At the end of the second game, in the face of Li Xiangping's first time and routine "asking for praise", Shi Daqisheng smiled:

"Hehe, Xiangping Xiaoyou, congratulations."

"Haha, rejoicing and rejoicing, Brother Ding'an, how about it, my last cold move, should still be able to enter your eyes, right?"

"Well, the last move you won was an ordinary tesuji ear, and the technical difficulty was not very great."

"Hehe, Brother Ding'an, how do you speak."

"Hehe, Xiangping Xiaoyou, don't hide it in front of me, I know you're so excited now, of course, it's not because of how the winning player is, congratulations, Xiangping Xiaoyou, today, you finally look like a winner."

Li Xiangping hehe, hey silly music, as Lao Shi said, for today's victory, what made him the happiest was really not a special technical gain.

After all, although his final winning move is "cold", it is just a one-step kill, the function is relatively simple, and the technical difficulty is not particularly large, if today's game of chess is regarded as a topic, Li Xiangping thinks that at the level of Zhang Da reporter, he will most likely be able to discover this means.

What really makes Li Xiangping happy is that he thinks he has gained something in other aspects.

If you want to say that although Li Xiangping is a gentleman, he is by no means the kind of gentleman who is completely unreasonable, he is still quite self-aware.

When he was learning chess in his last life, his chess talent had long been unanimously recognized by the Go community, and all the teachers who taught him to learn chess praised his talent, but why did he never play the professional rank?

This is, of course, because his psychological quality is not good, he has never been a qualified winner, reflected in the real game, Li Xiangping is the kind of person who can only play Shunfeng chess, once he encounters adversity, it cannot be said that he is completely helpless, but in the vast majority of the time, in adversity, he basically cannot play his normal level.

This is the main reason why he failed to set the stage three times in a row.

And Li Xiangping himself knows this.

In fact, it is precisely because of this that Li Xiangping likes to "ask for praise" in front of his plug-in.

Li Xiangping has always believed that in fact, as a traverser, he must be extremely lonely in his heart, because the traverser has too many secrets that he can't share with outsiders, and it is the kind of secret that his closest relatives can't share, so in many cases, he can hear a little truth in front of Lao Shi.

For example, up to now, the outside world has praised Li Xiangping, saying how he is "amazingly talented", and he is a super genius that has been rare in the Go world for many years. So does Li Xiangping like to listen to these words?

Well, in the first two years, Li Xiangping still enjoyed this kind of touting, because it greatly satisfied his vanity.

However, now, to tell the truth, Li Xiangping is no longer satisfied with the face that these old Shi have helped him earn, he is eager to have the glory that truly belongs to him.

To use an inappropriate analogy: Li Xiangping now feels that he should be able to rely on his talent to eat now, but the praise from the outside world never says how talented he is, but just praises him for being handsome......

So obviously, Li Xiangping is of course happy to be praised for being very handsome, but a boast is praised for several years, and there are always a few words over and over again, so even if the vanity is strong, you will get bored when you hear it too much.

He will be eager to hear something new, just like Lao Shi just said: "You are finally a bit of a winner now", which is what Li Xiangping cares more about in his heart. And in this case, he will definitely not be heard by the outside world-----

It is precisely for this reason that as soon as Li Xiangping ends each game of chess, he habitually communicates with his plug-in first.

However, today, Li Xiangping did not communicate with his plug-in for a long time, because the game is not over yet, Li Xiangping has just equalized now, and there is no rest day between the 2nd game and the 3rd game, and the 2nd day is about to be a tiebreaker, so after a brief review with the opponent, Li Xiangping immediately tensed his nerves and prepared for the decisive game.

"Reporter Zhang, what's the situation over there?"

"Hehe, Da Li still has a lot of experience in pinching Lao Zhao, 2 to 0, Da Li has already booked a place in the finals"

"Oh."

