First weekend in August 1999, Tokyo, Japan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoFinals of the 12th Fujitsu Cup World Professional Go Championship. When Li Xiaoqiang and Ma Xiaofei walked into the finals.

"I haven't been in this position in years." Ma Xiaofei sighed with a relaxed face.

Li Xiaoqiang smiled at Ma Xiaofei. This is Ma Xiaofei's second World Series final after 3 years. Today, in real history, he also sits in this position, but he lost to South Korean chess player Yoo Chang-hyuk in that game, and it was after that game that the Korean media issued a "Why is it that the Korean chess player wins?" Chinese chess players really don't give face".

Li Xiaoqiang is very relieved that the South Korean media may never be able to publish such an outcry again.

Today it is a civil war between Chinese chess players. Although it is a civil war, there are still many highlights in this game, in addition to Ma Xiaofei, who has not been seen for a long time, Li Xiaoqiang, who is now taking a step forward and creating a new record in the world chess world, has also attracted everyone's attention.

Who can stop Li Xiaoqiang's progress? When the other chess players seemed helpless, Ma Xiaofei sat in front of Li Xiaoqiang:

He is the only player who has ever defeated Li Xiaoqiang in the final of the World Series.

He is the only player who has defeated Li Xiaoqiang in many chess tournaments.

He is the only player who has played Li Xiaoqiang more than 10 times and has a winning percentage ahead of Li Xiaoqiang.

Ma Xiaofei's winning rate against Li Xiaoqiang, there is a reason for Li Xiaoqiang's "historical debt", because Li Xiaoqiang rushed to Ma Xiaofei very early, in the early years in the domestic chess battle has been at a disadvantage against Ma Xiaofei, which has lowered Li Xiaoqiang's total winning rate against Ma Xiaofei, this situation has changed greatly in recent years, so the total winning rate may not explain anything.

Nevertheless, if it comes to today's chess world, who has the best way to deal with Li Xiaoqiang? In addition to Li Shifo, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is Ma Xiaofei.

That's what this final is all about, and that's why everyone is looking forward to it.

A game with many highlights, but what about the two parties? The two parties in the final seemed very relaxed.

Ma Xiaofei was interviewed by reporters before the game:

"This is no longer our time, and the rise of young people is unstoppable. My only wish now is to win one more World Championship in my career... ”

Li Xiaoqiang believes that this is Ma Xiaofei's true words, and such words are also in line with Ma Xiaofei's character.

Li Xiaoqiang has always believed that Ma Xiaofei has never been a qualified leader. In real history, several generations of Chinese Go leaders, from Nie Whirlwind to Ma Xiaofei, and then from Chang Rensheng to Gu Dali. Li Xiaoqiang believes that the most qualified leader should be Nie Whirlwind, followed by Gu Dali, and Ma Xiaofei and Chang Rensheng, the two of them are obviously unqualified.

This has nothing to do with their level, but it has to do with their personality and temperament There are some people who seem to be the first by nature, and he is uncomfortable for him to stay in the second position, such as Nie Whirlwind. And some people, as if they are naturally accustomed to staying in the second position, they lack the domineering spirit to be the first, and if you force him to be the first, he will be equally uncomfortable.

How so? Ma Xiaofei should be a typical representative of this kind of person.

In real history, Ma Xiaofei's lifetime achievements are limited to 2 world championships, which is one of the important reasons. Due to his lack of the temperament of a leading man, when he became the de facto first Chinese Go player, this only made him carry a heavy burden when he participated in international competitions.

But in this life, the situation has completely changed, and due to his appearance, he firmly occupies the position of the leading figure of Chinese Go. Li Xiaoqiang even thought like this: If Nie Whirlwind can be ten or twenty years younger, then he will definitely not be convinced, and he will definitely find a way to fight himself to the end. But what about Ma Xiaofei? He won't, he'll be comfortable in second place.

Is it necessarily a bad thing not to want to be number one? Li Xiaoqiang thinks this is not necessarily the case. For example, the current Ma Xiaofei, Li Xiaoqiang can fully feel his ease. And the relaxed Ma Xiaofei is the most terrible Ma Xiaofei.

"I believe that with Mr. Ma's talent and level, winning the world championship again is just around the corner, but I just hope that Mr. Ma will not take me under the knife...

Facing Ma Xiaofei, who was lightly armed, Li Xiaoqiang also responded with this kind of joke. Due to the statements of the two chess players, it also made this final seem to have a relaxed atmosphere.

But beneath the relaxed surface lies a murderous motive. Li Xiaoqiang deeply knows that the current Ma Xiaofei is the strongest Ma Xiaofei. From a certain point of view, Ma Xiaofei at this time was even stronger than when he had the best results in 95 and 96.

This is very similar to the situation in real history. Which is stronger, Ma Xiaofei in 95 or Ma Xiaofei in 98 and 99? If Li Xiaoqiang is allowed to choose, Li Xiaoqiang will choose the latter Ma Xiaofei.

Ma Xiaofei is actually a bit similar to Cao Yanzi's situation, everyone is talking about Lao Cao's "reverse growth", but Ma Xiaofei is not growing up in reverse. In real history, it was during this period that Ma Xiaofei mustered up the courage to launch a final counterattack against Li Shifo.

The war was earth-shattering, and it was described by the South Korean media as "melting the cold ice and snow of Seoul". Although Ma Xiaofei lost that battle, for senior chess fans like Li Xiaoqiang, the impression left on Li Xiaoqiang in that battle was even deeper than when Ma Xiaofei won the double championship in 95.

