Chapter 36: I don't feel comfortable without being romantic
At 7 o'clock in the evening, the match between "Jueyi" and "Leimeng Nie Zheng" started as scheduled.
At the Chinese Chess Institute, a few minutes before the game started, Yu Bin, 9th Dan, was already sitting in front of a computer. Judging from his expression, it seemed as if he was about to participate in a formal competition.
Everyone naturally understood his feelings. If he volunteered last night, it was purely for fun, a professional chess player who was itching to play after seeing Gao Qi's moves. However, after this afternoon, when everyone learned that the "3304" was Liu Changhe, Yu Bin's mood became completely different.
All this stems from what Yu Bin’s good friend Chang Hao said after watching three games of chess in the afternoon:
"Captain, you have to play well tonight. Think about it, since this person can beat Liu Changhe, then if you can beat this 'Jueyi'..."
This was what Chang Hao said at the time, but Yu Bin understood what he meant. In fact, not only Yu Bin, but all professional chess players understood what Chang Hao said.
You should know that Yu Jiudan is now preparing for the final of the "LG Cup", and the preparation of professional chess players usually includes two parts. The first part is naturally technical preparation, that is, making corresponding technical preparations before the game based on the technical .
The second part is psychological preparation, commonly known as "adjusting your state."
From a certain perspective, when it comes to the finals of world championships, a player's psychological preparation is often more important than his technical preparation.
After all, when they reach the level of Yu Bin or Liu Changhe, it is very difficult for them to improve their technical level in a short period of time. Moreover, this final is a five-game match. If you can prepare, I can prepare, and if you can make technical preparations, I can make technical preparations. In this case, psychological preparation is particularly important. Whoever can adjust the state better before the game is more likely to win.
And what Chang Hao said just now was actually a kind of psychological preparation. This is the so-called psychological suggestion.
You should know that being a professional chess player is different from engaging in other industries. What are the necessary qualities for being a professional chess player? Different people may have different answers to this question, but real experts will tell you: the necessary quality for being a professional chess player is actually sensitivity.
Since professional chess players live in a world of winning and losing, their world consists of winning and losing. Therefore, if they want to become the best in this industry, they must be sensitive enough to winning and losing.
Adjectives like "carefree" and "heartless" are actually completely irrelevant to this profession. If someone looks at a professional chess player in this way, it only shows that this person does not understand professional chess players at all.
Even someone like Lao Nie is often described like this in later generations. In fact, that is only the Lao Nie that everyone sees in his middle age, or the Lao Nie after he retired from the professional front line. Lao Nie in his prime, his sensitivity to chess is no less than anyone else in the world of chess.
It is precisely because most professional chess players are sensitive that they are very particular about things like "psychological suggestion". If you can understand this, you can understand why Yu Jiudan attaches so much importance to a game of online chess.
Yu Jiudan was sitting there, ready to go. But on Li Xiangping's side, the situation was completely different. This was the first time in so many games that Li Xiangping knew exactly who his opponent was before the game. So his preparations were naturally different from before:
"Brother Ding'an, let me tell you that the opponent we are about to face is currently one of the top five players in the country, and he will compete with our opponent this afternoon for the championship of a world Go tournament in half a month..."
After Li Xiangping explained some basic information about the current world chess scene to Lao Shi, he also told him about the characteristics of Yu Bin's chess style:
"This person loves playing chess on the ground and is good at 'fishing first and washing later'. He is known as the 'little washing machine' in the domestic chess world. However, compared to the two opponents yesterday and this afternoon, this person's fighting ability is relatively weak, or it can be said that this person does not like fighting at all and often subconsciously avoids fighting during the game. Therefore, based on this characteristic of his, I specially prepared an interesting opening. Brother Ding'an needs to be ready at any time..."
Before Li Xiangping could say his "interesting opening", Lao Shi suddenly said:
"Friend Xiangping, what is a small washing machine?"
