"Brother Ding'an, our opponent tomorrow is actually a meritorious figure in the rise of Goryeo Go, I think that Goryeo Go, it is under the drive of this person that it rose rapidly, so he is called the "Emperor of Go" in Goryeo, and Li Canghao is the only disciple of this person. By the way, I will now talk about the characteristics of this person's chess style, as for this person's chess style, there is a very vivid saying in the Go world, which everyone calls it "soft wind and fast gun" ......"

After returning home from the Chinese Chess Academy, Li Xiangping began his unique "preparation" method again, that is, he first introduced the basic situation of the opponent by his own plug-in. But today's situation is different, he has just started, and he was interrupted by Lao Shi:

"Xiangping Xiaoyou is needless to say, for the characteristics of this person's chess style, Ding'an still has some understanding, I know it in my heart."

Li Xiangping was stunned when he heard this, Lao Shi said that he knew something about Lao Cao's characteristics?

"Brother Ding'an, how do you know this person?"

"Haven't I been watching Li Canghao's chess these days, and after watching Li Canghao's chess, I naturally know something about this person."

Li Xiangping listened to it, and said in his heart that this is the reason, although Lao Shi has been studying Li Canghao recently, who does Li Canghao play the most chess with? Of course, it was his master Lao Cao, so although the chess games he looked for Lao Shi to show were all played by Li Canghao, nearly half of them were also Lao Cao's chess games, so Lao Shi said that he also knew something about Lao Cao's chess style, which naturally made sense.

Li Xiangping was depressed, he saw that his only "preparation for war" was about to fail, I don't know why, Li Xiangping was slightly disappointed in his heart.

It's just that compared to that slight sense of loss, he is now more curious:

"Brother Ding'an, since you said that you know something about this person, what do you think of this person?"

Lao Shi paused slightly, as if organizing the language: "This person's chess is flexible and changeable, many moves seem to be hasty at first, inadvertently, and then in the middle of the fall, the rubble, insects and sand have changed into wind and thunder, and he is really talented, talented and talented. ”

Li Xiangping is not surprised by Lao Shi's "great power chauvinism", and it is not surprising that he even praised Lao Cao for being "talented and talented", after all, "Cao Xunxuan is the first, Ma Xiaofei is the second", this sentence was said by the famous Japanese god Fujisawa Hideyuki, but it has been circulated in the Go world for decades, and Lao Cao's chess talent has long been recognized by the Go community.

What really interested Li Xiangping was that Shi Daqisheng actually mentioned Fan Xiping just now, and mentioned his good friend Fan Xiping. He even said that Lao Cao's chess style was a bit similar to Fan Xiping.

When it comes to Fan Xiping, this reminds Li Xiangping of another thing:

"By the way, Brother Ding'an, since you mentioned Xiping's predecessors, I have always forgotten to ask you one thing, when you played 13 games with him in Zhang's house in Pinghu, who won and who lost in the end?"

Li Xiangping is talking about the famous "Danghu Ten Rounds" in ancient chess, "Danghu Ten Rounds" is actually not only ten games, and even the so-called "Danghu Ten Rounds" that we can see now may not be the real "Danghu Ten Rounds".

Because up to now, Fan Shi and his two surviving chess games are only 11 games, and according to the literature, the two of them have played at least twice in the competition of more than ten chess levels, once when they were in their 20s in the capital, and the other time was when Fan Xiping was 31 years old, Shi Xiangxia was 30 years old in Pinghu Zhang's 13 games.

In modern times, everyone just refers to the 11 chess games that the two of them still have in existence as "Danghu Ten Games".

Many people in modern times mistakenly think that the number of games played by ancient chess players was small, but to be honest, this is a complete misunderstanding. It's not that they don't play chess much, it's just that they don't see it in modern times. Take Fan Shi and the two as an example, the two of them are fellow villagers, they are brothers, their level is about the same, their experience is about the same, and their fame is about the same, so the number of games between these two people, will we only see 11 games?

Gu Dali and Lee Sedol, who were known as "lifelong rivals" in later generations, only had more than 40 official games, and the official games between Fan Shi and the two were only more than that.

"This ...... Xiangping Xiaoyou, can you not say it? ”

Li Xiangping said with a smile: "Brother Ding'an is going to be timid, I think that Xiping's predecessors have been ancient for hundreds of years now, even if you have any agreement with him back then, but if you only tell me one person, I guess Xiping's predecessors won't blame you, right?" ”

Lao Shi was silent for a while, and then finally spoke:

"In the Pinghu Zhang family, in the end, Ding'an won one more game."

