Chapter Ninety-Four: Set Almost
Li Xiaoqiang's victory in this game of chess once again caused a sensation in Japan. Major news media have reported on it. β
"The unstoppable pace of China's mysterious boy"
"The Chinese mysterious boy defeated the hero of Otake in 5 and a half eyes, he really fulfilled his pre-game wild words"
"The collision of the two kinds of Go, the descendants of ancient Chinese chess defeated the representative of Japanese Go"
"Even the Otake Volcano can't stop the indifferent teenager's ice and snow cover"
On the second day after the game, Zhang Zhidong and Zhang Da reporters happily returned to the station with a stack of Japanese newspapers:
"Ha Lu Ha Xiaoqiang, look at you, the Japanese have given you a nickname again, it used to be a mysterious boy, you see, now there is another one. Some people are starting to call you an indifferent teenager, not to mention, this is really more vivid......"
Li Xiaoqiang flipped through it briefly. Although Li Xiaoqiang does not understand Japanese, the title of the article still has a lot of Chinese characters, which can be guessed even by Meng. Sure enough, I saw a lot of words such as "mysterious" and "indifferent".
"You can be regarded as a great prestige of the country, little Japan must be stunned this time, ha, ha, comfortable, really comfortable."
"Are you really a journalist? Your Chinese is taught by a math teacher, what is comfortable, it should be called "cool", understand, "cool"! β
Reporter Zhang Da was dumbfounded, and he didn't know why Li Xiaoqiang, who has always appeared as a good boy, suddenly joked with himself this time.
Zhang Zhidong, who reacted, was very happy:
"Yes, yes, that's a good word." Cool", that's right, hahaha, I'm cool ...... now"
Seeing that reporter Zhang Da looked like a pig brother, Li Xiaoqiang waved his hand angrily:
"Go, go, it's cooler over there......"
Essentially, the regenerate are all solitary. Especially for people like Li Xiaoqiang, he already has his own view of the world and life. After being reborn, it is even more lonely.
Come to this era. Li Xiaoqiang is also able to get in touch with other people's thoughts and opinions, and sometimes he will of course think that other people's views and ideas are "naΓ―ve" and "funny", but most people should be said to be Li Xiaoqiang's "elders". Our classmate Li Xiaoqiang is not a "rebellious" teenager, there are many words and many points of view Li Xiaoqiang is very uncomfortable to listen to, and I want to refute it. But in the end, they will choose to be silent.
There is some silence because Li Xiaoqiang knows that he is powerless to change, and what he says is in vain. There was also some silence, Li Xiaoqiang knew that other people's ideas were wrong. But these ideas are well-intentioned, well-intentioned. For such thoughts, Li Xiaoqiang will also choose to be silent, more hoping that he will subtly influence others. Because of this, in the eyes of others, Li Xiaoqiang is different from other children, he is a very sensible, very smart, and at the same time, a very taciturn child.
It is precisely because of this that everyone rarely sees Li Xiaoqiang joking with others. Not to mention "adults" like Zhang Zhidong, even with peers like Zhao Dabao, they rarely fight together.
When participating in the "Chess Boy Cup", it was precisely because Li Xiaoqiang seemed to be very sensible and had high chess strength that he naturally became the king of children. Liu Erluo, the god pig, they called him "boss" convincingly.
In "Adult", Li Xiaoqiang will also joke with Zhang Zhidong. At first, because of Zhang Zhidong's identity as a reporter, Li Xiaoqiang was still a little resistant. However, after observation, Li Xiaoqiang thinks that reporter Zhang Da is quite reliable, and he is not the same as the "paparazzi" of later generations. His identity as another amateur master gave Li Xiaoqiang a special sense of closeness, thinking that the two were actually the same kind of people.
Zhang Zhidong is actually very famous in amateur Go circles. He is a journalist himself, and his Go reports can often be seen in the "Shencheng Evening News". In addition, in the "Evening Cup", the highest amateur Go tournament in the first few sessions, Zhang Zhidong also entered the top ten several times.
Li Xiaoqiang only knew Lu Dao before, and he didn't know Zhang Zhidong. However, on a later occasion, Li Xiaoqiang participated in the confrontation between Go "gangs" on the Internet. Someone told Li Xiaoqiang that his opponent was Zhang Zhidong. The vest on the Internet is real or fake, and Li Xiaoqiang doesn't know if Lu Dao is real. played two games of chess, one win and one loss, Li Xiaoqiang thought that the two were about the same level at that time. Even if Zhang Zhidong is a little taller, it can't be much higher. Of course, it may also be that Zhang Zhidong's level also dropped a little later. Zhang Zhidong in the back wants to pass the Shencheng qualifiers of the "Evening News Cup", and the difficulty is not ordinary.
