In the first "Samsung Cup" five-way chess final, when Li Xiaoqiang led Liu Changhe with a score of 2-0, the final seemed to have lost suspense. The whole world chess scene is silent, and even the post-match reports seem to be much less than usual.

"What's going on? I've already got the match point, right, why did you get less coverage? After returning to China, Li Xiaoqiang asked reporter Zhang Da like this.

Regarding Li Xiaoqiang's question, reporter Zhang Da laughed:

"Xiaoqiang, you don't understand, do you think this is abnormal? It seems to me that this could not be more normal. ”

"Tell me about it."

"The Japanese media is that they take it for granted that you win Yoo Chang-hyuk. A well-deserved result, plus a matter of not their own business, they certainly don't go into a long story. As for the South Korean media, it is certainly easier to understand that they are reducing their coverage. Be rendered speechless! Hehe, I finally understand what it means to be speechless......"

"What about our Chinese media?"

"We, the Chinese media, since we are already 2-0 ahead, of course we have to hold back at this time."

"Hold on?"

"That's of course......" Reporter Zhang Da continued to laugh happily: "Of course, you have to hold it, or call it up, the more understatement at this time, the more light and light, in order to show your mastery demeanor......"

"Understood, you're just loading it up now."

"Xiaoqiang, it's good that you understand, so you must not make any baskets in the later games. If you dare to make the first big reversal of the chess battle, believe it or not, the spittle of a chess fan can drown you. ”

After listening to reporter Zhang Da's words, Li Xiaoqiang had no interface. Of course Li Xiaoqiang believes what reporter Zhang said. Li Xiaoqiang not only believes, but he himself cannot accept this result.

In the game of Go more than five rounds, it is not uncommon for there to be a big reversal, for example, in the Japanese chess world, there have been N times when the seven-game chess led 3-0 and was finally won four games in a row. But in the chess battle in real history, there has been a big reversal in decades, that is, Li Shifo once reversed Li Shishi 3-2 in the "LG Cup".

If such a "glory" of the first falls on oneself...... Li Xiaoqiang felt that he would simply find a piece of tofu and kill him, so Li Xiaoqiang was determined to win this "Samsung Cup".

The ambition is bound to be achieved, but in terms of time, it is still necessary to wait for a while. The last three sets will start at the end of October, and Li Xiaoqiang will return from South Korea in early October. Due to Li Xiaoqiang's busy schedule in the international arena this year, he owes a lot of domestic competitions. And many domestic competitions are now at a critical time, so in the next period of time, Li Xiaoqiang must focus on the domestic arena.

Li Xiaoqiang's first battle after returning to China was to compete with Chang Rensheng for the right to challenge the "Chess King Battle". This game is also more eye-catching. Because if the best performer in this year's Chinese chess world is Li Xiaoqiang, who is attacking on both fronts, then the second active one should be Chang Rensheng.

At the beginning of the year, the "Tianyuan War" was his challenge to Li Xiaoqiang. In the just-concluded "National Hand Battle" qualifiers, although Luo Shenzhu defeated his master Ma Xiaofei in this game, he still failed to get the right to challenge in the end. The winner in the qualifiers was Chang Rensheng. In this way, Chang Rensheng will challenge Li Xiaoqiang in the domestic title match for the second time this year.

is not only the "national hand war", but Chang Rensheng is also outstanding in the "celebrity war" circle. Although he didn't meet Li Xiaoqiang in this game, he is currently 5-0 and has the best hope of qualifying to challenge Ma Xiaofei. Li Xiaoqiang is currently 3-2, and theoretically he has a chance to get the right to challenge, but only in theory, his fate is not in his own hands.

However, Chang Rensheng is active and active, and now he is only active in the qualifiers, and when it comes to the challenge level, his current competitiveness is still not as competitive as Li Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiaofei. For example, in this "Chess King Battle" challenger decision-making battle, Chang Rensheng was easily defeated by Li Xiaoqiang, he lost so naturally that he had nothing to say.

"It's all said that window paper window paper, through this game, everyone has seen it, the window paper in Go is not so easy to pierce."

