In the second game of the "LG Cup" semifinals, when Lao Cao defeated Lao Shi to equalize, the Korean media was as excited as if they had played chicken blood:

"It's not a loss, it's Cao Guoshou! He defended the honor of Korean Go! ”

More than two years ago, the Chinese monster Li Xiangping rose to prominence at a jaw-dropping speed, and he set a series of amazing records. This has become the most important topic in the Korean chess world and even in the whole world chess world, just when everyone was waiting for the hero to appear, just yesterday, the hero stood up! He is our Go Emperor Cao Xunxuan, in the second game of the "LG Cup" semi-finals that has just ended, Cao Xunxuan, who is as strong as the sun in early summer, melts the majestic ...... of Li Xiangping's winter mountains"

Now it is the Internet era, and all kinds of exaggerated rhetorical reports in the Korean media soon spread to China, which makes many people who eat melons feel strange, isn't this just winning a game of chess, just equalizing the score, the whole series is not over yet, is it necessary for Koreans to make such an exaggeration?

However, some veteran chess fans still expressed understanding of the reaction of the Koreans, and one of them posted on the Qingfeng Go forum: I understand the excitement of the Koreans, yes, very understanding! Because in the past so many years, if a Chinese player can beat Lee Canghao, even if it is just an accidental victory, even if that victory is included in a series, I am actually as excited as the Koreans now.

As soon as this post came out, it immediately resonated with many people, and many old chess fans supported the post, and recalled the unbearable years when Chinese Go was suppressed by Koreans, and told their bitter history.

However, after everyone finished inciting their feelings, everyone began to raise their eyebrows again, saying that they had tasted the taste, and now they must let the Koreans repay it twice, and if they want the Koreans to "repay the blood debt", then of course Li Xiangping needs to continue to win chess, so some chess fans followed:

"Mastery boss, please you must win this time, if you dare not win this time, I promise him that I will block you in the future......"

So what is Li Xiangping, who has been talked about by everyone, doing now? Before the start of the third game, he was complaining about his cheating:

"Brother Ding'an, how can you be so careless this time, I said you won't be a light enemy, right? This person can even win a game against me, how do you know that you can still lose ...... if you are a great chess master?"

Li Xiangping chattered in front of his plug-in, and Lao Shi was also good-tempered:

"Hehe, Ding'an is not a light enemy this time, it is indeed an excellent opponent, I am not afraid to be honest with you, I really have nothing to say about losing this game, but it doesn't matter, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and Ding'an will try his best in the next game."

"Alas, know know, just ......"

"What is Xiangping Xiaoyou?"

Li Xiangping didn't answer Lao Shi's question positively, because of course he had no way to tell himself that because he hadn't tasted losing for so long, he was a little overconfident and overestimated Lao Shi's strength.

Of course, Lao Shi's level is very high, yes, he still seems to be improving, but judging from the current situation, although Lao Shi is very strong, he is not strong enough to go AI, which means that he is a "chess saint", so far it can only be regarded as a human "chess saint", and when facing human chess players, he will still lose chess.

This is actually where Li Xiangping is worried, and it is also the reason why he still has to complain knowing that Lao Shi is not a light enemy.

Because as of this game of chess, Lao Shi's quota of 15 games this year has been used up to 10 games. Since this is the case, there is no need to think about the things in August next year, just the arrangement of the next few finals is enough to give Li Xiangping a headache.

By the time he finishes the semi-final tiebreaker with Lao Cao, then no matter whether he wins or loses this game, Lao Shi's quota has been used up to 11 games.

After this game of chess is over, the "Toyota Cup" finals, "Samsung Cup" finals, and "LG Cup" finals will follow one after another, and the latest "LG Cup" finals will be completed in February next year.

Among them, in addition to the "Toyota Cup" finals, which are trilogy, the other two finals are all five-way chess, so according to Lao Shi's remaining 4 game quota, he alone will not be able to play the remaining finals anyway.

Fortunately, since the opponent in the "Samsung Cup" final is Ma Xiaofei, then this kind of civil war between Chinese chess players, Li Xiangping can consider himself at that time. But if Lao Shi wins the next game of chess against Lao Cao, then no matter what the result of the "Toyota Cup" is, by the time of the "LG Cup" final in February next year, Lao Shi can only play a maximum of 2 games, and it is even possible that he can only play one game.

This is where Li Xiangping is entangled, you must know that so far, Li Xiangping has only played 6 games of rapid chess in the international arena, is the first time he plays slow chess in the international arena is the final of the World Series? And the opponent is still Li Canghao?

No, it's not a matter of "can't" now, unless Lao Shi loses to Lao Cao in the next game, then Li Xiangping's slow chess debut against Da Li has almost become an established fact.

Therefore, Lao Shi's loss to Lao Cao in the last game affected his mood very much, and this is the reason.

In Li Xiangping's view, since Lao Shi even dared to lose Lao Cao, he certainly had no certainty of victory against the stronger Li Canghao.

In case Lao Shi loses to Li Canghao in the "Toyota Cup" final, and he loses to Ma Xiao in the "Samsung Cup", then it will be the next "LG Cup" final.......

What does this make Li Xiangping think of? This reminded him of a certain team in the Bundesliga in a certain year, Li Xiangping forgot whether it was Bayer Leverkusen or Dortmund, and rushed very fiercely at the beginning of the season, but at the end of the season, he lost the domestic league and only won the runner-up, the domestic cup lost and won the runner-up, and the European Champions Cup final also lost and only won the runner-up.

Although this kind of "Sanya" situation is also rare, which also makes Li Xiangping remember this incident for so many years, but ask yourself, if this kind of thing happened to Li Xiangping himself, then he definitely couldn't accept it.

It's a pity that although Li Xiangping can't accept it, Lao Shi's loss will naturally easily affect Li Xiangping's mood and emotions, and he is afraid that this "avalanche" phenomenon will occur.

However, although Li Xiangping was worried, he didn't have any way at this time, in line with the principle of taking one step at a time, so after figuring it out, Li Xiangping encouraged his plug-in in turn: "Brother Ding'an is fine, you don't have any baggage, let go of your hands and feet and try your best to play this game of chess." ”

"Okay, Joan will do my best"

Li Xiangping can only do this now, can he let Lao Shi not have to do his best in the next game and give up this game? This is obviously impossible in Li Xiangping's opinion, and he will never consider such a plan.

It is precisely because of this consideration that the current Li Xiangping simply doesn't think about it so much, and only tells himself to play the next game first.

Until now, in the trilogy held by Koreans, there is no rest day for the second and third games, so the tiebreaker starts immediately after the second game ends.

After all, it was Lao Shi's first loss this year, so the semi-final tiebreaker received great attention, not only the major Go websites broadcast this game live, but even the sports channel of the imperial court station temporarily adjusted the time, and asked the gold medal partner of Team Leader Hua and Xu Ying to explain this game of chess.

This game of chess not only attracted great attention, but also for the "nearest bystander" Li Xiangping, this game of chess was also very exciting and intense, Lao Cao almost did his best, he gave full play to his "soft wind gun", and once saw Li Xiangping's heart beat.

However, the end result is -----

The game lasted nearly seven and a half hours for more than 300 games, and the game officially ended at about 6:30 p.m.

The door of the game room slowly opened, and the tired old Cao was surrounded by a group of South Korean reporters.

However, despite looking very tired, tired to the point that his white hair looked so dazzling, Lao Cao still looked very calm, and he calmly said to a group of South Korean reporters:

"I did my best, and next, it's up to Canghao."