After the last round of the tournament in July, Li Xiangping went to Tokyo, Japan non-stop to participate in the final of this year's "Fujitsu Cup" after a short rest in Shencheng.

Since it is already in the final stage, and the Chinese Go world in this year, the pair of champions is extremely hungry, so the lineup for Tokyo this time is also relatively luxurious.

Wang Lunan, President of the Chess Academy, specially came from Beijing to Shencheng to meet Li Xiangping, and he will serve as the head of the Chinese delegation, and President Wang will accompany him to Ma Xiaofei Jiuduan and Wang Yi Wuduan.

It is not surprising to say that Wang Yi Wuduan came, after all, he is now the director of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Chess Academy, but when Li Xiangping saw Ma Xiaofei, he was a little surprised, Ma Xiaofei, who generally exists in the Go world, when did he become interested in this kind of vulgar hand?

However, Li Xiangping was quickly relieved when he thought about it, in real history, it probably won't take long for Ma Xiaofei to serve as the head of the coaching staff of the national Go team, which shows that he is ready for transformation from now on.

In addition to the official members of the delegation, the media lineup that went to Tokyo to cover the competition this time was also unprecedentedly large, including reporter Zhang Da from the "Go World" and reporter Xie from the "Sports Weekly", the largest sports paper media in China this year.

In addition, Li Xiangping even saw several domestic local media reporters, such as reporter Jia of the "West China Daily" and reporter Guo of the "Beijing News".

Among these reporters, the most interesting for Li Xiangping is the reporter Guo of the "Beijing News", because reporter Guo is not only a woman, but now she is still a young and beautiful girl, so she is particularly abrupt among a group of big men.

In addition to the gender factor, Reporter Guo also has a special feature, that is, compared with other Go reporters, Reporter Guo actually doesn't know chess at all. For example, Zhang Da reporter Lao Xie Lao Jia and others, these people are either senior chess fans, or they are simply well-known amateur players in China.

And reporter Guo is different from these people, in addition to being a Go reporter, she doesn't know how to play Go at all, and it may be only after the course of the Go reporter that she knows a little bit about it.

Not to mention, it may be precisely because of Reporter Guo's identity as a "pseudo-chess fan", coupled with the fact that she is still a woman, which makes her perspective unique, and she has written a lot of interesting Go reports in her previous life.

The day of the expedition soon came, just after the Army Day, Li Xiangping, accompanied by a large group of people, went to Tokyo, preparing to compete with Liu Chonghe Jiudan for this year's "Fujitsu Cup" championship.

However, although there were a large number of people accompanying him, Li Xiangping was not disturbed before the game, after all, Go is different from other sports, and the Go game pays attention to "tranquility", and those who can be Go reporters certainly know this, so during the trip, Li Xiangping let alone be interviewed, and others chatted with him softly, for fear of affecting this "once-in-a-century" genius boy in the Chinese chess world.

Li Xiangping himself was unaware of this.

Because at this time, he was still immersed in the excitement of defeating Chang Hao. After all, compared to the upcoming "Fujitsu Cup" final, this victory means something completely different to him personally.

To say that before this, Li Xiangping has not won domestic first-class players, such as winning Kong Erjie and Ding Wei in last year's national individual competition, and in this year's Weijia competition, he also won 5 games of chess, and won 5 games of chess in the main position.

But how to say it? Li Xiangping's previous victories were basically a winning chess mode, and every victory basically relied on reversal, sneak attack, or relying on the opponent's mistakes.

All in all, Li Xiangping's previous victories have been vague and unclear almost every time.

However, winning Chang Hao this time is different, it is really completely different from before!

This victory, of course, has the credit of the ancient formula of "Iron Heavy Pass", and also the credit of Lao Shi's halfway prompt, but no matter how you say it, this is also a victory with an extremely clear vein.

The "iron heavy pass" in front, that is Li Xiangping's own preparation before the game, although Lao Shi later made a prompt, but he did not point out the specific moves, the next step to open the situation of the good hand, that is also Li Xiangping himself came up with, so in Li Xiangping's view, this is completely a clear win game.

can completely defeat the first person in the domestic rating today, so such a victory, of course, there is enough reason to make Li Xiangping excited. How excited was he? was so excited that he had already boarded the flight to Tokyo, and seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Li Xiangping chattered with his plug-in.

"Hehe, Brother Ding'an, let me ask you, I am a good hand in the middle of the game to open the situation, can you think of this hand when you watch the battle?"

"Nope."

"None? Oh, Brother Ding'an is modest, I want you to be a chess saint, how could you not think of such a simple move? ”

"Hehe, this move is not simple, I have said before, Xiangping Xiaoyou is really a talented person, this hand is proof, Ding'an to tell the truth, I really didn't notice this move when I watched the game."

"Haha, really? Then Brother Ding'an, let me ask you again, what do you think of my previous "iron pass"? ”

"I'm not familiar with the law under the "Iron Heavy Pass", Xiangping Xiaoyou is amazing, and he can find such a cold trick to win, Ding'an admires."

