In the first round of the 10th "Fujitsu Cup", Li Xiaoqiang crushed Liu Shixun with his strength, and staged a scene of China's "Tian Yuan" beating Japan's "Tian Yuan". Combined with Li Xiaoqiang's previous remarks, Li Xiaoqiang's "theory of strength" has also become a topic of conversation for a while.

After a day of rest, the second round of the "Fujitsu Cup" continued, and Li Xiaoqiang's game naturally continued to attract everyone's attention. However, in the 8 games of the second round, Li Xiaoqiang's game was not the most concerned.

Although Li Xiaoqiang's opponent in this round is still a title holder, he will face Japan's current reigning Mr. Naoto Hikosaka. However, Hikosaka Naoto Kudan is not well-known in the international chess world, and his status in the Japanese chess world is probably similar to that of Yasumasa Hane, Shuzo Awaji and others, belonging to the category of Japan's "strong nine", and if you want to win the "big triple crown", you don't have that strength, but when you are in good shape, you can also impact the other 4 small titles.

The fact that Mr. Hikosaka is now holding the title of "Judan" shows that he is in good form at the moment, and it can be said that he is at the peak of his career. However, it is clear that when he faces a seemingly more crazy Li Xiaoqiang, a Li Xiaoqiang who maintains a very high winning rate against Japanese players, not many people think that he has much chance of winning.

In fact, this is indeed the case, when the 2-hour game in the morning ended, everyone agreed that Li Xiaoqiang, who was in charge of black, was relaxed, although it cannot be said that Li Xiaoqiang had won, but Li Xiaoqiang's advantage was still obvious. You must know that for Li Xiaoqiang's chess, everyone agrees that his advantages are mainly concentrated in the middle and late game.

Now that he has a clear advantage in the prelude, it is natural that when it comes to the afternoon game, not many people in the research room are paying attention to this game.

"Xiaoqiang's 15-game winning streak in the international arena now seems to be a certainty. Today it mainly depends on the small one. If he can win today's game, then today's result will be considered complete. ”

In the research room, reporter Zhang Da was chatting with the Chinese team leader who led the team to Japan to participate in the competition. Since the other Chinese players were all playing, the two did not discuss any technical issues in detail, but analyzed the situation on the entire field.

Yes, today's most notable game. Or the focus of the whole arena is not Li Xiaoqiang's game, but Ma Xiaofei's game. Because Ma Xiaofei's opponent in this game of chess is Liu Changhe, who is almost as hot as Li Xiaoqiang in his current competitive state. Therefore, the collision of Ma Xiaofei and Liu Changhe is considered to be the real heavyweight battle in the entire arena today, and it is also the real focus of this round of the competition.

"This Liu Changhyuk, it seems that he hasn't lost chess in the international arena since he lost to Xiaoqiang in the Three Kingdoms Ring Tournament last year, right? Not only on the international stage, but also in their domestic arena lately. The "battle for the throne" defeated Lao Cao to defend the crown, and also snatched the "national hand" from Li Shifo. was able to defeat Cao Li's master and apprentice in a row in a chess match...... Tsk, that's amazing. I think that South Korea can achieve such good results in the first few competitions, and the sudden rise of Yoo Chang-hyuk is most directly related to his stability and maturity. ”

After listening to Team Leader Hua's comments, reporter Zhang Da nodded yes. Indeed, this is indeed the case. Since the end of last year, a number of world chess tournaments have been held at the same time. Why can Korean Go, which has always felt "thin", suddenly overwhelm Chinese Go and Japanese Go? Can you grab multiple seats in the top 8 and top 4? The main reason for this. It is the steady rise of Yoo Chang-hyuk, due to his maturity, which has increased the thickness of South Korea's top level chess players.

The so-called "top level chess players" are, of course, chess players who have the strength to win the World Championship. Although some people say that there is not much difference between super-first-class and first-class chess players, and even if there is, it is very small. But is that really the case? Of course not! Compare this point of view. Most people believe that there is an insurmountable gap between the so-called "first-class chess players" and the "super-first".

In the early two years of Chinese chess, the top level chess players were Nie Whirlwind, Li Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiaofei. Wait for the Nie whirlwind to fade away. It is recognized that China's top level chess players are Li Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiaofei. As for others, such as Chang Rensheng, who is currently ranked third in China's rating, perhaps he now has the strength to defeat any player in the world. Perhaps he won't be much of an upset to beat any of the top players in the current World Series. But what? If the current Chang Rensheng wins the World Championship, it will definitely be considered a super upset.

In the same way, in the past Japanese chess world, the "Six Chaos" were considered to be the top level chess players, but as time went by, "Takebayashi" and others gradually grew old, and now only Kobayashi Koji and Zhao Zhixun are still at the top level. As for players such as Noriki Ita and Satoru Kobayashi, they are at most considered to be players of Chang Rensheng's level, and they may have more experience than Chang Rensheng, but they are not as good as Chang Rensheng in terms of potential.

This is understandable, the addition of only one Yoo Chang-hyuk to the Korean chess world is enough to change the pattern of the entire world chess world. There should not be too many players at the top level, just add one. In real history, how did the "golden decade" of Korean Go come about? Although Li Shifo plays an irreplaceable role in this, without others, it is impossible for Korean Go to form such an airtight rule.

