After entering August, as if he wanted to pay off the debts in the first half of the year, Li Xiangping's games this month suddenly increased.

There are a total of 5 rounds of armor in this month.

The schedule for the semi-finals of the "Chunlan Cup" has finally been finalized, and the competition will be held at the end of this month.

In addition, the group stage of the "Samsung Cup" and the first two rounds of the "LC Cup" are all rushing to start this month. Among them, the "Samsung Cup" is slightly earlier and will start in the first half of this month, and the "LG Cup" will be a little later and will not start until the second half of the month.

Of course, compared with the above competitions, the biggest highlight of this month, and the most important game for Li Xiangping, is of course the "Fujitsu Cup" final that was played in Tokyo on the first weekend of August.

This is not the first game that Li Xiangping participated in in August, on the day of the founding of the army, Li Xiangping played a round of Weijia, this is the 7th round of this year's Weijia, Li Xiangping faced Ding Wei, the main player of the Yunnan Provincial Team, in the Chinese Chess Academy.

As a result, in this "Jueyi" VS "Dragon Flying Tiger" game, Li Xiangping played well, and he finally won in the middle game, so that he achieved 5 consecutive victories in the Weijia arena, creating a personal record for the longest winning streak in the Weijia arena.

After winning the game, Li Xiangping seemed to be in a very good mood, and had a long review with his opponent, and kept talking there during the review, bragging to other chess players, at this time Ma Xiaofei came over:

"Xiangping, you prepare, I will accompany you to Japan to compete this time."

Li Xiangping, who was in a good mood, even joked about Ma Xiao: "Good team leader Ma.... Alas, why is this call so awkward, forget it, I'll still call you Mr. Ma. ”

That's right, not long ago, Ma Xiaofei was just appointed as the head of the coaching staff of the national Go team, which is actually a nondescript position, and its real title should actually be "head coach of the national Go team".

It's just that the "head coach" thing, that has a certain administrative level, and the level is not low, referring to the situation of other sports, this position must at least be a cadre at or above the director level or deputy director.

Obviously, according to the administrative level of the Chinese Chess Academy itself, it does not have the power to appoint such high-level cadres, and this must be appointed by the General Administration of Sports.

This is the case with Ma Xiaofei now, his appointment was not approved above, so Wang Lunan and they had no choice but to let him hang the title of "head of the coaching staff" first. Well, to put it bluntly, this is actually a "temporary worker".

In real history, Ma Xiaofei, a "temporary worker", worked for several years, but unfortunately he failed to become a regular in the end, and the head coach's hat was snatched away by his little fellow Yutou. Li Xiangping remembered that in his previous life, the Go world had been forced for a long time because of this matter, from the vast number of people who ate melons to the two parties, and they all ended up in person, most of which were unfair for Ma Xiaofei.

But after so many years, when Li Xiangping looks back at this matter again, he thinks that Ma Xiaofei has nothing to complain about. It is true that he has more championships than Yu Tou, and his future status in the history of Go will definitely be higher than Yu Tou, but as a manager, especially as a manager in a domestic system, then to be honest, if Li Xiangping is a superior leader, then even like him, he will not choose a person like Ma Xiao who is lazy by nature.

It's just that Ma Xiao is lazy and lazy, and now he is a new official who has just taken office, and that is the time when he is most motivated. Li Xiangping remembers that in real history, Ma Xiaofei also did several practical things during his tenure as the head of the coaching staff.

This first fact, that is, the implementation of his "Mars points", this "Mars points" has nothing to say, can be regarded as a supplement to the grading system, so that the domestic selection system tends to be more reasonable.

This second fact, that is, during Ma Xiaofei's coming to power, he organized the masters of the national team to carry out targeted special research on "South Korea's Erli".

So for Li Xiangping, of course he has no interest in what "Mars points", anyway, in his opinion, no matter how this point changes, it is impossible to deprive himself of his exemption qualifications, if he still has to participate in various qualifiers, then this point system is not more reasonable, but a regression.

Therefore, he is more concerned about the latter thing now, because he has not been in the capital for a while, and he doesn't know if the national team has carried out a special study on South Korea's Erli.

When he opened his mouth to ask, he found that there was really none, and Ma Xiaofei even asked him very strangely:

"No, why are you studying them? Who has time to watch their games now? You go to the training room to see by yourself, in addition to game training, the score must be based on playing your chess scores, not to mention your official games, even the chess you play on the Internet, now there are people who specialize in dismantling it. ”

Li Xiangping's eyes widened: "Really? ”

Ma Xiaofei said: "Isn't it steamed, is it still boiled?" So I'm telling you Xiangping, you can't take it lightly for me this time, since the domestic chess players are like this, then those Japanese and Korean chess players are naturally like this, every move and style you play now is being analyzed under the microscope..... Okay, don't say it, don't say it, in short, you must not your tail now. ”

Li Xiang said in his heart that of course, at least in the face of the next game of chess, I definitely didn't my tail, isn't this afraid to make you laugh when I say it, I also made fun of me for suffering from pre-game anxiety.

