On the second day after the semi-finals of the "Fujitsu Cup", the Chinese team set off for China. While waiting for the flight, Team Leader Hua asked Li Xiaoqiang:

"Xiaoqiang, didn't you sleep well last night?"

Li Xiaoqiang didn't sleep well yesterday, he didn't sleep all night. Therefore, with a pair of panda eyes, he now looks very haggard.

Li Xiaoqiang went out alone yesterday, and everyone didn't know it. However, Li Xiaoqiang has always been self-disciplined, and everyone understands the pain of his loss. In less than a month, it suffered a major blow in two international competitions in a row. You know, there are only a few international competitions in this year. Especially this year, after Li Xiaoqiang lost this semi-final, it is impossible for him to win the world title again this year. It was everyone who understood Li Xiaoqiang's depression, so everyone didn't think about other places.

Seeing that Li Xiaoqiang didn't make a sound, Team Leader Hua just patted Li Xiaoqiang's shoulder to express comfort, and did not continue to say anything. Even the reporter Zhang Da on the side, he originally wanted to joke and ask Yukari Umezawa why he didn't come to see him off this time. However, seeing Li Xiaoqiang's gloomy face, he never asked what he said.

Li Xiaoqiang boarded the plane in a daze, and then returned to China.

"You can't die, I said there's something wrong with you, right? It's all about to graduate and leave, you're good, you're running here every day now, I've never seen you so diligent before? ”

"It's because I'm about to graduate, so I ran a few more times. Otherwise, how can I see so many beauties at one time in the future. You know, I'm calling it a remedy, and I came here to enjoy the feeling of being surrounded by a group of beautiful women......"

At Li Xiaoqiang's former alma mater, Lin Mengyu smiled and watched her boyfriend talk to other girls. Although she didn't know why Li Xiaoqiang came so diligently after returning from Japan. However, Lin Mengyu also understands Li Xiaoqiang's depression after losing a major game, and she thinks that Li Xiaoqiang came to her mainly to "ask for comfort". Besides, her boyfriend came to her every day. Her heart is always sweet. Although Lin Mengyu felt that Li Xiaoqiang after returning from Japan this time seemed to be a little different from before, she didn't think much about it.

Everything looks the same as before, as if nothing has happened. But is it really the same? Of course not. At least since Li Xiaoqiang returned to China, everyone has seen a Li Xiaoqiang who is completely different from before, a Li Xiaoqiang who is in a state of depression to the extreme.

In the first battle after returning to China, Li Xiaoqiang defeated Qian Yuping in the final of the "CCTV Cup". Won the championship of this televised rapid chess tournament for the first time. Just when everyone thought that Li Xiaoqiang had come out of the haze. The subsequent "Asian Cup". Li Xiaoqiang didn't win a set, and was neatly eliminated in the first round.

Although this is only a rapid chess tournament, it doesn't seem to explain anything, but it also set a personal record for Li Xiaoqiang: he was eliminated in the first round of the world competition.

In this "Asian Cup", Qian Yuping reached the final round. However, he did not win the championship either, and it was Otake Hero who defeated him in the final.

If you say a rapid chess game, it doesn't mean anything. Immediately afterwards, Li Xiaoqiang returned to the domestic arena and continued to perform sluggishly.

In the preliminaries of the "Chess King Competition", Li Xiaoqiang fell in the penultimate round. This year, I have no chance to compete with Ma Xiaofei for the "chess king", and at the same time, the dream of the domestic "full champion" cannot be realized this year.

It was Yu Bin who beat him in the match, also an opponent who rarely won against him in official matches.

The "Chess Champion Battle" was followed by the "Celebrity Battle" preliminaries. The "Celebrity Battle" is a round-robin system, and in the round-robin circle composed of 8 people, Li Xiaoqiang achieved 2 defeats early. Losing 2 games of chess basically announced that Li Xiaoqiang and this year's "celebrity battle" challenge rights have been lost.

Now unless Ma Xiaofei turns around and wins the right to challenge the "national hand war", Li Xiaoqiang has no chance to take revenge on Ma Xiaofei this year.

The state continues to be sluggish. Sleepwalking performance in the game. Let the outside world exclaim:

"What happened to Li Xiaoqiang? What happened to him! ”

can't blame everyone for being confused, although Li Xiaoqiang is not yet 20 years old. But he is already a battle-hardened veteran. In Li Xiaoqiang, there has never been such a situation. Even Li Xiaoqiang in the early years, his level was not enough, and it was rare to lose consecutive chess like this. You must know that since Li Xiaoqiang's debut, he has been famous in the world chess world for being good at adjusting his state.

Gradually. Some people think that something must have happened to Li Xiaoqiang. Gradually, some people associate Li Xiaoqiang's downturn with Yukari Umezawa.

After entering August, because of Li Xiaoqiang's incident, it even caused a storm in the Sino-Japanese Go community.