After knowing that this was the case, Li Xiangping was no longer interested in caring about the detailed process over there. After all, Da Li defeated Lao Zhao, which is also expected by most people, although in real history, Lao Zhao is the real winner of this championship, but now that there is a butterfly like Li Xiangping, he instigated his wings to change the status quo of the world chess world, which is not strange even to Li Xiangping himself.

"Alas, it's either Da Li or Xiao Li, in fact, if you think about it, in addition to the variable of yourself, the pattern of the entire world chess world has not changed much, if you don't have yourself, then the world chess world is still the world of South Korea's big and small Li, I really don't know how many years I have to fight with them, I hope I won't drop the chain......"

Li Xiangping thought for a while, if he can win Xiao Li tomorrow, he will face Da Li again in the World Series finals, and in just over 3 years, he has competed with him so many times.

Well, this may seem like too much, but this is the current situation in the world chess world today.

Think about it in real history, Da Li has won more than 20 world championships, and Xiao Li has more than 10 in his hands, and the two of them together are close to 40 world championships.

In addition, the two have won so many runners-up, especially Da Li, who broke the record nine consecutive runner-up after 05 years, and at the same time achieved the championship Grand Slam, he also achieved an unprecedented runner-up Grand Slam.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that in fact, once you reach the final of the World Series this year, there is almost half a probability that you will meet one of the two of them.

On the evening after the game, because the second day was about to be a tiebreaker, and because the venue was set up in one of Samsung's own training institutes, Li Xiangping was bored and slipped to the reporters' residence.

"What are you doing?"

Seeing Li Xiangping coming, the "sports" reporter Xie smiled: "What else can I do, of course we are all rushing to the draft, since Xiangping is here, then you come over to take a look, how about we write like this?" ”

Li Xiangping happily watched the reporters busy, and after a few casual glances, he smiled:

"Li Xiangping staged the return of the king, and defeated Lee Sedol with a clever hand and refused to lose in a row......"

"The second game of the Samsung Cup semifinals: Li Xiangping said to Lee Sedol: I just took a nap the day before yesterday ......"

After seeing such an article, Li Xiangping smiled and said: "Hehe, the title party, I finally see it now, you people, all of you are some title parties, what king returns?" This game hasn't finished yet, so this is the return of the king? Look at this article again, please make up nonsense and make it up, okay, let me tell Lee Sedol? Can me and him say something like that? ”

Lao Jia of "Huaxi News" laughed and laughed: "Haha, there is no way, who makes Go niche, how can it be done if you don't exaggerate, how about Xiangping, tomorrow's game is no problem, right?" ”

Li Xiangping said: "How can I say this well, haven't you all watched the game, the first game lost without temper, and the second game was also very thrilling, so it is still the same sentence: confident but not sure, for tomorrow's chess, I must have the confidence to win the game, but the opponent is not an idle person, winning or losing mainly depends on tomorrow's on-the-spot performance." ”

"Hehe, you are so modest, Xiangping, you are so modest," reporter Zhang Da nodded at Li Xiangping, and then said to the other colleagues with a smile:

"I've always thought that Xiangping is a good person, but he looks too old, and every time I talk to him, I forget that he is only 16 years old this year, don't you think?"

All the reporters nodded yes and agreed with Zhang Da's words. Seeing everyone's appearance, Li Xiangping said in his heart That is of course, the psychological age of the buddy is more than thirty, is it really a little fart child, this is actually the distress of the traverser, I am obviously not a little fart child, but sometimes in order not to be too shocking, sometimes I still say something in line with the identity of the little fart child, alas, this person is still tired of living.....

Thinking that Li Xiangping had no interest in chatting, and considering that there was a game the next day, he quickly said goodbye to everyone and went back to recharge his energy to prepare for the next day's tiebreaker.

The second day came soon, on November 24, 2003, this year's "Samsung Cup" semi-final tiebreaker, Li Xiangping VS Lee Sedol, in this game, can Li Xiangping create a record of 8 finals in two years? Success or failure is here.