On the first weekend of August, two Chinese chess players, led by Lao Nie, made their way to Japan in preparation for the first world title of the season.

Although it was a direct civil war between the two Chinese chess players, the sense of ritual could not be lost, and the day before the competition, the organizers still held a "Eve Festival".

No one could have imagined that at the night before the festival, it was Lao Nie who became the protagonist.

In fact, it's normal to think about it, the two people who will compete tomorrow, one is Lao Nie's personal disciple, and he thinks that after Chang Hao's ninth section, Lao Nie's disciple has the most outstanding talent and may have the highest future achievements.

And the other one, although Lao Nie has no name of master and apprentice, but has the fact of master and apprentice------ when Li Xiangping just crossed the meeting, he was in order to let Lao Shi get familiar with modern Go as soon as possible, especially "Xiaomu Go", he really received more than a month of careful guidance from Nie Ma and the two masters.

And after that, Li Xiangping will also be a man, he often talks about this matter, and thanks the two masters for their careful guidance many times.

In this case, although Li Xiangping is not a personal disciple, it seems reasonable to say that he is Lao Nie's "registered disciple".

It is precisely for this reason that when the two contestants made a nutritious "pre-game speech", the host's microphone was naturally handed to Lao Nie's mouth:

"Although Li Xiangping has won 12 world championships, and last year he also achieved what everyone said about the Golden Slam, and Gu Dali is the second time to break into the final of the World Series, but I want to say that I feel that Li Xiangping is dangerous this time, and I am personally more optimistic that Gu Dali can win the championship this time."

As soon as Lao Nie's words came out, everyone was shocked, almost to the surprise of everyone present.

Indeed, as Lao Nie himself said, the past records of the two are too far apart, and they don't look like opponents of the same level at all, so even if one is a personal disciple and the other is a registered disciple, Lao Nie can't seem to say the same.

Of course, although Lao Nie's mouth is so big, this is something that Japanese people know, but the Japanese also know that even if Lao Nie has such a big mouth, he can't be untargeted, and he must have his reasons for saying this.

So everyone didn't squeak and waited quietly for Lao Nie's next words.

And Lao Nie really has the following, and he gave two reasons to be optimistic about Gu Dali this time.

The first reason is that the road goods, most people don't feel much after hearing it, including Li Xiangping himself doesn't feel much------ it's hard for Lao Nie to remember it so clearly, he knows that Li Xiangping and Gu Dali have played a total of 17 times in official competitions before, and Li Xiangping only led 9-8 in one game.

Therefore, Lao Nie said, don't look at the achievements of the two so far, there is still too far behind, but the real level gap is not as big as everyone imagined, at least not as big as the results reflect, and from the current situation in the world chess world, Gu Dali seems to be the most capable of dealing with Li Xiangping's first-class master, so he has every chance to win this time.

This reason is not much nutrition, but when Lao Nie said the second reason, this made Li Xiangping a little moved, only to see that after Lao Nie finished saying the first reason, he held his glasses and said directly to Li Xiangping:

"Xiangping, about 16 years ago, Mr. Wu Qingyuan once told me, "fighting two rabbits" is a very dangerous thing, if you want to fight two rabbits, you may not be able to do a rabbit in the end, I remember that I was young and frivolous, I couldn't listen to Mr. Wu's words at all, and now it's too late to regret it, I hope you don't repeat my mistakes. ”

Hearing Lao Nie say this, Li Xiangping was slightly moved at that time, and he was still a little moved in his heart, he never thought that Lao Nie would actually educate himself with his own troubles on this occasion.

The stalk of "Fighting Two Rabbits", as long as you are a slightly more senior chess fan, you must be familiar with it.

Lao Nie said "sixteen years ago", it was exactly 89 to 90 years ago, at that time, Lao Nie was actually already famous, and the name of "Nie Whirlwind" was known throughout the country.

In 89 years, he broke into the first "Ying's Cup" finals, which was to compete with Lao Cao, and in the first half of 90, he broke into the third "Fujitsu Cup" finals, which was with Mr. Lin Haifeng.

It's a pity that he lost those two finals.

Afterwards, everyone analyzed the reasons for Lao Nie's defeat, and Mr. Wu's "Bo Ertu" became a famous stalk in the Go world------

Lao Nie usually likes to play bridge very much, just before the two finals, he once went to participate in a bridge competition, during that bridge competition, Lao Nie happened to meet Mr. Wu, so Mr. Wu said something to him, that is, what Lao Nie said to Li Xiangping just now.

Li Xiangping's move was not only because Lao Nie exposed himself, but from Lao Nie's words, he found that Lao Nie seemed to really care about himself.

