In April 1995, when the cherry blossoms were in full bloom in Japan, the 8th Fujitsu Cup World Professional Go Championship opened in Tokyo.

As the defending champion, Li Xiaoqiang does not have to play in the first round. However, in the last competition, only Li Xiaoqiang, a Chinese chess player, entered the top 8, so according to the rules of the "Fujitsu Cup", the Chinese team only has Li Xiaoqiang, a seeded player, and the other Chinese chess players have to start from the first round of the game.

On the first weekend of April, the first round of the Fujitsu Cup began. On the day of the game, Li Xiaoqiang came to the viewing room early in the first round of this year's World Series, and the strength and weakness are often clear, and from the perspective of Go technology, there are not many real highlights. Some people even say that it is more interesting to watch the research in the laboratory than to watch the chess players play, and there is some truth to this.

"I said, you two, why do you look a little respectful of each other?"

Listening to reporter Zhang Da's words, Li Xiaoqiang rolled his eyes:

"Quality, pay attention to your quality. I said reporter Zhang Da, you are now a famous person, is your Chinese taught by a physical education teacher? What kind of nonsense are you describing this......"

"Hehe, of course I know it's a bit of a misnomer, but I'm ...... for a moment I really couldn't find a better adjective. ”

Li Xiaoqiang looked at Yukari Umezawa beside him again, and did not continue to speak. Yukari Umezawa also looked calm on the surface and didn't react at all. Although Mei Ze once studied in China, his Chinese is broad and profound, and Li Xiaoqiang doesn't know if she understands it.

Don't look at the Chinese team, there is only one seeded player, Li Xiaoqiang. However, he was never afraid of being alone when he appeared in the viewing room. As long as Li Xiaoqiang goes abroad to compete, especially in Japan, then Zhang Da reporter on the left and Yukari Umezawa on the right, these two will definitely accompany Li Xiaoqiang. This has been the case for many years. This is like the existence of a set pattern in Go, and you can often see this scene.

Of course, this is also the main reason why the scandal between Li Xiaoqiang and Yukari Umezawa has spread all over the world.

But how do you get along with Yukari Umezawa now?

To be honest, the current Li Xiaoqiang really doesn't know how to get along.

A few years ago. Because Yuka Umezawa has the title of "the first beauty in the Go world" on her head. Li Xiaoqiang even held a "flirtatious beauty" mentality and dated Yukari Umezawa. So Li Xiaoqiang made all kinds of jokes in front of Yuka Umezawa, and he could say all kinds of outrageous words.

But what about now? Mei Ze's heart for himself, Li Xiaoqiang is not unaware. It is precisely because of this that Li Xiaoqiang doesn't know how to get along with Mei Ze. Li Xiaoqiang couldn't accept such an emotion frankly, but he didn't know how to refuse.

Finally, not long ago, Li Xiaoqiang thought of a way, he sent a photo of himself and Lin Mengyu to Yukari Umezawa. It's a way to express your heart. This time he came to Japan to compete, Li Xiaoqiang was also a little entangled in his heart, and he treated Mei Ze like this. What is it all about? Or is it not good? Or is it good...... Did Umezawa come back to visit him this time? Did she see it? Or is it missing? See you anyway......

Li Xiaoqiang admitted that when he saw Mei Ze yesterday, he did have a little surprise and a little vanity. But the fundamental problem has not been solved. On the surface, you can't see any difference between Yukari Umezawa and usual. She is like a very competent full-time translator, whenever she appears in public, she will be by her side dutifully. But the more Mei Ze is like this, the more Li Xiaoqiang dares to make mistakes, and his usual mouth is gone. When he spoke to Umezawa, it was quite polite.

This situation may not be visible to others, but it cannot be hidden from the eyes of reporters. As he described: Treat each other with respect.

This may be a misnomer, but I really couldn't find a better description for a while.

Maybe it's because I couldn't find a better way to get along with Yukari Umezawa. Li Xiaoqiang had no choice but to divert his attention. He focused more on chess, and in today's viewing room, Li Xiaoqiang was quite active.

In the first round of today's "Fujitsu Cup", the most eye-catching thing is a game of chess by Chang Rensheng VS Kiki Ita. This was probably the most evenly matched game of the first round. Except for this game. Choi Myung-hoon, the head of South Korea's "Four Little Kings", has also attracted more attention to China's Liu Dazhui. The chess players and reporters who came to the viewing room today focused most of their attention on these two games.

