On the afternoon of the second day of the Lunar New Year, Li Xiangping went to CCTV's "Big Pants" to attend this special press conference.

After arriving at the destination, Li Xiangping looked at this ugly but famous building outside, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

I haven't been here for some days.

Before the age of 20, I was a frequent visitor here. However, in the past five years, I have been here only a handful of times. Since that incident, Yang Ma rarely invited me to be a guest speaker even in live broadcasts of Go games.

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Fortunately, Li Xiangping is also a member of the sports community who has participated in the National Day reception, so he still received considerable courtesy this time.

Those who supported the press conference were his old acquaintances, Li Xiangping's Peking University alumni, and Xiao Sa from CCTV Comprehensive Channel. From this arrangement, it can be seen that CCTV still attaches considerable importance to this "Lunar New Year Cup", otherwise it would not be possible.

No such arrangement will be made.

Yang Ma still has a lot of face. Since they are the ones organizing this competition, even though it is the Chinese New Year, none of the 11 participating chess players are included. In addition, there are also celebrities in the chess world such as Chairman Wang's Garden, Elder Nie Maxiao, etc.

, the Korean Embassy in China also sent several officials including the cultural counselor to attend, making the entire press conference look quite prestigious.

After such a press conference started, there were naturally various speeches at the beginning. After finally waiting for everyone to finish speaking, when it entered the interactive session, Xiaosa's microphone was handed to Li Xiangping's mouth:

"Hello Xiangping, I haven't seen you for some time. I know that you have lost all the special ten rounds in the past three years. So are you confident this time? And I would like to ask you to make your own predictions. What do you think of this year's competition?

Isn’t it possible to end it early?”

Li Xiangping smiled slightly after hearing this. The reason why little Sabei asked this was because compared with previous years, this year's competition has made a major reform.

In the past, in order to take care of the interests of sponsors, it was stipulated that a full ten games must be played. But this time since it was Yang Ma who came forward to intervene, the ancient system was restored:

As long as one side wins 4 games and demotes the other side, the game will be automatically terminated.

In other words, if Li Xiangping directly scores 4-0 or 5-1, then there will be no need to play later, the game will end, and the game prize money will be owned by him alone, and the alliance team will only get a pitiful appearance.

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And such a rule is actually the reason why South Korea's big and small Lee is willing to come this time.

Because compared with the previous games, there is another change in this special Juban chess, that is, the order of appearance of the alliance team is fixed.

Among the 10 players on the world team, last year's seven world champions are considered natural players, while Kong Erjie and South Korea's big and small Lee are considered special invitees.

Then according to the order of last year's world champions, the seven world champions came up one by one. When these people were all finished, it was the turn of the three specially invited players.

So according to this arrangement, South Korea's big and small Lee will just make the finale.

Based on the experience of the previous three years, since Li Xiangping has not won yet, when the game reaches that stage, the players of the alliance will not have much pressure.

Anyway, there is no longer the pressure of relegation, and you can earn a lot of bonuses if you win. Why not enjoy such a competition?

Faced with Xiao Sa's inquiry, Li Xiangping replied tactfully:

"Haha, Brother Sa, you have posed a difficult problem for me. How can a Go game be so predictable? If I had to say, I guess I will play 10 games this time."

"What if I'm dissatisfied?"

Li Xiangping continued to smile, and then said confidently:

"If you are dissatisfied, then I believe that I will not be demoted this time."

According to this year's rules, if the bets are not full this time, then one team must be demoted, either Li Xiangping or the alliance team.

So after hearing Li Xiangping's answer, Xiao Sa glanced at him in surprise:

"Haha, is Xiangping so confident this time?"

Li Xiangping continued to smile: "I still have a little confidence, because I said last year that I feel that I have improved again and my understanding of Go is deeper. Now I am not as easy to deal with as I was last year."

"LOL, really……"

Since it was an interaction, of course it was impossible to just catch Li Xiangping talking non-stop, so Xiao Sa started to ask other chess players questions.

Maybe it was Li Xiangping's big words that aroused everyone even more, especially South Korea's Li Xiangping. He directly confronted Li Xiangping tit for tat, saying that if he really didn't have to play this time, I believe the team that would be relegated would definitely not be World United.

The tit-for-tat confrontation before the game is just to increase the topic and heat of the game. What kind of result will be shown in the end? Of course, you have to see the truth behind it.

On the second day, which is the third day of the Lunar New Year, this enhanced version of the special tenth episode officially begins.

The vanguard sent by the World Team is none other than Jiang Weijie, the first world champion born last year, who is also known online as "Bloodthirsty Madman".

The schedule this time is also relatively tight. Since it is named the "Lunar New Year Cup", of course it must be completed during the Chinese New Year period.

The competition started on the third day of the third grade and ended on the fifteenth day. There were 10 games of chess arranged in thirteen days. There were only three rest days in the whole process. This was still a test for Li Xiangping's physical strength.

