Up to now, the "Asia Cup" TV Rapid Chess Tournament is the only regular event that Li Xiangping still participates in.

The reason why this event is still maintained is not because Li Xiangping has a soft spot for this competition.

Because this is an international event after all, it is different from domestic "celebrity battles".

Based on the rules, the domestic "Celebrity Battle" is a challenge competition. Since it is a domestic competition, Li Xiangping can return the honorary title of "Celebrity" to the chess academy, so that they can start anew.

Also based on the rules, the defending champion of the "Asian Cup" can be exempted from selection to participate in the next competition. This made Li Xiangping feel that there was no need to give up.

Anyway, the "Asia Cup" is just a small game. The defending champion only needs to start from the semi-finals, and there are only 2 sets at most. If everyone has the ability, just beat Li Xiangping.

This is undoubtedly difficult.

Li Xiangping's current strength has been recognized by everyone, and he is unparalleled in the entire world of chess.

But his fast chess is considered to be better than his slow chess.

Li Xiangping noticed that just before the start of this "Asian Cup", South Korea's "Go" magazine also wrote a special article reviewing a game played many years ago.

It was in the second year of Li Xiangping's debut that he participated in the "Nongshim Cup" for the first time. After a six-game winning streak, he was knocked out of the ring by South Korea's deputy general Liu Changhyuk 9th Dan.

The reason why Koreans looked back on this game of chess was because they suddenly discovered that in the 10 years since Li Xiangping’s debut, he had certainly lost a lot in slow chess, and even lost twice in fan chess.

But when it comes to fast chess, whether it is the "Asia Cup" or "Nongshim Cup", or the "Agan Kiriyama Cup" and the domestic "CCTV Cup".

He has only lost that one fast chess game in 10 years.

The chess review in that review article was written by Liu Changhe Jiuduan himself.

Of course, there is not much description of the technology. Basically, the whole article is full of emotion. Liu Jiuduan is lamenting that things have changed and people have changed. Since Li Xiangping’s debut, the entire world chess world has changed drastically, and the world has completely changed.

On July 5, Li Xiangping, together with the "CCTV Cup" champion and runner-up Kong Erjie and Gu Lingyi, went to Japan to participate in the 22nd "Asia Cup" TV competition under the leadership of the national team's head coach Yu Bin Jiudan.

Go speed game.

The players representing South Korea are Dae Lee and Kang Dong-yoon. As for the host Japan, this time it is Yuta Iyama and Satoshi Yuki, a player from Kansai Ki Institute.

Li Xiangping received a bye in the first round, and the other three sets were: South Korea's Lee vs. Japan's Iyama, Kong Erjie vs. Jiang Dongyun, and Ku Lingyi vs. Japan's Satoshi Yuki.

While watching from the sidelines, unlike Yu Tou who paid attention to the two games involving Chinese chess players, Li Xiangping paid more attention to the game between South Korea's Da Li and Japan's Iyama.

In real history, during this period of time, Da Li won nine consecutive "World Runner-Ups".

Although he never reached the top again, his stable condition and active participation in world competitions are still very rare in the entire world of chess.

In Li Xiangping's memory, it would be until the semi-finals of the 7th "Ying's Cup" in 2013 that Li really broke into the world chess world.

At the beginning of that year, Li Xian watched Chinese young player Jiang Weijie be crowned the "LG Cup". While winning his last runner-up, he also witnessed a new era -------

That year, there were a total of six world competitions, and six championships were won by six young Chinese players. China's "New Six Super Leagues" were officially born.

Then in the second half of that year, Da Li continued to reach the semi-finals of the "Ying Cup".

That was also the last time Da Li killed the top four in the world!

In that semi-final, Lee faced his compatriot Xiao Pu "Tianzi Park", one of the greatest Korean Go players in later generations.

In that semi-final, Li probably mustered up his last courage and started a desperate fight with his junior. The two fought extremely fiercely.

However, in that year, Da Li, who was born in 1975, was already 38 years old.

It is said that since ancient times, famous generals are like beauties, and they are not allowed to grow old in the world. When competing for computing power, Da Li fell short in the end. He was defeated by younger players in two straight games.

After that, Da Li finally drifted away and started playing Go happily.

Then after waiting two years, the Go AI Afagou was born, and the entire world chess world entered a new era.

But it's only 2010, and Li's combat effectiveness is still strong. Although he is no longer at full health, he still seems quite confident against Japanese players.

Li Xiangping observed the whole game and found that Li had a smooth game all the way. As for his opponent Jingshan, maybe he was under too much pressure or not experienced enough in world competitions, so he had several problematic moves in a row.

Just after the 100th move in the game, Li Xiangping announced Jingshan's death sentence early. If it were him and Lao Shishang, they might be able to mess it up, and if it were Xiao Li, it might be messed up, but as for a Japanese chess player...