Chang Rensheng, Choi Myung-hoon and other cutting-edge chess players began to appear in the main tournament of the World Series. This should be regarded as a new atmosphere of this year's "Fujitsu Cup".

In the past year or two, South Korea's "Four Little Heavenly Kings" have been known a lot in their country, but these chess players are not well-known in the international chess world. This time, Choi Myung-hoon, like Chang Ren-sheng, also made his first appearance in the World Series through the domestic qualifiers. Whether these young chess players in South Korea can grow into real "kings" or become tragedies like their predecessors "challenging the top five" remains to be reviewed. The stage of the World Series is undoubtedly the best litmus test, so Choi Myung-hoon's performance this time is quite eye-catching.

Of course, when it comes to the level of attention, Choi Myung-hoon's plate is still not as good as Chang Rensheng's plate. The situation in South Korea is unclear, but Chang Rensheng is actually very famous in Japan. Putting aside the 6 consecutive wins in the ring some time ago, let's not talk about it. In fact, Chang Rensheng became famous very early, earlier than Li Xiaoqiang. As early as when he was 6 years old, his photo was published in the Japanese magazine "Chess", accompanied by a narration by the old god Hideyuki Fujisawa:

"Remember the name......"

It's a pity that after so many years, all the limelight has been stolen by Li Xiaoqiang alone, and Chang Ren's icon lives completely in the shadow of Li Xiaoqiang. It wasn't until he achieved an excellent record of 6 consecutive victories in this China-Japan Go Tournament that everyone seemed to remember that in addition to Li Xiaoqiang, there was such a "prodigy" in the Chinese chess world in the early years.

Now that the "prodigy" has finally grown up, he has begun to make his mark on the world chess scene. In particular, Chang Rensheng, as the most outstanding disciple of Nie Whirlwind, this year is the first time that Nie Whirlwind has missed the World Championship, and Chang Rensheng is the first time to participate. The meaning of the alternation of the old and the new wants to be strong.

How so? Chang Rensheng is like a disciple from the "Xuanmen Zhengzong" in martial arts novels, he is a famous family, his talent and ability have been praised a lot since he was a child, his growth path has been carefully cared for, and he is now starting to walk the rivers and lakes with a sword. So what can he do at the World Series? Naturally, it is quite remarkable.

Of course, the reason why Chang Rensheng has received so much attention today may also be related to Li Xiaoqiang's praise of him the day before. The opening ceremony of the first day. When Chang Rensheng had just spoken, the host asked Li Xiaoqiang to say a few words to evaluate Chang Rensheng. As a teammate who has been studying and living together since the beginning of the national junior team, Li Xiaoqiang certainly has to stand up for Chang Rensheng.

Li Xiaoqiang remembers what he said at the time:

"What? He said that he mainly focused on learning? No, no, no, don't be fooled by him. In fact, he is very good at chess, and he is now capable of beating any player...... Note that I'm not saying polite words. I don't know how far Chang Rensheng can go this time, but I wouldn't be surprised that he won against any of the world's top chess players. He has the strength now. I've always thought that Chang Rensheng's chess is unique. His chess is magnificent, and he has won the essence of Mr. Nie. His comprehension of the overall situation, anyway, I am willing to bow to the wind, and I sigh to myself. ”

"It's so high......"

The host expressed surprise at Li Xiaoqiang's evaluation. Is Li Xiaoqiang really touting unprincipledly? That really can't be said. In Li Xiaoqiang's view, Chang Rensheng's chess does have its own uniqueness. His heaviness and atmosphere are something that Li Xiaoqiang thinks he doesn't have.

Because he is almost the same age as Chang Rensheng, Li Xiaoqiang is quite familiar with Chang Rensheng's growth trajectory. In real history, it would take two years for Chang Rensheng to truly grow into a world-class chess player...... But in this world, the Everlasting Saint should still be influenced by himself. Not to mention that he inherited the mantle of Naishi Nie Whirlwind in the first half of the game, and under his influence in the second half of the game, his skills are also quite solid. According to the growth rate of Chang Ren Sheng. Li Xiaoqiang estimates that it won't take long, not more than 2 years at most, and Chang Rensheng will be able to become one of his main opponents. Therefore, Li Xiaoqiang helped Chang Rensheng say a few good words, which is really not overblown.

Of course. Li Xiaoqiang thinks so in his heart, but it's not clear what others think of him. This is especially true in Japan, where the growth cycle of Japanese chess players is notoriously slow. It is enough to have a Li Xiaoqiang in the Chinese chess world. Could it be that they specialize in "precocious" chess players?