Li Xiaoqiang waved his hand and told people to "cool off". Of course, reporter Zhang Da was cheeky and refused to leave, and in fact, there was really nowhere to go. Traveling abroad in this year is different from traveling abroad in the future. I am shy in my pocket, and I don't have much allowance for traveling abroad. There is no other way but to stay honest. In addition to the residency, you can also go to the Japanese Chess Academy, and if you want to learn more about the "amateur cultural life" of the Japanese people, you can't even think about it.
Of course, reporter Zhang Da refused to leave, even if he had a place to go, he would not go. People still think that they want to write an "in-depth" article. Seeing that Li Xiaoqiang began to joke with himself. Such a good opportunity is certainly not to be missed. Reporter Zhang Da began to have nothing to say:
"Xiaoqiang, you know the way, you are terrible now, your fame in Japan has overshadowed Nie Whirlwind. I haven't seen so many newspapers covering a Go tournament at the same time, and it's really rare for you to do that. β
"Oh?"
Li Xiaoqiang stared at Zhang Zhidong suspiciously, and said in his heart, You are too exaggerated, why am I now a celebrity, big and small, and I have made so many movements in the future generations. I haven't seen many newspaper reports.
Zhang Zhidong then explained to Li Xiaoqiang the rules for Japanese news media to report Go events.
In this era, Go in Japan was still very popular. The whole Japanese society is quite supportive of Go. The Japanese regard Go as a traditional oriental culture, so compared with the Chinese and Korean Go circles, it is a little less competitive and a little more cultural.
There are many large and small Go competitions in Japan. The most famous and the most fixed are of course their 7 title fights.
Interestingly, the Japanese refer to their title battles as "news chess battles", because the Japanese Go tournament is supported by different news outlets.
For example, Japan's three biggest title battles, "Chess Holy War", "Celebrity War", and "Honinbo War", are supported by Japan's three largest news outlets, the Yomiuri Shimbun, the Asahi Shimbun, and the Mainichi Shimbun.
The ranking of the size of the chess battles is, of course, distinguished by the size of the prize money. It looks very professional. It stands to reason that the "Ben Yin Fang Battle" has the longest history and is also very influential, but it ranks third in terms of prize money and third in chess battles." The "Chess Holy War" has the highest prize money, so the Japanese "Chess Saint" is regarded as the first person in the Japanese chess world. At that time, Fujisawa Hideyuki stubbornly defended his "chess saint" position, and his results in other competitions were a mess. Although many chess players were not convinced, in those years, Hideyuki Fujisawa ranked first in the chess player rankings. That's why Hideyuki Fujisawa is known as "a good man who only wins 4 games a year".
The Japanese are still a country that pays attention to the order of rank, and the news media hold Go competitions honestly according to the size and circulation of the game. In those days, there was no Internet, and traditional paper media was still very developed. The media with the largest circulation will hold a "chess holy war", and the second will hold a "celebrity war", and so on.
Japan's news media have also spared no effort in covering Go. There is also its own Go section in the newspaper. However, there is also an interesting phenomenon, my own newspaper only reports on the competitions that I host. Ignore other competitions. For example, the news media that hosts the "celebrity" war will never report any news about the "chess jihad". As for the "celebrity war" held by himself, even if it is a tidbit, he will not let go.
That's why Zhang Zhidong said that Xiang Li Xiaoqiang was in such a situation. There is very little coverage of a game of Go in almost all the news media.
Reporter Zhang Da was talking endlessly, and Li Xiaoqiang also listened to it with relish.
Although our classmate Li Xiaoqiang claims to be very calm, he always has vanity.
"It's an international celebrity at last."
Li Xiaoqiang was complacent there, and he couldn't sit still when he was excited. I feel bored at home, so I want to move around. It's a pity that there is really nowhere to go these days. Li Xiaoqiang pulled reporter Zhang Da:
"Let's go around the Japanese Chess Academy."
"Well, well, we should really let more Japanese chess players appreciate the style of our Chinese amazing boys. Ha Lu Ha! β
Reporter Zhang Da was busy getting close to Li Xiaoqiang, and put a high hat on his head one by one.