"Xiangping, you prepare, and I will accompany you to Japan tomorrow to participate in the competition."

"Okay, Mr. Zhang."

The "Teacher Zhang" in Li Xiangping's mouth is Zhang Wendong's ninth section of the Competition Department of the Chess Academy. Zhang Jiuduan is more than 1.8 meters tall and weighs more than 100 kilograms, in short, in terms of appearance, he doesn't look like a professional chess player no matter how he looks like a professional chess player.

But although it doesn't look like it, in fact, Zhang Jiuduan is also the number one person in the domestic chess world, the highlight of his career, it should be regarded as in the early years of the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament------ more than 10 years ago, all the Chinese chess players who can appear in this game, that is absolutely a well-known role in the domestic chess world at that time.

And Zhang Jiuduan not only participated in several sessions, but his results seemed to be quite good, at least the comprehensive results were more than one win and one loss, which was also awesome back then.

Zhang Jiuduan is not only awesome, Li Xiangping also thinks that this person is very introverted and more self-aware. He should have understood the truth early on that "Go is actually a game between geniuses", so when he realized that his talent was not top-notch, he retired at the peak of his career and entered Renmin University instead.

Li Xiangping can't remember whether he studied history or philosophy, but after completing his studies, he returned to the Chinese Chess Academy to enter the management, and he is currently the middle level of the management of the Chess Academy. Needless to say, at least Zhang Jiuduan's personal life plan, Li Xiangping thinks he has done quite well.

The next day, after Li Xiangping and Zhang Jiuduan met at the airport, they unexpectedly found that there were not only the two of them traveling with them, but also Zhang Da, a reporter from the "Go World", waiting there.

Because reporter Zhang Da is a friend of his father, Li Xiangping greeted him very politely:

"Teacher Zhang, are you going to Japan too?"

Reporter Zhang Da smiled: "Yes, thanks to your blessing, I also got a chance to go on a business trip to Japan." ”

Li Xiangping was a little surprised when he heard it, you must know that it is only 02 years now, and although the economy of the whole country is thriving, it is really not rich as a whole.

To give you a simple example, in real history, our country's GDP will not reach one-third of Japan's until next year, and Japan's Tokyo Bay City Circle actually accounts for one-third of Japan's GDP.

In other words, the GDP of our entire country will not catch up with Tokyo until next year.

Who would have imagined that in just over 10 years, let alone a Tokyo Bay, even if it is the whole of Japan, the GDP of their entire country is only a little more than one-third of our country.

So Li Xiangping has always felt that sometimes, reality is really more exaggerated than literary works.

Take the development of our country for decades, if there is an Internet writer who travels back to the 80s of the last century, if there was also YY at that time, this Internet writer does not need to develop any imagination to write the real situation of domestic development truthfully.

Li Xiangping can guarantee that this one will definitely be sprayed by many people in that era, thinking that this is too little white and too YY. Just like at this time, if Li Xiangping told others that as long as it takes more than 10 years, Go AI will be available, and the Go AI at that time will beat humans. So Li Xiangping can guarantee that it is difficult to say what the reaction of other people is, but the first reaction of his own old man, he must have sent himself to the hospital as soon as possible.

It is precisely for this reason that Li Xiangping was a little surprised by the entourage of reporter Zhang Da, everyone knows that the kind of unit of the magazine knows that although hunger is not starvation, it is definitely not a rich unit, and it is only the semi-finals now, so send a reporter to watch the game at this time, then this is already very important to Li Xiangping.

"Who are you? You are a dignified "master", and now you are shouldering the greatest hope of Chinese Go, so it is normal for this Go world to send their chief reporter. ”

Zhang Wendong Jiuduan commented on the side; "Judging from the situation of the World Series that has been launched this year, Mr. Ma is already old, and it may be possible to concentrate on breaking through a competition, but it is obviously unrealistic to expect him to fully blossom, and in addition to Mr. Ma, Chang Hao always feels like a breath of air, Gu Dali and Kong Erjie are not really mature, so Xiangping ......"

Speaking of this, Zhang Jiuduan paused: "Although you are still young, it stands to reason that you should not be asked to carry this burden, but the real situation now, it is really you who are provoking the pillar of Chinese Go, so it is not surprising that Go World let Zhang Da reporter accompany him this time." ”

"Haha, don't say that," Li Xiangping haha:

"I said Mr. Zhang, it's not right for you to say this, especially at this time, it's even more incorrect, you are obviously increasing my ideological burden."

