On February 7, 2005, the 26th day of the lunar calendar, Li Xiangping defeated Lee Sedol, and he won this year's "LG Cup" with a total score of 2-0.

This is Li Xiangping's 12th professional Go world championship, and it is also the fifth championship trophy that Li Xiangping has won in a total of five professional Go world championships this season------ he has completed the package, and he has achieved the Golden Slam, which is an unprecedented feat in the world chess world.

The impact of this event is beyond imagination.

At least beyond Li Xiangping's own imagination.

On the evening of the end of the game, the "News Network" of the Imperial Court Station broadcast the news of his victory, and it was not ordinary news, the Imperial Court Station broadcast it in such a form:

“...... Good evening, everyone, welcome to the news broadcast, the main content of today's news broadcast is....... In the "LG Cup" professional Go World Chess Championship that ended in the afternoon, China's young chess player Lee Xiangping defeated South Korea's Lee Sedol to win the championship, winning the championship for the whole season, and achieving the feat commonly known as the 'Golden Slam'......."

In fact, since Lao Nie, it is not particularly rare for Go games to be broadcast on the news, but it is extremely rare to become the "main content" of news broadcasts.

In the domestic sports world, in the past, only athletes who won medals in the Olympics could become the "main content", and even in the Olympics, news broadcasts usually did not report on individuals, but on a group.

This time, a non-Olympic event is regarded as the "main content", which shows the importance that the official mouthpiece attaches to this "golden slam".

When Li Xiangping returned to China the next day, the relevant reports were even more overwhelming, no longer just Go or sports media, this time even the official mainstream media such as "Mass Daily" and "Huaxia Youth Daily" also wrote articles praising Li Xiangping's achievements.

Not only in China, but also in Japan and South Korea, there are also a lot of relevant reports, among which the Korean media is not so exaggerated, after all, this time Li Xiangping stepped on Xiao Li to take the position.

What makes Li Xiangping feel funny is the Japanese media, there are several Japanese mainstream media, and they actually reported that Li Xiangping reached the golden slam in an "off-the-stalgic" way:

“....... Sure enough, he is the messenger of the chess god, and Li Xiangping is the person who God arranged to teach everyone to play chess. Golden Slam, achieved! (Yomiuri Shimbun)

To be honest, when he first learned about this, Li Xiangping was still a little complacent, he felt that his buddy was awesome now, and he could actually be on the "outside" of foreign newspapers.

It's just that Lao Xie later told him that it is really not an uncommon thing to be on the side of the Japanese media, take Go as an example:

Iyama Yuta won the "Ahan-Kiriyama Cup" at the age of 15, creating a record for the youngest person to win a title in the Japanese chess world.

At that time, Mr. Zhao Zhixun held the "big three crowns" at the same time.

Even this year, Zhang Xu won the "celebrity" for the first time, and then defended the title of "Ben Yin Fang", he only became a "celebrity" and "Ben Yin Fang", which is also an exception.

As for foreign players, Da Li won the "Ying Cup" four years ago and reached the "Grand Slam" at that time (he won all the world championships at that time), and the Japanese also gave him an exception.

Li Xiangping is a "Golden Slam" this time, and the difficulty coefficient is N levels higher than that of the "Grand Slam", so this time he also came to the number, which is of course not unusual.

After being popularized by Lao Xie Kepu, Li Xiangping's sourness disappeared by more than half at that time, and he dared to love the "outside" of the Japanese media, all of which were wholesaled like this?

However, even if he is engaged in wholesale, just a few days after winning the championship, it is a fact that Li Xiangping became a media celebrity, and news about him frequently appeared in major media in East Asia.

This kind of heat reached a climax on the third day of the Lunar New Year.

Because this day is the annual "Annual Ceremony" of the Imperial Court TV Sports Channel, Li Xiangping has become the "Top Ten Athletes" for the third consecutive year.

This year is an Olympic year, and in this year's Athens Olympics, the Chinese army performed well, winning more than 30 gold medals in total, ranking second only to the United States in the medal table.

Li Xiangping is the only non-Olympic athlete selected as the "top ten" this time.

And among a large number of Olympic champions, Li Xiangping is not inferior to the popularity, at least when the CCTV host interacts with the winners, they leave Li Xiangping the most time.

The only person who can compete with Li Xiangping this year is the 110-meter hurdles champion Liu Xiang.

It's just that all the hustle and bustle will always dissipate one day, and by the time the seventh day of the Lunar New Year passes, the Spring Festival holiday has nominally ended, and Li Xiangping's days have returned to normal again.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, because Li Da Tuhao and they were still in their hometown and did not return, Li Xiangping was the only one at home, and he suddenly felt a little bored when he had nothing to do.

He's the kind of boredom that suddenly becomes idle after being super busy for a while------

Since October last year, Li Xiangping has been busy with the spindles, playing one game after another, almost without respite, but as soon as the "LG Cup" ended, he suddenly had no chess for a long time.

Entering 05 years, the quadrennial "Ying's Cup" is naturally gone. In addition, the biennial "Toyota Cup" is also absent this year.

