The time is coming to the end of November, and the day of the first "Toyota Cup" final has finally arrived. Li Xiangping is about to set off for Tokyo to participate in the showdown with Li Canghao.

This is the first decisive battle among the "three major battles" in the Go world at the end of this year. Since this concept has been hyped up by everyone for a long time, as for the prediction of the victory or defeat, countless versions have appeared in the past month. Therefore, at this last moment, there are fewer voices from the outside world. Everyone opened their eyes wide and prepared to see the result of the two fighting.

However, although the voice weakens, the Go community of the two countries attaches great importance to this final. On China, the former "Nie Ma Twin Heroes" in the domestic chess world accompanied Li Xiangping to Japan to participate----

This is of course extremely rare. Although Lao Nie was once the head coach of the national Go team, this position has been cancelled, and Lao Nie is actually an idle person now. Although there are rumors that Ma Xiaofei will be the head of the national Go team coaching team, so far, this statement is still just a rumor. So at this time, the two big guys were dispatched at the same time, which is not only an indication of the importance the domestic Go community attaches to this game, but it cannot explain anything else.

In addition to these two, Wang Yi from the Foreign Affairs Department of the Chess Academy was accompanied by the group of media reporters. After boarding the flight to Tokyo, Ma Xiaofei pretended to explain to Li Xiangping:

"This time, I took the initiative to ask for an errand. Haha, aren't we going to play the "Sanxing Cup" next month? This time, I'm actually going to spy on military information and see what tricks you have prepared."

Li Xiangping smiled and did not answer. Of course, Ma Xiao's words were just excuses and jokes. Whoever took them seriously would lose. When everyone arrived in Japan, they found that the lineup in South Korea was also luxurious. Li Xiangping saw Lao Cao and Liu Changhe in the crowd.

It’s easy to understand to see Lao Cao. After all, he is Da Li’s master, so it’s normal for him to accompany his disciples to participate in the competition, but it’s different to see Da Liu. Because South Korea is different from our country’s system, they usually do not emphasize the “collective sense of honor” like our country. So, in addition to the fact that Da Li’s personal relationship is very good, of course, from another perspective, the Korean Go community attaches great importance to this game.

Not only that, with Lao Nie and Lao Cao coming, the big guys from the Japanese Go world also dispatched one after another. After the group arrived at the hotel where they were staying, there was a constant stream of people coming to visit. Although in name, they said they were visiting the contestants, Li Xiangping still had this self-knowledge. It was not just visiting him, it was all for Lao Nie's face.

Lao Nie had a friendship with the Japanese chess industry in the China-Japan Go Arena. During that period, Lao Nie was also very famous in Japan. Many Japanese chess fans knew that there was a "Mr. San'er" in China.

Lao Cao's situation is actually similar to Lao Nie. When Lao Cao was learning chess in Japan in his early years, he was already quite famous. It is recognized by the Japanese Go community that if Lao Cao had not returned to China, the Japanese chess world would not have been just "six supers" and would have become "seven supers".

Not only that, since Lao Cao is also a nominal disciple of Segotsuki, that is to say, Lao Cao is actually the junior brother of Mr. Wu Qingyuan and Mr. Utaro Hashimoto. He has a very high seniority in the Go world. If you really want to count it, even Mr. Lin Haifeng would call him "Uncle Master".

With such a relationship and a representative figure of Korean Go, it is natural that the Japanese Go world's bigwigs are dispatched one after another.

Since the two delegations were actually staying in the same hotel, Li Xiangping saw Lao Zhao and Zhao Zhixun visiting in the hotel, and saw Hero Otake coming to visit. Finally, he waited for Masao Kato and Lin Haifeng to visit together.

The first two people came over but didn't have anything to do with Li Xiangping. In addition to saying hello in the past, it was mainly Lao Nie who was receiving it. On the contrary, the two people came over later. In addition to chatting with Lao Nie, they finally insisted on saying a few words to Li Xiangping.

Of course, with Li Xiangping's current age, he had nothing to talk about with these Go masters. After sitting there for a while, he actually only remembered two sentences, one of which was Mr. Masao Kato's sigh:

Alas, this time is the real world number one battle, but unfortunately there are no Japanese chess players among them...

Li Xiangping was quite touched by this. Although there have been so many classic confrontations in the Go world since the founding of the first professional Go World Competition in 1988, it is so popular that it was considered to be a "world number one" battle before the game. This is actually the first time.

Was the first "Yingshi Cup" final considered the world number one contest that everyone expected? Actually, it doesn't count. Although the prize money of that competition is super high and the significance of this final after the game is far-reaching, before the game, since Lao Cao was able to reach the final, this seemed like an accident to everyone. Since the people who appeared in the final were all accidents, of course it was not considered a popular one.

