The date of the competition was finally approaching, and Li Xiangping set off from his hometown alone, changed trains several times, and finally came to Shencheng, the venue of the competition.

"Xiangping, arrived?"

"Hey, how do I feel like I haven't seen each other in a few months, Xiangping seems to have gained weight."

"Yes, yes, not only have I gained weight, but I seem to have grown a little taller."

After all, because of the extraordinary times, the whole arena seemed relatively deserted, except for the necessary organizers and staff, Li Xiangping didn't even see a few reporters. And these organizers and staff, of course, are all veterans in the circle, such as Lao Wang, the president of the Chess Academy, Elder Jin, the chief referee of this competition, and Zhang Wendong, director of the Competition Department of the Chess Academy.

After everyone saw Li Xiangping, they all came over to greet him affectionately, and they all said that Li Xiangping was "fat".

Li Xiangping said in his heart that of course, he was raised as a pig by his grandparents for a few months, how could he be worthy of the two of them if he didn't grow fat.

"Hello Mr. Kim."

Li Xiangping was casually perfunctory to others, but to Lao Jin, he deliberately greeted him with a smile.

"You kid, haha, haha......"

Lao Jin patted Li Xiangping on the shoulder affectionately, said haha but didn't say anything else, everything was silent.

In extraordinary times, everything was simple, and after the other participating players arrived, the organizers did not hold other ceremonies or anything like that, anyway, they stayed in the same hotel for the competition, and when everything settled down, they just waited for the tournament to start.

On the second day of Li Xiangping's arrival in Shencheng, the quarterfinals of the 16th "Fujitsu Cup" officially began.

Before entering the arena, Li Xiangping joked with himself: "Hehe, Brother Ding'an, I have tried the combination of two swords for 2 months, and I suddenly have to go down alone, and I don't know if I can get used to it today." ”

"Xiangping Xiaoyou laughed, I haven't touched a chess piece for such a long time, I think you have long been eager to try, and you want to do a big job today."

Li Xiangping smiled and stopped talking, the real situation is indeed like this, he hasn't cut face to face with people for so long, and now Li Xiangping is indeed a little hungry, he is really eager to try, he wants to see how good he can do by himself after practicing "double sword combination".

At 9:50 a.m., Li Xiangping was nearly 10 minutes early, and he was already seated in his place. 3 minutes later, the baby-faced "Cui Poison" walked in, looking at his baby-faced, Li Xiangping couldn't figure out one thing.

In real history, Xiao Cui seems to be called "Cui Laohan" by many people, but how did this nickname come about? Do you mean what he looks like? This style of painting is obviously wrong, refers to his chess style? This seems to be even more wrong, so Li Xiangping really doesn't understand, how did the nickname "old man" come about? Could it be that this guy is good at pushing carts?

In such a cranky thought, Lao Jin walked in, he presided over the two sides to guess first, this game is Li Xiangping guessed the black chess, at 10 o'clock in the morning, Lao Jin announced the official start of the game, Li Xiangping began to concentrate, is the real "concentrate", he drove all the other messy ideas out of his mind, leaving only the chessboard in front of him, and so on officially entered the game state, he fell the first hand of the game.

There is not much new at the beginning, and at the beginning of today, Li Xiangping offered his personal favorite "star position, small eye two high jump corners" method.

Although this "small eye two high jump corners" can be regarded as a "dog move", but since last year's "Nongshim Cup", Li Xiangping frequently used this method, and after he used this method to win several games, this routine is no longer new.

At that time last year, Li Xiangping could even use this routine as a "king bomb", but by now, this chess shape has long been familiar to everyone, and the local related offense and defense have also been thoroughly studied by the professional Go community, so for the current professional chess players, this opening has actually completely become a big road.

It was precisely because it was the beginning of the big road goods, so at the beginning of the game, everyone in the research room seemed to be a little idle, just when Lao Jin slipped back to the viewing room, so everyone listened to him and told the glorious deeds of "seven dead and eight alive" in Lao Tom.

“..... Alas, you know who put the two sons in front of Xiangping that day, right? Later, I asked clearly, it was Qiu Jun, it was Brother Niu Qiu Jun! If you want to talk about Qiu Jun, his talent may be slightly inferior to that of Gu Kong, but he is also a powerful faction, and he is considered the leader of their group, but even he is like him.... Tsk, Li Xiangping, that's really amazing......"

Speaking of this, Lao Jin shook his head again and again, as if until now, he couldn't believe that Li Xiangping really let go of "Brother Niu" 2: "I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, when Xiangping just came out, I still didn't think much of the media's statements, what kind of genius is a rare in a century?" Where in this world are there so many times that have not been met in a hundred years? But now it seems that I don't think the media's statement is too exaggerated, but it seems too modest. It seems like you've just turned 16, right? , such an age is strong like this.... Tut-tut......"

Speaking of this, Lao Jin shook his head again a series of times, as if at this moment, he could no longer find the right words to describe Li Xiangping's awesomeness.

