"For 5 years, I'm waiting for you to sit in front of me!"

After Li Xiaoqiang made such a declaration, he refused to say anything else. As for commenting on young chess players or something, no matter how the reporter asked, Li Xiaoqiang didn't open his mouth.

Li Xiaoqiang is not a person who likes to talk about it, and if he speaks again, it will easily turn into a war of words. Li Xiaoqiang thinks that the war of words also depends on the object, and competing with several young chess players, Li Xiaoqiang is completely lacking in interest. As for Song Taikun, Li Xiaoqiang remembered a comment made by Lao Nie in his previous life:

"This Song Taikun doesn't know how to play chess......"

To be honest, Li Xiaoqiang thinks that Lao Nie's words are a bit excessive, and this sentence shows the true character of "Nie's big mouth". But Lao Nie can say this, because Lao Nie's status in the rivers and lakes is there.

Although Li Xiaoqiang's current status in the rivers and lakes is already very good. But if you are called "Li Dazui" in a few years...... Li Xiaoqiang felt that he couldn't afford to be hurt.

After dealing with reporters, Li Xiaoqiang focused on the current game. Throughout June, Li Xiaoqiang has two most important tasks, one is the upcoming 11th "Fujitsu Cup" Top 8 Tournament. The other is the first two rounds of the 2nd "Samsung Cup".

The "Fujitsu Cup" is at the beginning of the month, the "Samsung Cup" is at the end of the month, and it just so happens that the matches are all held in China, the "Fujitsu Cup" is in Beijing, and the "Samsung Cup" is in Shencheng. Li Xiaoqiang believes that only this kind of top-level competition is truly his own stage.

For the next "Fujitsu Cup" top 8 match, almost everyone is optimistic that Li Xiaoqiang can easily advance.

This sentence can now be considered nonsense. Now that Li Xiaoqiang is participating in the competition, of course, he can get more people's favor before the game. Now it can be said that in addition to chatting with a few people, anyone who beats Li Xiaoqiang is considered an underdog.

The reason why everyone thinks that Li Xiaoqiang can "easily advance" this time is because his opponent this time is Xu Bongsu, who is a chess player who has not played with Li Xiaoqiang many times, but has never played Hu in Li Xiaoqiang's hands, and is the most convinced by Li Xiaoqiang.

In his previous life, Mr. Xu Bongsu was a super fan of Li Shifo, a professional chess player, and he had a famous saying about Li Shifo: "Shifo can do anything, how can he play this chess......"

However, in this life, Li Xiaoqiang seems to have replaced Li Shifo's position in Xu Bongsu's mind. Because his "famous saying" has become: "Li Shifo can do anything, but Li Xiaoqiang not only knows everything, he plays chess more ruthlessly than me, how can he play this chess ......"

Seo Bong-su has a characteristic of playing chess, he is very energetic in playing chess for those he thinks he can deal with. And once he thinks his opponent is invincible, he can easily lose his fighting spirit in the game. Now many people know this characteristic of him, and this has become the reason why many people think that Li Xiaoqiang can easily advance.

In fact, everyone's understanding is not unreasonable, in the viewing room, many people watched the game with a relaxed mind. As early as the morning, after watching the previous game process, reporter Zhang Da laughed:

"Lao Xu, what's going on today? The dignified field officer commander, how could he play such a decent game today. It's rare to see him play chess so honestly. Is this Lao Xu scared of being beaten by Xiaoqiang? Or is this Lao Xu's new kung fu? ”

Li Xiaoqiang, who was in the game room, didn't have this feeling, and he responded calmly step by step. This is Li Xiaoqiang's mentality is different now. Now Li Xiaoqiang is different from before, when Li Xiaoqiang met a well-known master, he played chess very passionately, and he would always rack his brains to try all kinds of ways to meet his opponent.

But now Li Xiaoqiang is more calm, and has the temperament of a soldier to block the water and cover the earth. This is a kind of self-confidence, and it is also a natural manifestation of Go after the level of Li Xiaoqiang has reached this level.

As for Seo Bong-so's play today, is this the strategy he adopted in this game? Or is he really timid? Li Xiaoqiang didn't know, and he wasn't interested in knowing. Or maybe it's both.

But no matter what Mr. Seo Bong-so thinks in his heart, it turns out that his method today is not a good idea. A well-behaved Seo Bong-so, a field officer commander who loses his "wildness" in the game, his combat effectiveness will only plummet, and his competitiveness will only be lower.

That's the way it was in today's game. He didn't even hold out to 100 hands in Li Xiaoqiang's hands today.

98 moves!

When Li Xiaoqiang dropped the 98th move of this game, Xu Bongzhu saw that he was powerless, and he happily chose to admit defeat in the middle game. In this way, Li Xiaoqiang entered the semifinals again in the second World Series this year.

Li Xiaoqiang, who is already a six-time champion in the world chess world, is of course not a big deal for him to enter the semi-finals now, no one will take this as news, and Li Xiaoqiang himself does not take it seriously.

What Li Xiaoqiang is really interested in is the draw for the semifinals after the top 8.

In addition to Li Xiaoqiang, the other three players who entered the top 4 this time are Li Shifo, Chang Rensheng and Japanese chess player Naoto Hikosaka. Li Shifo defeated Ma Xiaofei to advance, Chang Rensheng defeated Zhao Zhixun to advance, and Naoto Hikosaka eliminated Cao Yanzi to advance, which was also the only game in the top 8 that could be called an upset.

