In today's chess world, it can be said that apart from Li Xiangping, who is the most popular recently, of course the former king Li Canghao is still the most watched by professional chess players.

No, it may not be accurate to say "the former king". In fact, to this day, Li Canghao is still the king in everyone's mind. After all, his status in the world was built by more than ten world champions, and these are not just two world champions.

It can shake.

For example, when the outside world looks at Li Xiangping now, everyone just thinks that he has a bright future. Judging from the current situation, he is the most promising to become the next overlord in the world chess world. And from this list of candidates for future overlord, he should be ranked very high.

He may be one position ahead of Li Shishi, Gu Dali and others.

However, to say that Li Xiangping is the overlord now, let alone the Korean Go community, which has always been tough-talking, will definitely not admit it. I am afraid that the Chinese Go community is still embarrassed to say so.

It is for this reason that Li Canghao's every move still attracts everyone's attention these days.

Ordinary chess fans watch the excitement and mainly pay attention to his results. But what about the group of professional chess players? In addition to paying attention to things that ordinary people pay attention to, of course they will also pay more attention to the content of chess and what they show on the chessboard.

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For example, in the first two rounds of the "Samsung Cup" that just ended, Li Canghao showed some changes on the chessboard, which attracted great attention from everyone.

This time Li Canghao also entered the quarterfinals. He defeated Japanese veteran Naoto Hikosaka in the first round and defeated Chinese chess player Wang Lei in the second round. With Li's level, his victory in these two sets was of course just a normal performance.

People would think this is something unexpected.

Winning is not surprising, but the key is that the way he wins is surprising. In these two games, Li Canghao actually played two dragon-slaying games, and won both games with violent dragon-slaying methods.

It doesn’t matter if you just slay the dragon. The more important thing is that these two games are not because the opponent is "playing the dragon", that is to say, the opponent is not too far behind in the previous situation, and then uses the method of "betting on the dragon" to decide the outcome with him.

He was the one who slayed the dragon at that time.

In both games, Da Li played proactively at the beginning, and then took the initiative to kill the opponent Da Long.

This situation naturally makes everyone feel strange. Who is Da Li? People in the world call him "Stone Buddha", and his chess style is described as "waiting like a crocodile". It can be said that the word "wait"

This exemplifies the essence of Da Li's style, and his style leaves a deep-rooted impression on people.

It was precisely because this impression was so profound that Li suddenly changed his chess style this time and showed a completely different way of playing. This naturally caused everyone to talk about it, so much so that the Chinese delegation returned to China

On the way, everyone was still discussing this matter.

"Tsk tsk, the chess game nowadays is really different from that of our time. Even people like Da Li can become so bloody and violent. I think it's all Li Xiangping's fault. Da Li might have been...

He’s the one who led the bad guys, don’t you think?”

The person who said this was Ma Xiaofei. Ma Xiaofei also made it to the top eight this time, so he seemed to be in a good mood now, so much so that he even joked with Li Xiangping while waiting at the airport.

"Hahaha, that's right, I also think he was the one who caused the trouble," the person who answered was Chang Hao. He also entered the quarterfinals this time, and in the top 16, he defeated Lao Shi who had just lost.

Liu Changhe was promoted, so he seemed to be in a good mood as well.

Chang Hao smiled and said to Li Xiangping: "Xiangping, you may not know. During the break of this competition, I had communication with Da Li. He highly praised you and mentioned it many times when chatting with me.

You, after watching your chess with emotion, I found that Go can be played like this, so I think what Teacher Ma just said is right, he was indeed led astray by you."

After listening to Chang Hao's words, other chess players also started to cheer, among them Gu Dali jumped the most happily:

"Yes, yes, right, when Boss Jueyi came out, he immediately ruined the atmosphere of the entire Go world, right? Xiangping... Hey, hey, Xiangping, Boss Jueyi..."

"Ah? What are you talking about?"

"Damn, I hate this the most about you. You can lose your focus even when you have the opportunity. Why didn't I see you lose your mind when you played chess with me?"

After Li Xiangping came to his senses, he smiled sheepishly. The reason why he was distracted just now was because after hearing what Ma Xiaofei and Chang Hao said, he remembered the current "Samsung Cup" in real history.

During this trip to South Korea, the Chinese team had Ma Xiaofei and Chang Hao enter the quarterfinals. However, in real history, only Chang Hao and Ma Xiaofei entered the quarterfinals. However, not only did they enter the quarterfinals,

And also reached the semi-finals at the same time.

In Li Xiangping’s memory, that semi-final was considered a classic. In the semi-final, Ma Xiaofei and Chang Hao challenged Master and Disciple Cao Li of South Korea. The specific matchup situations were Ma Xiaofei VS Cao Xunxuan and Chang Hao VS Li Canghao.

