The mission of the ring tournament is over. The focus of the Chinese Go team naturally shifted to the competition. Especially in Li Xiaoqiang's game, everyone began to help Li Xiaoqiang analyze his opponent. In particular, Team Leader Hua and Coach Luo talked the most, because they both played chess with Imamura Wenming, and they were real opponents with Imamura Wenming.

Imamura is now in his 40s, which is basically the same generation as Chen Chaoyue. He has participated in many Sino-Japanese Go competitions. In the early 60s, when Chen surpassed this group of chess players and began to emerge in China. In order to hone their young people, many of the older generation of domestic chess players have reserved a large number of opportunities for Japanese competitions to this group of chess players. In particular, Chen Chaoyue is cultivated as a new generation of leaders.

When Chen Chaoyue was in the fourth and fifth stages of his career, he met Imamura Wenming in the confrontation match. In the first 5 games, Chen surpassed 1-4 and fell behind. You can imagine what Imamura's real level really is. Later, due to the complicated situation in the country, the confrontation was intermittent. It should be said that Chen Chaoyue's group of chess players can be regarded as real chess lovers, and they can still play chess in that environment. Chen Chaoyue went from falling behind at the beginning, to flattening, and then to completely sealing the Imamura civilization. By this time, the Japanese lineup was made up of purely professional players. Until then, it was all pro-amateur "mash-ups".

Team Leader Hua and Coach Luo also briefly introduced the characteristics of Imamura's chess style. Of course, such an introduction is just a general introduction, and there is no way to be very specific. It is nothing more than solid basic skills, and what is a little different from ordinary Japanese chess players is that he has a large amount of mid-game power. However, Team Leader Hua had a sentence that aroused Li Xiaoqiang's interest:

"This is a very competitive player."

What kind of opponent is this? Li Xiaoqiang secretly figured out in his heart that unlike Team Leader Hua, Li Xiaoqiang also knew the "future" of the civilization of Jincun. Li Xiaoqiang knew that Imamura Wenming was at the peak of his Go level, and in normal history, he should win his second world amateur Go championship next year, that is, in 1987, who is his main opponent? is the current Chinese Go young talent, the head coach of the national Go team in the future, and Yu Bin, who has also won the world championship once, is Yu Bin now the sixth dan or the seventh dan? Li Xiaoqiang is not very clear.

Not only that, but Imamura also reached the summit for the third time in 1991. At that time, China sent Chang Rensheng to participate in the competition. Chang Rensheng also participated in a World Amateur Go Championship when he was 14 years old in 90 and won the championship, at that time Chang Rensheng should have three dans. At that time, Li Shifo had already begun to accumulate strength, and was ready to launch a fierce attack on his master Cao Yanzi in domestic competitions in South Korea.

Therefore, the Imamura civilization occupies a unique place in the history of Sino-Japanese Go exchanges. He has played against Chinese chess players who span several generations. The competitive state is at its peak, "very good at competing". It's really hard to say what this "very good at competing" is. How to say it, for example, the match between him and Yu Bin, it is certain that Yu Bin's level was higher than him at that time. Li Xiaoqiang hadn't seen that game of chess, so he didn't know what happened to Lu Dao. However, Imamura is able to defeat the strong with the weak, and in this regard, he can also be called "very good at playing".

There is another point that can roughly explain the characteristics of Imamura's civilization. The Japanese chess community evaluates their amateur Four Heavenly Kings and believes that their level is actually on the same line. For example, this year, Hironori Hirata has performed much better than Imamura, winning two important competitions in "Amateur Celebrity" and "Amateur Honinbo". But they are still a little more at ease with Imamura, and the others are also obedient to him, what to obey him? In Li Xiaoqiang's view, it is more reliable to serve the civilization of Imamura at a critical time.

Through analysis, Li Xiaoqiang made a general judgment on the civilization of Imamura. However, the current Li Xiaoqiang is not shocked in his heart, and in his opinion, the Imamura civilization is a hurdle that he must overcome. What are you kidding, after being reborn, my imaginary enemies are all Li Shifo, Li Shi, them. Your Imamura civilization is not bad, and you may be a little bit higher than me in terms of comprehensive ability in Go. But no matter what, you are also an amateur chess player, but I, Li Xiaoqiang, now demand myself by the standards of a professional chess player.

If it's just the next game, it might not be good to say that you have to win you, but now it's a three-way game. If you can't win as an amateur chess player, then I'll change my career to become a "scientist" as soon as possible. Still want to mix in the professional circle? Of course, it may still be possible to mix, but I don't want to mix to the level of Li Shifo.

"I wasn't here to be a "stalwart chess player"! ”

Li Xiaoqiang even jokingly thought, if I lose, will it leave a psychological shadow? If I accidentally become a generation of Go masters in the future, will others laugh at me? Say that I was a professional chess player and lost to an amateur in three games......

No matter how Li Xiaoqiang is there, in the eyes of many people, the biggest attraction of this confrontation is coming soon. Li Xiaoqiang's game location was even arranged on the 4th floor of the Japanese Chess Academy.

Japan is a very hierarchical society. In Go, there is also a hierarchy in small details such as the game room. On the 5th floor of the Nippon Chess Academy, there is a famous special game room called "Yugen", which is the dream place for many professional chess players in this era.

Generally speaking, two conditions must be met to play chess there, first, the side of the match must have a title, and second, the level of the game must be very high, at least to the level of the challenger decision. Therefore, there are not many opportunities for ordinary chess players to want to play chess in it. Even if you meet two conditions, you may not be able to play chess in "Youxuan". For example, let's say Hideyuki Fujisawa and Masaki Takemiya compete for the right to challenge the "Tengen" battle. Well, Takemiya is now the owner of the title of "Ben Inbo", and the level of the competition is enough. But I'm sorry, you still can't go down in it, what are you doing? Because today Kobayashi Koji Chess Saint and Hiroshi Yamashiro are competing for the right to challenge the "celebrity" battle. The ranking of the "Chess Master" is higher than that of the "Ben Yin Fang", so the "Mystery" must be arranged for the higher ranking.

What the? Are you Hideyuki Fujisawa old and qualified? Or is it an honorary chess master? Excuse me, how old are you? What, more than 50? Your "Honorary Chess Master" will not be awarded to you until you are 60 years old. If you don't have a title now, you're just an ordinary old man, and it's useless to be old. Sorry for the change of room. You see, that "Xingyun" is not bad, so you can go there and play.

It is also an important game that can be arranged on the fourth floor of the Japan Chess Academy. Li Xiaoqiang's game can be arranged on the fourth floor, which shows that the Japanese still attach more importance to this game.

"Hey, hello, is this Mr. Xiuyuki? Will you come over tomorrow for Imamura's match with that Chinese teenager? Let's arrange a research room for spectators. ”

"Ha Luha, my old man happens to be free, and he will definitely come over tomorrow."

"Hey, hello, is this Mr. Otake? Will you come over tomorrow for Imamura's match with that Chinese teenager? Let's arrange a research room for spectators. ”

"I'll take a look at my game first."

"You don't have a game tomorrow, you have a game of rapid chess the day after tomorrow."

"Oh, that's good, tomorrow...... Wait, will Mr. Hideyuki come over? ”

"Mr. Hideyuki Fujisawa has confirmed that he will come to watch the fight."

"Well, yes. I'll ...... first. Well, I'll see if I have any other arrangements...... Uh-huh, not sure yet, hahaha, I'll see when the time comes, yes, I'll see...... Mmmmmmmm ”

Li Xiaoqiang's first chess game after his rebirth is about to begin.