MTL - Go Legend-Chapter 74 alone in the quarterfinals

   Chapter 74

After the    chess was played, Li Xiangping did not leave the Chinese chess academy immediately, but started a replay with his opponent due to the lottery ceremony at night.

  Well, Mr. Kato is also considered to be graceful, because this is the first player who is willing to stay and replay after the qualifiers.

   It's a pity that during the whole review process, Li Xiangping made soy sauce almost all the time. There is no other reason. First, Li Xiangping does not understand Japanese. Second, after the game, Gu Dali, Kong Erjie, Wu coach, Zhang Da and reporters gathered around. It was natural, the whole review process. It became that these guys were communicating with Mr. Kato, and Li Xiangping was completely reduced to a bystander.

   "Sir, why did you respond to this robbery at that time? If you didn't, wouldn't this matchup mean that you would be angry?"

   Actually, it was with the question of Gu Dali that Li Xiangping finally realized how lucky Lao Shi was to win this game of chess. Because he didn't really see it until this time. It seemed like what Gu Dali said. In actual combat, Lao Shi was actually looking for a blind robbery. The victory of chess will be reversed.

   Hearing that Mr. Kato was answering Gu Dali's question, he couldn't understand all the Japanese, so Li Xiangping communicated with his plug-in:

   "Brother Ding'an, is that so?"

   "Of course, this game did win by luck."

   After Mr. Kato finally finished speaking, Li Xiangping couldn't help but ask reporter Zhang Da:

   "Reporter Zhang, what did Mr. Kato just say?"

   "He said he had an illusion at the time." Reporter Zhang Da smiled and said to Li Xiangping:

"He also praised you for being very good, because the robbery material you found was completely beyond his expectations, and it was precisely because he did not expect this move at all, so under the panic of time, he did not count the one. The size of the robbery material, and secondly, he had an illusion at the moment when you made a move, and mistakenly thought that even if you responded with one hand, your robbery material was still one piece short, so he made a ghostly response."

   Li Xiangping was relieved to hear that, he felt that what Mr. Kato said should be the truth, because after all, this is a competition between people and people, so at Mr. Kato's age, it is completely understandable for him to make such mistakes.

   "Sir, thank you for your advice!"

   After the review, Li Xiangping politely said such a sentence to Mr. Kato, and in order to express his solemnity, he even gave a serious bow.

   Of course, the reason why Li Xiangping is so polite today is that he thinks it is necessary for him to take this bow for himself. Because he believed that through today's game of chess, Lao Shi should have seen his weaknesses clearly.

   Whether it's today's game or the game against Lao Cao the day before yesterday, it should be said that Shi Daqisheng has shown a strong mid-game combat effectiveness. His combat effectiveness is by no means inferior to any modern chess player. But what about his layout level under modern rules? That must be admittedly a bit tedious.

   In the first game against Lao Cao, it was because of Lao Cao's strategy. He never thought about having too many pursuits in the layout stage, so Lao Shi gave him a "two points". But in the second game, as soon as Mr. Kato played a little, Lao Shi immediately fell into a disadvantage, and he needed to rely on other people's mistakes to win the game.

   This is Li Xiangping's understanding of his own cheating, and he believes that he cheating is such a smart person, so at this time, he should be able to see his own shortcomings more clearly.

  Fortunately, after this game of chess, the top 8 battle will not start until March next year, and there are still several months in between, which is enough for me to continue to practice and upgrade myself.

   "What way should I find a way to practice and upgrade in the next stage?"

   Just when Li Xiangping was thinking like this, he asked casually:

   "By the way, what about the other chess games?"

  Reporter Zhang Da smiled bitterly and did not answer, Gu Dali and Kong Erjie also smiled bitterly and did not answer the same, Coach Wu also smiled bitterly, but he patted Li Xiangping on the shoulder and said:

   "You are the only one left in our top 8, Xiangping, work hard."

"what?!"

   It must be admitted that Li Xiangping's "Ah?!" was really not a posturing, he was indeed surprised. To say that the Chinese Go game is at a low point this year, but even in the low point of the Chinese Go game, there are not many cases where there is only one player left in the top 8 of the world competition.

   In the real history, the only few times are mainly concentrated in recent years, Li Xiangping said that it would not be so coincidental, so he made himself catch up once?

