Beijing, China Chess Academy. The quarterfinals of the 10th Fujitsu Cup are underway here.

In this year's "Fujitsu Cup", 4 Chinese chess players entered the top 8. It was one of the best results in the five major tournaments this year, so from the beginning of the competition, the viewing room was crowded and very lively.

However, around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the atmosphere in the viewing room was a little dull.

Team Leader Hua and Coach Luo came to Yu Bin's side, and he is now studying Chang Rensheng's game of chess with Zhang Xuan and others:

"How is this game of chess?"

Yu Bin didn't answer immediately, and after a brief exchange of opinions with Luo Shenzhu and others around him:

"Xiao Lin's skill is still high after all, it seems that no matter how he goes, it looks a little worse."

Team Leader Hua and Coach Luo were speechless when they listened, Chang Rensheng's opponent in this game of chess was Kobayashi Koji, as a Japanese veteran super first-class, Kobayashi Koji's technical characteristics are very familiar to all Chinese chess players. If you want to ask Kobayashi what Koji is best at? So many Chinese chess players will tell you: how to operate safely in an advantageous situation, how to turn advantages into victories, this is Kobayashi Koji's famous skill, and it is also one of his most prominent talents.

It's already past 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and the game has already entered the second half of the game, what does it mean that "how to play is always a little worse"? It was clear to all of those present.

After asking about Chang Rensheng's situation, Coach Luo turned his gaze to Luo Shenzhu again. Luo Shenzhu has been brought up by Coach Luo since he was a child, and he doesn't need Coach Luo to open his mouth at all, Luo Shenzhu understands what he means. I saw Luo Shenzhu smile bitterly:

"Although Rensheng is lagging behind in this game of chess, the game can continue after all, and what about the game of Dayang, I think I can clean up the chess pieces now."

Zhou Dayang's opponent in this game of chess is Wang Licheng. Luo Shenzhu's meaning, of course, is not that Wang Licheng needs to clean up the chess pieces, but that Zhou Dayang can admit defeat in the middle game now.

Hearing Luo Shenzhu's judgment, Team Leader Hua was a little surprised:

"Isn't Dayang usually a very stable person? How ...... today"

"Yes, Dayang is usually very stable. It's a pity that he is bad today because of this stability, and he is too stable today, resulting in the current situation is very bad. I guess ......"

Team Leader Hua's question was not finished, and Yu Bin's answer was not answered, but the meaning of the two was still clear to everyone. In the national team, Zhou Dayang is the one who is best at using the thick momentum to fight. Everyone remembers that Li Xiaoqiang once said: In the Chinese Go "Eight Horses", Zhou Dayang's talent in using the thick momentum to fight even surpasses himself and Chang Rensheng.

likes to use thick forces to fight, and usually likes to "strike later". Generally this type of chess player, their chess is not so easy to collapse. So why is Zhou Dayang's chess already bad at this time? There's no need to explain too much. Yu Bin said he was "overly steady" today. In Go, the so-called "over-steady" is, of course, synonymous with "slow".

In Go, it is difficult to grasp the balance between "thick chess" and "slow chess". Yu Bin's meaning is obvious, Zhou Dayang did not grasp this balance today, and his game today is that many chess moves are too slow, so that the current situation is very bad.

Coach Luo sighed faintly: "Alas, in the final analysis, this is still a matter of game experience." Whether it's the two of them, or a few of you, it's hard to make a difference in the World Series without sharpening your grip on this aspect. After all. Not everyone is Li Xiaoqiang's ......"

There are Chinese chess players in the 4 games of today's top 8 games, and at this time, there have been 2 games of chess The situation has been obviously unfavorable and even the death sentence has been announced, which is why Coach Luo sighed with emotion. But at this time. Everyone can't afford to go on with these two games. At this time, Team Leader Hua asked:

"What about the other two games? How about Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiao's two games of chess? ”

"Those two games of chess......" Yu Bin and Luo Shenzhu glanced at each other, and finally Yu Bin replied on behalf of everyone:

"Those two games of chess, I still can't see clearly."

"Oh? I can't see it clearly. Specifically......"

The so-called "can't see clearly" of course means that Yu Bin and they still can't see clearly who is better and who is inferior in those two games of chess. However, there is also a possibility that they have actually been able to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages, but it is not easy to say who will lose and who will win.

"Ma Xiao, 1 hour ago, we also judged that Zhao Zhixun had a slight advantage. However, Lao Zhao's play behind him was not concise enough, and at the same time, Ma Xiao also began to exert his strength, and the chess game has been going on until now, and the scene of that game of chess is very chaotic. However, we all judge that Ma Xiao has pulled back a lot, and although it cannot be said that Ma Xiao has an advantage, but according to this trend, we all think that Ma Xiao still has hope to win this set. “

"What about Xiaoqiang's plate?"

"Xiaoqiang's plate is exactly the opposite of Ma Xiao's plate, an hour ago, we all thought that Xiaoqiang's situation was obviously optimistic, but now it's ......"