There is not much to say, on the second day, Li Xiangping boarded a flight to Tokyo. After all, it was the final again, so in addition to Ma Xiaofei, the head of the delegation, Wang Yi, the director of the Foreign Affairs Department, and a large group of accompanying reporters such as reporter Zhang Da, from reporters from the imperial court station to website reporters, a large group of people rushed to Tokyo.

There's nothing to say about it in Tokyo, after all, in recent years, Japanese players have become the norm to miss finals, and the hosts seem to have become more accustomed to it, so they can do whatever they want, anyway, there will be procedures that should be there, and they will not add anything that shouldn't.

In the "Eve Festival", Li Xiangping mainly paid attention to the South Korean delegation, and he found that compared with the Chinese side, the South Korean delegation was a little shabby this time, except that the number of reporters was obviously much smaller, as for the head of the South Korean delegation------

Li Xiangping thought for a long time before remembering: This seems to be Lee Sangxun's fourth section, that is, Lee Sedol's eldest brother.

After participating in the "Eve Festival" on a routine basis, Li Xiangping went back to the hotel early to rest and recharge his energy to prepare for the second day of the competition. On the second day, Li Xiangping, as usual, refused to be accompanied by everyone and went to the arena alone.

"Hehe, Xiangping Xiaoyou, how do you feel this time?"

"What? Feel? Haha Ding'an, don't you see, I'm feeling very good now, just look at it, look at how I beat him all over the ground today......"

After a few jokes with his own plug-in, Li Xiangping walked into the finals. Of course, he is not a rookie now, but he is a person who has experienced so many big scenes, so bragging is bragging, and he will naturally adjust the adjustments that should be made.

At 9:55, Lee Sedol stepped on the point and walked into the arena on time, the two did not communicate much, just sat face to face, at 9:58, the referee walked in, Li Xiangping took a look, this time the host actually chose Lao Zhao Zhao Zhixun as the referee.

Under the auspices of Lao Zhao, the two players guessed first, Li Shishi grabbed a large handful of chess pieces and put them in his hand, and Li Xiangping put a chess piece on the chessboard, and Lao Zhao counted it, Xiao Li just grabbed a total of 18 chess pieces, so Li Xiangping guessed wrong, this game of chess is Xiao Li holding black.

At 10 o'clock in the morning Tokyo time, Lao Zhao officially announced the start of the game, in the reporter's flash, Xiao Li neither pretended to slow down, nor did he deliberately "fall fast" or anything, he used a very normal speed to fall "star, small eye".

Since it is Zhibai, Li Xiangping also responds to all changes with the same, and he fell down at the same normal speed "Erlian Star", which is also the most commonly used method when he is white, not only him, Lao Shi also likes this routine the most when he is white.

The fifth move is actually a point of divergence, because since the emergence of Li Xiangping, "point three three" and other play methods have also become one of the main routines in today's chess world, and have become common in professional games.

It's just that after Xiao Li hesitated a little, he still chose the "three-six hanging corner-----

This is one of the most mainstream ways for human Go to deal with "star position" before the popularity of "point three three".

Li Xiangping's 6th hand once again responded to all changes with the same, and he quickly took a step to "fly small".

Xiao Li's 7th hand is a bit rare, and he once again chooses a "three-six hanging corner------

In today's era, such a "double hanging angle" of the 5th and 7th hands is considered a proactive approach, reflecting a kind of mentality of the player who takes the initiative to fight.

Li Xiangping looked at Xiao Li's 7th hand for 5 seconds, and he quickly dropped the 8th hand, still a calm "Xiaofei" response.

After all, before this, Xiao Li had never opened Hu in front of Lao Shi, so according to his personality and his chess style, it is not surprising that he showed this attitude at the beginning.

Li Xiangping even thinks that this is the only way to be normal, otherwise is it still the former "Bird Island Boy"?

“...... Okay, since you want to play this speed type, then I'll play with you, but Xiao Li, Xiao Li, in my impression, this type of play doesn't seem to be what you're good at, right? You must not play in front of me......"

As soon as the game reached 10:40, and the overall situation was less than 30 moves, Li Xiangping's hand stopped.

Because in his opinion, Xiao Li seems to have really gotten rid of it, and the chess he just played is obviously unreasonable.

"How should I punish him for this move.....

Li Xiangping began to think with his cheeks back.