In mid-March, the first World Championships of the 2006-07 season began. Li Xiangping, Gu Dali, Kong Erjie, Xie He, Chen Xiaoqiang, Chang Hao, and Wang Lei Liuduan went to Tokyo, Japan to compete for the 3rd "Toyota Cup" 16:01 professional Go throne battle.

The "Toyota Cup" is still a traditional invitational competition system, and there is no public qualifying, but there will be no seeds for the competition, so 32 chess players participated in the "This competition".

It is obvious that with the achievements and status of Chinese Go in the world chess world today, there are obviously a little fewer quotas in the 7 competitions, but this has always been the case in the world professional chess world. Since the founding of the first World Competition, the host's quotas have been much more than other countries.

There is no exception to this year's "Toyota Cup". Among the 32 places in this competition, Japanese chess players occupied 12 seats, and then Korean chess players had 6 seats, and the remaining few places were allocated on all continents of the world.

It is precisely because of this that the so-called world competition in the Go world often starts from the quarterfinals. If the top experts hedge in the first two rounds, it can only be said that these people have poor luck in the lottery draw.

The Chinese team has good luck this time.

At least he had good luck in the first round draw, so good that even Li Xiangping drew to the 9th section of Japan's Takao Shin-Road, even this opponent was already very important.

"Haha, Heisei's waste."

After drawing the lottery, Li Xiangping's low voice was heard by Team Leader Hua:

"Hmm? Xiangping, what did you say just now?"

Li Xiangping continued to bite his ears with Team Leader Hua, and he laughed and said, "Teacher Hua, have you never heard such a sentence?"

"What do you mean?"

"Someone summarized that Japan has raised scholars for hundreds of years, Taisho raised the country, Showa raised ghosts, and now it is the Heisei era in Japan. Do you know what they raised in the Heisei era?"

“What to raise?”

"Heisei raises pigs."

"Puchi."

Although Team Leader Hua had already laughed out loud, he still did not forget his identity at this time. He forced a stern face and said, "Xiangping, you can't have the idea of ​​underestimating the enemy. He is at least one of the four kings of Heisei. He just snatched "Honinbo" from Zhang Xu. You can't be too careless."

Li Xiangping smiled strangely, then pretended to nod and was taught. The reason why he smiled so strangely was that he remembered a sentence that was on par with the previous sentence:

"Heisei pig farming" corresponds to "Heisei waste", of course, it is known without explanation. Then in a few years, when Japan "changes dynasty", a new saying emerged from the Heisei era, called "Heisei waste, Reiwa's macho man."

To be honest, when he first saw this statement, Li Xiangping was shocked and thought to himself that he was still a waste just now, why did he evolve into a strong man immediately?

However, when he saw the detailed explanation clearly, especially when he saw a standard image of the "Ringhe Macho" drawn by the Japanese, Li Xiangping was amused and crying at the time.

The so-called "Ringhe's tough guy" looks like a neutral person, but it looks very similar to the "Brother Chun" in our country.

Therefore, in the future, Japan's population will become a "low desire society". This is not without reason. Aesthetics may seem like a small matter, but for a country or nation, it may sometimes be able to rise to a safe height.

As for this, even some people in the entertainment industry can notice - for example, in a previous life, Li Xiangping once saw a person in the entertainment industry speak out, and that guy mentioned the issue of "aesthetic safety".

What is the so-called "little fresh meat"? This statement was first seen in the rich women's circle in Pengcheng. When they went to the duck shop to find ducks, they called the ducks by "little fresh meat". After a short while, the word became popular in the entertainment industry. Many young artists were even complacent and were not ashamed but proud.

So the old man finally concluded that like the second dimension of a young man, this can be used as an aesthetic supplement and can retain the diversity of aesthetics. However, this aesthetic cannot be allowed to occupy the absolute mainstream, otherwise there will be dangers in the entire country and nation.

I have to say that considering that "Heisei's waste and Reiwa's fierce man" Li Xiangping believes that nothing else is said, at least on this point, Li Xiangping still agrees with that guy's point of view.

Of course, what will the Japanese nation become in the end? This is not what Li Xiangping cares about, and he will not worry about it. What he cares about now is the last "Toyota Cup". He must earn the last championship bonus.

At 10 a.m. the next day, the first round of the competition officially started, with 32 chess players fighting each other to compete for a championship prize of about 30 million yen.

