As the oldest professional Go international competition, the Fujitsu Cup is now in its 16th year. Starting from the 2nd competition, this competition is to give the Chinese team 4 places, and then the top 3 in the last session are exempted, because Li Xiangping is the defending champion, so this time there are 5 chess players.

Among the five chess players, in addition to Li Xiangping and Ma Xiaofei, the two world champions last year, Gu Kong, who had just defeated Li Xiangping, was impressively listed, and the last one was Huang Yizhong, who was also a "little tiger" chess player, in real history, he had won the "Tian Yuan" twice, and all three of them were qualified through domestic selection.

The competition is coming soon, so the big guys did not return to the capital, but took the nearest Shencheng, and then flew from Shencheng to Tokyo to compete.

When waiting for the plane in Shencheng, Wang Yi joked with Li Xiangping: "Xiangping, if you go to Tokyo this time, you should be able to heal your injuries, right?" Well, cut a few foreign chess players to heal. ”

Li Xiangping forced a smile: "That's that, this time you must heal your wounds......"

The crowd burst into laughter.

The two consecutive defeats in the Siege Tournament easily made this a topic of discussion, after all, it was too abnormal.

If you want to say that Li Xiangping is not precipitated enough or that his dominance is not good, he is now a dignified quadruple champion, especially last year's three championships, which has demonstrated his dominance-----

After so many years, the strongest individual dominance in the international arena.

However, the dominance of the figures who have shown themselves in the world series has returned to the domestic arena......

No one knows why, this is an imagination that has never appeared in the Go world, and in this case, it is normal for the big guys to talk about it.

After everyone laughed, Ma Xiaofei said to Li Xiangping with a smile:

"You, I think your heart is too big now, do you want to win people in the most ruthless way every game? I know that I have a lot of strength, but you want to fight with him, and when you get to Xiaomei, you have to play kung fu chess with others, well, your idea is good, at least it will save your boss a lot of money, tsk, a game of 100,000 yuan......"

Li Xiangping smirked when he heard it, because he completely understood the meaning of this, Ma Xiaofei was obviously treating others with himself.

Many years ago, when he and Li Canghao first started a fight: "The reason why I want to fight with him is because I know that the best way to face an opponent like Li Canghao is to defeat him in his strongest field, because only in this way can I start a long-distance battle with him......"

That's what Ma Xiaofei said at the time.

That's exactly what he did.

Although judging from the final result, his approach is not ideal at all and has not achieved any results, but from this side, it can also be seen how proud he is.

"Hey Ma Xiao, Ma Xiao, do you think it's all you, I'm not as stupid as you......"

But don't you really have any of that?

Li Xiangping thinks about it now, he finds that this matter is really hard to say, maybe in his subconscious, there may really be this meaning.

After all, he is a time-traveler, he is familiar with the future development trajectory of Gu Kong, and he also knows better than anyone what they can achieve in the future and what heights they can reach.

Well, when it comes to "future achievements" now, it may not be necessarily, and this is likely to have been fanned by his own butterfly. However, there is no way to incite this estimate of the height they can reach in the future, and Li Xiangping even thinks that because of his appearance, it is not certain that Gu Kong and the others can reach a higher height.

It is precisely for this reason that Li Xiangping now thinks back that he thinks that when he was in the game, he may subconsciously really have the kind of thought that Ma Xiaofei just said.

Li Xiangping shook his head, trying to get these messy thoughts out of his mind, after all, there was one thing he could confirm now; That is, before the competition, I really didn't have this kind of thought, and I never deliberately thought about "defeating the opponent in the opponent's strongest field".

In that case, for things like the "subconscious", of course, it's better to think less.

"Well, even if I subconsciously have this thought, then at least it's better than your horse, you guy is too arrogant, already arrogant to the point of being very fragile, which leads to your achievements are limited to this, I can't learn ......from you like that."

It was in the midst of such cranky thinking that Tokyo soon arrived, and 24 chess players gathered together to start a new round of competition in the world chess arena.

Since Li Xiangping is the defending champion, he has a first-round bye. However, in the "Eve Festival" the night before, Li Xiangping still attended, and participated in the draw ceremony of the first round of the tournament with all the players.

At the opening ceremony, Li Xiangping undoubtedly attracted the most attention, there is no doubt about this, but when others frequently paid attention to Li Xiangping, Li Xiangping was of course also observing other opponents.

They are all some old faces in the world chess world, except for the South American bearded Akirul and the European player Catalin, who are more eye-catching, and a young Korean chess player has attracted the attention of Li Xiangping.

