The round of 16 of the 4th Fujitsu Cup. In the competition hall, the match between Li Xiaoqiang and Lin Haifeng has reached the last moment.

It's almost 5 o'clock, and at this time, both the players in the game and the spectators in the research room already know the final result. However, since there were other games that had not yet ended, when the game was officially finished, the surroundings were still relatively calm.

Although Mr. Lin Haifeng knew the final result for a long time, he still insisted on finishing the last official to ensure the complete end of the game.

"Is it a disc 3 mesh?"

At the moment of the endgame, Mr. Lin looked up and asked. When he got Li Xiaoqiang's affirmative confirmation, Mr. Lin gestured to the referee next to him, signaling that the referee did not need to recount the number, and just recorded "White wins 2 and a half meshes" on the game. When the referee fills in the results of the game on the score, he directly takes over the game record and signs the game to confirm.

When Li Xiaoqiang also completed the same procedure, Mr. Lin couldn't wait to ask:

"Xiaoqiang, when did you conceive the second transformation?"

Hearing Mr. Lin's inquiry, Li Xiaoqiang smiled embarrassedly. However, he did not answer directly. Li Xiaoqiang knew very well what Mr. Lin meant. Although the process of this game of chess is very tortuous, there are several major transformations in a row. The two sides fought wits and courage in this game, which can be regarded as a more connotative game. However, in Mr. Lin's view, the real key to winning or losing this game should be the second big conversion. Because Li Xiaoqiang understood the key to victory or defeat, he quickly understood what Mr. Lin meant.

But to be clear, such a question is difficult to answer. Seeing that Li Xiaoqiang was embarrassed to speak, Mr. Lin Haifeng himself smiled:

"Hehe, it seems that my question is a bit excessive. In retrospect, your previous series of moves were obviously accumulating strength, and you had been waiting for such an opportunity. So it seems. You should have been ready to switch again a long time ago. Not bad, not bad! Congratulations to you Xiaoqiang, now it seems that you are indeed a chess player! I lost this time convincingly......"

"Mr. Lin......"

Most people should relate to this when you are faced with other people's jokes or ridicule. You can always become more sharp, you can always find the right words to say. And you face genuine praise from others, especially from elders or seniors. Then you don't know how to speak. Often at this time, you won't even say a kind word.

The current Li Xiaoqiang is actually like this.

Seeing Li Xiaoqiang's predicament, the generous Mr. Lin smiled again:

"Xiaoqiang, I still have a lot of questions I haven't understood today, and I still have to ask you for advice. Let's review it in another place. Let's go to the research room over there. After all, there is still a game here, so it's not appropriate to make a loud noise......"

When Li Xiaoqiang and Mr. Lin left the competition hall, they came to the next research room. Li Xiaoqiang suddenly found that in addition to receiving a lot of congratulations, he could feel a lot of strangeness. In particular, the members of the Chinese team seemed to be very excited. For example, like Team Leader Hua, he is so excited that his old face is red now.

What's even more exaggerated is reporter Zhang Da, when he saw Li Xiaoqiang walk into the research room. He didn't care about being polite anymore, he came over and hugged Li Xiaoqiang's shoulder:

"Hahaha. You're such a cow, you actually made it to the top 8 of the World Series...... I said Xiaoqiang, if you act a little excited now, you'll die. What are you still pretending to be at this time? …… Well. I can't get used to your calm appearance now......"

Li Xiaoqiang happily accepted the congratulations of reporter Zhang Da. He felt a strong sense of camaraderie with each other. However, the moment he walked into the research room, he really didn't understand why Team Leader Hua was so excited. When he comes back to his senses and really blends in with his surroundings. Li Xiaoqiang seems to understand a little.

This should be caused by the gap between the times. Li Xiaoqiang is from the later generations, in the later generations. He is accustomed to seeing young Chinese players capture the flag at the World Championships. Not to mention a world top 8, even if it is a world top 4, break into the finals of the World Series. But if you don't win the World Championship. Chess fans won't get much excited.

Therefore, when you win this game, you are happy, but you don't feel that it is a great thing. It can be considered that Li Xiaoqiang's current calmness is "really calm".

When he was in this era, when he looked at things from other people's perspectives. Li Xiaoqiang will find that like Team Leader Hua, they have reason to be excited. Because in the eyes of others, his performance so far can be regarded as an "outlier" in the Go world anyway.

You know, I'm only 16 years old now, and it's still a few months before I turn 16. In the history of Go, has anyone reached their current height at their current age? No, it hadn't been there before!

