The next day, the second round of the 4th "Chunlan Cup" continued at the China Chess Academy. 16 chess players fought against each other to compete for the top eight seats in the world competition.

Since there are as many as 9 Chinese chess players participating in this round, there are Chinese players in each of the 8 games played today. One of them is a civil war between Chinese chess players. That game is a civil war.

It's Chang Hao VS Ding Wei.

As a result, it is actually not easy for spectators to focus on the match. At least today, the match between Li Xiangping VS Lee Sedol is not the most watched match.

Li Sedol is still a "rookie" in everyone's eyes. As for Li Xiangping, although he has become a world champion, a national individual competition and a "Tian Yuan Battle" have somewhat brought him back to his original form. It cannot be said that he is now a world champion.

He may have been despised by others, but invisibly, everyone's expectations of him have actually been lowered a lot.

In such a world competition, what everyone pays most attention to is undoubtedly the champion, so everyone's eyes are always chasing those who are the favorites to win the championship. As far as the current Chinese chess world is concerned, everyone recognizes that the strongest ones are still Ma Xiaofei and Chang Hao. Chang Hao today

It's a civil war, let alone him. Although Ma Xiaofei, who was born in 1964, is nearly 40 years old, he is still quite good at playing. At least today, he is still the best record among all Chinese chess players in the international arena, and he is the one everyone relies on.

Heavy objects.

In real history, Ma Xiaofei at this time has actually gradually declined, and he will probably fade out of the spotlight next year or so. However, he doesn’t know what’s going on in this life. He is usually very low-key, but in this "Chunlan Cup"

In a rare high profile before, he even said that he now has a new understanding of Go and strives to win another world championship before retiring.

Everyone was shocked, because such a high profile was obviously not Ma Xiao's style. They quickly asked where his inspiration came from. Ma Xiao smiled and said three words: Li Xiangping!

Ma Xiaofei's opponent today is Zhang Xu, the star of hope in the Japanese chess world, so his game ranks first in today's attention.

The second most watched game is Gu Dali's game, because his opponent today is Li Canghao. Just the names of these two players don't need to be explained too much. Gu Dali is the seed player of this tournament.

So although this is the second round, it is his first game.

Considering that he has not yet taken off the title of "Ancient Round", and his opponent is Li Canghao, this game naturally attracted a lot of attention.

Because of these two games, the Li Xiangping VS Lee Sedol battle can only be ranked third in terms of attention at best, which is on the same level as Yu Bin's game.

Of course, this is only the attention that occurs in the viewing room of the chess academy. It is different among chess fans. For example, in terms of online live broadcasts, Li Xiangping's game has the largest number of viewers on any live broadcast platform, especially Qingfeng.com.

The number of people watching his game was even greater than the two games played by Ma Xiaofei and Gu Dali combined.

This situation is of course normal. After all, Li Xiangping was born as an amateur chess player, and because of his "unique skills", if he really has a "mass base", then of course no one is deeper than him. You know, even if

After Li Xiangping won the world championship, in the past six months or so, his "unique skills" have still not disappeared from the Internet.

In the past six months or so, because Li Xiangping has honed his basic skills, he basically doesn't have to play chess with "Excellent Art". But even if he doesn't play, Lao Shi still has to practice chess. Therefore, during this period of time, the account "Exquisite Art"

It has always been used by Lao Shi, and it is precisely because this account is still active that it still maintains a high popularity.

Returning to the viewing room of the chess academy, since the game officially started at 10 o'clock in the morning, because everyone was busy studying other people's chess, Li Xiangping's game cannot be said to have received no attention at all, but there were not many comments and comments.

However, one chess player was different. He came to the chess academy around 10:30 in the morning. After entering the research room, although he also watched other people's chess games, his focus seemed to be on watching Li Xiangping's game. He paid almost the entire attention.

.It’s just that he didn’t make a sound while watching the battle.

And this chess player is Mr. Lin Haifeng, who was eliminated by Lao Shi in the first round.

The time came around 11:30 in the morning, and Lao Nie, who was studying Ma Xiao's game of chess, suddenly became very happy;

"Ha, Ma Xiao's move is good! This move is very interesting. To be able to play such a move, it seems that Ma Xiao really didn't brag before the game. He really has new skills now...

Huh? Mr. Lin, whose chess game are you looking at?"

It was of course normal for Lao Nie to notice Mr. Lin at this time, because Ma Xiao's opponent today was Zhang Xu, and Zhang Xu was Mr. Lin's inner disciple.

After listening to Lao Nie's words, Mr. Lin turned to watch Ma Xiao's game of chess. After watching it, he also admired:

"Yes, yes, Mr. Ma's move is indeed very charming. With this move, he is already ahead of the game. Compared with his seniors, young people's understanding of chess is not deep enough."

