The CCTV Cup has a very tight schedule, starting from the first round of matches, with a daily rhythm of one set at a time, without any gaps in between.

To tell the truth, the intensity of such a game is actually a bit large, and it is very much a test of the physical strength and willpower of professional chess players.

For example, in real history, after entering the new century, many young Chinese chess players were the first to preach in this competition, and this kind of tight schedule is an important factor that cannot be ignored.

Of course, now Li Xiangping doesn't need to preach in this kind of competition, and he doesn't even care about this kind of intensive schedule------ after all, he is only under 18 years old now, isn't he?

And compared with the gentleman who was about to be hollowed out by wine in his previous life, Li Xiangping can now be described as "in his prime", full of vitality like a fake.

Therefore, the first reason why this competition can attract him is that there is also the "Asian Cup" after that, and it has been stipulated from the beginning of the "CCTV Cup" that the champions and runners-up of this competition will be eligible to represent China in the "Asian Cup".

Bottom line: This is still the only way to participate in the Asian Cup, unlike some other world tournaments where you win in one event and you automatically become a national seed in another.

Well, in fact, among all the international competitions, the "Asian Cup" is relatively low, and the highest prize money for the championship seems to be only about 4.5 million yen-----

Not to mention that it is compared with the traditional seven news chess battles in Japan, even if it is compared with the rapid chess battles in Japan, it is not enough to watch at all.

For example, Japan's "NHK" TV rapid chess battle, which is actually the "Asian Cup" selection tournament in Japan, but the championship prize of the NHK Cup rapid chess battle is as high as 10 million yen.

The prize money of this Nima selection is higher than the prize money of the main competition, which makes people feel a little funny. However, this is also due to the peculiarities of professional Go.

Professional Go is currently only carried out in East Asia, China, Japan and South Korea, and now, the economic development of the three countries is still very different, although the Japanese economy has declined for a long time, and the peak of 93 years can not be compared at all, but at present, after all, it is still the second in the world, this year's economic volume is still more than double that of our country, and it is precisely because of this difference that their domestic selection prize money is higher than the world competition.

The second reason for Li Xiangping's participation in the competition is, of course, the key word "rapid chess".

In fact, strictly speaking, since Li Xiangping officially became a professional chess player, he has not played any real rapid chess game.

Although he has participated in the "Nongshim Cup" for two years, to be honest, the "Nongshim Cup" has a fixed time to think, so it is not really rapid chess in the traditional sense, and can only be called "quasi-rapid chess".

Only like today's CCTV Cup and "Asian Cup", which start to count the seconds from the first move, and then each move must be made within one minute, this is truly pure rapid chess.

Obviously, in such a way of competition, Li Xiangping of course wants to let himself practice more.

After all, in the era of Shi Daqisheng, they didn't even have the concept of "counting seconds".

Although this guy has practiced a lot on the Internet since he came through, any senior chess fan knows that playing online chess on the Internet and cutting in official competitions are completely different feelings, so even in order to let Lao Shi find this feeling more, Li Xiangping thinks that it is necessary to participate in this competition.

Of course, Lao Shi was happy to have a game, and he happily agreed, but with so many games of chess, Li Xiangping was not ready to let him play alone.

After all, Lao Shi only has a quota of 5 games of chess left, and put these quotas on a rapid chess game, not to mention that Li Xiangping is reluctant, I'm afraid even Lao Shi himself is unwilling.

On the 3rd day after returning from Shencheng, the CCTV Cup "This Competition" officially started, and in the first round, considering things like "good start", Li Xiangping didn't let Lao Shi go.

After passing the first round easily, Lao Shi was unwilling to do it in the second round------

It's not because of anything else, because Lao Shi dislikes the strength of the opponent in this round is too weak, this is a local chess player with a rating of more than 80, so Li Xiangping has no choice, he has to make a personal move again.

This round of the game was still uneventful, and Li Xiangping won the opponent relatively smoothly.

And after two rounds of matches, Li Xiangping actually reached the quarterfinals of this competition, and when he saw the opponent in the third round, Li Xiangping smiled at the time: Chen Yaoyue is in the fourth section.

This is the only little brother in the Go world that Li Xiangping has temporarily accepted after crossing.

"Hehe, Brother Ding'an, how is this opponent?"

"Yes, I will ...... this round"

On the second day, the competition between Lao Shi and Chen Xiaoqiang officially started, because he was only a "humanoid dropper", so in the competition, Li Xiangping also had time to get distracted:

“....... Well, in real history, Chen Xiaoqiang seems to be in the past two years, he began to improve by leaps and bounds, in real history, next year he will be able to defeat Da Li, and enter the finals of the World Series, although he lost to Gu Dali in the end and was the runner-up, but it can be regarded as an official first-class chess player, and now I don't know if he can make some trouble for Lao Shi now......."

