The competition date was finally approaching. Li Xiangping set out from his hometown alone, took several trains, and finally arrived at the competition location of Shencheng.

"Xiangping, is here?"

"Hey, why do I feel like I haven't seen you for a few months? Xiangping seems to have gained weight."

"Yes, yes, not only have you gained weight, but you also seem to have grown a little taller."

After all, because of the extraordinary times, the entire arena seems relatively deserted. Apart from the necessary organizers and staff, Li Xiangping didn't even see many reporters. Of course, these organizers and staff are senior people in the circle, such as Lao Wang, the president of the Chess Academy, the president of the competition, and Zhang Wendong, the director of the competition department of the Chess Academy, etc.

After seeing Li Xiangping, everyone came over and greeted him intimately, and they all said that Li Xiangping was "fat".

Li Xiangping thought it was of course. He was raised by his grandparents for several months. How could he be worthy of the two old men if he didn't gain weight?

"Hello, Mr. Jin."

Li Xiangping just spoke perfunctorily to the others, but he greeted Lao Jin with a smile.

"You boy, hahahaha..."

Lao Jin patted Li Xiangping on the shoulder intimately, but he didn't say anything else, everything was indifferent.

In extraordinary times, everything is simple. After other chess players arrive, the organizer does not hold any other ceremonies. Anyway, the accommodation competitions are all in the same hotel. When everything is settled, just wait for the competition to start.

On the second day after Li Xiangping arrived in Shencheng, the 16th "Fujitsu Cup" quarter-finals officially began.

Before entering the arena, Li Xiangping joked with his cheat: "Haha Brother Ding'an, I've tried two swords together for two months, and suddenly I'm going to let me go alone again. I don't know if I can get used to it today."

"Young friend Xiangping is joking. I haven't touched the chess piece for so long. I think you have been eager to try it out and want to have a big fight today."

Li Xiangping smiled and stopped talking. The real situation was indeed like this. I haven't had a face to face with people for so long. Now Li Xiangping is indeed a little hungry. He is really eager to try it. He wants to see how good he can achieve himself by practicing "two swords" and how he can do it alone.

At 9:50 am, Li Xiangping had nearly 10 minutes in advance and he had already sat in his position. Three minutes later, "Cui Du" with a baby face walked in. Looking at his baby face, Li Xiangping had always been unable to figure out one thing.

In real history, Xiao Cui seems to be called "Old Man Cui" by many people, but how did this nickname come from? Is his appearance? This style is obviously wrong, it refers to his chess style? This seems even more wrong, so Li Xiangping really doesn't understand, how did the nickname "Old Man" be called? Is this guy good at pushing a cart?

Just as he was thinking about this, Lao Jin came in. He hosted the two sides to guess first. Li Xiangping guessed the black chess game. At 10 o'clock in the morning, Lao Jin announced that the game had officially begun. Li Xiangping began to concentrate. It was the real "focusing". He drove all other messy ideas out of his mind, leaving only the previous chessboard. After officially entering the game, he made the first move in this game.

There was not much new beginning. At the beginning of today, Li Xiangping used his personal favorite method of "star position, small melody two high jump to the angle" method.

Although this "Xiaomu Erjian's high jump angle" is also considered a "dog trick", since last year's "Nongxin Cup", Li Xiangping frequently used this method and won several games by him using this method, this routine is no longer new.

At that time last year, Li Xiangping could even regard this trick as a "king bomb". However, until now, this chess shape has long been familiar with everyone, and the local related offense and defense have been studied more thoroughly by the professional Go community. Therefore, for today's professional chess players, this start has actually completely become a big deal.

It was precisely because it was the beginning of the main road goods that at the beginning of the competition, the people in the laboratory seemed a little idle. Lao Jin happened to slip back to the viewing room, so everyone listened to his magical conversation about the glorious deeds of "living and dead" in Lao Tyim.

".........Ah, do you know who was the one who put two sons in front of Xiangping that day? Later I asked clearly that it was Qiu Jun, and it was Qiu Jun. If you want to talk about Qiu Jun, his talent may be slightly worse than that of Gu Kong and the other two, but after all, he is also a powerful person. He is the best among their group, but even someone like him is... Tsk tsk, Li Xiangping is really amazing..."

Speaking of this, Lao Jin shook his head repeatedly, as if until now, he couldn't believe that Li Xiangping had really moved the two sons of "Brother Niu": "I'm not afraid to tell everyone the truth. When Xiangping just came out, I still disagree with some of the media's statements, saying that they are rare in a century? Where are so many geniuses in this world that have not been seen in a century? But now it seems that the media's statement is not too exaggerated, but it seems too modest. How old is Xiangping now? It seems that he has just passed 16? He is so strong at such an age...tsk tsk tsk..."

Speaking of this, Lao Jin shook his head in a series of ways, as if at this moment, he could no longer find suitable words to describe Li Xiangping's awesomeness.