"Yes, if it were another chess player, then I promise not to say this at this time," Zhang Wendong Jiudan said with a smile:

"But who are you, Li Xiangping? I have already seen it, your kid's heart is twice as big as the average person, the bigger the game, the more energetic you are, the stronger the opponent, the more you play, how about Xiangping, this time facing South Korea's Xiao Li again, are you ready? ”

Li Xiangping listened to it, and he said in his heart that my heart is not twice as big as others, and the real situation should be that I have two hearts. However, Li Xiangping had no way to answer Zhang Wendong's questions.

Because since Lao Shi told him that he had prepared a little "new kung fu" this time, Li Xiangping himself was also looking forward to it, and in order to maintain that little bit of freshness, he didn't even ask himself this time.

"Hehe, secrecy."

In the end, Li Xiangping could only say this, and Zhang Wendong looked at him with a smile:

"Hehe, it seems that Xiangping is already confident, then it's good, then let's see you in the game."

Without saying a word all the way, the group quickly arrived at the venue of this competition.

The semi-finals of the Fujitsu Cup are usually held in cities other than Tokyo in Japan, either Osaka or Nagoya, and this time the tournament is held in Osaka.

Since all the Japanese players have been out after the semi-finals, this makes the host a little embarrassed at the same time, and the reception is naturally simple, such as this time, at least there is less of the previous sense of ceremony.

And Li Xiangping of course doesn't care about this, anyway, in his opinion, as long as the prize money of the game that was said before the game will not be less, not to mention what he wants to know most now is Lao Shi's "new kung fu", so he doesn't care about these aspects at all.

Without further ado, the day of the game came soon, and when he and Lee Sedol walked into the game room, Li Xiangping guessed the black chess by guessing first, which made Li Xiangping look forward to it even more.

Although it is said that under the rule of 6 and a half eyes of black posts, black and white are actually about the same, and it is not particularly advantageous for a certain party, but didn't Lao Shi say that he has "new kung fu"? When playing Go, it is easier for the first side to implement their intentions, which is a well-known fact, so Li Xiangping believes that since he guessed the first move, it should be easier to see Lao Shi's "new kung fu".

So what did Li Xiangping see?

Press what Li Xiangping saw in the game room, and talk about the situation in the viewing room next door.

At the beginning of the game, the on-site viewing room was quite deserted, and it was normal to think about this situation, not to mention that there were no Japanese chess players in the semi-finals, just think that this is Osaka, which belongs to the Kansai region of Japan, and is the headquarters of Japan's "Kansai Chess Academy".

In the Go world, the contradiction between the Japanese Chess Academy and the Kansai Chess Academy can be said to be well known, so it is normal for the viewing room to be deserted when the game is held in this place, for example, at the beginning of the game, except for the necessary staff of the tournament organizers, the Chinese and Korean team leaders, and the accompanying reporters of China and South Korea, there are almost no other Japanese chess players.

However, at around 10:10 a.m. Japan time, about 15 minutes into the game, the situation changed a little, and an old Japanese Go veteran came to the scene.

And as soon as this person arrived, whether it was a person in the Japanese Go community or a person in the Chinese and Korean Go circles, they all stepped forward to greet him respectfully:

"Mr. Sakata, why did you come here today......"

That's right, here comes the Japanese chess generation of the great man Sakata Eio, who was once famous as "Razor Sakata".

What is Sakata's status in the Go world? I remember in the early years, when South Korea's Lao Cao had become famous and became South Korea's "Go Emperor", at that time, a reporter asked him: Who do you think has the highest Go talent throughout the ages, Lao Cao did not hesitate to do so, he did not hesitate to say that it was Mr. Wu Qingyuan, and said that he only looked at Mr. Wu's chess games, and he could perceive that Mr. Wu was the first.

When the reporter asked Lao Cao who was second, this time Lao Cao was silent for a long time, and he finally said:

It should still be Mr. Sakata, the ghostly Mr. Sakata......

Although this is just the words of Lao Cao's family, it can be seen from this that Sakata Eio's status in the Japanese chess world and even in the world chess world.

Mr. Sakata is now in his old age, but he seems to be in good spirits, and he responds to everyone's greetings while happily explaining:

"Hehe, I happened to be on vacation in Osaka, and I didn't hear that there was an unborn Go genius in China, and he happened to play here, so I came here to take a look."

Everyone looked at each other when they heard this, "Razor Sakata" turned out to be a chess game that came to see Li Xiangping?

It was also at this time that the first game was passed to the viewing room, and many people laughed after watching it. One of the Japanese staff members even said to Mr. Sakata:

"It seems that there is providence in the dark, this Chinese genius boy really gives face, he actually used your favorite opening ......"