Li Xiangping listened and nodded, this is also the same as the result of modern research.

Of course, this evidence is not as originally said in the Go world: it is because of the 11 chess games handed down by Fan Shi, of which Fan Xiping played 6 games first (the ancient chess played white first), and Shi Xiangxia held white first 5 games.

However, this inference is actually unreliable, as mentioned earlier, the 11 chess games of the two people may not even be under the lake, so this inference just now is obviously not convincing.

According to the local chronicles and the records of the descendants of the Pinghu Zhang family, the reason why Fan Shi and the others were invited by the Pinghu Zhang family to play chess there was only because the Pinghu Zhang family (the local ancient tyrant) wanted to invite a Go teacher.

In modern terms, the two chess masters were just applying for the job at that time, and their chess game was equivalent to the application exam, but they didn't expect that they would play the famous "Danghu Ten Games" in this application exam.

Although in various literatures, it can only be confirmed that the two of them did play 13 sets, but there is no mention of the final victory or defeat of this series. However, judging from the whereabouts of Fan Shi and the others, after the end of the "Danghu Ten Games", the person who stayed in Zhang's family to teach chess was precisely Shi Da Chess Saint.

Therefore, from this point of view, many people think that the final winner of "Danghu Ten Rounds" should be Shi Xiangxia.

And today, Li Xiangping finally got the answer from Shi Daqisheng himself, which can be regarded as solving a mystery in his heart.

Of course, at this moment, what Li Xiangping cares about most is of course not the mystery of the victory or defeat of the ten rounds of Danghu, but tomorrow's game:

"Brother Ding'an, you just said that this opponent is like Xiping's predecessor tomorrow, and that Xiping's predecessor was defeated by you, so isn't your meaning ......?"

Lao Shi pretended to be a model with a face: "Xiangping Xiaoyou Hugh is nonsense, I have always respected Brother Xiping, and I am not sure that I will win against him." ”

Li Xiangping haha: "Haha understand, you see that you only say "there is no certainty of victory", I'm afraid that in Brother Ding'an's mind, you have never thought of the word failure, right?" Okay, Brother Ding'an, since you said that you know tomorrow's opponent very well, then let's not talk about chess today, let's rest early and take care of tomorrow's battle. ”

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, although the official game did not start until 10 o'clock in the morning, Li Xiangping still came to the Chinese Chess Academy early, and at 10 o'clock, Li Xiangping had already found his place to sit down, and he was sitting in danger waiting for Lao Cao to come.

At 10 o'clock and 10 minutes, the South Korean delegation left the hotel with a smile and a smile, and the participating chess players went to the venue of the competition. It was none other than Lao Cao who walked with him, it was precisely Liu Chonghe, the "No. 1 attacker in the world".

"Cao Guoshou, your opponent today is a bit special, you must know that I have lost to him in 3 sets in a row before."

"Oh?"

Lao Cao laughed: "After you won the "LG Cup", did you say that you would like to thank this person? Then I really have to learn a good lesson today. ”

Liu Chonghe smiled and stopped talking, he knew that people like Lao Cao had great experience in actual combat, and when he reached his level, it was basically difficult to have mood swings, and he would neither underestimate the opponent because the opponent was an amateur chess player, nor would he be frightened because the opponent had any glorious deeds. In short, Liu Chonghe believes that he only needs to finish this sentence.

At 10 o'clock and 5 minutes, Lao Cao entered the game room, and he and Li Xiangping saluted each other.

10 points difference of 2 points, the referee announced the start of the game, Lao Cao grabbed a large number of chess pieces for Li Xiangping to guess first, through guessing first, Li Xiangping guessed the black chess in this game. It's just that this is not good news, because at the beginning of this tournament, black chess is 6 and a half mesh.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the game officially began. Because Lao Shi said that yesterday, so in today's game of chess, Li Xiangping is a complete bystander, starting from the first move, all the moves are made by Shi Da Chess Saint himself.

According to Lao Shi's instructions, he quickly dropped the first few moves, and Li Xiangping was happy.

"China Stream"!

Lao Shi actually chose the "Chinese stream" to start.

Thinking of the game with Jin Chenglong in the seventh section, that game of chess was also completely decided by Lao Shi, but at that time, Lao Shi chose the "Diagonal Star" that he was more familiar with.

Could it be that in just over this month, Shi Da Chess Sage thinks that he can use the modern layout well?

The game slowly unfolded, and Li Xiangping also began to look forward to the performance of Shi Da Qisheng.