Go Legend

   Chapter 163 Vietnam Stream

  The final "Eve Festival", when Li Xiangping walked into the venue accompanied by Wang Lunan, Ma Xiaofei and others, he immediately became the focus of the audience, and almost everyone's eyes and reporters' cameras were aimed at him.

This situation is of course quite normal. Think about how old Nie was called "Whirlwind" after winning more than a dozen games in a row back then, and Jeremy Lin was called "crazy" after winning more than a dozen games in a row in the NBA. So what about Li Xiangping? Just a breakdown of his record since his debut, especially in the international arena:

Li Xiangping made his official debut in the "Samsung Cup" qualifier in 2000. So far, he has won one championship and entered another World Series final. In addition, Li Xiangping participated in 5 events. The World Series, without exception, all made it to the quarterfinals.

If you count it carefully, you will find that he has only lost 2 games in the World Series so far, which is the 2 games he lost to Li Changhao in the "Samsung Cup" final last year. "One" game, it can be considered that Li Xiangping actually maintained a complete victory in the international arena.

Two years after his debut, under the age of 15, he has maintained a complete victory in the international arena. With such an excellent record, even if he has surpassed the previous two, at least he is not too much. Then such Li Xiangping, It is natural that he is being sought after a little more now. To be honest, if it weren't for the hindrance of his domestic record, he might have been deified by now.

   "Xiang Ping, you're back, we met again, can we have a brief interview now?"

   "Hello Aunt Meizawa"

   Leaving aside how Li Xiangping is popular, let’s just talk about the other protagonist of the final, Liu Changhe. The Korean delegation entered the venue earlier than the Chinese delegation, and the number of the Korean delegation was even larger. The reason for this is because, compared with other world competitions, the "Fujitsu Cup" has a special feature, that is, at the same time as the finals, there is also a contest for third place. The defeated Lao Cao and Xiao Li also came to Tokyo this time.

   Seeing that since Li Xiangping came in, Da Liu's eyes have never left him, Lao Cao smiled and said to him:

   "How about advocating, do you have confidence in tomorrow's game?"

After listening to Lao Cao's words, Liu Changhe gave a wry smile: "I have no confidence, how can I have confidence in this game? I have never won anyone, but even Cang Hao admired his chess, saying that he played a lot of games. Fa, it may be regarded as opening another door to the game of Go, it is incredible, how can such a freak emerge in China.”

   After listening to Da Liu's words, Lao Cao nodded in agreement; "That's right, this one is indeed a monster."

Of course, Lao Cao’s empathy is very understandable. Since Li Xiangping’s debut, he has actually played the most with Korean chess players, especially the “New Four Heavenly Kings” in South Korea, Lao Cao Da Li Da Liu Xiaoli. In the past two years, these four have played against Li Xiangping, and they have all suffered under him, so it is not an exaggeration to say that Li Xiangping is stepping on the positions of these four.

In addition to this, there is another reason, that is, things like Go will not deceive people, whether it is Li Xiangping's subversion of the "Great Avalanche", or his later "starting point three or three", and his this year's These novel and rational tricks that came out may not be unusual in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the eyes of experts like Lao Cao Daliu, of course, it is different. The higher the level, the more shocked you will be when you see these moves. It is no exaggeration to say "opened another door of Go".

   After the two sighed "Li Xiangping is a monster", Lao Cao said to Liu Changhe:

   "Although I say this is a monster, but I think with his talent, I should find some weaknesses in him?"

   Hearing Lao Cao ask this question, Liu Changhe showed a strange smile:

   "I found out. I have studied with Cang Hao and others these days and found a lot of weaknesses in this person, but I am completely unsure now whether these weaknesses will be helpful for tomorrow's game."

   "Oh? How to say?"

   "Because of his weakness, it can only be found in chess records in other domestic chess battles."

   "Huh?! Is there such a thing?"

Of course, Lao Cao's doubts are not surprising. Although Lao Cao is still fighting in the front line, he is already old after all, so now he is definitely not as hard-working as a young chess player, and he has not been with Li Xiang recently. Screen met, so it was normal that he had not seen Li Xiangping's domestic chess repertoire.

   Liu Changhe didn’t explain much about this, he simply said to Lao Cao:

"Yes, to put it simply, this person's performance in domestic chess battles and international chess battles is completely different. In the world competition, he is a monster, but in their domestic chess battles, he and a Ordinary young chess players are no different, at most they are at the same level as the calves in our country, and this is what I find most strange, Cao Guoshou, what do you think is the reason for this?"

