After the lottery ceremony, Li Xiangping kept having fun, but when people asked him why he was laughing, he pretended and refused to tell. When he and Lao Shi were preparing for the next day's game in the evening, even his cheating was noticed. He is strange:

"Little friend Xiangping, why are you so happy?"

"Haha, it's nothing. It's just that after I drew tomorrow's opponent, it reminded me of two Yi Lin anecdotes, so I always wanted to laugh."

"The anecdote of Yi Lin? How can Xiangping little friends have time to think about the anecdotes of Yi Lin at this moment? You need to know that tomorrow's game is in time..."

"Brother Ding'an, don't worry, one of the two chess anecdotes I thought of is related to tomorrow's opponent. I even think that as long as you hear his story, you can have a general understanding of his chess style. , then Brother Ding’an, do you want to hear it?”

"Oh?" From Lao Shi's tone, it was obvious that he was dubious, but he still said:

"Then let's talk about it."

Li Xiangping smiled slightly: "Before telling these two anecdotes about Yi Lin, I would like to ask Brother Ding'an a question first."

"But do you still have any questions you need to ask me? Tell me."

"Let me ask you, when brother Ding'an plays chess on weekdays, can he accurately judge the final result after more than 70 moves?"

"This..." Shi Daqisheng hesitated for a moment:

"After more than 70 moves of chess, Ding'an may be able to roughly tell which is good and which is bad, but when it comes to accurately judging the final result, Ding'an definitely does not have this ability."

Li Xiangping continued to laugh, and smiled even more happily: "Brother Ding'an, you need to know that there are mountains beyond the mountains. You can't do it, but someone once claimed to be able to do it."

"Ah! There really is such a divine person. Ding'an is so fascinated by it. Could it be that this person... is the descendant of Wu Quan you once mentioned?"

Li Xiangping held back his laughter: "This time it's not your Wu Quan junior, but a Japanese chess player named Zhang He. His age... seems to be slightly younger than Brother Ding'an... Well, if you really want to talk about it, this person's status in the Japanese chess world is somewhat similar to that of brother Ding'an. He was once called the "Later Sage" by the Japanese chess world to distinguish him from their "former sage" Dao Ce. .”

Hearing that he was from about the same era as himself, Shi Daqi Sage became interested. Tomorrow's opponent did not want to study it for the time being: "Can you let me see the chess played by this person?"

"Let me look for it."

This search really took Li Xiangping a lot of time. It's not that he didn't find Zhanghe's chess records, but it was just a historical chess player. Li Xiangping wanted to find his masterpiece, and as an ancient Japanese chess sage, "Gang" In terms of "Zhang He", his first masterpiece is of course the one that played "Three Wonderful Moves of Zhang He", especially one of the moves, which is even called "the most amazing move in ancient and modern times". And his second masterpiece, In fact, it is the so-called "more than 70 moves to know the ending" game.

Unfortunately, Li Xiangping couldn't find these two games, so he did the next best thing and found the "Let 2 pieces ten times" game played by Zhanghe vs. Shinomiya Mizo and showed it to Lao Shi.

Of course Lao Shi knew what he was doing. After he finished watching all 10 games of chess, he said to Li Xiangping:

"Little friend Xiangping is here to tease me. This person can know the outcome with more than 70 moves? Ding'an doesn't believe it."

Li Xiangping smiled and said: "I don't believe it either. It's just that someone in Japan once said this with serious truth, just to deceive ignorant people. By the way, Brother Ding'an has seen these ten games, what do you think of this person's level?"

This time Lao Shi did not answer directly: "Little friends from Xiangping don't know that these 10 games are 2 sub-games. It is difficult to judge the level of proficiency by only looking at 2 sub-games."

"Oh? If you can't see how to get started, then let's talk about starting. What do you think the level of Shinomiya Mizo is?"

Lao Shi also did not answer directly: "Haha, I think this person's chess style is quite similar to that of Brother Zhaolin. His chess ability should be about the same as that of Brother Zhaolin, but in terms of chess talent, this person is worse than Brother Zhaolin. But it’s quite inferior.”

"Brother Zhaolin? Could it be that Brother Ding'an is talking about your other good friend, Yangzhou salt merchant Hu Tietou?"

"Yes, it is this person."

"Do you still think that the chess talent of Mi Zang, the fourth palace, is not as good as that of Hu Tietou?"

"Exactly, if Brother Zhaolin and this person score ten rounds first, I will bet Brother Zhaolin will win without a doubt."

Li Xiangping smiled, and he stopped asking. Shinomiya Yonezo was a famous amateur chess player in ancient Japan, and later received a three-dan "exemption certificate", and he and Zhanghe played this 2-piece ten-game chess game.

In the end, Zhanghe had 5 wins, 4 losses and 1 He barely won.

As for our Hu Tietou, he was rated as a "second-hand" in medieval chess, but he was considered a relatively poor "second-hand". When he was given two pieces by Lao Shi, he was better, and he could barely win a few games.

, however, facing another giant of the same generation, Fan Xiping, "Hu Tietou" basically had a hard time winning.

This was what Li Xiangping meant with a smile on his lips. He didn't expect that Shi Daqi Sheng was also a sultry person.

Zhanghe asked the second son to be on par with Si Gong Mi Zang, and he himself asked the second son to beat Hu Tietou easily, but now he said that this Si Gong Mi Zang was definitely no match for Hu Tietou... This

What does it mean? The implication of his words is of course that the Japanese "Queen Sage" Zhanghe is not the opponent of his Shi Daqi Sage.