In this "Fujitsu Cup", he broke Mr. Masaki Takemiya and Mr. Lin Haifeng, two super first-class masters. My joke before the game:

The joke of "accidentally destroying the previous three champions" seems to have really become a reality now.

His first 2 opponents, of course, can represent the highest level of this era. Li Xiaoqiang knew in his heart that before this, the Go world admitted that he had a strong impact. Even if you win once in a while, you won't be surprised. But now he has been able to win two places in a row. And you don't have to rely on your opponent's mistakes to win 2 in a row. Then others will have to re-examine their own strength.

Of course, at this stage, no one would consider themselves to be a "super-first-class chess player". But the impact of his own power, no one can be underestimated.

Li Xiaoqiang's question was figured out, and he also understood why Zhang Zhidong and them were so excited. But he still couldn't get excited. At this moment, he even subconsciously looked in the crowd to see if Li Shifo was here. However, he did not see the figure of Li Shifo here.

Li Xiaoqiang knew in his heart that the change in the concept of later generations originally started from Li Shifo. But when he achieved those achievements, everyone was most surprised, thinking that this was a special case. Only after him did more and more young chess players rise. Everyone is slowly getting used to the power of young chess players.

"Congratulations to you, Mr. Hua, I really envy that you have a Li Sang in the Chinese Go world! Tsk, what he's achieved now. Maybe only the genius can compare to it. Sometimes I wonder if Li Sang is the rebirth of the Tao. ”

Just when Li Xiaoqiang was distracted, Mr. Sakata, the new chairman of the Japanese Chess Academy, walked into the research room. He first congratulated Team Leader Hua and praised Li Xiaoqiang. Looking at Mr. Sakata's face full of spring breeze, I don't know if it's because of the good results of Japanese chess players this time? Or is it because Li Xiaoqiang helped him "take revenge", and he was happy to see Mr. Lin lose?

I guess it's both.

So far, although there are still a few games of chess that are not over, a few key international confrontations have ended. The Japanese team has done well so far. In addition to Li Xiaoqiang's game of chess, several games of "Japan-South Korea confrontation" have ended. Zhao Zhixun and Wang Licheng took down Liu Changhe and Cao Yanzi respectively. In addition, Kobayashi Koji and others passed the test smoothly. This also allows the Japanese team to occupy at least half of the seats in the top 8.

Not to mention. Since South Korea's Cao Yanzi has been eliminated. Although Nie Whirlwind's game is not over yet, he is still at a disadvantage. Seeing that the race is about to reach the end. Then in this way, the possibility of Nie Whirlwind losing is also very high.

If that's the case, neither the leaders of China and South Korea will be able to make it to the quarterfinals. Then in the eyes of the Japanese Go community, the biggest threat is gone. Kobayashi Koji and Cho Jixun, who are considered to be the strongest in the Japanese team, both successfully advanced to the next round.

With this in mind, the prospects for Japanese players to win the championship are very good. Everyone didn't particularly care about Mr. Hayashi's loss, so it's no wonder that Chairman Sakata was in a happy mood. He has always been unsmiling, and he also joked with Team Leader Hua.

Mr. Sakata's "genius" is a chess player in ancient Japan. A typical example of a "Go prodigy". His real surname is "Xiaochuan". That's why modern times call him Ogawa Michi. He is the apprentice of the Japanese "former saint" Daoce, and he was also the successor selected by Daoce, the "trace" of the Ben Yinfang family. However, due to his untimely death, he died at the age of 21. Therefore, there are not many stories left by Ogawa Road, but more space for imagination.

However, Ogawa is indeed a cow man. It is said that when he was 12 years old, he had the strength of the professional sixth dan. The talent for Go is simply unbelievable. At the age of 16, he represented Fangmen in the "Imperial City Chess" and defeated the Yasui Haruchi of the Yasui family. And promoted to "get started", which is now called the seventh paragraph.

To know. At that time, it was not an easy task to be promoted to "get started". We can simply compare him with Xiu Ce. is also a disciple of Ben Yin Fangmen, and he is also a former "trace". When Xiu Ce unleashed his famous "Ear Red Skill". How many paragraphs? It's four paragraphs. How old was he then? 18 years old.

Therefore, Ogawa is a real "Go prodigy" and a "precocious" Go genius. That's definitely not too much. Of course, there is also an opinion in the Japanese Go world that Ogawa Michichi may be "the strongest player in the history of Go". This should be a bit outrageous. This may also be what everyone thinks. Since he died early, there is room for imagination when everyone has good wishes.

