This year's "Samsung Cup" is already the 9th, and in the top 32 lineup of this "tournament", Chinese chess players occupy 13 places, which is the most in recent years.

The most eye-catching chess player of the Chinese team this time is not Li Xiangping, but two veterans, Lao Nie and Cao Dayuan Jiuduan.

Lao Nie got a wild card to qualify, but Cao Jiuduan was played out of the qualifiers in a dignified manner.

And this year's "Samsung Cup" preliminaries do not have a veteran group, there have been women's groups and even amateur groups before, but there is no veteran group yet, so Cao Jiuduan is really rushing out of the ordinary group, which is quite remarkable for a veteran who has begun to play "Happy Go".

Of course, since Lao Nie is here, even if Cao Jiuduan's achievements are great, he can't become the focus of attention, in the Chinese chess world, Lao Nie is really like the kind of person with a halo, as long as he plays, it is basically nothing for anyone else.

What's more interesting is that this time the head of the Chinese delegation is none other than the head of the national Go team's coaching staff, Nie and Ma get together, especially this time when the old Nie is a member of the team and Ma Xiao is the head of the group, the two must be indispensable in their daily bickering.

"Lao Nie, how do you plan to teach those children to play chess when you go out of the mountain in person this time?"

"Ha, low-key, Ma Xiao, you are really, we old guys must be low-key, just take me as an example, my goal this time is very simple, try to win one or two sets, well, one or two sets."

The other young chess players all held back their laughter, but only Team Leader Ma didn't give face, and he put on a very fake look of surprise:

"Ah, aim so low? Is it enough to win two sets? This is not like our Teacher Nie, I think with your current strength, it is not impossible to fight for the world championship again. ”

Everyone else couldn't hold it back, but people with low emotional intelligence didn't hear that this was a backword, so Lao Nie "taught" Ma Xiaofei seriously:

"Huh, world champion? I said Ma Xiao, you are crazy now, right, you are a person of your age, even you dare to think of a world champion......"

In this joyful atmosphere, the group soon arrived in Seoul, South Korea, and on the evening of their arrival, the first round of the draw was immediately held.

As the runner-up of the last session, Li Xiangping was the second to take the stage, and his opponent was South Korea's high-heeled platform 5th dan.

This chess player has almost disappeared in later generations, but he was also a calf at this time, he won the "Tian Yuan" of South Korea, and played in the "Sino-Korean Tian Yuan Match", defeating Gu Dali in the trilogy.

"Brother Hehedingan, this person is also known as a prodigy in the Korean chess world, and he participated in the Korean National Amateur Go Championship for the first time two years ago, and even the amateur masters of all walks of life won the championship. After turning professional with this record, he quickly won his first title, it is said that this person has a strange chess style and is good at field battles. ”

"Prodigy? Oh, it's so good, Ding'an likes to fight with prodigies the most. ”

Li Xiangping pouted when he heard this, thinking that if you think about chess addiction, you can say it directly, is it necessary to find such a lame reason.

When it was decided to let Lao Shi play, Li Xiangping began to pay attention to other matchups, due to the large number of games, he could not pay attention to them all, and after the first round of the draw was over, Li Xiangping noticed 3 games.

First of all, of course, it was Teacher Nie, he drew Song Taikun, followed by Kong Erjie, he actually encountered Xiao Li again, and finally Chen Xiaoqiang's World Series debut, he faced South Korea's Choi Poison in the first round.

This is the last time that the "Samsung Cup" will use 3 hours of slow chess, and if history does not change, then from next year, the "Samsung Cup" will be shortened to 2 hours per side, and this will be used as a symbol to lead the whole of Korea to go in rapid chess.

On the morning of the second day, he walked into the game room at the normal time, ready to see Shi Daqisheng's performance.

In this game, Li Xiangping guessed the black chess, originally at the beginning of the game, Li Xiangping was ready to be an honest humanoid dropper, but only the fifth hand, he couldn't help but speak.

"Wrong small eyes plus worry-free corners"! Shi Da Qisheng actually adopted this opening, you must know that this is one of the most classic signature moves of Japanese Go.

"Oh, Brother Ding'an, you are ....... today What, do you want to change your mood today? ”

"Hey, hey, Ranye, Ding'an really wants to change his mood."

After all, it was a competition, so after saying this, Li Xiangping shut up, and he began to speculate about his intentions.

It's just a pity that Li Xiangping crossed over in 18 years, and he didn't see it a year later, when the high-profile version of "Jueyi" went to participate in the World Go AI Competition, it used this routine to sweep other dogs around the world with this routine that is close to returning to basics.

The second generation of dogs is not like this, and the chess games of the third generation of dogs are also not seen in this way, so Li Xiangping now, he can only rely on himself to speculate on Lao Shi's thoughts and ideas.

The first guess is natural, just like he just said, Lao Shi may just want to "change his mood".

After all, this is the first round, and the opponent is not very strong, so if a big master like Shi Da Qisheng has a strong sense of "getting started", it is certainly understandable that he occasionally "changes his mood" in this level of competition.

