"wait?"
Looking at the confident teacher, the middle-aged man felt a little puzzled.
"That's right!"
"wait!"
Mr. He was decisive.
"Since Xiao Du beats Taya Xinghi, then he will definitely be able to go further and even win the championship. It is not impossible."
"So, wait until the Samsung Cup is over."
Now that things have happened, Mr. He also understands that the Yijianghu Dojo cannot keep Li Jie. It is difficult to raise a dragon in shallow water. With the strength of their Yijianghu Dojo, there is no way they can keep this real dragon.
The other party's departure has become inevitable!
Although no one from the chess academy had formally greeted him, he could already imagine how shocked the leadership of the chess academy would be after this game.
Now that Li Jie's departure has become an established fact, why not maximize the benefits of their dojo?
No matter how hard you suppress it at the moment, it will be more violent when it breaks out in the future.
The less the reporters got, the more unwilling they were, so he didn't care at all about temporarily offending those uncrowned kings.
"I understand."
The middle-aged man is not a fool. After the teacher pointed it out, he immediately understood what the teacher meant.
At this time, he couldn't help but sigh, ginger is indeed still spicy when he is old, and he is still a little too young.
The next development was just as Mr. He expected. After Li Jie defeated Taya Xingyang, he made great progress in the Samsung Cup.
In the second round, Li Jie’s opponent was Ogata Seiji, the ninth dan player from R country.
The result was still Li Jie's victory, but compared to the 'easy' victory in the first round, this game was undoubtedly much more intense.
It was not until the final official stage that Ogata Seiji surrendered.
This result also made the media who followed Li Jie collectively dumbfounded.
As we all know, Ogata Seiji is a student of Takuya Yukihiro, and it is also recognized in the chess world that his strength is not as good as Takuya Yukihiro.
However, it was very difficult for Li Jie to win this round, which was completely different from his performance in the first round.
This...what is going on?
Has Ogata Seiji become stronger?
Or has Taya Xinghi become weaker?
After the game, the media immediately surrounded both sides, and the questions asked by the media were also very sharp.
'Duke player, how do you evaluate your opponent? '
'Ogata 9th Dan, what do you think of this game? '
'Mr. Ogata, how did you evaluate the last game? '
'Duke player, what do you think of the outside world's evaluation of you? '
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Although the media came very fiercely, neither Ogata nor Li Jie were 'newcomers' facing the media for the first time.
The two perfectly explained what Tai Chi is. In short, the media did not ask for any substantive information.
However, faced with such a result, the media were not stumped. Who among the front-line reporters has not learned about their special skills?
If you can't ask the real owner, why can't you break through from the side?
If you can't break through from the side, you still don't know how to copy?
If you can’t copy it, you can’t edit it?
All in all, on the day after the game, various media outlets published 'real' reports with 'different titles'.
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In the third round, Li Jie finally met Li Changming, the ninth-dan player of Bangzi Chinese chess.
This game was almost the same as the previous round. Li Jie once again fell into a "hard fight" and did not win the game until more than 200 moves.
After two consecutive rounds of "hard fighting", the media have turned their guns and the headlines have changed from boasting to "questioning", "not optimistic" and "expressing concern".
Not only the media expressed concern, but even the leaders of the Chinese Chess Academy felt that something was not quite right.
Because in these two games, Li Jie did not show absolute dominance.
On this day, after the game, Lao Nie knocked on the door of Room 404 with mixed emotions.
"Xiao Du?"
"Mr. Nie, why are you here?"
Li Jie opened the door and took a look. When he saw Lao Nie's "cautious" look, his mind moved and he immediately understood what the other party was thinking.
In fact, he has also heard some discussions about these two games from the outside world.
However, he doesn't care at all about those "bullish" remarks.
The reason why these two games were so thrilling was mainly because he changed his mind.
It can also be said that he was influenced by Taya Xinghi.
In terms of reputation, Taya Xinghi is much higher than him. The other party has the courage to risk everything, so how can he lack it?
Therefore, in the last two games, he deliberately did not use those dog tricks learned in later generations, and completely used contemporary Go routines to fight against the enemy.
Excluding AI Go, Li Jie's strength is not as dominant as before, because these tricks are familiar to the players.
However, even so, Li Jie still defeated Ogata and Li Changming, but it was a little difficult to win.
Of course, Lao Nie didn't know these situations. He just thought that Li Jie made a mistake that young chess players would make.
Unstable!
Perhaps it was because of the win against Taya Xingyang that Xiaodu's mentality became a little wandering.
Perhaps it was because of the high expectations placed by the outside world that "Xiao Du" was under tremendous pressure, which caused "Xiao Du" to perform abnormally.
Or maybe 'Xiao Du' was homesick and in a bad mood, unable to show his true strength.
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Anyway, it is completely normal for young chess players to have ups and downs in their competitive status. As for the specific reasons, probably only the players themselves know.
How to adjust the competitive state, veteran players usually have rich experience, but Li Jie is just a newbie in Go.
So, Lao Nie came. He came mainly to help Li Jie adjust his mentality. However, he couldn't be too obvious, lest he touch the young man's sensitive nerves.
"Xiao Du, are you still used to the hotel food?"
After hesitating for a moment, Lao Nie finally used the most commonly used opening sentence among Chinese people.
"Habit."
After entering the room, Lao Nie deliberately walked around the room and continued to ask.
"Have you had a good rest these two days? Do you want me to move you to a larger room?"
"Need not."
Immediately, Lao Nie pretended to be nonchalant and asked a few innocuous questions. Finally, Li Jie couldn't bear it anymore and simply pointed out the other person's thoughts.
"Mr. Nie, if you have anything to ask, just ask. There's no need to beat around the bush."
"Haha, it's nothing."
When the disguise failed, Lao Nie laughed, hiding his embarrassment in an attempt to get through.
Li Jie smiled slightly and said calmly: "Mr. Nie, do you want to ask why my performance in these two rounds was not as good as before?"
"Actually, it's like this..."
Li Jie spoke out the speeches he had already organized. Anyway, he didn't care whether others believed it or not, as long as he believed it himself, that was enough.
After a while, Lao Nie hummed a tune and walked out of the room.
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