The time came in late December, and Li Xiangping was ready to go to South Korea to participate in this year's "Samsung Cup" finals, and just two days before Li Xiangping was ready to leave, Coach Wu of the national team found him:

"Xiangping, we have just received a notice that the organizers have changed the final of the "Samsung Cup" to a trilogy. ”

Li Xiangping was stunned for a moment, and then smiled indifferently:

"Oh? Hehe, it's okay, regular operation, this is already a routine operation for Koreans. ”

Not only did Li Xiangping not care about the news, but Ma Xiaofei, another party in the finals, also didn't take it seriously, and he even jokingly said:

"Hehe, this time Koreans are rare to be considerate of an old comrade, to be honest, I am worried that I can be tired to death when I am tired, and now it is much easier to change to three-way chess, it's okay, now it's just a matter of modifying the competition system, anyway, as long as the prize money of the game hasn't changed."

Ma Xiaofei felt that it was beneficial for him to modify the game system, but Li Xiangping knew that such a modification should be beneficial to himself, after all, theoretically speaking, the fewer games in the chess match, the greater the chance, and he is not Lao Shi, this game is all dependent on himself, so in the case of his own lack of skills, such a change should of course be regarded as beneficial to himself.

Of course, the "advantage" mentioned here is extremely limited, so small that it can be ignored, but the South Koreans do it this way, which makes this final a little tasteless, and the atmosphere that is not tense enough is even more relaxed.

Li Xiangping is indeed very relaxed. Not only him, but Ma Xiaofei's ninth section is actually just as easy.

Although before the game, some good people called this civil war between China's only two world champions a battle for the first person in Chinese Go, but Ma Xiao is a post-60s chess player, and people are ready to play "Happy Go" immediately, while Li Xiangping is a post-80s chess player, so it can be said that the two are not the same generation at all.

Not only are the two not of the same generation, but this is the first time that the two have played against each other in an official competition, and they have no grudges in the past and no grudges in the near future. Not only that, two years ago, Li Xiangping also accepted the guidance of Ma Xiaofei for more than a month, it can be said that although he is not well-known as a master and apprentice, he has a master and apprentice, so in a competition like this, the two parties are not nervous at all.

It was in this relaxed atmosphere that the two players set off for South Korea on the same plane to participate in the trilogy final. Since this is a civil war between Chinese chess players, the scale of the Chinese delegation is much smaller than the last "Toyota Cup", except for Wang Yi from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a translator, as well as some reporters and staff who are preparing to do the live webcast, there is no one else.

During the trip, Ma Xiaofei even joked with everyone:

"It's strange, I saw a victory prediction on the Internet yesterday, why is it that I hope Xiangping can win, is my character so bad?"

Wang Yi replied with a smile: "Hehe, Ma Xiao, you are really right, that person's popularity in Xiangping is higher than yours, you can't accept this." ”

Ma Xiaofei said: "Of course I know the popularity is high, but the prediction I read yesterday supported Li Xiangping by more than 95%, and the hope that I won was less than 5%, so one-sided, this is too miserable." ”

"This mainly contains a topic of "golden slam"," a website reporter explained to Ma Xiaofei at this time:

"Mr. Ma, you must know that Xiangping has reached the finals in all 4 major competitions this year, and has won two championships, so now the topic of "Golden Slam" is very hot on the Internet, and many people hope that Xiangping can achieve this great cause that has never been completed by a chess player, in this case, then you have to suffer a little grievance. ”

"Yes, hehehe....." Ma Xiaofei smiled freely: "How did I forget this stubble, it seems that I am going to do a good job this time." ”

Wang Yi was puzzled: "Why do you want to work hard?" Oh, you still want to stop people from winning the Golden Slam. ”

Ma Xiaofei looked at Li Xiangping: "I don't expect to block, I want to take it seriously, I want to make the gold content of this golden slam a little higher, don't you say Xiangping?" ”

Li Xiangping nodded to Ma Xiaofei with a smile, a tradition in the Go world, the best way to thank the teacher is to defeat the teacher in the teacher's game. Therefore, Ma Xiaofei's words are all in plain sight, and the two of them are relaxed, but the game will definitely not be perfunctory, and they will definitely do their best to play a good game.

Nothing to say all the way, the two soon came to the final venue on Jiaozhou Island, South Korea, since it was a match between two Chinese chess players, so the organizer was also able to save money, and the reception was very simple, as in China, except for some reporters and staff who did the live broadcast of the website, almost no famous masters came to the venue.

Li Xiangping didn't feel anything about it, and Ma Xiaofei didn't seem to feel anything about it either, and after the brief ceremony, both of them rested early to prepare for the next day's competition.

At 10 a.m. on the second day of Korea time, the first game officially began.

After knowing that it was Li Xiangping who guessed the black chess, Wang Yi, who was in the viewing room, said with a smile: "Seeing that the state of the two people before was so relaxed, I guess this game of chess will be very open, right?" And among them, especially Li Xiangping, he is full of hidden weapons, and he is known on the Internet as uncomfortable, so I don't know if he will wave in this first game. ”

Another website reporter smiled: "Masterpieces, waves are sure to wave, now it depends on how the waves are." ”

Li Xiangping really did not disappoint everyone, at half past 10 o'clock in the morning, there were only more than 20 hands in the whole world, and when the first chess score was transmitted to the viewing room, Wang Yi and the website reporters were excited:

"Hahaha really started to wave, tsk, this is Li Xiangping, if you change the chess player to play such chess, then you will be scolded to death by Mr., at this time outside "stab" a hand? It's unprecedented. ”

That's right, Li Xiangping did offer a "dog move" just now, that is, the "thorn single pass" that was first played by the "second-generation dog". It's just that Li Xiangping actually didn't have any hope for this move, he didn't treat this move as a flying knife, and he didn't think about using this move to win with one blow.

The reason is very simple, although he has seen the dog play like this, but even now, he has not fully understood this move, not only did he not understand it thoroughly, but from Li Xiangping's heart, he instinctively rejected this move.

Therefore, for him, this is a completely immature "dog move", if it weren't for today's opponent Ma Xiaofei, and this is still the first game, he wouldn't want to use this move at all.

So what will this game look like? The competition has officially begun.

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