"A washing machine is..." Li Xiangping said with a dark face: "Brother Ding'an, don't worry about what a washing machine is. Anyway, this person is very agile and practical. He is good at infiltration and breaking through the air, but he is not very good at using momentum. Do you understand what I mean?"
Old Shi nodded: "You mean this person is a lazy person, right?"
Lazy... Lazy Yu? Li Xiangping was stunned at first, then laughed:
"Haha, that's right, this guy plays the same chess game as Lan Yu."
The "Lan Yu" they were talking about was the "famous" master Zhou Lan Yu in the medieval chess. He was light and delicate in his moves, quick in his actions, and very good at controlling the situation. He was considered the founder of the "control flow". In the medieval chess that was dominated by physical combat, Zhou Lan Yu's style of play was simply a breath of fresh air.
It was with this unique playing method that he defeated the chess master Guo Bailing, leaving the famous "Ten Games of Guo and Zhou" in the history of Go. However, after defeating Guo Bailing, although Zhou Lanyu dominated for a while, he failed to become a dominant player. The reason was very simple, that is, Zhou Lanyu's chess still had weaknesses. His fighting ability was weak, and he liked to avoid fighting habitually. Therefore, when others became familiar with his chess style, he was "defeated by force" by another less well-known "master" Li Yuanzhao.
It is also for this reason that when Li Xiangping heard Lao Shi mention Zhou Lanyu, he laughed , because when he thought about it carefully, he found that Zhou Lanyu and Yu Bin’s chess styles seemed to be somewhat similar.
"Since Brother Ding'an mentioned Senior Lanyu, I'm sure you already have an idea of how to proceed in this situation..."
"My dear friend Xiang Ping, there is no need to say more. The time has come, let's start the game quickly."
"Ah? We're here so soon? Okay, okay, let's get started..."
Poor Li Xiangping still didn't have time to say his "interesting opening" before the game time was up. But it didn't matter, since he said it was an "opening", of course we could see it right away.
According to the rules of the game, it was Jueyi's turn to play black. Because he was prepared, Li Xiangping made moves quickly in the layout phase, and he still chose the "Two Stars" opening.
The first 10 or so moves were very ordinary, nothing much to say, but just after the 20th move, Li Xiangping made the 21st move, which made Yu Bin stop. Seeing this move, some chess fans with good chess skills began to discuss:
"Hey, this change seems to be that the black piece should charge first, then break through and then pull back, right? But now the black piece is actually..."
The chess fan did not dare to say anything more, of course, because of the lesson learned from the previous game. In the previous game, "Jueyi" made one less exchange, and then everyone was slapped in the face by him.
And in today's game, he seems to have started using this trick again, and today he didn't exchange just one less move, but two less moves. Of course, the ordinary spectators didn't dare to say anything.
Not only the ordinary spectators, but even those in the Chinese Chess Institute, when they saw the move made by "Jueyi", neither the player Yu Bin nor the other national players who were watching said anything at first. It was not until two rounds later, when this local change was completed, that all kinds of discussions began to come.
"Ha, look everyone, look, he's been wasting time again, this Jueyi is wasting time again..."
"Haha, this is fun, fun. If you ask me, this Z-9 should just be renamed. Why call it Jueyi? Since he likes to hang out so much, he should just be named Bulanguyouzuski..."
"Boss Jueyi, although I am your fan now, is it really okay for you to continue like this? There are 30 flowers blooming in the middle, and you actually let others pluck the flowers in the middle, and at such an early time..."
What did Li Xiangping do? The last chess fan hit the nail on the head. In a variation of the "Star Position Two Spaces High Clamp", Li Xiangping allowed his opponent to pull the flower in the center at just the 26th move of the game, which is the kind of pull in the center of Go called "30 points of flower in the center".
There is no doubt that this way of playing goes against the principles of chess, at least against the principles of chess of this era.
However, Li Xiangping seemed to be unaware of the outside world's reaction. After completing that partial change, he asked Lao Shi with great interest:
"Haha, Brother Ding'an, what do you think of this interesting opening I prepared for you?"
