The match between Li Xiaoqiang and Liu Dazhui has been going on until 4 p.m. Due to the stalemate, the whole game room was a bit dull. At this time, Li Xiaoqiang adjusted his posture slightly to make himself sit more comfortably. Then began the longest long test of the game.

"What are professional chess players doing in the long run?"

To be honest, the "long test" of chess players is not complicated. Except for Masaki Takemiya's 5-hour long exam that is inexplicably similar to "zazen". The long test for professional chess players is nothing more than two situations. The first is "I don't know where I am under the road", because I haven't found a good selection point, and I hope to find out the best "next hand" through my "long test". The second is that there are too many places to choose from, so I hope to choose the "best solution" through my "long test".

To tell the truth, there are not many cases where professional chess players "don't know how to play". Everyone's long test is more of the second situation. Li Xiaoqiang's "long test" today is a bit complicated and interesting. His "long test" was caused by the first situation, but when he thought about it, it seemed that the second situation had appeared. It was because of this that he thought about it a bit long.

To be honest, Li Xiaoqiang chose the "thick" method in front of him. Of course, the original intention was not to "avoid the battle", and when playing against Liu Dazhui, he never thought that he could completely avoid the battle. The reason why he chose this way was that he didn't want to "fight for the sake of fighting", and Li Xiaoqiang reminded himself before the game not to blindly take the initiative. Among them, choosing a "thick" play also wants to put yourself in a good position in possible battles.

Li Xiaoqiang is like an inexperienced hunter, pretending to wait for his opponent's attack. Waiting, waiting, waiting until 4 p.m., waiting for more than 100 moves on the chessboard, the expected battle scene did not appear at all......

At this time, Li Xiaoqiang felt that he couldn't wait any longer. If you don't provoke a battle, it's too late, after all, you have a "deficit" in metrics. But when Li Xiaoqiang was ready to "take the initiative". The first situation appeared, and he couldn't find a good choice at all, so he had to take the test for a long time.

Li Xiaoqiang's eyes kept patrolling the chessboard, refusing to let go of every corner, and still did not find a suitable force point. Of course, if you want to "exert force", you must first have a goal, Li Xiaoqiang doesn't even have a goal now, how can he exert his strength?

Say a thousand and ten thousand, a battle in Go. It's all caused by a question of life and death. No matter what the ultimate goal of the battle between the two sides is, it must be a matter of life and death for war to appear on the chessboard! As big as the life and death of a big dragon, as small as the life and death of a chess piece. The question of life and death of one's own chess piece, the question of life and death of the opponent's chess piece, the question of life and death of large and small, and all kinds of life and death problems. All this is the origin of all battles in Go.

Therefore, Mr. Wu Qingyuan will say that life and death are one of the essences of Go.

There is no question of life or death on the chessboard. But the game continues. If Li Xiaoqiang wants to win or lose, it seems that there is only one way left:

"Wai!" Fence in the air! "Rodeo" on the board.

"Zhan" and "Wei" are the two most important ideas in Go. The means of "wei" in Go are often reflected in its officials. So Mr. Wu Qingyuan will say. Guanzi is another essence of Go.

According to Li Xiaoqiang's understanding, Master Wu's theory of "essence" is actually the "battle" and "siege" in Go.

Strictly speaking, whether it is a "war" or a "siege". They are all inseparable completely, they often have you and me, and I have you. It has a "high degree of uniformity". There should still be a consensus on this issue. But who is the main one? There should always be a "primary and secondary problem" in this. Truth be told, it is this "primary and secondary issue" that is the single biggest point of divergence in Go and the source of all controversies in Go. People have been working on this question for thousands of years.

In the end, it is mainly based on "war" or "encirclement". This has been a topic of debate. It has also formed two main schools of Go, one is the "fighting school" and the other is the "Pick-out Stream". Interestingly, the progress and development of Go is actually a spiral development and progress in the constant collision and competition between these two schools. It is precisely these two main schools of thought that present a variety of "chess styles" with different styles to the world. Make the ancient intellectual game of Go full of charm.

Ancient Chinese chess was generally "belligerent", and fighting was the mainstream at that time. However, among the ancient Chinese chess players, there were also "non-mainstream", such as Cheng Lanru, one of the "Four Great Masters of Go" in the Qing Dynasty, whose Go level was only one line worse than Huang Fanshi. He should be regarded as a "picker", and Xu Xingyou is similar to him. Pushing forward further, among the "three major factions" in the Ming Dynasty of my country, there are actually many "pick-and-shoot streams". Bao Yizhong, the ancestor of the Yongjia faction, is a "fighting faction", and Li Pu and Li Da Devil of the Jingshi faction are "fighting faction". Cheng Ruliang, the outstanding representative of the "Xin'an faction", is the only one who can compete with Li Da Devil, and he is an out-and-out "eye-picking".

