In fact, from Li Xiangping's personal point of view: he thinks that the handicap in Go, or the handicap technique of Go, is by no means the right way to go!

The level of a person's chess handicap is actually two different things from the level of his absolute strength and the true level of his absolute strength.

A player who is good at handicap chess may not be at a very high level, and correspondingly, a person who is not good at playing handicap cannot be considered to be at a bad level.

Regarding this, Li Xiangping actually got his understanding from ancient chess.

For example, up to now, Li Xiangping thinks that he is about the same level as his plug-in, even if he may be a little worse in some places, but he is already a chess player of the same level.

However, if you compare the handicap chess skills of the two, they are still far behind Lao Shi.

The gap between the two of them in chess kung fu may be as big as the current Yan Qing and his current level.

And not only Shi Da Chess Sage, most of the chess players from the Middle Chess system, their handicap chess kung fu is generally higher than their pair chess level.

Li Xiangping remembered that in his previous life, Li Da Tuhao once told him a few real examples:

In the 80s of the last century, there were still the last group of old chess players from the ancient chess system in China, and the level of these old chess players was needless to say, among them, the top leaders were swept by the old lady Ito Tomoe, so the level is definitely not high.

It was still the beginning of liberation when it was swept by Ito Tomoe, and in the 80s, those old chess players were older, and after that incident, most of the old-timers were disheartened, and many people switched to other careers, so according to the standards of modern Go, it is said that these old chess players no longer have the modern professional level, at most they are strong 5 to 6 weak industry level, so it should not be demeaning to say these old-timers.

However, it is such a group of veteran chess players, although their level of chess is no longer good, but their chess kung fu is still extremely high, so high that it is surprising and terrifying.

Li Da Tuhao back then, he said that he had met such an old-timer.

In the 80s, Li Datuhao was only in his 20s, not long after graduating from college, and he was in the stage of being most obsessed with Go due to the influence of the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament that year.

Li Da Tuhao is not only obsessed with Go, but his talent is actually quite good, by the mid-to-late 80s-------

At that time, there was no Internet, but according to Li Datuhao's own bragging, he participated in some amateur competitions held in Beijing at that time, and he often achieved some good rankings, and he was at the level of 4 to 5 in the weak industry.

So Li Da Tuhao was a little floating at that time, he thought that with his level back then, no one should be able to let him have 2 sons except for professional chess players and a few perverted Ye 6.

It's a pity that he was quickly taught to be a man.

Once through a friend's introduction, he met an old chess player from the ancient chess system, that is, Zhang Futian's old-timer in Beijing.

Mr. Zhang also played chess with Mrs. Tomoe Ito a few decades ago, but at the beginning of liberation, he was still very young and was regarded as the last chess player trained by the ancient chess system in China.

And at that time, Mr. Zhang's predecessors had long since stopped playing chess, he burned boilers in a certain unit in the capital, and he was a serious worker.

According to Li Datuhao's own recollections, he said that when he first met the boiler worker Zhang, he was very disapproving, thinking that he had learned so many "more advanced Go concepts" that he should not be worse than the old man.

It's a pity that the result of the fight between the two once made Li Da Tuhao doubt his life: he was directly beaten by the old-timers to let 3 sons------ let 2 sons not win a game, and even lost a game of 4 backgammon.

This incident once made Li Da Tuhao puzzled, because back then, he had already played against many professional chess players in China, even if the top professional chess players in China at that time, at most he was only allowed 3 or 4, and as long as he put 4, Li Da Tuhao basically won more and lost less.

Li Datuhao was still very conscious at that time, after the lessons of Zhang's predecessors, he once thought that his level was not good, and when he was instructed by professional chess players before, everyone else was being polite to him, and they may be letting himself.

Later he found out that it was not.

After all, after interacting with professional chess players a lot, what attitude others use to play chess with them, and the level of industry 3 or above can be felt on the chessboard.

And Li Da Tuhao later observed, he observed Zhang's predecessors and other people, and he found that the old man's handicap chess kung fu was indeed extraordinary-------

When encountering chess players of the same level as him, such as Sun Tianwang, an amateur in Beijing, Mr. Zhang is basically no longer an opponent.

But as long as the level is slightly worse than him, even if it seems to be only a little worse, (for example, like Li Datuhao himself, he often interacted with the top amateur masters in the capital back then, but even if he played color chess, Sun Tianwang couldn't let him have 2 sons), but when a chess player of his level came to Mr. Zhang, almost everyone had to be let more than 2 pieces.

For this phenomenon, Li Da Tuhao was puzzled.

Later, after he told Li Xiangping about this, Li Xiangping didn't understand it at first.

