In the final "Eve Festival", when Li Xiangping walked into the venue accompanied by Wang Lunan and Ma Xiaofei and others, he immediately became the focus of the audience, and almost everyone's eyes and reporters' cameras were aimed at him.

Of course, this situation is also normal, think about Lao Nie after more than a dozen consecutive wins in the ring, he was called a "whirlwind", Jeremy Lin won more than a dozen games in a row in the NBA, he was called "crazy", so what about Li Xiangping? Just take a closer look at his record since his debut, especially his record on the international stage:

Li Xiangping officially debuted in the "Samsung Cup" qualifiers in 2000, so so far, he has won one championship and reached another World Series final, in addition, Li Xiangping participated in all five World Series without exception to the quarterfinals.

If you count it carefully, you will find that he has only lost 2 games in the World Series so far, that is, 2 games lost to Li Canghao in the final of the "Samsung Cup" last year, so if you regard that final as a "one" game, it can be considered that Li Xiangping actually won all the games in the international arena.

2 years after his debut, under the age of 15, he has maintained a complete victory in the international arena, such an excellent record, even if it is not said that it has surpassed the previous two, but at least it is not far behind, so it is natural for such Li Xiangping to be a little more sought after now. To be honest, if it weren't for his domestic record, he might have been deified by now.

"Xiangping, you are still here, we meet again, can we have a brief interview now?"

"Hello Aunt Umezawa"

Leaving aside how Li Xiangping was sought after for the time being, let's just talk about Liu Chonghe, the other protagonist of the final, the South Korean delegation entered the venue earlier than the Chinese delegation, and the number of South Korean delegations was even larger. The reason for this is that compared to other world competitions, the Fujitsu Cup has a special feature that it is accompanied by a battle for third place at the same time as the final, so Lao Cao and Xiao Li, who lost in the semi-finals, also came to Tokyo this time.

Seeing that since Li Xiangping came in, Da Liu's eyes have never left him, Lao Cao smiled and said to him:

"How about Advocacious, have you confidence in tomorrow's game?"

Listening to Lao Cao's words, Liu Chonghe smiled bitterly: "I don't have confidence, how can I have confidence in competing with this person?" He has never won, but even Canghao admired his chess, saying that many of his moves may be regarded as opening another door to Go, which is really incredible, how did China have such a freak. ”

After listening to Da Liu's words, Lao Cao nodded in agreement; "Yes, yes, this is a monster."

Lao Cao's empathy is of course very easy to understand, Li Xiangping has played with him since his debut, and he has played the most is actually Korean chess players, especially South Korea's "New Four Heavenly Kings", Lao Cao, Li Da, Liu Xiaoli, these four, in the past two years, these four have played against Li Xiangping, and they have all been deflated under him, so it is not an exaggeration to say that Li Xiangping is stepping on the position of these four.

In addition, there is another reason, that is, this kind of thing will not deceive people, whether it is Li Xiangping's original subversion of the "big avalanche of internal turning", or his later "opening point three three", and his "retreat from the vulgar thorn" this year, these novel and reasonable plays, in the eyes of ordinary people, may not be unusual, but in the eyes of experts such as Lao Cao Da Liu is of course different. The higher the level, the greater the shock of seeing these moves, and it is not an exaggeration to say that "another door to Go has been opened".

After the two sighed that "Li Xiangping is a monster", Lao Cao said to Liu Chonghe again:

"Although this is a monster, I think with his talent, I should always find some weaknesses in him, right?"

Hearing Lao Cao ask this question, Liu Chonghe showed a strange smile:

"I found it, these days and Canghao and others have researched, and found a lot of weaknesses in this person, but I can't be sure at all now, whether these weaknesses found will help tomorrow's game."

"Oh? How so? ”

"Because of his weakness, he can only be found in the chess game of other countries' domestic chess battles."

"Huh?! Is there such a thing? ”

Lao Cao's doubts are of course not strange, although Lao Cao is still fighting on the front line, but after all, he is already old, so now he is definitely not as hard as a young chess player, plus he has not met Li Xiangping recently, so it is normal that he has not seen Li Xiangping's domestic chess games.

Liu Chonghe didn't explain much about this, he simply said to Lao Cao:

"Yes, to put it simply, this person's performance in domestic chess battles and international chess battles is completely like two people, he is a monster in the World Series, and in their domestic chess battles, he is no different from an ordinary young chess player, at most he is at the same level as those little calves in our country, which is also the most strange thing for me, Cao Guoshou, what do you think is the reason for this?"

