At one o'clock in the afternoon, the game between Li Xiangping and Zhang Xu officially began, and the competition system of "Nongshim Cup" is that each game needs to be guessed first.

At the beginning of the game, the atmosphere in the viewing room was still a little dull---------

Although so far, the overall record of the Chinese team in the "Nongshim Cup" is not good, and it has only won two championships in the past two years, but when the main player plays, he has not won a game, which is even more rare in previous years.

"Lao Xie, I remember that in the Three Kingdoms Tournament, the Chinese team doesn't seem to have been shaved yet, right?"

"I remember once a long time ago,"

Reporter Xie of the "sports world" doesn't look at the chess ability, but the information is still very complete:

But that is not the "Nongshim Cup", but the predecessor of this competition, the "Zhenlu Cup", in the early years of the "Zhenlu Cup", the Chinese team did not win a game, but that was many years ago. ”

Hearing reporter Xie say this, everyone present did not squeak, the "Zhenlu Cup" disappeared around 98, due to the Asian financial crisis, such as the "Zhenro Cup", "Toyo Securities Cup" and many other Go competitions disappeared.

Strictly speaking, it's only 05 years now, and 98 years is not far from now, but everyone listened to Lao Xie say "That was many years ago", and no one present felt disobedient-------

The reason why everyone does not feel that it is disobedient, this is of course related to the changes in Chinese Go, around 98 years, it was the period when Chinese Go was at its lowest ebb, in the face of the suppression of Korean Go headed by Cao Li's master and apprentice, Chinese Go in addition to despair or despair, but now with the rise of Li Xiangping, the pattern of the entire world chess world has long been subverted.

Especially this year, Chinese chess players seem to have ushered in a full-scale outbreak, winning the championship and runner-up in three consecutive competitions, as if they were in a prosperous era, but at this juncture, in this "Nongshim Cup", the Chinese team is once again in danger of being shaved head.

Reminiscent of the past less than 10 years ago, many people will have a feeling of "being in a different world", and once they have this feeling, everyone's silence is natural.

Fortunately, everyone did not have to be silent for a long time, the "Nongshim Cup" was an hour of quasi-rapid chess for each side, and the game progressed quickly, and as time went by, the game slowly unfolded, and the research room quickly became active.

At half past one o'clock in the afternoon, half an hour after the game began, everyone began to talk about it, and reporter Zhang Da spoke first:

"Hey, Xiangping's chess style today, he seems to have changed back, and it is rare to see him play so actively recently."

Hearing him say this, all the reporters nodded their heads, indeed, many people feel this way today. Lao Xie aimed at Team Leader Hua and Team Leader Ma who were also in the research room at that time:

"Hua Lao, Ma Xiao, what do you two professionals think?"

Team Leader Hua smiled: "Sun Tzu's Art of War says that the wind forest volcano, its speed is like the wind, its Xu is like a forest, aggression is like fire, immobile like a mountain, Xiangping just debuted in the past few years, that is indeed more showing the style of wind and fire, that is, at that time, he was indeed aggressive like fire, his speed is like the wind, but in the last half a year, his style seems to have changed, and he began to follow the path of Xu Rulin, immobile like a mountain, Ma Xiao, do you say this is the case? ”

Ma Xiaofei nodded with a smile: "That's right, Xiangping is indeed very comprehensive now, he can play any chess, and switch between various styles, he seems to be becoming more and more natural now." ”

Reporter Zhang Da quickly caught the meaning of Ma Xiaofei's words:

"Oh, Ma Xiao, do you think that the situation of black chess is already good?"

Team Leader Ma casually glanced at the chessboard in front of him, and then smiled in his habitual tone:

"It's only less than 50 moves, now let me say which is better and which is worse seems a bit premature, but this section of the process, I can't find any fault with Xiangping, he is blameless in every move, but it is the two hands of white, everyone see...... Personally, I think these two options may still be debatable. ”

Well, in fact, at this time, how is it worth "discussing" the law of Zhang Xu, many reporters present do not care, they also think that this is not important, the important thing is that everyone understands Ma Xiaofei's judgment, he must think that at this time, Li Xiangping's situation should be good, so he said this.

And Ma Xiaofei's remarks seemed to set the tone for this game, and after that, the entire research room only heard the voice of praising Li Xiangping.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon Beijing time, when the game was played for an hour, the game progressed to more than 80 hands, and by this time, even Ma Xiaofei did not hide it, he made it clear that he was optimistic about Li Xiangping's victory today, because only at this time, he thought that black had a clear advantage:

"Well, it is said that Li Xiangping's rapid chess kung fu is super strong, it seems that this is true, the two have not fought before, but in my impression, Xiangping is a little difficult to win, but this time to rapid chess, the gap between the two seems to be further expanded, black chess today is flowing freely, but it is Zhang Xu's white chess, it may be that Xiangping changed his style again a little unexpectedly, there are several moves that are obviously not rigorous enough, and show incoherent thinking, one will think steadily, one will seem to want to fight with Xiangping, How can you play chess like this? ”

"What does Ma Xiao mean, do you think this chess has been basically won?"

"Unless Li Xiangping goes crazy behind the screen and there is an incredible big evil move, this chess is not a big problem."

