Now that he had made up his mind to improve his own strength, Li Xiangping really started to do so in the next period of time.

It should be said that Li Xiangping knows his own problems and the direction he should work hard at at this stage. Basic skills! For himself now, it is necessary to consolidate the basic skills and complete the true transformation from an amateur chess player to a professional chess player.

The immediate priority.

The basic skills of Go are nothing more than the so-called life and death and officialdom. Therefore, in the next period of time, any "dog moves" or too advanced Go skills are not things that I want to consider.

Just work hard on these two aspects.

However, although he knew the direction of his study and Li Xiangping was convinced that his study direction was correct, after two months of training, Li Xiangping had no idea about the effect of his training.

First of all, training this kind of basic Go skills is actually a very boring thing. The method used is actually similar to the "question sea tactics" in the college entrance examination. Only through training a large number of life and death questions and official questions,

And only by being focused on it and accumulating it day by day over many years can you achieve obvious results.

Think about it, Li Xiangping is just a dandy. Needless to say, just being "unfocused" is enough to embarrass him.

When Li Xiangping was learning chess regularly in his previous life, his chess talent and talent were actually highly praised by people in the chess community. They believed that among his group of chess boys, Li Xiangping's talent was definitely outstanding. However, why did he

Why haven't you been able to achieve success in several years?

The superficial reason is, for example, others say that his mental quality is not good, but the deeper reason is that his basic skills are not solid enough. It is precisely because his basic skills are not solid enough that he cannot withstand at critical moments.

The second difficulty Li Xiangping faced was that there is a saying that a blank piece of paper is easy to draw on. In fact, Go learning and training also have the problem of "a blank piece of paper is easy to draw on".

To use a very simple analogy, for example, for a certain Guanzi Chang type, the value of a move is about 5 moves from the back. For ordinary chess fans and even for players like Li Xiangping, you only need to know this level.

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However, for a professional chess player, this level is far from enough. You must know whether it is "5 eyes strong" or "5 eyes weak", whether it is 5 and one-third mesh or 4 and two-thirds mesh.

.Or depending on the specific situation, you have to clarify when it is "5 eyes strong" and in what situation it may be only "5 eyes weak".

Obviously, for learning and mastering similar knowledge, it is of course "a blank piece of paper for drawing." But now Li Xiangping is no longer a blank piece of paper. He may have had some wrong knowledge and mistakes in his mind in the past.

Error messages. It will undoubtedly be much more difficult to clear out these error messages this time than others.

The third difficulty Li Xiangping faced was training in basic Go skills. In fact, it was difficult to find an effective detection method. Li Xiangping started to make up his mind in August. However, after 2 months of training, he did not

I don't know how effective this is.

During this period of anticipation, Li Xiangping re-registered a few vests, and left Lao Shi to play chess online. Unfortunately, he played a lot of chess, and there were wins and losses in the games. Many of them defeated some seemingly powerful players.

Although he was a good player, Li Xiangping was still unsure about the effectiveness of his training.

After all, online chess is something like this. It may be effective in maintaining a person's sense of chess and maintaining proficiency in chess. However, online chess really doesn't have much effect on the basic skills of Go.

For example, one time, Li Xiangping met an opponent on the Internet. He still knew something about the opponent. He knew that the opponent was a professional chess player and the main player of a certain team. Which chess game was won by Li Xiangping in the end?

, but Li Xiangping didn’t feel much sense of accomplishment after winning.

Because at the beginning of the game, Li Xiangping made a "dog move". Although that move was not a flying knife, it still gave Li Xiangping a certain advantage in the opening stage, but the advantage was very limited.

that is.

But that guy was lucky. Even though the situation was clearly not too bad, he chose to admit defeat before 100 moves had been made. After admitting defeat, he immediately invited Li Xiangping to play.

Li Xiangping couldn't laugh or cry. What this guy meant by doing this was that he was obviously only interested in the new change at the beginning, so he wanted to practice another game with himself. It would not be helpful in training his basic skills. This requires

If you continue to play with him, it will become that he is "stealing tricks" from you instead of the training you want.

In this case, Li Xiangping decisively refused and refused to have sex with that man.

"No, it seems that if you want to test the training effect, you have to find a relatively formal competition."

When the time came to October 2001, Li Xiangping began to think about this matter. However, what kind of competition should be found, Li Xiangping was at a loss. After all, it was already October, and international competitions were not mentioned for the time being.

Xiangping's exemption qualification will not take effect until next year, and there are only so many domestic competitions. At the moment, he really can't think of any suitable competitions to participate in.

Fortunately, the matter was resolved quickly.

One day during the National Day holiday, Li Xiangping wandered into the "Fangyuan Chess and Card Room" again.

"Hello, Teacher Zhang, I am writing music notation, why are you working so hard?"

"Teacher Zhang" is the chess coach in the chess and card room, the one I met while playing chess with Cai Shanshan.

After such a long time, "Teacher Zhang" has become quite familiar with Li Xiangping, and he did not hide his "study". He smiled and said to Li Xiangping:

"Yes, the national individual horse racing is about to start, and I'm going to experience it this time."

"Ha, it turns out that I am going to play a competition. Teacher Zhang is now the master of the Chess Association. But I think with your level, it is not a problem to get a national master. Work hard during the competition. I think it is really a national master.

title, at least Lao Cai will give you a salary increase..."

At this point, Li Xiangping suddenly stopped because he was reminded by Teacher Zhang that there is a national individual competition in the chess world, and there is also a national individual competition in the Go world.

But what is different from the chess world is that the national individual competition in the chess world is the number one event in the chess world, and its importance is even more important than the World Championships.

The reason for this is that although chess is very popular in China, its popularity is much higher than that of Go, but its marketization level is not as good as that of Go. Both the number of games and the prize money are far behind.

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It is precisely for this reason that chess players attach great importance to the National Individual Competition, because this competition is the best or even the only way to produce chess grandmasters and national masters. And those big competitions in the chess world with generous prizes,

For example, in the "Wuyang Cup" of this era and the "Country Garden Cup" in later generations, etc., only grand masters could not participate.

In other words, the national individual competition in the chess world is actually a stepping stone for chess players. Only by getting a good ranking in this competition can everyone establish their status in the world and even live a more prosperous life.

Different from the chess world, the national individual competition in the go world has long been different from what it used to be. Although it is a very high-level and truly national-level competition, there are so many international competitions in the go world with so many generous prizes.

As a result, the national individual competition without prize money has long been reduced to a second-rate event in the Go world, and top players will basically not participate in this competition.

And this kind of competition is exactly suitable for the current Li Xiangping.

So after saying goodbye to Teacher Zhang, Li Xiangping hurried home to check the schedule of this year's Go National Individual Competition.

He immediately found out that this year's national individual competition will be held in Yangcheng at the end of October, and will be put together with the chess individual competition.

Li Xiangping smiled at the schedule;
Chapter completed!