The current "Ying's Cup" is still a fixed time of 3 and a half hours per side, without a countdown, once the fixed time is used up, the "delay penalty point" rule will be implemented, (that is, the commonly known "spend money to buy time", spend 2 chess can buy half an hour).

It's just that the "Ying's Cup" also stipulates: There is also a limit to this "spending money to buy time", and a person can only buy it up to 3 times.

In other words, when playing the "Ying's Cup", a certain player can only use it for a maximum of 5 hours, and once this number is exceeded, it is not a matter of continuing to "penalty points", but will be directly determined to lose overtime.

In this way, if there is a more extreme situation, the next game of the "Ying's Cup" match, the total time of the two sides may be close to 10 hours.

In addition, the "Ying's Cup" also has a one-hour lunch break, so that this competition starts slightly earlier than other international competitions, usually starting at 9 am.

On the day of the first game, Li Xiangping arrived at the arena at about 8:45. Well, young man, he recovered quickly, yesterday he was still haggard and ran to draw lots with a pair of panda eyes, but after a night's rest, he has now come back to life full of blood and appeared in front of everyone in good spirits.

After all, it was the first international game of the new season, so as soon as Li Xiangping appeared, Zhang Da reporter and Lao Xie and others who were waiting in the arena still rushed up to conduct a routine brief interview with Li Xiangping.

“...... Hehe, where is it, Yamashita Jiudan is one of the four kings of Heisei after all, his strength is very strong, well, very strong, so the past record can't be counted, can't be counted......."

“...... Hehe, don't dare, if you can show up in this kind of arena, then there must be no mediocre hands, so how dare you say that you will win? All I can say now is that I have faith but not sure, yes, yes, I have faith but not sure......"

After saying a few words that were not nutritious, Li Xiangping became a little impatient, and he excused himself to sit down under the pretext that the game was about to start, and then got rid of the reporter and found his seat to sit down.

"Xiangping Xiaoyou, it's a little strange today."

"Huh? How strange. ”

"In the past, when I played, you would always give me a detailed analysis of the characteristics of the opponent, why didn't you do this work this time?"

Li Xiangping was stunned for a moment, and then laughed dumbly: "Haha, this, this...... Brother Ding'an, let me tell you now, the biggest characteristic of this opponent is actually that there is no characteristic. ”

"No features?"

"Okay, Brother Ding'an, I'll be honest with you now, because for the characteristics of this person, in fact, I can't say, on the whole, I feel that this person's talent is average, compared to the 'six super', compared to the 'six super', and inferior to the Iyama Yuta I once told you, in addition, judging from his later chess games, I think this person's strength may be lacking, because he is always beaten by that Iyama tricks. So I personally think that our opponent this time is a typical example of fame greater than strength. ”

I have to tell the truth, the above is really Li Xiangping's true words, and his perception of the nine sections under the mountain is indeed like this.

In fact, for this former one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Heisei", Li Xiangping really has no impression of his chess style, but he has always been impressed by the two anecdotes that happened to him.

Number one: There was a time when the "Samsung Cup" liked to play a new trick on the format, and it was just the time when it was launched, allowing players to choose their opponents' interesting ways to play.

During that time, Keigo Yamashita happened to be Japan's reigning "chess saint", but in the "Samsung Cup", he was the first to be picked out twice.

After seeing such a result, Li Xiangping remembered that the media at that time sighed with emotion, saying that Japanese Go had fallen to such an extent, and the dignified "chess saint" was still regarded as a soft persimmon by others.

At the beginning, Li Xiangping also thought so, but if he thought about it carefully, he found that the real situation may not be like this, and those chess players who chose him may not think that his strength is the weakest.

Think about it from the perspective of the selector: face the chess players in the front row, so who should you choose?

Pick an absolute powerhouse like Xiao Li Gudali? No, there is a high probability that he will go up and die.

So pick a distinctly weak chicken? No, if you do this, then you will be too shameless, and you will definitely be reprimanded as ungraceful afterwards.

Just when the selector was in a dilemma, he suddenly saw Mr. Keigo Yamashita in the crowd, which immediately made his eyes light up:

Well, this is good, first of all, this is famous enough, dignified Japanese chess saint, so he is not afraid of losing face if he chooses, and secondly, this one is actually average, and I have the power to fight with him, so he is now.....

You can judge the theory, is this analysis reasonable?

The second anecdote about Mr. Yamashita: It was a world competition a few years later, and Li Xiangping forgot whether it was the first "Bailing Cup" or the first "Dream Lily Cup".

Not only that, Li Xiangping even forgot who Mr. Yamashita's opponent was that time, but he only remembered that it was a domestic backbone, and he was still a relatively weak backbone, ranking 30 to 50 in the country, and he still needed to work hard for the armor seat.

