Chapter 685: Still on top

On the second day after the end of the game with Zhang Xu, Li Xiaoqiang cooperated with the Japanese side to shoot a documentary. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This shooting is actually relatively simple, and there are a lot of video materials about Li Xiaoqiang in Japan. You must know that in the early days of Li Xiaoqiang's career, many of his important games were related to Japanese chess players. If Li Xiaoqiang's career so far is divided into two stages, there is a stage before the rise of Korean Go, and another stage after the rise of Korean Go.

Then in the first stage, Li Xiaoqiang's important game in this period, the "masterpiece" at this stage. How so? It can be said that Li Xiaoqiang basically relied on defeating Japanese chess players to make a name for himself.

Therefore, if you want to shoot a documentary about Li Xiaoqiang, there is no shortage of materials. As long as you casually edit the highlight moments of Li Xiaoqiang's each stage, it is enough to scare many people. will let the newly cultivated "chess soul" fans know that the "Ao Wolf" in reality is so powerful.

So Yukari Umezawa and they came here this time, it was really not to shoot Li Xiaoqiang's game, of course, a documentary can't only be Go, they came here this time mainly to make up some of Li Xiaoqiang's daily life, so as to enrich the content of the documentary.

"I'm really tired, this thing is so much more tiring than the next game of chess."

The filming process was not pleasant, it was said to be "daily life", but in fact, Li Xiaoqiang cooperated with the filming crew to do a one-day show. For people like Li Xiaoqiang, showing off is of course much more tiring than playing chess.

The unpleasant process is also related to Yukari Umezawa, who still plays the role of host and Li Xiaoqiang's translator during the filming process. However, Li Xiaoqiang can see that Yukari Umezawa is obviously not in a state today, not only has he not given Li Xiaoqiang a good face, but he also seems absent-minded during the filming process and often makes mistakes. This undoubtedly made the whole process even more stumbling.

Fortunately, the time together is finally over, Li Xiaoqiang doesn't have time to think so much now, after losing to Zhang Xu, he now needs to focus on the next game.

On the side of the "International Column", the sixth player who will play is Taipei chess player Ah Xun.

Compared with other cutting-edge, Ah Xun's situation is more special. Because he is a Taipei chess player, he usually lacks high-level, high-intensity game opportunities, which is what he lacks compared to other new talents. But also because he is a Taipei chess player, he can get a lot of exemptions in the World Series. This makes Ah Xun different from his new talents:

On the one hand, his overall strength is not conspicuous among the 10 new talents selected this time, especially compared to the most up-and-coming people, such as Gu Dali, Li Shishi and others, his current strength may be slightly inferior. But on the other hand, Ah Xun has the most experience in international competitions. Compared with other cutting-edge, Ah Xun can even be called a battle-hardened veteran.

This was Ah Hoon's biggest advantage, and in the sixth race, he played a decisive role.

When the game between Li Xiaoqiang and Ah Xun was coming to an end, when everyone saw that Ah Xun firmly held the advantage of letting the first post 4 purposes, and finally defeated Li Xiaoqiang. Reporter Zhang Da in the viewing room joked:

"Ah Xun is still powerful, his battle can be regarded as pulling Xiaoqiang back to the world directly."

Mr. Lin Haifeng on the side added with a smile:

"The most important thing in this kind of game is the mentality, which is also difficult for Xiaoqiang, Ah Xun compared with other young people, it can be said that there are no other advantages, but in terms of game experience, especially the game experience of playing against strong players, because he has always had a lot of opportunities to challenge the masters, so his mentality is adjusted the best, and the victory in this game of chess is also reasonable."

After a crazy start of three wins and one draw, Li Xiaoqiang finally ushered in two consecutive defeats in the confrontation with the young people.

This result was expected by most people, but it was also a disappointment for many.

Indeed, if you want to be exciting and fun in a game like this, the best process is that the battle is one-sided, or Li Xiaoqiang beats the young people all over the ground to find teeth, or the young people force Li Xiaoqiang to be very embarrassed, I believe that these two results are what everyone likes to see. But after this two-game losing streak, Li Xiaoqiang's current overall record is three wins, one loss and two losses. To be fair, this is a normal result. The problem is that although the result is normal, it also makes the whole game a little dull, in the words of Zhang Da reporter: "Li Xiaoqiang seems to have returned to the world in a fight". This disappointed quite a few people.

