Korean broadcaster TV, which is often called KBS, is the most authoritative and influential TV media in South Korea.

At this time, a reporter from KBS was standing at the gate of the Korean Chess Institute, introducing the Fujitsu Cup to the camera, and said:

"In this year's Fujitsu Cup, we have 4 chess players from South Korea. The most popular one is naturally Li Changmin's fifth dan. Today, his opponent is Lin Haifeng's 9th dan from the Japan Chess Academy. I believe Li Wu Duan will definitely win! There are three chess players, Cao Xunzhe, Xu Xianzhu, and Liu Changhe. Among them, Cao Xunzhe's 9th dan will be bye in the first round, and will only be on the court in the second round three days later..."

In 1993, thanks to Cao Xunzhe and Xu Xianzhu won the 1st and 2nd Yingshi Cup championships one after another. In addition, Li Changmin emerged from the new force, many chess fans appeared among the Korean folk.

At this time, there were differences among the people watching the game in a chess hall in Seoul:

"I said, I'd better watch Chihara Hiroshi's game?"

"What are you talking about? You must watch Li Changmin's game!"

"Haoshi Chihara is a turbulent figure in the Japanese chess world this year!"

"Our Li Changmin's fifth rank is not bad either. At least Chihara Haozhi hasn't won the world championship yet!"

"You can't say that. Maybe Chihara Hiroshi will be our Korean chess player's archenemy in the future, so you still need to understand it in advance!"

...

Finally, the owner of the chess hall stood up and said:

"Today, Hiroshi Chihara's opponent is just an American chess player, while Li Changmin's opponent is Tianyuan Lin Haifeng from Japan, so it's more interesting to see the Li Wuduan's game..."

...

However, the players of the Korean Chess Academy do not think so.

Half an hour before the start of the game, a group of people were already waiting in the game room.

"The opponent is Mike Raymond. It seems to be a game without suspense!" a chess player sighed.

Another said:

"In the past six months since Chihara Hiroshi entered the section, he has played a total of 139 games and lost only one game. With such a record, who can create suspense as an opponent?"

The chess players present couldn't help but remain silent.

Ten seconds later, a young chess player said:

"Don't we still have Li Changmin's fifth throne? Li Wuduan's condition is surprisingly good this year. He has won 12 domestic titles. I think there is still hope!"

"Forget it, stop sillying yourself. You have also studied Qianyuan Haozhi's chess record. That guy can still gain a huge advantage when facing the 'Six Super'! I admit that Li Wuduan is very strong, but there is still a distance from this level!"

"I haven't compared it yet, how do you know?"

“Isn’t this very obvious?”

"You traitor who is traitor!"

...

Not to mention the arguments in the laboratory, in the game room, Hiroshi Chihara and Mike Raymond were already sitting on both sides of the chess table.

At noon, Hiroshi Chihara knew about his opponent to Takayuki Sakai.

The other party comes from California, USA. He came to Japan at the age of 14. He has achieved good results in the newcomer Wang Zhan and NEC Cup, especially in the Fujitsu Cup two years ago, which entered the quarterfinals for the first time.

The referee introduced the rules of the game in Korean. Of course, Hiroshi Chihara did not understand, but because he had received instructions before, when he noticed the referee's gesture, he immediately said:

"Please give me some advice!"

"Chanyuan Chudu, please give me some advice!"

...

The Fujitsu Cup match adopts Japanese rules, and both sides have a regular time of 3 hours and a 5-minute countdown.

Four hours later, Mike Raymond put down two pieces in the lower right corner, indicating that he would admit defeat.

However, not only did he not seem frustrated, he reviewed and asked with great interest.

In fact, before the game was going on, to be precise, when he saw that his opponent was Hiroshi Chihara, he had no expectations for the result.

He did not believe that he could create a miracle of this level, after all, he was a mortal.

"So that's the case." Mike Raymond sighed, not feeling regretful.

In his opinion, he still played the same trick as before, and he did not make many mistakes, he was just a simple chess power crushing.

"By the way," he said to Chihara, "My two friends asked you to meet at the hotel tomorrow morning. As for the time, your arrangement shall prevail."

Chihara Hiroshi asked:

"Do you stay in the same hotel?"

After getting the affirmative answer, he waved his hand and said:

"Since that's the case, you don't have to wait until tomorrow. Let's meet tonight."

"Is that OK? It won't disturb you to rest, right?"

"Don't worry."

After confirming the incident, the two parties immediately exchanged room numbers and agreed to the time at 8 pm.

After confirming this, Mike Raymond said goodbye immediately, while Chihara Hiroshi stood up and walked out of the game room, but he saw Takayuki Sakai at the door of the game room at the corner.

The other party held his arms and stood at the door. There were also many people standing next to him. Most of them were chess players at the headquarters of the Korean Chess Academy, and a small number were chess players who had already participated in the competition.

"Teacher Sakai." Chihara Hiroshi was a little curious and shouted.

When the people next to him saw that it was him, they all took a step aside.

"Chenhara, you're here." Sakai Takayuki just turned his head and looked at him, and his eyes returned to the game room.

When Chihara Hiroshi looked into the back, it was a match between Lin Haifeng and Li Changmin.

With just one glance, Chihara Hiroshi found that the chess game had reached the official stage and was about to end.

Takayuki Sakai said softly:

"The situation in Lin Jiuduan is very bad. Compared with Li Changmin, the handling of the official stage is indeed worse."

Qianhara Hiroshi did not respond. Although he did not see the whole chess game, from the market perspective, Lin Haifeng should have been at a disadvantage in the mid-market stage, and the official stage only further widened the gap.

Of course, Lin did not have any problems with the finale, but it was just pale in comparison.

Hiroshi Chihara sighed in his heart:

He is worthy of being the "Stone Buddha" who is famous for his official skills in his later generations. If he came, it would be like this.

But one thing is-

He looked at the chess pieces on the chessboard. He only took a look at the chess player and had already roughly understood the steps of playing chess.

It is obvious that for Li Changmin, compared to his official stage, the start and mid-season stages were not as perfect as possible.

The official stage of this chess game was played for an hour and a half, until Lin Haifeng's regular time was over, and the game was finally over.

The two sat next to the chessboard, waiting quietly for the result.

The referee and the recorder each plan, then put it together to confirm, and finally the result is obtained-

Li Changmin won seven and a half eyes when he held the black.

In an instant, the Korean chess players around him cheered.

...

For the Japanese delegation, today's match result was not even satisfactory:

In addition to Lin Haifeng, Yoshio Ishida also lost the game, and his targets were Korean chess players.
Chapter completed!