As for the first opponent, Mr. Xiaojiang, judging from his real history, he seems to be a typical example of "debut is the peak".

The championship he won in 2013 was his first time reaching the World Series finals, and it was also his only championship.

However, after that, he was never able to perform in the international market, let alone a champion, and he never made it to the finals.

Let alone the finals, it seems that the number of times he has made it to the semi-finals again is only a handful.

However, despite this, Li Xiangping did not dare to underestimate his opponent because of this.

After all, judging from the situation in his past life and this life, Xiao Jiang is at the peak of his personal career.

In Li Xiangping's memory, as a young player during this period, in addition to winning the "LG Cup" once, he seemed to have also won the domestic "Celebrity" title twice, especially in one of them.

When he defeated Kong Erjie, one of the games he won was so beautiful that Li Xiangping is still impressed to this day.

In addition to this reason, Xiao Jiang, whose online name is "Bloodthirsty Madman", is a master of combat. His chess style is murderous and powerful. To be honest, playing 2-piece chess like this is actually better than that kind of even-handed chess.

Wind is more difficult to deal with.

Especially if Xiaojiang has just become the world champion and is full of energy, this type of chess player will be even more difficult to deal with.

In the first game, the high-spirited classmate Xiao Jiang really caused a lot of trouble for Li Xiangping.

Especially in the middle game, around 80 moves in the game, Xiao Jiang showed off an extremely beautiful and classic tetsuji move. The offense and defense around his tetsuji move became the key to the outcome of the game.

There was an episode in this. During the competition, when Li Xiangping saw his opponent showing off that tetsuji move, he was stunned and felt like he couldn't laugh or cry.

There is no other reason, because this step of hand tendon is a commonly used technique for dogs in later generations, and in the previous column of "Changing the Middle Game", Li Xiangping once spent a considerable length of time introducing this step of hand tendon in great detail.

Let me tell you when this technique can be used and when it is not suitable, and what conditions must be met to use this technique.

It started today, just now, when classmate Xiao Jiang used the technique that he had analyzed in detail, which made Li Xiangping feel like he shot himself in the foot.

The move that the young general just played is called "Erluto".

Speaking of "Erluto", in fact, human Go before dogs was also very common. For example, the very famous "Erluto" was said on "Worry-Free Corner". This was a very classic way of playing Go in the past.

, and often serve as examples of “trying things out”.

However, an interesting phenomenon is that in the past, human Go's "two-way players" often appeared at the corners of the chessboard, and not many appeared on the edges of the chessboard.

Well, of course there are Erlutos that appear on the edge of the chessboard, but they are rare.

Perhaps it is precisely because of the scarcity that in the past human Go games, once the "Erluto" on the side was established, many of them would be passed down as masters.

For example, when Mr. Eio Sakata played against the old master Hideyuki Fujisawa, Sakata played a very unique "bench support".

That's also considered a one-step, two-way approach.

As for Sakata's move, in the past when humans selected the top ten Go players, his move would have been selected. If it had not been selected, the authority of that version of the "Top Ten players" would have been questioned.

Another example is the match between Gu Dali and Li Shishi in real history. Gu Dali also made a clever move of "two-way support".

Gu Dali's two-step plan was directly praised as "the master of straight-line calculation of up to 70 steps."

But things were different in the dog age, and more and more Erluto appeared around.

Especially when faced with the "two-two" pattern on the edge of the chessboard, dogs often use the "two-way support" as a conventional weapon to deal with this kind of chess shape.

Precisely because we often see dogs playing like this, after research, Li Xiangping introduced this method very systematically in "The Changing Middle Game". He tried to summarize the rules and then promote it in human Go.

Li Xiangping just didn't expect that he would encounter someone using this method to deal with him today.

Faced with this method, Li Xiangping fell into deep thought at that time.

Because he knew very well that although he was very familiar with this method, it was still a "dog move", and one of the characteristics of the dog move was that it was extremely domineering and very difficult to deal with.

For example, it is also the "Erluto". Human "Erluto" is often a trial and error, and contains an Eastern philosophy.

But the dog’s “secondary care” is different.

In other words, Xiaojiang’s step of “second-way support” today is different.

This is not a trial move, but a very destructive move. As long as there is a slight deviation in the response, the entire situation will collapse immediately.

How should we deal with this move?

Unknowingly, Li Xiangping remembered a game of chess that he had studied.

That's a game of dog fighting,

It is a game between the third-generation dog "Afa Yuan" and the second-generation dog "Master".

In that game of chess, the third-generation dog also made a move of "two-way support" to deal with the second-generation dog.

However, that game of chess was lost by the third generation dog, and it was one of the only 19 games it lost.

Moreover, Li Xiangping also noticed that in the chess records he had read or could remember, as long as the machine played the "two-way support" on the side, no matter whether it was a foreign dog or a native dog, he would basically win the game.
Chapter completed!