Li Xiaoqiang was surrounded by a sense of happiness.

After determining that he was able to participate in the first Go Tianyuan Battle in China.

There was a title fight in Japan where the decisive side was Yasumasa Hane Kudan. He was the one who ended Nie Whirlwind's winning streak in the ring. He is also the father of Naoki Hane, one of the "Heisei Four Heavenly Kings" of Japanese Go in later generations. The final was a five-game chess game, 2-2 in the first four games, and his opponent was Masao Kato.

Before the game, a reporter interviewed Yasumasa Hane and asked him how he felt.

"I didn't feel anything else, and when I walked into the room, I was completely surrounded by a sense of happiness. It was my life's luck to get to the fifth set in the title match, no matter what the outcome was. ”

Li Xiaoqiang saw such a report at the time.

"Tsk, this person is really good at talking, and his words are really sensational."

But now that Li Xiaoqiang understands this sentence, what people say should be their own sincerity. Li Xiaoqiang's happiness now should be similar to that of others.

People with a sense of happiness are comfortable looking at anything. For example, now Li Xiaoqiang is very pleasing to the eye when he looks at Zhang Da. For fear that reporter Zhang Da would be bored, he asked Zhao Dabao to play chess with him every day. After a few days, reporter Zhang Da finally couldn't bear it anymore and was ready to flee. But I was secretly surprised in my heart:

"This kid's Go level is improving so fast."

Li Xiaoqiang has been walking around the arena for a few days of competition. Enjoy the fun that Go brings to yourself. It's a joy to put aside the wins and losers. In this regard, Li Xiaoqiang found that the amateur competition is still very tasteful.

Professional Go is more rigorous, and players are more responsible for their own chess. Overall, most of the start-ups were relatively uneventful. There are many kinds of whimsy in amateur Go. Of course, many whimsical ideas are not valid, but Li Xiaoqiang also watched it with relish. There are also a lot of gains.

The harvest is not in the specific techniques, some tesuji that are eye-catching. It's about some ideas, some of which seem irresponsible, seem bizarre, and don't make sense at all. However, Li Xiaoqiang was still touched.

In fact, Go, like many academic fields, does not need "authority" at all. There is no need to have the idea of "just this hand" at all.

In the Chinese and Japanese chess world, there are many masters who like to use a positive tone when evaluating chess. The more you dare to speak, the more confident you are, so be sure to understand what they are saying when you listen to them.

For example, Otake likes to emphasize that so-and-so chess must not be played. Don't listen to him.

For example, Hideyuki Fujisawa and Nie Whirlwind also like to use an affirmative tone when talking about chess.

"This is the only place to go!"

You should pay attention to the fact that when they say this, they are usually in the prelude to chess. The prologue is the place with the most choices. When they emphasize their own ideas, they are only emphasizing their own ideas, their own choices. It's more like arguing with others, it's just a manifestation of their personality, don't be misled by them. Listen to what they really mean.

In the Korean chess world, this is done relatively well. When have you ever heard Cao Yanzi and Li Shifo talk big about Go. I don't think so. If nothing else, Korean Go is still doing well at this point.

"I deeply feel that the current Korean Go teaching is not in the right direction. The teacher is very dedicated to teaching chess, and he is eager to teach all the means he knows the Tao to his students. It is not right to do so. Go should be free and must not constrain students' thinking. ”

Who said that? It was Li Shishi who said it when he was 30 years old. According to his status in the rivers and lakes at that time, he was indeed qualified to speak, and he was indeed very responsible.

Li Xiaoqiang said. I am still in the chess stage, and there is still a long way to go. I've always wanted to find the shortest path. Of course, I can't be as "rebellious" as Luo Shenzhu and Li Shishi, but I must not be rigid in my thinking.

Zhilu said that he could participate in the Tianyuan Competition. Li Xiaoqiang didn't have the heart to pay attention to the outcome of this competition, and in fact, he didn't think about how to help the Qiancheng Go team achieve better results. Last time, I helped Lao Wang win Yang Hongsheng's 4th section, I felt that Lao Yang was a little "out of bounds", last time it was a game in Qiancheng, if you let an "outsider" win all, it is indeed a bit unsightly.

