After the end of the "Samsung Cup" semi-finals with Xiao Li, the time can be regarded as the end of 03, on the way back from South Korea, Lao Nie suddenly said to Li Xiangping:

"Hey, Xiangping, you seem to have a lot of games to play in the next period of time, right?"

Li Xiangping smiled: "It's okay, the schedule is not particularly intensive." ”

After hearing Lao Nie open his head, many accompanying reporters began to wrench their fingers and calculate Li Xiangping's next game.

The day of returning home is November 26th, and two days later, the second phase of this year's "Nongshim Cup" competition will be rekindled.

It's just that there are only 4 sets of games at this stage, and all the reporters present at this time actually know that Li Xiangping will definitely not play at this stage.

During the "Nongshim Cup" competition, the domestic "Celebrity Battle" Wuban Chess Challenge will also be held at the same time, by Li Xiangping VS Ma Xiaofei. However, this five-game game is divided into two phases, the first two games will be played immediately after returning this time, and the last three games will be played in late December, that is, before the final of the "Samsung Cup".

After the first 2 games of the "Celebrity Battle", it was immediately the final trilogy of the "Chunlan Cup" with Chang Hao.

After the "Chunlan Cup" finals, Li Xiangping still has the last two rounds of this year.

When this year's "Wai Jia" is closed, the next step is the "Samsung Cup" final and the "LG Cup" final, which are the most important.

In fact, after the "Samsung Cup" final, 2004 has arrived, and some games in the new season will appear immediately, such as the domestic "Tianyuan War", but until now, Li Xiangping has still not decided whether to participate in these competitions.

In addition, after the "LG Cup" final, it will be the third stage of the "Nongshim Cup", so at this stage, unless there is a particularly extreme situation, Li Xiangping will definitely need to play.

The above are the main competitions that Li Xiangping needs to participate in in the next period of time.

Strictly speaking, these competitions are close to three months, and this kind of schedule is really not particularly intensive. However, there is no way, who makes most of these matches that Li Xiangping needs to participate in extremely eye-catching heavyweight matches?

In addition to the two sets of "Wai Jia", the "Celebrity Battle" challenge, which may be the easiest and least suspenseful, also has a gimmick of Ma Xiaofei's 13 consecutive hegemony.

Can Li Xiangping win the domestic title for the first time? And the first title is to end Ma Xiaofei's 13 consecutive hegemony? That's a big attraction anyway.

It is precisely because of this that now basically even Lao Nie will feel that Li Xiangping will have more games in the future.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the next few months, all the focus of the world chess world will actually be focused on Li Xiangping alone.

It's been a long time since this has happened in the world of Go: one player decides how exciting the whole world chess world is.

How did he perform? What can he achieve? In other words, what kind of height he can reach will directly become a new height in the history of Go.

Although he knew that he had definitely become the focus, at the beginning of this final sprint, Li Xiangping still seemed relatively relaxed. Think about it, among so many games, the first to start is the "celebrity battle" of the five-way chess challenge, considering that people and "celebrities" have been playing "happy Go" for so long, it is considered to have been out of the first line, then this game is actually the most suspenseful, and the handover of this "celebrity" title is even a bit like going through the motions.

Not only Li Xiangping thinks so, but also the outside media, not only the media opinion, but even Ma Xiaofei Jiuduan, one of the protagonists of the "celebrity war", himself also thinks so.

On the second day after Li Xiangping returned to China, the first two games of the "celebrity battle" were immediately played in the Chinese Chess Academy.

"Hehe, the merit is complete, the merit is complete! For the next game, I can only use this word to describe it, and put the title of "celebrity" in the hands of Li Xiangping, so what am I not satisfied with? This is the most satisfying result for me, and I think it may be the most satisfying result not only for me, but also for the entire Chinese Go community. ”

The origin of the "celebrity" in the Go world is habitually believed by most people to come from Japan. At that time, after he played against Oda Nobunaga, Oda Nobunaga sighed: "What a celebrity" and set up a "celebrity chess house" for him.

Since then, the "celebrity chess house" has become the leading center of Japanese Go, and the word "celebrity" has also changed from an adjective to a noun with a specific meaning, representing the supreme power and chess power. From the Edo period in Japan to the beginning of the Meiji era, celebrities were the only Kudan in the Go world, and this system was not broken until the establishment of the Nippon Chess Academy and the establishment of the "Oteai" (promotion tournament), which lasted for about 400 years.