It's a pity that the result of the game made Li Xiangping a little disappointed, under Shi Daqi's steady performance as a dog, Chen Yaoyue had no decent chance at all, and he almost lost in a "euthanasia" mode.

Well, if it's someone else, forget it, but who made Chen Xiaoqiang a junior brother, it's rare to meet a chess player younger than him in the game, so after a simple technical review, Li Xiangping couldn't help but pretend:

"I said Yaoyue, can't you go on like this?"

Chen Xiaoqiang stared at a pair of innocent eyes: "Old, boss, what's wrong?" ”

After seeing that innocent look, Li Xiangping became a philosopher at that time:

"Haven't you heard that? It is called the life of those who learn from me, the death of those who are like me, the bright moon, the bright moon, what about your own characteristics? What about your own strengths? I remember when you cut me in the fixed stage of the year, your set of lying down punches was quite powerful, you can completely combine your own characteristics with today's play, otherwise you will follow my ass like this, and you will be able to catch up with me in the year of the monkey? ”

After pretending to be forced, Li Xiangping suddenly felt full of Tai, but he later thought about it, as a former fan of Chen Xiaoqiang's classmates, he really didn't just pretend to be forced, a Chen Xiaoqiang who doesn't play the "ditch flow", will he still become the leopard head in the minds of the majority of chess fans?

Come over Chen Xiaoqiang, then Li Xiangping said that he had entered the semi-finals, and his opponent in the semi-finals was Wang Xi, the junior of the "Little Tiger Generation".

Well, this is also a rapid chess master, and he also won the "Asian Cup" championship in his previous life, and with this crown, he finally stood out from the many "Wang Baduan" in the Chinese chess world and became one of the rare "Wang Jiuduan".

It's just that when Li Xiangping was ready to let Lao Shi make a move with him, Lao Shi was reluctant again, on the grounds that he disliked that people's chess skills were not yet mature, and he didn't want to waste a game quota.

Well, I have to tell the truth, when Li Xiangping heard this, he felt a little sad at the time, he said in his heart how can his plug-in be so different, other people's plug-ins are very talkative, especially some of the plug-ins that have crossed the predecessors, it is even more like a slave-like existence.

But it's good to be here, after a few years of this gangster, I dare to put forward conditions to myself.

But there is no way, it's all up to this, Li Xiangping has no way to plug himself in at all, and if he doesn't want to go up, he can only go on it himself.

Fortunately, when Wang Xi passed the eighth stage, and when Lao Shi was enthusiastic and proposed that he wanted to play the last game of chess, Li Xiangping decisively refused to give him face, and simply rejected him at that time.

There is no other reason, because the opponent in this final is Kong Erjie 7 Duan, who is the best chess player in the "Asian Cup" among all Chinese chess players in his previous life, and he has created three consecutive championships in the "Asian Cup", which is second only to Mr. Masaki Takemiya's four consecutive championships.

Considering that since he has reached the final, he has already secured the qualification for the "Asian Cup", so for such a game of chess, Li Xiangping certainly wants to try his rapid chess level.

The final was held in the studio hall of the imperial court station, and there were not many twists and turns in this game, in less than 2 hours, when Li Xiangping fell to the 247th hand of the overall game, Xiaomei was not in the mood to continue.

He smiled bitterly and looked up: "It's still the mastery boss......"

With his words, Li Xiangping won the 04 "CCTV Cup" championship and won his second domestic chess trophy.

It's just a pity that although Li Xiangping won the cup, he didn't try how good his rapid chess level was.

The problem is not with Li Xiangping himself, but with his opponent.

Because the feeling of playing this game of chess today is very similar to the feeling he felt when he watched the game of chess between Kong Erjie VS Song Taikun in the "Fujitsu Cup" some time ago------

Li Xiangping's feeling is extremely strong: now Kong Erjie is working hard to learn dog moves, and he very much wants to integrate the idea of dog moves into his Go.

It's a pity that he is "the most professional professional chess player".

Then a professional chess player of his type must be able to "break and then stand".

It's a pity that he is still in the stage of "breaking". Since the "break" has not yet been broken, of course, there is no "standing".

And this, in fact, is the main reason, or even the only reason, for him to lose today.

Of course, Kong Erjie is still young now, so although Li Xiangping still doesn't know when he will be able to 'break it', he also knows it in his heart:

When Kong Erjie also begins to "stand", it will definitely be a strong opponent, and it may not be necessary to see an upgraded version of Kong Erjie.

After the CCTV Cup, the next focus is the "Toyota Cup".

Before preparing to leave for Japan again, Li Da Tuhao rarely found him:

"Xiangping, this time I went to Japan, I had better remember to bring some gifts for your sister back."

"What for?"

"Full moon, I'm about to put a full moon wine for Beibei, so don't you want to show it as a brother?"

Li Xiangping laughed: "Haha, it must be ......"

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