The "young man" in Lin Haifeng's mouth, of course, refers to his disciple Zhang Xu. After briefly commenting on this game, Mr. Lin said to Lao Nie:

"I have been watching Xiangping's chess game just now. I have always felt that many of the Xiangping kid's moves are quite similar to Mr.'s latest research. Especially after playing against him this time, this kind of

The feeling became stronger and stronger, so I always paid more attention to him."

"LOL, really?"

The "sir" in Lin Haifeng's mouth, of course, refers to Mr. Wu Qingyuan. The "Liuhe Chess" and "New Go Methods in the 21st Century" studied by Mr. Wu began to be announced to the outside world one after another at this time. But in

In this era, many people disapprove of Mr. Wu's research, including Lao Nie, who once admittedly said to the outside world: "Go in the 21st century does not exist at all."

How should I put it? Li Xiangping believes that this incident actually reflects the utilitarian nature of professional Go. Mr. Wu is indeed recognized as a good player in Taishan Beidou. However, he is old after all, and it is impossible for him to participate in the game himself.

Already.

In other words, the new methods he studied cannot be verified through actual combat. And the utilitarianism of professional Go is reflected here. Since it cannot be verified through actual combat, then even if it is Mr. Wu who proposed this method,

Most people still dare not accept it.

However, although Lao Nie disapproves of "21st Century Go", since Mr. Lin said, "Some of Li Xiangping's chess games are very similar to Mr. Li Xiangping's new research", this can be regarded as a compliment to Li Xiangping, so Lao Nie

Nie was still very happy. He smiled and said:

"Yes, yes, this kid from Xiangping actually has a lot of ideas when it comes to playing chess, but he's just not mature yet. Especially in the recent period, he has completely turned into a crazy knife. He often plays some inexplicable chess. It's really frustrating.

People don’t understand.”

As Lao Nie said this, he went to watch Li Xiangping's game of chess. His eyes couldn't stay away from it. For no other reason than that, firstly, the game progressed relatively quickly, and this was the time for the morning competition.

, this game of chess has been played more than 60 times, and this speed is considered very fast in this day and age.

The second reason is that this game of chess seems to have been played by a novice, and there has been an unusual change. As a professional chess player, whenever you see a new change, you will definitely pay more attention to it.

It must be mentioned in particular that today's unusual change was not actually initiated by Li Xiangping. The initiator should be Li Shishi.

When there were more than 20 moves in the game, it was originally a very common and popular set pattern. However, in the middle of the game, Xiao Li decided not to take the ordinary path. He deliberately changed the order of the set moves in order to make it cheaper locally.

Shi Daqi Sheng naturally refused to agree to his behavior of seizing chestnuts from the fire. He resolutely launched a local counterattack, so from that moment on in the game of chess, the two sides started fighting fiercely, creating a rare change in the local area.

"Haha, young people are young people. They started doing it right away. Well, this change is interesting. Who can benefit from it..."

Lao Nie muttered to himself while placing chess pieces on the chessboard. This is of course a normal reaction, because for professional chess players, whenever they see a new change, they always want to judge the pros and cons immediately.

So before the market was closed at noon, everyone started researching on this new change.

However, today’s change seems a bit interesting. Regarding this large-scale change with nearly 40 lots, everyone’s judgment is not unanimous.

Some people think that Li Shishi, who plays black, is better. The reason is that there may be a problem with Li Xiangping's move. He generously and happily gave up the corner ground, and even had people surround him on the four roads. This caused too much local "blood loss" and it is very likely that

This makes the overall situation difficult.

Some other chess players believe that although Li Xiangping, who plays white, has an indescribable advantage, this chess is still playable. The reason is that although white has given up the ground in the corner, the overall situation is strong and he has successfully created two pieces of black.

Solitary chess, so the key to this game depends on the subsequent process. It mainly depends on whether Li Xiangping can launch an effective attack.

While everyone is having different opinions, today's game is quite interesting. In the last half hour or so of the morning, both sides actually played more than 20 moves. In this way, during the 2 hours of game time in the morning, the game actually reached 80.

Many hands.

After everyone has seen more than 20 recent chess moves and they are pretty good, everyone's judgments finally converge.

At this time, everyone agreed: Li Xiangping, who was in charge of Bai, had the upper hand!

"Now it seems that Li Shishi's previous trick should still not work." Lao Nie said with emotion:

"But so far in this game, Li Xiangping has played really well. Faced with two isolated chess pieces, everyone thought that he should attack the better piece, but he chose to do the opposite to attack others more flexibly.

That piece, and his attack techniques are surprisingly powerful. After this combination of punches, it seems a bit difficult for Black to deal with it, right? Hey, don't look at Black pulling out a flower here, but pulling out the flower is also a dead end.

, looking at the current situation, Black’s flower shouldn’t dare to escape, right?”

Yes, this is the reason why everyone's judgments converge. Faced with two attack directions, Lao Shi chose an unexpected attack direction, and when there were more than 80 moves in the game, he seemed to have captured the opponent's lone piece.

That is a "plucked flower". Black's "plucked flower" is in the middle.
Chapter completed!