In late October, Li Xiangping once again followed the team to South Korea to participate in the quarterfinals of the 8th "LG Cup".

Similar to the previous "Samsung Cup", the Chinese team performed well in the previous games, with Li Xiangping, Yu Bin, Gu Dali and Chen Xiaoqiang coming to this point, occupying half of the top eight lineup.

The other 4 chess players are Lee Cang-ho, Lee Sedol, Mu Jin-seok and Li Xiangping's opponent in this round, Lao Zhao Zhao Zhixun.

There's nothing to say, such a lineup, the most eye-catching is naturally Chen Xiaoqiang.

"Leopard Head" is a leopard head after all, he not only passed the "Samsung Cup" and "LG Cup" two qualifiers in a row this year, but also went one step further this time after the "Samsung Cup" stopped in the round of 16, at least has reached the quarterfinals of the "LG Cup".

Not only that, but his opponent this time is Korean chess player Mu Mu ------ who is considered to be the weaker among the three Korean chess players, so it seems that there is hope for further progress.

Chen Xiaoqiang was born in December 89, and he is a few days away from the "post-90s", so he is the closest to the "post-90s".

If he can reach the semi-finals of the World Series, it will be regarded as the best record of the post-90s chess player so far.

No, in fact, even if he is the top eight of this world competition, he is already the best record of domestic post-90s chess players.

It is precisely for this reason that on the way out, from the head of the regiment Hua to the former "children's leader" Yu Tou, and then from Yu Tou to Gu Dali, they all like to talk about Chen Xiaoqiang, and they are very caring for him.

Only Li Xiangping felt a little regretful in his heart.

He said in his heart, why didn't Xiaoqiang meet Han Erli this time? If it is South Korea's Erli, then with Chen Xiaoqiang's current impact, especially his characteristic of "specializing in all kinds of disobedience", maybe there will be a greater chance.

On the contrary, it was Mu Mu's ----- who analyzed him the weakest on paper, but Li Xiangping knew that in real history, Mu Mu won the runner-up of this year's "LG Cup".

This may not say anything else, but at least it proves that the person is in good shape.

As for the current Chen Xiaoqiang, Li Xiangping thinks that he is actually more afraid of this type.

This can be seen from the fact that he dared to lose to the amateur Hu Tianwang, Xiaoqiang's impact is there, but he is still very unstable and immature.

So a young chess player who is still at such a stage wants to defeat a first-class master who is in good shape, Li Xiangping thinks that this is of course more difficult.

To be honest, it's better to face a super-first-class player, after all, when facing a super-first, because of the opponent's reputation, it is easy to make young players more focused and more distracted during the game------

And only by doing this, can you burst out your greatest impact, but when facing a less famous chess player, the impact of young people may have to be discounted a little.

It is precisely for this reason that Li Xiangping is not optimistic about Chen Xiaoqiang's trip to South Korea.

Of course, even if he is not optimistic, he will not show it, after all, predicting the outcome is one thing, and it is another thing to hope who wins.

Chen Xiaoqiang, as his compatriot and younger brother, then in Li Xiangping's heart, of course, he hopes that he can win chess, even if he is not optimistic, he hopes that he can win this time, so he, like everyone else, also took good care of Chen Xiaoqiang on the way out.

It's just that his "care" method is different from others, others are mainly encouraged and cheered, but when it comes to Li Xiangping, he is mainly pouring cold water:

"Alas, Xiaoqiang, why did you meet Mu Mu this time? Tut-tut......."

Li Xiangping looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, and then matched with an expression of "I feel sorry for you".

Obviously, his appearance quickly attracted the attention of Xiaoqiang's classmates, after all, he was the youngest brother who followed the most, in fact, from the beginning of his journey, Xiaoqiang's classmates never left Li Xiangping:

"Boss, what's wrong with Mumu?"

Li Xiangping crossed his little brother: "Hey, isn't it, you still ask me what's wrong, you're about to fight with others, don't you study and study others?" Don't look at a few chess games? ”

"I have researched, I have played all the actual chess games he has played in recent months," Chen Xiaoqiang stared at Li Xiangping with his innocent gaze:

"I found that Mu Mu's recent chess play, whether it is winning or losing, but in these chess games, I can't see any mistakes, let alone that kind of serious mistakes, even those small mistakes are very few, so according to the identification method you taught me, if a professional chess player's chess games can show this characteristic, it proves that he is in good shape during this time, and if the winning rate is still super high, then it proves that he is in excellent condition, boss, isn't that so?"

Li Xiangping didn't know what to say at that time.