Before walking into the lottery venue, Li Xiaoqiang joked with reporter Zhang Da:

"I have a hunch that I will most likely meet Li Shifo in the semi-finals."

"Fifty percent probability, what's the hunch on this?"

"No, I feel that the probability of me drawing Li Shifo this time is more than eighty percent."

"I said Xiaoqiang, how are you like a woman now."

Li Xiaoqiang was furious: "Reporter Zhang, tell me clearly, what do you mean?" ”

"You don't know what the "sixth sense" is that only women pay attention to every day, I said that you are a big man, is it interesting to have a premonition every day. ”

“……”

When the draw came out, Li Xiaoqiang was slapped in the face, and his opponent in the semifinals was not Li Shifo, but Japan's Naoto Hikosaka "Ten Duan".

Reporter Zhang Da smiled, he teased Li Xiaoqiang:

"I said Xiaoqiang, I told you a long time ago. Being a god stick is not a very promising career, do you think you can really pinch it? ”

Li Xiaoqiang ignored reporter Zhang Da, he just fixed on looking at the other pair of semi-final combinations. Of course, Li Xiaoqiang's "hunch" is not without reason, and the reason is in the combination of Chang Rensheng VS Li Shifo. Because this is the final combination of this year's "Fujitsu Cup" in real history.

By the time Li Xiaoqiang was reborn, the world chess world had already held hundreds of world championships. In other words, there have been hundreds of World Series finals. With so many finals, even if Li Xiaoqiang is a senior chess fan, he can't remember every final so clearly.

But in some classic finals, Li Xiaoqiang still remembers it deeply. For example, the final of the first "Ying's Cup" may be known to many people who are not chess fans. In addition, there is also the 7th "Toyo Securities Cup" Ma Xiaofei and Li Shifo classic showdown, and the 3rd "Samsung Cup" Ma Xiaofei to Li Shifo for revenge unsuccessful battle. The "LC Cup" Li Shifo's big reversal against Li Shishi, the same "LC Cup" Li Shishi and Gu Dali staged the "4,000-year Armageddon" and so on.

Of all the finals, there were not many classic finals due to the fact that the "Fujitsu Cup" was a single-set tiebreaker. But the lack of classics doesn't mean that some competitions aren't significant. For example, in the eyes of veteran chess fans like Li Xiaoqiang, the battle between Chang Rensheng and Li Shifo in the "Fujitsu Cup" in real history in 98 years is a game of great significance.

One of the key words in that final was "unjust case". That game of chess, Chang Rensheng, really lost a little unjustly.

Although it is said that in the "dark decade" of Chinese Go, there are many unjust cases that happened to Chinese chess players, which were reversed by Da Li and overturned by Xiao Li. In short, as long as "unjust cases" are mentioned, it is always the Chinese chess players who are injured.

And Chang Rensheng's "injustice index" against Li Shifo's game, may be except for Kong Erjie's game against Xiao Li, Kong Erjie ran to "fight the general" because of time constraints in the case of winning, because a "general" was finally slaughtered by Li Shishi...... In Li Xiaoqiang's view, this game of chess may be the most "unjust". And if Kong Erjie's plate is the "first unjust case", then Chang Rensheng's plate is the "second unjust case"

Near the end of the game, Chang Rensheng had already achieved a very obvious advantage, and that advantage was not ordinarily big, just when everyone thought that Chang Rensheng was about to win, he made a very simple mistake, a mistake below the level of amateur early stage. He didn't see a simple "double call to eat", resulting in a local loss of 3 to 4 moves.

Even so, the chess at that time was extremely delicate. According to the research of the laboratory, if Chang Rensheng finally played all the orders, he still had the possibility of winning for half of the eyes. It's a pity that Chang Rensheng made a big mess after making a mistake, and he lost 1 and a half goals in the end of that game.

Judging by the final result, the significance of this game is very significant. Because after losing this game of chess, Chang Rensheng has actually opened up a gap with Li Shifo, and he is powerless to challenge Li Shifo. That is, starting from that game of chess, Chang Rensheng and Ma Xiaofei began to rush to lose against Li Shifo, if you come to a six-game losing streak, I will dare to have a ten-game losing streak. And Chinese Go also entered the darkest age with the performance of the two of them.

"Hehe, I don't know what will happen to the two of them this time? There shouldn't be any more unjust cases, right? I don't think so......"

During the lottery ceremony, Li Xiaoqiang was so cranky. Of course, Li Xiaoqiang has reason to think so, first of all, Chang Rensheng is now meeting Li Shifo in the semifinals. Although it was a competition, it was clear to everyone that the semi-finals and the finals were completely different. Not only is the meaning of the game different, but so is the pressure on the players.

There is another reason for Li Xiaoqiang to think that the possibility of an unjust case is extremely small. That reason is himself. Even if Chang Rensheng loses to Li Shifo, what does it matter? Isn't there still yourself in the back?

For the current Chinese Go, he is like the existence of the god of the sea! As long as they are here, Chinese chess fans will only remember one victory after another in the future, and will not remember any unjust cases.

Just when Li Xiaoqiang was standing on the stage with a surging heart, he didn't know that he was despised.

"This guy is in such a daze, what the hell is he thinking......"

Reporter Zhang Da looked at Li Xiaoqiang on the stage with disdain. (To be continued.) )