At the end of the first two rounds of the 6th Fujitsu Cup, the Chinese delegation set off for China.

In the first two rounds, the Chinese team was hit hard, and only Shao Weigang entered the top 8 alone, so everyone's mood was generally not high.

"Wei Gang, it's up to you now, you are participating for the first time this time, and Xiaoqiang is also participating for the first time in the 4th. I hope you can also replicate the miracle of Xiaoqiang's previous year. ”

After boarding, everyone used such words to encourage Shao Weigang. But in fact, everyone knows it. Shao Weigang is not Li Xiaoqiang after all. When Li Xiaoqiang participated in the first competition, although no one thought before the competition that he would win the championship. But Li Xiaoqiang's impact back then, everyone still admits this. And what about Shao Weigang now? Everyone also has a basic judgment on his strength: the current Shao Weigang should not have the impact of Li Xiaoqiang 2 years ago. Thinking about it this way, the champion of this year's "Fujitsu Cup" has basically lost a chance with Chinese chess players.

In May 1993, the highlight of the world chess scene became the final of the "Ying Cup". Nie Whirlwind and Cao Yanzi reunited in the finals again, which naturally attracted everyone's great attention, is Cao Yanzi continuing to be brilliant? Or did Nie Whirlwind's revenge succeed? This is the most talked-about topic in recent times.

After returning to China after participating in the "Fujitsu Cup", Nie Whirlwind obviously seemed to be a different person, and he devoted himself to preparing for the game. During this period, the schedule of the final five-way chess of the "Ying's Cup" has been determined. Almost exactly like the first edition, in early May, the first two games will be held in Ningbo, which is Mr. Ying's hometown. At the end of May, the last three games will be played in Singapore, where the winner will be decided.

When Mr. Ying consulted Nie Whirlwind himself on this arrangement, Nie Whirlwind agreed without hesitation. It shows a strong determination to "get up from where you fall".

"Xiaoqiang, you put Cao Yanzi in the finals, thus doubling the pressure on Lao Nie. Now that Lao Nie is preparing for the war, you have to find a way to do something, right? ”

Before the finals. The management privately approached Li Xiaoqiang and wanted Li Xiaoqiang to think of a way to prepare for Nie Whirlwind. In fact, the management is not a person who does not know chess, and they know very well that the key to preparing for such a major final is to rely on the players themselves. This series of adjustments includes energy adjustment, physical adjustment, familiarity with the game system, speculation of opponents, and maintaining a proficient chess sense, and many other factors. For these things. Outsiders are generally not of much help.

For these things, the management is not unclear. But the Chinese Go team has always had a tradition of collective research, knowing that external help may not be useful, but if they don't do anything, it seems that it is unreasonable.

"In this way, if Teacher Nie is willing, I can simulate Cao Yanzi's chess style and practice a few games with him, depending on whether Teacher Nie is interested......"

In the end, Li Xiaoqiang still thought of a unique way. Considering Nie Whirlwind's layout, kung fu was originally his strong point. Therefore, the simulation game does not start from scratch. Pick someone else's game to pick up and pick it up. The range of choices for this chess game can be very large, it can be Liu Dazhui, Yu Bin and their games, like Chang Rensheng. Luo Shen Pig has no problem with their training games.

"Didn't Teacher Nie say a word before? In a situation like this, if he holds black, black wins, and if he holds white, white wins. We're going to pick one of these kinds of chess, and I'll play with him. Let's see if Mr. Nie can do it. ”

After Li Xiaoqiang put forward his idea, he also made such a joke by the way.

After Li Xiaoqiang came up with this idea, the chess players of the entire national team became interested. Everyone offered their own half-set games. Of course, this half-set game also has requirements, first, the situation is almost "two points" when it is required to continue, otherwise there is no exercise value. Second, considering Cao Yanzi's chess style, the requirement is that the game is more chaotic, and the "floor-paving" chess is not considered.

In the face of this proposal, Nie Whirlwind himself also showed great interest, and he readily agreed. Not only that, Ma Xiaofei also found this unique training method fun, and he was also eager to try. In the end, the management decided that Li Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiaofei would serve as sparring partners to help Nie Whirlwind prepare for the war in this way.

The day of the final is approaching, and when all this kind of simulated games are over, everyone is worried about Nie Whirlwind's state. Because of this kind of training game, a total of 10 games were played, and Nie Whirlwind only won 3 games, and on the surface, he was beaten by Li Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiaofei in various ways, which naturally caused everyone to worry.

For this kind of worry, only Li Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiaofei disagreed.

"Don't worry, Teacher Nie's current state is very good......"

Although it is said that the selection is a "two-point" situation, there is actually a slight gap in this. Li Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiaofei knew that Nie Whirlwind took the initiative to choose the relatively difficult side. In other words, the 3 games won by Nie Whirlwind can be called "reversal wins". can do this in front of Li Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiaofei, Nie Whirlwind's state naturally does not have to worry.