However, Li Xiangping thought about it and felt that his guess might not be true, for no other reason, because he thought that Lao Shi was not that kind of person.

How to say it, if it is "Brother Xiping" as his own plug-in, then this matter is not strange today, if it is Huang Yuetian as his own plug-in, then today's thing is not unusual, but Lao Shi is really not this kind of person.

The two have been getting along day and night for so many years, anyway, Li Xiangping has never seen him wave, and Shenma's "change of mood" and other methods seem to be absent from his dictionary at all.

“....... Well, probably my sentence yesterday "The chess style is weird, good at field battles" works, right? After all, from a certain point of view, to deal with this type of chess style, the wrong small eye and worry-free angle of the play is really suitable, although this kind of play is not efficient, but the victory is in the shape of the chess, not easy to be impacted, equivalent to the first to stand firm, the first to withdraw the fist, ready to strike a thunderous blow....... It's like, it's like most of the wins of the third-generation dog beating the second-generation dog, in fact, it's this routine......."

When he thought of this, Li Xiangping didn't continue to think about it.

After all, he is still in the game, Li Xiangping not only needs to act as an auxiliary, he actually wants to see how he can perform a thunderous blow after Shi Daqisheng retracts his fist.

Lao Shi really didn't disappoint Li Xiangping, or the fifth section of the high-heeled platform was really cooperative.

From the very beginning of this game, Gao Wudan tried to show his strengths, trying his best to "put the game into the track he is good at", but all this was exactly what Shi Da Chess Master wanted.

Just after 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when the overall situation was less than 120 moves, the white chess showed a flaw, and Lao Shi took a seemingly casual "peep", and this move directly hit the key point of the white chess.

This is the kind of mid-game tesuji that is more difficult to find, and as soon as this move is played, the two pieces of white chess are so incompatible.

Li Xiangping knew in his heart that as soon as this chess move was played, the following would already enter garbage time.

And the fifth section of the high-heeled platform obviously realized this, probably because he didn't want to endure the torture of the garbage time for too long, and after that, he insisted on about 10 rounds, and when Li Xiangping fell to the 147th hand in the overall game, he stood up and conceded defeat at that time.

Li Xiangping didn't feel much about this, it can be said that for today's game of chess, in addition to his feeling for the opening of the "wrong small eye and worry-free angle", whether it is Lao Shi's victory or his way of winning, Li Xiangping does not feel any surprises.

The fight ended at less than 3:30 p.m., which was considered early in the first round. However, it is not the earliest, and it seems that there is a game of chess that is qualified to tie for first place.

When Li Xiangping got up, he unexpectedly found that Lao Nie also got up at about the same time, and as soon as he looked at his expression, he knew that Teacher Nie must have lost.

Li Xiangping's accident was not fake, because during the noon closure, he deliberately watched this game of chess, and at that time he thought that Lao Nie's situation was quite good.

"Yo Nie, what's going on with your game of chess?"

Lao Nie looked indignant: "The one named Song Taikun, he basically doesn't know how to play chess." ”

After leaving this sentence, Lao Nie didn't even bother to pay attention to Li Xiangping, and walked outside with an indignant face.

Li Xiangping almost didn't laugh out loud.

He really didn't expect that this "famous saying" from Lao Nie's previous life would still appear in this life, and he was the first to have the honor to listen to it.

So from this point of view, I am really lucky.

Since Lao Nie was not around, Li Xiangping had no choice but to pay attention to other competitions by himself.

After 4:30 p.m., first of all, Gu Dali passed, Wang Lei 8th section and Wang Wei 8th section passed the two Wang 8th section, and then immediately after, Chang Hao passed the 9th section, Zhou Heyang passed the 9th section, and finally Chen Xiaoqiang passed the test.

Everyone congratulated Chen Xiaoqiang, because not only is he the youngest, but his opponent is also hard, not as strong and weak as other opponents.

Li Xiangping also didn't feel much about this, because he knew that in real history, Chen Xiaoqiang in the early days was really Cui Poison's bitter hand, Cui Poison's "poisonous snake entanglement" met Xiaoqiang's classmate's "ditch flow", that was really no way at all, the standard standard is hard to find, and it takes 10 years later for Cui Poison to slowly close the score.

It's just that after Chen Xiaoqiang won, there was no news of victory from the Chinese team, especially the battle between Kong Erjie VS Lee Sedol, which Li Xiangping was most concerned about, which ended with Xiao Li winning this time.

In this way, after the first round of competition, 7 members of the Chinese team advanced, and the results were not good or too bad.

The draw for the second round was held immediately that night, and in this round of the game, Li Xiangping once again drew a "calf" of South Korean Go, Zhao Hancheng 9 dan.

This is a player who has won a domestic title and also made it to the World Series finals, so there should be nothing wrong with calling him "Maverick".

"Hehe, Brother Ding'an, since you have finished your chess addiction, then look at me next."