In mid-September, Li Xiangping, along with four other Chinese chess players, went to South Korea to participate in the round of 16 of the "Samsung Cup".

After all, it was only the round of 16, so everyone seemed relatively relaxed, and during the trip, everyone talked about another thing that had just happened in the Go world.

"What do you say? Liu Chonghe's wife died? Still the cause of death unknown? ”

"Yes, he died unexpectedly in his bathroom, but according to the preliminary investigation of the Korean side, I heard that his wife suffered from postpartum depression and died unexpectedly in the bathroom after excessive drinking......

Li Xiangping listened silently to everyone's chatter next to him, and like many other chess fans, he felt sorry for this former "No. 1 attacker in the world".

Although Liu Chonghe is Korean, he was born as an amateur chess player, and only entered the professional chess world at the age of 18 as the runner-up of the World Amateur Championship, and then won many professional championships, and then walked to the peak of his life to marry Bai Fumei..... Tsk tsk, that's exactly what it is. The standard sling wire counterattacks the perfect image.

It is precisely because of this that the vast majority of ordinary chess fans actually have a special sense of closeness to this Korean king.

Li Xiangping knew that after this incident, the super chess player with a gorgeous chess style and described by Koreans as "as strong as the sun in early summer" has never recovered, and a generation of Go superstars has officially fallen, and with the fall of this one, Li Xiangping couldn't help but look at the player Yu Bin-----

Because up to now, the only "post-60s" chess player who still maintains a very high level and is still active in the professional front line is actually the only one left. (Of course, Li Xiangping's "active in the professional frontline" here is to exclude Japanese chess players)

After everyone arrived in South Korea, they still saw Liu Jiuduan at the opening ceremony, because in this "Samsung Cup", he also reached the top 16, and his opponent was China's Wang Lei Baduan.

Everyone expressed their comfort to Liu Jiuduan, but in fact, apart from this, everyone couldn't do anything else for him.

After expressing his condolences to Liu Chonghe, according to the usual practice, it was naturally the time for the chess players' "pre-game speeches", because this happened, so most of the chess players spoke very briefly, and Li Xiangping saw that his opponent this time was in Nabalabala, and Li Xiangping didn't know what he was talking about.

Li Xiangping whispered to the accompanying translator: "Brother Li, what is he talking about?" ”

The "Brother Li" in Li Xiangping's mouth is not a full-time translator of the chess academy, but a young man in his early 20s who was temporarily invited from the embassy, and is also a chess fan.

“..... He said, gambling on the dignity of Korean Go, he will fight you to the death this time....."

"Brother Li" propped up his glasses and continued to translate to Li Xiangping, and he smiled when he spoke:

"He also said that after careful research on you, they have found your weaknesses, so he has the confidence to fight you this time."

"Oh? Hehe. ”

"Xiangping, what are you laughing at?"

"It's nothing, it's just a joke at how Koreans are so lacking in vocabulary, you see them, even when they say big things and show their determination, they always repeat these few sentences."

"Hahaha......" Li Yi almost didn't laugh out loud, he smiled and said to Li Xiangping:

"Okay, when you come to power, I see you say that."

"I can't," Li Xiangping shook his head like a rattle:

"If you want to say this kind of determination, I will accept one person if the rest of the Go world is not convinced."

"To whom?"

"Old Teacher Nie Nie, who else can he be."

Li Yiyi couldn't help laughing again, and his face was swollen and red, and he could see that he was holding it very hard, and Li Xiangping also laughed with him.

In fact, if you really want to talk about it, in this regard, in addition to serving Lao Nie, Li Xiangping also serves another person, this is Ke Shaoxia in later generations, but Ke Shaoxia hasn't made his debut yet, so he can't tell outsiders.

"I'm going to make Jingshan's blood splash in five steps!"

"I think Lee Sedol's probability of winning is 50%, yes, if it is 100% in total, I think he has a 50% chance of winning this time......"

Look, look at what Ke Shaoxia said, what a heart-wrenching and varied way it is, which Koreans can compare, and there are always a few sentences over and over again.

It's just that having said that, although Ke Shaoxia is already very good in this regard, in Li Xiangping's mind, he is still not as good as Lao Nie:

"Is Lee Sedol playing chess? That's where he throws stones. ”

"Well, I know Song Taikun, a chess player, this young man doesn't know how to play chess......"

Look at what Lao Nie said, how natural this is, how natural, compared with him, Ke Shaoxia's words are more deliberate, so in Li Xiangping's mind, it is still Lao Nie first, and Ke Shaoxia is second.

Finally, it was Li Xiangping's turn to come to the stage to "say a few words", well, as the runner-up of the last session, in the case that the champion Ma Xiaofei was already out, he made the finale this time.

After taking the microphone, he first found his opponent Yuan Shengqin in the crowd, and then said with a smile:

"I just heard from my opponent that he has found my weakness, which makes me very happy, and at the same time, I am full of expectations for tomorrow's game, and I am not afraid to tell everyone the truth, in fact, so far even I don't know where my weaknesses are, so I hope that my opponent will not hesitate to give advice and point out where my weaknesses are......"

Well, I must admit that Li Xiangping thinks he is really an honest boy, because what he said today is really a big truth, so far, he really doesn't know where his weaknesses are.

Of course, at this time, who wants to say that Li Xiangping's skills are not particularly profound, and his own strength is not enough to compete with all the top masters, so Li Xiangping certainly has to admit it, but this is not a specific technical weakness after all, is it?

If you talk about specific technical weaknesses, then Li Xiangping himself really doesn't know.

Originally, under normal circumstances, Lao Shi should be the one who knows his weaknesses best, but everyone understands Lao Shi, except for patting Li Xiangping's ass, he almost never clearly points out specific weaknesses.

It is precisely for this reason that Li Xiangping actually wants to know where his weaknesses are, and he really wants to know!

Otherwise, he would not have been able to say such a thing on such an occasion.

So will tomorrow's opponents be able to do it?

Well, although it can't be said that it is completely impossible, Li Xiangping doesn't have much hope, it's not that he looks down on his opponent and thinks that this strength is not enough to find his weakness.

It's really because there are two souls in my body, and before this, most of the games were played by Lao Shi------

At least Li Xiangping believes; Even if young Korean chess players study themselves, they must be mainly studying the chess played by Lao Shi.

is as strong as Li Canghao, and it was only after so many rounds with Lao Shi that he caught a little bit of Lao Shi's weakness in the later stage.

So in the face of himself who is more mysterious and completely different from Lao Shi's style, then Li Xiangping really doesn't believe it, just a "meta fist" that has not yet fully matured, he can now discover his weaknesses?

On the second day of the match, before walking into the game room, Li Xiangping was still thinking about this:

"Brother Ding'an, let me ask you, what are the weaknesses of my chess so far?"

"Hehe, Xiangping Xiaoyou is extremely talented, he is really a brilliant person, what is the weakness, don't listen to other people's nonsense."

"Let's take a look and see if it's coming again, I said Brother Ding'an, you guy is obviously an ancient, how can you be so unancient? In modern times, is it so difficult to even tell the truth? ”

"There's really nothing.... Okay, the time has come, Xiangping Xiaoyou is ready to play, so let's do it, if you win this game of chess, then I'll tell you what I think. ”

"Really?"

Li Xiangping suddenly became energetic:

"Haha Ding'an, look at it, with your words, you see how I cut my opponent off the horse."