On the day off, Li Xiangping still went to the chess academy to watch the ongoing "Nongshim Cup" pre-selection.

Compared with the pre-selection of the "celebrity battle", the scale of the "Nongshim Cup" pre-selection is much smaller, and it also seems much more lean, and the qualification is the top 16 in the domestic rating score, because Li Xiangping was exempted from the selection and Ma Xiaofei abstained, so it was postponed to the top 18 in the rating, and 16 players competed for 4 places.

According to 16 to choose 4, it is easy to do 2 rounds of single elimination, but this time, the "horse team leader" has made the selection system extremely complicated, and it is a round robin and a double elimination and the like, in short, compared to now, 16 chess players have just eliminated 8, and the second round of selection will start today, and the second round of selection is not only one game, I heard that there are several games to really determine the list of participants.

Li Xiangping also understands Ma Xiaofei's approach, after all, the "Nongshim Cup" has a special competition system, it is said to be rapid chess, but it is not pure rapid chess, and each side has an hour of reserved time, and this form of competition has not been available in China before, not only China, Japan has very few before, only South Korea has a little more, so Ma Xiaofei thinks that this is also one of the reasons why the South Korean team has the best results in this competition.

What if you want to make a breakthrough in this game now? From the coach's point of view, Ma Xiaofei certainly has no other way than to organize chess players to practice more, and I look forward to everyone being familiar with this competition system.

I'm going to say a digression here, although as far as Li Xiangping is concerned, he thinks that he is better at rapid chess, and he even thinks that in terms of his rapid chess level, even if it is with his own cheating, then he will not be afraid of him, but from his heart, he actually doesn't like this kind of game system.

He believes that this form of competition does not give full play to the charm of Go at all, and even to put it more broadly, the path of Go development that Koreans have taken is actually not suitable for Go at all.

Why are there so many competitions in South Korea that are similar to the "Nongshim Cup"? Well,This is mainly the Go TV that was established in their country a few years ago,It is also the so-called"TV Go",This Go TV,The impact on the entire Korean Go community is huge,It is said that the shares of the entire Korean Chess Academy,More than half of the shares are controlled by this Go TV,In this case,They actually control the discourse of the entire Korean Go community。

Since it's Go TV,Then it's conceivable,Since the nineties of the last century,South Korean Go is to take the path of combining Go and TV,It is precisely for this reason,So competitions like the "Nongshim Cup" will be popular in South Korea,Because they think that only in this way is it more conducive to live TV,Conducive to attracting chess fans,It is also more conducive to the promotion of Go。

Well, this may be the so-called "three advantages" launched by Korean Go, but have they really done it? The development of nearly 20 years has proved that Korean Go has not done it at all, and these "three advantages" are just "looking beautiful".

The first "favorable" is not wrong, this kind of short-time rapid chess, it is indeed more convenient for live TV, as for the latter two "favorable", it is actually purely a Korean assumption.

So what's wrong with the Koreans? Li Xiangping personally believes that Koreans are actually ignoring the characteristics of Go. So what are the characteristics of Go? Li Xiangping believes that compared with other sports, the characteristics of Go are not anything else, in the most popular words, there are only two main characteristics of Go:

First, the game of Go is inherently niche, and second, the game of Go has a natural compulsion.

It is precisely for this reason that the road of "TV Go" is difficult to follow.

As we all know, television is the most common and popular media, and Go, a naturally niche sport, is actually not suitable for this kind of mass media, because no matter how wonderful you make a Go program, can it be compared with football from an ornamental point of view? Can it be compared to basketball? Therefore, TV and Go, these two cannot be said to be born to rush, but the promotion of TV Go to Go is actually very limited, almost zero.

If you produce a Go program, then of course there are people watching this program, but it is almost certain that the crowd watching the Go program must already be chess fans, and he was already a chess fan before watching the show. In other words, have you ever seen a former chess blind who turned into a real chess fan after watching a TV Go show?

You don't have to think about it to know that this kind of person can't be said to be completely none, but it's definitely rare.

It's a pity that Koreans don't seem to know this, and since the 90s of the last century, they have been enthusiastically using mass media to promote Go, so there is no doubt that the effect of this is of course very limited.

That's all it takes, Li Xiangping thinks that this is not a problem of Korean Go, after all, using TV to promote Go, although it is destined to have little effect, but at least it will not hurt.

However, one of the worst things that South Korean Go TV has done is to often lower the forcing of Go.

This is a very bad thing, and even because of this incident, it may directly kill Korean Go in the future.

In fact, before Li Xiangping crossed, Korean Go had already shown an obvious decline. Now for an interesting question: around 2018, Korean Go has declined significantly, so if one of them will fall compared to Japanese Go, which has been declining for a long time, which one will fall first?

Of course, real chess fans know that if there is one who falls first, it will definitely be Korean Go first.

There is no other reason, because the decline of Japanese Go is declining, but they have been trying to maintain the forced style of Go for so many years, and it can be said that it is precisely for this reason that their domestic chess battles have been so stable, and it doesn't matter if they are beaten by China and South Korea in international chess battles, and chess players can still live very well in China behind closed doors.

Li Xiangping even thinks that they lack a super chess player, if God opens his eyes one day and really rewards them with a super genius, then Japanese Go may really be able to take a stand.

But Korean Go is different, because Korean Go TV has been desperately trying to lower the force of Go for decades, in fact, Korean Go is very dangerous.

Cui Poison, who became famous in later generations, has no chess to play and is ready to become a poker player.

Even before this, South Korean Go TV is also preparing to introduce the gambling industry into the Go game, if it weren't for the Korean Go there are still a few people of insight, such as Zhao Hancheng, for example, Zhao Huilian, if it weren't for the opposition of these chess players, it is estimated that Korean Go would have collapsed long ago.

So Li Xiangping still has that point of view: the biggest advantage of Go is actually its natural forced style, as long as you work hard to maintain the forced style of Go, so that people who don't know Go feel that this thing is "unclear", and let people who know Go feel that this game is very interesting and elegant, then Go is a small minority, and its vitality is still very strong, and even a small life can be more nourishing than those popular projects-----

In the world of competitive sports, there are no examples of this, the most typical being golf.

In terms of audience and the degree to which it is suitable for televising, can golf compare to football, basketball, and chess? But what about bonuses in terms of income? Your best football star, the best NBA star, and you have to kneel when you meet a golf star.

This is actually an example of forcing the grid to beat the public, and for a sport like Go, it is obviously only suitable for such a way.

In such cranky thoughts, Li Xiangping came to the Chinese Chess Academy.