"By the way, Brother Ding'an, but I kept forgetting to ask you something."

"What?"

"It's the last time I had a game with that Gu Dali, the miscalculation between me, did you notice it at the time?"

"That, hahaha......" Lao Shi snorted, but refused to say it explicitly:

But then again, Xiangping Xiaoyou's last winning move, which really deserves the reputation of "Flying Immortals Outside the Sky", is completely beyond my expectations. ”

Li Xiangping smiled when he heard this, he still believed what Lao Shi said today.

In the last game of the "celebrity battle" with Gu Dali last time, Lao Shi must have noticed the omission in the middle game, Li Xiangping would not have any doubts, as for him saying that he did not find the last step of "flying immortals", Li Xiangping thought that it was also very possible.

This is the difference between his own and Lao Shi's chess style.

Today, Li Xiangping is becoming more and more aware of this difference.

In fact, Li Xiangping has always thought that something similar to "chess style difference" is really not something that everyone is qualified to say.

Take yourself and Lao Shi as an example, this difference between the two may have always existed, but when I was a weak chicken before, was I qualified to have any chess style in front of Lao Shi?

Of course, it can't, for example, when I and him just practiced the "combination of two swords", I was more in pursuit of the "overlap" of the lower method, and I would be complacent that I could think of it with Lao Shi.

Only in the last year or two, his level has indeed improved a lot, and he may even improve to the same level as Lao Shi, and he is qualified to talk about the difference in chess style in front of Lao Shi.

In fact, it is precisely because of this qualification that I will feel the difference between the two more and more.

"Alas~~~ Brother Ding'an, it's a pity."

"Huh? What's the pity? ”

Li Xiangping said with a smile: "Brother Ding'an, just now I thought of Xiping's predecessors, and now I finally understand that compared with your good friend Brother Xiping, your strength is obviously not inferior, and you may even be half a step stronger, but your reputation has always been inferior to him. ”

"Hehe," Lao Shi said in an indifferent tone: "Why?" ”

"It's very simple," Li Xiangping said with a smile: "Because of Brother Ding'an's advantages and specialties...... How to say it, like those excellent science and engineering men today, such as the trick you proposed today, and the last time you couldn't have my kind of omission, these are the distinctive characteristics of science and engineering men, compared with you, I thought that your Xiping brother, but a bit like an honor liberal arts student, although I have always thought that in the field of Go, liberal arts students at the same level are basically not able to win science and engineering men, all this is just like you and that Xiping predecessors, but there is no way, in the vast majority of the time, but it is usually the top liberal arts students who are more popular, It's also easier to get fame, which is why your fame has always been inferior to Xiping's predecessors. ”

"Hahahaha," Lao Shi laughed: "What about you, Xiangping Xiaoyou, what kind of type do you think you are?" ”

"Needless to say, didn't you say that my style is very similar to your brother Xiping, then of course I am also a liberal arts student, at least in the field of Go."

Li Xiangping continued to joke with a smile: "Brother Ding'an won't tell you, just now you put forward your plan, I still have a little loss in my heart, I think there is such a big gap between you and me, but thinking that I am a liberal arts student, I may be more popular than you, I am much more balanced in an instant." ”

"Hahahaha," Lao Shi continued to laugh: "Yes, yes, Xiangping Xiaoyou is really popular, and now even I can see that you are really popular in today's society." ”

"Hehehe......"

After all, this is only the first game of Wuban chess, so the jokes between the two are over, pack up the chess equipment, and Li Xiangping prepares for the next game.

With a day off, the second game continued to be held locally.

Although through the exchange with Shi Da Chess Sage, Li Xiangping knew that his winning method in the first game was actually flawed, and if the opponent was right, it was really unknown who would die.

It's a pity that the outside world is still unclear, and it may not be clear to Cui Laohan himself.

Everyone only saw Li Xiangping play a beautiful game of dragon slaying, and he used the opponent's best "winding attack" method to hang the opponent.

There is no doubt that in human Go, a winning method like Li Xiangping is quite a big blow to the opponent.

This blow was reflected in the second game, that is, Cui suddenly seemed to become unable to play chess, and he behaved in a muddy manner throughout the game, like sleepwalking, and some of his moves were completely unknown.

Just after 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Li Xiangping only used 122 hands to force his opponent to admit defeat in the middle game.

2 to 0!

Li Xiangping got the match point.

And this game of chess is also Li Xiangping's last game in 2004, after playing this game of chess, it will be New Year's Day in 2005 in two days, and Li Xiangping's first game of chess in 2005 is still the "Ying's Cup" final, but the last three games will be moved to Seoul, South Korea to continue.

Although there are still 3 nominally rounds, but the game is at this point, and no one is optimistic that Cui Poison will be able to win the cup.

