After the "Lianzhong" and Hongqiao Wolong discussed properly, on New Year's Day in 2001, Li Xiangping focused on this "first online Go league".

After all, this time he represented the Chinese team and broke into the quarterfinals of the "Samsung Cup" alone, so at least before being eliminated in this competition, even if he is only an amateur chess player, Li Xiangping can go to the Chinese Chess Academy to train without asking anyone, and no one will gossip.

But even if the training conditions are improved, in order to prepare for the game, for the only chance in Li Xiangping's opinion, and in order to upgrade his "plug-in", Li Xiangping still decided to focus on the next stage of training on this league organized by netizens.

There is no other reason, because at this stage, he very much wants Shi Da Qisheng to touch the label of an era of Chinese Go----- "Nie Ma Shuangxiong".

Because Li Xiangping believes that perhaps only these two can improve the layout level of his plug-ins.

It must be emphasized that it is certainly not surprising that Li Xiangping had such an idea.

After all, Li Xiangping is from a later generation, and he is a person who has seen Go AI.

Since the advent of Go AI, Li Xiangping has seen too many human chess players play against Go AI, and humans often have no chance once they have passed fifty or sixty moves. To tell the truth, the later generations of Go AI moves were too impressed by the chess games that human players "won in layout", leaving a deep impression on Li Xiangping. This also led Li Xiangping to believe that the biggest gap between human chess players and Go AI may be reflected in the prelude of a game of chess.

In later generations, a professional chess player once said that the boundary of Go AI is based on global operations, while the boundaries of human beings are only based on local operations.

If you use this to measure the level of human chess players, then the Go played by humans is basically "throwing stones" in the eyes of Go AI, so don't forcibly compare humans with machines, because this may not be fair to humans.

How so? Regarding the above statement, Li Xiangping basically agreed. Since the advent of Go AI, it can be considered that the development of human Go for thousands of years is actually still at a relatively low level, and the concentrated embodiment of this "primary" may be in the prelude of a game of chess and the layout stage of Go.

It is precisely for this reason that the current Li Xiangping attaches unprecedented importance to the prelude technique in Go.

And even if it doesn't go that far, Li Xiangping analyzes his current situation and analyzes where his "plug-in" can be upgraded, he still thinks that the top priority at the moment is to improve Lao Shi's layout level as soon as possible.

In the just-concluded two-set "Samsung Cup" match, Lao Shi seemed to be at ease in the face of Lao Cao, which could be regarded as relatively easy to win, but when facing Kato, he once fell into a hard battle, and he needed to rely on a mistake to get away with it.

Why is this so? Of course, this is not because Kato's level is higher than Lao Cao, in fact, in today's world, whether in terms of competitive state or comprehensive level, it should be said that Lao Cao is one level higher than Kato.

Lao Cao is currently at his peak, and is the second enemy of Chinese Go in addition to Li Canghao, while Mr. Kato has long been absent from his peak, and in the "jargon" of the domestic chess world, he is now in the stage of playing "happy Go".

The reason for this situation is, of course, because of the problem of chess path, or the problem of the way of thinking during a specific game. The game between Lao Shi and Lao Cao may be that Lao Cao was too cautious, or it can be said that he made a mistake in the strategy choice when he played, he did not do much pursuit in the layout stage, and looked forward to winning an "amateur chess player" with the most stable play.

And the consequence of this is that he did not gain any advantage in the layout stage, causing him to be forced to fight with Lao Shi, but only compete with the Middle Chess Saint in the middle game.......

However, unlike Kato's game, although Mr. Kato is no longer at his peak, he began to play "Happy Go", but it is precisely because he is playing "Happy Problems" that this makes him more open in the game, at least he will not want to win and be afraid of losing like Lao Cao.

Li Xiangping believes that it is precisely because of Kato's "openness" that he can have a long-term advantage in the game with Shi Da Chess Saint.

Therefore, it can be said that through this game of chess, Lao Shi's weakness has been exposed obviously: that is, under the rules of modern Go, so a chess player like Lao Shi, even if he is an ancient chess master, but the layout of Go can be regarded as his shortcomings, and there is a big gap between him and modern super-first-class chess players in the prelude of a game of chess.

