In the latest domestic Go rating that has just been announced, Kong Erjie has risen to No. 3 and successfully squeezed Chang Hao to No. 4, so it can be said that in recent months, his momentum has been good and he has shown good competitive form.

Of course, that's all the rating can reflect.

Li Xiangping has always believed that the rating reflects the timely state of a professional chess player, which is still more reliable, but if you want to represent more, such as representing the real strength and level of a chess player, this may not be possible.

Take Chang Hao and Kong Erjie at this stage as an example, although Kong Erjie's rating ranking exceeds Chang Hao, but to say that his level has surpassed Chang Jiuduan?

No one believes it these days, and neither does Li Xiangping.

The reason why Chang Hao's rating has declined so much this year is mainly because he is at a disadvantage in the competition with Gu Dali, and since last year, he has been robbed of several domestic titles by Gu Dali, so that the championship is lost, and the rating score plummets.

But in any case, Chang Jiudan is also a frequent participant in the final of the domestic title fight.

On the other hand, Kong Erjie's record in the armor is very stable and maintains a very good winning rate, and his record in other games is also stable and the winning rate is also good.

But that's not all.

So far, Kong Erjie has not compared to Chang Hao in the number of championships, even if he participates in the finals every year, he can't compare with Chang Jiuduan now.

And this is the gap between Kong Er and Chang Jiuduan today.

Li Xiangping has not played against Kong Erjie for a while, although he has the same opinion as most people, thinking that the current Kong Erjie, the height of his chess may not have reached the level of Chang Hao's nine duans, but as an opponent, Li Xiangping will not underestimate him.

In real history, in the domestic "post-80s" group of chess players, Kong Erjie has always been on a par with Gu Dali, and the Go community recognizes that their talent and strength may be half a chip beyond other peers.

In terms of achievements and the number of champions, Kong Erjie can't compare with Gu Dali, but in terms of the heights they have reached, that is, the highest level they have reached in their respective peaks, this is not easy to say.

Although more people still think that Gu Dali should be stronger, there are also many supporters of Kong Erjie, especially some of his iron fans, who think that Kong Erjie has reached a height that is likely to surpass Gu Dali-------

To be honest, most of Kong Erjie's fans are actually converted from Li Canghao's fans, because this part of the chess fans very much agree with Da Li's Go concept, which also makes them very much agree with Kong Erjie's chess, and favor him as a "strengthened version of Li Canghao".

You must know that the "enhanced version of Da Li" is already a very high evaluation in real history, for example, another master of the same school, South Korean Dapu Park Yongxun, is only known as the "official death" at most-------

And this nickname, in fact, everyone thinks that in the single technology of "official", Da Pu has reached, or even slightly exceeded the level of Da Li's official, as for other aspects, Da Pu is still obviously inferior.

"Enhanced version of Li Canghao", that is what some chess fans believe that Kong Erjie at his peak, his skills have reached or surpassed Da Li, and it is a "comprehensive transcendence" like a fake, so from this point of view, such an evaluation is of course very high.

Key points: Kong Erjie won this title, the founder is really not a Chinese chess fan, the first time this statement appeared in real history, it was Kong Erjie and Li who met in a World Series final.

In that final, the two showed a highly similar chess style and characteristics, exactly like the same person played chess, so when Kong Erjie beat Da Li 2-0, the Korean media shouted this statement.

Of course, now due to Li Xiangping's crossing, will Kong Erjie become a "strengthened version of Da Li"? Now it's unknown.

After all, the power of dog moves is too great, this is an epoch-making method, so although Li Xiangping himself has not fully understood it thoroughly, after he brought some of them to this era, he has changed the entire world chess world beyond recognition.

Li Canghao has long started to learn dog moves, and his core thinking may not have changed much, but his external performance is completely different from his previous life.

He also started to "point three three" shortly after the start, and began to play an improved version of "Big Avalanche" and a revised version of "Demon Knife Formula....... So under this kind of big environmental influence, the younger Kong Erjie, in which direction his chess will develop, of course, no one can say at this time.

Li Xiangping couldn't say clearly.

Although half a year ago, he felt that Kong Erjie had learned a bit of a dog trick, as if he was experiencing some kind of painful transformation, and he was far from completing the process of turning into a butterfly.

But as a young man, Kong Erjie, who is also in his early 20s, is in the best period of evolution, with the most active thinking, the most energetic and physical strength, and his talent is also excellent.

So for a chess player like him, who knows what will become of his chess after a few months?

What if he is also like Shi Da Qisheng, and one day suddenly has an "epiphany"? --------

In the past, Li Xiangping didn't believe in this kind of thing at all, he thought that this thing was complete nonsense, but since Lao Shi became his plug-in, this kind of thing that seemed more has become a fact, so in this case, Li Xiangping can't help but slowly become stupid.

For example, in his previous life, he didn't believe that humans could challenge machines at all, and that a human chess player would be a big fool if he wanted to fight against Go AI.

But now, Li Xiangping is becoming a stupid person step by step, and he is becoming a big fool in his own mind.

On the second day after arriving in Tokyo, the first game of trilogy began, and in two hours in the morning, the process of Li Xiangping vs Kong Erjie was extremely slow, and it took two hours to play 36 moves.

After coming out of the game room, Li Xiangping asked himself about the plug-in:

"Brother Ding'an, how do you feel about this person's current chess?"

