After the end of the "Tianyuan Competition", in the capital, on the edge of the Chinese Chess Academy, in the restaurant where members of the national Go team often go, Li Xiaoqiang and Chang Rensheng and their brothers got together to drink.

"Heck, I don't think I'm the stuff for chess. Tell me about the chess I played. Teacher Nie went around me so simply. The funny thing is that I feel good about myself and think I'm playing well. Now it seems that I am not playing chess, I am throwing stones there, I feel so stupid, I am the number one fool in our Go world......"

It must be admitted that Li Xiaoqiang drank a little too much today. After a few cups, he kept blaming himself there, talking non-stop.

saw Li Xiaoqiang chattering like Xianglin's sister-in-law. Chang Rensheng and the others looked at each other, and they were speechless to Li Xiaoqiang.

Come on! It's good that you just lose a game of chess on the highest stage in the country. And your opponent is Nie Whirlwind, judging from the score, you only lost 2-3. Isn't it normal to win and lose and win? As for the pain, is it unbearable? Oh! You say you're not the stuff for chess, so what are we? Are we going to just change careers now?

The main reason why the brothers got together today to drink stuffy wine was not because of Li Xiaoqiang. The 4V object that everyone comforts is actually Liu Qing. The 7th China-Japan Go Tournament has begun, and Liu Qing participated in this competition as the pioneer of the Chinese side.

You must know that this is actually a symbol, which marks the first time that anyone other than Li Xiaoqiang in the Chinese Go "Eight Horses" has represented the country on the international stage.

Others may not feel much about this, but as a teammate who gets along with Liu Qing day and night, of course they are very concerned about Liu Qing's performance. In the words of later generations, everyone has a full "sense of substitution" for Liu Qing's participation, and Chang Rensheng will all think: everyone's level is about the same. If I go up, how will it be......

As for Li Xiaoqiang's game, since everyone has long decided in their hearts that it is not a level, attention is concern. It's more about appreciating and learning, rather than creating a sense of substitution.

It's a pity that Liu Qing, who made his debut on the international stage for the first time, was hit by a slap in the face, perhaps too nervous, or too excited. In the opening game, Liu Qing did not play at all. He was quickly defeated.

After losing the game, Liu Qing was naturally depressed, and others were also "related to me". You can feel the atmosphere in the international arena that is completely different from the domestic arena. This happened to happen that Li Xiaoqiang also lost "Tianyuan", so there was this stuffy wine.

What everyone didn't expect was that everyone was mainly here to comfort Liu Qing this time. As soon as the wine was drunk, Liu Qing didn't say much, and he saw Li Xiaoqiang nagging there alone.

"You have to steal the show on such an occasion......"

Everyone was speechless at Li Xiaoqiang. At this moment, whether it was Chang Rensheng, Luo Shenzhu, or the other brothers, they all expressed their contempt for Li Xiaoqiang.

"It's uncomfortable. Of course, I'm more uncomfortable, can Xiaoqing compare with me? Xiaoqing is right to lose, but he at least has something to gain and knows where he lost. The next game improvement is. He's not like me......"

"What's wrong with you? Isn't the reason why you lose chess is that the layout is not played well, this is known to everyone. Boss, I'm not talking about you. I don't know what you're doing here today. By the way, have you noticed? The appearance of the boss today is best described by a phrase that he himself often says. ”

"Which word?"

Chang Rensheng and Luo Shenzhu and the other brothers glanced at each other. Then he said in unison:

"A slut is hypocrisy."

“……”

As a professional chess player, Li Xiaoqiang certainly has a strong sense of winning and losing, which is a necessary quality for an excellent chess player. Of course, he will not be like Qian Yuping or Zhao Zhixun, who has a strong obsession with winning and losing, losing a game of chess is painful, and losing a game of chess is like the end of the world. This Li Xiaoqiang won't.

Li Xiaoqiang's current state is actually difficult to say. How so? This should be the inevitable reaction after the level of Go has reached a relatively high level.

Li Xiaoqiang is a reborn, in his mind, what is the best Go?

Li Xiaoqiang thinks like this: If there is a chess player, his layout is like Nie Whirlwind, the middle game is like Gu Dali and Li Shishi, and the official is like Li Shifo......

What do you think? If there really is such a chess player, is it enough to pull the wind? Then he will definitely be invincible in the world. Of course, this is just an ideal model, and Li Xiaoqiang also knows in his heart that Go is not a simple superposition, and it is almost impossible to bring together the specialties of several of the best chess players. But it must be admitted that Li Xiaoqiang's early cultivation path was actually done according to this standard, intentionally or unintentionally. And so far, it looks like he's doing pretty well.

