In this year's "Nongshim Cup", the lineup of the Chinese team is as follows:

Li Xiangping, as last year's "Golden Slam", was automatically exempted from the election and served as the main player without dispute.

Chang Hao, as the terminator of last year's "Nongshim Cup", as a reward, he was also exempted from the election and served as a deputy general by default.

The other 3 places were all generated through the selection competition, and after some fighting, in the end, Gu Dali, Hu Yaoyu and Wang Wei grabbed three tickets.

Strictly speaking, such a lineup is actually okay, and the top 3 players in the domestic rating are all selected, and they are accompanied by two young tiger players who can also be called "junior generals" in this year.

However, the format of the ring competition is sometimes so interesting, the ring competition is ostensibly a team competition, but in this competition system, most of the time it is more like a hotbed of individual heroism, Li Xiangping even believes that it is the birth of all kinds of 'ring heroes', which makes this competition system have a different charm.

Although this year's "Nongshim Cup" has not yet ended, the first "ring hero" in the early stage seems to have been born, that is, the Korean chess player Choi Poison.

Choi Laohan is the second player in the Korean team to play this year, and before that, the Japanese team's pioneer Iyama Yuta defeated the Chinese and Korean pioneers in a row, taking the lead in two consecutive victories, as the debut of Iyama Komasanti in the international arena, this performance is already quite impressive.

However, when Cui Poison came on the field, his light was immediately covered, and Cui Laohan actually came directly with a wave of six consecutive victories, and even Gu Dali and Chang Hao did not stop his crazy momentum.

When Team Leader Hua came to find Li Xiangping, it was the day of the 8th game of this year's "Nongshim Cup", and now the game has ended, and Li Xiangping has also seen the news on the Internet that Cui Laohan has just defeated Chang Hao, the vice general of the Chinese team. In this way, the top 4 chess players of the Chinese team did not win a game, and Li Xiangping was forced to play early.

"Teacher Hua, when are you leaving?"

"Leave right away, there's a flight at 7 p.m."

Li Xiangping nodded, and he didn't talk too much nonsense: "Okay, let me pack up my things." ”

In this case, of course, there is no need to talk too much nonsense, the schedule has been arranged a long time ago, there are two more games in the second stage, due to Chang Hao's loss, although the ninth game will be the Japanese chess players to attack, but the last game of the second stage, Li Xiangping needs to play anyway.

"Alas~~ I didn't expect it!" After getting on the plane, Team Leader Hua began to sigh for a long time:

"Why is it so bad this time, I haven't won a single set."

Li Xiangping smiled and did not answer, in his opinion, the previous battle situation was indeed an accident. Li Xiangping thought about it and felt a little funny, he recalled that in his previous life, this kind of "striving to survive to the last stage" should be the standard for the Japanese team, how can he cross this time, but let the Chinese team enjoy such treatment once?

"It seems that the Japanese team still has Zhang Xu and Yitian left, so who will they send to play tomorrow?"

"It's hard to say this," Team Leader Hua said first, and then he continued:

"However, according to the habits of the Japanese, although Zhang Xu's grades are better at present, Yitian is older, and it is more likely that Yitian will be the main general."

Li Xiangping nodded slightly when he heard this, which is similar to what he guessed, but at this juncture, how others arrange their troops is already a secondary problem, and at present, the first thing to bear the brunt of is to win a game first, and after considering whether to win the championship or not, how to avoid the Chinese team as a whole being shaved by others.

After Li Xiangping arrived in Shencheng at night in the starry night, of course it was impossible to run outside to wave that night, and had a good rest in the hotel for a night, and waited until noon the next day before he appeared in the arena accompanied by Team Leader Hua.

As soon as Li Xiangping appeared, he was immediately surrounded by reporters and asked him to "say a few words".

“...... Oh unexpected, the Chinese team performed poorly before, I personally thought it was really just an accident, the temporary victory and defeat does not explain any problems, to be honest, I am actually very disgusted with your reporters summing up the law randomly, winning once is what is the "overall lead", and then losing once is what is the "crisis coming", it is really not like that, in fact, in today's chess world, the gap between the top chess players is minimal, and it is normal for anyone to win and who loses in most games, so the Chinese team performed poorly before, It's like a small probability black swan event, which doesn't mean anything, and it doesn't mean anything......"

“....... Target? I just arrived yesterday, so I haven't had time to set any goals, so let's play the first game first, and now I think I can't get shaved ......."

When it comes to now, Li Xiangping has long become an old fritter, and he is definitely at ease when dealing with reporters, for example, at the end, a reporter suddenly asked him about the fourth-level exam, Li Xiangping immediately had a regretful expression, he not only looked regretful, he even looked righteous:

"Yes, I also feel very sorry to miss this exam, but there is no way, who made me a professional chess player, now the country needs me to play, that is of course the duty, Balabala ......"

