The time came in late July, and because he was going to Japan again to participate in the "Fujitsu Cup" finals, on this day, Li Xiangping came to the Chinese Chess Academy to prepare for some relevant procedures for going abroad.

As soon as Li Xiangping arrived on the first floor of the chess academy, he was blocked by Gu Dali:

"Ha, the mastery boss is here? Just in time, come and help. ”

"What...... What's the matter? ”

Gu Dali smiled at Li Xiangping: "There's nothing else, don't I have a game today, and I can't find a referee for a while, so I dare to ask the masterful boss to give me a face, and I will be the referee for us today." ”

"Competitions? What competition? Why do you want me to be the referee in your game......"

Li Xiangping asked, while walking towards the second floor of the chess academy with Gu Dali, and when they arrived at the largest training room on the second floor of the chess academy, Li Xiangping finally figured out what was going on.

It turns out that the competition of Gu Dali is the domestic selection competition of this year's "Nongshim Cup" Three Kingdoms Tournament, and the top 16 chess players in the domestic rating score will determine 4 qualifying places through the double-elimination system. And these 4 qualifying chess players, plus Li Xiangping, who is exempted from selection, will form the lineup of the Chinese team to participate in the "Nongshim Cup" this year.

Since this is just an internal tryout, there is no prize money and no ranking game, which means that winning or losing such a match does not affect the player's rating. Therefore, this kind of game is actually a little higher than the usual training game of chess players, and the chess academy will not arrange referees specifically for this, and even the game schedule is very flexible, and the chess players can negotiate to arrange the game date, anyway, before the official start of the "Nongshim Cup", everyone can finish the game.

"Vigorously, you found no ..... Yo he, it's Xiangping, tsk I said vigorously, your kid's guts are too fat, you dare to catch the strong man of the mastery boss. ”

It was "Jigong" Zhou Heyang Jiuduan who said this, and today he was going to play a game with Gu Dali, and in addition to him, at this time, in this training room, there were Chang Hao, Yu Bin, and Shao Weigang Luo Xihe and several other chess players.

After these people saw Li Xiangping, they also gathered around to say hello, and they also followed the example of Zhou Heyang Jiuduan, laughing and teasing Gu Dali's courage is really fat, and he actually dares to catch the strong man of the dignified world champion.

Li Xiangping felt bitter in his heart, and he looked at the surrounding groups;

"Bosses, spare me, please let go, please let go, by the way, Brother Gu, when will your game start? It's according to Nongshim's rules, right, I'll find you a clock......"

And the reason why Li Xiangping was bitter in his heart, of course, was not because he was caught by Gu Dali, he was just because when he was planning the second half of the competition, he really ignored this "Nongshim Cup", this event is about to start around October to November every year, if you count this event, then Lao Shi's 15 rounds quota does not know how to distribute.

"Alas, if you really can't do it then, just apply to be the pioneer of the "Nongshim Cup", and then go up and down by yourself, anyway, you can win a game is a game, so that it will not occupy Lao Shi's quota, but now the key question: will the management agree to let yourself be a pioneer at that time......"

After all, compared with other international competitions, the situation of the "Nongshim Cup" is more special, first of all, this is a team event, and secondly, the "Nongshim Cup" is a quasi-rapid chess match that only takes one hour for each side, and because of these two reasons, Li Xiangping now has plans to give up this game.

Of course, the reason why Li Xiangping wants to give up the "Nongshim Cup" is not that he doesn't value the team competition, and Li Xiangping doesn't admit that his "collective sense of honor" is not strong, mainly because of the competition system of this ring competition, no one knows how many games of chess they have to play.

If Lao Shi is allowed to go up and down at that time, in case he makes a wave of consecutive wins, such as 5 consecutive wins or 6 consecutive wins, well, it would be good if he could help the Chinese team win the championship, but if he still couldn't help the Chinese team win the championship, then Li Xiangping would certainly be reluctant to give up those precious quotas.

Is it possible for Lao Shi to help the Chinese team win the championship? Of course, no one can say this now, but Li Xiangping personally thinks that compared with other world competitions, this "Nongshim Cup" should be the most uncertain, after all, this is a quasi-rapid chess tournament, not to mention that the rapid chess tournament has more accidents, just talking about Lao Shi's personal situation, this guy has traveled from ancient times, how can they have a clock when they played chess at that time? When an important game is held, they can light a stick of incense and use "one stick of incense" and "two sticks of incense" to time, which is already their highest specification.

It is precisely because of these two reasons that Li Xiangping gave up his plan to this competition.

Why don't you say that Li Xiangping doesn't admit that his "collective sense of honor" is not strong? He's just struggling with where he's going to play.