This is a sigh from Nie Whirlwind, the referee of this competition and Chang Rensheng's master, after the end of this game.

After Li Xiaoqiang won the right to challenge, the five-game chess decisive battle between him and Ma Xiaofei immediately began. This is the most important domestic competition in October, and it is also the first time in more than 2 years that Li Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiaofei have once again competed in chess.

Because before this, Ma Xiaofei still maintained a certain advantage over Li Xiaoqiang in terms of historical record, and he is also the only top master in the world chess world who still maintains a historical record advantage over Li Xiaoqiang. Therefore, this final is also quite eye-catching.

It's a pity that in this final, the difference between the competitive state of the two is obvious. 3 to 0! With a score of 3-0, Li Xiaoqiang snatched the title of "Chess King" from Ma Xiaofei.

After this competition, everyone suddenly discovered: It seems that unconsciously, Li Xiaoqiang has begun to establish dominance in the domestic arena.

That's right, Li Xiaoqiang's dominance in the domestic arena was indeed established unconsciously. Li Xiaoqiang and Li Shifo are different. When Li Shifo established his dominance in the country, he beat his master all over the ground as soon as he made a move, and established his position as the title king of the country very early, so his dominance in the country is impressive.

On the other hand, Li Xiaoqiang, when he won the world championship for the first time, he was only a "prince" at most in China. At that time, the domestic overlord has always been Ma Xiaofei.

From the challenge of "one prince" to the "hegemon", and then to the formation of the "two strong opposites" pattern of Ma Xiaofei and Li Xiaoqiang in the Chinese chess world, a total of 6 or 7 years have passed during this period. So today, after Li Xiaoqiang took away the title of "chess king" from Ma Xiaofei, many people suddenly discovered that the current Chinese chess scene should be called the "Li Xiaoqiang era":

At present, there are 4 challenge system title battles in China, Li Xiaoqiang has 3 in his hands, and Ma Xiaofei only sticks to the last city of "celebrity".

In addition to the 3 challenge titles, Li Xiaoqiang also won this year's "Top 10 Battle" championship and "CCTV Cup" championship, and he is already the title king in China. All the titles of the others are combined, and there are not as many as Li Xiaoqiang, which can be regarded as a manifestation of "dominance" in any case.

In addition to the above 2 points, after Li Xiaoqiang defeated Ma Xiaofei this time, the gap between his and Ma Xiaofei's rating has widened, and his rating is currently far ahead in China.

Finally, with a gimmick, after Li Xiaoqiang won the title of "Chess King" this time, he has already won all the domestic championships one step ahead of Ma Xiaofei. Li Xiaoqiang is now the first "all-champion champion" in China!

With so many conditions added together, the current Chinese chess world can of course be said to have entered the "Li Xiaoqiang era".

Li Xiaoqiang's establishment of dominance in the country seems so natural and a little abrupt.

"Who's that pretty woman?"

This is a sentence that Lin Mengyu asked Li Xiaoqiang during the decisive battle of the "Chess King War".

"Well, that's the biggest contributor to my championship this time." Li Xiaoqiang responded to Lin Mengyu jokingly.

What Li Xiaoqiang said is actually Ma Xiaofei's ex-wife, of course, it can't be regarded as an "ex-wife" at this time. Li Xiaoqiang has no good impression of this woman, not long after this woman married Ma Xiaofei, she left Ma Xiaofei and went to the United States to study alone. Forget it when she went abroad, and later she saw that Ma Xiaofei became a rich man - after Ma Xiao won two world championships in 95 years, his annual income was more than 1 million RMB, of course, he was a rich man in this era, and he was second only to Li Xiaoqiang in the domestic chess world. This woman was cheeky and ran back to divorce Ma Xiaofei and asked for the division of property.

Many people in the Go world know that Ma Xiaofei and Nie Whirlwind are the same, it should be said that between Ma Xiaofei and that woman, Ma Xiaofei has never been sorry for that woman. So no one in the Go world has a good impression of that woman.