In those years of real history, Li Shifo was also often eliminated by Chinese chess players in the world championships. However, after Li Shifo was eliminated, there were always other Korean chess players who stood up, Cao Yanzi and Liu Changhe in the early stage, and Li Shishi in the later stage. It is for this reason that Chinese Go has been "dark" for ten years.

In real history, it was around this time that Chinese Go began to fall into a boundless "dark period". So what now? With Li Xiaoqiang, what will be the situation of Chinese Go?

At least at this time, in the live viewing room of the 10th "Fujitsu Cup" round of 16, everyone can not see the "darkness" of Chinese Go. On the contrary, the outlook for South Korea in today's arena is a bit bleak.

The competition went on until more than 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the competition between Li Xiaoqiang and Naoto Hikosaka in the "ten sections", the judgment of the research laboratory was that Li Xiaoqiang had established an obvious advantage. There are even many spectators who believe that Li Xiaoqiang's victory is only a matter of time.

Today's focus battle, the hedging between Ma Xiaofei and Liu Changhe, everyone also thinks that Ma Xiaofei's situation is good at this time. In today's game of chess, Ma Xiaofei seems to have recovered the style of the "double champion" in 95, and he has been suppressing Liu Changhe throughout. Although it is still early to win, Yoo Chang-hyuk's hard fight is certain.

In addition, the situation of Chang Rensheng and Zhou Dayang is also good. Chang Rensheng is chasing down the big dragon of Xu Bong-so, while Zhou Dayang is ravaging Yitian Jiji.

The only Chinese chess player in an unfavorable situation seems to be Yu Bin. He didn't meet Zhao Zhixun this time, and his opponent this time was Kobayashi Koji. In real history, Kobayashi Koji, the champion of this year's "Fujitsu Cup......

Reporter Zhang Da walked around the entire viewing room and observed the situation of all 8 games. He rushed to Team Leader Hua and said with a little schadenfreude:

"I just heard them say that it seems that Lao Cao's chess is no longer good, his current situation has been very bad, and everyone judges that his chess is basically powerless."

"Oh? East Yitian, West Yuki Castle. ”

Team Leader Hua simply sighed. Today's opponent against Cao Yanzi is Satoshi Yuki, a chess player affiliated to the Kansai Chess Academy in Japan, who was as famous as Kiki Ita when he was young. That's why Team Leader Hua came to say this. Although this game has nothing to do with Chinese players, it is always nice to have a more threatening player eliminated.

"What about Li Shifo?" Team Leader Hua asked again.

"I've heard that it's also a hard battle, but Li Shifo's chess, who knows? Before the official verdict is announced, who can figure out whether his chess is good or bad. ”

"Hehe, that's true."

At about 4:30 p.m., the game finally came to an end. The first to end was Li Xiaoqiang's game.

"Xiaoqiang, congratulations!"

When Li Xiaoqiang walked into the viewing room, reporter Zhang Da made a very exaggerated celebratory gesture. After others saw Li Xiaoqiang, they also expressed their heartfelt congratulations to Li Xiaoqiang. Indeed, although a victory in a game of chess may not be a big deal. However, all 5 world series have entered the top 8, and 3 of them have all entered the top 4, and they have won all in the international arena for nearly half a year. That's quite a record. Li Xiaoqiang deserves such congratulations.

After a while, everyone congratulated Li Xiaoqiang again. Because at this time, the match between Ma Xiaofei and Liu Changhe has ended. With the defeat of Liu Changhyuk, Li Xiaoqiang has the record of surviving all 5 major events.

After a while, by about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Team Leader Hua had already begun to smile. With the news of Chang Rensheng and Zhou Dayang's victory, Chinese chess players have already accounted for half of the top 8 in this year's "Fujitsu Cup".

Immediately afterwards, Cao Yanzi was defeated and Yu Bin was defeated. Kobayashi Koji and Satoshi Yuki made it to the top 8.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Zhixun successfully passed, and only the last game of Li Shifo VS Wang Licheng was left in the whole arena.

"The South Korean team won't be wiped out this time......"

Just when someone in the viewing room asked such a question, Li Xiaoqiang, who had carefully analyzed the situation on the side, sighed: "Alas, Mr. Wang, this game of chess is really a pity......

By about 5:30 p.m., the round of 16 of this year's "Fujitsu Cup" was over. A total of 4 Chinese players, 3 Japanese players and 1 Korean player, Li Shifo, made it to the top 8.

Then in the top 8 matches in June, there will be 3 sets of China and Japan confrontation, and 1 set of China and South Korea.

At the lottery ceremony that night, when Li Xiaoqiang unfolded the small note in his hand, the entire venue laughed.

Li Shifo! Li Xiaoqiang's opponent in the top 8 is Li Shifo!

Li Xiaoqiang, who has been invincible recently, has encountered the defending champion. (To be continued.) )

PS: After leading for 28 days, it was finally surpassed by others,

It's a sad story. How so? All I can say right now is that I absolutely hate the double pass event.

There are two days left, so I will continue to ask everyone to support me, and whether I can win the monthly pass award this time, I would like to say thank you to my book friends who supported me.

Although I know that there is little hope, I still continue to ask for a monthly pass here, just in case