"Ahh The chess of the regular players, and the place where the chessboard wizard is ashamed of himself......"

Note! Yesterday, when the host asked Li Xiaoqiang to "say a few words", he did not compare Chang Rensheng with Li Xiaoqiang, but only asked Li Xiaoqiang to "evaluate" Chang Rensheng. In fact, to this day, few people compare other young chess players with Li Xiaoqiang, except for one Li Shifo. And even if Li Shifo is here, everyone generally believes that there is still a certain gap between him and Li Xiaoqiang. Now when everyone talks about Li Xiaoqiang, more and more media associate his name with Huang Longshi, Xiuce, Wu Qingyuan, and other "chess saint" level figures.

This is Li Xiaoqiang's current "status in the rivers and lakes", he is now qualified to evaluate others, but few people compare him with other active chess players. And when Li Xiaoqiang spoke, his words carried quite weight.

Now seeing that Li Xiaoqiang has such a high evaluation of Chang Rensheng, the host can't help but say a few more words, and this host has obviously done a certain amount of homework:

"I've heard that Chang has always aimed at you, and he himself admits that the player he wants to win the most is actually you. But he hasn't won against you yet, not even a set......"

For such a problem, Li Xiaoqiang naturally has a way to deal with it. He first glanced at Ma Xiaofei standing beside him, then at the Japanese chess player Kobayashi Koji, and then said with a smile:

"Here I want to borrow a sentence from Mr. Kobayashi, an opponent like Chang Rensheng must not let him win the first set, otherwise it will be difficult in the future. I don't like everyone to say, this is my true opinion of Chang Rensheng, and it is also the reason why I have been suppressing him before, and I have always given my best in previous matches with him......"

Hearing Li Xiaoqiang say this, the whole venue immediately burst into laughter. This sentence can also be regarded as an allusion in the Go world, which is a sentence that Kobayashi Koji said when he evaluated Ma Xiaofei when he was fighting hard in the "Sino-Japanese Celebrity Match" a few years ago. This sentence is not good on the surface, but in fact, this is Kobayashi Koji's praise for Ma Xiaofei, and it can even be said that this is a high evaluation.

Soon after Kobayashi Koji said this, Ma Xiaofei quickly pierced the layer of "window paper", and he quickly grew into one of the top chess players in the world. So now, Li Xiaoqiang applies this sentence to Chang Rensheng, has Chang Rensheng also reached that critical point?

"Oh? Do you really think so? ”

"Yes, that's what I mean from the heart. If you don't believe me, let's wait and see. ”

Li Xiaoqiang talked endlessly, and it happened that Chang Rensheng drew Yitian Jiji in the subsequent lottery ceremony. From an ornamental point of view, this is certainly a good sign. And because of Li Xiaoqiang's praise of Chang Rensheng, in today's viewing room, not only Chinese and Japanese chess players are paying attention to this game, but even several seeded players from South Korea are focusing on this game.

Accompanied by reporter Zhang Da and Yukari Umezawa, Li Xiaoqiang stayed in the viewing room on the day of the first round. As the tournament progressed around 3 p.m., the number of players in the viewing room began to increase. The eight seeded players of this tournament all appeared in the viewing room, which is rare in the past. According to the distribution of the top 8 players in the last tournament, there are 4 Japanese players among the seeded players. There are 3 Korean chess players, and only one Chinese chess player, Li Xiaoqiang. Among these players, Chinese and Korean players have been haunting the viewing room since the morning, because they have nowhere to go. Most of the Japanese players come here in the afternoon.

In the research room, the most eye-catching is the very center of the research room, where the champions and runners-up of the last competition, Li Xiaoqiang of China and Cao Yanzi of South Korea, play chess. They were there talking, pointing at the chessboard, and judging things. The focus of the research is naturally the match between Chang Rensheng and Yida Kiki. By the way, I took into account Liu Dazhui VS Choi Myung-hoon's game. Kobayashi Koji, Cho Ji-hoon, Otake Hero and South Korea's Yoo Chang-hyuk, Seo Bong-so and others stopped to watch the battle.

Chess in the research room. It is nothing more than the spectator chess player who puts his thoughts and ideas out. It's a pity that the two players who are playing chess today have very different styles of chess from the two players. Therefore, the reference map they put out is far from the real actual combat process.

Li Xiaoqiang is better in this regard, a teammate for many years. Train together, grow together. Li Xiaoqiang is also relatively familiar with Chang Rensheng's chess. So when he was helping Chang Rensheng to make a move. He could still predict some of Chang Rensheng's moves. On the other side, when Cao Yanzi was helping Yitian Kiki find a way, the reference map he posed often attracted Zhao Zhixun, Kobayashi Koji and others to shake their heads and laugh.

