Mixed peanut trees, grass grows warblers fly, this is the most beautiful spring March in the south of the Yangtze River. ↑, in such a season, another highlight of the world chess world, the 2nd "Ying's Cup", known as the "Go Olympics", opened in Shencheng, China.

"Xiaoqiang, you didn't tell me yesterday that if you want to win the Ying Cup, who do you least want to meet? Don't worry, now that there are no outsiders, you can't talk to me in private......"

"Who else can there be, it is naturally Nie Lao. Alas! You can also see the first 3 sets of the final of the Tianyuan Tournament, and in terms of content, I was completely defeated. If I hadn't grabbed Nie Lao's spoon in the second set, the current score would be 0-3, and my Tianyuan title would have been handed over now. ”

The opening ceremony of the 2nd "Yingshi Cup" was very grand. Although the opening ceremony of this competition was not as good as the first competition, it was held in the Great Hall of the People. However, as the highest prize money, the top Go tournament held by the Chinese is naturally very attractive, not only many heavyweights in the Go circles of China, Japan and South Korea gathered in Shencheng, but many big names in the system also appeared in the opening ceremony.

As many people come, the opening ceremony will naturally lengthen. Fortunately, no matter how long it is, there are times when it passes, for example, now, although the opening ceremony has not yet ended, and now the last part of the opening ceremony is underway: the draw ceremony for the first round of the competition.

But this is nothing more than Li Xiaoqiang. You know, Li Xiaoqiang is a seeded player. Li Xiaoqiang, as a seeded player who has clearly replaced Jiang Zhujiu for a long time, directly entered the second round. Therefore, he can sit in the audience and whisper to reporter Zhang Da.

"Most afraid of Lao Nie? Doesn't that why you think Lao Nie is the most likely to win the championship this time? Hehe, but if you're only afraid of Lao Nie, I think you're quite hopeful, because in this kind of world competition, it's difficult for domestic players to meet in advance, at least before the semifinals, it's difficult to meet players from the same country. If you can really win the Ying Cup, it will be amazing. That's the equivalent of a golden slam in tennis. The entire world chess world is likely to enter an era of Li Xiaoqiang, which is exciting to think about. It's rare for you to have no ideas yourself? ”

"Li Xiaoqiang's era? Hehe, you really dare to think about it. However, I think it's too early to talk about this issue, and even if I can win this Ying Cup, I can't talk about the Li Xiaoqiang era. ”

"Why?"

"Judging from the few games of chess in the Tianyuan Competition, in the first half of the game, the gap between me and Nie Lao is still obvious. Against other top players, I don't have much of a technical advantage at the moment. Don't look at me all the time ago. That's because they don't have the right mentality, and they are not so familiar with my chess moves. Now it's different, now I'm the target of everyone, my chess is being studied by everyone, and it's not so easy to win when I play with them. Especially Nie Lao, now I think ah, as long as he can play his level normally, Nie Lao will be quite difficult to deal with. I don't think there are many people in the world who are his opponents. Of course, an important premise in this is that he needs to be able to play normally, and it is not good to always put out the spoon......"

"That's as you want it to be. You don't have much hope of participating in the Ying Cup this time. ”

"Hey, I said why are you so extreme. Against the other top players, I'll admit that I don't have any absolute technical advantage and I'm not sure I'll win against them. But if they want to win a game against me Li Xiaoqiang, it's not so easy. ”

"Haha, you kid ......"

While others are drawing lots. Li Xiaoqiang and reporter Zhang Da sat in the audience and bragged and fart. What they are talking about now is actually the "positioning" that Li Xiaoqiang gave himself. To say that although Li Xiaoqiang has won 2 world championships in a row, he is still very sober about his positioning.

If you ask a professional chess player, what is the most difficult technical part of Go? Ninety percent of professional chess players will tell you:

Judgment. The hardest part of Go is judging!

