In the first round of the game, Li Xiangping, as the defending champion, took a bye. He stared at a game with relish in the live viewing room of the Japanese Chess Academy.

Of course, his every move now attracts attention. Gu Dali, who is also a bye, took a look at it: South Korea's Park Jung-shock VS Japan's Kono Rin.

Gu Dali was a little strange at the time. Although there was no particularly strong competition between the eight chess games in the first round today, there were still many celebrity chess players, including Zhao Zhixun, Kobayashi Guangyi, and the young chess players such as Xiao Li Cui Du, but these two...

"Boss, have you seen any interesting changes?"

"Haha, no, I'm just watching it."

Of course, Li Xiangping couldn't say it clearly. He watched this game today mainly because Korean chess player Park Jung-sung, who is the champion of this competition in real history.

Well, he is most likely to be the weakest professional Go world champion in history.

Li Xiangping remembers that in his previous life, there was an interesting review online. Since 1988, which player who has won the world championship has the worst level.

In this evaluation, two chess players finally entered the finals, one of whom was Taipei's "Red Face Chess King" Ah Xun, and the other was Park Jung-sung.

Li Xiangping gave this vote to Park Jung-sung, because in his opinion, Ren Ah-hoon's level is also weak among the world champions, but Ren is at least the king of the region, and once dominated the 100-point land of Wanwan.

But Park Jung-sung is only the backbone in South Korea. Before he won that world championship, no, before or after, he had never won any championship in South Korea. He had no decent results in his entire career except for the "Fujitsu Cup".

So Li Xiangping was very curious. He was watching this game of chess today and subconsciously wanted to see how his champion came about.

Of course, Li Xiangping couldn't see the reason.

Not to mention a mere game of chess, it is difficult to see the true level of a professional chess player. Just because his own time travel brought so many dog ​​tricks, the entire professional chess world had already undergone earth-shaking changes, which made this judgment even more difficult.

After being disturbed by Gu Dali, Li Xiangping decided not to watch it. At this time, the game was played for about 120 moves, and Park Jung-sung, who was holding black, gained a little advantage. Except for not seeing him having a particularly obvious mistake, Li Xiangping's content was really boring, but in any case, Li Xiangping seemed to have no highlights.

At around 5 pm, the first round of the game was all over. The Chinese team's performance today was average. Only Zhou Heyang, one of the three players, passed the game. In addition, Li Xiangping, Gu Dali and Kong Erjie, who were bye in the first round, had 4 players participating in the round of 16.

Seeing Zhou Heyang Jiudan walking down the arena, Li Xiangping felt emotion again---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

After the first round of the game was over, the second round of draws were immediately drawn that night. Li Xiangping's opponent was nothing to say. He encountered Zhao Shanjin, a chess player from the Japanese Chess Academy.

This man once won the title of "Honinbo" in Japan, but only once or twice. His overall strength should be ranked behind the "Heisei Four Heavenly Kings". He also heard that his hard work was still Ida Kiki, and he never beat Ida Tiger in his career, so it should be no big problem for Li Xiangping to win him.

What really interested Li Xiangping in the second round was actually Park Jiuduan's game, because he encountered Kong Erjie today.

Just a few days ago, Li Xiangping had just played chess with Kong Erjie. Based on his personal feelings, he thought Kong Er was already very powerful now. On the technical level, Li Xiangping believed that he was now a chess player of the same level as Gu Dali and Korean Li.

So from the perspective of strength, Li Xiangping believes that Kong Er is stronger than his opponent, but his opponent is the champion of this year in real history, so he really wants to see whether strength determines the victory or loss in today's game, or whether historical inertia determines the victory or loss.

After a day off, the second round of the game officially began. In Li Xiangping's own game, he established his advantage early. Just after 3 pm, the whole game was around 90 moves. He thought that the problem of his game was no longer great, and his opponent was in a "euthanasia" state.

It’s a pity that most Japanese chess players are slow, maybe because they are used to playing super slow chess. Although the situation is not good, Zhao Jiuduan is still slowly grinding.

It would be fine if he had released a few winners and losers. However, after a long test, Li Xiangping looked at the chess he had fallen carefully and thought to himself. What's going on? Does the opponent still think he has the advantage? This chess is clearly a way to play when he is advantageous.

When encountering such an abnormal thing, Li Xiangping was a little more cautious. He first rejudged the situation and confirmed that his previous judgment was correct. Today, this chess was indeed his obvious advantage.

After judging the situation, Li Xiangping inspected the chessboard again, trying to see if there were any miscalculations, such as some very strict hidden means of miscalculation.

When Li Xiangping confirmed that everything was normal, he thought there was no suspense about this chess today. The opponent just chose a step to accelerate euthanasia.

The opponent was still slowly grinding, but Li Xiangping had lost his patience. He began to get up frequently to patrol the whole venue.

The one he watched the most was still Kong Erjie Park Zhengxiang's game.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, he was not only the one who patrolled the field, but Gu Dali was added. Because his own game was over, he saw Li Xiangping frequently going to watch the game, which made him a little curious and stopped there to watch.

At about 4:40 pm, Zhao Shanjin finally decided not to waste any more. He had 166 moves in the whole game. At this time, he finally gave in.

Because Li Xiangping's chess has been played, Gu Dali can finally talk to Li Xiangping:

"Boss, what are you looking at? I didn't see anything special."

Li Xiangping pretended to open his eyes wide:

"Brother Gu, it seems that you are not good enough. You can't even see such an interesting game?"

"ah!?"

Just as Gu Dali was thinking hard, Li Xiangping sneaked away with joy, because he saw it today that his strength finally defeated historical inertia, so of course people like Gu Dali couldn't see such interesting things.

At around 5:30 pm, the second round of the game was all over, and the four Chinese chess players finally passed the level. In this way, the Chinese team occupied half of the next quarter-finals.

The quarterfinals of the "Fujitsu Cup" will be held in June, and that game will be Li Xiangping's next international game. In the next two months, he will have no other competition except the AFC.
Chapter completed!