<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > Chapter 15 Hard Bones to Gnaw</h1>
The preliminary round was held from September 14 to 19, and Li Yiting was divided into the first group, with a total of 7 players. In the first battle, Li Yiting later shelled and destroyed Chen Yonghua's first hand screen horse in Fujian, which was expected by people. Although in the second round he was forced to make peace by the unknown Gansu veteran Wu Yanfu, but everyone did not care. This Wu Yanfu had never appeared in the national chess scene, and no one knew him, and Li Yiting was no exception. Gansu attaches great importance to the National Games, chess players are selected through layers to stand out, Wu Yanfu is the best in the middle, but also has considerable strength, the first day of the first battle to defeat the famous Beijing Hou Yushan (the fifth place in the 1956 National Championship), the second game and the previous champion Li Yiting Yihe, can be said to be not lucky.
In the third round, Li Yiting met a first-time national opponent named Wang Jiayuan, who was from Hebei. The situation was stable, but when the bureau entered the middle game, Wang Jiayuan suddenly stepped out of the unusually fierce subordinate method, stacked two cannons in the middle of the road and launched a fierce attack on Li Yiting, thus forming a white-knife battle. Wang Jiayuan rushed to attack first, and after opening the middle road with one shot, he flexibly sank from the flank and organized a two-way offensive. At this time, for Li Yiting, who is the defensive side, it can be described as a critical moment of decision-making, and the slightest difference is irreparable. However, at this "crossroads", Li Yigeng went in the wrong order, and as a result, he was bombarded by the other side, and thus opened a gap. After winning the hand, Wang Jiayuanyi was very compact, and the coordination of the two cannons of the car was delicate and accurate, making people invincible, and Li Yiting had to push and admit defeat.
Li Yiting's defeat became the biggest news of the day, not only because last year's national championship lost to the nameless chess player, but more importantly, whether he could qualify from the preliminaries was a question mark. In the preliminary round, each player only played six games of chess, and now after three games of chess, Li Yiting's points are still only capital preservation, and his prospect of qualifying is of course worrying.
Li Yiting fell into this dangerous situation, and some people are secretly happy, because if he fails to qualify in the end, won't he have one less strong competitor in the final? Wang Jialiang, who was only quick-witted, frankly expressed another mood. After learning that Li Yiting had lost chess, he once said to people: "I hope Li Yiting can be shortlisted." Because I am afraid of Yang Guanxuan, Yang Guanxuan is afraid of Li Yiting, and I can kill Li Yiting. "It's really different kinds of thinking when you're in different positions.
But today's Li Yiting has grown into a chess giant, although the current setback is not insignificant, but he still believes in his own strength, so as to face the subsequent events with a calm mind. Next, Li Yiting first faced Lin Cailiang in Guizhou. In order to win the victory, Li Yiting broke the routine at the beginning of the layout, highlighted the strange soldiers, first jumped on the hippopotamus, and when the other side entered the cannon and sealed the car, not only did not replenish the gas in the middle of the road, but instead unloaded the middle cannon and posed as an open chest. At first sight of such a strange move, Lin Cailiang couldn't help but feel a little dazed, and the chess also showed that his hands were tied. At the critical moment when the central game was divided, the two sides invested most of their troops in the battle for the commanding heights along the river, and the fierce battle was about to break out. At this time, Lin Cailiang had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attack, but unfortunately he did not dare to abandon his son in order to seek stability. However, Li Yiting, however, had insight into the mystery of the development of the situation and realized the plan of concentrating superior forces with a wonderful tactic of taking the position of the other side, and the empty right wing of the other side provided him with an excellent offensive breakthrough point. Li Yiting clutched the fighter plane, crushed dansha with one cannon, and tore Lin Cailiang's defense line to pieces with a bow left and right, and the following victory was just some simple finishing work.
