Lao Ye's movements were still quite fast, and two days later, he came up with a complete set of game plans, reported them to the Go Association for approval, and then announced the news that Li Xiangping and Gu Dali would have a special chess battle for three lifts.

Not only were the rules of the tournament announced, the prize money of the contest was announced, but also considering that one of the purposes of holding this contest was to promote local tourism, so the tournament was scheduled to be held in late September, a few days before the November Golden Week.

It's a pity that when the news was just released, it didn't cause much repercussions among chess fans.

After all, Mr. Wu Qingyuan's era is too far away from now, and everyone is very unfamiliar with this kind of lifting competition system, so they don't have much feeling, and their first reaction is only to think that this is just an ordinary business competition.

Li Xiangping is also mentally prepared for this.

In the world chess scene in recent decades, the only competition close to this kind of competition was as early as the early eighties of the last century, when Zhao Zhixun won the "big three championships", which was already a great feat at that time, so the Japanese side held a special chess battle with a lifting system, and invited some outstanding young chess players in Japan at that time, such as Yamashiro Hiroshi, Wang Licheng, Kobayashi Satoru and others and Zhao Zhixun to play the lifting competition.

Well, at the time, it was said that it was Japan's "outstanding young chess player", but Zhao Zhixun's age is not very old, he is the youngest of Japan's "six supers", so young that he is about the same age as several others, even the youngest Kobayashi Jue is only 5 years younger than Lao Zhao.

However, in that match, Cho Jixun once cornered several others, and until the final set, he had a chance to reduce the others to two.

Fortunately, in the last game, Lao Zhao's junior brother Kobayashi Jue still withstood the pressure, and he defeated Zhao Zhixun under the condition of giving the first place, saving face for the young chess players.

However, despite this, Lao Zhao's strength at that time left a deep impression on people, and it also made that game talk about for a long time.

So Li Xiangping knew in his heart that if a competition like this wants to make a strong impression, one party must perform very well.

Take this match with Gu Dali as an example, if it is 1 to 2 or 2 to 1 in the end, then you can't hear any sound at all, and the big guy will only think that this is just an ordinary commercial money competition.

Only when the game is 3-0, everyone can be shocked and left a deeper impression when they witness a professional chess player let another professional chess player defeat another professional chess player first.

There is no doubt that 3-0 is Li Xiangping's only goal.

The reason why he thinks like this is of course not that he has a grudge against Gu Dali, all of this is for dog fighting--------

Because only if he wins, it will be possible to continue to hold similar tournaments in the future, and the organizers may invite Li Canghao, invite Lee Sedol....... and even wait for Chen Xiaoqiang and Zhou Xiaoyang and others to fully grow up, Li Xiangping can continue to hone his chess skills in this way.

So this time in the competition with Gu Dali, Li Xiangping sees it as a new starting point, and he even thinks that if he can't even pass this first level, he will basically lose this opportunity, and once he loses this opportunity to sharpen, then it is basically an illusion to go to dog fighting first.

Of course, there are still many months before this special chess battle, especially something like this, Li Xiangping can't tell outsiders that he can't be high-profile, let alone say that his only goal is only 3-0. So in this case, when the news of the game was announced, Li Xiangping appeared to be business as usual.

As always, he participated in the armor, went to Peking University to take classes as always, and went to Chinese opera on Saturdays and Sundays for performance training.

Time slowly came to late June, and several things made Li Xiangping busy again. First of all, he ran to Taizhou, Jiangsu Province first to participate in the first two rounds of the "Chunlan Cup".

Although he stopped in the semi-finals last year, Li Xiangping is still the seed of the tournament, and he only needs to start from the second round.

As a world competition held by Chinese, China will definitely get the most places, after two rounds, Li Xiangping and Gu Dali, Chang Hao, Xie He, and Chen Xiaoqiang and other five Chinese chess players passed the test, occupying five seats in the top eight, the other three are South Korea's Xiao Li, South Korea's Dapu, and Japan's Ita Kiki.

The biggest highlight of the first two rounds of the game is that "Brother Calm" Sheikh eliminated Da Li, and the game of chess went to the end, just when many people thought that Da Li was about to win with half a eye, "Brother Calm" Sheikh made a clever move, a "Li Canghao-style" official trick, so as to reverse and win with half an eye.

In fact, when that trick appeared, Li Xiangping had already defeated South Korea's Won Shengqin and appeared in the research room to watch the game, after all, this was someone else's game, so when watching the game, Li Xiangping didn't see that trick at the first time.

So when he saw Li Canghao lose in this way, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: It seems that in real history, Da Li has not had any world champion since the beginning of this year, and this is not without reason, his understanding of Go is deepening, but his energy and physical strength are no longer at the peak, coupled with the gradual improvement of the young man's official level, so that his once biggest advantage is not so obvious, these two factors have led to a decline in his performance.

