After the quarterfinals of the "Toyota Cup" ended, Li Xiangping returned to China with the large army the next day.

The day after returning to China, Li Xiangping came to the China Chess Academy and prepared to find Zhang Wendong, the director of the competition department.

The competition department's office is on the first floor, next to the referee department. As soon as Li Xiangping walked to the door, he heard Lao Jin's loud voice from the referee department:

"Oh, it's changed. Since the appearance of Li Xiangping, he has changed all the criteria for judging the Go world."

Zhang Jiuduan's voice came: "Why did it change?"

"This hasn't changed yet," Lao Jin continued to talk in it:

"In the past, we often divided chess players into top-notch players, top-notch players, ordinary players, etc. and so on. However, with Li Xiangping, this set of standards is obviously inappropriate. All changes need to be made, Xiao Zhang, don't you?"

Zhang Wendong Jiuduan said in a very cooperative manner: "How should we change?"

"In today's world chess world, I think Li Xiangping is already unique, you should have no objection to this, right?"

Zhang Jiudan did not hesitate at all, and immediately agreed: "It's not bad, Xiangping is indeed the only one now. Although his champion is fewer than Da Li, how can Da Li be as stable as him? He reached the finals in 10 and won the championship in 8, and never missed before the semi-finals of the World Championship. Such dominance is simply terrifying. Looking through the entire Go history, there is actually no such player, so his unique title is worthy of his name and has no problem at all."

"Yes, you agree that he is the only one. Well, since there is a unique one, the standard for judging the best, we will definitely make some changes in the future. For example, behind Li Xiangping, which chess players can reach the second level?"

Zhang Jiuduan cooperated again and said, "It seems to be true, haha, Lao Jin, then how do you think you should make a pass?"

Lao Jin said proudly: "This standard was not very good before, but this year, a new standard seems to be about to come out."

"Oh, what's the new standard?"

Lao Jin said: "Of course, Li Xiangping is still Li Xiangping. Xiao Zhang, this year, he only lost 3 games in total. Even if he added the previous Da Li, he had only lost to four people in the past year. So now some people say that from now on, this may become the new standard. As long as you can win Li Xiangping in the future, it does not mean that you have to completely defeat him. As long as you can win a game in his hands, you can be called the new top-notch......"

Li Xiangping listened to the music outside the door, and secretly despised Lao Jin---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Even Li Xiangping himself has seen it. Now some chess fans are discussing similar topics on the Internet. As the "party involved", Li Xiangping himself has learned more in detail. He knows that the discussions of chess fans are no longer limited to "new super first-class", but also "super first-class candidates."

According to the Internet, at this stage, in addition to Li Xiangping, there are only 4 chess players who are qualified to be called the top-notch player. These 4 chess players who have won Li Xiangping in the past year: Li Canghao, Gu Dali, Li Sedol, and Chang Hao. Whether a new top-notch player can be born after this depends on whether he can defeat Li Xiangping. Even if he can win a game, he is qualified to be promoted.

It was following this idea that chess fans proposed some "super first-class waiters" lists, but in this list, the young master who chess fans chose to rank first was Zhang Xu.

The reason why he was chosen was that the majority of chess fans believed that, especially some senior chess fans in the technology, believed that although Zhang Xu only fought with Li Xiangping twice and lost both games, in the first game a few years ago, Li Xiangping fought hard most of the time and fell behind for a long time, and finally relied on a mistake from his opponent to reverse.

In the recent "Asian Cup" final, Zhang Xu actually competed with Li Xiangping for most of the game in the fast chess. Li Xiangping finally needed to rely on a good chess of the "Asian Hands" level to win the game.

It is precisely because of this performance that many chess fans are optimistic about Zhang Xu, believing that he is the next chess player who is most promising to defeat Li Xiangping before South Korea's Dapu and Kong Erjie.

Li Xiangping has actually seen these discussions among chess fans, but he himself didn't take it much.

Because in his own opinion, such a describing method has obvious flaws, and one of the most obvious flaws:

How do you arrange those old seniors?

In addition to the above, Li Xiangping believes that if he only uses one game of chess as the judgment criteria, this is really a bit exaggerated.

