The day after Li Xiangping returned to the capital, he immediately participated in a round of siege.

Well, he doesn't know if this is a normal round or a make-up round, in short, because of SARS, this year's Weijia schedule has been completely disrupted.

In this game, he is facing Kong Erjie of the Beijing team, although Li Xiangping's team is also in the capital, but only Kong Erjie's team is regarded as the authentic Beijing team.

As a result, in this game, Li Xiangping defeated Gu Dali's power in the last game, and defeated Kong Erjie in a small way.

Li Xiangping is very satisfied with this.

Li Xiangping must be satisfied, because after winning this game of chess, he not only avoided being killed by Kong Erjie for a season, but also defeated the "Gu Da" and "Kong Er", who were also born in the 80s, in a row, which is of course a good thing, which means that his strength has been further improved.

It was with this satisfaction that after resting in the capital for two days, he and Chang Hao teamed up to go to Taizhou to participate in the semi-finals of the "Chunlan Cup".

After arriving at the venue, surrounded by reporters, Li Xiangping rarely made a high-profile appearance:

"As we all know, we in the Go community have always felt sorry for Chunlan Company, because this competition is the 4th, but we still haven't been able to win this championship, so this time I will definitely work hard with Brother Chang to try to keep this championship."

No problem!

No one thinks there is anything wrong with Li Xiangping's words. Think about it, who is Li Xiangping now? A superstar in the world chess world, a five-time world champion in two and a half years, he has only missed one of the six world championship finals he has participated in, and the only one time he has lost is to a Chinese player.

So a person like this, who made such a championship declaration before the game, is of course something that no one can fault with.

If you take into account the opponent this time, Li Xiangping's opponent is Lao Zhao Zhao Zhixun, Chang Hao's opponent is Lao Cao Cao Xunxuan, two "post-50s" veterans, and some people think that Li Xiangping's statement is not domineering enough, and there is less momentum of giving up on me.

Of course, no one knows that Li Xiangping can talk about it to this extent, it is not easy, this is because this time it is Lao Shi who fights, if it is replaced by himself, then he may not even be able to say this kind of thing.

Although the two veterans are older, they are still quite capable of playing at this time.

Needless to say, Lao Cao is still the four kings of Korean Go, maintaining a very high level of competition and competitive state, representing Korean Go to win the flag in the world chess arena. Even Zhao Zhixun, who has a relatively inferior international record, won his second world championship this year in real history.

If you consider his first World Title, it was due to the abstention of his opponent Qian Yuping, so his victory over Park Yongxun in '03 was actually his only victory in a World Series final.

The only win came this year, and if that's the case, Li Xiangping certainly won't underestimate his opponent.

To be honest, this is also because of Lao Shi, after some time ago and Lao Shi's cultivation of "double swords", Li Xiangping felt that Lao Shi's skills had improved again, and it was simply more and more unfathomable, otherwise, he might not even say this level of big words.

However, what Li Xiangping didn't expect was that he said it out loud, and he also thought that there was no problem with him plugging in to win Lao Zhao, but the first game of the three-way chess ......

127 hands!

Only 127 moves were played in this game, and Lao Shi, who was holding white, lost the middle game.

Li Xiangping was speechless, he was really speechless this time, because Li Xiangping himself knew the cause of Lao Shi's defeat:

"Oh, Brother Ding'an, it turns out that there has been no official competition in the past half a year, and it turned out... Even you can give birth to your hands? ”

"This.... I'm sorry Xiangping Xiaoyou, I haven't played such a game for a while, and Ding'an does feel a little wrong, but I want you to assure you that it will definitely not be like this in the second game, and there will definitely not be such a low-level mistake. ”

What else can Li Xiangping say? Of course, he didn't have anything to say at this time. Because the mistakes Lao Shi made today are indeed relatively low-level, and they belong to the kind of mistakes that even Zhang Da reporter is unlikely to make.

There is only one reason why such a master can make such a mistake: this master is a chess student, his hand is tight, and the feeling of the game is wrong, so it is possible to play such a game.

This is a situation that Lao Shi has never seen before, which makes Li Xiangping ignore that his plug-in is not a machine, he still has a human soul.

"It's okay, Brother Ding'an, I believe in you, and the next game will be good."

Although Li Xiangping comforted himself with such words, at this time he secretly regretted it, and at the same time secretly vigilant.

Regret is the first game that just ended, Lao Shi made such a low-level mistake, and Li Xiangping's level can be noticed at once, but he blamed him for being too relaxed at the time, and he believed in his plug-in too much, which caused Lao Shi to speak at that time, and he subconsciously fell without thinking about it.

Of course, vigilance is to be vigilant in the following games, after all, there is no reason to make a mistake like this human being, since Lao Shi will make the first time, then no one can guarantee that he will not make the second time.

Li Xiangping feels that he has to be ready at any time, how to say it? It was like Lao Shi was able to take over his own game, so now, Li Xiangping also feels that he must be ready to take over the game at any time.

"Reporter Zhang, how is Brother Chang's game of chess?"

"Alas, also lost."

"Oh?"

After saying "oh", Li Xiangping didn't talk too much nonsense, he returned to the room silently, but he became more and more prepared.

Between the first game and the second game, there was a rest day, and Li Xiangping didn't go anywhere on the rest day, after all, such a low-level mistake is completely inexplicable.

Li Xiangping didn't want to explain to outsiders, but he didn't know how to help him adjust his plug-in, since this was the case, he could only accompany Lao Shi to play more chess, hoping that this would help him.

And for Li Xiangping's move, outsiders are not surprised, because since his debut, it is really rare to make such a low-level and obvious mistake, since this is the case, of course, others will not come to disturb him at this time.

The second game was coming quickly, and in this game, Li Xiangping was like a big enemy, and he was ready all the time. It's a pity that his preparation today was in vain, and in this game, Lao Shi seemed to have returned to normal, and he won the game relatively smoothly.

"Brother Tut, what do you want me to say about you......"

On the other side, Chang Hao also won Lao Cao, and the two semifinals were 1-1.

There was no rest day between the second and third games, and on the second day, the tiebreaker began immediately.