After all, it was the Blue House, so on the day of the first game, Li Xiangping, accompanied by Dean Wang and Team Leader Ma, entered the game room a little earlier than before.

When Li Xiangping came in, he had not seen any trace of his opponent Lee Sedol, and when the others left, Li Xiangping began to observe the surrounding environment.

Well, this is actually a temporary office converted game room, if you really talk about the conditions, it really can't be compared with the previous five-star hotel, but after all, this is the official residence of the presidential palace, which also adds a bit of seriousness and solemn atmosphere.

“....... The first crown, a first crown that is completely my own, why is it so difficult? Will it be born in this place......"

Just when Li Xiangping was thinking about it like this, South Korea's Lao Cao came in, followed by two young chess players, a man and a woman, Li Xiangping knew at a glance that Lao Cao should be the referee of the game, and the other two should be scorekeepers and second readers.

After Lao Cao saw Li Xiangping after coming in, he first smiled at Li Xiangping in a friendly manner, and Li Xiangping hurriedly returned the salute, but after all, the two sides did not understand the language, so after greeting with a smile, everyone did not communicate more.

Since he met Lao Cao at the Blue House, this made Li Xiangping suddenly remember that after a few years in real history, Lao Cao seemed to be also in politics, and he became a member of the South Korean parliament.

It's just that Lao Cao's political entry only improved his own personal status, and it did not stop the decline of Korean Go, nor did it substantially improve the status of Go in Korean society.

In fact, among the three countries of China, Japan and South Korea, if you only compare the social status of Go, then Japan should be the highest, followed by China, and South Korea is the lowest.

The reason why the status of Japanese Go is so high in their country, Li Xiangping believes that there is one person who should be most thanked, that is, their "post-sage" Zhanghe, it is through his vigorous advocacy that Go has established the status of "national skill" in Japan.

Later, when Go was at its most prosperous in Japan, the status of this project was actually on a par with Japanese sumo, and its status was far higher than that of other sports.

Even later, the competitive performance of Japanese Go declined to that level, but the social status of the players was still not low, at least they could maintain the same level as judo and shogi.

If Go is a "national skill" in Japan, then in China, this is a normal "competition", but because of the particularity of Go, in the eyes of the Chinese people, this project has a certain cultural attribute, so these plus Chen Shuai back then, and later Lao Nie and others added, which also made Go maintain a not low social status in China.

If Go is still a "sport" with a high status in China, what about South Korea?

Well, Koreans have always regarded Go as "acrobatics".

The scene when Mr. Zhao Nanzhe used a small cart to promote Go is still vivid.

When Lao Cao returned to China to serve in the military, an ordinary South Korean lieutenant could humiliate him at will----- Li Xiangping personally felt that the reason why Lao Cao later ran for parliament was probably due to this reason.

In addition to the above, when it comes to the later Asian Games----- these competitions actually have no prize money, so why do Korean chess players work so hard in these games?

There is no other reason, that is, because Go is still only "acrobatics" in South Korea, and even the status of "competition" has not yet been achieved, and the above two competitions are considered "competition".

The "acrobatic" champion is not exempt from military service, and the "competitive" champion is exempt from military service, which is why Korean chess players are desperate for such competitions.

Li Xiangping thought about it like this, and his opponent Xiao Li hurriedly came in, seeing that he was busy and Lao Cao had already apologized to himself, Li Xiangping suddenly laughed.

He laughed not because of anything else, because Li Xiangping suddenly remembered that Xiao Li did not win the championship of the Smart Games or the Asian Games, but he also avoided military service, and he was able to avoid military service not because of anything else, that was because Xiao Li only graduated from primary school.

Please note; The "elementary school graduation" and "elementary school culture" mentioned here are two different things, because South Korea's military service law stipulates that those who serve in the military in South Korea must also study at least the second grade of junior high school.

It was through such a rule that Xiao Li successfully avoided military service.

In South Korea, similar to Xiao Li's situation, there are also Cui Mingxun Jiuduan, one of the former "Four Little Heavenly Kings", and others.

Therefore, from this point of view, it can actually be seen that the status of Go in the entire Korean society is really not high.

“...... Well, although my buddy is a scumbag, but now he is also a high school student, so today I, a high school student, and you, a primary school student, are playing chess......"

It was with this spiritual victory method that Li Xiangping began to compete with Lee Sedol.

After Xiao Li came in, Lao Cao immediately presided over the guessing of the two sides, but the guessing rules of the "LG Cup" are different from the most commonly used guessing rules in the past, commonly known as the "guessing choice", that is, the side that guesses correctly has the right to choose whether to hold black or white in the first game.

This choice was guessed by Xiao Li, but after having the right to choose, Xiao Li hesitated there.