Because what Xiaoqiang said just now, Li Xiangping was ready to remind him, but now that people have found out about it, how can Li Xiangping pick up the stubble?

Of course, the words have already been said about this, so even if Li Xiangping pretends, he must pretend at this time.

So Li Xiangping began to pretend, he pretended to glare at his little brother:

"That's it? You've been preparing for so long to find out this bit of big goods? Didn't find anything else special? ”

Li Xiangping's words were bad, because these words not only attracted the attention of Chen Xiaoqiang, but also successfully attracted other people, Yu Tou and Gu Dali turned back at the same time, Gu Dali opened his mouth and asked:

"Huh? The boss still watches Mumu's chess? What do you see in particular? ”

Li Xiangping was a little dumbfounded at the time, and said in his heart What is going on? I was just going to remind my little brother in friendship, why is this just two sentences, and the problem has turned to this place?

What is "special" about Mumu's Go?

can be at my current level, and there is a plug-in like Lao Shi, not to mention that he is not my opponent this time, even if I really meet him, I can't study it in detail.

Li Xiangping secretly reminded himself in his heart that if he pretended to be forced in the future, it seemed that it would be better to say less, although pretending to be forced might not be struck by lightning, but once he said too much, it was easy to make himself unable to get off the stage.

The most embarrassing thing is that once this kind of thing starts to start, it seems that you can't stop halfway, you have to pretend to the end.

For example, now, Li Xiangping can only be pretended to the end:

“....... Well, although I don't see much of Mumu's chess, but a few days ago, when I was studying other people's chess games, I also took a few looks, and I found that his chess ...... His chess ......"

Li Xiangping couldn't pretend to be able to do it at all, so he had to pretend to shake his head, and then said vaguely:

"I can't say it clearly, but it's a bit special, especially how many moves and how many shapes there are, and I still don't understand it."

"Oh?!"

This time, don't say it's Yu Tou Gu Dali, even the team leader Hua and the accompanying Zhang Da reporter Lao Xie and others have attracted them, what kind of person is Li Xiangping? Today's number one chess player, he still can't figure out the question, how profound and special is this, can Mu Mu really play such a chess?

Li Xiangping didn't dare to pretend when he saw this, so he hurriedly stopped this topic:

"Okay, let's not talk about it, this won't be a game coming soon, let's play a good game first."

After forcibly terminating the topic, Li Xiangping still didn't forget to remind his little brother:

"In short, Xiaoqiang, you have to remember that the current Mu Muzhen is not so easy to deal with, you had better correct your mentality, treat him as the level of Xiao Li, and then concentrate on messing with him and impacting him, so that your chances of winning will be greater."

Chen Xiaoqiang nodded and responded: "Okay boss." ”------

To tell the truth, no one actually knew whether Chen Xiaoqiang listened to it or not, but after Gu Dali heard Li Xiangping's words, he made a decision at that time.

Mu Mu is a teammate of Gu Dali for many years, so Gu Dali decided that after returning from South Korea this time, he really wanted to take a look at Mu Mu's chess to see what was so special about his chess, which could make Li Xiangping a little incomprehensible.

Of course, Li Xiangping didn't know anything about all this, so after he arrived in South Korea, he quickly put aside all distractions and thought about how to deal with his opponent Cho Jixun Jiudan.

On the night of his arrival in South Korea, Li Xiangping thought of a basic idea, but this was not a good idea, it was the kind of thinking that even Li Xiangping himself was not very sure about.

So the next day, when Li Xiangping was about to enter the arena, he said to himself:

"Hehe, Brother Ding'an, today I want to ask you to get ready, maybe after the middle game, I need to ask you for help."

Lao Shi said strangely: "Hey, although this opponent is also considered a strong one, but after all, he has passed his peak, it is said that with the strength of Xiangping Xiaoyou, this time it should not be a big problem, right, will he say such a thing?" ”

Li Xiangping said with a smile: "It's not a matter of strength, it's a matter of the strategy I formulated, I don't have any confidence in my strategy, so although I hope I don't need your help, I also ask Brother Ding'an to be prepared." ”

Lao Shi was even more strange and said: "There is such a thing? I don't know what strategy Xiangping Xiaoyou has prepared. ”

Li Xiangping didn't say clearly: "Hehe, don't mention it now, Brother Ding'an must know at a glance, as long as there are more than 20 chess moves, no more than noon closure time, Brother Ding'an will definitely understand my thinking." ”

In fact, Li Xiangping did not make a fool of himself, and when the Chinese side closed the market, the overall situation was less than 50 hands, let alone Lao Shi, even the reporter Zhang Da in the viewing room, and even Lao Xie had already understood Li Xiangping's basic ideas.