It's just that when Li Xiangping crossed later, and waited until the ancient chess Shi Da chess saint became his plug-in, especially when he had a deeper understanding of the rise and fall of the ancient chess, he gradually understood a little:

The last group of old-timers in medieval chess, the reason why their handicap chess kung fu is so good is completely because of the environment of the old society, or simply to say, they are actually forced by life.

Take another second-hand chess player, Liu Yunfeng, as an example.

This old gentleman is a relatively well-known chess player after Zhou Xiaosong, the last national player of ancient chess, and he trained Wang Yunfeng and others, so he can be regarded as the last successor of ancient chess.

It's a pity that the level of the latter is really average, not only did not reach the level of the "national player" or "famous player" of ancient chess, but even the "second-hand" was very reluctant.

Mr. Liu Yunfeng is like this, and he is already the best chess player in the late Qing Dynasty.

And according to some historical records, people at that time thought that Mr. Liu Yunfeng was extremely smart, he not only played Go well, but also learned other things quickly, whether it was playing and singing, singing and singing, or even cockfighting and walking dogs, he was almost proficient in everything.

When you see such a description, is this describing a helper? The kind of helper of an old society?

That's right, Mr. Liu Yunfeng is indeed a helper of the old society.

And his identity as a helper is almost a portrayal of the life of all chess players in that era.

Because if they didn't, there was little way to survive in those days.

And the second-hand chess players trained in this environment, everyone should be able to understand why their handicap chess skills are so good.

Because in an environment like theirs, if you only train the pair and not the handicap, it will definitely not work, and even from the perspective of survival, the skill of the game is more important than the skill of the game-------

Because the skill of pair chess is used to deal with players of the same level, in the late Qing Dynasty, if only pair chess is played, then almost all chess players will starve to death.

It is precisely because of this that in the era of Mr. Liu Yunfeng, all chess players must live like him and survive like him.

To study Go, they can only study the very confusing handicap skills, and this alone is not enough, they also have to learn many other helper skills.

This is one of the reasons why the chess of the Middle Years slowly weakened later.

Even a very critical main reason!

Because no matter from which point of view, some handicap tactics or skills in Go, the most important thing is the confusion of these skills, followed by the wonderfulness, because only in this way can we confuse some rich dignitaries and nobles, and let this sport continue to exist.

And since we want to pay attention to confusion and simply pursue excitement, it is natural to ignore the intrinsic chess theory of Go, so that over time, the real level will naturally not be able to improve, and there will even be a great degree of decline.

Now I have been messing with Shi Daqisheng for so long, so Li Xiangping still understands this reason.

And now he knows that the chess method is not the right way to chess, and after more training in this kind of chess, it may even produce some degree of harm.

But there was no way, everything was for the future "dog fighting", so knowing that this kind of training might be a bit harmful, he and Lao Shi still decided to give it a try.

Because at this stage, both Li Xiangping and Lao Shi know very well that their chess skills have progressed to the current level of the two, and it is really difficult to go further.

It's like running 100 meters in track and field, a non-professional athlete usually runs 13 seconds and 12 seconds, maybe with a little professional training, it is not difficult to run more than 12 seconds.

If you have a certain amount of talent and are a sprinter, running under 11 seconds is a basic requirement.

If you can run under 10 seconds on a baseline of 10 seconds, you can consider yourself a good sprinter and you have the strength to win a medal in the World Series.

If you can't even beat the 10-second mark, you're still an athlete.

The higher you go, the more difficult it becomes, and if you want to achieve a 9.6 seconds like Bogut, it doesn't just depend on training, it also requires him to have that kind of talent.

There is no doubt that the current Li Xiangping, he is now the kind of player who is less than 10 seconds all year round.

He's even a player of Bogut's level!

It's a pity that his level is still not enough in front of the dog.

Because the dog's level has reached at least 9.5 seconds.

They're even faster!

In this case, Li Xiangping knows that conventional methods are useless, and if he wants to defeat dogs, he must use some unconventional methods.

Go's handicap strategy should be regarded as an unconventional method, an unconventional method that can hurt the body.

However, for the sake of dog fighting, Li Xiangping couldn't take care of all this.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year in 2005, Li Xiangping happily registered two "mastery guide" accounts, ready to start a new cultivation process.

However, what he didn't expect was that as soon as his new vest appeared, he was immediately boycotted by all online chess friends:

"Where did the imposter come from? Get the hell out of here! ”

"Yes, yes, report and report, what about the network administrator, today someone openly beat the name of the mastery boss, we want to report and block him!"

Li Xiangping looked confused at that time, he said in his heart that the gasoline in this year, is the anger already so big? A "mastery director" is not yet acceptable.

Before Li Xiangping came back to his senses, the network manager of "Yicheng Network" really appeared, and he really banned him without saying a word.

Li Xiangping was a little dumbfounded at that time.