This time is different, our Li Xiaoqiang is angry. I feel that I am a person of Ganyuan Go, and I must not be petty. Although it is more intimate with Qiancheng chess friends, there are chess friends from other cities who come to say hello, come to ask for advice, and even come to ask for "learn a game". Li Xiaoqiang tried his best to meet everything he could, and he did his best in the process of doing it. Without the slightest perfunctory.

For a while, Li Xiaoqiang's image became tall and kind. Of course, it can't be kind, but it's obviously more likable.

To make people proud of you, you must first treat others as your own. Li Xiaoqiang still understands this truth, and he is indeed working hard with his own practical actions.

The game is lively, and the amateur game has more upsets and is more fun. However, in the end, it did not affect the overall pattern. Qiancheng also got the second place in the group as he wished. Other cities have also reaped what they want to harvest. Li Xiaoqiang's mind is also focused on his own preparations.

First of all, he asked Zhang Zhidong about the detailed competition system of Tianyuan Zhan.

The Tianyuan Battle is jointly sponsored by the Chinese Weiqi Association and the Shencheng Evening News. Later, Shencheng Evening News and other major newspapers merged to become Shencheng Newspaper United Group. Therefore, the Tianyuan War can be regarded as a "news chess battle".

One of the characteristics of Go games is that the "news chess battle" has a relatively long life. For example, Japan's 7 major news chess battles have been held for decades. The same is true of the Chinese competition, with all kinds of ups and downs, the most stable being the "Tianyuan War" and the "Celebrity War". Behind the "celebrity battle" stands the national newspaper "Mass Daily", which can be regarded as a news chess battle.

These two competitions have been relatively stable, and there is a certain tradition in China. Although the prize money is not very high, it still has a high status in the hearts of chess fans. Is it a coincidence that the news chess battle is more stable? Of course not, there's a reason for that. We'll talk about this reason later, let's see what the situation is in the 1st Tianyuan War.

The Tianyuan War is still in the initial stage. In fact, Chinese Go in this era has not yet become professional. It is still a "professional system" unique to China, and of course it cannot be forced on all this. It is impossible to require people to be very professional and standardized from the beginning.

The first Tianyuan Tournament has 3 seeded players. They are Nie Whirlwind, Ma Xiaofei and Cao Dafang. They were the 3 Kudan active in the country at that time. The first nine-dan of Chinese Go is Chen Chaoyue, who basically doesn't play chess now. The second is Wu senior, who is as famous as Chen Chaoyue, who has left the Go world at this time and went overseas. The rest is the three of them.

The three of them went straight to the top four. In other words, Li Xiaoqiang has to go through a single-elimination match with other players to compete for the only top 4 spot. The other candidates were all first-class masters in China at that time, and there were not many of them, including Li Xiaoqiang, there were 16 players.

Li Xiaoqiang cherishes such an opportunity to compete. But I know very well in my heart that in terms of strength, I must be at the bottom. The possibility of wanting to take Tian Yuan is almost zero.

However, this does not mean that Li Xiaoqiang has no ideas. This is the first time Li Xiaoqiang has participated in the highest level competition in China. I definitely don't want to be a soy sauce player. Be sure to test yourself in the competition and show yourself. Be sure to find a way to cause a little trouble for others. Of course, it's better to win a few sets.

I don't think much about the outcome of the last game, but when you play chess, you must find a way to win or lose. Hehe, doesn't it seem a little strange. In fact, this is the "normal heart" that everyone emphasizes.

Back in Cuiwei County, there were less than two months before the competition. Li Xiaoqiang thought about how he would prepare for the war.

In fact, there is not much I can do. In addition to making a dragon diagram, that is, playing more than usual. Li Xiaoqiang has been insisting on doing Tianlong Tu. But it's a little different now than it was at the beginning.

How so? In the past, when I faced the Tianlong diagram, it was more like "looking up", at most I was "looking up". Now you can take a little "look down". You can really respond to the old saying "if you stand high, you can see far". Now Li Xiaoqiang can figure out some other things in it.

Li Xiaoqiang felt that the effect was not bad, so he insisted on it.