He hesitated again and again, and even hesitated until Lao Cao began to urge him, and he chose black chess before Ai Ai was expected.

Since Xiao Li chose black, the two sides will definitely have to switch positions------

Because the black side is commonly known as the "lower hand position", and today it is Li Xiangping's advanced game room, considering that he is younger, then out of politeness, Li Xiangping took the initiative to sit in the "lower hand position".

After such a delay, the time was already past 10 o'clock in the morning, so after changing seats, Li Xiangping immediately began to take a deep breath, he wanted to dispel all other distractions in his mind and focus on the current game.

Xiao Li on the opposite side seemed to be doing a similar move, and after about 2 minutes of adjustment, he slowly stretched out his hand to the chess box, and then dropped the first move of the game.

The two are also old rivals, especially for Li Xiangping, in front of him, in addition to Da Li, the second in the official game, no, it should still be the third, because Li Xiangping and Ma Xiaofei played two chess games before, so Ma Xiao is still the second most for the time being, but at the end of this series, Xiao Li immediately rose to the second most.

It is precisely because the two sides are also old opponents and know each other well, so today's start, especially the first 20 or so moves, the situation seems to be uneventful.

It's just that the chessboard doesn't seem to have made any waves, but Li Xiangping's game time is much more than that of his opponent, and in the first 20 moves, his game time is almost more than double that of his opponent.

This is not because Li Xiangping is too cautious, nor is it because he has encountered any problems, it is just because of his general combat thinking-----

To tell the truth, in fact, for the first game of the game, although Li Xiangping has made careful preparations, he really doesn't have any specific strategy, let alone deliberately guide into any situation, he is just based on his own understanding of Xiao Li, thinking that the opponent's layout level is actually weak, and there are often unreasonable and excessive hands in the layout stage, so Li Xiangping wants to grab a little advantage in the layout stage.

Even if it can't be a particularly big advantage, at least I want to "take the lead".

Obviously, since he has this kind of thought, it is normal for Li Xiangping to spend more time, because he has to think about it repeatedly at this stage, not only to think of his own move, but also to spend a lot of time to grasp the opponent's faults.

At 11:20 a.m. Korean time, Li Xiangping just fell the 20th move of the overall game, after falling this chess, Li Xiangping took a serious look at the current situation, he believes that so far all the moves of the two sides are normal, although he does not fall behind, but he does not "take the lead".

However, Li Xiangping seemed very patient today, his emotions did not fluctuate, and he patiently waited for the moment when his opponent showed his flaws.

About 10 minutes later, at around 11:30 a.m. KST, Lee Sedol dropped his 21st move of the game.

When he saw this move, Li Xiangping immediately leaned forward slightly------

And the reason why he is like this is, firstly, that the move was unexpected by him and is not within the scope of his conception, and secondly, he instinctively thinks that it is not a good move.

Li Xiangping quickly started the first round of calculation and evaluation, less than 3 minutes, the first round of preliminary calculation ended, and after completing this round of calculation, Li Xiangping couldn't help but look up at his opponent, because at this time, he thought more and more that this was not a good move-----

In other words: At this time, Li Xiangping thought that his opportunity had come.

“..... Alas, Xiao Li, Xiao Li, why do you go so far every time you play chess, and you want to take a chestnut in my fire every time? If I let you succeed again, it will be in vain for me to travel through such a dog trick with such a dog......."

That's right, at this time, Li Xiangping really thought like this, he really felt that Xiao Li's move was a bit like a chestnut in the fire.

Well, if you use specific Go terminology to describe Xiao Li's move just now, it is actually very much like a "trial move".

Slightly more experienced chess fans know that "trial hand" is known as the advanced method in Go, and South Korea's Da Li is the master of "test hand", and his "test hand" often makes people feel very "numb". So for a while, Da Li was called "Li Ma".

But Xiao Li is different, his "test hand" often seems excessive, as if he has to cheap you where he can't be cheap, so he often gives people the feeling of being in the middle of a fire.

Lee Sedol just made such a move.

At least Li Xiangping judged at this time that the opponent had played such a move.

So he thinks he has a chance, and he's going to fight back here.

Li Xiangping began to seriously start the second round of road calculation.

The reason why he has to start 2 rounds of calculation so early is because Li Xiangping knows very well in his heart that although Xiao Li's "test hand" is often obviously excessive, there is another characteristic, that is, his unreasonable hand is extremely difficult to deal with, very dangerous, and often involves large and complex calculations, so it must be calculated clearly.

Li Xiangping is still very young, and he is now highly concentrated and highly active in his thinking, so soon, he will calculate it today.

At around 11:37, Li Xiangping fell the 22nd hand in the overall world with a "snap".

This is where the first key contest of the game begins.