Originally predicting before the game, many people thought that the final might be between Ma Xiao and Da Li. After all, Ma Xiao had a pretty good record against Lao Cao before this, especially before 2000, Ma Xiao

Playing with Lao Cao is basically about getting it right. And what about Chang Hao versus Da Li? Before that, the record between the two was Chang Hao's 2 wins and 14 losses, so no one had much expectations for him at that time.

However, the results of the semi-finals were completely contrary to everyone's pre-match predictions. Lao Cao won 2-0 with Ma Xiao, and Chang Hao 2-1 Da Li. Chang Hao and Lao Cao entered the finals together.

Chang Hao's victory was the first time that Li lost to a foreign player in a chess match. Not only that, Chang Hao also played a famous game in the final game (that is, the famous game that made "Kobayashi Ryu" disappear).

game), it is precisely because of these two reasons that the semi-final impressed Li Xiangping extremely deeply, and it is still fresh in his memory.

It's a pity that Chang Hao, who passed the level of Da Li in the semi-finals, failed to pass the level of Lao Cao in the finals. While Chang Hao continued to win, Cao and Li's "iron curtain" of master and apprentice resounded throughout the whole world.

World chess.

After arriving in this life, although last year, with the help of Lao Shi, he broke the "Iron Curtain of Master and Disciple", and Lao Shi also broke Li Fanqi's undefeated golden body, but recalling the events in real history

Those past events still made Li Xiangping feel a little dazed for a moment.

After Li Xiangping came to his senses, everyone repeated what they had just said:

"Haha, we are all talking about how you have ruined the atmosphere of the Go world. Even honest kids like Da Li have been led astray by you. What do you think?"

Li Xiangping was happy when he heard this. He laughed and said: "Haha, don't take it seriously. How could I be the one who led Da Li into trouble? Let me tell you a secret. In fact, even without me, Da Li would have been in a few years.

It will also get worse later, and by then his chess style will definitely become aggressive and fierce..."

To tell the truth, Li Xiangping was actually "revealing a secret". Because in real history, it was only a few years ago, that is, during Li's "Jiulianya" period, he was

The style of chess is really different from what it is now. Compared with his own peak period, his style during that period was obviously much more proactive.

In real history, there are many opinions about the changes in Da Li's chess style, and the most mainstream view in the Go community is that Da Li should have realized that he was older and his energy was definitely not as good as when he was young, so he no longer

When it comes to dating young Go players, Da Li no longer has the confidence he once had, so he actively tried to make some changes, hoping to rely on his overall situation and understanding of Go to deal with the young players.

Is this statement reliable? Li Xiangping thinks it is not reliable at all.

Li Xiangping has always believed that there is no such thing as "active attempt" or "deliberate attempt" to change a person's chess style. This kind of statement is simply nonsense.

In other words, any professional chess player who plays chess is actually doing it "unintentionally." Every move a professional chess player makes must be what he thinks is the best choice at the time, and only then will it fall on the chess board.

And every move he makes on the chessboard is seen by others as a characteristic of his chess style, so this style of chess is actually unconscious.

Can you imagine a professional chess player deliberately choosing a point that he thinks is not the best choice in order to pursue a certain style?

No matter what others think, Li Xiangping thinks that it is not possible. Not only does he not know it, but Li Xiangping thinks that Li certainly can't do it either.

Even during his "Jiulianya" period, although he seemed to be no longer at his peak at that time, every move he made on the chessboard was still what he thought was the best choice at the time.

Therefore, from this perspective, Da Li's change in chess style actually formed naturally. He must have thought that it was better to be proactive, so he behaved proactively on the chessboard, that's all.

In fact, if you really want to talk about it, a professional player's style of chess changes. This is very common in the professional Go world. In fact, it is not surprising at all.

The most typical example is Mr. Masao Kato of Japan. He changed from a "Tensha star" when he was young to a "Half-Eye Kato" in middle age. This is an obvious example of the change in chess style.

Another example is Mr. Kato’s teacher, Mr. Minoru Kitani, whose chess style has changed even more times.

When he was young, his chess style was weird and he was called "Kai Tong Maru" by Japanese chess circles.

Well, at that time, Mu Gu's chess style was very similar to that of South Korea's Lee Sedol.

When Kitani was young, that is, during the period when he and Mr. Wu Qingyuan launched the "New Layout Revolution", he began to prefer large styles again, and at that time he started playing "Cosmic Flow".

When Mr. Kitani entered middle age, his chess style became extremely solid and became the most familiar "rock-solid Kitani style".

So like Mr. Kitani Minoru, is every change in his chess style intentional? Li Xiangping thinks that is certainly not the case. It can only be said that his understanding of Go is different in each period, and it is this difference that

This is why his chess style in each period is very different.

Therefore, Li Xiangping believes that it is very normal for someone like Li Canghao to change his chess style, and there is nothing to be surprised about.

The only thing that interests Li Xiangping now is that compared with real history, Li's chess style changed seemingly several years earlier.

And now he is still at his peak!

Although judging from the situation in real history, his peak period seems to be only a few years away, he is still at his peak period!
Chapter completed!