A week after returning to the capital, Li Xiangping participated in the round of siege again.

This time, Lao Shi still played the game, and it was still a fast chess stand. This time his opponent was not strong. He met a chess player who ranked behind 50th in the rank. Therefore, there is nothing to say about such a game. Lao Shi almost encountered much resistance and successfully won the opponent.

And other teammates are also very good, with a big score of 3 points to 1, ensuring that the team continues to lead the standings.

However, the second-ranked Shancheng team was even more ruthless. They simply came 4-0 in this round. Although their big points were still 3 points behind, the "game points" had already caught up.

In the encirclement, the so-called "game division" refers to the total number of games won by 4 chess players.

You can't underestimate this thing. If the two teams have exactly the same big points in the end, then the "game points" will determine the ranking of the two teams.

This round is the 17th round of the League this year. So with 5 rounds left, it’s hard to say who can laugh to the end.

But although there is still suspense to the title, Li Xiangping's performance of 16 wins and 1 loss made everyone look at him.

After so many years of playing in the League, such a high winning rate is extremely rare (except for a substitute player who only plays one or two games a year and wins 100%). It is precisely because of this that "who can stop Li Xiangping?" has once again become a hot topic.

Of course, the "hot topics" mentioned here are limited to the inside of the wing, which are mainly circulated among the coaches of each team. Li Xiangping himself does not care about this, and most non-senior chess fans do not care about this.

After all, international events are more attractive than the AFC. Nowadays, the world competitions are getting better and more events will come one by one. So at this time, the topic of "Golden Slam" has been frequently mentioned by many chess fans again.

Of course, it is only at the level of "frequent mention" and has not yet "hot discussion" on major websites.

After all, in the past two years, Li Xiangping had the opportunity to achieve this supreme honor, but unfortunately he failed to achieve it in the end.

And this year, due to the additional "Yingshi Cup" and considering that Li Xiangping was qualified for the "Asian Cup" for the first time, the difficulty of the "Golden Slam" must have been much greater, so great that it could not be "hot discussion".

But if we have to say that, although the "hot discussion" has not been formed, it does not mean that everyone is not paying attention, especially for this year's "Asian Cup", which is not only the first international event to decide the championship this season, but also Li Xiangping's first participation in the competition. Therefore, as the competition approaches, this short, flat and fast event has quickly become a hot topic in the chess world recently.

The "Asian Cup" was held in the three countries of China, Japan and South Korea in turn. This year it was China's turn. On July 25, TV gathered, participated in the opening ceremony and the first round of lottery draw.

The seven chess players are Li Xiangping's 9th dan and Kong Erjie's 7th dan, Zhang Xu's 9th dan and Sanmura Zhibao's 9th dan, and South Korea's 10th dan, Lao Cao, and the "young hero" Song Taikun.

Among them, Da Li is the defending champion, so he not only automatically qualifies for the competition, but also has a bye in the first round.

The first round of 3 chess draws quickly. Kong Erjie drew the 9th dan of the Mimura 3, Zhang Xu drew Song Taikun away, and finally left Lao Cao to Li Xiangping.

When shaking hands with Lao Cao, Li Xiangping felt a lot of emotion. Thinking about 4 years ago, Lao Cao was still at the peak of his personal life. At that time, he was recognized as the second person in the world chess world, and his difficulty in international competitions was second only to Da Li. In addition, Li Xiangping participated in the World Championship for the first time, and Lao Shi encountered the first opponent in the "this competition" was Lao Cao.

However, as the saying goes: Since ancient times, famous generals are like beauty, and they are not allowed to see white hair on earth. Lao Cao is really old now. He was still very good at playing the same year before yesterday, but it was already very difficult last year. It is difficult to see him in the semi-finals of the World Championships.

And this year, he has retreated completely in domestic and international competitions and can only occasionally play a big game in such fast chess competitions.

Not only that, Li Xiangping even had a feeling: with the rapid rise of young Korean chess players and the increasing popularity of the "dog moves" he brought, it should be difficult for Lao Cao to appear in the World Championship.

At the very least, it should be difficult for me to meet this "spade k" in the Go world in the main competition.

Because a chess player like Lao Cao has his own pride, for example, in real history, Lao Cao never despises participating in any qualifiers.

Since he never participates in the qualifiers and his research on dog tricks is not as good as that of young people, he can of course only go further and further in the international arena.

After the lottery is over, the competition will begin the next day, and TV is also one of the organizers, so there is a live broadcast for each round of competition.

tv picked Li Xiangping vs Lao Cao without thinking about it, and the TV studio played the game.

The result of the game was nothing to say, and there was not even much suspense. At around 3:30 pm, the overall game was 245 moves. Li Xiangping, who held the black, won the game steadily with a 4 and a half goal advantage, thus entering the next round.