   "Okay everyone, don't sit still, let's go and see the results of other competitions. By the way, Xiangping, don't be in a hurry, stay and have dinner together later. After eating, we can participate in the next lottery."

   "Good Coach Wu."

   By the time everyone got up, the top 8 of this "Samsung Cup" had also been officially formed. After reading the list of the top 8, Li Xiangping once again felt that the top eight lineup this time was a bit weird. In addition to the only remaining "amateur player" in the Chinese team, the Japanese team has 4 players who entered the top 8, occupying half of the country.

   "What's the situation, when did the Japanese team become so awesome"

   You can't blame Li Xiangping for feeling weird. I believe that as long as you are a chess fan from later generations, if you see that Japanese chess players can occupy half of the country, you will definitely feel the same as Li Xiangping, more or less always feel weird.

   Ida Jiji 9 dan, Kobayashi Jue 9 dan, Wang Licheng 9 dan, Yamada Kisansheng 8 dan, this is the list of 4 Japanese players who broke into the top 8. Only 6 chess players participated in the "this tournament", and only two were eliminated after two rounds. Besides Mr. Kato, another Japanese player who was eliminated was Zhao Zhixun. He was eliminated by Rui Naiwei in the first round of 9 dan, but even so , The Japanese team has handed in the transcript so far, which is also extremely excellent.

  In addition to the 4 Japanese players, the remaining 3 are naturally Korean players, they are Li Changhao 9 dan, Liu Changhe 9 dan and Xu Fengzhu 9 dan, they are the other Korean kings except Lao Cao.

  Li Xiangping didn't feel much about this list. After all, in real history, before the rise of Xiao Li and their "calf trio", Korean Go was dominated by these people.

Li Xiangping even thinks that the situation like Korean Go has demonstrated Lao Cao's theory of "genius promotes Go" from another angle. If you want to know why Korean Go is rising, you really don't need a "Go environment", "Go Atmosphere", or "technical accumulation", "technical heritage" and so on to find the reasons.

Without him, just during this period, from Lao Cao to Xiao Li, the best Go talents were born in South Korea. This is the real reason why South Korea's Go is strong. Li Xiangping even thinks that this is the only main reason. .

   If it is better than others, then to tell the truth, even if the Japanese Go in later generations has fallen into that, but compared with the norms of the professional system, Japanese Go still has to get rid of the Chinese and Korean Go by a few streets.

It's just that they are mixed, and the professional Go system is standardized. Since there is no top talent, it still can't stop the decline of Japanese Go. It's hard to come up with a well. Although he stands out among Japanese players, he is still in the world. , he can't be called "amazing talent", and his talent is at most the same level as the Korean Xiaopu Tianzi. In this case, relying on such a person alone, of course, cannot lead the full revival of Japanese Go.

Li Xiangping believes that this is the truth. This is actually the essence of Go. Playing a game like Go is really not to emphasize too many objective conditions and objective factors, especially after reaching the top level of human beings, Shenma's "evolution theory" And "technical accumulation" is not easy to use at all, work hard to determine your lower limit, only talent can determine your upper limit.

  Because he represented the Chinese team and entered the top 8 alone, it would be difficult for Li Xiangping not to attract attention when he next dine at the Chinese Chess Academy. During this period, Li Yuanhu came over, and Lao Cai Cai Zhixiong came too. Of course, today's result is not a good thing for Chinese Go, but it is a good thing for Li Xiangping.

After all, when there is only one single seedling left, this provides a convenient door for Li Xiangping's training. He believes that as long as he puts forward any training conditions at this time, as long as the conditions are not too excessive, the management of the chess academy will They should all agree.

  Because he clearly saw the weakness of his own plug-in, Li Xiangping did plan to put forward a few training requirements, but all of this is not in a hurry.

  Because there are 4 Japanese players in the top 8, there is no doubt that in the next round, Li Xiangping will definitely meet a Japanese player, who will he be?

   At around 7:30 p.m., when Yamada Kisansheng 8dan unfolded the small note in his hand, and the host asked Li Xiangping to go up and shake his hand, Li Xiangping didn't know whether the signing was good or bad.

Because among the 4 Japanese chess players, Yamada Kisansheng 8dan seems to be the least famous and the weakest one, but Li Xiangping knows that in real history, it is this guy who won the "Three Stars" this year. Cup" runner-up.

   Then such a sign

   (end of this chapter)