".......Well, Da Li, who was born in 75, is exactly 31 years old this year, and I seem to have ....... met Lao Shi when I was 31 years old......"

With such cranky thoughts, Li Xiangping followed the army back to the capital.

After returning to the capital, Li Xiangping was even more painful, because it was the end of the semester and he was facing the final exam of Peking University.

Fortunately, although Li Xiangping before the exam and during the exam was painful, but the result was not bad, at least, he did not fail the course this semester, no, it should be said that in addition to the fourth level of English, he did not fail the first year of college.

He was happier than he was to win the World Championship, and after the results were announced, he called his friends to celebrate.

"I really can't figure it out, you haven't taken much of the class and still haven't failed the course? The school takes care of you, right? ”

"Nonsense!"

Faced with Cai Shanshan's questioning, Li Xiangping smiled and refuted it in person:

"The first year is all basic courses and open courses, and this professional course has not been opened, if you want to say that it is possible to take care of the professional course, how to take care of this basic course? Will you take care of me? ”

"Cut~~"

Cai Shanshan was actually speechless, and he could only say the word "cut".

"What are you going to do after the holiday, by the way, when are you going to shoot that TV series?"

"Soon, about ten days later."

"Ten days later?"

Li Xiangping nodded and said: "A week later, it will be the Fujitsu semi-finals, and I have already agreed with the crew, and after this game is over, I will join the group immediately." ”

Cai Shanshan turned to Zhao Daokai again and said, "What about you, I heard that you are going to Hengdian to shoot, right, when will you go?" ”

"Me? I'll go with him ten days later, when he returns. Zhao Daokai paused and smiled:

"Alas, I made a mistake in the casting at that time, why did you forget Shanshan when you chose the embroidery piano, did you say Xiangping?"

"Cut~~" Cai Shanshan cut the word again, and then peeked at Li Xiangping:

"I'm not going to be an actor..... by the way, I heard that the actor who plays the embroidered piano was decided by your strong request."

Li Xiangping glared at Zhao Daokai fiercely, and Zhao Daokai was not a bad friend from childhood to adulthood, and it could be regarded as righteousness at this time:

"Haha, no, no, how is this possible? The casting was all handled by my dad...... By the way, the one who plays the embroidered piano is the maid sister of the Chinese opera, I remember Shanshan, you have also seen it, and we used to go to the Houhai bar together. ”

Hearing Zhao Daokai mention this stubble, Li Xiangping laughed at the time, because he remembered that last time, he was toasted four glasses or five cups of "lost wine".

And coincidentally, his slightly strange smile at this time was captured by Cai Shanshan, and at this time, her eyes suddenly rolled, and she said to Zhao Daokai with a smile:

"Yes, yes, I remember meeting it once before, by the way, I haven't seen Sister Yaya for a long time, don't you two often go to Chinese opera to learn acting now, when will you take me to see it?"

"Ha Qiao, we're going tomorrow, and probably for the last time......"

Speaking of this, Zhao Daokai's voice suddenly lowered, and he first observed Li Xiangping's expression before saying:

"Then if you ..... Miss Cai, if you have time, then let's go over together, right?"

"Okay, I've already finished the exam anyway, so I'll have a lot of time next."

After the party ended, Zhao Daokai said to Li Xiangping in a sympathetic tone:

"Brother, you're finished, I see that your daughter-in-law is really eyeing you now, and you probably won't be able to escape her clutches."

Li Xiangping smiled bitterly: "Illusion! Don't you talk about the three major illusions of life every day, who knows if this time is also an illusion. ”

"Hah! Probably not this time. ”

Zhao Daokai looked like an old god: "As a painter, I want you to assure you, with my observation ability, I dare to guarantee that this time it is not an illusion, and your daughter-in-law is really interested in you now." ”

"Cut~~"

Li Xiangping also learned from Cai Shanshan to come to the word "cut":

"Your bullshit identity as a painter, how long has this been painting, is your work out of the circle, now who else but me is a painter when you are a painter, so you can pull it down, I tell you as a chess player, and I tell you as a top professional chess player, with my chess player's observation ability, I think you were just an illusion."

"Hehehe......"

Zhao Daokai suddenly let out a strange laugh, and he said to Li Xiangping with a smile:

"It is said that there are four arts of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but among these four arts, only Go is not popular with girls, to be honest, I still don't understand what's going on, it can be seen that you Li Daqisheng's observation ability, I think I understand a little."

Li Xiangping was annoyed and angry:

"Fuck off!"

A week later, Li Xiangping set off again for Japan to participate in the semi-finals of the "Fujitsu Cup".