"Hehe, Brother Ding'an, let me tell you, you once had a descendant surnamed Lu...... No, the surname Zhou, it should be the younger generation surnamed Zhou, he proposed a spirit, called Ah Q spirit, and created a method called the Spiritual Victory Method, alas! Master, but I didn't know until today that if I wanted to defeat that dog, this method and this spirit were the most powerful weapons. ”

"Oh? How to say this. ”

Li Xiangping smiled: "Brother Ding'an, do you think, according to our previous analysis, when a game really enters the "official" stage, human beings don't need to be afraid of dogs at all, so let's go further now: In most normal chess games, how many moves will enter the "official" stage? ”

Lao Shi thought for a moment: "This ....... If you only talk about normal chess games, then it is about 200 hands...... No, 200 hands is actually a bit conservative, because at this stage it is almost certain to enter the "official", let's count it conservatively, about 180 hands to 200 hands, you can be considered to have entered the "official" stage. ”

Li Xiangping continued: "Is it possible to think that when we confront dogs in the future, as long as we insist on about 180 hands and do not fall behind, in fact, it is a high probability event to defeat dogs?" ”

Lao Shi thought about it again, and then said with a wry smile:

"Theoretically, that's the case, but Xiangping Xiaoyou, you have to know ......."

"I know, I know, of course I know," Li Xiangping interrupted his plug-in with a smile:

"Brother Ding'an, don't you want to say that with the strength of our human beings, it is impossible to hold on to 180 hands in front of the dog, it's okay, I just said that it is a spiritual victory method, since 180 hands is not good, then let's push forward a little, Brother Ding'an, do you think that with the strength of you and me, if we play at the highest level, how many hands can we hold on to in front of the dog now?"

Lao Shi started thinking again, and this time he thought for a little longer, and then reported a data that Li Xiangping did not expect:

"Hehe, if you can really play at the highest level, no, I think that as long as you play at a normal level, you can probably compete with dogs to about 100 to 120 chess moves."

Obviously, the data reported by Lao Shi scared Li Xiangping at that time:

"Oh, Brother Ding'an, will you say this..... A little too much? How can we be so powerful? ”

"Tuoda? I don't think so," said Old Shi, after a pause, and then continued with a smile:

"Xiangping Xiaoyou, it is said that your question just now was originally extremely difficult to answer, but just now, I happened to think of an excellent reference."

"Reference? What reference? ”

"It's in the second season of the man-machine battle in the previous life, the second game of the junior surnamed Ke against the machine, Xiangping Xiaoyou, how did you forget this game, that junior surnamed Ke is really a natural talent, and the game of chess he played is an excellent reference."

"Oh, you're talking about that game of chess......"

Hearing Lao Shi mention this stubble, Li Xiangping couldn't help but think of Ke Shaoxia in the future.

In Li Xiangping's view, Ke Shaoxia was evaluated by Lao Shi as a "rare and talented person", which is really appropriate, and the game of chess mentioned by Lao Shi is a clear proof of this------

Many chess fans know that since the dog came out, there seems to be a change in the standard of judging the level of chess players:

Before dogs, everyone generally only looked at the famous games, the magic moves, and the champions, but after the dogs came out, there was one more way to judge in the Go world: walking the dog!

Put your game in front of the dog for a walk, and the level is clear at a glance.

Ordinary professional and even amateur masters can basically sneak up to fifty or sixty hands in front of the dog after learning, which means that at this stage, you can basically not maintain the winning rate.

If you want to reach the level of participating in the armor, you need to be able to sneak at least 70 hands or so.

And if you want to make a difference in the World Series, 80 hands is the basic requirement.

However, although 80 moves is the basic requirement, this is already the limit of most professional chess players, and it is not impossible to walk up again, but it can basically be summarized into the category of 'super level play'.

But what about Ke Shaoxia's plate? He walked directly to close to 100 hands, and maintained a winning rate in more than 90 hands.

The most important thing is that he didn't systematically learn dog tricks at that time, because at that time, the chess scores of the three generations of dogs had not yet been announced, so Ke Shaoxia completely relied on his own talent and human wisdom to fight against dogs to that extent.

That kind of Ke Shaoxia is undoubtedly very remarkable, saying that he is "a rare and talented person", Li Xiangping thinks that he is fully worthy of such praise.

