After the two-set match in the chess city, Li Xiaoqiang and Hua Leader returned to the capital together.

Selected for the squad of the ring match, as long as they have not been knocked out of the ring. During this period, it seems that he is naturally a temporary member of the national team, and no one will object to it in this year. This can be regarded as an unspoken rule in the domestic sports world.

This time, Li Xiaoqiang did not insist on returning to Ganyuan. After all, it is only more than a month before the next game, and according to the current domestic traffic conditions, it is too troublesome to toss back and forth. Besides, it's June, so if you go back now...... What should I do if I was caught by Mr. Hu for the final exam.

Li Xiaoqiang got on the plane and looked for newspapers everywhere with great interest. Of course, he only watched the sports version, and he wanted to see how the domestic media praised him. There is a lot of news about the ring match, and there are also many articles praising yourself.

At first, Li Xiaoqiang watched it very coolly.

"Chinese teenagers proudly compete in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament - remembering the Chinese Go prodigy Li Xiaoqiang"

"National Fortune Chang is Chess Fortune Fortune, 12-year-old Go genius beats Japanese Kudan"

"A new generation of anti-Japanese heroes, remember two or three things about Li Xiaoqiang"

But after watching it for a while, Li Xiaoqiang was bored.

To say that the domestic news media wants to praise a person. The habitual one will use the "tree typical" method. Everyone knows this, and they are familiar with it. In their description, Li Xiaoqiang has basically become a good student who has five stresses, four beauties and three loves. Well, Li Xiaoqiang is a good kid, he studies hard, has good academic performance, and plays Go well. He knows how to be polite, he loves to work, and by the way, he often helps his grandfather and grandmother cross the street......

Of course, some journalists are still imaginative. Because he was competing with the Japanese, the most imaginative reporter actually compared Li Xiaoqiang with Wang Erxiao, a little anti-Japanese hero during the Anti-Japanese War. In his description, Li Xiaoqiang has become the modern version of Wang Erxiao.

At first, Li Xiaoqiang was still smug there. Well, that's a good journalist. How imaginative. Much stronger than Zhang Zhidong. Wang Xiao's predecessor is a hero, and compared with him, then I have also become an anti-Japanese hero? Yes, yes, I like this title. However, Li Xiaoqiang soon found out that something was wrong:

"What do you mean by this reporter, I've won two sets in a row now, and I'm alive and kicking in the game. The king of the people, the little hero, is the most heroic, that is heroic and righteous. Is this reporter praising me or cursing me......"

Li Xiaoqiang's good mood was quickly destroyed.

After arriving in the capital, Li Xiaoqiang also had no distractions and continued to prepare for the war at his own pace. At this time, the focus of the national Go team naturally revolves around the ring. At this time. Li Xiaoqiang also enjoyed the benefits of a national system.

Due to the Go fever driven by the ring match, it is now starting to have a little effect. For professional Go players, the most direct benefit is that the number of Go competitions is slowly increasing. Since the beginning of '87, there have been several more Go competitions in China. The Tianyuan competition at the beginning of the year is counted as one, and Li Xiaoqiang still knows that there is a celebrity competition at the end of the year.

For these games, Li Xiaoqiang still knows it. If you are not taken care of by others, you are not eligible to participate. However, there is still one more competition, and Li Xiaoqiang thinks he may still have some hope to participate. That is the "Top 10 Chinese Go Battles".

Of course, this competition is also one of the highest levels in China. However, its qualification is determined by fan voting. Similar to the starting qualification for the NBA All-Star Game. In the top ten, Nie Whirlwind and the Five Tigers will of course occupy six places. Then the remaining four are really hard to say. Ordinary chess fans can't tell the difference between the level and what. That's more than visibility. Compared with popularity, is there a better stage than the ring competition in this era?

So Li Xiaoqiang thinks that if he wins one or two more Japanese Kudan in the ring. Maybe you will really be selected by chess fans to make it to the top 10. However, the tournament disappeared after a while.

Li Xiaoqiang can think of the top ten battle because the final of the first top ten battle is about to be held. In the final, the two sides were still Nie Ma and Nie Ma. this day. Li Xiaoqiang saw Zhang Zhidong and Zhang Da reporters again. He's here to cover the Final 10 match.

As soon as reporter Zhang Da saw Li Xiaoqiang, he couldn't take care of the top ten competition. took out some newspaper clippings as if offering treasures, and Li Xiaoqiang glanced at them, as if they were some Japanese newspaper clippings.

"Xiaoqiang. Haha You don't know what to do, but now the Japanese Go world is arguing again because of you......"

Yu Bin of the national team came up with great interest:

"What's going on? Take it and take a look. ”

After Li Xiaoqiang arrived in the capital, he quickly had a hot fight with Yu Bin, the "head of the children's group". The members of the national team are adults after all. In daily life, it is impossible to mess with Li Xiaoqiang every day. Coach Luo is very careful, afraid that Li Xiaoqiang will be too lonely. intends to let Luo Shenzhu and Li Xiaoqiang mix every day. But...... There is a generation gap between the two, no matter how Li Xiaoqiang pretends to be, he is still a little awkward in his heart.

Fortunately, the national team has a Yu Bin who likes to play with children, and Li Xiaoqiang also knows a little about the personality and temper of the future head coach of the national team. The two quickly became friends.

In this year, most of the members of the national Go team knew a little Japanese in order to learn Japanese Go. In my daily training, I also like to communicate in Japanese Go terminology. Yu Bin took a newspaper clipping with an exaggerated expression:

"What is written on this one? Has the mysterious Chinese boy grown fangs? Hahaha, Xiaoqiang, let me see, where are your fangs......"

