Chapter 77: First Battle with Lao Nie
At 7:30 in the evening, the first "Online Go League" officially started on the Lianzhong "Caihua Village" server.
Speaking of the "Caihua Village" of Lianzhong, it is quite famous these days. In those days, the servers were small and could only accommodate 400 people. This "Caihua Village" was the so-called "high-level server". Therefore, after several years of development, this "Caihua Village" gradually became a place for chess players to prove their skills online. Countless amateur masters and professional low-level chess players became famous on this server.
Of course, the situation today is different. In the past, as long as there were a few top amateur level games here, it would often attract a large crowd of spectators. But today, the first "Online Go League" kicked off here. Although the participating players are all wearing vests, experienced fans know that in this level of competition, the lowest level should be at the strong professional level. If it is lower than this level, it is probably too embarrassed to come here to make a fool of oneself.
Among the numerous chess games, the first match between "Lianzhong Beggars' Gang" and "Lianzhong Liangshan" has attracted much attention. "Lianzhong Beggars' Gang" is the earliest group of chess friends organized by Lianzhong. In the past , "Beggars' Gang" has become the most recognized gang on Lianzhong, while "Liangshan" is the new upstart on the website. Its organizer is nicknamed "Zhenshan Sanhuangxin". His real identity is an entrepreneur obsessed with Go. He has a wide network of contacts and strong organizational skills. Therefore, under the organization of this person, "Liangshan" has been thriving recently, and its momentum is even overshadowing the "Beggars' Gang".
There is no doubt that both the "Beggars' Sect" and the "Liangshan" are the championship candidate teams in everyone's mind for this league.
Naturally, the chess players who could sit at the first table of the two teams naturally attracted everyone's attention, and the spectators began to speculate about their identities.
"Hongqiao, Boss Hongqiao, who exactly is this 'young man in white' in our Beggars' Sect?"
"Lingling, Miss Lingling, can you tell me who this person in white is? Why is he sitting in the first seat..."
Hongqiao Wolong is the leader of the Beggars' Gang, which is nothing to say, but this "Lingling" is the Secretary General of the Beggars' Gang and the most enthusiastic organizer and participant of all the activities of the Beggars' Gang. Well, don't be fooled by his online name "Lingling", his real identity is actually a big man who picks his feet.
Before the competition started, these two received too many similar inquiries, and they did not hide anything about this question or make it mysterious.
Facing the questions from the crowd, Hongqiao Wolong gave the most straightforward answer: "Who is Bai Yi? Bai Yi is Li Xiangping." Or he simply said, "Bai Yi is 'Jueyi'. Do you think he is qualified to sit in the first seat..."
As for "Lingling", the foot-picking man, his reply still had to pretend to be a feminine and considerate person:
"Bai Yi is Li Xiangping, also known as Qingfeng's 'Exquisite Art'... Yes, everyone should know that Bai Yi made it to the quarterfinals of the 'Three Stars Cup' this time. You have to understand that Bai Yi is just an amateur chess player. He doesn't usually have the opportunity to compete, so we arranged him at the first table. The purpose is to let him play more high-level games. Please understand this arrangement..."
In fact, "Lingling"'s explanation is completely unnecessary. You must know that in such an online competition, Li Xiangping's identity as an amateur chess player will only add points to him. This is like what we often call "sense of immersion". Amateur chess fans will definitely feel a strong sense of immersion when watching Li Xiangping participate in such a competition.
"Ha! The man in white is Li Xiangping? Is the Red Bridge boss real or not..."
"Lingling, what did you say? Bai Yi is 'Jueyi'? The 'Jueyi' from Qingfeng.com! Damn it, why didn't you say it earlier..."
It was precisely because there was no concealment and no attempt to create mystery that after the game started, all the chess fans were cheering for the "Beggar Gang*White-Clothed Boy". The funniest one was "Shi Qian, the Flea on the Drum" from "Liangshan". He probably forgot that he was watching the game in this vest and actually shouted in the game room, "Come on, Jueyi Boss, I'm your fan."
Amid the laughter of the crowd, he was kicked out of the room by the "Three Yellow Letters of the Mountain" with a dark face.
