In the first game of the third "Toyota Cup" finals, when the game was played until half past 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the on-site viewing room set up in the Japan Chess Academy was already very lively, and even the whole air was filled with a strange atmosphere;

"Mr. Lin, it seems that the black chessboard has a maximum of 6 meshes, right?" -------

In fact, when Wang Licheng Jiuduan said this, Mr. Lin Haifeng himself had judged it, and he also thought that Li Xiangping's black chess pieces had a maximum of 6 meshes, but Mr. Lin replied like this:

"Hehe, it's hard to say, it's hard to say this chess, don't forget that it's Li Xiangping today, and now it's only more than 180 hands, who knows what ghost tricks he has hidden."

Wang Licheng was speechless when he heard this, and the Japanese chess players present were also silent.

You must know that it has been almost 7 years since Li Xiangping debuted, and in such a long time, no Japanese chess player has been able to beat him, so in the face of such an opponent, this makes everyone speak carefully.

In such an atmosphere, the chess game continued step by step, and when the time came to 5 pm Tokyo time------ at this time, the two sides entered the countdown almost synchronously, and the overall situation also passed 200 hands, Wang Mingwan Jiuduan After judging the situation on one side, he spoke:

"Although Li Xiangping is very strong, it doesn't seem to be too superstitious, especially in today's pattern, black chess uses a large-scale combat method, and now the big air is surrounded by him, but from the perspective of stereotype, the side that surrounds the middle of the belly is considered to defend, and the side that takes the corner is counted as an attack, anyway, no matter who it is, if I am asked to play today's game of chess, then I am still willing to play white." -------

Wang Jiuduan's words are to the point, Li Xiangping started with "three consecutive stars" today, but he really didn't expect that the opponent showed a good temper today, and he chose to lay the floor around each other to deal with it.

As a result, when more than 120 moves were made, black made a super big empty in the middle of the belly.

It's a pity that this is commonly known as "one side of the void", and white adds up the time and space of those corners and corners, and it is completely able to compete with that super big space.

And from that time on, it was actually already a difficult situation for Li Xiangping------ because the process after this could already be regarded as a big official.

And those who know chess know that once the appearance chess enters the official stereotype, whoever has the super big empty will be relatively difficult to play, because that super big empty will definitely become a burden for him-------

And Go is like this, once there is a burden on the board, it is difficult to spread your hands and feet, and you are not afraid that no matter how many wonderful ideas you have, it is likely that you will not be able to use it at all.

Li Xiangping encountered this situation today, and when he was also more than 120 hands, he felt that he was a little worse, but it was a pity that no matter how he racked his brains, he could never find a way to break the game.

So he only had patience and looked forward to what the opponent would go wrong, in which he also gave the opponent a lot of sets, as long as the opponent was not fine in one place, he was sure to achieve a reversal.

It's a pity that he didn't wait for this opportunity, anyway, with Li Xiangping's current level, he thinks that after this, Zhang Xu has been playing well, at least all the traps he set have been dodged by him one by one.

And the consequences of white's dodging of the trap lead to the fact that black's situation is always a little worse, and the difference between the half-goals seems to be small, but it seems like the end of the world.

At 5:20 p.m., when the game reached more than 220 hands, Li Xiangping was ready to lose.

At half past five in the afternoon Tokyo time, Li Xiangping had already begun to arrange his hairstyle.

At around 5:40 p.m., Li Xiangping insisted on finishing the last official, but the ending was already well known: he was defeated in half of his eyes, and Zhang Xu's "new super first-class" was born.

After the end of the first game, I won't describe how fierce the reaction of the Japanese chess community was, just talk about the exchange between Li Xiangping and Lao Shi.

After politely reviewing the game with the opponent, as soon as Li Xiangping returned to the room, Shi Da Qisheng said:

"Xiangping Xiaoyou, I said why do you insist on using two swords together, what is it now? How do you feel about today's defeat? ”

"Hehe, my biggest feeling now, don't look at the progress we have now, and we can often make some high-level dog moves in our own games, but the strength all day long is still not enough to look at in front of the dog, for example, me, if I am now alone in the face of the second generation of dogs, then I may still be difficult to support a hundred hands."

"Huh? How do you feel about today's defeat? ”

"Naturally, isn't it?"

Lao Shi soon stopped talking, because among the generations of Go AI launched by Google, it seems that only the second-generation dog plays the most like the human "cosmic flow".

In this case, it is most vivid to compare today's game-------

is also a "cosmic flow", the dog is natural and smooth to use, but Li Xiangping is still very blunt, so blunt that in the face of a human master of Zhang Xu's level, in the case that others do not make mistakes, he can't take advantage of this single technology at all.