Yu Bin pretended to pounce, looking for Li Xiaoqiang's fangs.

Zhang Zhidong brought some articles from Japan on the ring match. The focus of the report still falls on Li Xiaoqiang. The focus of the report is mainly focused on several aspects, one is to be surprised and puzzled by Li Xiaoqiang's growth rate. On the other hand, it is the technical analysis of those two games. Of course, the most important thing is that the Japanese chess community is evaluating the level of Li Xiaoqiang's Go.

First of all, the Japanese chess community believes that Li Xiaoqiang's level has improved greatly compared to last year's competition in Japan. also admitted that Li Xiaoqiang is a Go genius. But to what extent is Li Xiaoqiang's true level? There is still a lot of controversy in the Japanese chess world.

Fujisawa Hideyuki: His old gentleman has once again become a staunch pro-Lee faction. After he returned to Japan, he wrote an article pointing out that Li Xiaoqiang is currently almost at the level of Japan's "getting started", and "getting started" is seven paragraphs. He also praised Li Xiaoqiang's "overall Go" thinking in the first game. I think that's an advanced Go idea.

"Hands-on" level plus advanced Go thinking. Hideyuki Fujisawa warns that Norio Kudo and Satoru Kobayashi, who are playing in the back, should be careful!

On the same side as Fujisawa Hideyuki are some of Japan's most powerful players. The most influential were Masao Kato and Masaki Takemiya. Interestingly, the two of them happened to be the head coach and deputy coach of the Japanese side of this ring match. Maybe it's because the two of them are also in the ring lineup. So they are also shouting for Norio Kudo to "cheer up their spirits".

There is the "pro-Li faction", and of course there is also the "depreciating Li faction". This time Dazhu didn't jump out, and he basically didn't open his mouth this time. Most of the derogatories were Japanese "Benge-school" chess players. The representative figure is Koji Kobayashi, the current chess saint of Japan.

Kobayashi Koji is known as the "subway stream", and his chess rarely derails. The best at operating safely after the situation is ahead. He is a firm believer in the "barrel theory" of Go. That is, the decision on how much water a barrel can hold depends on the shortest plank. Similarly, in Go, the level of a person is determined not by what skill he has the strongest, but by what skill he has the weakest.

Kobayashi Koji's skills are indeed very average in all aspects, and he looks unpretentious, but he is very difficult to deal with. If it is said that Norio Kudo is the ruler of the nine dans. That Kobayashi Koji is a super-first-class ruler. At that time, many people in the Chinese and Japanese chess circles thought that if someone could defeat Kobayashi Koji in the game. Basically, it can be called super-first-class.

It's a pity that not many people really can do it. Hiroshi Yamashiro almost did it once. So he can only be a strong nine. Ma Xiaofei did it for the first time in 92. It also shows that he reached the super-first-class level in that year. Except for Ma Xiaofei, there is really no other Qiang Jiu who has done it. Of course, there was a year when the 66-year-old Fujisawa Hideyuki did it, so it is very remarkable.

Kobayashi Koji believes that judging from Li Xiaoqiang's performance in two games of chess. His level of play has been up and down. Especially in the second game, which is a three-dan level, that game can be won entirely because of the opponent's mistakes. Of course, in the chess stage, the level ups and downs are understandable. Therefore, it is believed that Li Xiaoqiang has reached the threshold of "high section" at most. That is, on the edge of the fifth paragraph.

Kobayashi Koji has nothing to do with himself, and a reporter came to ask, so that's what he said. The two young chess players were the most fierce. One is Japan's "newcomer king" Ida Kiki, to say that Yida is also more sad. In the journalist's description. Li Xiaoqiang is regarded as a representative of China's cutting-edge. In the same age group, of course, Japan can't find anyone who can compare with Li Xiaoqiang. The Japanese reporter had no choice but to find 21-year-old Yitian and ask Yitian to "say a few words".

Think of others comparing yourself to a 12-year-old. The arrogant Yitian is a little angry:

"Li Sang's level is good, but this time I am on the side of Kobayashi's seniors. I don't want to comment on the rest. The only thing I'm sure of is that he can't be up to scratch right now. ”

Yu Bin read the report while smiling and said to Li Xiaoqiang:

"Xiaoqiang, you know the way. Yitian has just risen to the seventh rank this year. He's saying you're definitely not as good as him, haha. ”

Li Xiaoqiang's dispensable smile:

"What about the other one?"

Yu Bin continued:

"The other one is Kobayashi Satoru. Xiaoqiang, you pay attention, he said that after research, he has found a way to deal with you. If you can get past Kudo, I'd really like to see what special methods he uses against you. Hehe, if it works, I'll learn from it too. ”

"Oh......"

Now Li Xiaoqiang is interested, and he is really interested.

All along, it was Li Xiaoqiang who thought about how to deal with others. I really didn't think that someone would come specifically against me. As the saying goes, bystanders are clear, and they may really have any weaknesses exposed in the eyes of those who care.

Thinking of this, Li Xiaoqiang really hopes to meet Kobayashi Jue.

"I'm really looking forward to it, but it's a pity that there is still Norio Kudo in the middle, which is also a real hard bone."

Li Xiaoqiang was in no mood to talk anymore. All of a sudden, I really wanted to play a game of chess.

"Let's go, let's set up a chess ...... fish head"

Li Xiaoqiang couldn't help but say, dragging Yu Bin away.

Li Xiaoqiang tightened the winding again. (To be continued......)