On the first weekend of June, the top 8 of the "Fujitsu Cup" was played at the China Chess Academy. △↗，

Since the first World Professional Go Championship appeared in '88, it has now entered its fifth year. In the past few years, although the distribution of world champions has been relatively even, the three Go powerhouses of China, Japan and South Korea have their own world champions. However, in the stage of 8 into 4, Chinese chess players were able to occupy half of the seats, and they were able to overtake Japan in terms of numbers, which was the first time.

In fact, this also indicates that some kind of change is quietly taking place in the world chess world. If winning the world championship represents the height of a country's Go level, then how many seats you can occupy in the top 8 or top 4 represents the thickness of a country's Go level.

In the past, Japan was undoubtedly the No. 1 country in terms of thickness. But this time, in the top eight of the 5th Fujitsu Cup World Professional Go Championship, the number of Chinese players surpassed that of Japan for the first time. This change may not explain anything, and some people think that it is just an accident, but in any case, it is a breakthrough in Chinese Go.

The game is held in China, and Go is currently a popular event in China, so there is nothing to say, even if it is only the top 8 match, the court TV sports channel has also decided to broadcast the game live. And I am ready to broadcast 2 games of chess at once.

Of course, as a TV station, they just come up with a certain amount of time for live broadcasting. As for which 2 games of chess are explained, they don't care. It's up to the chess institute to decide.

After a brief discussion, the chess academy decided to explain the two games of Ma Xiaofei and Liu Dazhui on the TV station this time. Li Xiaoqiang and Dazhu Hero did not hit the game.

To say that the choice of Liu Dazhui is very understandable, there are Chinese chess players participating in all 4 games. Three of them are confrontations between China and Japan, and one is confrontations between China and South Korea. Since you can explain two games, then Liu Dazhui vs Cao Yanzi must be singled out and talked about in this game of China-South Korea.

Che Zewu vs Wang Licheng This game, considering the fame and attention of the opponent, cannot be compared with the other two sets, so this game is excluded. In fact, the chess academy only made a choice between Ma Xiaofei and Li Xiaoqiang.

Why didn't you choose Li Xiaoqiang, who attracted more attention during this time? For this issue. Team Leader Hua explained to the TV station like this:

"I'll just ask you, do you still have a live broadcast in the semifinals?"

"Well, we all know from the sports channel that there are two types of viewers that cannot be offended now, one is football fans, and the other is Go fans. If there is a major game that is not broadcast live, then we will be scolded. As expected, I think the semi-finals will still be live. Of course, the premise is that the Chinese chess players have good results. If there is not a single Chinese player in the top 4, the station will definitely not broadcast live. ”

"That's it. This time listen to me right, we broadcast Ma Xiao's chess live, Ma Xiao's impact is super first-class and very interesting, I believe chess fans love to watch. As for Xiaoqiang's game, we still leave it until the semi-finals to broadcast live, and we can't always let him play alone......"

In this kind of optimism, the game between Li Xiaoqiang and Dazhu Hero began.

Although Li Xiaoqiang's game of chess was not selected for TV, after the start of the game, at least during the 2-hour game in the morning. This game still attracts the most talk.

What is a little surprising is that these discussions are all triggered by Mr. Otake Hero this time.

An hour after the start of the game, that is, around 11 a.m., the first game was transmitted to the research room. In this year. Influenced by Japanese Go, most people play at a slow pace. A format of 3 hours per side such as the International Chess Tournament is considered too fast by many Japanese players. For example, the four chess games that have just been passed into the research room, and the others have only a dozen or twenty moves. Li Xiaoqiang and Dazhu are faster under this plate. So far, it has been down more than 30 times.

The more lots you have, the more you can discuss, so you're starting out. Everyone is talking more about this game.

"What does Otake mean by that? The starting two eyes are outside, and they are diagonal outside the eyes, this kind of opening has never been seen. He played very unrestrainedly, and actually played a plate of amorphous layout. Could it be that this is the method he deliberately used to deal with Xiaoqiang? Then again, it might be okay to use this weird way against someone else...... For example, if you deal with me, then I definitely don't know how to play. But if it is used to deal with Xiaoqiang, this method may not work. ”

"Hehe, Mr. Otake seems to like this kind of opening very much this time, such as the game against Mr. Lin Haifeng in the Ying's Cup, he also used a similar opening. He won that game beautifully. He should have his own experience in this way, and from this point of view, his choice today is not surprising. ”

Yes, there is really nothing surprising that a professional chess player has won a game with a certain move, even though it is rare, and no matter how bizarre it may seem. Then he used it again against other chess players, which is also very normal in the professional chess world. So at first, the discussion was limited to that, and it wasn't until another person ran into the lab that the discussion escalated again.