So when it came to this, Li Xiangping was of course embarrassed to continue asking questions.

But what Li Xiangping didn't expect was that when he was not ready to continue asking, Lao Shi took the initiative to talk to him:

"Little friend Xiangping, I think that although the Japanese "Queen Sage" is good at chess, he may not be better than Ding'an, but then why does the Japanese chess community weave the lie of "more than 70 moves to know the end"?"

Li Xiangping smiled and said: "Brother Ding'an, this question is on point. This is because of their "Yuqi City" system back then."

""Yuqi City" system?"

"Yes, it is precisely because of the "Yuqi City" that I even think that today's Japanese chess players are used to laying the floor and playing chess mostly in gentle breeze and drizzle, which has a lot to do with the "Yuqi City" system...

"

In the next period of time, Li Xiangping naturally talked to Lao Shikop about what "Imperial Chess City" was. There was actually nothing to say about this. Most chess fans knew that this was nothing more than an "official competition" in ancient Japan.

At that time, there were four major players in the Japanese chess world: "Honinbo", "Inoue", "Yasui" and "Lin", which were similar to the four major sects in the Go world. In order to appease these four major sects, the Japanese government at the time held a competition.

This competition is called the "Gogi Castle" competition, and allows these four major sects to compete for Japan's "Gosho" through this competition.

Many people in later generations believed that this "Royal Go City" was crucial to the development of Japanese Go. It was precisely because Japan had this official competition very early that it promoted the formalization and professionalization of Japanese Go and made Japanese Go popular.

There has been a qualitative leap in level.

However, Li Xiangping believes that this evaluation may be a bit exaggerated. Regularization and professionalization must be recognized, but a government-organized competition can greatly improve the level. This is because he overestimates the power of the word "government-organized".

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Li Xiangping even believed that this "Imperial Go City" may hinder the healthy development of Japanese Go. From the perspective of future generations, the reason why "Japanese Style" has such great limitations is that many of its problems are in "Japanese Go".

It was developed in the era of "Yuqi City".

How should I put it? To use an inappropriate metaphor, just like the martial arts in our country, since there were government-organized competitions, "martial arts" has become "dance", and Japan's "Go Castle" actually has the same

of problems.

This is really not something Li Xiangping made up. You must know that there were actually quite a lot of fake chess in Japan's "Yuqi City" competition. Especially the first game of the annual "Yuqi City" competition, because this game has "leaders"

"Attendance has a strong nature of an exhibition match. According to the Japanese concept at the time, if the first game can be a draw, that would be the most ideal result. It is for this reason that the "Imperial Chess City" was held every year

The first game was almost all fake, which is an open secret in the Japanese Go community.

Li Xiangping believes that it is the Japanese habit of pursuing draw games that has developed the habit of "Japanese style" in later generations to "lay the floor".

Everyone knows that if you want to fake a game of Go to make a draw, it will definitely be difficult to do it like a medieval chess attack. This method is extremely difficult to cheat. The best way is of course to lay the floor, and

Because there are leaders watching from above, and the game cannot be played too ugly, what should we do?

Of course, you can only show off your little tricks in the second half of the game, show off a few small tetsuji in the high official or even the low official stage, and then pretend to "just happen" to make a draw, making those who don't know how powerful they are feel.

Inscrutable.

Li Xiangping told the story of "Yuqi City", which made Lao Shi laugh out loud:

"Haha, I understand, I guess this "more than 70 hands to know the outcome" is actually the Japanese people's habit of making mysteries, right?"

Li Xiangping listened to the music and found out that Lao Shi's words of "habitually making up mysteries" really hit the point.

"Little friend Xiangping, this is the Yi Lin anecdote you mentioned, then our opponent tomorrow..."

Li Xiangping smiled slightly: "Brother Ding'an, don't worry, the anecdotes about our opponent tomorrow are similar to the story just now."

"oh?"

Li Xiangping began to tell Lao Shi the story of Jin Chenglong's seventh-dan. This story is even simpler, that is, this golden seventh-dan later became a "famous mouthpiece" in the Korean Go world, a TV celebrity, and he was a player in another field.

A whole world.

Later, a reporter went to interview him and asked him why he gave up the pursuit of chess and instead focused on doing TV commentary work. This Jin Qiduan said something that seemed to be very self-aware:

"Because I know my talent, and I know that even if I spend my whole life, I will never reach the height of Li Canghao's 9th Dan, so I have no choice but to find ways to create a world of my own in other fields."

Gee, when Li Xiangping first saw this interview, he felt that Jin Qiduan was really a sensible person, very self-aware, and very clear about his life plan.

But later the reporter asked again: "So how big do you think the gap is between you and Li Canghao's 9th Dan? Can Li Canghao's 9th Dan let you go first?"

Jin Qiduan was furious: "How can there be such a big gap? Although I admit that I will never catch up with him, the gap between him and me is only 2 moves at most."

"Two-move chess?"

Jin 7th Dan said with certainty: "Yes, the difference between me and Li Canghao's 9th Dan is at most 2m chess. You are not a professional chess player, so you don't know how big the difference is between 2m chess. Just like what you just said

Give it a try, this is probably the gap between the chess god and Li Jiuduan..."

"Haha, did this person really say that?"

Li Xiangping smiled slightly: "Of course, brother Ding'an, after hearing this man's story, I think you should have an idea of ​​how to play the game tomorrow."
Chapter completed!