As for Li Xiaoqiang himself, he didn't care much about the result. What he cared about was what Yukari Umezawa said.

After seeing Li Xiaoqiang's two consecutive defeats, Yukari Umezawa threw down the sentence "You deserve to lose" and ran back to Japan.

Obviously, Li Xiaoqiang was puzzled by this.

The competition with young people came to an end again, and the time came to July of 99, in this month, several important international events were rekindled, and Li Xiaoqiang also focused on his main battlefield.

Li Xiaoqiang, who "returned to the world" in alternative events, still performs strongly in the mainstream events of the world chess world.

At the beginning of July, the first to start was the semi-finals of the "Fujitsu Cup", with Li Xiaoqiang against Cao Yanzi and Ma Xiaofei against Li Shifo. The result of this semi-final made Chinese chess fans very happy, and the two Chinese chess players met in the final.

This is the second time that Chinese chess players have won the championship and runner-up in this competition after last year's "Fujitsu Cup".

For these two semi-finals, everyone's feelings are also different.

For Ma Xiaofei, of course, there is nothing to say, everyone is lamenting that he is not easy this time. This is after 96 years, Ma Xiaofei reached the finals of the World Series again, reminiscent of the period in 95 and 96, there were only 4 competitions in those two years, and Ma Xiaofei reached the finals in all 4 World Series. Thinking about Ma Xiaofei back then, and looking at his present, everyone can only sigh that it is not easy for him. Especially when he defeated Li Shifo this time to advance to the finals, it made people feel even more difficult. You must know that a very important reason why he has always been unable to enter the finals in the past two years is that he is always folded in the hands of Li Shifo.

Ma Xiaofei's entry into the final this time marks his return, and at the same time, it also makes many people have a reverie about the final.

Because at this time, many people remembered that Ma Xiaofei was the only chess player who had defeated Li Xiaoqiang in the final of the World Series.

As for the semi-finals between Li Xiaoqiang and Cao Yanzi, everyone has no feelings about Li Xiaoqiang, because Li Xiaoqiang won Cao Yanzi, which was originally expected by everyone.

Everyone sighed about Lao Cao's outstanding performance, and felt that Lao Cao's old age was stronger. Due to the problem of chess style, the collision between Li Xiaoqiang and Cao Yanzi is destined to be exciting and intense. And the two will compete in the semi-finals of the "Fujitsu Cup" this time, and the same. When Nie Whirlwind explained this game of chess on the sports channel, he clearly pointed out: Cao Yanzi is stronger now than when he competed with him for the first "Ying's Cup" 10 years ago. He was full of praise for Lao Cao's old age and his ability to achieve "reverse growth".

"Lao Cao's chess sense is still keen, his marksmanship is still skilled, it's a pity, it's a pity that he met our Xiaoqiang, if compared with 10 years ago, the current Lao Cao is a strengthened version of the "soft wind fast gun", then our Xiaoqiang, that is a strengthened version of the "enhanced version of Lao Cao". Cao Yanzi is still the same problem, he is in his strongest place, our Xiaoqiang is stronger than him, this is why Lao Cao always can't help our Xiaoqiang. ”

In the studio of the imperial court station, Lao Nie used these words to comment on the semi-finals.

At the beginning of July, the semi-finals of the Fujitsu Cup were held, and at the end of July, the semi-finals of the first Akiju Cup were held. It was also these 4 chess players, but everyone exchanged opponents, with Li Xiaoqiang against Li Shifo and Ma Xiaofei against Cao Yanzi.

This is the 21st meeting between Li Xiaoqiang and Li Shifo, and in the first 20 sets, the two sides played to a 10-10 draw. However, through this game, Li Xiaoqiang once again took the lead.

This game not only allowed Li Xiaoqiang to break the curse of "not winning Li Shifo in the finals", but also allowed Li Xiaoqiang to break into the World Series finals for the second time this year.

In the 2 world competitions that are underway, Li Xiaoqiang has reached the finals!

On the other side, it was Cao Yanzi who defeated Ma Xiaofei to enter the final. But this time, not many people lamented Lao Cao's reverse growth.

Everyone was attracted by Li Xiaoqiang's strength.

After the game, reporter Zhang Da described the current Li Xiaoqiang in one sentence:

"After two consecutive defeats in the confrontation with young people, we all thought that Li Xiaoqiang had returned to the world. But now we find that he is still on top. (To be continued.) )