In 2000, the National Go Tournament ended, and two new disciples of Li Xiaoqiang also surfaced. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIn fact, for Li Xiaoqiang's two new apprentices, there are really not many people who can understand them. In this fixed-stage tournament, there are a lot of small chess players who are more famous than them and have better results than them. No one knows what Li Xiaoqiang likes about them.

Zhou Xiaoyang's situation is better, after all, he has met the "clear conditions" prescribed by Li Xiaoqiang, and he has successfully entered the stage this year. But what about Park Wenyao? What does Li Xiaoqiang like about him? Could it be that Li Xiaoqiang's "dark condition" is the so-called sympathy? Did he take Park Wenyao as an apprentice when he saw him pitiful?

However, considering that Li Xiaoqiang's "appearance" gaze is as unique as his chess ability, there are many people who doubt it, but the voice of doubt is not heard at all. It can only be said that Li Xiaoqiang's eyes on this selection have yet to be proven by time.

Others don't understand the situation, but Li Xiaoqiang himself looked at his 3 precious apprentices silly. He said to Jiang Chenghua, the head coach of the Ganyuan Go team, with great ambition:

"5 years! As long as it takes another 5 years, our Ganyuan team is definitely the most awesome team in the armor. Don't look at it now, the Shancheng team and the Shencheng team take turns to sit in the village, but at that time, hehe, I can guarantee that they will not be the opponents of our Ganyuan team. ”

Jiang Chenghua does not have as much confidence as Li Xiaoqiang, and he is now completely uninterested in Li Xiaoqiang's rhetoric of "hegemony in five years". He said to Li Xiaoqiang with a sad face:

"I said Xiaoqiang, let's not think about it in 5 years now. Although the focus of your game must be on the World Series, you also have to pay more attention to this year's Wai Jia, I don't know if our Ganyuan team is still worried about relegation this year. ”

Li Xiaoqiang was dumbfounded, what does it mean that the ideal is very plump and the reality is very skinny, which is roughly what it means. The Ganyuan team, which has the world's first and second masters, is still at risk of relegation? It may sound like an impossibility, but this year, it could well become a reality.

The Ganyuan team's lineup has not changed for many years, and it is the so-called "lame team". The most critical figure in whether the Ganyuan team can be relegated has always been Qian Yuping Jiuduan. If Qian Yuping's winning rate can be more than half, then the Ganyuan team has no problems. If Qian Jiuduan's winning rate can't reach 5 percent, then don't say it, the Ganyuan team is really a little dangerous.

In recent years, as Qian Yuping has gradually grown older, the overall level of domestic Go has gradually improved. Qian Jiuduan is becoming more and more powerless in the Weijia arena, and his winning rate is also decreasing year by year. Last year, it reached 5 percent, which also made the Ganyuan team barely relegated last year.

Of course, the Ganyuan team is not without a solution, and the most direct and simple way is to ask Li Shifo to play a few more rounds.

Due to the existence of "home will win" in the game, this can be considered the biggest advantage that the Ganyuan team has. If Li Xiaoqiang and Li Shifo play at the same time, then no matter how well others play, it is very likely that the Ganyuan team will win the "main victory". This will allow you to accumulate enough points for relegation.

"I'm worried about this place, there are so many World Championships this year, does Li Shifo have so much time to compete in the tournament?"

Listening to Jiang Chenghua's worries, Li Xiaoqiang smiled bitterly:

"There is no way, if there is really a relegation crisis, then I can only do more work on Li Shifo in private...

Jiang Chenghua's worries are indeed true, and this year's world chess scene is prosperous, and there are unimaginably many world championships. "Fujitsu Cup", "Qiuju Cup", "Samsung Cup", "LG Cup", in addition to the four international competitions that are held every year, plus the "Ying's Cup" that is 5, if you count the "Nongshim Cup" and "Asian Cup", the number of world competitions reaches 7.

In addition to these competitions, the news of Japan's holding of the New World Series has been confirmed, and if the "Toyota Cup" starts this year, the number of World Series will reach eight.

Even more than that, after years of preparation and planning, our Hu Yi Hu Da local tyrant can't wait now, and the legendary "Uncle Cup" will finally be launched this year.

As a result, the number of World Series this year has reached nine, and chess fans have dubbed this rare World Series gathering situation as the "Gathering of Nine Stars".

In the face of so many international competitions and a large number of domestic games, let alone Li Shifo, even if Li Xiaoqiang himself, it is difficult for him to put a lot of energy on the "Weijia" arena.

"You can only take one step at a time, and then let's talk about the situation." Li Xiaoqiang could only say this to Jiang Chenghua.

The matter of accepting apprentices came to an end, and Li Xiaoqiang started a new journey. In his own words, "since he is still hungry for titles", he is relentless in his competitions, both at home and abroad.

First of all, the domestic arena.

"What's going on? Why did Ma Xiao, who had just been in the "Nongshim Cup", suddenly weaken? The "Tianyuan Competition" is a single-elimination match, and the "Top Ten Battle" group stage is 2-2? This is not like the super stable horse of "taking the hand". ”

The first to start in the domestic arena is still the "Tianyuan War" and the "Top Ten Battle", the biggest surprise of these two games is that Ma Xiaofei's performance is not good, and the "Tianyuan War" is a round tour, and his performance in the "Top Ten Battle" is also unsatisfactory.