Compared with Liu Chonghe, Lao Cao, who has not studied Li Xiangping, of course, can't say why, so in the face of Da Liu's inquiry, Lao Cao said haha:

"This haha, that's probably because he's still young, after all, he's not even 15 years old."

Strictly speaking, this is of course not a particularly good reason, but in the case of not knowing the truth, this is already the most reasonable explanation, so after listening to Lao Cao's words, Liu Chonghe sighed:

"Yes, it's because he's still young, so I must fight him with all my strength tomorrow, otherwise when he fully grows up, he may have no chance in the future."

Since Liu Chonghe even sent out this kind of emotion, of course Lao Cao couldn't say anything, so he patted Liu Chonghe on the shoulder to show encouragement:

"Come on, I believe in you."

Lao Cao's "I believe in you" is certainly not completely polite, as the two of the top masters under Li Canghao in today's chess world, Da Liu and Lao Cao may be the most evenly matched, in real history, the two of them have encountered a total of 4 times in the World Series finals, and the record is also 2-2. Coupled with their confrontation in the domestic chess battle, Lao Cao is of course very familiar with Liu Chonghe's characteristics.

He knows that when others say "fight with all your might", it may just be lip service, but Liu Chonghe is different, when he says this, he can really play at a high level in many cases.

But what Lao Cao didn't know was that not only did he understand this characteristic of Liu Chonghe, but Li Xiangping, who was a traverser, also knew this.

At 9:55 a.m. Japan time the next morning, Li Xiangping stepped into the game room, and while waiting for the game to start, Li Xiangping was still explaining this matter to Lao Shi:

"Brother Ding'an, needless to say about the rest of this game, you have also played against him in this person, you must know better than me what the level is, the only thing that needs to be guarded against is that this person is the first "assassin" in today's chess world, but this point needs to be especially careful. ”

"Xiangping friends can rest assured, Ding'an can be saved."

"Oh, that's good, that's good."

Li Xiangping had nothing to say, in fact, even if he wanted to, he didn't have a chance to say it, because at this time, Liu Chonghe had already come in the ninth section, and with the referee announcing, the game officially began.

By guessing first, this game of chess is Liu Chonghe guessed the black chess, the first few moves he fell quickly, and he looked prepared, but in the first 5 moves of the game, Li Xiangping did not feel anything about his opening.

Because Liu Chonghe chose the "star, small eye" to start the game, Lao Shi should use "two stars", when the fifth hand of black chess chooses the "hanging corner", such a start is one of the most popular routines in this year, and the next hand, whether it is to form a "disguised Chinese stream" or to keep a "worry-free corner", is the most common way to play in this era.

However, Liu Jiuduan's 7th move began to change his moves, and this hand appeared on the chessboard, which greatly surprised Li Xiangping.

It must be mentioned that Li Xiangping has not never seen this move of Liu Chonghe, on the contrary, he is very familiar with this move, and even from a certain point of view, Li Xiangping thinks that his familiarity with this move may be greater than that of Liu Chonghe himself.

"Vietnamese Stream"!

Liu Chonghe's ninth section actually started with a "Vietnamese stream"?

The so-called "Vietnamese Stream" in Go is actually a variant of the "Chinese Stream in Disguise", and the one that splits the side of the "Disguised Chinese Stream" narrows all the way, which is the basic type of this opening, so in order to distinguish this opening from the authentic "Chinese Stream in Disguise", some chess fans jokingly call this kind of opening "Vietnamese Stream".

Of course, some senior chess fans know why Li Xiangping was surprised, because the beginning of the "Vietnamese Stream" has not yet appeared in this era.

In real history, this kind of opening was probably created by "Brother Niu" Qiu Jun several years later, and then gradually became popular in the world chess world, and after the "Vietnamese Stream" became popular, the authentic "disguised Chinese Stream" opposition disappeared, and no one has done so in the World Championship.

It is also necessary to mention that the beginning of the "Vietnamese stream" has not been popular for a long time, but this is because of Go AI, because in the opening of Go AI, this kind of play is very rare, so human beings have learned the same, resulting in the era of Go AI, this kind of play is gradually declining.

Li Xiangping began to be faintly worried.

And his worries are not difficult to understand, you must know that compared to other technologies, Lao Shi's layout is originally his weakness, and from the perspective of game preparation, Li Xiangping will prepare some of the current popular openings with Lao Shi, and will also prepare some Go AI openings with Lao Shi.

Only like the "Vietnamese Stream", this happens to be their blank period.

Considering the various routines hidden behind this opening, Li Xiangping suddenly had an impulse, and he really wanted to let himself play in the next game.