In real history, Cao Yanzi has 9 crowns, and Ma Xiaofei only has 2 crowns. But in Li Xiaoqiang's mind, he never thought that Lao Cao was stronger than Ma Xiao.

The reason why Lao Cao's results are so much better than Ma Xiao's is first: Lao Cao's luck is better than Ma Xiao's. Second: Because there was a Li Shifo in South Korea at that time, this led to Lao Cao being able to travel lightly when participating in international competitions, but what about Ma Xiaofei? He had to carry a heavy burden all the time.

But in this life, the situation is completely different! For a long time to come, it will be the Koreans who will carry the burden, but the Chinese players will be able to travel lightly. So what will happen in the future is really hard to say now.

For example, today, Ma Xiaofei, who traveled lightly, caused great trouble to Li Xiaoqiang.

When the game was going on until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, reporter Zhang Da, who had been watching the game in the viewing room, sighed:

"Famous game, if Ma Xiao wins this game, this should be regarded as his famous game. It seems that if you want to take care of Xiaoqiang, it's really Ma Xiao's best way... ”

Li Xiaoqiang played a good game of chess, but Ma Xiaofei obviously played better. At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, everyone judged that the current situation was very subtle, and in the end, it was very likely that Hanmu would win or lose. But the voice of "Ma Xiaofei wants to win half an eye" is louder.

It's just a pity that this game of chess did not become Ma Xiaofei's famous game, and from a certain point of view, it is precisely because of Ma Xiaofei's outstanding performance that this game of chess has made Li Xiaoqiang's "famous game".

The problem was a change in the official stage, Ma Xiaofei made a big mistake with one step of "qi", which made him lose the game.

"Li Xiaoqiang's ghostly methods are really endless, and it is too difficult to win a game of chess against him now...

This is the emotion expressed by many professional chess players after watching this game.

What happened to this game? Let's take a look at the scene before the endgame:

The game went on until more than 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when both sides had entered the countdown, and the entire chess game was played nearly 200 hands, the situation was relatively clear, and most people thought that Ma Xiaofei's victory was in sight.

At this time, Ma Xiaofei had just made a move, how to evaluate this move? It should be that there is no problem with this move, although he is counting the seconds now, Ma Xiaofei is also a top official master, and the move he played just now should be the best official order in the situation at that time. While threatening Li Xiaoqiang's several chess pieces, he was preparing to finalize this part.

But at this time, what everyone thought was "Li Xiaoqiang's ghost method" appeared, and he ignored the safety of his chess pieces and suddenly ran to another place to play chess.

"Two Reuters!"

Li Xiaoqiang suddenly ran to a corner to "two Transit points".

On the surface, Li Xiaoqiang's move is indeed like a good move to "try your hand", this move is not only very good timing, but also very difficult to respond, because there is still a lot of aftertaste around it, and Ma Xiaofei's slight bad response will bring losses.

In line with the principle of "if it is not good, it should not be", a transition on the board takes place.

At this time, Ma Xiaofei's train of thought is very easy to understand: Do you dare to threaten your chess pieces, so why should I respond to your "test hand"? Then I'll just give you mine, and you will give you yours. So Ma Xiaofei ate a few chess pieces of Li Xiaoqiang, and Li Xiaoqiang occupied a small corner that originally belonged to Ma Xiaofei.

What is it? This is the "Qi Combination" in Go.

It's a pity that it was this "gas combination" that made Ma Xiaofei lose the whole game.

After a big change, how much did Ma Xiaofei lose? In fact, there was not much loss, after the game, everyone researched, in the entire big conversion, Ma Xiaofei only lost 1 chess.

But this 1 chess is deadly, this game is Ma Xiaofei's black chess, when he finally faced the result of the 6 goals on the board, Ma Xiaofei could only ask the sky speechlessly.

After the game, everyone also studied that if Ma Xiaofei did not choose to switch at that time, but honestly played in the corner, then he could still win this game of chess. Li Xiaoqiang's "second Throughpoint" is very powerful, yes, but how much benefit can that move bring to Li Xiaoqiang? After everyone's detailed analysis, that move can make Li Xiaoqiang profit by one-third.

What is the concept of one-third in Go? In other words, such interests are actually uncertain, and whether they can really make a profit in the end depends on the situation elsewhere on the chessboard.

In today's game of chess, this interest is actually non-existent!

Therefore, at that time, Ma Xiaofei was able to analyze calmly and choose to be honest in the corner, so the final victory and defeat would be completely reversed.

Therefore, when the results of such an analysis came out, everyone thought that Ma Xiaofei had lost a pity.

But the interesting thing is that although everyone thinks that Ma Xiaofei lost a pity, no one thinks that Li Xiaoqiang won a fluke.

This is Li Xiaoqiang's 9th world championship, which is a very thrilling 9th crown, but it is not a fluke 9th crown.

Why? After the game, Ma Xiaofei said something in an interview with reporters that is the most revealing:

"On the one hand, there was time pressure, and on the other hand, there was the fear of loss, so at that time, I think not only me, but I guess most professional chess players will choose to fight back at that time, just like me. Don't ask me why, just because he's Li Xiaoqiang! When you face this kind of ghostly method of him, there is a lot of pressure on anyone, and not many people can make the right choice. This is where Li Xiaoqiang is powerful, and this is the reason why he is the first person in the world chess world... (To be continued.) )