It's a bit strange. Originally, Li Xiangping vs Takao Shinro, one of them was the first player in the chess world today, and the other was the Japanese "Honinbo". This was considered a heavyweight hedging in the first round.

However, the heavyweight competition was not able to enjoy heavyweight treatment. Not only did the Japanese side not choose to explain the game on the board, but even the two of them were arranged in an inconspicuous corner of the competition hall.

The others couldn't figure it out, but the team leader Hua still expressed his understanding: After all, Li Xiangping, who has been in the industry for 6 years, has maintained a complete victory against Japanese chess players so far! Whether it was the "Six Super League" or the "Heisei Four Heavenly Kings" that year, or Ida Kiki Wang Licheng and others, they were hard to win.

So in the opinion of the Chinese team leader: Japan may think that this is a must-lose game. Since it is a must-lose game, of course, don't want to enjoy much treatment.

What's more, not to mention anything else, even Team Leader Hua himself felt that this game of chess is not much suspense -------

Li Xiangping's previous performance in the wing league was in the eyes of the Chinese team leader.

It’s not that Li Xiangping had a lot of outstanding performances in those four sets, but in the eyes of the Chinese team leader, Li Xiangping’s sense of chess was still keen and there was no “hands-made” situation.

Since there is no "handsman", it means that Li Xiangping is still working hard and he has not abandoned his chess skills because of other things. Since this is the case, he is certainly relieved to face a Japanese chess player today.

It is precisely because of this reassurance that during the morning game, Team Leader Hua did not pay much attention to Li Xiangping's game, but watched other Chinese chess players' games.

Among them, Chen Xiaoqiang vs. Yuta Iyama - both of them were "pan-90s" in 1989. Iyama was selected into the Japanese lineup for last year's "Ahan Tongshan Cup" champion. In addition, after Li Xiangping and Iyama fought last year, he praised Iyama and said a lot of good things to him. Therefore, this game still attracted some attention in the Chinese and Japanese chess world.

The two-hour competition time in the morning passed quickly. Seeing that Chen Xiaoqiang had the advantage in the situation, the team leader Hua was in a good mood. As Li Xiangping walked out of the competition hall, he had a solemn expression on his face, and the team leader Hua did not pay attention.

Team leader Hua really noticed Li Xiangping's chess game, which was already 2:30 pm. That is, the afternoon game had been going on for an hour and a half, and the overall game had reached more than 80 moves.

"Team leader of Hua," Zhang Da reporter waved to the team leader of Hua: "How about you come and see, why do I feel... the situation in Xiangping seems to be a little wrong."

"ah!!!"

Team leader Hua hurried over. After he judged the situation, his expression became solemn----- as serious as when Li Xiangping came down at noon.

However, considering that this was a chess played by Li Xiangping, the leader of the team was not sure. He looked around - this time he led the team to participate, so there were no other Chinese masters around.

Fortunately, there are no Chinese experts, but there are still Japanese experts. Team Leader Hua quickly locked in two people, one is Masaki Shin-sen of the "cosmic flow" and the other is the senior brother of the Wugong. Mr. Yoshio Ishida, who was known as the "electronic computer" back then. These two are responsible for the live broadcast of today's competition, one is responsible for the live broadcast of the TV, and the other is responsible for the on-site explanation.

"Mr. Ishida, Mr. Takemiya, please come and have a look..."

The two veterans came over quickly. After carefully judging the situation, they both showed surprise and smiled at the same time.

Of course, it's still the same thing, the so-called shadow of the famous tree is after all, Li Xiangping's game. Therefore, although both of them felt that the situation of Gao Tai was obviously dominant, they refused to say it in person:

Yoshio Ishida said: "Haha, this is Li Sang's game after all. He has too many ghostly methods, so I personally think it's still early, and at least I have to wait for a while before talking about it."

Wu Gong immediately said: "Yes, look at it again, you need to look at this chess..."

Team Leader Hua's face became darker---------Anyway, he was also a chess player who came from that era, so the two Japanese masters now had the expressions, so Team Leader Hua knew at a glance.

But Team Leader Hua had no other way. He could neither force others to say it directly, nor could he play chess instead of Li Xiangping, so Wu Gong said he would take a look again, so of course he could only take a look again.

At about 3 pm, just after 100 moves in the whole game, Li Xiangping, who was holding black, suddenly used strength, and he forced himself to attack a big dragon in white chess-----

This move attracted the exclamation of the two Japanese players, but then the leader of the team was feeling an ominous feeling.