The most obvious example is the last time he lost to Chang Jiudan. Li Xiangping himself knew very well: it was a three-game chess, and it was a civil war between Chinese chess players, so when he had room to win one game first, he tried Lee Sedol's way of losing.

It’s a pity that he knew in his heart that the majority of chess fans didn’t know that everyone just saw Li Xiangping losing chess, so they ranked Chang Hao in.

Of course, Li Xiangping didn't have any opinions on Chang Hao's 9th dan. Even from a certain perspective, if Chang Hao won that game, he could still maintain his enthusiasm for Go, and then continue to search on the chess path. This is the real good thing, and it is also what Li Xiangping likes to see. He just simply felt that this kind of defect in the arrangement method was obvious.

It is precisely because he felt that this kind of arrangement was obvious, so Li Xiangping was unwilling to listen at the door, so he pushed the door open and entered:

"Teacher Zhang, haha, I'll tell you something..." After saying this, he pretended to see Lao Jin:

"Hey! Teacher Jin is here too..."

The two of them did not doubt that they had him, especially Lao Jin. After he saw that it was Li Xiangping, he laughed even more:

"Haha, it's Xiangping. It's really said that Cao Cao was here. You haven't been to the chess academy for a while... By the way, you said you have something to do with Wendong..."

Of course, the serious business is the first, so Lao Jin did not exchange too many greetings, so he asked Li Xiangping to talk about the serious business first.

Li Xiangping’s business is very simple and can be explained in one sentence. Therefore, after he finished speaking, Zhang Wendong Jiushu spoke:

"Hey, Ahan Tongshan Cup?, Xiangping, you said you want to sign up for this year's Ahan Tongshan Cup? Why did you suddenly think of participating in this competition? And why did you say it now?"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Teacher Zhang, I forgot about this some time ago..."

Li Xiangping had nothing to hide. He went to Japan to participate in the competition a few months ago. After contacting Umezawa Yukari, Ms. Naoko Wada from Ahansen from Japan gave her a gift to her sister, and then she said a "Snail Announcement".

Li Xiangping told the two people in front of him the cause and effect.

Lao Jin kept listening happily, and after Zhang Jiuduan finished listening, he showed a little embarrassment.

This hint of embarrassment was captured by Li Xiangping, so he asked:

"Why, Teacher Zhang, I'm registering now, are you having any questions?"

The honest Zhang Wendong smiled: "The problem is indeed a problem, but it is not your problem, but my problem here. It is because I, the director of the competition department, made a mistake in my work, so Xiangping, I want to apologize to you first..."

Next, Zhang Jiuduan explained his "work mistake":

"Ahan Tongshan Cup" is the kind of open competition system that is open to all professional chess players. You can participate as long as you sign up. However, this competition also has seed players. The top 16 chess players in the domestic ratings directly enter the "this competition". Isn't this because Li Xiangping basically does not participate in domestic competitions? He didn't say it in advance this time, so when the competition department was placing seed players, he directly ignored Li Xiangping this time, and they ranked from second to 17th.

But this is just a small mistake. After all, the registration has not yet been completed. If Li Xiangping wants to participate, it is just a replacement. It is even more troublesome to choose the schedule and the competition location. Now Li Xiangping suddenly proposes to participate, which is likely to cause a series of chain reactions next.

The reason is that since the competition department has ignored Li Xiangping directly, they have not considered Li Xiangping's participation in the "Ahan Tongshan Cup" schedule before. Some of the competition times have been arranged will conflict with Li Xiangping's own schedule.

It's October soon, and it's the most critical moment of the entire season. It's fine if you want to replace it with other chess players. Most chess players start to reduce after the end of the franchise. Even the top part of the country, you can actually find that if you can participate in 10 international games a year, only national team players can do it.

If you can reach 15 international games a year, there is nothing to say. This player must have a very high level and was in good shape at that time.

Li Xiangping's "unique" is also reflected here: he has been a professional chess player for 4 years. In addition to the first year, his number of international games in the next three years has never been less than 20 sets, and at most it can exceed 30 sets.