The cause of the matter. Let's start with the "Fujitsu Cup" final in early August.

In the final of the "Fujitsu Cup" in early August, as in real history, Ma Xiaofei defeated Kobayashi Koji with a far-reaching trick to win his second and only two Go world championships this year. For a time, Ma Xiaofei was in the limelight and became the hottest chess player in the entire world chess world.

But fortunately, in this parallel world, there should be no allusion that "not everyone can understand the chess of the world champion". Because of this game, the Imperial Court TV Sports Channel invited Nie Xuanfeng and Li Xiaoqiang to jointly explain this game of chess. As soon as that trick appeared, Li Xiaoqiang analyzed the intention and role of that trick in time.

The turmoil caused in the Sino-Japanese Go world has nothing to do with that move, but with the result of the game.

Kobayashi Koji's loss to Ma Xiaofei in the final made the Japanese Go world extremely depressed. The last time Japan won the world championship was three years ago, and it can be said that the Japanese Go community is also eager for world championships.

In the world championship competition in 93 and 94, it was difficult to find even a Japanese player. This time, Kobayashi Koji reached the finals, especially when he defeated the Japanese Go "chief bitter player" Li Xiaoqiang to reach the finals, and everyone naturally had high hopes for him.

It's just that the final result still disappoints the entire Japanese Go community. And after the disappointment, it is naturally a reflection.

"You can't continue like this. The current Japanese chess scene is seriously lacking in vitality, and if we continue to be complacent like this, we will only be thrown further and further away by Chinese and Korean Go......"

Speaking of reflection, it must be indispensable for Fujisawa Hideyuki, an old god stick. In an interview with reporters, Hideyuki Fujisawa was like an old angry young man, and he said the above. Facing the emotional old god stick, the reporter asked:

"Do you have any concrete solutions, sir?"

"Yes, I've come up with a good idea for immediate results. That is to open China's news chess war to Chinese and South Korean chess players. If we can do this, we will not only bring new vitality to Japanese Go, but I believe that all Japanese players will also be stimulated, and they will study the game more diligently, so that the overall level of Japanese Go will naturally improve. ”

"You're talking about the open press chess battle......"

Hearing the "good way" proposed by Hideyuki Fujisawa, the reporter who asked the question honestly was a little disappointed. Making Japan's news chess tournament open to Chinese and South Korean players is nothing new. Hideyuki Fujisawa made such a suggestion several years ago.

Of course, this is just a suggestion. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that this topic can only be used to talk about it, and there is no practical sense of operation at all in reality. Although Japanese Go has always claimed that they are very inclusive, foreign players such as Wu Qingyuan, Lin Haifeng, Zhao Zhixun and even McCrumball have grown up in Japan to become famous. However, these foreign chess players have one characteristic, they have all lived and studied in Japan since childhood, and most of them have even become Japanese citizens, so the Japanese can treat them as their own.

If it is replaced by the current Chinese and South Korean masters, and the Japanese news chess battle is open to these people, it is equivalent to letting these people grab the jobs of Japanese chess players, and it is impossible for the Japanese chess academy to agree.

Therefore, for this "good method" of Fujisawa Hideyuki, he just talks about it casually, and everyone listens to it casually.

Of course, it's not that the old god stick doesn't know that his method can't work. The problem is that he has an extra mouth. And his extra sentence caused Li Xiaoqiang a lot of trouble, and also caused many troubles.

"Of course, I know it's not realistic. But there is a super player, and I think we can still bring him to Japan. ”

"Oh? Which super chess player are you talking about? ”

"I'm talking about the Chinese chess player Li Xiaoqiang, the chessboard wizard Li Xiaoqiang."

The old god stick looked excited when he said this, and at this moment, the fire of gossip on his face was burning.

"yes, how did I forget him. Words from the Chessboard Wizard...... We do have a good chance of getting him. ”

When he said this, the Japanese reporter who asked the question also had the fire of gossip burning on his face.

"This matter is incompatible, it will take the efforts of many parties, I think we should start acting separately now."

He put forward a motion in the Japan Chess Academy, suggesting that all professional chess players vote and decide not to accept Li Xiaoqiang as a guest chess player of the Japan Chess Academy.

As a result, I don't know if it was because of the black-box operation, this motion actually passed, and the Japanese Chess Academy announced that if Li Xiaoqiang was willing to join the Japanese Chess Academy, he didn't even have to think about other chess players to drop two dan like others.

In other words, if Li Xiaoqiang joins the Japanese Chess Academy, he will still be Li Xiaoqiang's ninth dan, and will not become Li Xiaoqiang's seventh dan.

On the other hand, the journalist launched an investigation within Japanese chess fans:

"Do you welcome Li Xiaoqiang to join the Japanese Chess Academy?"

The results of the investigation were overwhelmingly welcoming.

In this way, without Li Xiaoqiang's knowledge, he faced a storm. (To be continued.) )