Obviously, the two games of "seven dead and eight alive" handicap chess can be regarded as completely suppressing Lao Jin. Thinking about it carefully, this is very normal, what many people don't know is that "Brother Niu" himself is also a master of chess, plus he does not refuse to play chess, so the staff of the chess academy like Lao Jin often have the opportunity to ask Brother Niu for a few games.

In the past, the chess of the two of them basically swayed between 2 and 3, but Lao Jin was self-aware, he knew that if Brother Niu played with him seriously, he would not be able to stop himself with only 2 pieces, and he would win or lose if he put 3 pieces.

However, a person who can make himself have 3 sons, but he has to put 2 sons in front of another person, and what is even more excessive is that that guy is still so young, he has just turned 16 years old this year, and it seems that there is still a lot of room for improvement----

Needless to say, it is completely conceivable how much of an impact someone like Lao Jin would have.

Compared with Lao Jin, Wang Lunan and Zhang Wendong, two professional chess players, were not so impacted.

Dean Wang usually doesn't use the Internet much, so it was the first time he heard about it today, although he was also very surprised when he first heard it, but after all, he didn't feel it on the spot, and he hadn't seen the two games of chess, so his feelings were not so deep:

"Hehe, really? Xiangping even won a game? Yes, at least it shows that he hasn't been idle during this time, which makes me feel a lot more relieved about today's game. ”

Seeing Dean Wang so lightly, this made Lao Jin a little anxious, and just as he was about to speak again, Zhang Wendong seemed to see through his thoughts, and interjected with a smile next to him:

"Hehe Mr. Jin, Japan's "Ben Yin Fang Plus One", I think you should have heard of it, so let this kind of thing be chess, sometimes you really can't take it too seriously, Xiangping's talent is of course nothing to say, he may be beyond Mr. Wu's existence, but to say that he can make Brother Niu 2 now...... Hehe. ”

At the beginning of the twentieth century, there was a professional four-dan in Japan named Kohei Inoue, who was very good at handicap chess, to what extent?

At that time, the first person in Japanese Go was Hideya, which was the only nine dan at that time, and it was also the last hereditary Beninbo in Japan, Hideya could make 4 sons, this Inoue Kohei could make 5 sons, if Xiuya could make 5 sons, this Inoue Kohei could give up 6 sons.

It is precisely because of this that over time, this Inoue Kohei fourth section has won the reputation of "Ben Yin Fang plus one".

However, making the chess kung fu good does not mean that the chess kung fu is also good, take this "Ben Yin Fang plus one" for example, if he himself meets Xiuya, then he has to honestly put 2 first-----

In real history, the two of them really went down, and judging from the information left behind, in the case of the transfer of two sons, Mr. "Ben Yin Fang plus one" almost did not win.

Now that Zhang Wendong Jiuduan has moved out of this allusion, of course his meaning is very clear, and as a senior person in the circle, Lao Jin certainly understands this meaning in seconds, so he didn't continue to say it.

At this time, a chess game came out, so Dean Wang quickly changed the topic:

"Hehe, I'm here to watch chess now, I'm going to take a good look at it today, I haven't seen it for 2 months, and what new kung fu Xiangping has practiced has not ......."

When Wang Lunan said this, it was actually past 11 o'clock in the morning, and it had been more than an hour since the start of the game, and the game had more than 30 hands.

At this time, Dean Wang not only did not see any "new kung fu" of Li Xiangping, but the characteristics of his opponent's chess style were vividly displayed in this chess game.

What are the characteristics of "Cui Poison"? Of course, that is the characteristic of his poisonous snake-like attack, and when he was still playing more than 20 chess moves in the whole world, "Cui Laohan" seemed to have found such an opportunity, he aimed at a piece of black chess that had not yet been completely settled, and immediately launched a straight line attack, and now, the first frontal contact battle on the chessboard has begun.

"Hehe, young people are in good health, and they have already practiced ...... so early"

Although it seems that Cui Poison has already played his own characteristics, at this time, no one is worried about Li Xiangping-----

Because in everyone's opinion, this-for-tat style of countering violence with violence is also the characteristic of Li Xiangping's chess style, and he used such a game to defeat Cui Poison last year, in this case, of course, no one will worry about Li Xiangping.

Even at this time, no outsiders were surprised by this.

The reason why we want to emphasize "outsiders" is because there is also an "insider", which is a little strange at this time.

This "insider" is, of course, Lao Shi.

12 noon soon arrived, and there were less than 50 hands in the morning, and a large-scale frontal contact battle had just begun.

Li Xiangping walked out of the game room, and Lao Shi's voice sounded:

"Hehe Xiangping Xiaoyou, how did you ..... today? This way of playing, it is not like your usual chess move. ”

"I know, this is your chess path of the Great Chess Master,"

Li Xiangping replied to his plug-in with a smile: "Brother Ding'an, you don't know, I've been holding it for 2 months, so I'm extremely hungry now, and I'm eager to have a head-on battle with my opponent, since that's the case, of course, I have to use the method that your brother Ding'an is good at." ”