On February 7, 2005, on the 26th day of the 12th lunar month, Li Xiangping defeated Lee Sedol. He won the "LG Cup" of this year with a total score of 2-0.

This is Li Xiangping's 12th professional Go world champion. This is also the fifth championship trophy that Li Xiangping won in the five professional Go world competitions this season - he completed the championship and achieved the Golden Slam, which is an unprecedented feat in the world chess world.

The influence of this incident is beyond imagination.

At least it is beyond Li Xiangping's own imagination.

On the night of the game, the "News Broadcast" of the imperial court broadcasted the news that he won the championship, and it was not ordinary news. The imperial court played it in this form:

"... Good evening for all viewers, welcome to watch the News Broadcast. Today's News Broadcast includes... In the "LG Cup" professional Go world chess king battle ended in the afternoon, Chinese young chess player Lee Xiangping defeated South Korea's Lee Sedol to win the championship, winning the championship throughout the season, achieving the feat commonly known as the "Kindergarten Slam"...."

In fact, since Lao Nie, it has not been particularly rare to have a news broadcast on Go competitions, but it is extremely rare to have become the "main content" of the news broadcast.

In the domestic sports world, in the past, only athletes won the cards in the Olympics could become the "main content". Even in the Olympics, the news broadcast usually does not report on individuals, but a group.

This time, a non-Olympic event is regarded as the "main content", which shows how the official mouthpiece values ​​this "Golden Slam".

When Li Xiangping returned to China the next day, the relevant reports were overwhelming, no longer just Go or sports media. This time, even official mainstream media such as "Mass Daily" and "Huaxia Youth Daily" also wrote articles praising Li Xiangping's achievements.

Not only in China, but also in Japan and South Korea, there are also many related reports. Among them, the Korean media is not that exaggerated. After all, this time Li Xiangping stepped on Xiao Li to take over.

It makes Li Xiangping feel funny is Japanese media. There are several mainstream Japanese media, who actually reported that Li Xiangping achieved a golden slam in a "outside" way:

"......... It turns out that he is the messenger of the chess god. Li Xiangping is the person who God has arranged to teach everyone to play chess. The golden slam is achieved!" (Yomiuri Shimbun)

To be honest, when Li Xiangping just learned about this, he was a little complacent. He thought that his buddy was so awesome now that he could actually be "outside" in foreign newspapers.

But later Lao Xie told him that it is not a strange thing to be a Japanese media out of the post, so take Go as an example:

Yuta Iyama won the "Ahan Tongyama Cup" at the age of 15, setting the record for the youngest title in the Japanese chess world, and was out of the box.

At that time, Mr. Zhao Zhixun held the "big three crowns" at the same time and was not named.

Even this year, Zhang Xu won the first "Celebrity" and then defended the title of "Honinbo". He only became a "celebrity" and added "Honinbo", which was also an out of the title.

As for foreign chess players, Da Li won the "Yingshi Cup" four years ago and achieved the "Grand Slam" at that time (he won all the World Championships championships at that time), and the Japanese also gave him a nomination.

Li Xiangping is a "Golden Slam" this time, and the difficulty coefficient is n levels higher than that of the "Grand Slam". Therefore, this time he is also an extra. Of course, it is nothing strange.

After being popularized by Lao Xie, most of Li Xiangping's sourness disappeared at that time. It turns out that the "outsiders" of the Japanese media do wholesale in this way?

However, even if you are doing wholesale, it is a fact that Li Xiangping became a media celebrity in the past few days after winning the championship. News about him frequently appeared in major media in East Asia.

This kind of popularity reached its climax by the third day of the Chinese New Year.

Because this day was the annual "annual ceremony" of the Ming Tingtai Sports Channel, Li Xiangping became the "Top Ten Athletes" for the third consecutive year.

This year is the Olympic Year, and in this year's Athens Olympics, the Chinese Legion performed well, winning more than 30 gold medals in total, ranking second only to the United States.

Li Xiangping is the only non-Olympic athlete selected in the "Top Ten" this time.

And among a large number of Olympic champions, Li Xiangping is not inferior to his popularity. At least when CCTV hosts interact with winners, they leave the most time for Li Xiangping.

The only person who can compete with Li Xiangping this year is only 110-meter hurdle champion Liu Xiang.

However, all the noise and excitement will always fade away. By the first day of the lunar month, the Spring Festival holiday has nominally ended, and Li Xiangping's life has returned to normal again.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, since Li Datu and the others did not return in their hometown, Li Xiangping was the only one at home, and he suddenly felt a little bored when he was doing nothing.

He was the kind of boredom that suddenly became idle after a very busy period of time------

Since October last year, Li Xiangping has been busy all the time, with one game after another, almost no time to breathe. However, when the "LG Cup" ended, he suddenly had no chess game for a long time.