The reason why everyone thinks like this is actually related to his master Dao Ce. Dao Ce is revered as the "Chess Saint" by the Japanese Go community, and his level and talent are beyond doubt. His status in the Japanese Go world at that time was actually the same as China's Huang Longshi, in a state of "seeking defeat alone". As a "celebrity" of Japanese Go, he was able to beat a "quasi-celebrity" to the point of letting 2 sons, which shows how powerful he is.

But what about him and Ogawa Michi? However, it can often only be "divided first", or at most "let first". And there are winners and losers against each other. The chess games left by their master and apprentice can still be seen in modern times. That is, because of such a glorious deed of Ogawa Road, it is praised by everyone and gives everyone room for imagination. It is believed that if he had not died young, he would probably have become "the strongest chess player of all time".

Regarding such a view, Li Xiaoqiang thinks that it may not be. Li Xiaoqiang has also seen the chess game of Ogawa Road. Especially the chess games he played with Dao Ce, Li Xiaoqiang really studied them seriously. Li Xiaoqiang believes that Xiaochuan Dao's chess talent may not be as good as Xiuce. Compared with his master Daoce, there should also be a certain distance. Because in a few games of chess played by Dawce and him. Li Xiaoqiang didn't feel a trace of the taste of "mysterious Taoism". In other words, when Dao Ce played chess with him, he should not have used all his strength.

This situation should also be very understandable, when Dao Ce competes with chess players from other schools, it must be different. And Ogawa Michi, as his disciple, is also the "trace" he selected. Dao Ce played such a chess game with him, and there was a lot of possibility that he would "make a name". It's not that Ogawa Michi's real strength to compete with him.

Still, Ogawa's as a "Go prodigy" must have lived up to his name. Mr. Sakata compared Li Xiaoqiang to others. Although Li Xiaoqiang is not very comfortable in his heart, he still has to accept the kindness of others.

After Li Xiaoqiang and Mr. Sakata said a few polite words, he silently muttered in his heart:

"I'm really not the rebirth of your Ogawa Road. I'm actually ...... A Chinese amateur 5-dan reborn ......"

By 6 p.m., more and more games were over. As a result, there are more and more chess players in the laboratory. At this time, Li Xiaoqiang was not in the mood to review with Mr. Lin for the time being. Along with other Chinese players, he closely watched the game between Nie and Seo. In the same mood as the Chinese, there are actually members of the South Korean delegation.

In comparison, the mood of Koreans seems to be more nervous than that of Chinese. Li Xiaoqiang saw from a distance that on the other side of the research room, the three future Go kings of South Korea, Cao, Liu, and Li, had grim expressions, and were nervously placing reference charts on the chessboard, studying various closing plans. Because so far, the Korean team has only Seo Bong-su left. If he loses, then the Korean Go team will also be wiped out this time.

It's actually a pain to watch your teammates play. Now Li Xiaoqiang has a deep understanding that as long as he is also involved in it, those who watch chess are more worried than those who play chess. There will be a feeling of inexplicable incompetence.

At half past six in the afternoon, the ordeal of Chinese and Korean chess players in the research room finally ended. Nie Whirlwind, who once reversed the situation, appeared in a faint again in the final official stage. He collided himself in one of his corners and made his opponent make a clever move. He created a robbery in the great sky of the Nie Whirlwind. Although this calamity is a slow calamity, it is completely in vain. Even if Nie Whirlwind won this tribulation, his mesh would inevitably lose again.

In this way, Nie Whirlwind had no choice but to accept defeat. And Seo Bong-su also brought the only victory of this round for South Korean Go after defeating Nie Whirlwind.

After Nie Whirlwind's defeat was confirmed. Li Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiaofei glanced at each other in unison. The expressions of the two of them also became serious at the same time. The two also understood what the other meant.

In the round of 8 in 2 months. The Chinese team is left with the two of them fighting side by side!

So far, the round of 16 of this year's Fujitsu Cup has also come to an end. A total of 2 Chinese players, 5 Japanese players, and 1 Korean player made it to the top 8.

The venue for the Round of 8 has also been confirmed, and in early June, the Round of 8 will be held in Beijing, China.

After today's game, the first stage of the Fujitsu Cup has come to an end. In the evening, the organizers of the competition will arrange a banquet and ceremony. And the most important content of this ceremony is to determine the situation of the top 8 matches.

In the top 8 battle, which opponent will Li Xiaoqiang meet?

When Li Xiaoqiang attended this banquet, reporter Zhang Da suddenly came over again:

"Xiaoqiang, look, your full-time translator seems to have come over ......" (to be continued......