initiative to talk to him:

"Xiangping Xiaoyou, I think that although the chess strength of this Dongying "Hou Sheng" is good, it may not be stronger than Ding'an, but why does the Dongying chess world weave the lie of "more than 70 hands know the endgame"? ”

Li Xiangping said with a smile: "Brother Ding'an's question is to the point, this is because of their "Imperial Chess City" system back then. ”

"The "Imperial Chess City" system?"

"That's right, it is precisely because of the "Imperial Chess City" that I even think that the Dongying chess players are used to laying floors nowadays, and most of the chess moves are gentle and drizzly, which has a lot to do with the "Imperial Chess City" system......

In the next period of time, Li Xiangping naturally talked to Lao Shi about what is called "Imperial Chess City". There is not much to say about this, and most chess fans know that this is nothing more than an "official tournament" in ancient Japan.

At that time, there were four major schools in the Japanese chess world, namely "Honinfang", "Inoue", "Yasui" and "Rin", similar to the four major schools in the Go world.

Many people in later generations believed that this "Imperial Chess City" was very important to the development of Japanese Go, and it was precisely because Japan had this official competition for a long time that it promoted the regularization and specialization of Japanese Go, and made a qualitative leap in the level of Japanese Go.

However, Li Xiangping thinks that this evaluation may be a bit exaggerated, and it is necessary to admit that formalization and specialization should be acknowledged, but an official-run competition can greatly improve the level, which is also too much to afford the power of the word "official".

Li Xiangping even believes that this "Imperial Chess City" is very likely to hinder the healthy development of Japanese Go, and from the perspective of later generations, the reason why the "Japanese Stream" has such great limitations is that many of its faults were developed in the era of the "Imperial Chess City".

How so? To use an inappropriate analogy, just like our country's martial arts, since there have been official competitions, then "martial arts" have become "dance arts", and Japan's "Imperial Chess City" actually has the same problem.

This is really not Li Xiangping's nonsense, you must know that in the "Imperial Chess City" competition in Japan back then, there were actually quite a lot of fake chess. In particular, the first game of the annual "Imperial Chess City" tournament was played in the first game, which was attended by a "leader", and it was a very heavy exhibition game, and according to the Japanese concept at the time, if the first game could be played as a draw, it would be the most ideal result. It is precisely for this reason that almost all the first games of the "Imperial Chess City" every year were fake chess, which is an open secret in the Japanese Go world.

And Li Xiangping believes that it is the Japanese habit of pursuing a draw that has developed the problem of "Japanese stream" like to "lay the floor" in later generations.

As we all know, if you want to play a game of Go to play a draw, it is definitely not easy to slash and kill like the ancient chess, this method is extremely difficult to cheat, the best way is of course to lay the floor, and because there are leaders staring at it, then this chess can not be played too ugly, what should I do?

Of course, you can only show off a little trick in the second half, show a few small tesuji or something in the stage of a big official or even a small official, and then pretend to play a draw "just right", which makes those who don't know it feel unfathomable.

Li Xiangping told the story of the "Imperial Chess City", and Lao Shi laughed when he heard it:

"Haha I understand, I understand, presumably this "more than 70 hands know the end", it is really the habit of the Dongying people to play tricks, right? ”

Li Xiangping listened to it, not to mention, Lao Shi's sentence "habitually playing tricks" is really to the point.

"Xiangping Xiaoyou, this is what you said about Yilin, then we will ...... this opponent tomorrow"

Li Xiangping smiled slightly: "Brother Ding'an, don't worry, our opponent's incident tomorrow is similar to the story just now."

"Oh?"

Li Xiangping began to tell Lao Shi the story of Jin Chenglong's seven paragraphs. This story is even simpler, that is, this Kim Qidan later became a "famous mouth" in the Korean Go world, a TV celebrity, and he can be regarded as playing a world in another field.

Later, a reporter interviewed him and asked him why he gave up the pursuit of chess, and instead focused on doing TV commentary, saying that this Jin Qiduan said something that seemed to be very self-aware:

"Because I know my talent and know that even if I spend my whole life, I will not be able to reach the height of Li Canghao's ninth stage, so there is no way, I can only find a way to create my own world in other fields."

Tsk, when Li Xiangping first saw this interview, he felt that this Jin Qiduan was really an understanding person, very self-aware, and very clear about his life plan.

It's just that the reporter asked again: "Then how big do you think the gap between yourself and Li Canghao's ninth dan?" Can Li Canghao Jiudan let you go first? ”

Jin Qiduan was furious: "How can there be such a big gap, although I admit that I will never be able to catch up with him, but the gap between me and him is only 2 chess at most." ”

"2 chess?"

Jin Qiduan said very firmly: "That's right, the gap between me and Li Canghao Jiuduan is at most 2 chess, you are not a professional chess player, so you don't know how big the gap is between 2 chess, just like you just said, this is probably the gap between the chess god and Li Jiuduan......

"Haha, is this really what this person said?"

Li Xiangping smiled slightly: "Of course, Brother Ding'an, after hearing this person's story, I think how to play this game of chess tomorrow, you should have a bottom in your heart." ”

"It's really bottomed."