In Japanese Go, it should be counted from Xiuce, and "Picking the Eye" has become the mainstream of Japanese Go, but in Japanese Go, there are also many "fighting factions". From Zhangwa to Sakata, from Sakata to Kato, in these people's chess, there should be a little more "force" component.

In this day and age, since Japanese Go was an out-and-out hegemon, their mainstream ideas must have influenced many people. Not only professional chess players are affected, but ordinary chess fans are actually affected. Naturally, the "militant faction" was ignored, even despised. This situation did not change until the turn of the millennium.

There is no doubt that Li Xiaoqiang is a staunch "fighting faction". He knows the future development trend of Go, and if he doesn't closely "keep up with the trend of the times", then he is an out-and-out big fool. Our Li Xiaoqiang is obviously not a big fool, not only is he not stupid, he actually has his own ideas.

Li Xiaoqiang is a person who takes "great grandmaster" as his goal. The development of "eye-picking flow" to the extreme should be the "control flow" like Li Shifo and Kong Erjie. In their game of Go, "picking the eye" is the main thing, and "strength and quantity" is the supplement, and the priority is very clear. The highest performance of "picking the eye" is the "refinement" of Go. It must be admitted that there should be a limit to the "refinement" of Go.

"He was always able to find the half of the eye on the chessboard that others couldn't see."

This is Cao Yanzi's evaluation of his apprentice. All right. Even if Li Shifo can be as fine as one-sixth of the mesh. If he wants to find the "half-eye", does he need 3 such means? Among them, what if someone escapes one......

The "Nine Lianya" behind Li Shifo should have such a problem in it. Because of his appearance, the level of officials in the entire Go world has been raised to a higher level as a whole. When everyone is already very familiar with him, his advantage in this area is getting smaller and smaller. Li Shifo is actually aware of this problem, so he wants to make changes later. Li Xiaoqiang speculated that he did not want to change his "control flow". He just wants to make a breakthrough in the "force quantity", so as to improve his "control flow" level as a whole. It's just a pity that he wants to make a change again. The years have not given him a chance.

It must be admitted that there should be a limit to the "refinement" of Go. And there is no limit to the "battle" in Go. People's understanding of the "battle" of Go has not only not developed to a very high level, but is even in a "primary stage". A "control flow" without force can only be a joke. Unfortunately, the later generations of Japanese Go seem to have become such a joke.

"You Li Shifo is very good, you can be accurate to one-sixth of the eye, of course I, Li Xiaoqiang, am not as perverted as you. But thanks to you, I already know a lot about the information you revealed. According to my IQ, it should still be possible to be accurate to one-third of the mesh in the future. Even if your official can win half of my eyes, but ...... If...... My strength is better than half a glance for you......"

Li Xiaoqiang has always believed that "war" is also good. "Wai" is also good. These two things go hand in hand. The true flow of control must not favor one over the other. Trying to find a balance in this area is the path of a true master.

"If you can really play that kind of chess, is it the legendary "Liuhe no Go"......

Of course, this is just Li Xiaoqiang's dream. He didn't have any dreams of such mystical things now. After Li Xiaoqiang confirmed that there was no possibility of war on the chessboard, his thinking naturally turned to the aspect of "encirclement". Li Xiaoqiang's long examination has focused on the selection and comparison of various closing plans.

For professional chess players. Doing such a "plan" is obviously a compulsory course, and Li Xiaoqiang will definitely be no exception. Now it's about 100 moves, and even if this game reaches the end of 200 moves, there are still 100 moves left. Will Li Xiaoqiang be able to come up with the best ending plan? Li Xiaoqiang is self-aware, of course he doesn't think he has that ability. Even if it was this kind of pure closing scene, he didn't think he had that ability.

Interestingly, before this era, including this era, there were still many chess players who thought they had this ability. 100 moves began to end, and it was often seen in chess games in this era. 100 moves is too late. "More than 70 hands know the endgame" used to be a myth of Japanese Go, a myth about Japan's "chess saint" Zhangwa. Li Xiaoqiang has always scoffed at such "myths". It's a pity that there are many people who believe in such myths.

Not to mention others, even Fujisawa Hideyuki, an old god, seems to believe in this myth. He once mentioned one of his games in his autobiography. His opponent in that game was Mr. Sakata. After more than 100 moves in the chess game, it entered the official stage, and that game of chess Fujisawa Hideyuki was slightly behind. He mentioned that during the game, he had already calculated the order of the closing games and counted more than 100 chess moves, no matter how he calculated it, he was a little worse. But there was no other way but to start the end in the best order. What's even more terrifying is that Mr. Sakata's closing order is actually the same as he expected, and the score is exactly the same. In this way, his old man lost the game.

Seeing this, do you think that both of them are gods? Not only did one person calculate it, but both sides of the game actually calculated it correctly, which is really a mountain up. Out of trust in this old god, Li Xiaoqiang believes that Mr. Fujisawa Hideyuki is not bragging, and what he described should be true. It is precisely because of believing in his words that with the improvement of his level and knowledge, Li Xiaoqiang feels that even if it is the level of officials, Japanese Go has not developed to a very high level, in other words, these two Go masters who basically represent the highest level of Japanese Go, their official level should still be one grade worse than the official level of later generations.