Ma Xiaofei added with a smile:

"I borrow Li Xiangping's own statement, he thinks that human chess is unlikely to make no mistakes at all, so the game of professional chess players, in fact, is a game of trial and error, since it is trial and error, then from this point of view, in fact, it can also distinguish the level of chess players, and super first-class chess, if a game of chess only makes one mistake, then most of the time it is not a big problem, but if more than two mistakes are made, especially one of the individual mistakes is more serious, then it is more difficult to win the super first-class......

Still didn't wait for Ma Xiaofei to finish speaking, Lao Xie smiled and said:

"What about first-class strong players, is it allowed to make two mistakes?"

Ma Xiaofei smiled:

"This Xiangping didn't say it explicitly, but that's roughly what it means, in fact, if you really want to say it, I think he is right, I had this experience when I was still playing: sometimes I won a game, and at the end of the game, I was satisfied, and I felt that I was quite good, and there were almost no problems, but after the game review or post-event research, I found that it was not the case at all, and I still had a lot of problems, but in the game, the opponent did not catch it, Therefore, in addition to the indicator of "making as few mistakes as possible", "whether you are good at catching the opponent's mistakes" is also an important indicator to distinguish the level of a player. ”

Ma Xiaofei paused, and then he continued:

"Obviously, the reason why Li Xiangping is strong now is that he is strong in these two indicators, he is not only super-first-class, but also a unique super-first-class, but Zhang Xu's performance today, even at my level, can now find more than 3 obvious mistakes, in this case, then except for Li Xiangping himself going crazy, why did he win this game of chess?"

Hearing Ma Xiaofei say this, the old Xie Zhang Da reporter and others present were happy, but the only one who was still calm at this time was the leader of the national Go team, Team Leader Hua.

It's normal to think about it, although with the level of Team Leader Hua, he is now judging Li Xiangping's obvious advantage, but after all, he can't make 100 moves, right? Who dares to guarantee that Li Xiangping will not go crazy behind him?

Although judging from Li Xiangping's consistent performance, it seems that his madness in the second half of the game is also a small probability event, but don't forget, the reason why Li Xiangping wants to play this game of chess today is also a small probability event, so at this time, who dares to guarantee that there will be a small probability in the small probability event?

Fortunately, Li Xiangping quickly dispelled everyone's concerns with his performance, and when the time came to 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when the game reached more than 150 hands, even Team Leader Hua was completely relieved-------

The research room has just made a detailed judgment of the situation, and everyone judged that Li Xiangping, who was holding black, was about 11 meters ahead.

He only has a lead in the number of meshes, but at this point, the overall situation is still thicker in black, and there is no weak chess in the overall black chess, not to mention that Li Xiangping is still chasing Zhang Xu and a big dragon.

So such a situation falls in the eyes of Team Leader Hua, which is already the kind of situation that is close to winning.

And at this time, it was Lao Xie at the level of karma 2 who was taken aback:

"Wow! Why did Xiangping start so ruthlessly, didn't they all say that winning chess would not make trouble, at this time he was still chasing the killer Dalong, he was not afraid of the final collapse? ”

Reporter Zhang Da looked at him with disdain:

"Don't worry, this chess game can't be killed."

Lao Xie noticed Lao Zhang's contemptuous eyes, but he was still a little confused, and he didn't understand what he said wrong, so he turned his attention to Ma Xiaofei for help.

Ma Xiaofei glanced at him and said with a smile:

"Do you think Xiangping is slaying dragons now?"

"This, he can't leave the back of his head, this is not a dragon slay."

"No, this move seems to you to be a move that can't leave the back of the head, but it doesn't seem to the master."

"What's that?"

"It's the first move, it's safe operation, if you don't believe it, you see, the big dragon of white chess will definitely not die, but when he really puts two eyes, it should be the final moment, because by that time, there is no longer any competition on the chessboard."

"Oh?"

Before Lao Xie finished "oh", in fact, he couldn't see the white chess dragon doing his work, because at this time, Zhang Xu had completely lost the mood to continue, and he chose to throw in the towel when Li Xiangping fell the 161st hand in the overall game.

When the news of Zhang Xu's admission of defeat reached the research laboratory, Team Leader Hua breathed a sigh of relief at that time.

Then after a long sigh of relief, Team Leader Hua sighed again:

"Alas~~~ What else do you say has been in the lead, it turns out that in the end, you still have to watch Xiangping."

At the same time, Li Xiangping in the game room also breathed a sigh of relief, to say that in the ring competition system, the first game of chess is often the most difficult, especially this year's situation, Li Xiangping before the game, he is also facing a lot of pressure, otherwise he would not move the "two swords combined" mind.

Now it's okay, it's useless to combine the two swords, and the game was won smoothly, although if you want to win the championship this year, Li Xiangping still needs to pass four levels, but since this heaviest burden has been unloaded, Li Xiangping felt extremely relaxed at that time.

And this game of chess is Li Xiangping's last official game in 2005. When he returns to Beijing from Shencheng, he will immediately usher in the New Year's Day holiday of 06.

When Li Xiangping returned to the capital, considering the English level 4 exam, he has already missed the "Celebrity Battle" challenge, and the schedule has not yet been determined, and the "LG Cup" final and the third stage of the "Nongshim Cup" will be in February.

So for a while, Li Xiangping turned out to be a little idle.

So in this case, he once again remembered the matter of the "great power hand".

The day after returning to the capital, he called Zhao Daokai:

"Painter Zhao, I haven't been out to wave recently, if you want to be fine tomorrow, accompany me to your father's company for a visit."