First of all, the official technology, Li Xiaoqiang has always attached great importance to it. Although Li Xiaoqiang knows that his official skills may be a little worse than Li Shifo. But Li Xiaoqiang doesn't think it's a big deal.

For example, even if Li Shifo's official son is really as described by the Korean media, he is perverted enough to distinguish the size of one in thirty-two officials. And Li Xiaoqiang can only be counted to one-sixth of the mesh. But Li Xiaoqiang believes that it is enough to be able to do this, if in every game of chess, he can do one-sixth of the goal. Then against any chess player, at least he will not suffer in the official.

In terms of mid-plate technology, because Gu Dali and Li Shishi have not yet been "born". Therefore, there is no way to learn. But in this technology, Li Xiaoqiang has found a good alternative. That is the ancient Chinese chess. Li Xiaoqiang believes that in terms of the lethality of the mid-game, Huang Longshi, Fan Xiping and Shi Xiangxia, these seniors, their level is extremely high, and they are the top-level existence in the history of Go. They are not inferior to any chess player of any era.

Li Xiaoqiang found that he had also gained a lot by studying their chess games. Take your mid-range skills to the next level. For example, now other people evaluate Li Xiaoqiang, and they all think that his current mid-game methods are elusive, and the power point is extremely weird, which often makes people unguardable. A large part of Li Xiaoqiang's skill comes from ancient Chinese chess.

Everything looks so good, everything seems to be going on according to Li Xiaoqiang's own career plan. Only when it came to the layout, Li Xiaoqiang found that he was stuck. If you really want to talk about it, if you want to hone your layout skills, the conditions should be the best, because Nie Whirlwind is the middle coach of the national team, he is by his side every day, and if you ask him for advice, he will never hide his secrets, and he will definitely teach him.

But Li Xiaoqiang was depressed and found that in terms of the layout of this technology, his progress was the slowest. If it is to deal with the general Qiang Jiu, and rely on those "routines" from later generations, he will generally not suffer. But when you meet a really top layout master, your own routines are not good. If those routines don't succeed, then it will be very difficult to start every game, and it will be easy to be beaten back to the original shape.

"These things on the void path, I really don't know how to cultivate. Could it be that in Go, there really is a so-called realm? Do you really need years of accumulation to improve bit by bit? ”

The above is Li Xiaoqiang's current distress. He knows his problems and his shortcomings. He couldn't wait to solve this problem, but he couldn't think of a good way for a while.

Problems like this can't be experienced by Chang Rensheng for the time being. The bottleneck that Li Xiaoqiang is encountering now is that it will only appear when the level of Go reaches a fairly high level. There are many chess players who are stuck at such a juncture, and they are even unable to advance an inch for life. Obviously, Chang Rensheng and Luo Shenzhu's current level is not enough, and of course they can't understand Li Xiaoqiang's distress.

Of course, there is no way to explain such a problem and such distress in detail, so in the face of the contempt of his partners, Li Xiaoqiang had no choice but to continue to pretend:

"Alas, you young people don't understand a question like mine. You'll not know until you're older......"

"Cut!"

After all, everyone is a young person, and after a suffocating meal, they actually become talking and laughing again. Talking and talking, everyone's topic has come to the upcoming "Top Ten Battle".

"Boss, you have no crown in your hand now. I miss you as a world champion, and you don't have a single title in China, so it's unreasonable. What do you think? Don't you have any thoughts about this top 10 battle? ”

"Hehe, since you finished first in the group stage, how can you not have an idea? I think now, in that group, it is best for Mr. Nie to enter the finals, and also give me a chance to take revenge. But he still has to pass the level of Teacher Ma. ”

The format of the "Top 10 Tournament" is as follows: first, the 10 players are arranged in a serpentine pattern. According to "one, four, five, eight, nine" and "two, three, six, seven, ten" are divided into 2 groups, and the two groups will first play a single round-robin match to determine the group ranking. Finally, the two groups will play another game with the same ranking to determine the ranking of the top 10 Chinese Go.

In the group that Li Xiaoqiang is in, he has won the first place in the group with a record of 4 wins. In the other group, Nie Whirlwind, who won the second vote, and Ma Xiaofei, who won the third vote, were both in this group. Both of them have won all three of their fights so far. The last game of chess between the two of them was not played. And the winner between the two of them will compete with Li Xiaoqiang for the championship of this year's Chinese Go "Top 10 Battle". All Li Xiaoqiang would say such a thing.

"It's best for Lao Nie to come up, let me understand again, where is your layout skill......

At the wine table, Li Xiaoqiang muttered to himself again.

Now he seems to be really drunk. (To be continued......)