On June 3, China Chess Academy, the quarterfinals of the 16th "Fujitsu Cup".

Because it was a game at home, Li Xiangping arrived at the arena relatively early, and the game started at 10 o'clock in the morning, and he came to the chess academy at 9:00 a.m.

With nothing to do, Li Xiangping sneaked to the communication room on the first floor first, and chatted with reporter Jin Zhangda and others while browsing the latest newspapers and magazines.

"Hahahaha......."

With Li Xiangping's strange laughter, it naturally attracted all the eyes around, looking at the newspaper in his hand, Lao Jin asked with a smile: "What's wrong with Xiangping?" You've seen something interesting. ”

Li Xiangping responded with a smile: "Hehe, it's nothing, I just finally understood why everyone classifies Go as a competitive event." ”

Li Xiangping's words aroused the interest of reporter Zhang Da, and he came up with great interest: "What do you say? ”

Li Xiangping said: "The biggest feature of competitive events, no, what I want to express means: when you media report on sports competitions, you seem to like to list all kinds of data and records, as well as all kinds of strange statistics, this should be the common feature of all competitive events, right?" Even our Go can't be exempt from vulgarity, oh, Zhang Da, reporter, look at ......."

When he said this, Li Xiangping raised the newspaper in his hand, and then continued to say with a smile:

"I really don't know if I don't know it, I was shocked to see it, even I just knew, today's game is still so important? There are so many records associated with them? ”

Reporter Zhang Da is also a media person, so after he took the newspaper and took a quick look, he also smiled empathetically.

Indeed, there is nothing wrong with what Li Xiangping said just now, for example, when you look at NBA news on the Internet, you can often see similar headlines:

Astound! Last night, a certain player performed well, breaking the record of how many years and how many years the dust was sealed in the first game

And then you click in and you're in high spirits, and you'll see the average player who doesn't even look like a star, who grabbed 10 rebounds last night, plus five blocks and three steals.

However, it doesn't matter, that article will tell you: just this 10+5+3 data, this is the team history record of the bad team that has been dusted for more than ten years or even more than 20 years, and the last time he could complete this "feat", it was a superstar in history.......

What do you think? When you see a report like this, will you be a little crying and laughing, you have the heart to say that people are the headline party, that seems really inappropriate, because anyway, the data listed by people is real after all.

Since it's real data, it's not fake news, and since it's not fake news, if you want to scold people for being the headline party, it seems that you're not kind enough.

But if you don't scold him, then for this kind of "non-fake news", you may forget other things except for the "professionalism" of the reporter at the time.

If that's the case in the NBA, it's also a competitive sport, and sometimes it's certainly the same in Go.

For example, the next match to be played was originally just a very ordinary quarter-final match.

One of the five or six world competitions a year is not particularly prominent, nor is it a particularly conspicuous quarter-finals.

However, it doesn't matter, as long as you dig hard, then even in such an ordinary game, you can still find statistics that will make your eyes shine.

The first statistic, of course, is the all-time record of the two players.

Of course, there is no way to do this, after all, Da Pu is not a big or small Li them, nor is he a super-first-class chess player who has been famous for a long time, so Li Xiangping VS Park Yongxun, 7 crowns against 0 crowns, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like an opponent of the same level, so if you want to dig out data, it seems that you can only start from the historical records of the two.

Under this excavation, some people should be able to shine in front of them: the two have only played each other once before, and Li Xiangping won that game of chess, but this is not the point, after all, if Li Xiangping loses the chess, this is already a big gimmick worth writing about.

The real point is that Li Xiangping had a hard time winning that game, and he relied on a "death break" to turn the game around after falling behind for a long time.

No matter from which point of view, Da Pu's game of chess is a bit of a pity, or Li Xiangping won a bit of a fluke, so well, in this second game, can Li Xiangping still get lucky? Or can Da Park take revenge and make up for the regret of the last time? Is this a highlight?

Of course, this is not enough to have only this one point of view, after all, the two players look completely unequal, and if you only support this one point of view, it will be suspected of strong words.

So people quickly began to look for new data and records.

And such a thing seems to be only to be found in Li Xiangping, after all, compared to his opponent Dapu, the most shining data and records in the entire Go world in recent years seem to be from Li Xiangping.

Everyone quickly found out: so far, Li Xiangping has participated in a total of 9 World Series, with 7 championships and 2 runners-up------ there is no doubt that this is a very amazing and even remarkable record, because it means that Li Xiangping has participated in the World Series so far, he has not lost before the final.

After all, in the existing professional Go World Championships, there are many competitions that have been played since the semi-finals------ and Li Xiangping has indeed lost chess in the semi-finals.

Well, everyone can take a step back: "Li Xiangping maintained an amazing 100% winning rate before the quarterfinals", so there is nothing wrong with that, right?

And today's game of chess is the quarterfinals, so "can Park Yongxun, who is determined to take revenge, break Lee Xiangping's undefeated golden body before the quarterfinals of the World Series?" ”

Is this a higher attraction?

If the above is not enough, you can actually continue to explore.

Well, everyone will quickly think that this is the "Fujitsu Cup", which is not only the oldest professional Go World Championship, but also this competition is held once a year, along with the "Samsung Cup" and the "LG Cup", and is one of the only three professional Go World Championships that are held every year.

