In a training room of the Chinese Chess Academy, Li Xiangping looked at many articles touting himself, and while his vanity was greatly satisfied, he was actually a little stressed.

After all, up to now, Lao Shi's quota this year is only the last game, and this quota limit is to be counted until August next year, but in the last 2 months, Li Xiangping still has 3 important games to play.

These three competitions are the final of the "Samsung Cup" at the end of December, the second stage of the "Nongshim Cup" a little earlier, and the final of the "LG Cup" in February next year.

To say that Li Xiangping's face is thick enough, but at this juncture, when he sees so much fleshy touting in the paper media and on the Internet, it is impossible to say that there is no pressure.

However, when it came to the end, Li Xiangping of course had no other way, he could neither give up at this time, nor could he find any other reason to give up the game, except for his own hard work, there was no second way to go.

So in this way, in order not to lose too badly in the next game, in fact, it is more important to prevent the stuffing from being beaten back to its original shape, when Li Xiangping returned to China, he immediately devoted himself to intense preparations, and soaked in the Chinese Chess Academy every day these days.

Well, Li Xiangping's posture suddenly made his image more and more tall, and the image of a good boy who was modest and cautious, guarded against arrogance and rashness, and studied hard appeared in front of everyone. It is said that now not only the Chess Academy, but even the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China are preparing to write the following, saying that they want to call on everyone to learn from Li Xiangping, "China's outstanding Go player".

On this day, Li Xiangping was training, and several national team chess players such as Chang Hao, Gu Dali, and Zhou Heyang walked in.

Chang Hao joked to Li Xiangping: "Ha, the master boss is playing music alone?" It's boring to train alone, or you can always give me a face and guide me how to do it. ”

Li Xiangping smiled: "Brother Chang, don't laugh at me, how can I be qualified to guide you." ”

After making a few jokes, Li Xiangping asked again: "What, your game is over, who got the right to challenge in the end?" ”

Li Xiangping is talking about the domestic "celebrity battle", in fact, after the second half of the year, there are also more domestic Go events, especially the top players of the national team, which are even more consecutive in the domestic title battle.

Gu Dali pointed to the other two: "The final competition is not over yet, now the two of them are competing for the right to challenge." ”

"Oh?"

Li Xiangping glanced at Chang Hao and Zhou Heyang, when it comes to the domestic "celebrity battle", then I have to talk about Ma Xiaofei's succession, so far, he has been 12 consecutive hegemons in the "celebrity battle", and in real history, he will defend his title this year, and the 13 consecutive hegemony he achieved is also the longest consecutive hegemony record in the domestic title battle.

Chang Hao, who was qualified to compete for the right to challenge, seemed to be in a good mood, and he continued to joke with Li Xiangping:

"Tsk, Mr. Ma has been dominating a dozen in a row, I really don't know who will end his Lianba in the end, the master boss is the most promising, but unfortunately you rarely participate in domestic competitions, so we don't have many opportunities to ask you for advice, come and come, it's better to choose a day than to hit the day, you can do it today, guide us a game."

Chang Hao and Gu Dali giggled, but Zhou Heyang picked up the chess book that Li Xiangping had just flipped:

"Huh?!" Evening Fragrance Pavilion Yipu"? Aren't you, the master, are the rumors true? Do you really play these ancient scores when you learn chess? Is it really useful to play such an ancient score? ”

"Hehe, I'm just idle and casually flipping through it, as for whether it's useless or useless, I can't figure it out."

Several guys glanced at each other, for Li Xiangping's words, they actually didn't believe it at all, after all, it has been so long, "Li Xiangping has a lot of ancient moves" This has long become the consensus of the Go world, and now I saw Li Xiangping playing ancient scores during training, which made the three of them have a thought at the same time: Do you want to try it too?

After seeing their appearance, of course, Li Xiangping could roughly guess what they thought, but he didn't bother to explain it now. After all, for himself, what he wanted to learn most was actually "dog moves", especially considering the five-game chess with Li Canghao a few months later, and he was still counting on sharpening a few flying knives from the dog fight chess games that he could remember.

However, after a few days of trying, he found that his idea might have failed.

It's not that Li Xiangping forgot those "dog tricks", in fact, in addition to those that have been used, he also remembered quite a lot of dog tricks, but unfortunately the remaining dog tricks are too esoteric and difficult to understand, so profound that even if Li Xiangping remembers the "shape" of these dog tricks, he can't understand the "meaning" for a while.

So for such a thing, in fact, it is not good to use it as a throwing knife, you yourself know a half-understood flying knife, if the opponent is at the same level as you, then half of it may hurt others, and the other half may hurt yourself. And what if your opponent is at a higher level than you? The probability of self-injury may be more than 50%.

At this stage. Of course, Li Xiangping thinks that Li Canghao's level is higher than his own, and his skills are far deeper than his own, which Li Xiangping still has self-knowledge, so he knows that for those dog moves that he has not understood thoroughly, it may be difficult to play the role of a flying knife this time.

It is precisely because of this that Li Xiangping is ready to think of a way from the ancient spectrum. After all, compared to the dog tricks, the ancient score is still much easier to understand, plus he still has such a plug-in as Lao Shi, so he is now trying to see if he can sharpen a few flying knives in the ancient score.

Of course, his thoughts like this are definitely not enough for outsiders to say, so in the face of the inquiries of Zhou Heyang and others, he can only make a haha like this.

Throughout the month of December, Li Xiangping has been trying to sharpen a few flying knives like this, but it is a pity that after working hard for so long, he has not found a flying knife that can make him feel very sure. So much so that in late December, when he went to South Korea to participate in the second stage of the "Nongshim Cup", he seemed to be in extremely poor shape.

Because there were only 4 sets in the second stage of the "Nongshim Cup", Gu Dali also joked with Li Xiangping before the expedition:

"Hehe, masterful boss, you should go alone this time......"

However, in the final result, Li Xiangping lost in the 7th game, he lost to South Korea's vice general Liu Chonghyuk, and this year's "Nongshim Cup" stopped at 6 consecutive wins.

Fortunately, because of the previous 6 consecutive wins, although the chess fans were a little surprised, they didn't blame him too much.

And Li Xiangping himself certainly didn't have time to think too much, because only a week later, he went to South Korea again to participate in this year's "Samsung Cup" final with Ma Xiaofei.