After Li Xiaoqiang repelled Gu Dali's challenge and won the "World Chess Holy War" championship for the fourth time, the time also came to 2008. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In this year's "Fujitsu Cup" top 8 match, Li Xiaoqiang and Li Shifo met.

Before the game, Li Xiaoqiang, Li Shifo, made a joke:

"The two of us, now it's one less game for the next set."

In recent years, the number of games between the two has plummeted. This is in stark contrast to the fact that seven or eight years ago, when the two met frequently in the World Championships and had to face each other more than 10 times a year.

Not only that, but the fight between the two no longer seems to be the focus of everyone's attention. The media coverage of the two of them was sometimes filled with a strong sense of nostalgia. Time has passed, things are not people, and unconsciously, these two "lifelong rivals" have now entered middle age.

recalled the competition between the two and recalled the eventful years. The two have been entangled since they were teenagers, and you chase me. It is only now at this time that the relationship between the two has a sense of transcendence. When the two met again in the game, Li Xiaoqiang and Li Shifo looked at each other and smiled, everything was silent.

Although the game between the two is not as interesting as before, it does not mean that the strength of the two has declined.

Needless to say, Li Xiaoqiang now sits high in the clouds and has a transcendent supremacy in the Go world. Losing a game or two once in a while does not affect his status at all.

In addition to Li Xiaoqiang, the current Li Shifo actually maintains a strong competitiveness, and in the major chess battles, Li Shifo's record is quite stable. The top 8 and top 4 are commonplace, and he can still be seen often in the finals of the World Series.

It's just that both of them are in their 30s after all. Chess strength may not decline, but energy is inevitably low. At least the two of them will no longer be able to devote themselves to every game of chess as they did when they were younger.

Li Shifo can't do it, and Li Xiaoqiang can't do it either.

It is precisely for this reason that the two feel very different when they meet again.

The game between the two is no longer the center of chase by chess fans, no longer the focus of media attention, less of the previous tense atmosphere, more warm and even a little nostalgic.

This game ended with Li Xiaoqiang's small defeat. After winning the chess, Li Shifo was in a good mood, and he joked with Li Xiaoqiang during the review:

"Since you are so polite, it seems that I have a good chance of winning this competition."

"Not necessarily... Li Xiaoqiang responded with a smile: "No... Li Xiaoqiang pointed to another chess player:

“。。。 If you can beat him in this tournament, then I admit that you can win the cup at the end. ”

The chess player that Li Xiaoqiang fingered is the Chinese chess player Kong Erjie, who will be Li Shifo's opponent in the semifinals, Kong Erjie has just eliminated Li Shishi in the semifinals and met Li Shifo in the semifinals.

Li Shifo smiled at Li Xiaoqiang, of course he understood what Li Xiaoqiang meant.

A few months ago, when Gu Dali challenged Li Xiaoqiang, some media described that game as Li Xiaoqiang's battle with "his own shadow".

Because everyone analyzes Gu Dali's chess style and analyzes Gu Dali's characteristics, they think that he is very similar to Li Xiaoqiang in all aspects except for being slightly inferior in flexibility.

Li Xiaoqiang has his own shadow, and Li Shifo certainly has his own shadow, and his "shadow" is the Chinese chess player Kong Erjie. No! It is no longer possible to call Kong Erjie the shadow of Li Shifo. At present, everyone has a very high evaluation of Kong Erjie, and now he is known as "the enhanced version of Li Shifo" and "the most professional professional chess player".

Li Shifo encountered an "enhanced version of Li Shifo", so of course Li Shifo understood what Li Xiaoqiang meant by what he said just now.

"With you, Li Tiezui personally asserted, he has finally moved away from the stone now, and it seems that he is also about to achieve positive results."

"Hey, hey..."

Since Gu Dali was repelled by Li Xiaoqiang, the 5th "World Chess Holy War" will start immediately. It's still only qualifying, but there's already a lot of speculation about who the next challenger will be.

Because today, everyone has a question of "Who will end the Li Xiaoqiang dynasty?" "This question is not of interest anymore. Through the battle with Gu Dali, everyone still remembers Li Xiaoqiang's exquisite skills. thinks that he can defeat Li Xiaoqiang, in addition to time and years, maybe only himself, once Li Xiaoqiang gets serious, he can't see anyone who is Li Xiaoqiang's opponent at present.

In this case, everyone has to settle for the next best thing and guess who will get the right to challenge.

Everyone analyzed and analyzed, and finally set their eyes on the four chess players.

