Time has come to March 2031, and the annual "China Go Top Ten Battle" is held as scheduled. Today, the "China Go Top Ten Tournament" has been held for more than 40 consecutive times. It has become a traditional event with a long history and can be regarded as a brand of Chinese Go. Of course, in today's world where there are many kinds of Go tournaments, the influence of the "Top Ten Tournament" is still not big enough. After all, it is small in scale and the prize money is not large enough. But this year¡¯s situation seems to be a little different. Before the game even started, many people started talking about this event. The "Top Ten Battle" follows the previous practice, and the competition is held in two stages. The subsequent qualifying matches will be held in Ganyuan, while the previous group matches will be held in rotation in different places in the country. In order to compete for the right to host this year's "Top Ten Battle" group stage, many cities almost broke their heads. All of this, of course, is because of Li Xiaoqiang, it can only be because of Li Xiaoqiang! "Now we have someone to invite: the living legend in the Go world, the vote winner of this year's "China Go Top Ten Competition", the world's honorary chess master Li Xiaoqiang appears in 9th Dan" In the opening ceremony of the game, when the host read out in an extremely sensational tone After these words, the entire venue burst into cheers. Many chess fans who came specially stood up and cheered. The situation was exciting. Because everyone knows that the only reason why Li Xiaoqiang returned this time is the "chess god". The "Chess God" is born! Li Xiaoqiang slowly came to the center of the stage, smiled and waved to everyone. This is Li Xiaoqiang¡¯s return to the official competition after 14 years after the 2017 ¡°Man-Machine 10th Edition¡±! "Master, you are back, you are finally back." The person who said this was Li Xiaoqiang's disciple, the former "Young Stone Buddha" Xiao Fan. He is also the only one among Li Xiaoqiang's disciples who is still sticking to the front line, and the only one who can still be selected. Top ten Chinese Go players. "Boss, don't say anything. Now everything depends on you." The person who said this was Ke Jie, the former winner of the "World Chess Master". After saying this, Li Xiaoqiang's hand was tightly connected with Ke Jie's. Hold together. ¡°Everyone cheered for Li Xiaoqiang¡¯s return. At this moment, everyone expressed respect for Li Xiaoqiang. When Li Xiaoqiang came to the last chess player and stretched out his hand to the young man opposite, the whole place burst into good-natured laughter. Because this chess player is the second in this vote. A few months ago, he just defeated his brother Li Mei with a score of 5 to 4. He is the current "World Chess Saint". He also He is also the youngest son of Li Xiaoqiang, Li Lin. When his father's hand stretched out in front of him, Li Lin looked slightly embarrassed. He never thought that his father had such a huge influence. With a wave of his arms, he just slightly expressed his desire to play chess, and his votes in this "Top Ten Battle" skyrocketed. He was soon far ahead, even though he was the reigning "World Chess Player". "Saint" was also far behind him, and he could only watch him riding a brilliant horse. "Can he really compete with the "God of Chess"?" Li Lin shook his head, trying hard to drive all kinds of random thoughts out of his mind. I think back to a few months ago, when I first won the title of "World Chess God", how smug and high-spirited I was, but it was a pity that the appearance of the "Chess God" soon gave me a blow. Lose chess, fail, fail, lose chess! During the public beta period of "Chess God", as the "World Chess Saint", I was the one who played against it the most. Unfortunately, no matter what methods I adopted and how I tried my best, I was always met with failure, which made people despair. s failure! The opening ceremony of the "Top Ten Battle" ended quickly, and Li Xiaoqiang was surrounded by chess fans and reporters. Li Lin looked at his father's back: "The only one who can compete with the "God of Chess" is maybe you" At this time, and for some unknown reason, Li Lin suddenly remembered that before the finals of the "World Chess Holy War" , the few games of chess that my father and I played on the 21st chessboard. "Dad, you know, right? The chess god is very powerful, it is really very powerful! Its power has even reached the point where I doubt life. And this feeling of doubting life is not something I have never experienced before. That was a few months ago, you also made me doubt my life" "I don't know if you can beat the "chess god", but I know that if there are still human chess players who can compete with the "chess god" , then that person must be you, because you are the same as the "chess god", you may be another chess god" "Anyway, you are back!" (To be continued)