After a few sets of domestic matches, in mid-November, Li Xiangping went to Japan to participate in the Sino-Japanese championship match of the "Ahantongshan Cup".

Nowadays, this kind of bilateral confrontation between China and Japan is completely incomparable to that of the past.

Not to mention that compared with the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament in the early years, even with the Sino-Japanese "celebrity" competition and the Sino-Japanese "Tianyuan" confrontation more than 10 years ago, the nature and significance of these competitions seem to be completely different. In the early years, the bilateral confrontation between China and Japan was really the first-class tournament in the world chess world, with extremely high popularity and attention, and it was not far behind the professional Go World Championship.

However, by now, the confrontation and spectacle of these games have obviously been insufficient, and the popularity of the media and the attention of chess fans are completely incomparable with those of the past.

To put it simply, in the past, when Chinese chess players participated in competitions of a similar nature, the participants would still have a lot of pressure, and if they lost, they might be scolded, but now, chess players are not so nervous at all, and the nature of this kind of competition is basically no different from some invitational tournaments or exhibition matches.

Most chess fans don't care about the outcome of these games, and it doesn't matter if the player wins or loses. Some old chess fans pay attention to this kind of competition, probably out of a feeling---------- they will remember those more meaningful games from the current bilateral confrontation.

Obviously, Li Xiangping went to Japan to compete with this mentality this time, and his mentality was very relaxed for this trip to Japan, not that he didn't care about winning or losing at all, but at least he didn't have the mentality that he had to win.

In fact, it is precisely because of this mentality that Li Xiangping jokingly proposed last time: If he wins the championship, I hope that the Japanese side will arrange this confrontation to be held in the "Snail Temple--------

Since it doesn't matter if you win or lose this kind of game, of course it's better to pay attention to something else.

And the Go game is honest, there are really not many things that can be paid attention to, Li Xiangping thought about it, since this is a performance competition. It's better to pay attention to a sense of ceremony.

And going to a place like "Snail Temple" to play chess is actually a kind of ritual.

On November 11th, which happened to be the legendary Singles' Day in later generations, Li Xiangping, accompanied by the Chinese team leader and reporter Zhang Da, came to the "Snail Nunnery" in Kyoto, Japan.

This is the main mountain of Kyoto in Japan's "Ahanzong". After everyone arrived, it was drizzling early in the morning, "snail hermitage" is halfway up the mountain, 3 people ride up the mountain, because it is already November, the temperature here is low,

After going up the mountain, Li Xiangping looked at the surrounding environment and found that the environment here was elegant, like being in a fairyland. In particular, the main building is typical of the Japanese Zen style------ and when it comes to the Japanese Zen style, it is still quite famous in the architectural world, and it has almost become a symbol of Japanese architecture and even oriental architecture in later generations.

After the three of them arrived at the snail hermitage, they entered a special game room specially set up for this competition, which is a Japanese-style game room, a wooden chessboard, and a special chair for kneeling and sitting games.

Since he proposed to have a sense of ceremony, Li Xiangping has nothing to say, kneeling and sitting in the game, he has already played with Zhang Xu once, and it doesn't matter if he comes again.

Just as Li Xiangping was about to go up and try it first, Team Leader Hua suddenly said:

"Hehe, this competition is a bit interesting, wait for two teenage children to sit here on their knees and perform chess."

"Huh?!"

Seeing Li Xiangping's surprised look, Team Leader Hua reacted: "Hey, I said Xiangping, you won't be at this time, you don't know who your opponent is, right?" ”

Li Xiangping was shocked and asked embarrassedly, "Who is it this time?" ”

"A child named Yuta Iyama is only 15 years old this year, and he won the title in Japan at the age of 15, breaking a series of records in the Japanese chess world, so he is known as a superstar in the Japanese chess world."

"Well, well...... That little Shota in Iyama? Mr. Hua, you, are you sure he is 15 years old this year? ”

"Yes, in the same year as Yaoyue, they were both born in 89, and they are only two years younger than you, but at this age, you won the title in Japan, which has not been a thing for many years, and it is normal to be valued by the Japanese Go community...... Hey, what's wrong with you, Xiangping, why does your expression look so strange? ”

Li Xiangping recovered: "Hehe, it's nothing......."

The reason why he had a strange expression just now was that he remembered that in real history, Iyama Komasata should have won the first championship at the age of 16, and his first championship was won in the "Ahantongshan Cup".

He just made a point to confirm that "is it 15 years old" and that's what it means, could it be that his butterfly even instigated the Japanese chess world? Even Yuta Iyama's first crown was a year ahead of schedule.

Obviously, after confirming that the opponent is Yuta Iyama, this match seems to have changed a little bit, and it is no longer a simple exhibition match.

There isn't much technical to say about this game, and although Iyama's talent is quite good, and he also pins his hopes on Japanese Go, it is clear that he may still be 6 miles away from Kiki Ita compared to Li Xiangping.

It can't be said that "soldiers are bloodless", but Li Xiangping did not spend a lot of effort to defeat his opponent in the middle game.

The focus is not on the game itself, but after the game, the Japanese reporters who came to interview asked Li Xiangping to "say a few words" and comment on their future star.

“...... I was surprised by my opponent's chess, he has a very good sense of chess and solid basic skills, well, let's put it this way, in time, if he becomes a "chess saint" or a "celebrity" in your country, I am not surprised at all, no, even if he has the "big triple crown" in his hand, I will not be surprised, because he has this talent and this potential. ”

Hearing Li Xiangping say this, the Japanese reporters present instantly climaxed, you must know that "three crowns at the same time", this is already a very remarkable achievement in the Japanese chess world, and only Zhao Zhixun has done it in the past few decades.

But now, the current first person in the chess world has such a high opinion of a Japanese rookie? So when is it not orgasm at this time?

Then questions followed, such as, "What qualities do you see in him?" "What characteristics of him impressed you? "What talent did you spot in him?"

Li Xiangping did not disappoint the Japanese reporters present, on such an occasion, it must be a sedan chair carrying people, how could Li Xiangping disappoint the Japanese reporters present?

Therefore, in the face of everyone's questions, he almost answered all the questions, and the good words of not wanting money were put outside one by one, which simply blew Jingshan into the sky and the earth------

Whoever really wants to listen to Li Xiangping's current words, then he will: I found that Jingshan was the last one who had the talent of Go throughout the ages, this is simply the existence of punching Wu Qingyuan and kicking Dao Ce Xiuce, as for Li Xiangping himself, listening to his own description, it seems that he is not even worthy of lifting shoes for Jingshan.

Li Xiangping's blind words were finally finished.

Many Japanese journalists returned satisfied.

Of course, Li Xiangping is also very satisfied, this game of chess is worth millions of yen in prize money, and he returned to China with the championship bonus.

And his next game will be the quarterfinals of the "Chunlan Cup".

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