Well, this should be Song Tae-kun, the "young hero" in the Korean chess world this year.

This one is slightly older than Li Xiangping, but he is a little younger than Gu Dali, and he is about seventeen or eight this year. To say that he is now, his momentum in the Korean chess world actually overshadows the "Gang of Three" such as Da Park Choi Poison, and he is only behind Lee Sedol among young chess players.

However, in real history, his peak seems to have appeared before he was 20 years old, and two years later, after he served as a stepping stone on that magical three-star trip to the Luo Xi River, this person seemed to quickly disappear and disappear into the vast sea of people.

That's what Li Xiangping is interested in.

There are rumors in the rivers and lakes; The reason why this Korean "young hero" quickly degenerated is related to a Japanese female chess player, this female chess player is Naho Manba, the younger sister of the famous "Sister Flower of Manba" in the Japanese chess world.

It is said that after the "young hero" got acquainted with him, he was quickly fascinated and even wanted to switch to the Japanese chess world for her, but after failing to make it for various reasons, his chess quickly declined.

To be honest, Li Xiangping actually doesn't know whether this "rumor" is true or not, but this does not prevent him from being interested in the charm of Miss Wanbo.

If you want to say that in the Japanese chess world, there are really a lot of rumors about this Miss Wanba.

Many veteran chess fans know that in real history, there was a famous "slap in the face" incident in the Japanese chess world. That is, the famous Japanese chess player, who once won a Japanese chess player and once had a family relationship with Lao Nie, Kobayashi Jue, who had a quarrel with the Korean chess player Liu Shixun in Japan after a drink, and also slapped the latter.

This incident was quite big at the time, and Mr. Kobayashi Satoru later issued a statement to apologize, and was banned by the Japanese Chess Academy or something, in short, it was tossed back and forth for a long time.

However, what many people don't know is that it is also a rumor-----

Again, this is also a rumor: I heard that this incident is also related to Miss Wan Bo.

To say that in the future, Miss Wan Bo has actually come to China to compete, but Li Xiangping has never seen her real face, only her photo. Judging from the photos alone, in fact, Miss Wan Bo's appearance can only be regarded as upper-middle, and it is by no means the kind that can make people feel "amazing".

However, everyone knows that photos can sometimes deceive people, think that she can not only charm a young man like the "young hero", but also make a middle-aged uncle like Mr. Kobayashi fight for her.

It can be seen that her charm is definitely the type that is very feminine in all kinds of amorous styles.

When Li Xiangping unfolded these gossips in his heart, he even subconsciously looked left and right, but it was a pity that in today's venue, he did not see Miss Wan Bo herself, and it was still his Aunt Umezawa who presided over the lottery ceremony.

However, Li Xiangping's attention was quickly diverted.

Because at this time, the draw for the first round has begun, and I don't know what the organizers think, the first thing they did was to arrange for Li Canghao to go up to the draw (because Da Li's results in the last session were not good, so he failed to become a seed this year).

Da Li unfolded the small note in his hand: Ma Xiaofei!

Da Li actually drew Ma Xiaofei in the first round.

So, of course, there is nothing to say, and the focus of this round of battles has already taken place at this moment.

If you really want to talk about it, it hasn't been long since Ma Li competed for hegemony in the world chess world, but at this time, watching the two of them play again, many people must have a different taste in their hearts.

Applaud!

Li Xiangping, like everyone else, laughed and applauded the result. It's just that when he applauded, his expression looked a little strange.

This strangeness was discovered by Wang Yi beside him:

"Hehe Xiangping, what are you thinking?"

"Hehe, nothing."

Of course, Li Xiangping is telling a lie, because it is from this confrontation that he remembered the "Fujitsu Cup" in real history.

In real history, this year's "Fujitsu Cup" seems to be the worst performance of Chinese chess players, and no Chinese chess player has broken into the quarterfinals.

This kind of routine operation only found by Japanese chess players is a rare occurrence for Chinese chess players.

And the reason why Li Xiangping can remember this competition in real history is actually related to "SARS-----

According to the practice of the "Fujitsu Cup" for many years, the quarterfinals are usually held in the capital of China.

The quarterfinals were the first weekend of June, which was the most ferocious moment of SARS in real history, precisely because the Chinese chess players had been wiped out in the round of 16, so the organizers also happened to push the boat down the river and move the quarterfinals to be held.

"Where will the quarterfinals be held......

Li Xiangping began to think crankily again, and at this time, he looked at the Korean "young hero" again.

Because if he remembers correctly, in real history, this one reached the final, and finally lost to Xiao Li and won the runner-up, which is also his personal best result.