If Li Xiangping can serve as the pioneer of this year's "Nongshim Cup" as Li Xiangping wishes, then Li Xiangping will definitely decide to go on his own, anyway, if he can pick up a plate, he must not be able to affect the overall situation alone.

But now the question is: will the management do what they want? Li Xiangping thinks that it is really not necessarily.

After all, he was exempted from this qualification as a world champion, and even if he didn't mention this old calendar, based on his performance in the first half of this year, he won all the world competitions and has entered a world series final.

Not to mention domestic chess players, even if you look at the entire world chess world, no chess player has performed more dazzlingly in the international arena than himself. This is if Lao Shi can defeat Liu Chonghe and win the "Fujitsu Cup" championship at the beginning of next month......

Then Li Xiangping thinks: The management may really not let himself be willful, not to mention that he must let himself be the coach, but a deputy coach is the least.

This is Li Xiangping's entanglement: if he ranks himself in such an important position, will he still go up and sacrifice his ugliness himself?

"Alas! Now I can only take one step at a time, and then I will look at it again, or that sentence, the key now is to find a way to improve my strength as soon as possible, only this is the king's ......"

However, thinking of this problem, Li Xiangping felt bitter again. To say that since he knew that his unlucky plug-in had an unlucky quota limit, Li Xiangping had thought about improving his strength, he dreamed that Li Xiangping even felt that he might be more eager to improve his strength as soon as possible than anyone else.

However, after such a long time, has his strength improved? To tell the truth, Li Xiangping himself has no bottom at all.

Although Shi Da Qisheng attacked majestically from all sides, Li Xiangping himself was not idle, he followed Lao Shi's guidance and used the method of "doing subtraction" to conduct self-training and strive to improve his strength.

As for the so-called "subtraction", Li Xiangping himself understands that it is actually training a kind of pruning ability, and trying to cut off some of the wrong views and bad habits he has developed before, so as to achieve the effect of "purifying skills".

It must be mentioned that after training with this method for a period of time, Li Xiangping himself thinks that there is still a certain effect, he thinks that compared with before, he judges the size of the official more clearly, has a more sensitive sense of chess style, and even has a deeper understanding of Go......

And then and eggs.

It's a pity that Go is very difficult to quantify, and it's not like running and high jump, which can be 0.1 seconds faster than 0.1 seconds, and can lift one centimeter is one centimeter. If you want to check whether a person's Go level has improved, there is only one way, and that is, of course, through actual combat.

People who couldn't win before can now win, which is a kind of improvement, and the opponent who used to be five or five is now you and him, which is of course an improvement.

And now Li Xiangping, he just didn't pass this review, so he himself has no bottom in his heart.

The only competition Li Xiangping is participating in now is actually only Weijia, but what is his performance in Weijia?

In March, he won one and lost three.

He continued to have one win and three losses in April.

By May, he had finally improved, with a two-win, two-loss record.

In June, because of the "high school entrance examination", he gave up all the competitions of the month.

Entering July, that is, this month, because of the busy international competitions this month, he has only played one game of chess so far, and he has lost this game of chess again, he lost to Yu Bin Jiuduan, and he was killed by others this season.

Although it is said that the opponents Li Xiangping met in the armor are all the main generals of each team, and these people are basically first-class masters in the professional front line today, it is normal for Li Xiangping to lose to anyone. However, this record of four wins and nine losses is really too miserable, which seriously destroyed Li Xiangping's self-confidence.

It's just that his self-confidence has been destroyed, and more importantly, after handing over such a bad report card, anyone with thick skin like Li Xiangping feels a little embarrassed, and he feels very sorry for people.

is not only sorry for Lao Cai and them, but more importantly, Li Xiangping feels sorry for his teammates.

To say that the strength of his current team members is not strong, but he was able to be relegated last year and stay in the armor.

But if it's because of his own joining, let the family go to Weiyi next year...... Li Xiangping felt so sorry for others----- after all, those who are familiar with the domestic Go circle know that the treatment of Weijia and Weiyi is definitely two different things, he can not care, but others can't not care. If the whole team is relegated because of their own reasons, it is similar to smashing other people's jobs.

So Li Xiangping felt that he couldn't continue like this.

Just a few days later, that is, a few days before going to Japan to participate in the "Fujitsu Cup" finals, Li Xiangping still has a game to play, his team against the Shencheng team, so it is not expected that Li Xiangping will meet the main general of the Shencheng team, Chang Hao.

After thinking about it, Li Xiangping felt that he could only ask his own plug-in for help.

"Brother Ding'an told you something."

"What's the matter with Xiangping Xiaoyou?"

"Hehe, in fact, there is nothing else, I just want to ask Brother Ding'an to help the rivers and lakes, yes, the rivers and lakes are in the emergency, the rivers and lakes are in the emergency."

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