The reason why everyone was laughing was because many Internet veterans knew that this guy was actually the "Arrogant Lone Wolf" from Qingfeng.com.
Compared to the "young man in white", the "Guan Sheng with a big knife" sitting on the first stage of Liangshan is a little mysterious. Shortly after the game started, Hongqiao Wolong sent a private message to "Lingling":
"Lingling, who is this 'Big Knife Guan Sheng'?"
"Lingling, Secretary General of the Beggars' Sect": "Huh? Guan Sheng is the boss, don't you even know this?"
The "Old Dong" that "Lingling" mentioned is a professional 7th dan, who is considered a stalwart in the country these days. As for the account "Big Knife Guan Sheng", it was indeed this person's pseudonym, and things like this, of course, cannot be hidden from people like Hongqiao and Lingling.
Hongqiao Wolong: "I also know that the original deity of 'Da Dao Guan Sheng' was Lao Dong, but why did I hear that the one who came to play chess today might be Lao Nie?"
Lingling: "Ah?! Who told you that?"
Hongqiao Wolong: "Hehe, Bai Yi himself said so."
Lingling: "Is that so? That's possible. Hasn't Bai Yi been training at the Chinese Chess Institute recently? He must have more information than us."
Secretary-General Lingling guessed wrong this time. Li Xiangping was not really better-informed. It was just that in his previous life, Li Xiangping also participated in this online league. Of course, he was just a small role at that time. Li Xiangping waited until the end of the game before he found out that Lao Nie had borrowed the alias of "Da Dao Guan Sheng" to participate in the competition. It was based on this information from his previous life that he waited here for Lao Nie.
At about 7:40, the game officially started. With specific purposes in mind, neither Li Xiangping nor Lao Shi actually cared about the final outcome, but only focused on the opening of the whole game.
In fact, there was really nothing much to say about this game of chess. The game started at 7:40 and ended before 9:00. Although the final result was that the "Beggars' Gang*White-Clothed Youth" won, there was really nothing to brag about.
Because this game was a typical "Old Nie's defeat". He played with great vigor in the first half, completely suppressing the great chess master Shi. In less than 70 moves, even Li Xiangping could judge that Old Shi was already at a clear disadvantage.
But after the middle game, Lao Nie's moves started to become less sophisticated, and just after 100 moves, Lao Nie actually made an obvious mistake... In this case, the game naturally soon became unsustainable.
After the game, Li Xiangping had a brief conversation with his cheater:
"Brother Ding'an, how do you feel?"
The chess master Shi sighed, "This person's early game skills are really amazing. His moves are extremely natural and smooth. At first glance, his moves seem to be ordinary, but he puts Ding'an under inexplicable pressure. After just a few dozen moves, I am already clearly behind. Alas! If we only talk about early game skills, this person is indeed clearly better than Ding'an. I admire him deeply."
"So, Brother Ding'an, in hindsight, do you realize that you did something wrong?"
"this……"
Seeing that Lao Shi couldn't answer, Li Xiangping sighed inwardly. It was not surprising that Lao Shi couldn't answer. This was actually the difficulty of Go layout. There were many places that were too vague. Imagine if Lao Shi knew where he made a bad move, how could he play like that in actual combat ?
Li Xiangping sighed because he felt that playing a game of chess like this didn't seem to be a big deal. You have to know that he played this game today not to prove that Old Nie's layout level was higher than Old Shi's, but to help Old Shi gain something and improve. If you can't even find the crux of the problem, then there's no point in improving.
Li Xiangping thought about it, and while typing he began to flatter Old Nie, saying things like "You played really well" and "I was lucky to have picked up a plate", while he said to Old Shi:
"Brother Ding'an, how about this? I will try to invite him to play another round. Let's focus on the first round and see if we can find the problem in the next round. If we still can't, then we will go visit him tomorrow."
As Li Xiangping said this, he once again requested a game with Lao Nie.
At the same time, in another place in the capital, perhaps Li Xiangping's flattery worked. Facing the game application, Old Nie smiled and said to his disciples Gu Dali and Chang Hao:
"Haha, you said the person who played chess with me just now was Li Xiangping? Look at this kid, he is so polite. Since he wants to play another game, then fine, I will play another game with him."
