Time flies very quickly, and before I know it, I came to April 06, and on the first weekend of April, the world's oldest professional Go World Championship: the "Fujitsu Cup" kicked off.

In this year's "Fujitsu Cup", there is a record-related highlight: that is, if Li Xiangping can still win the championship this year, he will achieve the fifth consecutive championship of the "Fujitsu Cup".

There is no doubt that if he could do it, it would be a very remarkable record.

Prior to this, the highest consecutive championship record in the international arena belonged to Mr. Masaki Takemiya, who won four consecutive championships in the first to fourth Asian Cups.

Last year, Li Xiangping defeated Gu Dali in the final of the Fujitsu Cup, and he has equaled this record.

The Fujitsu Cup is a slow chess tournament that is the oldest professional Go World Series with a prize fund of 15 million yen. The Asian Cup, on the other hand, is a small international tournament with a prize fund of less than 4.5 million yen.

Of course, the weight of the two is not the same, and their status in the minds of the majority of chess fans is also different.

What's more, when Mr. Takemiya reached that record, he was already at the tail end of his personal peak, and after that, he never achieved anything but a "celebrity".

The current Li Xiangping is different, he is currently less than 20 years old, he is in his prime, his body is just right, not only is he at his peak, he even looks like he has room to rise.

It is precisely because of this that many people believe that Li Xiangping is really likely to achieve five consecutive championships and enjoy this record exclusively.

There is no doubt that in the field of competitive sports, "records" will always be a hot topic for everyone, which has also led to the arrival of this year's "Fujitsu Cup". In the fastest time, it has become the focus of discussion in major Go forums.

As a party, Li Xiangping, who has been a little busy recently, didn't notice this himself, and it wasn't until the Internet began to boil that he remembered that he had achieved four consecutive championships in the "Fujitsu Cup".

Li Xiangping thought it was a little funny when he thought about it.

If you want to say that you have won a lot of championships now, but in other world competitions, such as the "Samsung Cup" and the "LG Cup", which are also held every year, it is not to mention that there are five consecutive championships, and even three consecutive championships have never been achieved.

Do you attach great importance to this competition? Or is it particularly related to this competition?

Of course, there is no such thing as attaching great importance to any competition, but in fact, in the international arena, Li Xiangping attaches about the same importance to any competition.

Well, when he first participated in the "Fujitsu Cup", he took this competition a little more seriously, and the reason why he valued it more at that time was really not enough for outsiders to say--------

At that time, he was still worried about Lao Shi's 15-game quota, and the "Fujitsu Cup" was a single-elimination system with a single-set decision, from the first round to the final round.

Therefore, in Li Xiangping's opinion at that time, among all the world competitions at that time, that is, this "Fujitsu Cup" had the highest "cost performance", and he would not easily waste his external quota, which led him to pay more attention to it at that time.

Probably since the year before last, Li Xiangping actually didn't care about Lao Shi's quota at all, so he didn't pay special attention to it.

However, in this case, he was still able to win the championship all the way to last year in this event, of course, there is no other explanation, Li Xiangping can only think that this is fate.

After all, as the saying goes: there is no fate in competitive sports, but when you have a good result in a certain event, and even win the championship many times, then fate begins to be born, and others and even yourself will think that you are particularly related to this event.

There is no doubt that Li Xiangping himself is in this state now.

Therefore, when he went to Japan to participate in the new "Fujitsu Cup" with the big army again, when others asked him about his outlook for the game, he also talked about "fate" there, with a bit of a high-profile and a bit of a joking tone that he seemed to be "very fateful" with this competition, since there are many chess fans who want to see the first five consecutive championships in the World Series, then he will strive to do it.

On April 3, the first round of the match officially began, as the defending champion, Li Xiangping of course did not need to play, he and the last runner-up Gu Dali and others, in the viewing room to watch the first round of eight-set matches.

In fact, in the first round of the competition, there are not many top masters, such as South Korea's Xiao Li and others, they are also seeded players, but not long after the game began, Gu Dali began to sigh:

"Boss, look."

"What are you letting me see?"

"Look at the beginning, you didn't look at today's eight-set game, but seven sets were "three three" on the fifth hand. ”

Li Xiangping laughed silently, he remembered that in real history, the first season of man-machine war was held in early 16, and the second season of man-machine war in which Ke Shaoxia participated was held in 17.

The "opening point three three" method was first seen in the second generation of dog "master", and then this move was recognized by the third generation of dog "A Fayuan", so from about 18 years, this chess hand was popular in the professional chess world, almost informing the professional chess world at that time.

