At ten o'clock in the morning, with the order of the chief referee, the first game of the third round of the 12th Samsung Cup World Go Championship finals officially began.
Compared with the final days of previous years, this year's final day is undoubtedly special.
The Samsung Cup has welcomed its first amateur chess player in its history. To be precise, this is the first time an amateur chess player has reached the finals in the World Go Competition.
And this amateur chess player is still a 23-year-old ‘senior’ chess player.
In addition, another option to participate in the finals is the famous chess player Lee Sedol, the founder of the zombie style.
This game attracted a lot of attention.
Chess players from China, Japan and South Korea are all looking forward to this game, and their respective positions are also different.
The Chinese chess players naturally hope that Li Jie will defeat Xiao Li and win the Samsung Cup.
The South Korean side and the Chinese side are almost the same, they both stand on the side of their own chess players.
The Samsung Cup is held at the doorstep of one's home. If an amateur chess player takes away this championship, it will be an absolute shame for the Bangzi people with strong self-esteem!
A disgrace to the country’s Go community!
As for the attitude of the Japanese side, of course they are just watching the excitement. They are the third oldest in the world anyway, so no matter who wins, it will have no impact on them.
Of course, if they had to choose a side, they would definitely side with China. They would definitely be happy to see Li Jie defeat Xiao Li and win the championship.
The reason is well known.
It is a well-known fact that Xiaobangzi and I, who had a good life as a child, did not get along, even though they had the same father.
But brothers still compete for favor, not to mention there is a lot of resentment between them.
After the chess game started, something surprising happened to all the spectators.
Xiao Li took the black lead and fell into a long test in his first move.
This is definitely an abnormal phenomenon.
Go has a history of thousands of years. Especially in modern times, Go has entered a stage of development. Generally speaking, how to play the opening game has almost become a fixed formula.
The first test was a long test, which surprised everyone.
Seeing that Xiao Li was caught in a long test, the head referee of this competition narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Xiao Li who was not doing well with interest.
This competition is particularly special. The chief referee is naturally no ordinary person. The referee for this competition is Liu Changhe, a national treasure-level chess player from Bangzi State.
The organizer invited him to serve as a referee because Liu Changhe was also a professional chess player.
Compared with those chess players who entered the professional chess world at a young age, Liu Changhe did not officially decide on his career until he was 18 years old and enter the professional chess world.
At eighteen years old, he is already an older player.
However, compared to Li Jie, Liu Changhe is still young, and his experience is not as legendary as Li Jie.
After all, Liu Changhe upgraded step by step. Unlike Li Jie, who reached his peak when he debuted, this person seemed to have jumped out of the cracks in the rocks.
By now, Li Jie's reputation has been turned upside down by those reporters.
According to interviews and surveys, this person had never been exposed to Go at all when he was a child. He did not officially come into contact with Go until he was in college.
In other words, in just four years, this person was able to compete with the world's top chess players.
The Japanese even gave Li Jie the title of 'a top chess player that is rare to see in a thousand years'.
Tick tock!
Tick tock!
Time passed slowly, and at 10:09 in the morning, Xiao Li finally made his first move.
Immediately afterwards, the chess game seemed to enter a normal rhythm, and in less than half an hour, it came to more than twenty moves.
It was Xiao Li's response that surprised the spectators.
Originally, everyone thought that the reason why Xiao Li took the exam for a long time was because he wanted to make good moves, but after more than 20 moves, the chessboard was filled with very conventional patterns, nothing special.
Liu Changhe silently looked at Xiao Li's facial expression. He was also one of the surprised people.
Xiao Li is definitely the best junior in the Go world of Bangzi Country, bar none.
He believed that Xiao Li's long exam was definitely not a waste of time, but now it seems that the long exam is meaningless.
'Maybe it's a psychological tactic?'
Liu Changhe suddenly had an idea. As the referee of the game, he must have known both sides of the game.
The Chinese chess player opposite Xiao Li is very charming!
Some enthusiastic media have made statistics. Since his debut, this Chinese chess player has never lost a single game and has a 100% winning rate. This is definitely a terrifying and shocking figure.
Although this person has participated in very few games, there are many world-class chess players and even top chess players among them.
But without exception, everyone was defeated by this person.
Anyone who knows a little bit about Go knows how terrifying such a record is.
And it seems that this person has only been exposed to Go for four years.
Four years is enough for what?
Even those talented chess players are probably still working hard to advance to the next level.
"Huh?"
"Oh!" (Korean version of "Oh my god")
Liu Changhe, who was deep in thought, was suddenly awakened by the commotion at the scene. Hearing the whispers coming from the side, his brows immediately wrinkled.
Just when he was about to exercise his power as a judge, his eyes suddenly froze.
"Axi!"
Liu Changhe unconsciously uttered a catchphrase because he saw a scene that shocked him.
Black (Xiao Li) made a bad move.
Empty point three-three!
In this era that has not yet experienced the baptism of AI, Point 33 is definitely an unconventional player.
Half a step ahead is a genius, one step ahead is a madman.
Most chess players cannot understand the significance of this move. Although Li Jie has used this move in the game, it does not seem to play a decisive role.
He reached the Samsung Cup finals as an amateur chess player. Now I don’t know how many chess players are studying Li Jie.
Xiao Li is also one of them.
This game is very special. Even if Xiao Li is not affected by the outside world, he still feels the pressure.
Therefore, one month before the competition, he began to retreat and repeatedly studied all Li Jie's past games.
The 'point three three' in one of the games aroused his interest.
At first, he also felt that this hand was evil, but the more he thought about it, the more he realized that it had a deeper meaning.
At the same time, the more he thought about it, the more powerful he felt about his opponent in the final.
The opponent has amazing calculation power. Starting from the hand of point three three, the opponent seems to have seen the middle of the game.
This kind of calculation power is simply inhuman!
Later, Xiao Li studied the back moves of Dian San San in depth, and he found that sometimes Dian San San can be a good move.
But if handled improperly, this move will definitely be an outright evil move.
As of today, Xiao Li still cannot guarantee that he can respond correctly, but he still used this move in the game.
He wanted to see how the other party would respond.
This is an attempt. Although the price is a bit high, he hopes to see new scenery more than winning or losing the game.