In the 1st round of the Tengen War. Li Xiaoqiang defeated Shao Baduan of the national team with a brilliant hand. It caused a small sensation in the Go circle, but it didn't make too many waves.

Zhang Zhidong wrote a large report. The text is extremely full of exaggeration. almost praised Li Xiaoqiang as having nothing in the sky and on the earth. It's a pity that the manuscript was mercilessly shot by their editor-in-chief.

The reason is simple, Shencheng Evening News is one of the organizers of the competition. Of course, I hope that there will be impartiality in the reporting. After all, this is a domestic competition, and if you praise one side, you are actually belittling one side. Of course, an article with obvious tendencies like reporter Zhang Da will not pass, and it is natural that it will be taken down.

Hit by this, reporter Zhang Da was depressed. He felt a little sorry for Li Xiaoqiang. I didn't even want to shoot a sycophant. Therefore, on the next day's rest day, I didn't dare to meet Li Xiaoqiang.

However, reporter Zhang Da is obviously a heartless person. When the draw for the second round comes out. Zhang Zhidong finally couldn't bear it anymore, and rushed to Li Xiaoqiang's residence:

"Ha Luha, Xiaoqiang, do you know who you met......

Li Xiaoqiang looked at Zhang Zhidong with eyes like an idiot.

Zhang Zhidong came to his senses and smiled embarrassedly:

"I forgot that the lottery was to be drawn by myself. I thought ......"

"What do you think, do you think I'm illiterate, I don't know how to read? Don't even know people's names? ”

Li Xiaoqiang seemed to be in a good mood and joked with reporter Zhang Da:

"I said Zhang Da reporter, I see that you have nothing to say today. The focus of the second round should be that game, you should go over there to catch the news. ”

"Hehe, it's inconvenient, it's inconvenient now."

After the first round of matches, the top 8 of the qualifiers will be determined. Jiang Zhujiu actually smoked with Rui Weiwei, and of course everyone knew the identity of their lovers in the Go circle. And they are at the same level, and it's really hard to say whether they win or lose. This naturally aroused everyone's strong interest. But in the 80s, of course, everyone had a gossip heart, and the cheeks were definitely not as thick as those of later generations. Zhang Zhidong's "inconvenience" is of course normal.

Li Xiaoqiang also drew a female chess player in the second round. She is the later Mrs. Chang Zhang Xuan Qiduan.

In later generations, if there were two female players in the quarterfinals of any high-level tournament at the same time. That must be worth writing about, but in this era, in the Chinese chess world, it seems to be a normal thing.

This is not to say that the level of male chess players in this era is low. It's that the level of female chess players in this era is very high. It is so tall that it is not much different from male chess players.

Needless to say, Brother Xia's level is needless to say. In fact, in this era, Nie Xuanfeng's ex-wife Kong Baduan, Cao Dafang's wife Yang Baduan, including Zhang Xuan's Qiduan. Their level is almost the same.

In the early 90s, Chinese female chess players defeated Japanese super-top chess players not once or twice. Masaki Takemiya, the hero of Otake, and later Kiki Ita, have all lost to Chinese female chess players.

Not to mention Rui Weiwei, if it is said that winning a game is a little serendipitous. That chess battle must be convincing. She once won Cao Yanzi and Li Shifo in the "National Hand Battle" in South Korea.

South Korea's "national hand fight" is a very influential competition in their country. Cao Yanzi is revered as "Cao Guoshou" in their country. Rui Weiwei once served as South Korea's "Rui national player". At that time, chess fans in China and South Korea were not happy.

Li Xiaoqiang didn't think that he drew Zhang Xuan's seventh section as a good sign. However, when I saw Zhang Xuan's seventh paragraph, I naturally thought of Chang Rensheng. There have been several interesting stories between them.

What is Chang Rensheng's level now? Li Xiaoqiang didn't know very well, because he hadn't seen him for a long time. However, Li Xiaoqiang estimates that he can't let others go first. His level must have improved as much as Luo Shen Pig and them. This can be seen from the game with Luo Shen Pig a year ago.

Although I won that game, I can say that I picked it up. At that time, I just felt that it was very difficult for me to mess around.

