Chapter 84 Daily Life During the Spring Festival of 2001
After listening to Ma Xiaofei's advice, Li Xiangping decided to train according to his method. To be honest, Li Xiangping had no idea what this method was for, but since it was proposed by Ma Xiaofei, and his "plug-in" seemed to agree with it.
Considering that both of them are figures who will leave their names in the history of Go, Lao Shi is the "Ace of Clubs" in his mind. As for Ma Xiaofei, although there is no place for him before "Old K" in his own ranking, that is only because Ma Xiaofei was born at the wrong time. His peak period coincided with the peak of Li Canghao, which affected his historical ranking. However, if we only talk about strength, Li Xiangping believes that he is actually no worse than those "Old Ks" in the Go world.
Since both of them think this method is feasible, even if Li Xiangping doesn't understand or can't figure it out, he has no choice but to execute it.
By this time, it was already February 2001, and the Spring Festival was coming in a few days. Less than a month after the Spring Festival, the "Samsung Cup" quarterfinals and the match with Yamada Kissei would be held. Considering that the preparation time was not long, Li Xiangping took the time to train according to this method, and combined network training and "face-cutting" training.
So, about 10 days before the Spring Festival, chess fans of "Qingfeng.com" suddenly discovered that "Jueyi", who had been quiet for a while, seemed to be active again. He suddenly turned into a model worker and played chess crazily on the Internet.
After all, he is the number one master ranked on Qingfeng.com, and this account has remained undefeated so far. Therefore, even though most of the people already know that this account belongs to Li Xiangping, it still cannot stop everyone's enthusiasm. As long as "Jueyi" plays chess, there will definitely be a lot of spectators, and his popularity is unmatched.
What Li Xiangping did not expect was that, because of adopting Ma Xiaofei's suggestion this time, Lao Shi began to try some extremely excessive moves, which actually appealed more to the spectators.
"Hahaha, everyone look, everyone look, he's starting to show off again, Jueyi Boss is starting to show off again..."
"Wow, seeing this move, I am so moved. Congratulations to Jueyi for turning over a new leaf and finally starting to have fun again..."
Because he always uses extreme moves, even deliberately making unreasonable and excessive moves, under normal circumstances, his winning rate is certainly not guaranteed. However, for some unknown reason, maybe he didn't encounter a particularly strong opponent, or maybe Lao Shi really improved his chess skills, anyway, "Jueyi" has another winning streak online, increasing his original 129-game winning streak to 146 consecutive wins.
Although there were quite a few games that were tough battles and several games that were completely escaped, a win is a win, because of this astonishing 146-game winning streak, which made "Jueyi" even more popular.
However, as the saying goes, you will always have to pay for what you have done. If you play chess in this way, it is impossible to win continuously.
On the seventh day of the first lunar month, which was also the last day of the Spring Festival holiday, at around 8:30 p.m., Qingfeng.com's main server was packed with people. Almost all chess fans were paying attention to the match between "Jueyi" and "The Godfather". The game had entered the second half, and by this time, chess fans with amateur beginner level or above could see that the situation of "Jueyi" was already very bad, and it was only a matter of time before it admitted defeat.
"Is this chess master no longer good enough?"
“Yes, with my amateur 3D skills, I can tell you responsibly that Boss Jueyi has no chance.” “Hahaha, anal sex, anal sex, it’s exciting just thinking about it. Today, I actually witnessed Boss Jueyi losing his virginity…”
"You guys upstairs are really dirty..."
"Fuck, who is this 'Godfather'? Tell me your name quickly, we want to know who took away Jueyi Boss's first blood..."
At around 9 o'clock in the evening, "Jueyi" finally pressed the surrender button, and the account finally ended its undefeated streak, with a record of 146 wins and 1 loss.
At this point, the true identity of the "Godfather" also aroused everyone's curiosity, and the crowd began to speculate and ask questions. But there was no need to guess, after the game was over, the conversation between the two players quickly attracted everyone's attention.
Jueyi: "Fuck, wait for me at the chess academy tomorrow, I want revenge!"
The "Godfather" first made a surprised expression, then said: "Oh! You still know who I am?"
Jueyi: "With your chess moves, I can burn you to ashes... No, I should say I know after just a few moves."
The "Godfather" pretended to send an "I surrender" expression: "Haha, Jueyi Boss is amazing. He guessed who I am after just a few moves. But I won't play with you tomorrow. Let Xiaomei practice with you."
Jueyi: “Why?”
Godfather: "Who knew you were so vindictive? You know, you cut my plate 8 times in a row before! I didn't say a word. Now I just won one plate from you, and you still want to kill me."
Jueyi: "Haha, since it won't play tomorrow, how about we play another game now?"
Godfather: "Haha, no, no, master, you have to understand the feelings of us noobs. After defeating a master like you, I am very excited now, so I need some time to calm down. Okay, I'm going to log off, 88."
Jueyi: "Oh? 88."
The "Godfather" was offline just like that. Because of the conversation just now, his true identity naturally aroused everyone's interest. But as I said before, it is really difficult for such vests on the Internet to remain secret. Not long after, someone with inside information had already found out that this "Godfather" was actually Gu Dali.
And what Li Xiangping said just now, "A few moves will reveal who you are", etc., is of course not true. Because in his previous life, Gu Dali used this vest, but compared with the younger "little leopard generation", Gu Dali's group did not play many online chess games, so fewer people knew about this account.
On the afternoon of the second day, at the Chinese Chess Institute, in a training room on the second floor of the academy, "Xiaomei" Kong Erjie, who had just played chess with Li Xiangping, had a depressed look on his face, as if he had lost all hope in life.
At this moment, his expression was seen by Gu Dali who had just come in:
"Xiaomei, what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing, I just think playing Go is really boring. I want to retire now."
Seeing Kong Er's look, Gu Dali laughed: "Looking at you like this, you must have lost to Li Xiangping again. What's the big deal? We all have lost to him a few times."
Kong Erjie still had a look of despair on his face: "Losing a game is nothing, but the way I lost today was really unbearable. He just made random moves and beat me easily. Sigh! Playing chess with that guy really destroyed my self-confidence."
"oh?"
Gu Dali became excited after hearing this. Of course, he was not excited because Kong Erjie was hit. He knew that when Kong Erjie said this, it must be that Li Xiangping had come up with a new trick.
"Hurry up and show us your chessboard."
So Kong Erjie started to set up the chess pieces. After only a few moves, his voice echoed in the training room:
"Did you see that? 'Click three three'. This guy actually made 'click three three' on his fifth move! Don't you think he is just playing recklessly? Isn't he bullying me? But he played recklessly like that, and in the end he still beat me..."
It's a pity that Li Xiangping had already left at this time. If he was still present, he would definitely tell Kong Erjie that he was not acting recklessly.
Anyone who has seen Go AI knows that it is not a random move.
The above is Li Xiangping’s training clip. During the Spring Festival in 2001, Li Xiangping’s daily life basically consisted of such clips.
In such a daily routine, March 2001 arrived, and the quarterfinals of the "Samsung Cup" were about to arrive. Since the quarterfinals would be held in South Korea, Li Xiangping would go to South Korea again.
On this day, Li Xiangping came to the Chinese Chess Institute again, and met Lao Nie at the academy, which was a rare opportunity.
Old Nie, however, looked very interested:
"Ha, Li Xiangping, are you ready? This time, I will personally take you to Korea to compete."
