After winning Yitian 2-0, Li Xiangping did not rush back to China immediately, but waited for the tiebreaker between Ma Xiaofei and Lee Sedol together with other members of the Chinese delegation.

"Ma Xiao, I told you, you have to cheer me up today, haven't you seen what is said on the Internet? Say that your game of chess today, it is the "Battle of Tianwang Mountain" for the whole year this year, whether we can overwhelm South Korea this year, then it depends on you. ”

Hearing that before entering the arena, Lao Nie actually talked to Ma Xiaofei like this, Li Xiangping laughed silently.

It was an important match that attracted a lot of attention from all sides. The reason why this game is so eye-catching, in addition to the fact that these two players are considered to be the biggest names in today's chess world, the more important reason is actually related to the overall results of China and South Korea.

You must know that there are only 6 individual professional competitions in the world chess today, there is no "Ying's Cup" this year, and the "Chunlan Cup" is held every two years, and only 4 individual professional champions will be produced this year.

So in the case that Li Xiangping has won the "Fujitsu Cup", if Ma Xiaofei can win today, it means that Chinese chess players can win at least 2 individual world championships-----

God is pitiful, since the Koreans began to dominate the world chess scene in 1993, and even since the establishment of the World Professional Go Championship in 1988, when has Chinese Go been so glorious except for the two world champions who relied on Ma Xiaofei in 1995?

It is precisely for this reason that everyone attaches so much importance to this game that determines the ownership of the second championship, and even some people who eat melons can't wait to shout that this will be the "Battle of Tianwang Mountain" throughout the year.

The game was so crucial and important, but the course of this game was beyond many people's expectations.

As early as more than 11 o'clock in the morning, that is, more than 1 hour after the game began, Lao Nie's loud voice was already echoing in the on-site viewing room:

"Hahaha, this horse demon, actually used this? There is not much suspense, and if nothing else, this second championship should be stable. ”

Lao Nie's laughter made many Korean chess players present look at each other, you must know that now the opening is only more than 40 hands, the two sides have not finished practicing a fixed formula, and even in the eyes of many Korean chess players, Ma Xiaofei is obviously still suspected of "playing the wrong formula", how to see a group of Chinese laughing so happily?

Indeed, in addition to Lao Nie laughing happily at the scene, the other one who laughed the most was of course Li Xiangping, he never thought that Ma Xiao would actually use the "big avalanche internal abduction omitted exchange variant" that he "created" today.

It has been more than 2 years since this change came out, and the reason why he appeared in the World Series so late is because Li Xiangping was only playing online chess at that time, and he was not famous at the time, so this change did not seem to have spread to the Japanese and Korean Go circles except for attracting the ideas of a small number of domestic chess players.

The second reason is related to the direction of the flow of the Go world. Li Xiangping remembers that before 2000, specifically in the years of 98, 99, and 00, the changes of the "big avalanche" were once very popular in the world competition, from the four kings of South Korea to China's Ma Xiaofei Chang Hao and others, they all liked to play the "big avalanche" in the competition.

However, the popularity of the Go formula is actually the same as the woman's skirt, this year's popular one, next year's popular one, in the first few years after entering the new century, no one knows what the reason, anyway, this "big avalanche" is suddenly not popular, this style suddenly became very rare in the world series, plus Li Xiangping, the "original", he personally actually dislikes the "big avalanche" very much, and thinks that this style is too vulgar, so whether it is him or Lao Shi, They never took the initiative to provoke a "big avalanche" during the game.

And this "big avalanche internal abduction omitted exchange variant", that is precisely the party that takes the initiative to go down the big avalanche can provoke, and it is precisely for this reason that Ma Xiaofei has taken the lead.

Seeing Ma Xiaofei's choice of this change today, Li Xiangping didn't think that it was "not much suspense" if it was less than 50 chess moves, but he still secretly praised Ma Xiaofei's choice in his heart.

How so? Seeing today's game of chess, it reminds Li Xiangping of the first season of the "man-machine war", the 5th game of Lee Sedol VS Alpha Dog, the beginning of that game of chess also had a change that no one had played before, that game of chess is Lee Sedol holding black, many people have the first feeling after seeing that change, and they feel that the situation of black chess seems to be good, after all, at a glance, black chess has achieved quite a lot of ground. And among these "many people", including Li Xiangping, who was watching the battle at the time.

However, when it came time to analyze the data, the "alpha dog" clearly told everyone that the change was a loss for black, and a lot of losses.

In addition to the "alpha dog", there were also many human chess players who had a clear overall situation at that time, and also saw the problem of black chess, such as Lao Nie and Yitian Kiki, who analyzed through "hand cutting" and wrote an article explaining that the change should be a loss of black chess.