"Haha and modest, Brother Ding'an is modest again, isn't this move a classic way of playing chess in ancient China? How could I not know the high chess of Brother Ding'an. ”

"At this time and that time, I will tell you, the law of "iron heavy pass" was only popular in the Ming Dynasty in the past, and it was not common in the Qing Dynasty, and few people adopted it, so it was not familiar with it. ”

"Oh, why is this method rarely adopted by you in the Qing Dynasty."

"Hehe, I don't know if Xiangping Xiaoyou has ever read the "Dragon Shi Quantu" written by that Yuetian's predecessor? ”

"I've read this Yuetian's predecessor's "Yi Kuo", but I haven't seen the "Dragon Shi Quantu" you said, and it's estimated that it's lost now, right, does this book have anything to do with the "Iron Heavy"? ”

Yuetian's predecessors have summed up the experience of many famous national players, and believe that there are major flaws in the method of "Iron Heavy Pass", and there are quite a few tricks in it that are not complete, or lack of rigor, or not refined enough. ”

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The views of Mr. Yuetian and many predecessors of famous national players are described in detail in the "Longshi Quantu", so after I arrived in the Qing Dynasty, no one has adopted this method. ”

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Li Xiangping was completely speechless at this time, who would have thought that he would be in this awesome coaxing for a long time, and he would actually be a formula that was eliminated by ancient chess, but why did he use a formula that was eliminated by ancient chess, and he could still defeat a modern master at the level of Chang Hao?

Li Xiangping blushed and felt embarrassed, so much so that he was embarrassed to continue to discuss technical issues with Lao Shi now:

"Hehe, Brother Ding'an forgot to ask you, when I was in the game that day, why did you suddenly think of a word prompt, by the way, a word prompt like yours, so this game of chess is you or me? If this happens again in the future, will it be a waste of the 15 games per year limit that the embroidery girl said? ”

Lao Shi smiled slightly, he didn't explain why he made a prompt, but just answered Li Xiangping's second question: "I don't think I will do this, right?" After all, I just reminded Xiangping Xiaoyou at the time, and I didn't say any specific tricks, besides, even if I did it? This is the last game of the year, and it hasn't exceeded the 15-round limit in a year. ”

"I'm not talking about now, I'm asking in the future, Brother Ding'an, and I'll ask you, if you encounter the same situation in the future, will it be yours or mine?"

"This"

"What is this, doesn't Brother Ding'an himself know? By the way, you don't even have to ask such a question, you have to ask your embroidered piano girl, right? ”

"This and this"

Lao Shi looked up and down as if he was a little embarrassed by Li Xiangping's words, and he retreated and said:

"Xiangping Xiaoyou, don't make fun of me, okay, I won't tell you, Ding'an still has to think about how to play a game of chess."

"Hey, hey."

Li Xiangping listened to it: "That's okay, you think slowly, you think slowly." ”

To be honest, compared to the previous victory against Chang Hao, Li Xiangping really didn't pay too much attention to the next game of chess.

Of course, although Li Xiangping doesn't pay much attention to this game of chess, it can't be said that he doesn't pay attention to it, after all, no matter how you say it, it's a world championship battle, and Li Xiangping is not so nervous that he doesn't even pay attention to the world championship.

His so-called lack of attention is actually just a kind of mental relaxation, more precisely, it is Li Xiangping's trust in his plug-in, which can make him so relaxed.

Let's not say that the opponent this time is Liu Chonghe Jiuduan, although Liu Jiuduan can be regarded as a super-first-class in this year, but Lao Shi has won all of his victories before, 2 official games, 3 games of online chess, Lao Shi won all of them without exception. Such a one-sided record, coupled with Lao Shi's equally one-sided record against other Korean masters, has made Li Xiangping now earn the nickname of "Hallyu Buster", and in this case, this certainly makes Li Xiangping qualified to relax.

To say that the only thing worth paying attention to now, Li Xiangping believes that it is Liu Jiuduan's personal characteristics, historically, this person is a "big competition", "assassin" player, the more major the game he plays, the more critical the time he has more means, well, from this point of view, he is very similar to our country's later "little leopard" chess player Tang Weixing Tang Fat.

Considering that the final of the "Fujitsu Cup" is a single-game victory, then this characteristic of the opponent, Li Xiangping believes that it is necessary to pay enough attention.

However, Li Xiangping still thinks that the problem is not big, after all, Liu Jiuduan's characteristic, Li Xiangping has already explained to himself, he told Lao Shi about this characteristic of Da Liu before Lao Shi fought with Da Liu for the first time.

And Li Xiangping personally believes that with the "profound and rigorous" characteristics of Shi Da Chess Sage, it may be just to restrain this "assassin type", and it is based on this consideration that Li Xiangping is full of confidence in the next game.

So what will this game look like?

Tokyo was fast approaching, and on the first weekend of August 2002, Li Xiangping appeared on the stage of the World Series finals for the second time.