To say that after entering this year, although Li Xiangping himself is clear about his problems, ordinary people can't see it----- he has not had many games this year, but his results are still strong, not only have he won the "Asian Cup", but he still maintains a high winning rate in the Weijia arena, and he only lost a game of chess to Chen Yaoyue.

However, the above is only the surface, or the above is just the perspective of chess fans, ordinary chess fans who only care about the results of the game.

A first-line professional master who regards Li Xiangping as an opponent will not look at it this way!

These people will only see: After entering this year, Li Xiangping's chess seems to have undergone some kind of change, and it is very strange that he has not become better this time, but has become worse.

Specifically, he seems to be playing chess as smoothly as before, and he can no longer find that feeling of flowing water when he looks at his chess, and some of his moves have begun to become stiff, and his unreasonable moves and excessive moves have begun to increase, and there are some low-level mistakes from time to time-------

Li Xiangping believes that these changes reflected on the chessboard must be seen by South Korea's big and small Li, Gu Dali and Kong Erjie are also in their eyes, and even Chen Xiaoqiang and Zhou Xiaoyang are also in their eyes.

But people like Lao Nie, who have been playing Happy Go for so many years, also see it in their eyes, which means that he really cares about himself.

It's not just the superficial kind of thing that only cares about the results, but pays attention to the content and the quality of the chess you play at all times.

In the eyes of outsiders, there is only one reason why the quality of his chess has suddenly deteriorated: he went to university this year, which must be distracted, and the time spent on Go must have decreased, resulting in a bit rusty chess skills.

The chess I have played recently, at least in terms of external performance, is very consistent with "chess skills suddenly become rusty".

Therefore, Li Xiangping knew in his heart that the "two rabbits" that Lao Nie just said, the other rabbit he was talking about, should be referring to his own college education.

It is precisely because of this that although Li Xiangping also knows in his heart that his true situation is not like that, he will still understand Lao Nie's feelings in his heart.

“...... Well, although it's really not what you imagined, I want to integrate the handicap chess method and the game of the game, these are my real two rabbits, but Mr. Nie, Mr. Nie, you are generally not optimistic about me in the public, then even if I get your affection again, I will try to slap you in the face in tomorrow's game......"

At 10 o'clock in the morning of the second day, the game officially began, and by guessing first, today's final game was Gu Dali's guess of black chess.

Dali seemed to be prepared, and he quickly dropped the "star, small eye" to start the game, and Li Xiangping should start with "two stars".

The fifth hand of the overall situation, Gu Dali also seemed to have thought about it a long time ago, and he also landed on the plate almost without thinking.

When he saw this move clearly, Li Xiangping couldn't help but look up at his opponent.

And at this moment, Gu Dali also raised his head, and he smiled at Li Xiangping.

"Small Eyes Single Pass Guarding Corner"!

What Gu Dali uses today is the opening that Li Xiangping has often used recently.

Li Xiangping sighed in his heart, this is Chiguoguo's provocation!

Gu Dali smiled just now, his meaning was clear, he was clearly saying to Li Xiangping:

Boss of the Masters, I know you seem to be working on this opening recently, so I'll do it with the sparring drill today.

“...... How far has this guy studied this routine......."

At this moment, Li Xiangping had a few thoughts in his heart, and suddenly his heart moved, and he picked up a white piece with a smile and gently slapped it on the chessboard.

This move made Gu Dali raise his head again.

And Li Xiangping seemed to know that he would raise his head, and the moment he looked up, he immediately smiled at him.

Gu Dali responded with a wry smile, which was a real bitter response.

And the meaning of his wry smile is unmistakable: I really didn't expect you to do this.

That's right, Li Xiangping made a move that his opponent expected-------

And his 6th move in the whole world, if it is played like this in 2005 in real history, then this will be a very ordinary hand, a very large hand, and even before 2000, his chess hand just now was considered by many professional chess players to be "the only hand".

Li Xiangping took the next step to "divide the investment"!

It is the kind of step that leaves room for 'splitting two' on both sides of oneself and best embodies the essence of the idea of 'seeing and compating'.

Time has passed, things are people, and in the "dog era", no one has played chess like this, which is full of 'seeing and agreeing' thoughts.

Because of Li Xiangping's crossing, he brought some Go ideas from the dog era to this era------ especially this kind of "seeing" chess, which he has written in the "Go World" for a long time to clearly oppose it.

Because by now, most people have accepted his ideas, and this move is close to disappearing from the professional chess world.

But just today, just now, Li Xiangping himself suddenly "retro", what does he mean?

For the time being, no one knows what Li Xiangping means.

At least for a long time, Gu Dali shouldn't have known what Li Xiangping meant, so he took the test for nearly 10 minutes in the face of this step.

And today's final is from this retro routine.