Not only that, Li Xiangping now that he thinks about it, he even feels that Ke Shaoxia is a little pity:

If no dog is born, he may be able to become another Go master, at least he can leave a deep trace of himself in the field of human Go, but unfortunately the appearance of the dog may have interrupted all this.

Before the dog was born, Ke Shaoxia had a game of chess that impressed Li Xiangping, and his opponent in that game of chess was Li Sedol.

When watching the live broadcast on the Internet, Li Xiangping heard all kinds of praise from professional chess players for Xiao Li's opening, thinking that he played very skillfully in this place, and that place also achieved the strategic goal, so that he played about 70 moves, including almost all Go live broadcast platforms on Chinese and Korean websites, and thought that Xiao Li might have an advantage.

However, in this case, Ke Shaoxia still seemed unhurried, and his next move was even more plain.

By about 90 hands, the tone on the Internet had completely changed, and everyone was surprised to find that Xiao Li, who seemed to be cleverly conceived and almost achieved his strategic purpose, had fallen behind, and Ke Shaoxia, who had always been as plain as water, was so unconsciously superior--------

In the range of human Go, there were only a few people who could do this before, such as Wu Boss and Fujisawa Lao Shen.

The most important thing is how big Ke Shaoxia was at that time, that is, as big as Li Xiangping now.

According to the normal rules of human learning Go, it is usually "half a game and then the first half", which means that for more specific tesuji calculations, young people are faster to accept, while for the more abstract first half of the game, young people are basically slower to understand and absorb.

Ke Shaoxia's situation is different, the reason why he can stand out among his peers is that now it seems that his middle and back games are much stronger than others, and his advantage at that time may still be reflected in the middle and early games.

It's a pity that the appearance of the dog may wipe out his advantage-------

After all, dogs are really much more powerful than humans, and the two kinds of chess are not like one dimension at all, so when everyone starts to walk the dog, then the little advantage he originally has is likely to be inadvertently wiped out by the dog.

Just when Li Xiangping was feeling sorry for Ke Shaoxia, he heard his plug-in speak again:

"Hehe, Xiangping Xiaoyou, think about it now, even the junior surnamed Na Ke can support nearly 100 hands in front of the machine without systematic learning, so you and I have joined forces, and now we have been studying systematically for 4 years, do you still think what I just said is arrogant?"

"This ...... This ......."

"Alas, Xiangping Xiaoyou doesn't need to be arrogant, of course I know that among all the elements just now, talent is the most important first element, if it's like me, no matter how hard you try, you will definitely not be able to shake the machine for half a point, but Xiangping Xiaoyou is different, in my opinion, your talent is half a step stronger than that of the junior surnamed Ke, so under the joint efforts of you and me, it is really difficult to insist on about 120 hands?"

“......”

Li Xiangping was speechless at that time, and once again sighed that Lao Shi was really getting better and better at sycophancy.

For example, what he said just now, he knew that he was patting on the back, but why did he like to listen to it so much? ....... Well, Li Xiangping thought about it, anyway, there is such a thing as "talent", which can neither be seen nor touched, since Lao Shi wants to shoot, let him shoot it once.

"Hehe, according to what Brother Ding'an said, it means that we can hold up to about 120 chess moves, how about Brother Ding'an, do you understand the essence of the Spiritual Victory Law now?"

"Huh? The Spiritual Victory Method, so to speak. ”

Li Xiangping said triumphantly: "Brother Ding'an, you think, according to our calculations just now, after 180 hands, we are not afraid of dogs, and the front 120 may also compete with them, so if we calculate it, the actual gap between us and dogs, in fact, is concentrated in the middle of the 60 chess, so as long as we have such an idea, it seems that dog fighting is not an impossible task, Brother Ding'an, you say yes." ”

Lao Shi said with a smile: "It's extreme, listening to your analysis, Ding'an is also very excited, the junior surnamed Zhou you just said is really a master, and he can create such a wonderful method." ”

Li Xiangping laughed: "Haha, of course, Brother Ding'an doesn't know, after this method has reached modern times, it has been called a different title, many people call it YY Dafa, Brother Ding'an, you think, if it is not for this method, how can it be popular in the world." ”

"Haha, reasonable, reasonable......."

