Chapter 160: The Trick of the Year
In Shencheng Tilanqiao Prison, the match between Li Xiangping and Chang Hao continued.
"Hehe, it's interesting, it's a very interesting game."
"Yes, how could I have thought that Li Xiangping was so tough today, the few steps he just took were completely tricks that couldn't leave the back of his head, it seems that he really fought today."
The above discussion only happened before the noon closure. To say that the progress of this morning's chess game is actually not fast, around 11:45, there are less than 50 moves on the board.
In the face of changes that he is not very familiar with, it is normal for Chang Hao's falling speed to be not fast, and Li Xiangping, although this change today was made by him on his own initiative, he did prepare before the game, but to tell the truth, he is not particularly familiar with this "iron pass", and his preparation before the game is really not intensive.
There are two reasons for the lack of intensive research, one is that the change of "Iron Heavy Pass" is not like some modern "one way" formula, such as "big avalanche", "big avalanche" in front of N chess can be regarded as "only this hand", the most important divergence point is only so many steps, so such a set is simple to prepare.
This is not the case with "Tie Chongguan", which will produce many branches with a few hands at the beginning, and each branch is varied---- so from this point of view, it is not so much that "Tie Chongguan" is a fixed formula, but it is actually more like a modern layout routine, just like "Chinese flow in disguise".
And as we all know, a large-scale layout routine system in Go, of course, has many more changes than a simple formula, and Li Xiangping has no way to study it in a short period of time.
The second and most important reason is that although Li Xiangping took the initiative to sacrifice this "iron pass", but to be honest, for today's game, he really didn't pin all his hopes on this change, let alone expect a "flying knife" to knock the opponent down.
In other words, in the deepest part of Li Xiangping's heart, he still hopes that he can defeat Chang Hao in a dignified manner, whether it is to prove himself or to review the effect of his training some time ago. In short, in terms of attitude towards this game, Li Xiangping thinks that he is still relatively upright, and he is looking forward to fighting with his opponent in a dignified manner.
Therefore, he sacrificed this "iron pass" today, to be honest, Li Xiangping really didn't think too much, at most there was a little bit of "surprise" in it, or he wanted to use a change that the opponent might be completely unfamiliar with, so as to consume a little more opponent's game time.
Of course, if the opponent responds wrongly, this ancient change will really become a "flying knife" in the end, and if such an effect can be achieved, of course, it will be better, and Li Xiangping will laugh at this.
It is precisely because Li Xiangping himself is not particularly familiar with each other that the progress of the game in the morning will naturally not be fast. Waiting for the end of the 2-hour game in the morning, at least in terms of "consuming more opponent's game time", Li Xiangping did not meet his expectations, he spent 55 minutes in the morning, while his opponent Chang Hao took an hour and 5 minutes in the morning, and the time between the two sides was almost the same.
Of course, the time of the game is only a trivial matter, and what really matters is the content of the game or the situation on the board. And at noon when the plate was closed, Li Xiangping felt good about himself, he thought that so far together went well, although now the overall situation is only more than 40 hands, at this time it is of course too early to say which is better and which is inferior, but to the current process, Li Xiangping thinks that he said "black chess is good", then there should still be no problem.
And the reason why Li Xiangping feels good about himself at noon is that the key lies in the ancient formula of "Iron Heavy Pass" itself.
"Tie Chongguan" is an advanced style of medieval chess, after a few moves, its main branches are as many as 6, and each branch can derive dozens of variations.
Not only that, but this advanced style is not only varied, but also rigid and flexible. In other words, some of the six major branches of the "Iron Pass" are relatively mild, and there will be no fierce battles after they come out. And some branches are not like that, not only do they immediately form a scuffle, but they are also the kind of fierce battles that sweep the whole world.
It's completely conceivable that Li Xiangping, who is in the "starter" position, since he has chosen such a formula, he will definitely not go to those rather gentle changes, if the opponent is willing to cooperate, he will definitely pick the most ruthless.
And Li Xiangping's good self-feeling actually comes from this----- in the morning game, Chang Hao Jiuduan seems to be really "cooperative" with Li Xiangping. Li Xiangping has a tough attitude and fierce moves, while Chang Hao also has a tough attitude and fierce moves. Therefore, so far, the most typical, representative, and in fact, the most drastic change has been formed on the chessboard.
And this change is precisely the one that Li Xiangping is most familiar with and has studied the most before the game.
Not only that, this change is not only Li Xiangping's most familiar with him and the most studied before the game, but also the -----most dangerous and trapping of all the changes in the "Iron Heavy Pass", Li Xiangping even believes that the name "Iron Heavy Pass" is likely to come from this change, which means that if this change occurs in the game, then the player is like stepping into a heavy iron pass, and if he is not careful, he is likely to fall into a trap.
These are not the key alone, the key of the real key; is based on Li Xiangping's own understanding of this stereotype, when this change is formed, it seems that all the traps are Chang Hao's unilateral.
