In all the professional Go World Championships, the operation of the "Chunlan Cup" has always been a bit psychedelic, first from once a year to every two years, and then after changing to a biennial event, the competition time has always been like a mystery.

You never know when it will start, the quarterfinals of the 16 and the quarterfinals, and the organizers often won't tell you when the next round will be.

To tell the truth, Chunlan's operation is easy to give people a sense of informality and chaos, and in real history, there are rumors of the suspension of this competition from time to time, which should have a lot to do with this informality and chaos.

In his previous life, Li Xiangping, as a chess fan, also had a belly of opinions about this competition, thinking that if you run the competition, you can do it well, why do you do so much honey operation? In the past three days, the news of the suspension came from both ends, which made people uneasy to watch the game.

However, after the crossing, Li Xiangping's mentality is much better, how to say that it is also the first professional Go World Championship founded in the mainland of our country, which is like a child of his own family, even if there is a little problem, but what should be supported is still to be supported.

What's more, although this competition was suspended for three days and two ends, by the time Li Xiangping crossed, people were still alive and well, even though the company was once rumored to have business difficulties, this game has been held there.

In response to this insistence, Li Xiangping felt that he should also support this competition more.

As a chess player, of course, he has no other way to support, perform well in the game, and strive to play a famous game in the game------ the "famous game" mentioned here does not necessarily require it to be famous, but at least it must be able to attract attention and cause enough topics to a certain extent, Li Xiangping believes that if this can be done, it will be the greatest support for Chunlan Company.

After returning to China from Japan, Li Xiangping immediately threw himself into the battle of the "Chunlan Cup".

It is still the quarterfinals stage, as before, Li Xiangping still learned the time and place of this competition very late, but this time, Chunlan Company has arranged the following schedule: November 13th, the "Chunlan Cup" quarterfinals, the venue of the Chinese Chess Academy, December 10th to 14th, semi-finals trilogy, the venue of the competition is also in Beijing.

However, the final trilogy is in April next year, and the venue of the final is the same as in real history, and the organizer is arranged in Hunan Gaoguansha.

On the day of the game, Li Xiangping arrived at the Chinese Chess Academy on time and prepared to play today's game of chess.

In the round of 16 a few months ago, the Chinese chess players played quite well, resulting in today's game in addition to South Korea's Da Li and Japan's Zhang Xu, the remaining six were all Chinese chess players, which also made Li Xiangping usher in a civil war again, and his opponent today is Peng Quan Wuduan.

To say that Peng Quan Wuduan is actually a very interesting professional chess player, he is nicknamed "Big Face Cat", a head is extremely large, the kind of head that is disproportionate to the whole body.

Although in real history, Peng Wuduan is not the top professional chess player, but his chess is very distinctive, and his characteristics are so distinctive that they are rare in the entire professional chess world.

Peng Wuduan is a typical kind of "eye-picking stream", and Li Xiangping thinks that he is the same genre as Yu Bin Jiuduan.

And one of the most distinctive characteristics of this genre is that they like "quantification" very much, and they are accustomed to trying to transform every move on the board into "meshings" to measure.

How serious is the obsession with "quantification" among chess players of this genre? It is rumored that Yu Bin Jiuduan has a booklet in his hand, which records some of his experience in quantifying Go.

As a simple example, chess fans must have heard the chess proverb "30 meshes bloom in the center", and everyone knows that the "30 meshes" mentioned here is actually a rhetoric, a description, which means that the middle belly of the chessboard is "bloomed with a flower", so the value of this kind of chess is particularly huge.

However, the chess players of Yu Bin's school are different, they don't think it's just an imaginary number, they always want to quantify the "30 meshes" in a real way--------

And Yu Bin Jiuduan's booklet is said to have this content, such as the "flower" of this chess type, Yu Jiuduan thinks that it is worth about 28 meshes, and the "flower" may only be 25 meshes.

And the same chess type, the "flowering" sooner or later also makes its value different, in the prologue "flowering", Jiudan believes that it may be worth 35 meshes, if 100 hands and then "flower", then the same chess type may be worth less than 20 meshes.......

Li Xiangping hadn't read the booklet that Yu Jiuduan recorded his experience.

He also doesn't agree with this extremely quantitative training method.

Because in his opinion, this method is obviously biased. After all, Go pays attention to a natural situation, when you play chess, you should pick your eyes, you should go to fight, and try to quantify some combat tesuji methods with meshes--------

Let's not talk about the problem of whether you can do it, the problem that your methodology is not scientific, the more obsessed you are, the easier it is for you to go crazy, and reflect it in the game, then it is easy for you to form a mindset and it is easy to habitually avoid war.