What makes Li Xiangping feel relieved is that now not only does he have this idea, but his "plug-in" with his own thoughts now seems to be equally aware of this problem.

It's interesting to say, although Lao Shi has always behaved quite modestly, Li Xiangping knows that his plug-in is actually quite characterful.

Think about it, people are old and a generation of chess saints, so this kind of person, no matter how humble and polite he behaves, he must be arrogant in his bones, and this kind of person is in the field he is good at, or in his own professional field, it will definitely not be easy to convince people, this should be regarded as human nature. This is true not only in the field of Go, but also in other fields.

However, the situation is different now, completely different.

Li Xiangping has been with Lao Shi Chaoxi for so long, and he found that after a game of chess with Mr. Kato, well, Shi Da Chess Saint is still as gentle as jade, and he still looks like a humble gentleman in front of Li Xiangping. However, Li Xiangping knew that Lao Shi was fake and modest before, but now, he is really modest.

Li Xiangping is of course happy to see this change in his plug-in, although he did not say it explicitly, but as soon as possible to improve the layout level of Lao Shi under the rules of modern Go, it can be regarded as a consensus that Li Xiangping and his plug-in have reached, or a tacit understanding that has been formed.

However, although there is a tacit understanding and a consensus has been formed, what should be done? What can be done to achieve this? Li Xiangping actually has no bottom. After all, after seeing the power of Go AI, Li Xiangping knows how difficult the layout of Go is, and wants to quickly improve the layout level in a short period of time, Li Xiangping thinks that this is almost an impossible task.

At the very least, if you just go to the Chinese Chess Academy to train, you shouldn't be able to upgrade your "plug-in".

You must know that according to the current environment of the world chess world, due to the existence of Li Canghao, because he is the first person in the chess world today, and because of his technical characteristics, this has led to the unprecedented attention of the whole world chess world to the second half of the game technology, and the trend of professional chess players attaching importance to the second half of the game and despising the first half of the game is becoming more and more obvious.

How serious is this trend? It is so serious that some young chess players even shouted: This is the so-called "era of decisive games in the second half of the game", the layout of Go is not important at all, and you can play casually in the prelude stage.

I have to tell the truth, in his previous life, when Li Xiangping was still rushing to the stage, he actually agreed with this point of view, but after seeing the power of Go AI, he naturally subverted this view of Go.

Now Li Xiangping believes that the prelude of Go is not unimportant, but too important, and its importance may even exceed the middle and late game skills of Go. A player with good mid-to-late game skills may be able to become a good "winner", but only with super prelude skills can he become a real Go "master".

To tell the truth, it is precisely because of Li Xiangping's current view of Go that he believes that after Li Canghao, there is no real Go master among human chess players, and all those young chess players in later generations can only be called "winners and losers".

For example, Li Xiangping is now going to the chess academy to train, of course there is no shortage of opponents, not to mention young chess players such as Gu Dali Kong Erjie, even if it is the "Seven Little Dragons" who are currently on the front line, he is now looking for whoever he wants to play, and people are willing to accompany him.

It's just that Li Xiangping thinks that letting Lao Shi play chess with these people will actually not help Lao Shi much, except for letting Lao Shi maintain his sense of chess and maintain his proficiency in chess, he will not have any substantial improvement. Because today's young chess players are only keen on routines, keen on the middle and late game, and to put it mildly, if they are just practicing the middle and late game, then they don't know who is helping whom.

On New Year's Day in 2001, the first "Online Go League" was launched on Lianzhong.com, and in the first round of the game, there was a hedging between two major clubs, consisting of the old strong team "Lianzhong Beggars" VS the network upstart "Lianzhong Liangshan".

In the main general's seat, Li Xiangping put on the vest of the "Beggar Gang * Young Man in White", quietly waiting for the arrival of the opponent, and when he saw the "Liangshan * Dadao Guan Sheng" sitting in front of him, Li Xiangping was happy, and he said to his plug-in:

"Brother Ding'an, you have to play well today, you must know that today's opponent, that is the chess world in my mind" heart "K of hearts", this person's chess is very distinctive, he is concise and bright, the overall situation is excellent, the strength of the prelude kung fu has been recognized by the chess world, in its peak, it was known as "the first fifty hands invincible", so if you play with him, it must be helpful to you. ”