Now the origin of all the "celebrity battles" in the Go world is basically derived from this, of course, there is nothing to say, but what many people don't know is: the word "celebrity" is really not a foreign word in Japan, before the Tang Dynasty in China, there was also the term "celebrity".

Well, in ancient China, the word "celebrity" may be a bit similar to what everyone says now, which is more powerful in a certain field, and in modern times it is called "talent", and before the Tang Dynasty in our country, it was called "celebrity", so just from this title, it is also another form of "export to domestic sales".

"I remember before I entered the section, yes, it was my first time to participate in the World Series, after passing the "Samsung Cup" qualifiers that year, Mr. Ma gave me selfless guidance, he and Mr. Nie carefully guided me for a whole month, so although Mr. Ma and I have no name of master and apprentice, but there is a reality of master and apprentice, so here I sincerely want to say to Mr. Ma: thank you,...... Balabala......"

After talking a lot of scenes outside, when Li Xiangping was alone, he said to his plug-in:

"Hehe, Brother Dingan, how is it? This event doesn't matter, and the result should be in no suspense, you haven't played an official competition in a few days, or why don't you go up and practice this time? Warm-up for the competition a week later? ”

"That's very good."

For Li Xiangping to let him play chess, of course Lao Shi would not refuse, he would basically not refuse at any time. Well, the only thing that can stop Lao Shi from playing chess may be his embroidered piano girl, and even what the embroidery girl said, Li Xiangping doesn't know if it's true or not.

On the second day, the five-game chess with Ma Xiaofei officially began, and for this gimmick full of off-court topics but not very competitive game, Li Xiangping decided to let his plug-in play.

Of course, letting Lao Shi appear this time can't be said to be completely Li Xiangping's bad taste, after all, it has been several months since Lao Shi last participated in the official competition, and Li Xiangping really wants to see how his plug-in is progressing, which is especially a highlight------

Li Xiangping noticed a few months ago: Although he and Lao Shi studied and studied dog tricks at the same time, the focus of the two seemed to be different, or their respective gains and experiences were different.

I pay more attention to chess theory, and I like to understand and recognize dog moves from the perspective of chess theory.

As for Lao Shi, he seems to emphasize the structure of the dog moves, especially the coordination of the sub-force and the matching of chess pieces, he seems to have more experience.

It is precisely because of this difference that Li Xiangping really wants to see if Lao Shi has made any progress in this regard.

It's a pity that in the first two games of Ma Xiaofei, Li Xiangping didn't see anything new. Of course, there is nothing to say about the result of the game, in the face of Ma Mingming, who has begun to play "Happy Go", Li Xiangping feels that he has not made much effort to plug in, and it is very simple to play two games in a row 2-0.

However, it may be because he didn't exert much force, these two games of chess didn't let Li Xiangping see anything new, he felt that Lao Shi behaved decently, not brilliant, and didn't even have much new ideas.

After the first two rounds of the "Celebrity War", the next step is the "Chunlan Cup" final with Chang Hao, and the final is still at the headquarters of Chunlan Company, so after the first two rounds of the "Celebrity War", Li Xiangping immediately set off with Chang Hao and others to participate in the second World Series final this year.

This competition made Li Xiangping see a little novelty.

In the first game of this trilogy, Li Xiangping guessed the black chess.

And the first move that Lao Shi instructed him to make Li Xiangping interested.

Even after Lao Shi instructed him to fall into the house, he couldn't help but joke with himself:

"Haha, Brother Ding'an, are you sure about this? That's not good, how do I feel like you're a little inflated right now? ”

In fact, Lao Shi didn't do anything particularly out of the ordinary, at the beginning of today's game, Shi Da Qisheng suddenly gave up his "star position" that had not changed for thousands of years, just to let Li Xiangping help him next "out of the eye".

That's right, this game of chess Shi Daqi Saint started "outside the eyes".

This is a starting move that has never been seen in the dog's chess game.

Not only that, but because in the Middle Ages, due to the existence of the "seat", it is actually impossible for him to play "outside the eyes" in the official match game played by Lao Shi.

It's just that in the ancient chess, "outside the eyes" can also be seen everywhere, especially in the handicap chess played by Lao Shi-----

Let more than 4 don't count, if it's let 2 or let 3,

Then the starting hand is "out of the eye", which is almost the standard configuration of the handicap strategy in ancient chess.

It is precisely because of this that I can understand why Li Xiangping joked with Lao Shi.

After making jokes, Li Xiangping cheered up, he wanted to see what he could show in such a start.