Avoid battle when you should fight!

And this problem is a common problem for almost all chess players in this genre.

Obviously, Li Xiangping's opponent today, Peng Wuduan, is one of the representatives of this genre, although his reputation is not as good as Yu Bin Jiuduan, but his characteristics are more distinctive than Yu Jiuduan.

Since he knows the characteristics of the opponent, there is nothing to say, for today's chess, Li Xiangping knows how to play.

He knows very well in his heart that it is definitely not advisable to deal with chess players of this genre and "lay the floor" with them, not that he must be afraid of them if he plays like this, but this pattern is what others are good at, and you have to challenge others in the field that they are best at, this is definitely not a clever strategy.

The best thing to do, of course, is to find ways to lead to combat, and when you want to lead to combat, it's important to note that you don't really have to fight your opponent when you plan a battle.

The really clever strategy is actually to take advantage of the opponent's habitual avoidance of this weakness, you must take into account in the game, when you are conceiving the battle plan, especially some opponents' tactics to avoid the battle.

If you judge that once your opponent avoids the battle, you may have to take advantage of it, and the opponent will probably suffer a small loss.

Then you have to think in this direction and pick such a piece on the board to play.

If your plan is successful, you should easily gain the upper hand against players of this genre.

This is the general idea of Li Xiangping's game of chess today.

Not only did he think so, but he did it.

The situation is not bad, in today's game, his idea seems to be implemented quite well, after 100 moves, although Peng Wuduan through hard work, he successfully turned the situation to "pave the floor".

However, it is a pity that it is too late for him at this time, because his "paving the floor" was obtained by avoiding war.

avoided the battle several times in a row, making the big-faced cat suffer a few small losses in a row, and by the time Li Xiangping began to accompany him to "lay the floor", the opponent's situation was basically irreparable.

At half past four o'clock in the afternoon, Peng Quan's fifth section insisted on 200 and a few hands, seeing that he was obviously lacking in the field, and the board was only 2 to 3 meters ahead at most, he was very happy to admit defeat.

After all, it was his compatriots who won, so after the game, Li Xiangping did not show special joy, he politely accepted the opponent's congratulations, politely reunited with the opponent, and even did not hide his own ideas, clearly pointing out that the opponent's move to avoid the battle in a few consecutive steps may be problematic.

After all this was done, Li Xiangping began to pay attention to the other 3 sets.

Unfortunately, the results of the other three games were a little disappointing, except for Gu Dali, who defeated Zhou Heyang Jiudan in the civil war, and all the other Chinese players lost.

6-2 in the quarterfinals turned 2-2 in the semifinals.

What's even more interesting is the draw that night, when Li Xiangping and his hands were shaken together with Da Li, the audience was in an uproar.

Li Xiangping himself felt a little funny.

Because after today's match, all the World Series of the season has reached the semi-finals.

Take stock of the next games that Li Xiangping needs to participate in:

In addition to the "Fujitsu Cup" that has ended, there is also the "Yingshi Cup" He has reached the final and will compete for the championship with Cui Poison, Li Xiangping needs to participate in the "Samsung Cup", "Toyota Cup", "LG Cup", and "Chunlan Cup" four semi-finals.

All four semi-finals were trilogy.

Among these four trilogy chess, except for the "Toyota Cup" Da Li has been eliminated, he is still alive in the other three, and his opponents in the semifinals are all Li Xiangping without exception.

Not only that, the "Samsung Cup" semifinals will be held later this month, then the "LG Cup" semifinals will be in early December, and the "Chunlan Cup" semifinals will be in mid-December.

In less than a month, Li Xiangping and Li Canghao met 3 times in a row, and the two wanted to play an alternative "nine chess".

This is the reason why even Li Xiangping himself finds it funny.

“...... Hey? Da Li and I, are we going back more and more? I used to always meet in the finals, and in the 4 years since my debut, I played 4 finals with him, and I temporarily led 3-1, how did this get to this point, and the level of the game was lowered? Why did they meet in the semi-finals......."

Li Xiangping didn't have that much time to think about this slightly strange question, because after this game, Li Xiangping had two other games to play before playing that alternative nine-game chess game with Da Li.

The first is the domestic "celebrity battle", because the first two games and Gu Dali played 1-1, and when this game is over, the two will immediately move to the next 3 sets.

And when the "celebrity battle" is over, Li Xiangping will go to Japan again, and after the semifinals of the "Toyota Cup", he can start the competition with Da Li.

"Alas......"

Li Xiangping stretched: "Let's take it step by step." ”