Today's Ma Xiaofei is like the "generation of dogs" at that time, sacrificing part of the actual profits in exchange for the openness of the overall situation, in exchange for the full combat of the overall situation-----

I have to tell the truth, even after the fully mature Xiao Li, Li Xiangping thinks that his understanding of Go is very problematic, he is strong in specific means and specific calculations, but for the control of the open situation of the virtual calculation road, he has never reached the top of mankind.

Xiao Li at his peak is like that, not to mention the "Bird Island Boy" who is only 20 now, so Li Xiangping believes that Ma Xiaofei's choice today is very smart, and today's law is also a good way to restrain the "zombie flow".

Of course, Ma Xiaofei is not an alpha dog after all, Go AI can make the opponent fall into despair after taking the lead at the beginning, and Ma Xiaofei, who is now nearly 40 years old, certainly does not have that ability. Therefore, the key to this game of chess, Li Xiangping believes that it still lies in the second half of the game, whether Ma Xiao can resist Xiao Li's various ghostly reversal methods, this should be the focus of this game.

However, the progress of this game of chess was once again beyond Li Xiangping's expectations, today's Lee Sedol seems to be obviously out of state, a little more than 4:30 in the afternoon, when the overall situation is less than 200 chess, Lee Sedol's situation has been very bad, and Lao Nie has already sentenced him to death N times in the viewing room.

Just a death sentence is counted, and more importantly, in the whole game of chess today, Lee Sedol did not organize any decent resistance, let alone a "zombie flow", and he didn't even see a few steps in the local means that could make people's eyes shine.

A little after 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the whole game ended, and Lee Sedol ended the game in a "euthanasia" way, so that Li Xiangping and Ma Xiaofei will be in the final of this year's "Samsung Cup".

Looking at Xiao Li, who hurriedly left with a blue face, Li Xiangping sighed in his heart, it was really a terrible thing to have a judgment bias in the Go game.

For example, in today's game of chess, you may be able to say that Lee Sedol is not playing well, or you can think that he is not in good shape, but Li Xiangping thinks that the main reason is that he may still have a judgment bias, maybe after that change, he still thinks that his situation is very good.

It is of course very fatal to think that you are in a good situation even though you are losing money, because people are not machines, and people have all kinds of emotions, all kinds of joys, sorrows, and sorrows.

And Li Xiangping has always believed that at any time, human "optimism" or "sense of superiority" is the great enemy of the game of Go, because at this time, your chess will unconsciously become unenterprising, and even become timid.

And Li Xiangping believes that Lee Sedol is losing in this place today.

After the game, Li Xiangping went up to congratulate Ma Xiaofei as soon as possible:

"Teacher Ma, congratulations."

After winning the chess, Ma Xiaofei also looked very happy, looking like his burden:

"Hehe, others don't know that you don't know, I can win this game, and I have to thank you for it......"

Li Xiangping's congratulations were of course completely sincere, but at this time no one knew that at the same time as Ma Xiaofei let go of a mouthful of chess, Li Xiangping also let go of a mouthful of chess, after all, after a Chinese chess player in the future finals, this greatly relieved the pressure of Lao Shi's 15-game quota, which will make Li Xiangping's next choice much calmer.

It was with such a good mood that after returning to China, Li Xiangping immediately focused his attention on the next "Nongshim Cup". The match will start on the third day after he returns to China, and the first stage of the 6-set match will be played in Shencheng, so after Li Xiangping returned to Beijing, he almost didn't stay, and immediately came to Shencheng with Gu Dali Luo Xihe and a few others.

In fact, at this time, China has decided to let Li Xiangping be the pioneer, but according to the rules of the "Nongshim Cup", the order of appearance does not need to be announced in advance, as long as the opponent is notified an hour before the game, so at this time, even domestic chess fans do not know that Li Xiangping will be the vanguard.

This time with Li Xiangping went to Shencheng with Wang Lunanhua and others, as soon as they arrived in Shencheng, Hua team leader found that Li Xiangping was a little wrong:

"Huh? Xiangping, what's wrong with you, is it uncomfortable? ”

"No..... No ......."

"Then how do I see that your face is wrong?"

Li Xiangping took a deep breath, and then silently said in his heart, this is my debut, my debut in the international arena, so I am a little excited now, and even a little nervous, of course, it is normal.

Of course, no one knows about his little excitement and little nervousness now. It's normal to think about it, but who would have thought that the two-time world champion would be nervous after being invincible in all world competitions this year?

I'm afraid that no one will believe Li Xiangping when he says it.

"By the way, Xiangping, since you are the pioneer, then you can go to the draw tonight, I estimate that the other two teams will also send their vanguard draws, and you can also confirm who your opponent is in the first round."

"Okay."

Japan had the best luck in the draw that night, as they received a first-round bye, and Lee Sang-pyeong will face the South Korean Vanguard.

It's Cui Zhehan!

Li Xiangping's first opponent was the later famous "Cui Poison".