Regardless of what the situation is, the long-awaited final of the 2nd "Ying's Cup" has finally started as scheduled.

At the beginning of May, in the first two games in Ningbo, the two played a good game of chess, and the two sides were evenly divided with a score of 1-1.

By late May, the two had moved to Singapore, where they had their final battle.

The third game became a watershed in this final! Soon after the start, Nie Whirlwind relied on his overall view to gain a slight advantage. However, it is in the middle of the game. Nie Whirlwind's famous "faint move" followed him again. But fortunately, Lao Nie's "faint move" this time was not too big, and after offsetting the advantages accumulated earlier, Nie Whirlwind's situation was only a little behind. In the second half of the chess game, Nie Whirlwind, who realized that the situation was backward, let go of his hands and feet. He launched a Jedi counterattack, and finally reversed Cao Yanzi and won the crucial "Battle of Tianwang Mountain".

"This is not Nie Whirlwind's chess! In today's game, we clearly saw Li Xiaoqiang's shadow! ”

After the third set, some Korean media made such an exclamation.

Seeing such a report, Li Xiaoqiang, who had been following the progress of the game, smiled. In real history, Nie Whirlwind in his heyday was not an official. For example, in the first China-Japan Go Tournament, his victory over Kobayashi Koji was a famous reversal victory. It's just that compared with his second half of the game, Lao Nie's reputation of "invincible in the world in the first fifty steps" is too loud, so loud that everyone thinks that he can only rely on this way to win chess.

Of course, Li Xiaoqiang knows that compared with Cao Yanzi in 89, the current Cao Yanzi is of course much stronger. Due to the emergence of a Li Shifo in South Korea, under his tempering, Cao Yanzi is one of the few super-first-class chess players who are "growing in reverse". Cao Yanzi's progress even continued into the beginning of the 21st century. Until the turn of the century, he was able to suppress the "Seven Little Dragons" generation to cry without tears.

"That's right, you Cao Yanzi is very strong, but now Nie Whirlwind is also stronger than before! Because...... Now China has me, Li Xiaoqiang......"

At the end of May 1993, the fourth game of the 2nd "Ying's Cup" started. In the capital, in the studio hall of the Imperial Court TV Sports Channel, Li Xiaoqiang, as the keynote speaker, was talking:

“…… Almost from the beginning of the prologue, Cao Yanzi unfolded his fast pace and danced a brilliant spear flower, but Teacher Nie was unmoved, he was not in a hurry or threatened...... How to describe it? Or, you can describe Mr. Nie's chess today as a rainy season. Teacher Nie is like a rainy season flooding Cao Yanzi...... I never thought that Mr. Nie could be so tenacious! His black iron tenacity withered and ...... the flowers full of Cao Yanzi's bloom one by one."

“…… I can imagine now that with its stocky, thick black edges and corners, our Teacher Nie should have deeply imprinted the impression of a giant bear roaring in Cao Yanzi's mind, right? Judging from Cao Yanzi's moves, it seems that he doesn't know how to shake this giant bear at all......"

At 6 o'clock in the afternoon, Li Xiaoqiang had already begun to summarize the entire chess game. He pointed to a hand on the big chessboard and said:

"Mr. Nie's move, a classic trick of the century! With this move, the chess game braked instantly, and the one-month-long final process ended like a time standstill, without the slightest inertia and no suspense! Let's congratulate Mr. Nie. Congratulations on becoming a World Champion! In today's game of chess, Mr. Nie won the accuracy and tenacity in the second half of the game, which is really beyond everyone's expectations, everyone knows that Cao Yanzi's chess is longer than the explosive power of the moment, but today's Mr. Nie chose to compete in Cao Yanzi's strengths, and the result was overturned in an instant, and the entire five-way victory and defeat was also frozen at this moment......"

Nie Whirlwind has won!

His victory once again caused a huge repercussion in China. Indeed, the world championship held by the Chinese themselves, the glory of the world's No. 1 chess battle, the story of perfect revenge and self-redemption. made Nie Whirlwind add a lot of aura to his body again. After Nie Whirlwind returned to China, someone brought up the old words again, and brought up the matter of awarding him the "Chess Saint" again.

But this time, Nie Whirlwind didn't hesitate at all, he refused without thinking:

“…… I'm really not polite, if it was me a few years ago, I wouldn't have thought I might have this qualification. But now, I have seen very clearly: the vast and profound game of Go has a field that I have never explored. Thank you all for your kindness, but I decided not to accept the title of "Chess Saint", not because I didn't want to, but because I now realize that I don't have the qualifications to do so......"

After hearing Nie Whirlwind's statement, Li Xiaoqiang laughed again. (To be continued......)