Most of the heavyweight international competitions throughout the season are mainly concentrated after October. For example, in the next few months, the Samsung Cup, LG Cup, Toyota Cup, Yingshi Cup and Nongxin Cup will be intensively fought until the final champion is decided.

Not only that, in addition to international competitions, Li Xiangping is still a "celebrity" in Chinese Go, and he will at least have a "celebrity" five-game challenge next.

Needless to say, Li Xiangping suddenly proposed to add a "Ahan Tongshan Cup", which of course would make Zhang Jiuduan feel embarrassed.

When Li Xiangping saw Zhang Jiuduan being embarrassed, he actually felt a little guilty. He blamed himself for not notifying the competition department earlier, otherwise this would not have happened.

However, Zhang Wendong's Jiu Duan did not make any difficulties for long, and he quickly said to Li Xiangping:

"Shh... Xiangping, don't worry, since you are here to register, I must guarantee that you will participate. Not only will you ensure that you participate in the Ahan Tongshan Cup, but it will not affect your other competitions... You wait a moment, I will go and say a word to Dean Wang now and coordinate your schedule..."

Seeing that someone was worried about his own affairs, even though Li Xiangping had always been shameless, he was a little embarrassed at this time.

Sorry, he was not in the mood to chat with Lao Jin. After a few simple conversations, he politely gave up and walked to the second floor of the chess academy habitually.

While walking on Li Xiangping, he thought that it seems that he has participated in a lot of games. If there are more games, it may not only cause some trouble for others like today, but in fact, from the perspective of "dog fighting", there are too many human games, which is of little significance to improving the level.

"Well, it seems that it's time to consider reducing the number of games. If you have that time, it's better to study higher-level dog tricks with Lao Shiduo..."

It’s a pity that he just thought about it. This matter is really not very operational. After all, it is certainly impossible to ask him to give up the World Championship now, and Li Xiangping wouldn’t even think about it.

If international competitions are not possible, it seems that it can only be domestic competitions. However, nowadays, he has not participated in many domestic competitions.

In a "celebrity battle", he cannot take the initiative to give up his title and not participate in the competition.

A "Ahan Tongshan Cup" was a "she" that he took the initiative to participate in the competition in order to repay favors.

There is also a siege. Not to mention the friendship between his old man and Lao Cai, the team is only a few guns. If he doesn't participate in the competition, the lineup will not be able to be assembled.

"............ After thinking about it now, I can give up the tv cup. Anyway, I have won the 'Asian Cup' now and I can participate in the competition next year as the defending champion. There are not many games in the tv cup, and to be honest, this short, fast and fast event will have little impact on training. If I can reduce several games of the AFC game..."

With such random thoughts, he had already stepped onto the second floor of the chess academy, but found that the largest training room on the second floor was very lively today, as if there was a competition being held.

Coach Wu happened to come out of it, and Li Xiangping hurriedly asked:

"Hey, Coach Wu, what game is today?"

"A game that has nothing to do with you," Coach Wu smiled:

"Young National Team's annual selection match, you haven't participated in it, no wonder you don't know."

"hehe."

After Li Xiangping accompanied Coach Wu for a while, he saw that he had something to do and went to work hard, he said goodbye to him and walked into the largest training room alone.

As soon as Li Xiangping walked in, he saw a bearded man at a glance.

A child with a beard.

Li Xiangping laughed at that time because this bearded child was affectionately called "君君" by chess fans in later generations. At this moment, Li Xiangping seemed to help him find a substitute and a substitute in the bench.

Li Xiangping was still calm at this time. It was not that he didn't know "小子" but that he didn't know his current basic situation, especially whether he had signed a contract.

The basic information about bearded kids was quickly found:

The third rank of Jiaxi, born in 1991, entered the rank in 2002, and has not signed any contracts for the AFC team.

“Hahahaha…”

Li Xiangping laughed silently, then quietly left the training room and went outside to make a phone call.

"Hey, Uncle Cai, where are you now? Are you in the capital?"

"Haha Xiangping, I just happened to be back, what's the matter?"

"Oh, then you are here?"

“It’s in the club.”

"Okay, Uncle Cai, please wait a moment, I'll come over immediately."
Chapter completed!