Judge the size of each place, judge the life and death of the present and the future, and most importantly, judge the strength and disadvantage of the situation at every moment to decide the next direction. To be able to become a professional chess player, there is certainly a gap in calculation, but it will not be much wider - if there is enough time. However, judgment is always the hardest, and calculations don't solve all problems, they just give you countless options. Every astray path seems to be lurking with traps, and every fork in the road seems to lead straight to victory. And when playing chess, you always have to make an idea and make a choice. And there are always only two outcomes behind the myriad of choices, victory or defeat.

The chess game is like this, and so is life.

Li Xiaoqiang believes that theoretically speaking, the older the chess player, the higher the bonus points on this indicator. This should be an objective law of Go.

Therefore, most young chess players always rely on the courage of youth to open up and close as soon as they debut, judging from the examples of famous chess players in the past, such as Masao Kato, Masaki Takemiya needless to say. Even Kobayashi Koichi liked to fight in a big way when he was young, rather than the later subway stream. At that time, the way to win chess was to bet on whether the calculation and energy of the young people could tear through the defense of the old guys. Sharp enough to pierce the barrier, it was hyped up by public opinion. Of course, most of them are still glorious, but there is still hope. When he is older, he has more experience, he holds the authority, and he changes his role to train the next generation.

And the seniors, in the face of the energetic descendants, always have to make a calm and peaceful attitude, staring at the inevitable mistakes of the young people who are playing well, put down with a punch, and then pretend to be calm, speak calmly, and say proudly:

"Look, old fellow's skill."

Well, this is the law of the growth of chess players in the professional chess world before this, for a long time. In real history, this situation continued until the appearance of Li Shifo.

When the bigwigs used this routine to train Li Shifo......

What a tragic and interesting scene this is, the bigwigs have safely passed the layout, prologue and mid-game, wondering why there are no twists and turns, looking up at the sluggish face of the child opposite, a trace of uneasiness trembled slightly in his heart.

They suddenly realized that they had fallen into the maze of officials of this strange young man!

Retreating, constantly retreating, as if enchanted to follow the stone Buddha step by step, entering the official before the bright and concise road to victory is hazy, until the great advantage of the game is sent to half defeat.

Instead of using computing power for attack and killing, it is better to use it to calculate reliable officials, in Li Shifo's view of Go, after all, attack and kill can be avoided. It is inevitable that officials will be officials, this is Li Shifo's choice, and this is the direction he chose to win chess for himself.

In this world, the pattern of the entire world chess world is of course even more different, because there is one more Li Xiaoqiang in the world chess world!

Li Xiaoqiang has insight into this situation, in essence, Li Xiaoqiang's choice of cultivation path is the same as Li Shifo's, starting from the second half of the game and consolidating his skills in the second half of the game, which is the basis of all victories. Then push from the back to the front and slowly improve your mid-front disc technique.

Unlike Li Shifo, Li Xiaoqiang also has his own advantages, that is, his knowledge, in his mind, there are all kinds of rich "routines" from later generations.

Li Xiaoqiang also knows that his "routines" are not real talents. It can't be compared with Nie Whirlwind's real "skill". But these "routines" can confuse many people's eyes, especially when it comes to a specific game of chess. A "routine" is likely to be so powerful that it is impossible to guard against.

In addition to this, there is also the nutrition that Li Xiaoqiang absorbed from ancient chess. This makes his thinking more open, and the force point is more weird, and now Li Xiaoqiang, he can often suddenly exert force from places that others don't expect. Caught off guard, often a local battle is likely to have an advantage. This confirms that statement. I'm not afraid that you can't calculate, I'm afraid that you haven't thought about this place.

The unpredictable prelude, the weird power point, and the accurate second half of the game, this is what people know about Li Xiaoqiang at the moment. It all looks very good. Therefore, when the vast majority of chess players encounter Li Xiaoqiang, they will feel a headache. This also made the whole world chess world think highly of him. This is how the name "Chessboard Wizard" came about. And the name of "Stone Buddha" is now temporarily shrouded in the shadow of "wizard".