Li Yiting, who had stabilized his position, shook hands with his old rival Hou Yushan in Beijing and made peace. In the last round, he won against Li Chengyi in Xinjiang. Taking stock of the results, Li Yiting ranked first in this group with 8 points after 3 wins, 2 and 1 loss, while Wu Yanfu only accumulated 7 points and won the second place. The two of them came out hand in hand. The other three groups qualified were Yang Guanxuan, He Shun'an, Meng Liguo, Ma Kuan, Wang Xiliang and Liu Jianqing. From the analysis of the list that entered the final, in addition to Wu Yanfu giving people the feeling of "dark horse". The remaining 7 people are all veterans, and qualifying can be called the expectation of the public.
After entering the final, Li Yiting seriously reflected on and summarized the setbacks suffered in the group stage, and he felt that such "fright" was not necessarily a bad thing, but instead sounded a wake-up call for himself, and the final was that he could not take it lightly.
The final was immediately followed by a single round robin on September 20, with eight players still playing in a single round robin. The first round of confrontation was a good drama, because two pairs of "wrongdoers" met early in a narrow way, namely Yang Guanxuan vs. Wang Jialiang, and Li Yiting vs. He Shun'an. Yang Guanxuan and Wang Jialiang fought fiercely to make peace, and Li Yiting won the victory and passed an important hurdle.
In the second round, Li Yiting encountered a "hard bone" that was difficult to gnaw, and this "bone" had brought him trouble in the preliminary round. This person is Wu Yanfu, a veteran of Gansu. Coincidentally, in the preliminary round, the confrontation between Li Yiting and Wu Yanfu was also played in the second round, when Li Yiting may have not paid attention to the opponent, and as a result, he wanted to win and could not get it, so he had to shake hands with him. This time, the two fought again, and Li Yiting did not dare to slacken off, and went all out to lay out a highly offensive Doushun artillery formation. This Wu Yanfu is indeed not easy to live with, although the premature rise of 7 pawns in the layout provided Li Yiting with the opportunity to oppose the first, but he was able to be strong and soft, and when he saw the situation, he quickly unloaded the middle cannon and adjusted the situation in a timely manner. In this way, it was not easy for Li Yiting to find the target if he wanted to exert his strength, and as a result, he let Wu Yanfu guard the city like an iron barrel with one step slow hand, and no matter how Li Yiting calculated, he was helpless. Even so, although Li Yiting was very unwilling, he could only bow his head and sign a peace treaty with Wu Yanfu again. An old chess player who was unknown in the past can play two games with a top figure in the chess world like Li Yiting in just a few days, which also makes people shout surprises. This round, Yang Guanxuan defeated Liu Jianqing.
In the third round, Li Yiting bumped into Ningxia Ma Kuan with his first hand. Li Yiting still put on the middle cannon, and Ma Kuan also walked on the screen horse, but he obviously did not want Li Yiting to go into a fierce river crossing car, so he changed his tactics early and raised the river patrol cannon, with great intention of resisting the enemy thousands of miles away. However, Li Yiting was not impatient, and the enemy changed and changed, supplementing the river patrol car with the seven-way horse to fight steadily and steadily. With the power of the river patrol car, Li Yiting's double horses were active and prepared for the general attack. When everything was ready, he reached out to the other side to catch the cannon in the second way and try to deal with it. At this time, Ma Kuan already felt that it was difficult to deal with, and the fleeing cannon was far behind and immediately showed grievances. Unwilling to be defended, he pondered for a long time and decided to abandon the cannon and trap the car. Li Yiting is also a bold artist, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains that are biased towards the tiger mountain line, and after calculating the changes in the roads. Resolutely eating cannons, when the other party got on the dirt to hit the car, he did not escape the car but chose the method of changing a car for a double. After a few rounds, counting the battle situation, Li Yiting not only ate more, but the key was to take the opportunity to pounce on all the sub-forces and form a full control trend like a tower. Li Yiting was still not soft in his efforts, and a cannon across the river was galloping across the river, using it to make a god and human, so that Ma Kuan had a sense of being invincible, so that he had to admit defeat.
And Li Yiting won at the same time in this round, there is also Yang Guanxuan, both of them are 2 wins and 1 and 5 points "lead, do not give in to each other."
Li Yiting and Yang Guanxuan shared the same three rounds of the first three rounds, biting very tightly, and now they can see the staying power.