In mid-November, this year's national individual competition also ended the final round of competition.

In a total of 13 rounds, Li Xiangping's final record is 5 wins and 8 losses, which means that after defeating Kong Erjie, he won two more victories in the next six rounds.

It should be said that his results are beyond many people's expectations, no one thought that he was a world champion, he who looked unstoppable some time ago, actually became like this in such a second-rate competition, so in the eyes of everyone, the current Li Xiangping should be sad and confused.

However, Li Xiangping knows his own family affairs, and he knows that he can be compared like this, which is actually quite difficult, and it definitely belongs to the kind of super-level performance.

Many people don't know how deep the pool of water is in professional Go, but Li Xiangping, who once stood at the door, knows it very clearly. Again, if the amateur player's Go is one-dimensional, then professional Go is at least two-dimensional, and only when it comes to Go AI is three-dimensional or four-dimensional.

In his previous life, Li Xiangping was infinitely close to the success of the fixed paragraph, which means that he once stood on the dividing line between the first and second elements, but after 18 years of abandonment, objectively speaking, Li Xiangping's real level after crossing is actually a standard one-dimensional, even if he has the experience and insight of later generations, but in the case of insufficient basic skills, such experience and insight are not available for the time being, at least at this stage is not enough for him to evolve into the second dimension.

After more than a year, some time ago, it was the old Shi Bao who fought the world, Li Xiangping was just a spectator, although he was the closest spectator, but when he was a spectator, of course, it would not be able to enhance his strength. Therefore, Li Xiangping's real effective training actually started 2 months ago.

If you can get down like this after 2 months of training, then Li Xiangping will certainly not be dissatisfied.

In addition to the overall results, there is another thing that Li Xiangping is more satisfied with, that is, in addition to defeating Kong Erjie in the 6th round, he defeated another national player Ding Wei Baduan in the penultimate round, and "Jueyi" defeated "Long Feihu", Li Xiangping was very satisfied at the time, and felt that he had finally not embarrassed Lao Shi.

And what is even more coincidental is that Kong Erjie and Ding Wei are precisely the champions and runners-up of this competition. This is not the case in real history.

In real history, this year's individual champion is indeed Kong Erjie, but the runner-up is Zhou Heyang. After Li Xiangping looked at the final points ranking, he found that the runner-up substitution this time seemed to have something to do with himself.

Because of this system to calculate the ranking, the main thing is to look at the points, and the points are divided into "big points" and "small points", the so-called "small points" are actually what everyone often calls "opponent points".

After 13 rounds of competition, Zhou Heyang and Ding Wei's "big scores" are the same, they both have a record of 11 wins and 2 losses, but what about their "small scores"?

Because Zhou Heyang won himself, he only earned 10 points on himself, which is undoubtedly a loss, and Ding Wei earned more points on others because he lost to himself, so just like that, when the two of them finally used "small points" to determine the ranking, Ding Wei narrowly won with an advantage of 2 small points.

Ding Wei was able to win the runner-up, which undoubtedly made Li Xiangping very satisfied, of course, not because he had a better relationship with Ding Wei, but mainly because in this way, his face seemed to be preserved.

For example, when he returned to the capital, if someone asked: Xiangping, you didn't compare well this time. Li Xiangping has something to say; Well, it's not a good comparison, but the champions and runners-up in this competition, they all lost to me, especially the champion Kong Erjie, his final result was 12 wins and 1 defeat, and the only set he lost was to me......

To sum up, when the game is over, Li Xiangping will certainly not be dissatisfied, he is very satisfied in his heart.

How to describe it? To paraphrase a sentence "news broadcaster": Li Xiangping has been trained, accumulated experience, and improved his confidence through this competition......

Who said that people's "news broadcasters" are all fake and empty? At least Li Xiangping thinks that if this sentence is applied to himself, it is quite in line with his current state of mind.

Therefore, in addition to Li Xiangping, he will not be dissatisfied, of course, he is even more likely to be confused. Of course, the main reason for those who are confused is that they can't see a way out, or can't find a direction. For the current Li Xiangping, the "way out" does not mention him, and Li Xiangping is still very clear about the direction he should work towards next.

There is no doubt that if you really want to make a difference in the field of Go and don't rely on plug-in bags to win the world, then strengthen basic training and consolidate your basic skills, this is the most realistic path, in fact, it is also the only way!

As for what he should do next, Li Xiangping has now found a clue. Basic training like this, training alone has little effect, and it is boring, and it is easy to lose patience, and if you play online chess training, it will simply have no effect, but during this competition, Li Xiangping thought of a way.

That is, at the beginning of the year, didn't he join the "Longyi Research Association" of Lao Nie and Ma Xiao? This organization is good, the main body of this organization is composed of some young professional chess players, Li Xiangping believes that more exchanges and more exchanges with these young chess players should be the most helpful to himself at this stage.