"Ma Xiao was overwhelmed by that woman. 3 to 0, I didn't expect it to be so easy this time, do you think that woman is the biggest contributor to my championship this time? Li Xiaoqiang said proudly to Lin Mengyu.

Li Xiaoqiang's smugness made Lin Mengyu roll her eyes, and she deliberately dragged out her voice:

"Original...... You know that, too. ”

"Ahem......"

Li Xiaoqiang didn't dare to continue to be proud, let alone continue to mention this topic.

After Li Xiaoqiang became the "all-champion champion" in China, his momentum looked even greater, and everyone naturally thought that there was no suspense for the next "Samsung Cup" final. So what was the outcome of the first "Samsung Cup"?

At the end of October 1997, the first "Samsung Cup" five-game chess final was played in Shencheng, China.

Although it may not seem like much suspense, this is the final of the World Series after all. Therefore, during the competition, the heavyweights of the Go world gathered in Shencheng. The sports channel of the imperial court station also decided to broadcast the game live, with Nie Xuanfeng as the keynote speaker of the live broadcast.

In the third game, Nie Whirlwind harshly criticized Li Xiaoqiang's moves. What's even more excessive is that he actually criticized from beginning to end:

"Flow! I have repeatedly stressed that when playing chess, we must pay attention to the flow direction. Although Xiaoqiang is already the national champion, he is likely to become the world's first five-time champion soon. But I have to say that Xiaoqiang's move is really not good. There is clearly something wrong with the flow of this move......"

"This! Was this move made by Xiaoqiang? What about his aura? What about his proactive attitude? With such a conservative and mediocre approach, I really can't imagine that this is from Li Xiaoqiang......"

"This move...... The order of this move seems a bit unscrupulous, right? Isn't it supposed to be there to exchange hands before that? No, no, Xiao Qiang's chess game is too bad, he is completely throwing stones there today......"

Lao Nie has been shaking his head to criticize Li Xiaoqiang, which even Xu Ying, who is playing chess with him today, is a little unbearable. When the chess talk reached the second half of the game, Xu Ying smiled and said to Nie Whirlwind:

"Teacher Nie, you have always said that Xiaoqiang can't do this or that, so what is the current situation? Let's judge the situation for the audience friends, I think this is the most concerned issue......"

After judging the situation, Xu Ying continued to ask Nie Whirlwind with a smile:

"According to your confirmation, the current black board is about 8 to 9 meshes ahead, and there is no place to toss on the board, so it can be said that Xiaoqiang has basically won now. So Mr. Nie, I want to ask you, you have been saying that Xiaoqiang is poor here and there. So Xiaoqiang, where did he win today......"

For such a simple question, of course, this is not difficult for the famous Nie Whirlwind, I saw him say to Xu Ying in a righteous and solemn manner:

"Don't you know such a simple truth? Of course, Xiaoqiang won today, because although he played poorly today, his opponent played even worse. ”

Xu Ying finally couldn't hold back his laughter: "Then what do you mean ......?"

At this time, although Nie Whirlwind was already smiling, he still continued to hold back:

"The result of today's game of chess is actually very normal, because when he fell behind 0-2, coupled with the defeat in the previous Ying's Cup final, Liu Changhe has lost confidence in this final......

"Therefore, in today's game, Liu Changhe was not killed by Xiaoqiang, he was scared to death by Xiaoqiang......"

"Hahahaha......"

Whether it was Xu Ying, who was talking chess, or Chinese chess fans who were watching the show, they were all amused by Lao Nie's words.

3 to 0!

Li Xiaoqiang has 2 consecutive 3-0 this month!

The first 3-0 made him the first "all-champion champion" in China.

The second 3-0 made him the first "five-crown champion" in the world chess world.

With such a Li Xiaoqiang, who else can resist it?

"Stone Buddha, I can only look at you now."

In this "Samsung Cup" final, Cao Yanzi and Li Shifo did not accompany Liu Changhe to China to compete. Both of them were watching the game in South Korea.

When the dust settled on the first "Samsung Cup", Cao Yanzi said to Li Shifo.

1997 is about to pass, and the competition in the world chess world in 1997 is only the last "LG Cup". (To be continued.) )