"I didn't pay much attention to this person's chess before, but he and Nagu Dali seem to be two completely different styles......"

Li Xiangping interrupted him and said: "Brother Hehedingan, let's not mention the characteristics of his chess style now, just talk about his mastery and familiarity with dog moves, how do you think he is using dog moves now?" ”

Regarding Li Xiangping's question, Lao Shi answered after a while:

"Well, although it's only 36 hands, I can't get a glimpse of the whole picture, but from this person's performance today, Ding'an hasn't been able to find any problems, he may not be too familiar, but there is no problem with today's use, like, just like ......"

"Just like a martial arts master who studies the authentic Xuanmen, others may get a "Bo", or they may get a "high", but this person has a "pure" alone, Brother Ding'an, isn't that so? ”

"Yes, yes, Xiangping Xiaoyou's statement is extremely vivid."

Li Xiangping stopped talking, and after thinking silently in the lounge for a while, he spoke again:

"By the way, Brother Ding'an, in your era, there were ancient chess players with a similar style to this person."

Lao Shi almost blurted out:

"Yes, Mr. Cheng Lanru is a pure root, and his style is very similar to this person."

Li Xiangping smiled when he heard this, Cheng Lanru, a double national player, "Cheng Lanru, the winner of the thick one", Shi Daqi Saint Nakong Erjie is more appropriate than this person.

Because the two are not only similar in chess style, but even in the chess world. In the ancient chess, Huang, Fan, and Shi are definitely ranked in the top three, which should be undisputed, so who can be ranked 4th?

There is no doubt that Cheng Lanru is one of the contenders and the most competitive candidate.

"Alas, I knew that you compared this person to Mr. Jungen, but today's game, it's time for you to get on, Brother Ding'an, don't you say?"

"Oh, why did Xiangping Xiaoyou say that?"

"Hahahaha......"

Since the time for the afternoon game had arrived, Li Xiangping did not finish the joke-------

In real history, Cheng Lanru is slightly older than Fan and Shi, but they are basically active in the same period, so the three of them are Liang Wei Jin, and they were called the "Four Masters" of Go at that time, and now it is said to be the "Four Families of the Qing Dynasty".

Don't look at it back then, Cheng Lanru was always deflated in the hands of Lao Shi, especially one of the famous games of "Nine Dragons Dance", Cheng Lanru became Lao Shi's background board, but Cheng Lanru did not fall behind at all against another national player Fan Xiping, and even according to historical records, Cheng Lanru's battle record against Fan Xiping was even superior.

Didn't Lao Shi always say that his chess path was different from him, but he had the charm of "Brother Xiping"? This made Li Xiangping make that half of the joke.

may be precisely because of the psychological suggestion effect of this half of a joke, which makes Li Xiangping cheer up, he is extremely serious in the afternoon game, he can't say that he is trembling, but he definitely doesn't dare to slack off.

However, even Li Xiangping himself didn't expect that Kong Erjie, who had been performing well in the first half, and even his opponent, who had always played well, made a mistake when the chess game progressed to more than 80 moves.

A very serious mistake!

A Li Xiangping couldn't understand it at all, and he felt that it was a completely inexplicable mistake!

The outcome of this game of chess was decided because of that mistake, although after that, Kong Erjie still insisted on nearly 100 moves, but the two players already knew that when that mistake was caught by Li Xiangping, the winner or loser of this game of chess had been decided.

After the game, to tell you a little bit from the heart, in fact, Li Xiangping really wanted to ask, why did the opponent play that kind of inexplicable chess, isn't it a little embarrassing?

However, what he didn't expect was that Kong Erjie himself said there that he was there to sing the leading role, and he didn't say anything else, mainly talking about the mistake of that move, and chatting with Li Xiangping about what he thought before playing that move.

Li Xiangping was dumbfounded!

He was really dumbfounded.

He never thought that Kong Erjie would think so much before playing that move, especially some of the changes he made after the game, especially some of the changes that he was more worried about, and he was worried about the changes that Li Xiangping might play in actual combat-------

To tell the truth, there are several Li Xiangping in the competition that he didn't even think about.

He didn't even think about it!

“....... Well, you're really thinking too much, just these changes you put up, how could a normal person think of that......"

Li Xiangping suddenly had a realization, he now understands a little, understands why Kong Erjie, whose talent is almost the same as Gu Dali, why his growth rate is always half a beat slower than Gu Dali.

Because he's kind of that kind of perfectionist.

A perfectionist on the path of chess exploration.

“....... Alas, Kong Er, Kong Er, let me say hello......"

Li Xiangping really doesn't know what to say, because of Kong Erjie's tendency, you can think that this is a big flaw, but once this kind of perfectionist reaches a certain height, it will become very powerful------

Just like in the 08 to 09 seasons in real history, in that year, Kong Erjie was invincible, and God blocked and killed gods and ghosts.

In that year, the entire world chess world could actually be directly named "Kong Erjie Year".

The first game of the semi-final trilogy ended like this, and when his game was over, Li Xiangping looked at the other side again, but found that Chang Hao Jiudan had fought hard, and he finally lost with a half-goal disadvantage.

Li Xiangping looked at Zhang Xu again, and once again remembered the torture from the depths of his soul;

Could it really be that this guy is the main character of this book?