It took nearly a year for dogs to contribute to the pandemic.

As a human chess player, it took less than 6 years for me to contribute to this pandemic.

Although it is far away from the dog, no matter what, Li Xiangping still feels that he can be proud.

It's just that after being proud, Li Xiangping is also vigilant------- now that the whole people are learning the "mysterious prelude", then in the foreseeable future, if he is still stagnant, his advantage in the first three axes will really be smaller and smaller.

"Poof."

At this time, Gu Dali seemed to remember something funny, and he actually laughed out loud like that.

Li Xiangping looked at him, and Lao Xie and reporter Zhang Da and others also looked up at him at the same time.

"Old Xie," Gu Dali said to Reporter Xie alone:

"Do you know when I first saw this kind of three-three at the beginning?"

Everyone was interested at that time, and they asked him when it was, and reporter Zhang Da said:

"If I'm not mistaken, the first time Xiangping used this move in the World Series seems to be in two games of chess with Liu Chonghe, and the two played the super complicated "Li's Flying Knife" at that time, and Da Liu was blown up at that time, right? ”

Hearing reporter Zhang Da say this, Li Xiangping had a strange expression on his face at that time, because the "Li's flying knife" in his mouth was actually the "Mi's flying knife", but the current classmate Xiao Mi was just in his early 10s, so there was no way to change the name of this flying knife.

"No," Gu Dali said: "The first time I saw the opening 5th hand, it was a three-three, which is actually a training game within the national team,"

Gu Dali turned to Li Xiangping again and said, "The boss doesn't seem to have become a world champion at that time, right?" Yes, it should have been that time, but you used this method to cut Xiaomei's plate, which made him doubt his life at that time, and directly shouted to me that he wanted to retire. ”

Everyone laughed.

Indeed, because Li Xiangping had not yet become famous at that time, so a way like this seemed to be a very amateur at the time, and Kong Xiaomei was defeated by such a way, and his doubts at that time were normal.

"But everyone look," Gu Dali continued: "Now the opening point three three has become Xiaomei's favorite, others can point one or two at most, but his game of chess is good, but three of the four corners are point three three, I just thought of this past, so I couldn't help laughing." ”

After Gu Dali finished explaining, everyone's attention was also focused on Kong Erjie's game, not only did the three corners appear "point three three", in fact, his opponent today is Park Yongxun, in the first round of eight games, this game of chess looks the most weighty.

In his previous life, Kong Er, who was fully mature, was most afraid of Xiao Li, and he was basically not afraid of other chess players, especially against South Korea's "Gang of Three", he always had a relative advantage.

It was like this in the previous life, and it seems to be the same in this life, in the "Toyota Cup" not long ago, Kong Er was eliminated by Xiao Li, but he faced Dapu today, but he was handy all the way, and always had a certain advantage.

A little more than 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Kong Erjie won in the middle game, and after more than half an hour, the first round of games was over, and Li Xiangping stretched his waist:

"Let's go, Brother Gu, get ready to draw lots."

In fact, in the second round of the "Fujitsu Cup", the strength and weakness are basically clear, because the eight seeded players who had a bye in the first round did not meet in this round, not only that, but players from the same country like Kong Erjie, Li Xiangping actually did not meet either, so the other remaining players, the opponents with weight are extremely limited.

In the second round, Li Xiangping encountered the Japanese veteran Hiroshi Yamashiro Kudan.

And this former "infiltrator", in the first round, defeated a European and American amateur chess player to sit in front of Li Xiangping.

There is nothing to say in this game, and there is basically no suspense, Li Xiangping defeated his opponent relatively easily and broke into the quarterfinals of the "Fujitsu Cup" again.

The Chinese chess players who entered the quarterfinals with him were none other than Gu Dali and Kong Erjie.

It's just that the results of the quarterfinals that night came out, and the two of them didn't have Li Xiangping's good luck, Kong Erjie encountered Xiao Li again, and Gu Dali directly shook Da Li.

Compared with the two of them, Lee Xiangping's opponent is South Korean stalwart Kim Seungjun, which is simply too good to be signed.

It seems that from this point of view, it can also be seen that Li Xiangping is indeed more related to the "Fujitsu Cup", and as soon as the results of this draw come out, Li Xiangping is ready to hit a new record.

It's just that the quarterfinals of the "Fujitsu Cup" are already in June, and even if Li Xiangping prepares again, he must be busy with other things first.

As soon as he got home, Zhao Jiadong immediately found him:

"Xiangping, you honestly confess, let Daokai play Fan Xiping, is it your idea?"