In the semi-final tiebreaker of the 3rd "LG Cup", Li Xiaoqiang vs Li Shifo, when the game was going on until about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the air in the research room was filled with a tense atmosphere. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Today's research room is still full of masters, and everyone is divided into two lineups, China and South Korea, to study the chess game separately.

On the Chinese side, everyone is headed by Ma Xiaofei, supplemented by Yu Bin, Hua Leader, who led the team to South Korea to compete, and reporter Zhang Da and others. On the Korean side, Cao Yanzi, Liu Changhyuk and other top Korean masters are on the list.

"How's it going, what's the situation right now...

Since more than 3 o'clock in the afternoon, reporter Zhang Da has kept repeating this question, while Ma Xiaofei, Yu Bin and others have frowned, except for constantly fiddling with chess pieces on the chessboard, they have not answered reporter Zhang Da's question positively.

Compared with the solemn atmosphere of the Chinese lineup, the Koreans in the laboratory seemed a little more relaxed.

"Shi Buddha in order to win Li Xiaoqiang, this chess is really hard. . . ."

After Liu Changhe sighed at the chessboard, he looked up and asked Cao Yanzi:

"Cao Guoshou, now the black chess board is about 8 meshes, my judgment is fine, right?"

In the decisive game, Li Shifo guessed the black chess, and Liu Changhe said that "the black chessboard has 8 meshes", that is, he thinks that Li Shifo currently has an advantage of about 1 and a half meshes.

Lao Cao seemed to agree with Liu Changhe's judgment, but his expression was still nervous:

"The normal judgment should be like this, if someone else goes up, for example, if I go up to practice white, I may be desperate now, but today it is Li Xiaoqiang who is white, until the last moment, anything can happen on the chessboard...

The game continued, and as time went on, the situation became simpler and simpler, but Li Xiaoqiang's situation showed no signs of improving. After 4:30 p.m., the discussion in the laboratory gradually changed.

Xiaoqiang really doesn't seem to have any fate with the "LG Cup". Even reporter Zhang Da has almost seen the current situation clearly, so he no longer asks others what the current situation is, but says something like this.

Team Leader Hua continued:

"If you want to beat Xiaoqiang, especially in the chess match, strong strength, adequate preparation, and good play are indispensable, but in this competition, Li Shifo has done all three things, so there is nothing to say if you lose this chess. But be vigilant, be vigilant, I feel that the current Li Shifo is completely different from before. After a few games of chess, there was no chance to see Xiaoqiang decently, which was simply unthinkable in the past. ”

Team Leader Hua said that it was Yu Bin's turn to speak:

"Li Shifo is still powerful, just when everyone thought that Xiaoqiang had already ridden the dust, he was catching up with the rhythm in this regard. I don't know if my feeling is right.,Just look at these 3 games of chess.。。。 I even think his overall strength has a vague upper hand. ”

Ma Xiaofei was the last to stop researching, and when others had already started to discuss, Ma Xiaofei was still on the chessboard to help Li Xiaoqiang find a way. After listening to Yu Bin's words, Ma Xiaofei also spoke:

"It may not have the upper hand, but this time Li Shifo's progress is obvious to all. In the past, everyone compared him to Xiaoqiang, but no matter how he said it, he was a little worse than Xiaoqiang, but now it seems that he can at least really keep up with Xiaoqiang. ”

Approaching 5 o'clock in the afternoon, on the side of the Korean lineup, Liu Changhyuk asked Cao Yanzi again:

"Cao Guoshou, my current judgment is still 8 eyes on the black chessboard, there should be no problem now, right?"

Lao Cao, who had been tightening his face, finally smiled at this time:

"No problem, it should be no problem now...

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, in the face of the gap that he could never catch up, Li Xiaoqiang calmly accepted the fact of failure.

In the game room, when Li Xiaoqiang stopped the clock and conceded defeat. Li Xiaoqiang, who is already very familiar with Li Shifo, came to a sentence:

"I didn't expect your current chess to become like this."

Li Shifo responded with a smile: "This is all forced out by you." ”

Li Xiaoqiang was silent, after so many years of career, he didn't care much about winning or losing once or twice. But this loss made Li Xiaoqiang feel a little special.

