After the Lantern Festival, the final of the 8th Chinese Go "Tianyuan Battle" was played in the China Chess Academy.

Before the game began, reporters from all walks of life gathered. This chess match is destined to be a hot topic of hype, and the question that the reporter is most interested in is "who is the number one in China". Although this topic has been hyped up for a few years, this year the situation is clearly different. Since the two players reached the final of the "Toyo Securities Cup" at the same time, the topic of discussion has long since extended from "China's first" to "world's first".

Minutes before the start of the match, the two players were already seated in the playing room. Li Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiaofei are now old rivals. Especially Li Xiaoqiang, in his career so far, he has played the most games with Ma Xiaofei, and he is very familiar with each other. In the past, at this time, even if it was the tiebreaker of the title match, the two would chat before the game, say a few jokes or something.

After Li Xiaoqiang walked into the game room, he originally wanted to come and chat with Ma Xiaofei according to the previous practice, but saw Ma Xiaofei sitting in a precarious position, his eyes consciously did not look at Li Xiaoqiang, and he had no intention of talking to Li Xiaoqiang at all. Seeing this situation, Li Xiaoqiang smiled slightly, and he gave up the idea of communicating with the other party. The two sat silently opposite each other, quietly waiting for the game to begin.

"It seems that he is the same as me, I really want to make a good start in today's game, looking at his appearance, he seems to value today's game more than me......" Before the game started, Li Xiaoqiang thought in his heart.

There are many theories about the starting point of Xiaoqiang's career, some people think that it should be counted from the "Chess Boy's Cup" of that year, and some people say that it should be counted from the Sino-Japanese Go Match, Xiaoqiang singled out the four Japanese amateur kings. Let me tell you, in fact, these two statements are not true, Xiaoqiang's real starting point is still in the Tianyuan Competition. What the? You say I'm foolish? I'm telling you, I'm not fooling. This is what Xiaoqiang himself admits. Thinking about Xiaoqiang's magical journey in the first Tianyuan Competition, tsk......"

After the start of the game, reporter Zhang Da was setting up a dragon gate formation with some of his peers. At present, Go is very popular in China, and the number of reporters specializing in Go has also increased significantly. Especially those print media with relatively large influence and scale, if they don't report Go news in the sports section, they are simply embarrassed to go out and say hello to their peers. In this way, in recent years, many full-time Go reporters have been born in China.

Of course, among these full-time Go reporters, few can compare with the qualifications of reporter Zhang Da. For example, the reporters who are here today. Many of them have only started to play Go because of the influence of the tournament, and they can be regarded as a new generation of chess fans who have just been cultivated in recent years. Of course, these reporters are very clear about the major events that happened in the Go world, but not many people are actually clear about some of the domestic competitions in the early years, such as some stories about Li Xiaoqiang in the first "Tianyuan War".

Generally at this time, it is the time for Zhang Da reporter to show off. When reporter Zhang Da was there to "reminisce about the past eventful years", a group of rookie reporters around him listened to it with relish.

Strictly speaking, what reporter Zhang Da said is not wrong. The first "Tianyuan Competition" is indeed very important to Li Xiaoqiang. This match has a direct impact on his career. In that era when professional competitions were scarce, if it weren't for Li Xiaoqiang's amazing performance in the first "Tianyuan Tournament", he probably wouldn't have been able to be selected for the 3rd China-Japan Go Tournament. Under the chain reaction. It is likely that there will be no later Li Xiaoqiang......

Reporter Zhang Da talked about how Li Xiaoqiang qualified for the competition that year, talked about the "one son solves two signs" in the first game, talked about the reason for Li Xiaoqiang's "leakage king", and even said that he and Li Xiaoqiang played a joke about "going out and hitting Mercedes". Reporter Zhang Da told the story. Let the young peers around listen to it one by one.

“…… At that time, no one could have imagined that the Mercedes-Benz that Xiaoqiang bumped into would be Ma Xiaofei's ninth section. At that time, Xiaoqiang was just starting out, but Ma Xiao was already the No. 2 person in Chinese Go. Xiaoqiang's deepest impression back then was his impact, not his value. I guess it would be difficult for him to make the squad for the ring that year. Alas! It's a pity that the semi-finals of that year were three-way chess, otherwise Xiaoqiang would probably be able to create a greater miracle that year......"

As reporter Zhang Da spoke, he talked about the history of competition between Li Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiaofei. In fact, this is also the topic of today's conversation among journalists. Today is also the "Tian Yuan War". And the semi-finals of the first "Tianyuan War" are actually the first official competition between the two people.

"Yes, I only think about it now, the first game between Li Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiaofei ended with Li Xiaoqiang winning, I really don't know how he did it back then......"

Journalists are looking back at the history of the two men's war. Speaking of the first chess contest between the two, Ma Xiaofei won two games, and naturally no one remembers it clearly. But Li Xiaoqiang's use of "extremist tactics" to win Ma Xiaofei's game is still impressive.

"In the final analysis, Xiaoqiang is a Go genius, and only a genius like him can create an extremist tactic that belongs only to him back then......"

After telling the glorious history of Li Xiaoqiang, reporter Zhang Da began to summarize with emotion. However, everyone loves to hear the story of reporter Zhang Da, but no one likes to hear his feelings. Indeed, as the number one "Xiaoqiang fan" in China, when he expressed his feelings, it was nothing more than a praise for Li Xiaoqiang's flesh. And when he said that, as his peers, he didn't know how many times he had heard him, and his ears were almost calloused, so naturally no one liked to hear it. Just when reporter Zhang Da was still talking there.