Because in the eyes of the Chinese team leader, Li Xiangping's move was too forced, and the white dragon didn't look like it was attacked at all.

Therefore, Li Xiangping's chess move is actually just a "win-loss move" and is not much calculated.

When he used such a method as soon as he reached the end of the whole situation, of course, it only means one problem: Li Xiangping himself must also feel that his situation is unfavorable, otherwise he would not do this.

But after all, it was the "win-lossing move", so from that move, the laboratory began to be lively, and everyone began to study the offense and defense of that generation.

But the more you study, the darker the face of Team Leader Hua became, and the smiles of the two Japanese masters became even stronger------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

When it was almost 4:00 pm and the game was about 130 moves, the laboratory returned to silence again-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Now, this "rolling and packing" has appeared on the chessboard, so after the offensive and defensive battle in this area ended, Li Xiangping's black chess was definitely unfavorable.

Mr. Wugong seemed to remember something suddenly. He muttered to his senior brother a few words and whispered in Japanese. After hearing this, Mr. Ishida nodded with a smile and politely bowed to the leader of the team, he hurriedly left.

Team Leader Hua's face turned darker at that time because he could understand Japanese. Mr. Wugong said clearly just now: Please ask Mr. Ishida to apply for modification of the live broadcast content. This game must be broadcast, and it is also easy to report the "good news" of the Japanese chess player defeating Li Xiangping for the first time.

"Oh~~~~This Li Xiangping seems to be unable to be too distracted..."

So the leader of the team started to think about how to do Li Xiangping's ideological work after returning to China.

It’s a pity that this question is not that easy to think about, because Li Xiangping is not an ordinary person after all, so Team Leader Hua thought about it for a long time, but he had no idea what to do.

Before I knew it, 20 minutes passed, and Team Leader Hua was still thinking about it.

The one who brought him back to reality finally turned out to be Li Xiangping himself, because at around 4:20 pm, the game between Li Xiangping vs. Takao Shin-lu was over, and the two walked out of the game room one by one.

Team Leader Hua saw that Li Xiangping's face was now flushed and he looked embarrassed----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

On the other hand, his opponent Takao Shinro is now full of annoyance, dementia, so demented that his eyes are blind and staring at a place that is unknown.

"What happened? Could it be that Xiangping won the game..."

Before the leader of the team Hua could fully come back to his senses, reporter Zhang rushed over happily:

"Haha, the biggest unjust case of this year, Takao Moon Inbo lost really wrongly... But then again, Xiangping's last reversal was indeed exquisite, and he is definitely qualified to be one of the top ten wonderful players of the year..."

Leader Hua was lazy to listen to reporter Zhang Da’s words. He soon reached the final chess score and then set up the final process.

Because today's reversal is not particularly complicated, he quickly discovered the problem with the level of team leader Hua.

The problem lies in the "rolling and packing".

Yes, the very ordinary "rolling and packing" in Go is a completely "rolling and packing" of big goods.

To be specific, the problem lies in the penultimate step of the entire "rolling and packing" process. At that time, Takaomoto Ino has just taken a step to "snatch", which is the kind of "snatch" that is to "snatch"

Of course, those who have played Go know that if "rolling and packing" appears in Go, then such "popping" will usually appear.

Such "summit" sometimes has practical significance, for example, sometimes it is related to the eye position, so if you "summit" like this, it is very likely that you will directly remove the opponent's eye.

Of course, sometimes, such a "stop" has no practical significance. For example, it doesn't matter whether you swing or not.

Gaowei's "punch" today actually has little practical significance, because the piece where Li Xiangping was "rolled and packed" was itself a live chess, and the key today is not that, the focus is on the piece that was attacked in front.

Of course, those who have played Go also know that no matter whether such a "pawn" is meaningful, when encountering "rolling and packing" in actual combat, most chess players will choose "pawn".

Whether it is an amateur or professional chess player, most people will choose to sweep.

There is no other reason, because after "striking" like this, you can often make big pieces of opponents into a "big cake" to form an extremely ugly and ugly chess shape.

It is certainly uncomfortable to form a "fool" yourself. But if you label your opponent as a "fool" you will of course feel a sense of pleasure.

So most people will definitely "stop" it, but they are actually pursuing this kind of pleasure.
To be continued...