I felt that I had comprehended the true meaning of the Spiritual Victory Method, which made Li Xiangping feel happy, and he set out again with this happy mood.

Two days later, Hua led the team as the head of the Chinese delegation, led the only team member, Li Xiangping, and then accompanied by Zhang Da, reporter Lao Xie and others, the group came to Osaka, Japan, to participate in the semi-finals of the 16th "Fujitsu Cup" Professional Go Championship.

Anyway, this is the first semi-final of the season, and the task of "getting off to a good start" is still very important in Li Xiangping's heart.

It's a pity that the process of this game doesn't seem to match Li Xiangping's attention enough.

On the day of the official competition, the time was less than 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and the overall situation was less than 160 hands, when Li Xiangping, who was in charge of black, fell into the 157th hand of the overall game, the opponent Song Taikun had no intention of fighting, and he chose to throw in the towel at that time.

After a brief review with his opponent, Li Xiangping was still unsatisfied, and communicated with his plug-in:

"Brother Ding'an, what do you think of this situation?"

"Well, without him, this person's specialty is completely suppressed by Xiangping Xiaoyou, he is good at mid-game assault and has a certain explosive power, but he forgets that your explosive power is greater, and his mid-game assault ability is stronger, plus his prelude kung fu is not skilled enough, so it is inevitable to be completely suppressed."

Li Xiangping nodded when he heard this, this is also his own feeling when he played this game of chess.

"I'm curious, to say that we have been promoting dog tricks for several years, and we have never hidden our secrets, and we have been devoted to the research experience, but why are others so slow to accept it?"

Lao Shi smiled: "Hehe, Xiangping Xiaoyou, you must know that other people study dog tricks, and they are different from us. ”

"Oh! How so? ”

"Don't forget, when we were studying dog tricks, we never had doubts, even if we didn't understand it for a while, we firmly believed in our hearts that this was a better way to play, but others are different, when others learn dog tricks, there is basically a process of doubt and even denial, since this is the case, then of course others have to be slower."

Hearing Lao Shi's words, Li Xiangping instantly remembered the kind of play method similar to "point three three at the fifth step of the game", so he laughed silently.

Lao Shi continued: "However, I look at the chess world today, some people who are very talented and willing to learn, they are about to pass this stage, so Xiangping Xiaoyou, in a year or two, this part of the people should be able to catch up, and our advantage will not be so great." ”

Li Xiangping nodded: "I'm really looking forward to that day, after all, if you want to challenge the dog, we can't do without the spur of others, only by gathering the wisdom of all professional chess players, can we do it." ”

Lao Shi nodded and said, "Xiangping Xiaoyou can think like this, I am very relieved." ”

When talking about this, Li Xiangping was dragged away by reporter Zhang Da and Lao Xie.

"Haha Xiangping, come on, come and help us analyze and see who your opponent in the final will be......."

"Don't worry, don't worry, you have to show me the progress ahead......."

The semi-finals on the other side are Da Li VS Yitian Kiki, after spending about 10 minutes to see the previous process, Li Xiangping couldn't help but sigh, he really didn't expect that the original Japanese Yitian Kiki 9 Duan, now a handful of age Yi Tian Kiki 9 Duan, he actually belongs to the part of Lao Shi's mouth "willing to learn".

Seeing Li Xiangping groaning, reporter Zhang Da couldn't help asking:

"Xiangping, how's it going?"

Li Xiangping smiled slightly: "Just look at the situation on the chessboard, this chess is still very fine, and it may even be slightly better than Da Li, but isn't Yitian Tiger always a big Li nemesis, so in my heart, I hope to meet Yitian Jiuduan." ”

"Haha, that's that, after winning today's game, this is the 10th time you've reached the World Series finals, but it's strange that in the first 9 times, you haven't met a Japanese player in the final, so Xiangping, is it because of this reason that you want to meet Yitian in the final?"

Li Xiangping was stunned, and said in his heart that reporter Zhang Da is really a reporter Zhang Da, this professional quality is very good, why didn't he think about this problem before?

"Hahaha Lao Zhang, you are really a human spirit, you know even what I think........"

At around 5:30 p.m., Li Xiangping's "wish" finally came true.

In this year's "Fujitsu Cup", he really met with Noriki Ita in the finals.

This will be his first time facing a Japanese player in a World Series final.