Since he had made up his mind to improve his strength, in the next period of time, Li Xiangping really began to do so.

It should be said that Li Xiangping knows his own problems and knows the direction he should work towards at this stage. Basic skills! For me now, it is imperative to consolidate my basic skills and complete the real transformation from an amateur chess player to a professional chess player.

The basic skills of Go are nothing more than the so-called life and death and officialdom, so in the next period of time, what "dog moves" and what too advanced Go skills are actually not things that you want to consider, just work hard in these two aspects.

However, although he is clear about the direction of his work, and Li Xiangping is sure that the direction of his work is definitely fine, but after 2 months of training, Li Xiangping has no bottom of his training effect.

First of all, doing this kind of training in the basic skills of Go is actually a very boring thing, and the method it adopts is actually similar to the "sea of questions tactics" in the college entrance examination.

Thinking about Li Xiangping, there is no need to mention anything else, just a "distraction" is actually enough to embarrass him.

In his previous life, when Li Xiangping was learning chess formally, his chess talent and talent were actually highly praised by people in the chess world, and he believed that among his group of chess children, Li Xiangping's talent was absolutely outstanding, but why did he not succeed in the legal stage for several years?

The superficial reason, such as what others say about his poor psychological quality, is actually a deeper reason, it is because his basic skills are not solid enough, and it is precisely because his basic skills are not solid enough that he can't withstand it at a critical time.

The second difficulty on Li Xiangping's face is that there is a good saying that a blank piece of paper is easy to draw, and in the study and training of Go, there is actually a problem of "a blank sheet of paper is good for drawing".

To use a very simple analogy, for example, the value of a move is about 5 meshes in the back hand, for ordinary chess fans and even for karma 6 like Li Xiangping, you just need to know this level.

However, for a professional chess player, this is not enough, you have to know whether it is "5 eyes strong" or "5 eyes weak", whether it is 5 and 3 goals or 4 and 2 thirds. Or, depending on the situation, you have to figure out when it is "5 eyes strong" and in what situation it may only be "5 eyes weak".

Obviously, for learning and mastering similar knowledge, of course, it is "a blank piece of paper is good to draw", and now Li Xiangping is no longer a blank piece of paper, he may have some wrong knowledge and wrong information in his mind in the past, and this time it will undoubtedly be much more difficult than others to clear out these wrong information.

The third difficulty faced by Li Xiangping is to do this kind of training in the basic skills of Go, in fact, it is difficult to find any effective detection methods, Li Xiangping began to make up his mind in August, but after 2 months of training, he did not know how effective he was.

In this period of anticipation, Li Xiangping re-registered a few vests, leaving Lao Shi to play chess online, but unfortunately he played a lot of chess, and there were wins and losses in the game, many of which defeated some good players who seemed to be strong, but Li Xiangping still had no bottom about his training effect.

After all, there is such a thing as online chess, which may be effective in maintaining a person's sense of chess and maintaining proficiency in chess, but it is really not very useful for the basic skills of Go.

For example, once, Li Xiangping met an opponent on the Internet, and he still knew something about that vest, knowing that the opponent was a professional chess player and the main force of a certain team in Weijia. Which game of chess was won by Li Xiangping in the end, but Li Xiangping did not have a sense of accomplishment after winning.

Because at the beginning of that game of chess, Li Xiangping offered a "dog move", although that move was not a flying knife, but in the opening stage, Li Xiangping still had a certain advantage, but the advantage was very limited.

But that guy was good, when the situation was not too bad, he chose to admit defeat when he was less than 100 hands, and after admitting defeat, he immediately sent an invitation to Li Xiangping to play the game.

Li Xiangping couldn't cry or laugh, what this guy meant by doing this, he was clearly only interested in the new change at the beginning, so he wanted to practice with himself again, which could not help his basic skills training. If you want to continue to play with him, it will become that he is "stealing" from himself, not the training he wants.

Since this is the case, Li Xiangping decisively refused and did not go down with that old man.

"No, it seems that if you want to test the training effect, you have to find a relatively formal competition."

When the time came to October 2001, Li Xiangping began to think about it. However, what kind of competition is it good to find, Li Xiangping didn't know the essentials for a while, after all, it was already October, and the international competition was not mentioned for the time being, Li Xiangping's exemption qualification would not take effect until next year, and there were so many domestic competitions, he really couldn't think of any suitable games to participate in for a while.

Fortunately, the matter was quickly resolved.

One day during the National Day holiday, Li Xiangping slipped into the "Fangyuan Chess and Card Room" again.

"Hello Mr. Zhang, hehe is playing music, why are you working so hard?"

"Teacher Zhang" is the chess coach in the chess and card room, the one he met when he played chess with Cai Shanshan at that time.

For such a long time, "Teacher Zhang" can be regarded as being more familiar with Li Xiangping, and he did not hide his "hard work", he smiled at Li Xiangping and said:

"Yes, the national individual competition is about to start, and this time I'm going to see it."

"Ha, it turned out that I was going to play a game, Mr. Zhang is now a master of the Chess Association, but I think with your level, it's no problem to get a national master, work hard during the game, I want to really change the title of national master, at least Lao Cai wants to give you a raise......"

Speaking of this, Li Xiangping suddenly stopped, because he was reminded from Mr. Zhang that there are national individual competitions in the chess world, and there are also national individual competitions in the Go world.

It's just that unlike the chess world, the national individual tournament in the chess world is the number one event in the chess world, and its importance even exceeds that of the world championship.

The reason for this is that although Xiangqi is very popular in China, its popularity is much higher than that of Go, but the degree of marketization is not as good as that of Go, whether it is the number of games or the prize money of the competition, it is far worse than Go.

It is precisely for this reason that chess players attach great importance to the national individual competition, because this competition is the best way or even the only way to produce chess grandmasters and national masters. And those big competitions in the chess world with huge prizes, such as the "Wuyang Cup" in this era and the "Country Garden Cup" in later generations, etc., must not be participated in by grandmasters.

In other words, the national individual competition in the chess world is actually a stepping stone for chess players, and only by achieving a good ranking in this competition can everyone establish their status in the rivers and lakes and even live a more nourishing life.

Different from the chess world, the national individual competition in the Go world has long been different from what it used to be, although it is a very high level, it is a national competition in the true sense, but there are so many international competitions in the Go world, there are so many title battles with rich prizes, so that the national individual competition without prize money has long been reduced to a second-rate event in the Go world, and the top masters will basically not participate in this competition.

And such a game is just right for the current Li Xiangping.

So after saying goodbye to Teacher Zhang, Li Xiangping hurried home to check the schedule of this year's Go National Individual Competition.

As soon as he checked, he found out that this year's national individual competition will be held in Yangcheng at the end of October, and it will be placed together with the chess individual competition.

Li Xiangping smiled at the schedule;

"Hehe, that's it."