The person who came in was the golden boy teacher of the chess academy, who was a staff member of the chess academy and an amateur powerhouse in the capital. Mr. Jin also has a unique characteristic, he has rich experience in refereeing, and has served as the actual referee of many major competitions.

It should be said that in a major game of Go, the nominal chief referee is often a well-known chess player, but the person in charge of the actual referee is often a person like Mr. Jin.

"I feel a little wrong, Xiaoqiang and Dazhu's game of chess, is the chess clock broken, it's been more than an hour, why is the time recorded on Xiaoqiang's head? But Dazhu didn't walk for a few minutes. No, no, there must be a problem here, and the most likely thing is that the chess clock is broken. ”

Oh, and the chess clock is broken? After hearing Jin Tongshi's words, everyone didn't care about discussing the technical problems of Go. Let's solve this problem first. That's a big problem. You must know that this is an international competition, and the organizer is Japan, and the Chinese Chess Academy is only hosting. If there is really a problem with the chess clock, not to mention the fairness of the game, the ability of the chess academy to organize the game will also be questioned.

What is the first step to do now, of course, is to confirm whether the chess clock is really broken.

"No, the chess clock is not broken, Mr. Otake is so fast, almost every move he makes is a second beat. I was very surprised when I sat next to him, and I didn't know what happened to him today. So so far, he really only took a few minutes, and you can't go wrong! And the rest of the time is really used by the boss. ”

It was Chang Rensheng who said this, and he and Zhou Dayang acted as assistant referees for this game of chess, and to put it bluntly, they served as notators and were responsible for counting seconds. When he was quietly shouted out from the chess table and asked about the "chess clock incident", he said the above with certainty.

Well, the chess bell incident turned out to be a false alarm. However, Otake's actions escalated the discussion in the research room again.

"What does Otake mean by that? Choosing an amorphous layout, and going down so fast, with a scorching and pressing posture. What did he want to do? Do you want to mess up Xiaoqiang's rhythm? Or do you want to overwhelm each other in momentum? Hehe, that's too pediatric, isn't it? I think now, if Dazhu only has such a trick today, he will definitely be disappointed, then he will be in trouble today, and he will inevitably not know Xiaoqiang too much. ”

I don't know who said such a sentence in the research room, and many Chinese chess players present laughed. Indeed, after so many years, everyone knows Li Xiaoqiang very well.

Li Xiaoqiang has never been a "genius chess player" in the traditional sense, and in terms of chess speed, his reaction is never as fast as Ma Xiaofei or Luo Shenzhu. Of course, Li Xiaoqiang's chess speed is not slow, and he is not the super slow type. What Li Xiaoqiang is really commendable about is his super stable rhythm. This is one of the biggest strengths he has had since his debut. In the words of Hideyuki Fujisawa, the old god stick:

"With the precision of a clock, Li Sang has long been a first-rate winner and loser."

If someone tries to disrupt Li Xiaoqiang's rhythm with the speed of falling stones, countless facts in the past have proved that this will not be successful, and it is very likely that his rhythm will be destroyed. Therefore, today, Mr. Otake Hero seems to have picked up this trick to deal with Li Xiaoqiang. Many Chinese players laughed, thinking that Dazhu would not succeed.

Of course, in a game of Go, whether you choose an unusual opening or the speed of your moves. None of this is the point. What really matters is these pieces that fall on the board, are these good hands or bad hands? This is the key to determining the quality of the game.

After another half hour or so, the second game was sent to the research room. At this time, there were more than 40 moves on the board. So what is the situation now?

At this time, there were no more chess players in the research room to comment, and many people set their eyes on Nie Whirlwind.

Indeed, under normal circumstances, the layout phase of Go is the most difficult to judge whether it is good or bad. Especially at the level of Li Xiaoqiang and Dazhu Hero, at this stage, it is generally difficult for them to make that kind of obvious evil move. As a result, it is more difficult to judge the merits.

Having said that, since Otake today adopted an unusual opening. The so-called unusual means that it is relatively rare, and since it is rare, then everyone will not be familiar with this kind of chess. What is the hardest part of Go? It's judgment, and it's even harder to judge a situation that most people aren't familiar with. Therefore, at this time, everyone can only focus on Nie Whirlwind, and everyone wants to hear the judgment of authority.

In the research room, Nie Whirlwind carefully analyzed the chess game, and at this moment, he seemed to have encountered a problem. After thinking about it for a while, Nie Whirlwind's brows furrowed, and he sighed lightly:

"I almost understand Otake's intentions now, and I feel like I'm going to be against calculations! This should be Otake's strategy for this game of chess. That's right, in my opinion, this should also be the best way for Dazhu to deal with Xiaoqiang, today's game of chess, there is something to watch......" (to be continued......