Not only are insiders in the professional Go circle not optimistic, but ordinary chess fans are also not optimistic.

Not only Chinese chess fans are not optimistic, but even Korean chess fans are not optimistic.

Not only does Li Xiangping not think that he will lose to Cui 3 games in a row, but he may not even have this confidence in Cui himself.

Therefore, when the game comes, it seems that there is only one last suspense left: whether Cui Poison can win a game from Li Xiangping and avoid being 0-3 clean sheet.

Originally, in the other five games, as long as it was 2-0, there would definitely be similar discussions, but this time, there are still a lot of such discussions, and the sound seems to be very loud-------

Not for other reasons, but because of the "new super-first-class" standard discussed by a small group of chess fans before: in today's other places, starting this year, as long as you can win an official game from Li Xiangping, it is considered a new super-first-class.

And now, it seems that Cui still has such an opportunity.

To be honest, for Li Xiangping himself, he didn't take the standards set by these chess fans to heart, but after the end of the second game, Mr. Wu Qingyuan said:

“...... Now it seems that the Ying Cup must belong to Li Xiangping, because he not only showed a clear level of strength, but also showed a rare panic in the second game......"

When he heard Mr. Wu's words relayed by others, Li Xiangping felt "chuckled" in his heart, he felt that he really couldn't be too relaxed when he went to South Korea this time.

It's not because of anything else, because Mr. Wu Qingyuan is not an old god stick of Fujisawa Hideyuki, not only does he rarely open his mouth to predict other people's games, even if he occasionally opens his mouth once or twice, it is basically a crow's mouth-------

For example, in the first "Ying's Cup" in real history, when Lao Nie was 2-1 ahead of Lao Cao, Lao Wu said something very similar to the above, and he also predicted that Lao Nie would definitely win the cup in Hangzhou.

Although Lao Nie was 2 to 1 at the time, and he was 2 to 0, his current situation is much better than that of Lao Nie, but the "crow's mouth" is .......

How so? Li Xiangping felt that he really couldn't take it lightly, and he had to look at this kind of thing with the attitude of "I'd rather believe it than believe it".

To tell the truth, Li Xiangping did go to South Korea to participate in the last 3 games with this attitude.

It may also be because of his attitude that he played at his best again in the first game of the new year in 2005.

With 225 hands, he finally won by "3 points".

3-0 clean sheet! In the end, the "new super-first-class Cui Poison" was not born.

And this championship, together with the previous "Fujitsu Cup" and "Samsung Cup", this is Li Xiangping's third world championship this season, and this championship is in hand, and his total number of world championships has also reached double digits.

Although there are still a few miles away from Da Li, everyone now thinks that it is almost a certainty that Li Xiangping will surpass Li Canghao, and it is only a matter of time now.

Due to the clean sheet, this allowed Li Xiangping to get a few more days of rest, and after returning from South Korea, he stayed in the capital to rest and prepare for the next game.

Up to now, Li Xiangping only has the last two important games left this season, one is the "Toyota Cup" trilogy final with Zhang Xu, and the other is the "LG Cup" trilogy final with Xiao Li.

The two finals are the "Toyota Cup" in the front and the "LG Cup" in the back.

The "Toyota Cup" is held from mid to late January, and the "LG Cup" ends in mid-February before the Spring Festival of '05.

So naturally, at this time period, "Can Lee Xiangping achieve the Golden Slam?" The topic once again filled the major Go forums and even the major paper media.

Not only that, but since his opponent in the "Toyota Cup" final was Zhang Xu, the topic of "new super first-class" also occupied a considerable version------

After all, in the previous battle between the two, although Zhang Xu had not won, the combat effectiveness he showed was still quite strong, and even made Li Xiangping fall into a bitter battle for a while.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Xu is still quite high in the "New Super First-class" candidate list, and there are quite a few chess fans who are more optimistic about him.

After resting at home for about 10 days, Li Xiangping set off again, and under the leadership of Team Leader Hua, he went to Tokyo to participate in the competition with Zhang Xu.

Probably because of the better rest, Li Xiangping did not give his opponent any chance in this series.

2 to 0! He won his 11th World Championship and prevented the birth of "Zhang Xuxin's Super First-Class".

The Japanese chess world was dumbfounded by Li Xiangping's performance, and for a while, the statement that he was the "messenger of the chess god" appeared frequently in major Japanese media again.

Li Xiangping himself can't take care of it so much, after all, by this time, the "Golden Slam" is close at hand, although in his own opinion, due to the defeat of the previous "Chunlan Cup", this "Golden Slam" has lost a lot.

However, the "Golden Slam" is a "Golden Slam" after all, and before the Spring Festival in 2005, Li Xiangping had only one goal: that is, to march towards the Golden Slam.