In the first round of that World Series, there may have been something wrong with the tournament arrangement, or something was wrong with the domestic stalwtman, who was said to have been delayed due to weather problems, and he was unable to arrive on time after the start of the tournament.

Under normal circumstances, of course, it is customary to lose, but who let that it was a world competition held by the Chinese, so the organizers at that time quickly communicated with Yamashita, hoping that he could be accommodating, saying that his opponent was on his way to the arena.

Well, it should be that Mr. Yamashita is still very personable, and he agreed to the organizer's request and agreed to wait a little longer.

More than two hours later, the Chinese chess player finally arrived, and the game was played.

However, although the game can be carried out, the rules must still be enforced, and the more than 2 hours wasted must be counted on the Chinese chess player.

As we all know, in that era, the time of the Go World Championship was shortened, and the normal fixed time was only two and a half hours.

In other words, by the time the Chinese player arrived, he was almost on the countdown from the start.

But in such a situation, the domestic stalwart went to two, and he quickly took down Yamashita Keigo.

After the game, many domestic media reported on the game.

It must be admitted that the domestic media that report on Go are relatively high-quality, at least a little disciplined, so everyone's reports do not focus on the results of this game of chess, but praise Yamashita for how personable.

It's a pity that he met a person like Li Xiangping who is psychologically dark, but he was embarrassed to see the full screen.

How to describe it? It's like when we see a beautiful woman who looks very ordinary, we will praise her for "having a good temperament", and when we meet a star who doesn't have much talent and doesn't have much ability, we will say "He has actually worked hard".

You can taste it carefully:

For a professional chess player, everyone doesn't comment on his level, but even says that he is "very personable"?

Is this the same meaning as the previous two examples?

"Please advise!"

Just when Li Xiangping was still thinking nonsense, he didn't notice that Yamashita Jiudan had already sat opposite him, and he also bowed to himself respectfully.

Li Xiangping looked at the time, but found that it was already 8:58, so he stopped talking nonsense and immediately began to guess under the auspices of the referee.

Since today is the first round, Li Xiangping did not enjoy special treatment for this plate, and the other 6 plates were held in the same hall as the Kunlun Hotel. The only difference is that Kong Erjie VS Xiao Li's game----- in order to facilitate TV and online live broadcast, they have a separate game room for that game.

Of course, the current Li Xiangping can also be said to be the most popular fried chicken, so his game is still different from the other 6 sets-----

The biggest difference is reflected in the scorekeeper, it is said that the children of the national junior team, all of them are rushing to remember this game of chess, and today grabbed the two positions, one is Chen Xiaoqiang, the other is Zhou Xiaoyang, so only from the perspective of the scorer, this is of course a very luxurious top configuration.

The guess ended quickly, this time Yamashita Kudan guessed correctly, and he unsurprisingly chose white.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the game officially began. Lao Shi also almost did not hesitate, he instructed Li Xiangping to take the first step to drop the "star position" in the upper right corner.

Hearing this instruction, Li Xiangping was immediately relieved, and he joked with his plug-in while falling:

"Hehe, Brother Ding'an, you made such waves with me a few days ago, what's the matter? Not ready to wave today? ”

Today's Shi Da Chess Saint is also very interesting: "Hey Hey Xiangping Xiaoyou, this is an official competition, as you said, safety first, safety first......"

"Hahahaha......."

With this heartfelt laughter, Li Xiangping completely relaxed, and for the next period of time, he used this completely relaxed mood and the mentality of a complete bystander to appreciate the contest between Lao Shi and the mountain.

This relaxed state of mind lasted until about 10:30 a.m., when there were more than 40 moves on the board.

That's right, Li Xiangping during this period of time is indeed very relaxed.

Compared with a few years ago, he has not only made great progress in his chess skills, but also has a higher tacit understanding with his own plug-in-----

For example, in the first dozens of moves at the beginning, not only did Lao Shi hardly surprise him with every move, but when the chess game progressed to the present, Li Xiangping was quite satisfied with the situation of black chess.

Since this is the case, of course Li Xiangping will be very relaxed.

It's a pity that the comfortable days are not destined to last long, and at around 10:35 in the morning, Keigo Yamashita just dropped a chess hand, which is the 42nd hand of the whole world-----

There is actually nothing to say about this move, it is not a good move, and it is completely expected by Li Xiangping, so this move is not the point.

The real focus is on the back:

"Xiangping Xiaoyou, now please fall somewhere and somewhere ......."

Li Xiangping hesitated, he was not as relaxed as before, and he didn't even follow Lao Shi's instructions immediately. Because Lao Shi's preparation greatly exceeded Li Xiangping's expectations.

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