Li Xiangping pretended to be a patriotic young man there, but he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said that this time he had such an excuse to postpone the exam justifiably.

Just chatting with reporters, at the beginning of the ninth game, the Japanese team's lineup did not surprise Team Leader Hua, and they really sent Zhang Xu to the field first. Nuwa Library

"Xiangping, Cui Poison and Zhang Xu, who would you rather touch in the next game?"

Hearing a reporter ask like this, Li Xiangping said in his heart that he secretly despised this reporter, he said in his heart that this is not nonsense, this time of course I am more willing to touch Zhang Xu, not that Cui is more poisonous, but in this kind of competition system, the factor of "winning streak" must be taken into account, once many chess players win in a row, he is like crazy, he is very open on the chessboard, dare to play any chess, dare to come to any move, this kind of chess player is much more difficult to deal with than usual.

Cui Poison is now six consecutive wins, if he passes Zhang Xu's level again, then he will face a seven-game winning streak Cui Poison, to say that although before this, Cui Poison does not seem to have opened a beard in his own hands, but Li Xiangping is really unwilling to meet such an opponent at this time.

Of course, it's still the same sentence, Li Xiangping is now an old fritter, so although he despises this reporter's lack of level, he still won't show it on the surface.

Li Xiangping snorted and said:

"Haha, these two are very strong, they are both masters, and it's not easy to deal with anyone, so there's no question of who you prefer to touch...... Okay, okay, the chess game is out, everyone watch the chess ......."

The game started at one o'clock in the afternoon, and an hour after the start of the game, there were only more than 70 hands in the overall situation, Li Xiangping judged that Zhang Xu had taken the advantage, and today's Cui Xuan looked a little tired, resulting in a little numb chess feeling, and there had been several small mistakes in a row before.

Of course, the "mistakes" that Li Xiangping said were small mistakes that could be seen at his level, two of which Zhang Xu did not catch, resulting in although he has an advantage now, the advantage is not big, if you take into account the factor of Cui Xiangping's "crazy", you really can't talk about victory or defeat at this time.

It's just that at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, after both sides of the game entered the countdown, the situation on the chessboard gradually became clear, Cui Poison looked really tired, he did not organize an effective counterattack in the disadvantaged situation, but let Zhang Xu show off his delicate and small kung fu, causing the gap between the two sides to further widen.

At 3:20 p.m., when the game reached more than 160 hands, reporter Zhang Da asked:

"Xiangping, it seems that you are going to meet Zhang Xu tomorrow, right?"

Li Xiangping nodded, and he began to learn some of the Japanese old-timer routines:

"Okay, this chess essence is exhausted, if you don't have anything else to do, then I'll take a step first......"

At almost 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the match between Cui Poison VS Zhang Xu ended, Zhang Xu won, and he became Li Xiangping's opponent the next day.

And after the end of this game, the Chinese team only has Li Xiangping left a single seedling, the Japanese team still has Zhang Xu and Yitian Kiki, the South Korean team has the best situation, they also have 3 chess players, big and small Li and Park Yongxun, and they have byes in the next round of the game, and they are determined to fight for one.

Of course, the prize money distribution of the "Nongshim Cup" is winner-takes-all, and the championship prize is only exclusive to the champion, and there is no second and third place, so there is no meaning in "protecting two and fighting for one" in this competition.

If Li Xiangping wants to help the Chinese team win the championship, he must win five games in a row this time.

Considering his reputation for rapid chess, many chess fans still trust him, and there are already voices on the Internet discussing the Chinese team's victory, even though the Chinese team has not won a single game so far.

Li Xiangping himself didn't think so much for the time being, the 5 games of chess are divided into two stages, except for the game with Zhang Xu, the remaining four games are all after the Spring Festival, so the top priority is to win the current game first, so as to avoid the Chinese team being really shaved by others.

"Brother Ding'an."

"What?"

"Uh..... It's okay. ”

Lao Shi smiled:

"Xiangping Xiaoyou has already made a decision, this bureau really doesn't need to combine two swords?"

Li Xiangping smiled: "However, although this game is very important, if I miss, it will make the entire Chinese team very faceless, but now that I think about it, it is better not to combine the two swords, since I choose to be a chess player, then some pressure always has to be beared, if I can't even bear this pressure, then how to fight dogs in the future." ”

Lao Shi laughed:

"Haha is extremely extreme, Xiangping Xiaoyou can think like this, Ding'an is very pleased, indeed, although the opponent is strong this time, he is not qualified to bear the cooperation of you and me, in fact, except for the machine in the later generations, there is no human chess player worthy of our double sword."

"Haha Ding'an, look at what you said..... Okay, let's stop boasting about it here, let me think about how to get past the current hurdle first. ”