The match lasted less than two hours. Da Li defeated Jingshan in the middle set and became the first winner in the three-set match.

An hour later, the other two games also ended one after another. Kong Erjie defeated Jiang Dongrun, and Chinese teenager Gu Lingyi was eliminated by Satoshi Yuki.

It is worth mentioning here that Xiaogu, a young player from Sichuan Province, is actually one of the first products of "online training" in China.

Before Li Xiangping made his debut, Chinese Go at that time was being suppressed by the first-generation "Four Heavenly Kings" of Korean Go.

In the Chinese chess world at that time, the "Seven Little Dragons" headed by Chang Hao were still fighting on the front line.

It happened that Shao Weigang and Luo Xihe founded the Go website "Qingfeng".

Feeling that people like themselves were being suppressed, the "Seven Little Dragons" also wanted to make some contribution to the country and thought of cultivating several young chess players for the country through online teaching.

So a vigorous selection competition was held on the "Qingfeng" website, and in the end Xiaogu stood out and became the nominal disciple of the "Seven Little Dragons".

It’s a pity that at that time, the Internet environment was just like that. In addition, the "Seven Little Dragons" themselves were not the best in the world, and no one in the later generations became excellent Go teachers, so the disciples they trained were just like that.

Not to mention Xiao Gu winning the flag in the World Series, even in the Siege A competition, the Sichuan Province team led by Xiao Gu had its ups and downs, and from time to time it had to go to the Siege B to exercise.

The schedule of the "Asia Cup" is still relatively tight. The first round has just ended, the semi-finals will be drawn that night, and then the game will be held in the afternoon of the next day.

Through the drawing of lots, Li Xiangping drew the Japanese chess player Satoshi Yuuki, while Kong Erjie faced South Korea's Lee.

Once this lottery was announced, from a viewing perspective, most people paid more attention to the game between Kong Er and Da Li.

After all, Da Li was the past king, and Kong Er was the one with the best results in the international arena last year.

The other two have similar chess styles, and Kong Er is called the "enhanced version of Da Li" by many.

And thanks to the gift of Da Li in the past, in today's world chess world, their style of chess still has a fairly large fan base.

The combination of these factors determines the attention of this game.

Looking back at the match between Li Xiangping VS Satoshi Yuuki, who is Satoshi Yuki? Maybe old chess fans still remember the saying in the Japanese chess world of "East Yida, West Yuki", but that was all 20 years ago.

In everyone's opinion, Yuki 9th Dan is not even qualified to be selected for the World Team. The difference in strength in this game is too great. Li Xiangping is like a routine, and this game is not worthy of attention at all.

In fact, this game has indeed received a certain degree of neglect. Taking the live TV broadcast as an example, not only China and South Korea chose to broadcast the game of Dae Lee VS Kong Er.

Even Japan, as the host country, will broadcast both games live, but when they choose to explain the game, they also choose to focus on that game.

As for Li Xiangping himself, well, he also feels that this game is like a routine, especially after the last six months of training, he feels that his chess skills should have improved again, and his understanding of chess has become deeper, and he has truly become a dog.

If the goal is reached, then such a game will lead to a better outcome for human chess players.

Especially for a Fenxianqi player who is not even the top player in the Japanese chess world, it would be no problem to win it by himself.

However, as soon as the game started, Li Xiangping felt something strange. He felt that today's game was very awkward.

At first he said he didn't care at all----

After all, I haven't played a game for more than half a year. After all, I am still a human being, not a machine. There will always be times when I feel a little rusty, and I can quickly adjust to this rustiness.

However, as the game continued, this awkward feeling became stronger and stronger. Not only him, but even Lao Shi felt that today's game was awkward.

It doesn't matter if it's just awkward. Today is a fast chess game of 30 seconds, so the process is still relatively fast. After more than 40 minutes of the game, when the game reached more than 80 moves, Li Xiangping felt that his situation was at a disadvantage.

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Against a player who is not a world-class chess player, he actually fell into a disadvantage in a split-first game.

"Brother Ding'an, you said today...what exactly is going on?"

"Well, if you don't break it, you won't build it. If you break it, you can build it. I think the awkwardness we have today probably comes from this."

Li Xiangping smiled bitterly when he heard this, because he immediately understood what the plug-in Lao Shi said.

In the past, he has been learning dog tricks, and this has been ingrained in his mind.

But now, he is trying to find the dog's flaws. This is actually to break the past theory.

This is of course self-contradictory, which led to many self-contradictions in Li Xiangping’s chess game today.

And this should be the reason why the situation is lagging behind today.

Of course, today is fast chess, so Li Xiangping definitely doesn’t have time to think so much.

The most important thing today is to ensure victory.
Chapter completed!