Of course, this is not to say that the reference map put out by Cao Yanzi is not good, but they all agree that it is impossible for Yitian Jiji to follow Cao Yanzi's ideas in actual combat.

Speaking of Chang Rensheng and Yitian Jiji, they both belong to the kind of chess style that is particularly "positive". To paraphrase a Go term, the two of them can be regarded as authentic "Ben Ge Liu". Playing chess is about being upright and upright, and paying attention to the beautiful shape of the chess. As for Li Xiaoqiang and Cao Yanzi, their level may be very high, but they don't pay so much attention to the shape of the chess when playing chess. Especially when it comes to chess in the laboratory, this kind of chess is not responsible, so some of their ideas are even more imaginative and unrestrained. What's fun, what's exciting. In this way, the chess played by the two of them is naturally not on the same beat as the actual combat process.

Despite this, when Li Xiaoqiang and Cao Yanzi were playing chess, everyone still watched it with relish. Many chess players and journalists even had an eye-opening feeling.

"It's an eye-opener, it turns out that chess can still be played like this......"

In the research room, Mr. Lin Haifeng, a kind-hearted person, sighed. One of the most important characteristics of the Japanese stream is that it pays great attention to the chess shape, and Ita Kiki is the standard Japanese stream, while Chang Rensheng inherited the style of Nashi Nie Whirlwind, which is actually a typical Japanese stream. But is their understanding of chess shapes stronger than Cao Yanzi or Li Xiaoqiang, who "often play vulgar moves"? Of course not. Whether it is Cao Yanzi of the "Korean Stream" or Li Xiaoqiang, who is now known as the "Middle Stream", their understanding of the chess shape and the understanding of the chess shape is of course deeper than that of Yitian Jiji or Chang Rensheng.

To put it simply, it is true that Chang Rensheng pays attention to the chess shape, but when they play chess, they are easily bound by the so-called "chess shape". Li Xiaoqiang and Cao Yanzi are different, they are rarely bound by the shape of chess, so to speak, Li Xiaoqiang's current level has long surpassed the stage of "paying attention to the shape of chess". This is, of course, a higher level, a higher realm.

This is the gap between Chang Rensheng and Yitian Jiji and others and Li Xiaoqiang. Li Xiaoqiang believes that Yitian Jiji has little hope, and if Chang Rensheng makes a breakthrough in this regard, then he can quickly narrow the gap with himself.

The difference between a so-called "first-class player" and a "super-first-class player" is probably reflected in this aspect most of the time.

Li Xiaoqiang made a big splash in the research room, and the first round of the competition continued in an orderly manner. At more than 4 o'clock in the afternoon, some of the games with clear strengths and weaknesses have been decided.

The first to end the fight was Ma Xiaofei's set, where he defeated Japan's Kunio Kunio Kudan with only 110 hands or so. This game of chess can't be said to be too bad for Honda Jiudan, but he took the path that Ma Xiaofei is good at at the beginning. The situation formed a pattern early on in which Ma Xiaofei took the field and he took the external situation. When the chess game entered the middle game, a large piece of Honda's nine-dan enclosure was quickly trampled by Ma Xiaofei, and the disadvantage was obvious. When he concedes defeat in the middle game, it is impossible to say that this chess can actually be played, and if he changes to a Korean chess player, it will definitely not be possible to admit defeat so easily. But most Japanese players are like that, you can say that they don't have a fighting spirit, or you can say that they are very personable. In short, this is an obvious characteristic of Japanese chess players.

Shortly after Ma Xiaofei won the tournament, the second player to enter the round of 16 was South Korea's Lee Seok-fo. He defeated Taipei's "red-faced chess king". Objectively speaking, there is still a relatively obvious gap between the level of these two at present, and Li Shifo won relatively easily today.

With Ma Xiaofei and Li Shifo winning the tournament, plus several seeded players, it can be considered that the players with the strength to compete for the championship have entered the round of 16.

Therefore, the next day's round of 16 battles, the real competition of this "Fujitsu Cup" has really begun. (To be continued.) )

PS: First of all, I didn't break the update. I've been coding this chapter since the first day of the Lunar New Year.,It's just that these more than 5,000 words have been coding me for 15 days.。 Hehe.

Well, slowly resume the update starting today. By the end of the book in 2016, the author is still very confident. Continue to ask for your support, thank you!