Speaking of this, Yu Bin shook his head again and again. His shaking of his head naturally made Team Leader Hua and Coach Luo extremely nervous:

"What's going on now? Could it be that Xiaoqiang's chess is no longer optimistic! ”

"It's not optimistic that it's not that much, it's just that we all think that Xiaoqiang has no advantage now, and the current situation on the chessboard is very stale, and in the end, it's completely unclear who wins and who loses."

Hearing that it was just a stalemate, Team Leader Hua and Coach Luo breathed a sigh of relief. Because since it is said that "the situation is stalemate", this means that the current situation is still "two points", which and "not optimistic" are of course two completely different concepts. Team Leader Hua, who felt that he had been frightened just now, asked Yu Bin:

"And what did you just shake your head for?"

"I shook my head just now because I couldn't understand the chess played by that Li Shifo at all. Just a few dozen moves, in the last dozens of moves, we can neither see Xiaoqiang's bad moves and slow, nor can we see what Li Shifo's chess is good about. But why is Xiaoqiang's victory gone? How could the situation be approached by him unconsciously? I don't understand, I don't understand, I don't understand, I don't understand......"

Speaking of this, Yu Bin continued to shake his head there, and the magnitude of his shaking was even greater than just now.

"Are you saying that Xiaoqiang didn't even "slow down"? ”

Today, Li Shifo has also been competing in the world chess arena for many years, and everyone knows this technical characteristic very well. There are many similar chess games, all of which are in a situation where the beginning seems to be backward, and I can't see what bad moves the opponent has played, which may be an inconspicuous "slowdown" of one or two steps, so that Li Shifo unconsciously reversed the situation. Therefore, Team Leader Hua specially asked Li Xiaoqiang if he had made a "slow".

After listening to Team Leader Hua's question, Luo Shenzhu replied with certainty:

"Nope! Wei Gang and I have just studied them, and the boss's recent chess moves are not only not conservative, but his attitude is very positive, so positive that it makes us feel ......"

"Feel what?"

"It feels like he doesn't think he has an advantage."

After Luo Shenzhu said this, the entire research room fell silent. Yes, this situation is too strange, Li Xiaoqiang neither played bad moves, nor did he appear "slow", on the contrary, his attitude towards chess is as positive as ever. But where did his advantage go?

"Alas! Both of them are high chess players, and we can't understand them at this level. I don't think we should think about it, we can only find out if we ask them themselves after the game. ”

After a short silence, Yu Bin came to say this. Listening to him say this, everyone thinks it's right. The most difficult part of the game of Go is to judge. An hour ago, the research laboratory thought that Li Xiaoqiang was an advantage, but is this judgment correct? Of course, Yu Bin and others do not dare to guarantee that their judgment will be correct, at least judging from Li Xiaoqiang's performance, his later moves are still positive, indicating that his judgment should not be as optimistic as everyone.

Is it right or wrong? Of course, this will not be known until after the end of the game.

"In that case, let's just wait slowly. But now it seems that if we want to know the outcome of this game, it seems that we will have to wait enough. Everyone saw that it was almost time to enter the countdown, and the two of them had only played a few chess moves, and the whole chessboard was empty. ”

Hearing Team Leader Hua say this, everyone laughed. Now that it has been more than 4 o'clock, the whole chessboard is not "empty". However, in the 4-set game, it is a fact that Li Xiaoqiang and Li Shifo have the slowest progress in this set. In the other games, some of the pieces are now almost decided. As for their game, they have played less than 130 moves in total.

Such a slow process, coupled with a stalemate. Then one thing is to be expected: this game is sure to be a hard and long tug-of-war.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Li Xiaoqiang and Li Shifo's game seemed to be continuing unhurriedly, and the two sides played less than 150 hands at this time. News came from the game room, and both sides entered the countdown almost at the same time. Hearing the news, Yu Bin smiled:

"No matter who wins or loses, at least the two of them should still be quite sober-minded, everyone sees that they are unwilling to suffer in terms of time, and they control the time of the game so strictly, it can be seen that the two of them are really stronger, this is the so-called all-round competition......"

Let's ignore Li Xiaoqiang and Li Shifo's "all-round competition". After 5 p.m., the game began to end one after another.

The first to end was Zhou Dayang's plate against Mr. Wang Licheng. Just after 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Dayang walked out of the game room with a look of chagrin. This is Zhou Dayang's first time participating in the World Championships, and compared with Wang Licheng, his biggest gap is his lack of competition experience.

This does not refer to ordinary competitions, but to international competition experience. You know, a major international match is always different from an ordinary match. Zhou Dayang paid the price for this today.

Soon after Zhou Dayang walked out of the game room, the second set of the top 8 game ended, and in the face of Kobayashi Koji's concise and efficient "subway flow", Chang Rensheng obviously did not find any good way, and he was quickly defeated.

So far, the two games of "Sino-Japanese confrontation" have ended in the defeat of the Chinese chess players. In the top four of this year's Fujitsu Cup, Japanese players have already grabbed two seats.

Who will the other two seats go to? The game continues. (To be continued.) )