Of course, the value of the official can be measured by the "number of meshes", if only the size is differentiated. Their words should be understandable. Let's not talk about means such as the "chessboard enlargement method", which is the "official test hand" commonly used in Li Shi's Buddhist scriptures, so that the complexity of the official increases geometrically.

Is the real "best order" so easy to figure out? It can be understood in this way that the official technique of this era is a kind of "linear official", and the future official technique will be a "compound official". The best order of "compound officials" is definitely not so easy to find.

In any case, Li Xiaoqiang still knows a little bit of a "compound official". In the second half of this game of chess, Li Xiaoqiang used his "compound official" to maneuver with Liu Da Hammer.

The chess game was still going on step by step, and in the viewing room, Zhang Zhidong was still insisting on watching the game, and at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, only Ma Xiaofei and Qian Yuping were the only two chess players who accompanied him. The rest of the people are pretty much gone.

Indeed, the whole chess game seems to be still going on plainly, at this time. There are no unexpected whimsical ideas, no earth-shattering hands and wonderful hands, and the various tesufers used by both sides seem to be ordinary road goods.

For such an official scramble. Obviously, not many people are interested, and for most people, it is enough to know the final result of this game.

Reporter Zhang Da is actually a little boring, this game is a domestic competition after all. He's certainly not as engaged as he is watching international games. If it weren't for the fact that he had a good relationship with Li Xiaoqiang...... Around 5 p.m., the game was played with nearly 150 moves. Zhang Zhidong even yawned:

"Xiaoqiang's game of chess shouldn't last long. You must know that when everyone left just now, they had already judged that the black chessboard was only 2 to 3 goals ahead at most. To win, Xiaoqiang needs to retrieve at least 3 moves. Such a simple situation would have been similar if I had gone up and played white. Sledgehammer is in very good shape right now. It's hard for Xiaoqiang to chase it back, right...... Hey, hey, what are you two doing, and why do you look like you're seeing a good show? ”

Qian Yuping's eyes sparkled, and he seemed to have found his soulmate on a chessboard:

"Tsk, wonderful, wonderful! It turns out that the order of the officials is combined in this way. Xiaoqiang's official collection is very exquisite, it's really strange, is there a mistake in our judgment just now? The official with a sledgehammer is obviously normal, why is the chess game so subtle? ”

Ma Xiaofei is also elated, unlike Qian Yuping, as long as he sees Liu Dazhui deflated, he will definitely "gloat":

"Hahaha, I don't understand, Xiaoqiang's official is obviously so powerful, he always has to fight with others for something. With his level of officialdom, even if you and I go up, we may not be able to win, let alone the brute bull of the sledgehammer. ”

In this era, Ma Xiaofei and Qian Yuping have always been considered the two strongest officials among Chinese chess players. It is not surprising for Ma Xiaofei to say this.

"What's the matter, the sledgehammer was dug up by Xiaoqiang again? Tsk, I said this sledgehammer is such a thing, the last time it was picked up by someone else, how could he fall twice in the same place? ”

"Hahaha, Xiaoqiang didn't dig a pit today, he is a real official technique, an official technique that transcends the times! Tsk, eye-opening, it's really an eye-opener, it turns out that officials can actually be collected like this, a few ordinary officials, through the clever order of combination, actually have such great power. ”

"I really didn't expect that there was a one-shot chess hidden in this "saline-alkali land". Xiaoqiang can find this move, not only requires a clever order, but also a rich imagination. Amazing, amazing"

Zhang Zhidong was stunned and looked at the "double wall" of the young Chinese Go player. I don't know why they are so excited about it. He wouldn't understand that for Ma Xiaofei and Qian Yuping, seeing a delicate official order was even more shocking than seeing a mid-game master.

In the game room, the game moves towards the end step by step. Li Xiaoqiang is still looking for the best order. (To be continued......)

PS: It's hard to describe a chess game without a specific "ultimate", it seems that there is a problem with my material selection, hehe. Not only are there not many updates during this time, but the quality is not very good. The author himself is not very satisfied. Please forgive me.

From the Chinese New Year to the present, because he knows his own problems, he never dares to ask for a monthly pass. Hehe, the little "temperance" that was already pitiful was almost ruined by himself. It is no longer interesting to emphasize some subjective and objective reasons.

Tomorrow is April, so I'm here to ask for a variety of tickets for next month. If nothing else, I just want to put a little pressure on myself and see if I can break through the current bottleneck. In any case, I'm going to keep updating next month. The number of words updated each month should be at least 150,000 to 180,000. That's my goal.

I am deeply touched now, and after the interruption, not only the people who read it have lost their fun, but also the people who write have lost their feelings. It's a terrible thing.

Please support me a lot, thank you.