Then as long as you notice this, you will soon find a new record:

At present, Li Xiangping is on the "Fujitsu Cup", he has achieved two consecutive championships, as long as he can win the championship this year, then he can achieve a very valuable triple championship.

Triple crown! In the field of competitive sports, what does it mean to win three in a row, and what does it mean to win three in a row? Of course, this does not need to be described too much.

And what's even more interesting or even weirder: Li Xiangping's two losses in the previous finals occurred in the "LG Cup" and the "Samsung Cup" respectively.

In other words, if Li Xiangping wants to achieve three consecutive World Series championships in the shortest possible time, only this "Fujitsu Cup" is the most likely.

What do you think? Isn't this attraction even more explosive?

You must know that before this, except for Mr. Masaki Takemiya in the "Asian Cup" of the rapid chess tournament, he achieved a quadruple championship, but in the slow chess tournament, he did not even appear three consecutive championships. Da Li originally had a chance, but at the last time, he met Li Xiangping who crossed over.

Lengthening the previous sentence in this way, it becomes:

"Can the avenging Park Young-hoon 9-dan break Lee Sang-pyeong's unbeaten record ahead of the quarterfinals of the World Series and prevent him from winning an unprecedented triple title at the World Series (not rapids)?"

Well, Li Xiangping just saw such a long sentence that made him laugh.

To tell the truth, because he had been studying the training plan with Lao Shi before, he really didn't expect that just such an ordinary quarterfinals match could be played by reporters.

"Hehe, there is a very vulgar saying: there is never a lack of beauty in this world, only the lack of eyes to find beauty, transplant this sentence to competitive sports, then you can say this: competitive sports never lack records and data, and there is a lack of professional reporters who dig data, Zhang Da reporter, do you say so?"

Reporter Zhang smirked, then nodded yes.

Li Xiangping laughed when he saw this: "Haha, so you have to work hard...... Okay, it's almost time, so I won't mess with you, I'll go up and compete. ”

"Work hard together, work hard, Xiangping, you have to come on......."

After seeing Li Xiangping leave, reporter Zhang Da turned to Lao Jin in confusion:

"Old Jin, did you notice that something seemed wrong with him today?"

"Something is wrong? No, isn't he particularly relaxed, just the best state of the scene. ”

"Oh, you think he's so relaxed? How do I feel like he's so excited today? ”

Lao Jin is the director of the referee department of the chess academy, and he is about to go upstairs today, so he doesn't care about Zhang Da's words:

"Haha, I think you're thinking too much, in fact, whether it's relaxed or excited, isn't this a good state on the spot, so if you want me to say, if Xiangping can have both states, it will be a great thing, I guess that Korean Dapu can't stop it, okay, I won't tell you, I'm going to go up now."

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the game officially began, and in the previous guess, it was Li Xiangping who guessed the black chess, so after a simple adjustment, he quickly fell into the first move of the game.

And this time in the quarterfinals, the Chinese team is only one lone seedling left in Li Xiangping, so naturally, today is a home game, and his game quickly became the focus of attention.

Less than 20 minutes after the start of the game, Lao Nie and Ma Xiaoyi walked into the viewing room one after the other, and naturally sat together------

Many people are surprised by this, don't they all say that the king does not see the king? When did the relationship between these two get so good?

And it's not just today, it is said that in recent times, these two have often mixed together, and sometimes Li Xiangping is added, and the three of them don't know what they want to do when they meet frequently.

Of course, the two former bigwigs in the Chinese chess world didn't know or care what other people thought, and after coming to the viewing room, they quickly put Li Xiangping in this game of chess.

Perhaps because they have been in contact for a long time, they are more familiar with Li Xiangping's current chess path, so they did not comment too much at the beginning stage.

But when it was nearly an hour after the start of the game, when Dapu fell into the 30th hand of the overall game, the two bigwigs glanced at each other, and Ma Xiaofei took the lead and said:

"It seems that this Korean official is also advancing with the times, and he is also familiar with the layout of the new system."

Lao Nie said as a matter of course: "Normal, in the future, if you are not familiar with the new system brought by Xiangping, then I don't think you will be able to gain a foothold in the world chess arena at all." ”

"Yes, yes."

Ma Xiao nodded in agreement with Lao Nie's words, and after the exchange was here, the two bigwigs shut up again and continued to pay attention in silence.

When the time came to about 11:00 a.m., the 38th hand of the overall situation under Park Yongxun's ninth paragraph, Lao Nie spoke again:

"Hehe, although this Dapu has studied hard, but it's still not enough to see in front of Xiangping, at least in terms of understanding the situation, he still has to be a little better."

This time it was Ma Xiaofei's turn as a matter of course: "Of course, this is equivalent to a copycat meeting the genuine version, so how can you get anything cheap, but then again, this Dapu can play like this, which has already impressed me, and the fast 40 moves are not much behind, very good, quite good......."

At this time, the two did not know that the 38th move of white chess just now turned out to be the last move of the morning.

When it was almost 12 noon to seal the plate, seeing that they had not been able to wait for Li Xiangping's 39th hand, the two bigwigs glanced at each other again, and at the same time had a confusion:

Hey? What is Li Xiangping taking today? In the past competitions, he rarely took long exams in the layout stage, right?

Then at 12 o'clock at noon, the plate was officially sealed, and everyone never waited for Li Xiangping's 39th hand.

The confusion of the two bigwigs is even worse: what is Li Xiangping thinking?