At around 11:50 a.m., 10 minutes before the Chinese side closed the market, reporters were happily discussing in the viewing room:

"Haha cosmic flow! Xiangping is today, is he going to use the cosmic flow to fight with Lao Zhao. ”

Team Leader Hua looked at the chess game in front of him, and he also sighed with emotion:

"Like! It's really like, although it's not a triple star, but down to the current pattern, it's really like the fighting method of Wu Gong and Zhao Zhixun back then......."

That's right, this is Li Xiangping's basic idea, although he didn't learn Mr. Takemiya's "Triple Star" start, and even he is still in charge today, but his overall strategy is really to learn Mr. Takemiya Masaki's big-style tactics, and prepare to use the purest "cosmic flow" to compete with Lao Zhao.

There is no doubt that this kind of method, which was all the rage more than ten or twenty years ago, Li Xiangping rarely tried before.

And even if Mr. Wu Gong himself was back then, he basically couldn't please Lao Zhao in front of him.

It is precisely because of these two reasons that he felt uncertain before the game, greeted Lao Shi in advance, and sought support when necessary.

It's just that the game was closed at noon, and there were a total of 46 chess moves in the overall situation, Li Xiangping felt that the situation was good, and he didn't dare to say that he was already a lot ahead, but the advantage was more or less a little, so after he walked out of the game room, he communicated with his plug-in again:

"Hehe, Brother Ding'an, how do you feel about my start today?"

Because there are words first, the two do not deliberately avoid the principle of not interfering with each other in official competitions, Lao Shi replied:

"Well, Xiangping Xiaoyou seems to be deliberately imitating the second-generation machine battle method, right? However, there are two moves that seem to be wrong, and they are played too deliberately and forcefully, not as natural as the second-generation machine, but fortunately, ......."

"Fortunately, the opponent's response is a little deliberately reluctant, so so so far it's even, right?"

Lao Shi laughed when he heard it:

"Hehe, listen to what Xiangping Xiaoyou meant, did you expect that the opponent would definitely deal with it like this? That's why you chose this strategy, right? ”

Li Xiangping laughed: "Haha, of course, you forgot who your opponent is this time?" Back then, he was known as the "weasel that drilled the ground", extremely fond of the field, very good at treating orphans, I deliberately gave up the field management today, which is already considered to be a good thing, so with the temper of a chess player, especially the temper of a chess player who has reached the top, how could he be afraid of my deliberateness, even if he knows that I have a conspiracy, he can't change his Go philosophy, Brother Ding'an, you say yes or no? ”

Lao Shi listened and agreed, after all, Lao Shi is also a top chess player, so he understands the temper and persistence of top chess players very well.

Not even chess players, even in other industries, especially those that can be classified as "art", those who can reach a certain height basically have their own ideas and persistence.

Lao Shi understood why Lao Zhao did this, but at this time, he still didn't quite understand why Li Xiangping chose this way today, after all, Lao Zhao has obsessions, and Li Xiangping has no obsessions, especially such a "cosmic flow-------

To tell the truth, although this kind of play was all the rage back then, from a technical point of view, it sometimes seems too rigid and the pattern is too simple, which is obviously inconsistent with Li Xiangping's relatively flexible chess style, so Lao Shi asked:

"Xiangping Xiaoyou, I don't know why you chose such a tactic, you must know that this tactic is a little dull, it is easy to form a hammer deal, which is not conducive to your play, don't you care about the outcome of this game? Or are you preparing for the next game of emotional chess? Salute to those two juniors? ”

Li Xiangping said with a smile: "Hehe, Brother Ding'an, where do you want to go, first of all, I must care about the outcome of this game, otherwise I won't greet you in advance, as for the feelings....... I can't say that there is no at all, after all, I learned chess when I was young, whether it is this person or Mr. Masaki Takemiya, their chess game is a compulsory course, but I chose this strategy today, the main reason is another reason. ”

"Why?"

"Brother Ding'an, you forgot, in fact, in the previous life, there were not only two man-machine wars, except for Xiao Li fighting a generation of dogs, Ke Shaoxia fighting three generations of dogs, there is actually one more in between."

Lao Shi thought for a moment: "You mean it's this person, the one who fought the upgraded version of the original dog?" ”

Li Xiangping was happy when he heard it: "Haha, yes, yes, "original dog upgrade"? Brother Ding'an's name is good, okay, now the time has come, everything will wait for me to finish this game. Let's see if I can pass this level with this tactic. ”

Now that he understands Li Xiangping's intentions, Lao Shi responded with a smile:

"Yes, yes, if it's for this reason, then I wish Xiangping Xiaoyou success."

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