It is obvious that the two games of "seven or eight" games of "seven or eight" completely suppressed Lao Jin. It is normal to think about it carefully. What many people don't know is that "Brother Niu" himself is also a master of chess. In addition, he always refuses anyone to play chess, so chess staff like Lao Jin often have the opportunity to ask Brother Niu for a few games.

In the past, their chess share was basically swinging between 2 and 3. However, Lao Jin knew that if Brother Niu played with him seriously, he would not be able to stop him by only 2 and 3, and 3 would be a good outcome.

However, a person who can give him three sons has to put two sons in front of another person. What's more excessive is that that guy is still so young and just turned 16 this year, and it seems that there is still a lot of room for improvement.

Needless to say, you can imagine how much impact a person like Lao Jin would suffer.

Compared with Lao Jin, the two professional chess players, Wang Lunan and Zhang Wendong, have not been so big.

This is the first time that Dean Wang doesn't come on this very often. Although he was very surprised when he first finished listening, he had no experience on the spot and had never seen the two chess game records, so his feelings were not that deep:

"Haha, really? Xiangping actually won a set? Not bad, it's good, at least it means he hasn't been idle for a while, which makes me feel much more at ease about today's game."

Seeing Dean Wang so lightly, Lao Jin was a little anxious. Just as he was about to speak again, Zhang Wendong seemed to see through his thoughts and smiled and interjected:

"Haha, you must have heard of the "Honinbo plus I" in Japan back then, so sometimes you can't take things like Ziqi too seriously. Of course, there is nothing to say about Xiangping's talent. He may be like Mr. Wu, but if you want to say that he can make two sons of Niu now...haha."

The so-called "Honinbo plus I" is a Go allusion in the last century. At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a four-stage professional in Japan called Inoue Takahei. This person's chess chess is very awesome. How awesome is it?

The number one player in Japan's Go at that time was Hideya, which was the only nine dan at that time and the last one in Japan's hereditary Honinbo. Hideya could give up 4 sons, Takahei Inoue could give up 5 sons, and if Hideya could give up 5 sons, Takahei Inoue could give up 6 sons.

It is precisely because of this that over time, this Inoue Takahei Fourth Duan has won the reputation of "Honinbo plus 1".

However, making Ziqi Kung Fu awesome does not mean that it is also good for Ziqi Kung Fu. Take this "Honinbo Plus I" as an example. If he meets Xiuya himself, he must honestly put two of them first.

In real history, the two of them have really given up, and judging from the information they left behind, Mr. Honinbo plus I had almost no win in the case of two sons being transferred.

Now that Zhang Wendong and Jiu Duan have brought up this allusion, he will certainly understand his meaning very well. As a veteran in the circle, Lao Jin also understands this meaning in seconds, so he did not continue to talk about it.

Just then, the chess score was released, so Dean Wang quickly changed the topic:

"Hehe, come, come, watch chess now. Today I want to take a good look. I haven't seen each other for 2 months. What new skills did Xiangping practice in no......"

When Wang Lunan said this, it was actually 11 o'clock in the morning. It had been more than an hour since the start of the competition and more than 30 moves were made.

At this time, Dean Wang not only did not see any "new kung fu" of Li Xiangping, but instead his opponent's chess style characteristics were fully displayed in this chess record.

What are the characteristics of "Cui Du"? Of course, it is his attack characteristics like a tangled snake. When he was still playing more than 20 moves, "Old Man Cui" seemed to have found such an opportunity. He aimed at a black chess piece that had not yet been completely settled and immediately launched a straight line attack. Now, the first frontal contact battle on the chessboard has begun.

"Hehe, young people are in good health. They have already practiced so early..."

Although Cui Du has shown his own characteristics, at this time, no one is worried about Li Xiangping.

Because in everyone's opinion, this style of fighting violence with tit-for-tat is exactly the characteristic of Li Xiangping's chess style. And last year, he used this method to beat Cui Du in a game. Since this is the case, of course no one would be worried about Li Xiangping.

Even at this time, no outsider found this strange.

The reason why we emphasize "outsiders" is because there is also a "inner" that is a little strange at this time.

Of course, this "insider" is Lao Shi.

It was soon 12 o'clock noon, and the total area was less than 50 hands in the morning, and a large frontal contact battle had just begun.

Li Xiangping walked out of the game room and Lao Shi's voice rang:

"Hehe, my friend Xiangping, why... I'm playing this trick today, it's not like your usual chess game."

"I know, this is your chess path,"

Li Xiangping smiled and replied to his plug-in: "You don't know Brother Ding'an. I've been holding it in for two months, so I'm extremely hungry and eager to have a head-on battle with my opponent. Since that's the case, of course I have to use the tricks that Brother Ding'an is good at."
Chapter completed!