In addition, it is also a biennial "Chunlan Cup", and he has no chance to go to the finals this time.

So the world series he can participate in this year is actually only those annual competitions.

However, whether it is the "Samsung Cup" or the "LG Cup", both of these competitions have qualifiers, and this competition will definitely not be until the second half of the year.

Therefore, the earliest competition that Li Xiangping can participate in this year is actually the "Fujitsu Cup", but even if it is this competition, it will be more than in early April.

By the way, during this period, there is still a "Nongshim Cup", but this year's "Nongshim Cup" is better than so far, the situation of the Chinese team is very good, and there are still 4 generals alive.

The corresponding South Korean team only has two big and small Li left, and the Japanese team is only one lone seedling left by Kiki Yida.

Therefore, according to the current situation, Li Xiangping, as the main player of the Chinese team, is still unknown whether he will play this year, and even if he needs to play, he will only play the last game of chess at the last moment.

"Alas~~~ boring, by the way, Brother Ding'an, let me ask you, you said that with the current level of the two of us, have you reached the height of your Wuquan juniors?"

"Hehe, what do I say about this? What do you think? ”

Li Xiangping said with a smile: "What's so hard to say, we don't have to be presumptuous, I think that with the current level of the two of us, even against Mr. Wu at the peak, we can compete with him, right?" Personally, I think this is still a separate competition, if the two of us join forces, then I'm afraid even Mr. Wu will have to bow down. ”

Lao Shi also smiled: "Xiangping Xiaoyou, does it make sense for you to compare with that Wuquan junior?" To compare with this person, Dingan thinks that only one indicator is meaningful. ”

Li Xiangping paused: "Brother Ding'an means that Mr. Wu has reached the level of making the world take the lead?" ”

Lao Shi sighed: "Yes, don't hide from Xiangping Xiaoyou, I have been studying dog moves recently, but also looking at his twelve volumes of "Liuhe Go", the more I look at it, the more I am frightened, the more I look at it, the more I admire Ding'an, this person is indeed a genius, those Go ideas in his later years, some of them have been close to dog moves, Xiangping Xiaoyou, you know, he doesn't have our conditions, he can get close to dog moves with his personal understanding, it can be seen how powerful this person is. ”

Of course, Li Xiangping knew how powerful Mr. Wu was, so he then smiled:

"Okay, Brother Ding'an, let's not speculate about how powerful he is now, or the most straightforward comparison: do you say that we are now, have we reached the level of making the world take the lead?"

Lao Shi replied: "I personally think it hasn't, of course, if we join forces, that's another matter, if we use two swords together, it may have reached the level of semi-first to first, but if it is alone, it has not yet reached the height of semi-first." ”

Lao Shi paused: "What do you think of Xiangping Xiaoyou?" ”

Regarding Lao Shi's statement, Li Xiangping certainly did not dare to disagree.

He knows his own family affairs, don't look at the fact that he has won so much this year, especially after losing to Li Canghao, he swept 4 times in 4 finals, 3 2-0, and 1 3-0, and he didn't let his opponent win a set.

But even so, Li Xiangping didn't dare to say that he had reached the level of making the world take the lead.

From many competitions, it can be seen that compared with other top human masters, the gap is really small.

For example, like Da Li, his level may be higher than him, but at most one or two eyes are better, and he may even have only half a eye, Li Xiangping believes that he has definitely not reached the "half first" level of more than 3 meshes.

In addition, there are Gu Dali and Lee Sedol, judging from the situation against them, they may be a little bit ahead, but don't forget, these two are young, so in the strict sense, they are also in the growth period.

And the Go thing is like this, the lower the level, the faster the progress------- so after a year and a half, who knows what it will be like to play against them again.

Thinking of this, Li Xiangping sighed: "Alas, the chess road is hard, the chess road is hard, the chess road is hard, it has been so hard for so long, there is not even a half-first, and we have already calculated, if you want to fight dogs, you have to be ahead of the human level, and you must also lead separately, so that you can use the combination of two swords, this may be a little chance, Brother Ding'an, you say, how should we train next?" ”

Lao Shi paused: "Hehe, aren't you a little idle next, so Ding'an thinks it's time to consider letting Ziqi train." ”

Li Xiangping thought about it, why did he forget this stubble? Since you're not so busy, it's a good time to try to get your chess to train.

To train handicap chess, the best way is, of course, to play online chess, so Li Xiangping said just do it, he picked up the long-lost "Jueyi" account, and logged in to the "Yicheng" that has been connected to South Korea.

As soon as "Jueyi" appeared, it immediately caused a commotion on the entire website, but before online netizens could rush to tell each other, "Jueyi" disappeared immediately.

However, 3 minutes later, a vest of "Master Instructor 1" appeared in "Yicheng".

"Haha Brother Ding'an, let's use this vest to train the chess, in order to train alone, I specially registered two, namely "Master Instructor 1" and "Master Instructor 2", Brother Ding'an, are you picking 1 or picking 2? ”