  Compared to Liu Changhe, Lao Cao, who has not studied Li Xiangping even more, can't tell the reason, so when faced with Liu's inquiry, Lao Cao said haha:

   "This, this haha, that may be because he is still young, after all, he is not yet 15 years old."

  Strictly speaking, this is of course not a particularly good reason, but it is the most reasonable explanation without knowing the truth. Therefore, after listening to Lao Cao’s words, Liu Changhe said with emotion:

   "Yeah, it's precisely because he's still young, so I must do my best to fight him tomorrow, otherwise, when he fully grows up, there may be even less chance in the future."

  Since Liu Changhe has even expressed this kind of emotion, Lao Cao certainly can't say anything else. He patted Liu Changhe on the shoulder to show his encouragement:

   "Chang He, come on, I believe in you."

Of course, Lao Cao's "I believe in you" is not completely polite. As two of the top players under Li Canghao in today's chess world, Da Liu and Lao Cao may be the most evenly matched. In real history, the two of them have a total of They met 4 times in the World Series finals, and the record was evenly divided 2-2. These, coupled with their fights in domestic chess battles, of course Lao Cao is very familiar with Liu Changhe's characteristics.

   He knows that when others say "do your best to fight", it may be just words, but Liu Changhe is different. When he says this, he can really perform at a high level in many cases.

   But what Lao Cao didn't know was that not only did he understand this characteristic of Liu Changhe, but Li Xiangping, who was a transmigrator, also knew it. This time he came to Tokyo for the competition, and he and his cheater mentioned this thing the most.

   At 9:55 Japan time the next morning, Li Xiangping stepped into the game room. While waiting for the start of the game, Li Xiangping was still explaining this matter to Lao Shi:

"Brother Ding'an, I don't need to say anything else in this game. You have also played against this person. You must know better than me about the level. The only thing you need to guard against is that this person is the number one "assassin" in the chess world today. The point is that you need to be very careful.”

   "You can rest assured, little friend Xiangping, Ding'an will save you."

   "Oh that's good then that's good."

  Li Xiangping had nothing to say. In fact, he didn't have a chance to say it even if he wanted to, because at this time, Liu Changhe's 9th dan had already come in, and with the referee's announcement, the game officially started.

By guessing first, Liu Changhe guessed black chess in this game. In the first few moves, he moved quickly and seemed to be prepared. However, in the first 5 moves, Li Xiangping had no idea about his opening. .

Because Liu Changhe chose "stars, small eyes" to start the ninth dan, Lao Shi should start with "two consecutive stars". When Black chose "hanging corners" for the 5th move, this kind of opening is one of the most popular routines this year. First, whether the next move is to form a "disguised Chinese style" or to keep a "worry-free corner", these are the most common tactics in this era.

   However, Liu Jiuduan's 7th move began to change. This move appeared on the chessboard, much beyond Li Xiangping's expectations.

It must be mentioned in particular that Liu Changhe's move Li Xiangping has not seen before. On the contrary, he is very familiar with this move, and even from a certain point of view, Li Xiangping thinks that he is very familiar with this move. The familiarity of chess may even surpass that of Liu Changhe himself.

   "Vietnamese Flow"!

   Liu Changhe's 9th dan actually made a "Vietnamese flow" start?

It is necessary to popularize science here. The so-called "Vietnamese flow" in Go is actually a variant of the "disguised Chinese flow". Narrowing the edge of the "disguised Chinese flow" is the basic type of this opening, then In order to distinguish this opening from the authentic "Chinese flow in disguise", some chess fans jokingly called this opening "Vietnamese flow".

  A veteran chess fan certainly knows why Li Xiangping was surprised, because the "Vietnamese Flow" opening had not yet appeared in this era.

In real history, this kind of opening will probably take several years to be pioneered by "Brother Niu" Qiu Jun, and then gradually become popular in the world chess world, and after the "Vietnam style" becomes popular, the authentic "disguised" The "China Stream" opposition has disappeared, and no one has done so in the World Series.

It is also necessary to mention that the popularity of the "Vietnamese style" is not long, but it is because of Go AI, because in the opening of Go AI, this kind of play is very rare, so human beings have to follow the example. As a result, in the era of Go AI, this kind of play has gradually declined.

  Li Xiangping began to feel a little worried.

And his worries are not difficult to understand. You must know that compared to other techniques, Lao Shi's layout was originally considered his weakness. From the perspective of game preparation, Li Xiangping and Lao Shi will prepare some popular openings now. Will prepare some Go AI openings with Lao Shi.

  Only like the "Vietnamese Flow", which happens to be their blank period.

   Considering the various hidden routines behind this opening, Li Xiangping suddenly had an urge, he really wanted to let himself down in the next game.

   (end of this chapter)