In addition to the Tianlong diagram, Li Xiaoqiang also played more music than before.

The so-called playing music is to study the chess played by other people. I went to Japan and went to the capital several times. As an insider. Now Li Xiaoqiang still has a lot of chess games in his hands.

The chess games in his hand are all-encompassing, and there are games of Nie Whirlwind's domestic players. There are also games for Japanese title battles. There are games of Wu Qingyuan, Master Wu and Sakata Eio and other Japanese old-timers. Of course, there are also ancient Chinese genealogies, especially Huang Longshi's "Hematemesis Spectrum" and Shi Fan's "Danghu Ten Bureaus".

Because of well-known reasons. Li Xiaoqiang is more concerned about the ancient spectrum, which also includes the game of Sakata and others. They're also considered "ancient scores". For contemporary chess games, Li Xiaoqiang doesn't pay much attention to them.

If Nie Whirlwind Ma Xiaofei and Li Xiaoqiang knew that Li Xiaoqiang had such thoughts, I don't know if Lu Dao would vomit three liters of blood. Hehe, this year, the chess game of the Japanese title battle is like the recent update of a certain god such as the reader of Dianniang. That's definitely something to look forward to.

In fact, there is a lot of attention to playing chess. The most popular is "slow play", which is to put the chess of other people's masters on the board step by step. Slowly figure it out, experience it, and learn it yourself. This is the most mainstream approach.

Again, there is a non-mainstream at all times. There is also a non-mainstream score, that is, "Kombat"

"Kombat" means not thinking about playing a game, taking a dense game and placing it on the board as quickly as possible. Pay attention to accuracy, and emphasize speed. Ask yourself to be able to restore the content of the game on the board in the shortest possible time.

It doesn't seem to be useful, it seems to be very out of tune. Li Xiaoqiang has never thought about the benefits of doing this.

But don't say it, there are people in the Go world who do this. And this person is not an ordinary person. The status of the rivers and lakes in the Go world is still very high. This person is the South Korean chess player Yoo Chang-hyuk.

Liu Changhyuk is a few years older than Li Xiaoqiang. One of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Korean Go. At that time, he was known as the "No. 1 attacker in the world", and he also won many world championships. The peak of his chess career was from '97 to '03.

We'll take a closer look at these things. The most peculiar thing about Yoo Chang-hyuk is that he was still an amateur chess player when he was 18 years old. When he was 18 years old, his estimated level was about the same as Li Xiaoqiang's now. It would have been inconceivable for him to achieve such a high level of achievement in the eyes of ordinary people.

"If you don't become a national player at the age of 20, you will have no hope for life."

This sentence is basically the consensus of the Go community. Yoo Chang-hyuk is an exception. In that respect, he's a genius. He must have something unique about him.

Naturally, many people are interested in Yoo Chang-hyuk's upbringing. Of course, this includes Li Xiaoqiang.

Liu Changhe can be regarded as a prince of one party. The weight of this prince is quite heavy, at least at the level of the "Seven Heroes of the Warring States". If Li Xiaoqiang has a future future, Liu Changhe will also be a major opponent.

In a past life. Because of Liu Changhe's legendary experience, Li Xiaoqiang was very interested in how he learned chess. In all kinds of information, of course, most of them are big road goods. Only Liu Changhe introduced that he learned chess when he was a child and talked about how he played music. He said that he was basically "Kombat".

This impressed Li Xiaoqiang deeply, so that Li Xiaoqiang couldn't understand.

Therefore, Li Xiaoqiang must try it himself.

Of course, our Li Xiaoqiang is definitely not a person who follows the crowd.

You have to try to play fast, and you can't lose it if you play slowly. I just happened to have some modern chess games in my hand that I didn't like very much. So Li Xiaoqiang decided to play the ancient score slowly and the current score quickly.

Li Xiaoqiang carried out his own preparations in this way. I don't even have the heart of the New Year.

The race is slowly approaching.

Did Li Xiaoqiang gain anything?

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It seems to see a book friend urging a change. Hehe, please don't force me, Li Xiaoqiang is difficult to write in this time period. It will be faster in the future. For more information, please see the casual talk in "Work Related". Thank you for your support!