Li Xiangping personally believes that what is closer to the "world's number one battle", it should actually be considered the battle between Li and Ma Xiao in the "Dongyang Securities Cup" in 1996. Ma Xiaofei won the double championship in 1995, and then in 1996, Li Canghao's new king ascended the throne.

But this is actually a hindsight.

Before the final, the two had only two world champions, and Da Li was still "afraid of life" at that time, and Ida Kiki, the "nemesis", so before the game, it was far from everyone's hope.

Only this time, with more than 10 world champions in Li Canghao, his status in the world is unshakable. Li Xiangping has swept the chess world in the past two years and has reached the finals with two championships and five World Championships. This has left everyone with nothing to say and has achieved "everyone's hope" before the game.

The second sentence that Li Xiangping remembered was said by Mr. Lin Haifeng. He actually didn't say anything, but said that because the final was of great importance and was actually the world's number one battle, the organizer Toyota attached great importance to it and specially invited Mr. Wu Qingyuan to serve as the final "Lihe Ren".

After Mr. Lin Haifeng and Mr. Kato left, Li Xiangping felt a sense of time and space disorder. Lao Shi and Li Canghao played chess, and Mr. Wu Qingyuan was the chief referee?

"Hehe, Brother Ding'an, you have to do it for me tomorrow. Don't let others underestimate you..."

I won’t say much nonsense. On the morning of the second day, this decisive battle that attracted all the attention of the entire Go world was about to begin.

Under the auspices of Mr. Wu Qingyuan, both sides first guessed first. In the first game, Li Canghao guessed the black chess. Since Li Xiangping was younger, before guessing first, Li Xiangping was actually sitting in the "stop position", and the "stop position" was actually the black position. Therefore, after guessing first, he exchanged seats with Da Li.

At 9:55 am Tokyo time, a large number of reporters flooded into the game room, and everyone was ready to record the opening moments of this big victory and defeat.

At 10 o'clock, Mr. Wu announced that the game had officially begun. Li Xiangping and Li Canghao bowed to each other. In the flash, Li Canghao slowly dropped his first chess piece. After participating in so many competitions, Lao Shi became more sophisticated. He did not rush to make a move. At 10:04, he signaled Li Xiangping to play the first chess game.

Li Xiangping used the most standard move gesture to fall, and after falling, he even picked it up again----

This is not a foul, and Li will not have any objection to this. Li Xiangping's move is actually more convenient for reporters to take photos. Li Xiangping's move is allowed 5 minutes before the Go game and before the reporter leaves the court.

Of course, the poss is not the point, the focus is of course the content of the chess game. For this final, both sides have been preparing for nearly a month, especially in this nearly a month, Li Xiangping actually didn't know what he gained from plug-in, and he didn't even know what Lao Shi was thinking now. Therefore, after the reporter left the court, Li Xiangping quickly got into the state----

It is the state of the bystander who is most devoted to the closest distance.

Like Li Xiangping, of course, there are still many people who want to know what this game can be played, so from the beginning of this game today, there were crowds of people in the next battle room.

Today's game speed is not fast or slow. When it was almost a little 11 o'clock in the morning, I played more than 20 moves in the overall game. So in the 3-hour slow chess of each side, this speed is very normal during the layout stage.

At the beginning of this game, both sides actually played a normal game. Whether it was Da Li or Lao Shi, there was neither a "new model" or a "new model" and there were no strange moves.

However, Li Xiangping felt a little strange.

Not only Li Xiangping, but also the chess players and even reporters in the next battle room, actually felt that the start of this game was a bit strange.

As for where the strangeness is? Perhaps the sentence Lao Nie said at around 11 o'clock in the morning is the most telling.

When the latest chess score was passed to the viewing room, when Lao Nie had seen the latest chess move played by Da Li, Lao Nie smiled and joked to others:

"Hey, who is the notator today? He won't be the black and white sides rebelling? Today, this black chess plays so much like Xiangping's move, but the white chess plays, which has a bit of Li Canghao's charm."

That's right, this is what makes people feel strange in this game. Not only is Li Xiangping in the game room this feeling, but many people in the viewing room nodded in agreement after listening to Lao Nie's words.

Especially at around 11:00 a.m., Li Canghao lost the 33rd move in the whole game, which caused everyone to discuss because it was a "sharp" move, which was the "sharp" move that Li Xiangping was inspired by Go AI and often played in the past two years.

"Hahaha, is Da Li really trying to use his own way today to give him his body?"

After seeing this game, someone asked Mr. Wu Qingyuan who had already come out of the game room, because recently, Mr. Wu often recommends this game:
Chapter completed!