As we entered 2005, the four-year "Yingshi Cup" naturally disappeared. The other "Toyota Cup" that was once every two years has disappeared this year.

In addition, the "Chunlan Cup" that is also held every two years, so he has no chance to finish the final this time.

So the only world competitions he can participate in this year are actually those annual competitions.

However, whether it is the "Samsung Cup" or the "LG Cup", there are qualifiers in both competitions, and this competition will definitely take place after the second half of the year.

So the earliest competition that Li Xiangping can participate in this year is actually the "Fujitsu Cup", but even this competition will start in early April.

By the way, there is still a "Nongxin Cup" during this period, but this year's "Nongxin Cup" is better than the Chinese team so far, and there are still four surviving generals.

The corresponding Korean team is only two big and small, and the Japanese team is only one with Ida Kiki.

Therefore, according to the current situation, as the main player of the Chinese team, it is still unknown whether Li Xiangping will play this year. Even if he is required to play, he will only play the last game of chess at the last moment.

"Oh~~~ It's boring. By the way, Brother Ding'an, let me ask you, do you think we have reached the height of your junior Wu Quan at this level?"

"Haha, what do I say about this? What do you think if you are a friend of Xiangping?"

Li Xiangping smiled and said, "What's wrong with this? We don't have to underestimate ourselves. I think at our current level, even if we face Mr. Wu at the peak, we can still compete with him. I personally think this is still a competition. If we join forces, even Mr. Wu will be reluctant to give him a disadvantage."

Lao Shi also smiled and said, "My friend Xiangping, is it meaningful to compare you with the younger generation Wu Quan? To compare with this person, Ding'an thought that only one indicator would make sense."

Li Xiangping paused: "Brother Ding'an means that Mr. Wu has reached the level of making the world's first half?"

Lao Shi sighed, "That's the most important thing. I'm not to hide it from my friend Xiangping. Recently, in addition to studying dog tricks, I'm also watching his twelve volumes of "Liuhe Go". The more I read, the more I feel scared. The more I read, the more I admire Ding'an. This person is indeed a genius. Some of his thoughts on Go in his later years have already approached dog tricks. You should know that he doesn't have the conditions for us. He can get close to dog tricks with personal understanding. This shows how powerful this person is."

Of course, Li Xiangping knew Mr. Wu’s power, so he continued to smile:

"Okay, Brother Ding'an, let's not guess how powerful he is now, or the most straightforward comparison: Do you think we have reached the level of first in the world now?"

Lao Shi replied: "I personally think it's not there yet. Of course, if we join forces, it's another matter. If we use our two swords to combine, we may have reached a level of half-first to one first, but if we go alone, we have not reached a level of half-first yet."

Old Schruse paused: "What do you think if you are a friend of Xiangping?"

Of course, Li Xiangping did not dare to object to Lao Shi's statement.

His family knows his family affairs, don't look at him winning so much this year, especially after losing to Li Canghao, he swept four times in the four finals, 3 2-0 and 3-0, and did not let his opponent win a set.

But even so, Li Xiangping dared not say that he had reached the level of first in the world.

From many competitions, we can see that the gap between me and other top human masters is really small.

For example, if a person like Da Li may have a higher level than him, he may be better than one or two points at most, or even half a point. Li Xiangping believes that he has definitely not reached the "half-first" level of more than 3 points.

There are also people like Gu Dali and Lee Sedol. Judging from the situation of fighting with them, they may have to be a little better, but don’t forget that these two are young, so in a strict sense, they are also in the growth stage.

And this is what Go is like. The lower the level, the faster it will improve - so after a year or two, who knows what the situation will be when fighting them again?

Thinking of this, Li Xiangping sighed: "Oh, the chess is hard, the chess is hard, and it's hard for so long, but there's not even half a first. We have already thought about it. If we want to fight dogs, we must be ahead of humans, and we must be leading separately. In this way, we can use the two swords to combine them. This will make us have a chance. Brother Ding'an, how should we train next?"

Old Shi paused: "Haha, aren't you a little idle next, so Ding'an thought it was time to consider letting Ziqi train."

When Li Xiangping thought about it, why did he forget this? Since he wasn't that busy next time, it was a good time to try to train chess.

The best way to train chess is of course to play chess online, so Li Xiangping did it as soon as he said that. He picked up his long-lost "Jueyi" account and logged in to "Yicheng" which has been connected to Korea.

As soon as "Jueyi" appeared, it immediately caused a commotion on the entire website, but before the online netizens could tell me, "Jueyi" disappeared immediately.

However, 3 minutes later, another vest of "Jueyi Guidance 1" appeared in "Yicheng".
Chapter completed!