"Huh? Let's take a look, today's chess seems to be a bit special. Xiaoqiang: What does this mean? His method today seems to be like that...... What kind of stream is that? ”

One of Zhang Da's colleagues just said this sentence, which attracted everyone's attention. This made reporter Zhang Da a little unhappy. But when he, like everyone else, saw the start of today's game, his little unhappiness was quickly forgotten and replaced by surprise.

"Murphy Stream! Xiaoqiang's next method is clearly Mugu Flow! This...... It's a bit rare. What does Xiaoqiang mean today? Hehe, we just talked about extremist tactics, could it be that Xiaoqiang came up with something today? ”

At present, the competition has just begun, and there are no professional experts in the research room. Some of Li Xiaoqiang's tricks can surprise some reporters, and even make Zhang Da reporter blurt out "Mugu Liu". That means that something special is indeed playing on the board.

This game of chess is Ma Xiaofei's black first. Ma Xiaofei's play did not surprise everyone, unless there is a special situation, Ma Xiaofei's chess must be on the ground first. Of course, if it is just a situation of "confrontation between the ground and the ground", then it is nothing. Because this also appears many times in the game between the two.

But today's problem is that Li Xiaoqiang's chess looks too solid, and it is a bit like Mr. Mutani's chess, which cannot but be surprising. Especially when you just saw Li Xiaoqiang's last move, he made an extremely solid "connection", allowing white to form a "stick" of 6 pieces on the left side of the chessboard. This can't help but remind everyone of Mr. Minoru Kitani, and the game of "celebrity retirement chess" he played with Hideya.

"Hehe, "A Hand of Will", Xiaoqiang actually made a "Hand of Will", what does he mean......"

In the history of Go. Minoru Kitani and Hideya's "celebrity retirement chess" is extremely famous. If the game of "Star, Three 3, Tian Yuan" played by Mr. Wu Qingyuan and Xiuya was the first game of the year, then this game of "Celebrity Retirement Chess" was the second game.

Of course, this game is famous, but technically boring. Although Mr. Minoru Kitani won the game in the end, his winning chess relied more on a mistake behind the celebrity of Hideya, and Mr. Minoru Kitani did not have an advantage most of the time. Nevertheless. This game is still regarded by many as one of Minoru Kitani's masterpieces. For no other reason, in this game of chess, Mr. Minoru Kitani showed his strong personal style, such as connecting the solid "stick". That move was very controversial. There are those who agree with it, and there are many who oppose it. Therefore, it has been talked about by everyone.

I remember that Mr. Wu Qingyuan was the commentator of this game of chess, and he agreed with Mr. Mu Tani's play, and he thought that the pace of the move was a little slow. But it's solid. And according to Mr. Kitani's style, he will definitely do that. But it is undeniable that there are more objections to that move. Most players thought it was too slow. I even think that the reason why Mr. Kitani Minoru has been lagging behind in that game of chess is that move is the main reason.

Later, the Go world called this kind of chess, which is indescribably good or bad, but can strongly show one's personal style, as "a hand of will".

In fact, before this, Mr. Mu Gu Minoru still had a move called "the hand of will", that was when he and Mr. Wu created the "New Layout Revolution" together in the early years, he once played chess with others, and two pieces of chess were formed on the chessboard, and the two people occupied half of the chessboard, forming a situation of large patterns surrounding each other. At that time, when the layout was about to be completed, Mr. Kitani's appearance was smaller, and his opponent's appearance was larger. Just when everyone outside Minoru Kitani needed to enter in time or eliminate the opponent's appearance in time, he did not hurry to make up for his appearance, making his base camp extremely solid.

At that time, everyone could only be speechless when they saw his move, because in everyone's opinion, his move did not need to be made up at all, and even the opponent's next move might be a backward move. But Mr. Minoru Kitani said after the game that he knew that he could not make up for it at that time, but after having that move, there was no hidden danger in his chess, and even if the opponent added a hand in his own appearance, it didn't matter, and he could concentrate on treating orphans after throwing in the "depth charge".

In the end, Mr. Minoru Kitani won, and it doesn't matter how he shows his superb skills in dealing with orphans. For his move that is different from ordinary people's thinking, everyone has to call it "the hand of the will".

Just today, in the match between Li Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiaofei, everyone saw a similar technique, which is still surprising. Because Li Xiaoqiang's chess moves have a varied impact. He seems to be able to play any chess, but on the whole, Li Xiaoqiang's chess still focuses on speed and pursues high efficiency. This kind of chess that is so solid that it feels like a slow pace is really rare in Li Xiaoqiang's chess games.

Now seeing Li Xiaoqiang like this, what does he mean?

At the very beginning, many rookie reporters in the research room looked at reporter Zhang Da. Because reporter Zhang Da is the master among them. However, reporter Zhang Da couldn't say why. Fortunately, this is the China Chess Academy, and reporter Zhang Da does not need to be afraid, he saw Chang Rensheng and Zhou Dayang and others coming to the research room from a distance. Reporter Zhang Da was overjoyed:

"Hurry up, Xiao Chang and Dayang, come in, come and see what this chess means......" (To be continued.) )