This is a Li Shifo that Li Xiaoqiang has never seen!

Whether it is in his previous life or in this life, Li Xiaoqiang has never seen Li Shifo at all!

At this time, Li Xiaoqiang even remembered that in real history, Li Shifo, who was in his 30s, and Li Shifo during the "Nine Lianya" period, also tried to change his chess style.

"At that time, you also tried to change the style of chess, but unfortunately it didn't work out in the end, what did you want to become at that time? Perhaps, probably, this is what it is now... ”

I don't know why, after playing this three-way chess, Li Xiaoqiang even had such an idea.

Looking at Li Shifo sitting opposite again, Li Xiaoqiang didn't know what it was like. Since entering the professional chess world, Li Xiaoqiang has attached great importance to Li Shifo, and it is true that he regards Li Shifo as his biggest rival. It is an undeniable fact that he has been "one step ahead" since he was a child, and has always suppressed Li Shifo in terms of overall performance. In fact, in Li Xiaoqiang's subconscious, he has always thought that he is slightly stronger than Li Shifo.

In other words, he has always maintained a subtle psychological advantage over Li Shifo.

This psychological advantage, even in 1996, when Li Shifo had the best results, Li Xiaoqiang never lost it.

"You're doing well now, that's because I'm in a slump, and when my condition improves, we'll come back to practice at that time...

Maybe even Li Xiaoqiang himself didn't realize that the above thoughts were actually thoughts hidden deep in his subconscious.

It is undeniable that this kind of thinking actually gave Li Xiaoqiang great benefits, and he was able to defeat Li Shifo at every critical time because of a voice in his subconscious that told him:

I'm better than you!

But Li Xiaoqiang now finds that the psychological advantages buried deep in his subconscious seem to be disappearing now.

The reason is very simple, the current Li Shi Buddha is a Li Shi Buddha who I don't know at all, and I have never seen Li Shi Buddha at all. Because he is a reborn, Li Xiaoqiang believes that no one knows Li Shifo better than himself, and his psychological advantage is precisely based on "understanding".

Therefore, when Li Xiaoqiang found that his advantage was not there, his advantage on the psychological level naturally disappeared.

"Li Shifo, Li Shifo, what do you want me to say? I originally thought that after defeating you, I would be able to live a stable life for a few years, but I thought that I would need to wait until Li Shigu and they rose to power before they could threaten my position. I really didn't expect that it was you who challenged me the strongest again, and you even appeared in front of me with a new look... Then let's continue to fight, you Li Shifo can improve, I believe that I, Li Xiaoqiang, will definitely be able to become stronger... ”

Li Xiaoqiang's "LG Cup" journey stopped, and the defeat of this trilogy, in addition to making Li Xiaoqiang feel a lot of feelings and give birth to some realizations, the reaction of the outside world was far more enthusiastic than Li Xiaoqiang imagined.

After Li Shifo won this victory, the reaction of the South Korean media is needless to say, and many Japanese media and even Chinese media have praised him:

"Thank you Li Shifo! It was he who made the world chess scene at the end of the century interesting and lively again... ”

"Under the terror of Li Xiaoqiang, it was Li Shifo in the end! It was he who was the first to tear a rift ... ”

"At present, the term lonely as snow is very popular, because of Li Shifo, and now we can finally say: Li Xiaoqiang does not have to worry about being lonely like snow...

It is not unreasonable for everyone to be so excited, due to the defeat in the "LG Cup", Li Xiaoqiang finally failed to enter the final of one of the four world competitions in the year, and his dream of achieving the "Grand Slam" was shattered again.

The end of this trilogy was already mid-November 1999, and in less than one and a half months, the finals of the four World Series this year, except for the Fujitsu Cup, will be held one after another.

Among them, Li Xiaoqiang will participate in 2 and Li Shifo will participate in 2.

Among them, "Qiu Ju Cup" Li Xiaoqiang vs Cao Yanzi, "LG Cup" Li Shifo vs Ma Xiaofei, "Samsung Cup" Li Xiaoqiang vs Li Shifo.

There is no doubt that the contest between Li Xiaoqiang and Li Shifo in the last three sets of the "Samsung Cup" final will once again become the top priority of the entire world chess world. (To be continued.) )