"Well, after returning to the capital this time, it seems that I still have to have a relationship with Lao Nie and Ma Xiao Dolala, and if they come forward to arrange some high-level training, it should be better than training alone.....

really wanted to come to something, just as Li Xiangping was thinking about what he should do next, he unexpectedly saw a person:

"Huh? Teacher Nie, why did you come to Yangcheng.....

Lao Nie has not participated in the individual competition for many years, and suddenly seeing Lao Nie at this juncture, Li Xiangping was of course surprised.

After Lao Nie saw Li Xiangping, he didn't answer Li Xiangping's question first, let alone why he came to Yangcheng, but first reprimanded him:

"Ah, it turned out to be our world champion, I said Xiangping, what's the matter with you, lost your soul? The whole game is a mess, how can you get it if you go on like this......"

In the face of such a reprimand, of course, Li Xiangping couldn't reveal his true thoughts, let alone tell Lao Nie, that he was actually very satisfied in his heart. At this time, of course, he could only make a sad face, and then stood in place obediently, quietly listening to Lao Nie's spray on himself.

Lao Nie sprayed for five or six minutes, maybe because Li Xiangping had a good attitude, of course, it was more likely that he was tired of spraying, and he finally said:

"Well, I took a look at all your chess games, and I can see that you seem to see this game as a military practice, and you have tried some new ways to play during the game, and some of the chess games are still quite innovative, but how can there be so many low-level mistakes? Some mistakes are amateurish.,It's really blocking me.,Tell me.,Ah? What the hell is going on, evil spirit? ”

What else can Li Xiangping do? Of course, he can only continue to be well-behaved, and he reviews it very painfully:

"Well, my attitude towards this competition is not right, mainly Mr. Nie, let me tell you, I seem to have a little problem when I play this competition."

"Oh, what's the problem?"

"That's it, it's ......" At this time, Li Xiangping looked at Lao Nie, showing an expression of "you should understand", and then deliberately stammered:

"That's it...... It's just that since I won that championship in the Samsung Cup, I'm playing chess now, and it's like ...... I can't seem to calm down......"

"Hey! I know your situation very well, isn't it that young people start to flutter after they have achieved a little success? ”

Lao Nie waved his hand, and he really had an expression of "I understand you very well". Li Xiangping acted here, and he was not ready to continue to listen to Lao Nie's lessons, so he said that he wanted to go to the "Longyi Research Association" to strengthen training, and at the same time asked Lao Nie to help arrange training for himself.

Lao Nie is very satisfied, look at this child, how sensible, how well-behaved, how good his attitude is towards himself, and more importantly, he has a clear understanding of his own problems, this definitely belongs to the kind of person who can be saved, and it is not in vain that he has spent a lot of words. In this case, he must help with the things he proposed.

So Lao Nie slapped his chest loudly:

"Okay, since you are aware of your problem, then there is no problem with this matter, when you return to the capital, I will discuss it with Ma Xiao and see how to get a training plan for you."

Li Xiangping was overjoyed when he heard it, and he thanked Lao Nie repeatedly, but unlike his previous acting, his thanks this time were sincere.

After talking to Lao Nie about business, Li Xiangping asked Lao Nie again why he came to Yangcheng this time.

"Hey, nothing else, just coming to an event."

"Activity?"

"Well, to be exact, a game of chess."

"Playing chess?"

"That's right, it's a game of chess." Speaking of this, Lao Nie smiled:

"But this time, I'm not here to play Go, isn't this time the two individual matches of Go and Xiangqi together, so after some media matchmaking, let me play a game of chess with Xu Teda, the "Xu Xian" in the chess world. ”

Hearing Lao Nie say this, Li Xiangping showed a strange expression. Not for anything else, because this game of cross-border exchange chess also happened in real history, and it is also very famous.

And the reason why this game of chess is famous is that the way this game of chess is played is relatively special, it is "Xu Xian" Xu Te Da let Lao Nie 9 sons.

Go makes 9 pieces easy to understand, how to make 9 pieces in chess? It was "Xu Xian" Xu Te who took out the 5 soldiers, and then removed the 4 soldiers, so that he got 9 chess pieces, and Lao Nie played with others like this.

Strictly speaking, the power of making such 9 pieces is still very large, and some people in the chess world believe that the power of this handicap may even be greater than that of handing two horses. It's just that Lao Nie is embarrassed, just like this, he actually lost to others, which is a great shame in the Go world.

With the mentality of watching a good show, Li Xiangping tried to ask:

"Then Mr. Nie, are you sure about this game of chess?"

"Hey, how can you lose this chess?" Lao Nie waved his hand and said very coawardly:

"This is also the media who are blind, I have to come up with a gimmick to make 9 sons, look, see how I beat Xu Xian all over the ground to find teeth, by the way, the game is tonight, why don't you come and take a look?"

Li Xiangping couldn't help but laugh: "Okay, okay, that's a must." ”