Li Xiaoqiang believes that due to his appearance, the level of Luo Shen Pig should be higher than that of the same period in his previous life. In the ascending stage of Go, there is a difference between having a role model and not having one.

For example, in a relatively closed small county, if the highest level there is karma 3, it is difficult to produce a karma 4. If there is one karma 5, then there will be several karma 4 fluttering. That's where the bellwethers come in.

In the same way, in their previous lives, Chang Rensheng was already the highest level among their peers. If you don't compete with adults, progress will be slow. Now that they have themselves as a leader, they know the gap between the Tao and themselves, and they will naturally work harder. They are all highly talented in Go. There is a goal, talent, and hard work, and it is difficult not to improve.

"Does he need revenge in the future?"

Li Xiaoqiang suddenly thought of a very funny thing.

In his previous life, when Chang Rensheng entered the national junior team. wants to be let by Zhang Xuan to have two sons. When I saw Zhang Xuan, I wanted to call him "Teacher Zhang". Later, they became husband and wife, when Chang Rensheng had become the leading big brother of domestic Go and was ready to attack Li Shifo. Zhang Xuan decided to give up his Go career and prepare to be a virtuous helper. In this way, chess skills are naturally rusty.

Chang Rensheng, thinking that he was given up by his wife when he was a child. This kid always wanted revenge, so he proposed to let the two sons "play a game" with Zhang Xuan. Mrs. Chang was obviously wise, and immediately saw through Chang Rensheng's conspiracy, and expressed contempt for Chang Rensheng's plan to bully her, a "housewife". That was a resolute disagreement. Chang Rensheng's conspiracy went bankrupt and was helpless.

Zhang Xuan's seventh section is 8 years older than Chang Rensheng. In the Go world, there seem to be many couples with women and men. Kobayashi, a Japanese super-star chess player, is 13 years younger than his wife.

One year, in an international competition. Chang Ren Shengzhi white half eyes reversed Kobayashi Koji. After the game, in order to comfort the old-timers who were reversed by themselves. Chang Rensheng made a joke:

"When I met Mr. Kobayashi in this competition, especially after I guessed the white chess, I knew that I had won."

Everyone hurriedly asked what was going on? Chang Rensheng is not in a hurry:

"You think, Mr. Kobayashi's wife is 13 years older than him, and my wife is 8 years older than me. 13 minus 8 equals 5. So he can only have 5 more meshes than me, you have to know that I am white, how can he win with 5 more meshes. ”

Everyone laughed loudly, and Kobayashi Koji's depression of losing chess also diluted a lot.

According to the level that Zhang Xuan once made Chang Ren Sheng's two sons. Li Xiaoqiang thinks that his level is still a little worse than others. But it doesn't matter if Li Xiaoqiang is now, anyway, everyone's level is higher than himself.

Through the first round of the competition, Li Xiaoqiang has a deeper understanding of the following games. It's not that self-confidence is stronger or anything like that. Li Xiaoqiang is very rational, and he calmly analyzed:

It's certain that your strength is the weakest, but it's not that you don't have a chance. For example, in the last game of chess, what made Li Xiaoqiang most satisfied was not the most brilliant move, but that he was able to think of counterattacking in front.

This counterattack is actually beyond his normal level and belongs to the category of super-level play. can have such a flash of inspiration, one is my own efforts during this time, and I have a good sense of chess. The second is that I have a wide horizon. Go in this era is still very different from later generations. It seems to be a very common way to play in this era, and some tricks seem strange to me. It's not that these moves are bad, but I don't usually pay attention to the quality of some of them. It can only be said that it increases the chance of "a flash of inspiration".

If you want to win chess, first of all, you must fully play your level. If you can't do that, don't talk about it.

Counting on the level of the opponent not to play? It doesn't seem to be reliable. This is the second round, and winning the first round shows that the opponent is in good shape.

Then you have to count on your own "flash of inspiration". Super level play. This one is even more unreliable, and the master's chess does not have so many flaws for you to catch.

If you want to catch other people's flaws, it is best to take the initiative to increase the probability of your opponent revealing flaws.

"What can I do?"

Li Xiaoqiang was pondering.