On the first weekend of June, the quarterfinals of this year's "Fujitsu Cup" kicked off in Beijing as scheduled.

The quarterfinals are held in China, which is also the practice of the "Fujitsu Cup" for many years, and in this year, companies like Japan's "Fujitsu" seem to be living quite nourishing, with a full appearance, and according to the Japanese who like to pay attention to the sense of ritual temper, the quarterfinals are held in the Jianguo Hotel in Beijing, and on the first day of the game, there is still a "Eve Festival".

"The Fujitsu Cup is the oldest professional Go World Championship, but in this tournament, the results of Chinese chess players have not been very good, especially in recent years, the championship has been monopolized by Korean chess players, so in tomorrow's competition, I will definitely work hard, and I hope that my teammates and other Japanese chess players will also work together, we will strive to break the monopoly of Korean chess players on the championship this year......

Li Xiangping talked eloquently on the stage, while the guests and reporters in the audience looked at each other.

On the surface, Li Xiangping's "pre-game speech" certainly has no problems, and speaking on such an occasion is nothing more than expressing his determination to show his attitude. But no matter what you say, Li Xiangping's words today are a little too high-profile.

You must know that it is only the quarterfinals now, and everyone knows that because of the niche of Go, the real competition in the World Series most of the time starts from the quarterfinals, so shouting the slogan of winning the championship so early, usually few chess players do this. It is precisely for this reason that many people do not understand why Li Xiangping is so high-profile today.

And the reason why Li Xiangping is so high-profile today, without him, all of this is suffocating.

There is such a big contrast between the domestic record and the international record, but fortunately, Li Xiangping is a "foreign war insider" after all, so he is not too questioned. However, although the doubts are not too loud, all kinds of discussions are inevitable. But for such a discussion, Li Xiangping himself couldn't speak.

Now that Li Xiangping has finally found a place to speak, and considering that the opponent in the next round is Park Yongxun, compared to the other 3 Korean chess players that may be encountered, Cho Hoon-hyun, Yoo Chong-hyuk and Lee Sedol, Da Park at this time may be regarded as the weakest, so on impulse, it is of course normal for Li Xiangping to say this level of big talk.

It's just that as the saying goes, pretending to be forced is easy to be struck by lightning. Li Xiangping also said a lot of words, and forced him to pretend, but what he didn't expect was that in the second day's game, Lao Shi was extremely stubbornly resisted by Dapu, and the difficulty was completely beyond Li Xiangping's imagination before the game.

In addition to being regarded as "Sino-Japanese joint resistance to South Korea", there is actually another highlight, that is, the quarterfinals lineup this time happens to have Li Xiangping, Gu Dali, Lee Sedol, and Park Yongxun, four "post-80s" chess players.

This is relatively rare in the previous world championships, although Gu Dali Lee Sedol and they have emerged a few years ago, and it is not uncommon for post-80s chess players to appear in the top eight lineup, but post-80s chess players directly occupy half of the country, which is relatively rare in today's years.

It is for this reason that when there is no focus on the chessboard shortly after the start of the game, it is natural that the topic of the viewing room is on these young people.

Among them, especially the old-timers in the Three Kingdoms Go world, such as the leader of the Japanese team, Yamashiro Hiroshi Jiudan, the leader of the South Korean team Kim Yin Jiudan, and the "Four Elders of Go" in the Chinese chess world, when these people get together to chat, everyone sighs that the current young people are "really powerful", and the speed of change in the Go world is completely beyond their imagination.

Since everyone is talking about this topic, Li Xiangping, as the youngest in the quarterfinals, must be the central figure in everyone's discussion. After all, compared with Gu Dali, Li Sedol and others, Li Xiangping is not only younger, his rise is more abrupt, and everyone knows less about him, coupled with his "fascination performance" in the domestic and international arenas, these are easy to become everyone's talking points.

"I really envy that a genius like Li Sang can appear in your country....."

Japan's Yamashiro Hiroshi Kudan said this first, and as soon as he spoke, South Korea's Kim Yin Kudan immediately echoed:

"Yes, yes, Li Sang's talent is really unimaginable, you may not know that when he defeated our Lee Canghao in a row, it was tantamount to an eight-magnitude earthquake for the Korean Go community, and everyone was shocked by his performance......"

In fact, there is nothing to say about the old-timers' discussions, in fact, they are nothing more than commercial blows to each other, and in general, people in the Japanese and South Korean Go circles are praising Li Xiangping and expressing envy for such a genius in the Chinese Go world.

As for the Chinese Go people, at this time, of course, they have to pretend to be modest, saying that our Li Xiangping still has a lot of shortcomings, such as his recent performance in the domestic arena is proof.

After helping Li Xiangping to be modest, since it is a business blow, of course, it is necessary to praise and praise the rookies of other countries by the way.

