On the night of the competition, Li Xiangping attended the semi-final closing dinner held by the organizer, accompanied by the team leader of China and Shao Weigang.

Not long after the banquet began, the host was in Balabara, and Li Xiangping heard the leader of the team to say to him:

"Xiangping, hurry up, haha, the host asked you to go up and say a few words."

Li Xiangping looked around the venue and saw that he was getting up, Li Canghao seemed to have also gotten up at the same time. The two of them came to the host at the same time.

The host's microphone was first pointed at Li Xiangping. In fact, at this moment, all eyes of the entire venue were aimed at Li Xiangping. It is no exaggeration to say that Li Xiangping is the focus of the entire world chess world.

After all, he is still an amateur chess player. After all, the information he has released so far is that he is less than 14 years old. After all, he started from the qualifiers, defeated all the strong opponents all the way, and got to this point with a record of 10 consecutive victories.

So compared to the other protagonist in the final, Li Canghao, who is the first in the chess world today, is just like a common occurrence in winning gold and silver in the World Championships, he certainly has reason to attract more attention.

"Li...Player, congratulations on your appearance on the World Championship final stage. How do you feel when you have come to this point now?"

Perhaps it was because Li Xiangping's situation was too special, which was something that had never happened in professional Go competitions. The host didn't know what to call Li Xiangping, and he vaguely used the title of "player Li".

Li Xiangping was calm and gentle: "Hehe actually didn't feel anything. If you had to say something, you probably didn't expect it, hehe didn't expect it..."

It should be said that Li Xiangping's words are half true and half false. It must be admitted that when he decided to participate in the qualifiers, he really didn't think that Lao Shi would reach the final. However, he didn't know when it started, maybe it started with the game of defeating Lao Cao, and maybe it would be even more later. In short, with Lao Shi's progress, Li Xiangping's confidence became stronger and stronger---

The game that just ended was the moment when Li Xiangping was most confident. During the game, Li Xiangping never seemed to have thought that Lao Shi would be eliminated by Liu Changhe.

"In the final, facing the top chess in the chess world today, has Player Li ever thought about how to ask his opponent for advice?"

Listening to the host's question and looking at Li Canghao standing beside him, Li Xiangping felt a dazed in his heart. Big Li is just 25 years old now, and he is at the peak of his career. Since winning his first world championship nine years ago, he has been the number one rival of the entire Chinese Go - no! It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the nightmare of Chinese Go in this era.

Ma Xiaofei lost n consecutively under him, and Chang Hao lost n consecutively under him. Several generations of Chinese Go figures were suppressed by him and could not move. In real history, this situation will last for many years. It will take five years to break the Li Canghao myth by the magical Luo Shenzhu.

Li Xiangping smiled slightly and said to the host, today's host is another beautiful lady who doesn't know whether it is artificial or natural:

"I noticed that you just used the word "ask for advice". What I want to correct now is that I have the opportunity to play five games with Li Jiuduan this time, so I didn't come with the mentality of asking for advice."

After the translation, the host was obviously stunned: "Oh? Haha..."

Li Xiangping continued to smile and said, "I don't mean anything disrespectful to Li Jiuduan. You should know that I am 14 years old this year. I have been in Go for more than 7 years since I first came into contact with Go when I was 6 years old. Even if I have been studying Go for a regular basis, it has been nearly 5 years. I am not afraid to tell you that over the years, I have practiced the most and played the most. In fact, it is Li Jiuduan's chess. So now, I am tired of it. I don't want to learn Li Jiuduan's chess anymore. It is precisely for this reason that I don't want to hear any words like "ask for advice" anymore."

"Hahahaha..." Li Xiangping's words caused a kind laugh in the whole venue. Indeed, in today's era, if people of the age of Li Xiangping are determined to take the professional Go path, then how many of them did not grow up playing Li Canghao's chess record?

After Li Xiangping finished speaking, the microphone was handed to Li Canghao:

"This time the opponent is very special, and his chess is also very interesting..."

To be honest, Li Xiangping didn't really listen to Da Li's words seriously. Anyway, with his "Stone Buddha" personality, he doesn't have to pay too much attention to any diplomatic rhetoric he said.

The day after the competition, Li Xiangping and the Chinese delegation set off for the trip back to China. On the plane, everyone started chatting, and the leader of the Chinese team said first;

"The finals of this Samsung Cup are all held in Shanghai. The game starts on May 30th and will be held in one set the next day. If you can score 5 games, the game will end on June 7th. So Xiangping, you can prepare for the game during this period."

Shao Weigang was surprised and said, "Ah? The schedule of this time is so compact. Isn't it usually divided into two stages, several sets placed in China and several sets placed in South Korea?"

Team leader Hua nodded: "It's probably because of the last final. They changed the schedule in the last final without authorization, which made Ma Xiao lose the championship. You know that they actually value the Chinese market very much, so this time we will finalize the final schedule."

"That's it..." Shao Weigang turned his head and smiled at Li Xiangping, "But this is good, such a compact schedule, I think it is still beneficial to Xiangping. After all, Xiangping is much younger than him, Li Canghao, and being young means being in good health haha... Tsk tsk, Xiangping is not yet 14 years old now, right? It's amazing to reach the World Championship final at the age of 14. You must work hard when the final."

Team Leader Hua also smiled and said, "Yes, if I remember correctly, when Li Canghao won the first championship, he should be Xiangping's age now, but he is only a domestic title, and our Xiangping is now directly competing for the world championship, so Xiangping will do it well at that time. If he is really knocked down by then, you will be considered a new record in the world chess world. Haha, you played so well this time, but it has given us a difficult problem..."

Li Xiangping just smiled and refused to respond to their words, because he could hear that although both of them were saying good things and encouraged him, from their tone, even until now, he didn't believe that he could beat Li Canghao.

Li Xiangping himself doesn't care, he said to his plug-in:

"Brother Ding'an, do you hear that? You know why I want to rank this person before you? This is the shock of the "Red Heart A" in the chess world, so you will definitely be successful at that time."

Because he was only thinking about Li, Li Xiangping ignored the last words of Team Leader Hua. When everyone returned to the country, Li Xiangping naturally went home as soon as possible, but Team Leader Hua was immediately called back by the Chess Academy for a meeting:

"Old Hua happened to be back too. Come on, let's discuss Li Xiangping's affairs now. There is nothing else. They have already reached the World Championship finals. If they are amateur chess player, it seems a bit inappropriate..."
Chapter completed!