However, Li Xiaoqiang disagreed with Zhang Da's statement that reporter Zhang Da thought Ma Xiaofei was "weak":

"Mr. Ma is by no means weak, the chess game will not deceive, judging from the content of his chess, I think he is still at the peak."

"Then he's now..."

"Don't you see it yet... Li Xiaoqiang smiled and said to reporter Zhang Da: "... Mr. Ma used to play chess, and the most accustomed set was to "respond to all changes with the same", but recently, his chess has obviously added a lot of new content and many new changes, which can only explain one situation. ”

"What's the situation?"

"Stay! It's not so much that he's weak, it's that he's holding back, staying for the World Series... ”

At the end, Li Xiaoqiang also sighed: "Mr. Ma is called a smart person, there are so many world competitions this year, he knows that at his current age, it is no longer possible to go all out in all competitions, so he has the choice to give up some competitions." If you don't believe it, look at it, when it comes to the World Series, his performance will definitely be judged by the two. ”

Is Li Xiaoqiang's judgment right? At least in the first two rounds of the next "Fujitsu Cup", Ma Xiaofei did not hit Li Xiaoqiang in the face, and his performance was really like two people in the domestic arena, and he and Li Xiaoqiang entered the top 8 of this competition.

Because of Ma Xiaofei's "weakness", the Chinese chess world officially announced that it has entered the "Eight Horses Era", in the case that the small ones are still young and the old chess players are gradually aging, the most active in the domestic chess world is the same age as Li Xiaoqiang.

This year, it was Luo Shenzhu who won the right to challenge the "Tianyuan Battle", and it was Chang Rensheng who competed with Li Xiaoqiang for the championship of the "Top Ten Battle", and the next "Chess King Battle" preliminaries were Shao Weigang's most active performance. In short, in the following period, Li Xiaoqiang has been accepting challenges from his peers.

Most of these challenges ended in Li Xiaoqiang's victory.

Although the domestic arena seems to have become the stage of the "Eight Horses", although metabolism is the eternal law of any affairs. But Li Xiaoqiang still thinks that now in addition to Chang Rensheng, his most reliable teammate in the international arena still seems to be Ma Xiaofei.

The metabolism of the domestic chess world is proceeding slowly, and the metabolism of the Korean chess world is also proceeding slowly, but compared with the Chinese chess world, their metabolism seems to be significantly faster. Because a generation of young chess players represented by Li Shi and Cui Poison have officially appeared on the stage of the challenge.

Among them, Li Shishi, in particular, is not only a regular on the challenge stage, but also has won several domestic championships. At present, in addition to Li Shifo alone, he can still maintain obvious suppression of him, people like Cao Yanzi, Liu Changhe and others have often been deflated in his hands.

"Xiao Li is Xiao Li after all, according to this trend, this guy "said to give him two years" is really not bragging. ”

After noticing Li Shishi's performance, Li Xiaoqiang sighed in his heart.

Unlike China and South Korea, the situation in Japan is a bit strange. The Chinese and South Korean chess circles are carrying out a normal metabolism, and the Japanese chess players are once again staging the story of "veteran counterattack".

Although earlier, the tug-of-war between the Japanese "Six Supers" and the "Mesozoic" has been going on for several years. But by this time, this tug-of-war gradually divided the winners and losers, marked by Kobayashi Jue snatching the title of "Chess Saint" from Zhao Zhixun, and the Mesozoic Era had the upper hand.

In the past few years, it was said that it was a tug-of-war between the "Six Supers" and the "Mesozoic", but it seems that only Kobayashi Koji and Zhao Zhixun represented the Six Super Wars.

But this year, another veteran has stepped forward, that is, Mr. Masao Kato, who returned to the "Honinbo" position at the age of 50.

In his 50s, he regained the "Big Triple Crown", which is the second oldest record of the "Big Triple Crown" after Fujisawa Hideyuki's "Chess Saint" won 6 consecutive times.

Japanese chess players are setting records at an advanced age, which makes me feel that the environment of Japanese Go is indeed different from that of China and South Korea.

April, Tokyo, during the first two rounds of the Fujitsu Cup.

"I'm really tired, Yukari, why don't you come over and give me a beating on the back."

Yuka Umezawa appeared in front of Li Xiaoqiang with a smile: "It's coming, Master Li... ”

This is in Yukari Umezawa's house, and of course it can also be considered that this is Li Xiaoqiang's home in Japan. Whose home is this? Who can say for now?

"Your master, his old man is still amazing."

Li Xiaoqiang is not out of content, at this time the first two rounds of the "Fujitsu Cup" have ended, and Li Xiaoqiang's opponent in the quarterfinals happens to be Masao Kato. What's even more commendable is that in the second round that just ended, Mr. Kato defeated Li Shifo to advance.

"Let me tell you, the power player is your nemesis."

This is a joke made by Li Xiaoqiang and Li Shifo after the game. But in any case, it must be admitted that such Mr. Kato is indeed commendable.

"By the way, Xiaoqiang, if you don't mention it, I forgot, my master said, he wants to see you before you return to China, there is something I want to talk to you about, are you free?"

Well? Mr. Kato's appointment? What else can Mr. Kato do with me?

Glancing at Yukari Umezawa, who was giving herself a back kick, Li Xiaoqiang was a little flustered for some reason. (To be continued.) )