Fortunately, in this era, everyone is not worried about no topic. Because at this time, in addition to Li Xiangping, China also has the "Three Musketeers of the National Youth", South Korea in addition to Xiao Li, and their "Gang of Three", and even Japan's "Heisei Four Heavenly Kings", this statement has just been formed.

Although in the "Heisei Four Heavenly Kings", some chess players are post-70s, such as Takao Shinji, who is actually older than Chang Hao, but it doesn't matter, this does not prevent the Japanese from seeing him as a "rookie".

It is precisely because there are so many "rookies" that the old-timers chatted endlessly, this chat is more than an hour, and by the time everyone focuses on the chess game, it is almost 11:30 in the morning, and it is not far from the noon closure.

By this time, the match between Lee Xiangping and Park Yongxun had been played more than 40 hands and approached 50 hands.

Among these old-timers, of course, Japan's Hiroshi Yamashiro Jiudan chess strength is the highest, after all, he used to be a "seepage flow", so everyone first asked him to make an evaluation of the chess game.

Yamashiro Kudan easily put the previous process aside, and then spoke:

"Well, a game of kung fu chess has been formed, and it looks like it will be a long battle."

After saying this, Hiroshi Yamashiro said to South Korea's Kim Yin Kudan: "It seems that your country's Park player is also quite strong, and he has played really well so far." ”

In fact, at this time, although Yamashiro Hiroshi Jiudan did not say it explicitly, his tendencies had already come out, and at this time he should have felt that Park Yongxun was slightly better or even advantageous, otherwise he would not have been able to praise him alone.

All of you here are professional chess players, so everyone naturally has their own judgments, and at this time, many people's judgments are actually the same as Yamashiro Hiroshi Jiuduan, such as Jin Yin Jiudan, his views are completely consistent with Yamashiro Hiroshi Jiudan, although it is only more than 40 hands now, it is too early to say that the advantage is at this time, but to say that Park Yongxun, who is in charge of white, "has a successful layout", such an evaluation is not too much at all.

Therefore, after listening to Yamashiro Hiroshi's words, Jin Yin Jiudan said with a smile:

"Well, it seems that Yongxun's hard work has not been in vain, I heard before I came this time that in order to prepare for this competition, the young people specially convened several collective studies to find a way to restrain Li Player, and now it seems that at least from the current process, the young people's research is still effective."

"Oh?"

After listening to the translator's words, Wang Lunan, the current president of the Chinese Chess Academy, hurriedly asked:

"You also conducted a collective study on Li Xiangping?"

"Yes." Jin Yin Jiudan first gave an affirmative reply, and then said in a joking tone: "Your Li player's strength is so strong, and he is also talented, of course it is necessary to conduct collective research on him, I heard that when the young people were studying, Canghao and Chonghe participated, and even Cao Guoshou went there several times." ”

Dean Wang Lunan was a little speechless, how should he describe his mood now, he was faintly proud in his heart, and worried about this game.

Because it is a kung fu chess, there is not much to say about the technical things, although in the morning, many chess players think that white chess is easy to play, but such a chess game is destined to be long, not a moment and a half will be able to distinguish the winner and loser.

During the lockdown of the Chinese side, as the closest bystander, Li Xiangping himself did not feel anything, let alone have any sense of disadvantage. There are two reasons for this, the first is that compared with others, Li Xiangping still underestimates Park Yongxun at this time.

The second reason is that Li Xiangping has always believed that the layout is not Lao Shi's strong point, his biggest strength lies in the assault in the middle stage, in Lao Shi's game, the situation of not having an advantage before 50 hands is not once or twice, and there are several times that the situation is even more serious than today, and it is best to be succeeded by Lao Shi's assault without exception.

So out of trust in his own plug-in, Li Xiangping certainly won't feel much at this time.

By the time Li Xiangping finally had a feeling, or he finally realized that something was wrong, it was almost 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

At this time, the overall situation has been more than 80 hands, in the previous period of time, Li Xiangping himself did not know what was going on, maybe Lao Shi was a little light like himself, or maybe he did not find a suitable opportunity, in short, the surprise attack that Li Xiangping was looking forward to has not arrived.

Seeing that there were more and more chess pieces on the chessboard and the space was getting smaller and smaller, Li Xiangping finally saw completely clear at this time that the pattern of a game of "kung fu chess" had been completely formed, and it was inevitable to rely on officials to determine the victory.

Although it can also be said to be a "fine chess pattern", it is Lao Shi's slightly worse "fine chess pattern".

By this time, Li Xiangping was finally a little worried.

After all, Park Yongxun's nickname of "Official Death" is not called in vain.

As for Lao Shi, to be honest, so far, Li Xiangping has really not really learned his official kung fu, even if there were a few games before, but those are all Lao Shi's previous advantages without exception, and the test is his ability to keep the advantage.

And this game seems to be going to test his ability to chase officials.

Did the medieval chess master have such a skill?

To be honest, Li Xiangping didn't know.

He's looking forward to it now.

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