No one was surprised by Li Xiangping's winning chess. What was strange was his winning chess, because in today's game, Li Xiangping did not use any dog ​​tricks, and he really didn't have a single step! He was completely using the classic routines of human chess players in the past to deal with Lao Cao.

The person responsible for explaining this game on TV was Lao Nie. After watching Li Xiangping's performance, Lao Nie was depressed at that time------

Because Lao Nie has been studying the "Mysterious Sequence" during this period, he feels that he has already gained a lot of experience and is preparing to perform on TV. However, Li Xiangping's approach today almost caused Lao Nie to suffer internal injuries, and he seriously doubted whether he had studied fake dog tricks.

Not only Old Nie is strange, but even the plug-in Lao Shi is a little strange:

"Hehe, my friend Xiangping, why are you... why do you suddenly do this?"

"Brother Ding'an, do you still remember the story I told you."

"story?"

"It was nearly a hundred years ago that Hideya, the last celebrity who represented the old era of the Japanese chess world, retired. During his retirement, he passed through layers of selections, and finally a chess player named Miki Kitani was qualified to play this game. Brother Ding'an, you must know that at that time, Miki Kitani and your junior Wu Quan studied the new layout. The epoch-making masterpiece "New Layout Revolution" was jointly signed by the two. In that game of retirement, Miki Kitani completely rejected the new layout and used the most traditional Japanese Go method to deal with his predecessors."

"Haha, I understand."

Li Xiangping smiled and said, "Haha, I have known it for a long time, Brother Ding'an must have understood it as soon as he heard it..."

"Well, I now know that Xiangping's little friend is not only talented, but also......"

"What else?"

"I don't know how to describe this. I can only use your current words. Xiangping Xiaoyou seems to be a little sulky and a little pretentious..."

Li Xiangping looked dark at the time: "Get out!"

After he couldn't communicate with his plug-in, Li Xiangping started watching the other two chess games. Kong Erjie's chess game was nothing good. Don't look at his opponent Jiudan, he was only seventh chunk, but his strength was obviously much higher than that of seventh chunk.

At the end of the Li Xiangping game, the game was actually almost the same, and Kong Er won the game as if it were a foregone conclusion.

Li Xiangping’s focus is on watching Zhang Xu vs. Song Taikun’s game. Both of them are considered to have a deeper understanding of dog tricks, so Li Xiangping wants to take a good look.

After watching for about 10 minutes, reporter Zhang came over:

"Xiangping, how about it?"

"Well, it seems that the Japanese team won't be wiped out in the first round."

"Oh? In this way, the Korean team will be wiped out... No, they still have a big Lee, so I don't know who he will meet after the lottery draw."

With nearly 200 games in one game, Li Xiangping's situation was quite reliable. Half an hour later, all the first rounds were over, and it was Kong Erjie and Zhang Xu who entered the next round.

The schedule of the "Asian Cup" is short and fast, and the total is only 4 days.

There was no rest between the first two rounds, and only after reaching the finals, there was a rest day in the middle. Even after that, even this rest day was cancelled. Therefore, the draw for the semi-finals was immediately held on the night after the game.

Big Li!

As soon as Li Xiangping stepped up, he pulled Li away from the first round of bye.

This was also after half a year that he met Da Li again in the international arena.

Of course there is nothing strange about this. After all, with the current level of the two, it is highly likely that they will encounter several times a year. If they don’t encounter it once a year, it will be a real strange thing.

Therefore, after seeing the two of them holding each other, Zhang Da reporter had no other feelings, but rather he was sighing that Li Xiangping passed Lao Cao first and then met Da Li:

"Tsk tsk the former master-apprentice Iron Curtain, Cao Li master-apprentice Iron Curtain! This combination made many heroes frightened. Although Xiangping has long broken the myth of master-apprentice Iron Curtain in recent years, why did I feel that master-apprentice Iron Curtain this time? What we believed in before was a vulnerable myth..."

Since it is Li Xiangping vs. Big Li, TV still chose this game for live broadcast, and the explainer chose Lao Nie.

The only thing I played with was that - well, maybe I was tired of watching "male and female matching". This time I chose Gu Dali and Lao Nie to match.

The next afternoon, the game officially started, and the game was still played with Li Xiangping.

After only a dozen moves at the beginning, Old Nie was happy, not because of anything else, because Li Xiangping seemed to have returned to normal today, he started to make new moves.

Especially the recent change, which is just what has just been studied in the "Mysterious Sequence Plate"-----

A "dog move" derived from the traditional, classic, human Go routine.

When you encounter such an opportunity to show off, you will certainly not miss it:

"Haha Dali," Lao Nie pushed his glasses:

"What do you think about Xiangping's "Xiao Feifei Fei"..."
Chapter completed!