"Alas~ If you want to compete with that dog, but you can't have any flaws, all individual skills must be made up, our next practice, we should focus on this, okay Brother Ding'an, let's discuss the practice after we go back, the top priority is to win this championship first, but the day after tomorrow is to ask you."

"Hehe, Ding'an Province."

Considering Lao Shi's skills are more profound, his overall level should be slightly higher than his own, so for the later games, Li Xiangping is still more assured, he believes that even if he is 0-1 behind, the probability of the opponent winning the cup is still below fifty percent.

However, at the beginning of the second game, when he dropped the opening of white chess according to Lao Shi's instructions, Li Xiangping also couldn't help but talk to Lao Shi:

"Oh, Brother Ding'an, what do you mean by ..... you?" -------

Lao Shi chose two "three-three" openings today, although this kind of opening is actually the same as "three-in-a-row", which can often be seen in the white layout of human chess players in the past.

For example, Sakata Eio, Ishida Yoshio, and Cho Jixun in the early years, etc., they often played like this in the game.

But Li Xiangping knew that his plug-in Lao Shi had never been like this.

Just as he had never played a "triple star" before, the ancient chess saint Lao Shi never played such an extreme opening two "three threes".

"Hehe, the day before yesterday, I listened to your words, but Ding'an was deeply touched, as you said, I want to compete with that machine, but I can't have the slightest but the slightest shortcoming, and such an extreme method of taking the land is my shortcoming, so I also want to try it."

"Oh, Brother Ding'an, although I understand your feelings, Nai is not right, I waved it in the first game because it was the first game, and there was room after losing, but you are now in the second game, if you lose again, this championship will be gone."

"Hehe, it's okay, but Xiangping Xiaoyou wants to think like this, if this person on the other side can really break you and me in a row, even if we are not good at playing, there is nothing to say if we lose, and he is also qualified to become a world champion, do you say yes or no?"

"Hmph, I don't think that's what you think, you just want to show that you're smarter than me, you can win if I lose like this, okay, okay, I'm too lazy to talk to you now, you better concentrate on playing a good game." ----------

In fact, now, it doesn't matter what Lao Shi thinks, after all, the chess has been played, and Li Xiangping can't get it back.

The two had a brief contest in the game room, and of course Li Xiangping at this time didn't know that he had two "three stars" in the first game, but two "three threes" in the second game, which had caused an uproar in the outside world, from professional chess players to ordinary chess fans, who had speculated about Li Xiangping's intentions.

The dog has not yet been born, so naturally no one can guess Li Xiangping's intentions.

However, the more this happens, the more everyone has to guess. After all, this is the final of the World Series, and the championship prize is as high as 30 million yen.

No one could have imagined that in the end, it would be the arrogant lone wolf who put forward a statement that was most widely recognized.

At less than 11 o'clock in the morning Beijing time, the proud wolf boasted on the "Yicheng" website:

"Hah! The mastery boss is like this, he should want the Toyota Cup to continue. ”

Melon-eating crowd A: "Huh? What do you mean by the proud wolf? ”

"Rookie, you're new here, aren't you? I didn't see the rumors before the tournament, because the Japanese Go withered, which made Toyota lose interest in sponsorship, if the Japanese players could not win the championship, this would probably be the last one. ”

Melon-eating crowd A: "Ah! It's true? ”

Melon-eating crowd B: "Yes, I also heard some rumors that this is likely to be the last Toyota Cup, but the reason is not because of the withering of Go in Japan, it seems that Toyota's operation has problems, and now they are a little anxious, and they are considering stopping the competition." ”

Eating melon crowd A: "Bosses, what is the reason for that?" ”

Arrogant lone wolf: "No matter what the reason is, but the master boss is like this, saying that it is difficult to say that it is called releasing water, and it is better to say that it is good, he is doing his best to keep this event." ”

Melon-eating crowd C: "Yes, yes, I also think the boss is releasing water." ”

Eating melons: "How do you talk upstairs, from these two games of chess, don't you see the character of the masterful boss, what a kind person he is......"

For the discussion on the Internet, Li Xiangping naturally couldn't hear it, he only knew that since Lao Shi also chose to start with suffering, today's game of chess is not so easy, which is equivalent to Lao Shi giving up his biggest specialty, at least abolishing the three successes, so in the face of Zhang Xu who just defeated him, this chess today is really hard to say.

Li Xiangping began to get nervous, and his spirit was highly concentrated.

And the course of the game did not surprise him, and he remained in a stalemate for a long time.

Also waited until about half past four in the afternoon, Li Xiangping, who had been carefully judged, finally breathed a little relieved.

Half-eye!

At present, the game has been played about 220 hands, and according to Li Xiangping's judgment, he thinks that the old Shi who holds white is about half an eye.

"Damn, Lao Shi, this guy ......"

Li Xiangping complained silently in his heart.