And the reason why Li Xiangping understands it this way is not that he relied on his own research before the game, and he should be more familiar with this change than his opponent, but more because of the characteristics of this change itself-----
In the 19th hand of the overall game, this move is the first key point of this change, this move not only immediately made the situation on the chessboard tense, but also in Li Xiangping's view, this tough and somewhat "unreasonable" move is more like a bait thrown by himself.
If the opponent thinks that this move is unreasonable or excessive, and thinks of punishing this move, it may be going astray, according to the ancient books that Li Xiangping has read and his own dismantling, although this move is like a "tightrope", but this move is valid.
This move is not only valid, but also has a strong rebound, which means that the more the opponent wants to punish it, the stronger the counterattack will be, and in the process of counterattacking, there are countless traps waiting for the opponent.
So far, this game of chess has not been fully completed, but judging from Chang Hao's recent moves, Li Xiangping feels that he should see that move is not pleasing to the eye, although he has not officially started yet, in the last few rounds, he seems to be still cautiously preparing for the attack, but this is in Li Xiangping's arms, he knows that if the opponent still has this idea, then he will definitely not be able to please later.
This is the real reason why Li Xiangping feels good about himself at noon.
"Hehe, let's attack, I'm not afraid of you attacking now, what I'm afraid of is that you don't attack, you only have to do it once you make a move, then wait for my flying knife to serve it Alas, it's very boring to say, if you want to win Chang Hao in this game, it seems to be relying on a flying knife to win chess, it's boring, it's really boring."
With such a strange idea, Li Xiangping entered the afternoon game.
At the beginning of the afternoon game, Chang Hao didn't seem to have gotten out of the misunderstanding, judging from his first few moves in the afternoon, he should still be thinking about how to "punish" black's unreasonable moves.
At around half past one o'clock in the afternoon, Chang Hao, who thought he had made preparations, finally started.
The 56th hand of the whole world, Chang Hao's "stab", a local seemingly quite harsh method, the classic "winding attack" technique in Go, as soon as this hand is played, the two black pieces on the chessboard seem to be unable to do both.
However, it was precisely this chess move that gave Li Xiangping the opportunity to perform Tesuji.
5 rounds later, in the 65th move of the global chess, Li Xiangping played a very dazzling Tesuji: a volley clip.
This is an atypical move of tesuji, and the reason why it is said "atypical" is because it appears in the middle of the board. You must know that Go is known as "the same game through the ages", why is it "the same game through the ages"? Of course, that's because the changes in the mid-belly area of the chessboard are too varied, and the tricks in the mid-belly area are often not replicable, so this is called atypical tesuji.
Li Xiangping's clever move just now, its role is a bit similar to "one son to solve two signs", although this game of chess does not appear signs, but the meaning is almost the same, they all belong to the kind of "killing two birds with one stone" type of good hands, this hand of chess, it will take care of its own two pieces at the same time, and resolve the opponent's first wave of attack and invisible.
Because this chess hand appears in the middle of the chessboard, it looks very dazzling and gives people sensory stimulation, and this move has an obvious effect, so such a chess hand appears on the chessboard, which naturally arouses everyone's admiration:
"Tsk, Li Xiangping is Li Xiangping after all, he still has a trick at a critical time, I think he made today's move, then he should be eligible to be selected as the best player of the year."
"Qualified, qualified, this chess hand is absolutely qualified, not only that, I think this chess also reflects Li Xiangping's talent, like this kind of atypical magic move in the middle of the chessboard, if I say it, I may not be able to think of it for a day, I just watched Li Xiangping play this hand of chess, he almost didn't think about it, is this still his preparation before the game?"
The above is to the point, of course, this move was not temporarily thought up by Li Xiangping, he just "memorized the score", but memorized the ancient Chinese score.
If you put aside other techniques in Go and talk about such local tesuji, then ancient chess is definitely not much better than modern chess, and even surpasses.
A very typical example, in the last century, Mr. Sakata, the "king of good moves" in the Japanese chess world, once played a very exquisite "bench" move, which was highly respected by many Go people, and was selected as one of the top ten Go players in the 20th century many times, and was ranked first in many versions.
However, there is a good saying that there is no harm if there is no comparison, and there was once a chess friend of the Chonggu School who casually taught him in the ancient Chinese scores, and found five or six moves like "holding the bench". What's even more excessive is that the people who played these wonderful moves in ancient chess were not "everyone" like Huang Fanshi, and many "famous players" and even "second-hand" players had played such wonderful moves.
Therefore, to tell the truth, if we talk about the specific local methods in Go, Li Xiangping believes that modern people are not qualified to despise the ancients at all, and it is almost the same not to be despised by others.
As soon as Li Xiangping's clever move came out, it didn't mean that the game of chess was over, after all, it was just a good move to defend, which could be regarded as preventing the opponent's attack, and then he could launch a counterattack.
And Chang Hao Jiuduan fell into a long exam after seeing Li Xiangping show such a good move at the level of "Wonderful Move of the Year".