Of course, Li Xiaoqiang's chess is not without flaws, and his biggest flaw is actually reflected in his understanding of Go and his judgment of Go. In other words, Li Xiaoqiang's biggest problem now is his "lack of skill".

Lack of skill routines to make up for it.

This may be a good move against other players. However, when he used this move to deal with other top chess players of this era, especially a top master like Nie Whirlwind, who was super strong in the prelude game, especially when everyone was more familiar with his chess path, this move was not so good.

For example, in the first 3 games of the Tianyuan War, he faced Nie Whirlwind, and Li Xiaoqiang was without exception opened up the gap in the prelude. His "routine" met the real prologue everyone, and the effect was not obvious at all. What's more, Nie Whirlwind was originally a very good chess player at switching, and in the game, when Li Xiaoqiang realized that he was lagging behind, he held his breath and prepared to throw a heavy punch on his opponent, but he was often bypassed by his opponent with a smooth move. made Li Xiaoqiang's heavy fists punch into the air, as if he was in the water, and it had no effect at all. This made Li Xiaoqiang very depressed, and also made Li Xiaoqiang have a clearer understanding of his level.

Therefore, Li Xiaoqiang knows very well that his current chess may be very good, but it is far from the point of being alone in the world. Of course, in today's era, each top master seems to have his own unique skills, but they seem to have their own weaknesses, so it is said that this is an era without absolute kings.

Li Xiaoqiang and Zhang Da reporters are chatting below, and the draw results of the first round of the "Ying's Cup" are almost out.

A total of 24 chess players participated in this year's "Yingshi Cup", including 7 chess players affiliated to the Chinese Chess Association, 8 chess players affiliated to the Japanese Chess Association, and 5 Korean chess players. The rest of the places will be divided between players from other regions.

Of course, in the tournaments held by the Chinese, there will be more Japanese chess players than China, and that is because there are several Taiwanese chess players in them. For example, Mr. Lin Haifeng and Mr. Wang Licheng, they are both players affiliated with the Japan Chess Association, but this time they both represented Taiwan in the competition.

The biggest change in this tournament compared to the first edition is the increase in the number of Korean chess players. In the first tournament, there was only one local Korean chess player, Cao Yanzi, which also caused protests from Korean chess players. In this edition, the number of Korean chess players has increased to 5. Mr. Ying invited the "Four Heavenly Kings" and the "No. 5" Liang Jae-ho in the Korean chess world to participate in this competition.

In terms of seeded players, the seeded players are determined according to the top 8 players in the previous competition. China is Nie Whirlwind and Li Xiaoqiang, South Korea is Cao Yanzi's lone seedling, and the remaining five seats are occupied by Japanese players.

"Ha, Brother Di and South Korea's Li Shifo drew a piece. Xiaoqiang, do you still think that Brother Di has a chance to win chess? ”

Sitting in the audience, reporter Zhang Da was still chatting with Li Xiaoqiang, and in the face of reporter Zhang Da's question, Li Xiaoqiang smiled silently.

"Let's take a good look tomorrow, you'll know when you see it."

Li Xiaoqiang said this, he was still a little surprised in his heart, you know, in this world, because the Chinese chess players did not boycott, the lineup of the 2nd "Ying's Cup" is completely different from that in real history, but the inertia of history still declares the stubborn side. For example, now, Rui Xiaowei and Li Shifo met in the first round.

Although in the first round, as many as 5 Chinese players played. In terms of Japanese chess players, there are also three star chess players: Masaki Takemiya, Koji Kobayashi, and Hero Otake. The match between Rui Xiaowei vs Li Shifo is not very conspicuous in this round. However, in Li Xiaoqiang's mind, the focus of the first round has undoubtedly been determined. That's definitely the game.

The first round of the 2nd "Ying's Cup" draw ceremony is over, and on the second day, the first round of the competition will officially begin. On this day, will Li Shifo's tears come as promised? (To be continued......)