The four players are Gu Dali, Li Shishi, Kong Erjie and Zhang Xu. In today's world chess world, if Li Xiaoqiang is on top, but after entering this year, Li Xiaoqiang is not active, and the most active are the above four chess players.

Among them, what surprised and pleased Li Xiaoqiang the most was Zhang Xu's selection. Although the current Japanese Go seems to be weak as a whole, the current situation seems to be different from the previous life, and the current Zhang Xu is also active in the international chess battle, he has won and lost against several other people, and he is not at all behind. It can be said that because of Zhang Xu's existence, he forcibly supported the face of Japanese Go.

The current Zhang Xu not only carries the banner of Japanese Go, but also the most vocal one among the challengers of the next "World Chess Holy War".

It must be pointed out that the reason why Zhang Xu has the highest voice is not because everyone thinks he is stronger than Gu Dali and Li Shishi, but because Li Shi and Gu Dali have already challenged him, plus Zhang Xu represents Japanese Go, China, Japan and South Korea are coming in turn, and there are these factors that make him the most popular.

Everyone knows that for something like this, it is inevitable that some media will come to ask Li Xiaoqiang's opinion, to everyone's surprise, when he was interviewed, Li Xiaoqiang strongly supported Kong Erjie:

“。。。 Why not Kong Erjie? I think that by the time it comes to next year, the most likely challenge to me will be Kong Erjie... ”

"Kong Erjie?"

To be honest, Li Xiaoqiang's prediction was beyond many people's expectations. Although Kong Erjie's chess is currently highly praised by many people, and he is also listed as one of the four major candidates, to be honest, he is actually the last one among the four major candidates.

The reason why Kong Erjie is ranked last is that compared with other candidates, Kong Erjie's record is the most mediocre, and the other 3 have long been world champions, only he has not won anything so far. The second and more important reason is that Kong Erjie seems to still have a "bitter hand", and his "bitter hand" is South Korea's Li Shishi.

The current Kong Erjie is not inferior to any chess player, but Xiao Li's record is miserable. No one knows what's going on, as long as Kong Erjie touches Xiao Li, he can't play chess, and all kinds of inexplicable.

Therefore, it is conceivable that everyone's prediction of Li Xiaoqiang is definitely a deep surprise.

Of course, others will be surprised, and Li Xiaoqiang himself is not surprised at all. What year is next year? Next year is 2009, and in real history, the entire Go world can call this year "the year of Kong Erjie".

Of course, compared with the previous life, the current pattern of the entire world chess scene has long been unrecognizable, and with Kong Erjie's performance in his previous life, it is determined that he will definitely be able to get the right to challenge next year, which is of course unreliable.

How so? Li Xiaoqiang first has the "experience" of his previous life, and according to this experience, he usually pays more attention to Kong Erjie's performance. Li Xiaoqiang found that the current Kong Erjie is indeed extraordinary, and it is not too much to call him a "strengthened version of Li Shifo".

The current Li Xiaoqiang is not the 5th vision of the previous life, he now thinks that Kong Erjie's chess is quite good, it must be absolutely good, so Li Xiaoqiang will support Kong Erjie in an interview.

“。。。 Do you think Li Shishi is Kong Erjie's bitter hand? I don't think so, I'm a person who looks at things differently than other people, and I value the content of chess more than winning or losing. What is Bitter Hands? For example, Mr. Lin Haifeng for Mr. Sakata, let Mr. Sakata toss in every possible way, and use all his eighteen weapons, he still can't help Mr. Lin, which can be called a real bitter hand. And Xiao Li for Kong Erjie... In fact, everyone should see it very clearly, judging from the level of skills shown by both sides, I think Kong Erjie is only higher than Li Shishi, Kong Erjie is more lost in his own psychology, or he is not as good at playing as Xiao Li... ”

“。。。 In the Go world's "window paper" saying, for Kong Erjie, Xiao Li is his layer of window paper, once this window paper is pierced, I believe we will all be able to see a new Kong Erjie... ”

With Li Xiaoqiang's current position in the Go world, whether others believe his words or not, he always listens carefully. That's why Li Shifo said this sentence when he reviewed it.

In the top 8 of this year's "Fujitsu Cup", Kong Erjie finally defeated Li Shishi, did he pierce that layer of window paper?

"Enhanced version of Li Shifo" against the real Li Shifo, for Kong Erjie, the semi-finals are another good test.

"Since you are so optimistic about him, then I will weigh it for you first and see what kind of quality he is."

Li Xiaoqiang laughed:

"Then I'll wish you good luck, if you can beat him, maybe next year you will get the right to challenge, if the two of us old guys have another peak duel, it will also be a beautiful scenery." (To be continued.) )