After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

Chapter 113 112. The Dilemma of Chinese Go

"Hu Liena and Xiao Leyan are both the prides of women's tennis. Hu Liena is a teenage genius who won the national championship at the age of 15. She was always considered the number one female tennis player in China.

But last year, Xiao Leyan suddenly emerged and won the third place in the Asian competition. However, Hu Liena's result was not as good as hers that year.

Moreover, last year, Xiao Leyan was only fourteen years old, and she was very beautiful, so she immediately stole all the limelight from her.

A talented tennis girl. Last year, was there anyone at the General Administration of Sport of China who didn’t know her name? Some even believed that she could defeat the tennis players from the United States and might even become the world women’s tennis champion.

Under such competitive pressure, Hu Liena certainly doesn't like this junior who suddenly puts her under his control.

But this year the situation has changed. Xiao Leyan was eliminated in the first round of the Asian Competition, while Hu Liena directly won the championship. Now the situation has reversed and Hu Liena is proud of herself.

But I think both of them seem to be interested in you.

It’s just that Hu Liena seems to be four years older than you. She’s in her twenties and has won gold bricks, while she’s in her twenties and looks like an old mother. So what’s four years older?
Xiao Leyan seems to be in the same year as you, so her age is more suitable."

After the celebration banquet, Yin Chuan returned to the dormitory and couldn't wait to share gossip with Zhan Lang. He was almost suffocating at the venue.

After all, he couldn't say it directly in the meeting just now, but when he returned to the dormitory and closed the door, there was nothing he couldn't say.

"That's good. It proves that people have worked hard."

Isn't it a good thing to prove yourself through competition results?

“No, I heard that Xiao Leyan’s mentality is very bad, and her performance will be affected when encountering any problems.

It is said that the two players have similar physical strength, but Xiao Leyan's mentality is far worse. Many people put pressure on her before the game, and her leader even talked to her. It is said that she did not sleep the night before the game, so she was eliminated in the first round. "

Hearing Yin Chuan's words, Zhan Lang said indifferently: "It's normal, mentality is also part of strength.

To put it objectively, a bad mentality means poor ability. "

Especially in Go, it is difficult to play well without a good mentality.

But if you have a big heart, you can often turn desperate situations around and achieve victory.

But if not, it will be easy to be reversed by others in the game.

In his previous life alone, Zhan Lang knew of several professional Go players who had great abilities but could not perform in world competitions.

Not to mention those who are not famous.

For example, netizens later always mocked that the leaders of the past two generations in South Korea all had bird hearts, and the leaders of the first three generations had used up all the Go hearts of South Korea.

"You should focus on the professional ranking tournament. After all, only those who have obtained a professional rank and are under 20 years old can participate in the Golden Scale Cup Rookie King Tournament."

Unlike Zhan Lang, who was set as a benchmark figure and was directly awarded a professional rank certificate, Yin Chuan and other members of the national and provincial teams who are neither famous nor have any outstanding results must pass competitions before they can be awarded a professional rank.

If you fail the exam, you will have to try again next year.

"It's okay, I signed up for the second-level professional level, and with my level I can get by no matter what.

If it wasn't for the fact that the title of professional first dan sounded so bad, I would have wanted to apply for professional first dan as a guarantee. As long as I can be certified as a professional, I can upgrade my rank later on."

Unlike some people who want to reach the highest level in one go, Yin Chuan is quite open-minded.

As for professional ranks, as long as one can achieve the profession, a capable person will rise slowly. It is completely impossible for a person without the ability to become rich all at once, so there is no need to rush.

As long as he can get a professional rank, Yin Chuan can be directly recommended to participate in the Rookie King competition without any other conditions.

It's not because you can get in through the back door just because you share a dormitory with the investor Zhan Lang, but because after a careful calculation by the official, after this professional ranking competition, including those who are directly awarded professional units, there will be no more than a hundred professional players in China, and there may even be only a few dozen.

And there are even fewer people under the age of 20.

After all, professional Go players who are now thirty years old are considered to have just reached their peak.

But in Japan at the same time, the population is about 1208 million, but the number of Go enthusiasts is as high as 2000 million (according to a white paper released by the Japan Leisure Development Center in ), there are professional players, more than th-dan players, and there are six top-notch ones on the surface, but there are even about ten who are considered to have top-notch strength.

There are only four people in China who have been promoted to the ninth dan level in their professional careers, and two of them have even retreated to the second line to do management work.

Originally, the Rookie King competition was supposed to be played with 32 players, which was the most standard number of players later on. However, when discussing it, Chen Long shook his head, saying that he simply couldn't get enough players.

Your idea is great, but I can't provide the number of players you need for the competition.

They must be under the age of 20 and must be professional chess players. After this official classification, it is now questionable whether China can gather the full sixteen people.

Zhan Lang had no choice but to say that if there were not enough professional chess players, they would select some players from the national team who were of the right age and had good performance to participate.

However, Chen Long's proposal to change his age was rejected by Zhan Lang.

After all, twenty years old is really not young anymore. If you are a little older, you can just change it to the Old Dragon Cup.

From now on, winning the world championship before the age of 20 has become a prerequisite for becoming the world's number one.

If you don't win a world championship before the age of 20, don't even think about becoming the world's number one.

Moreover, once the age requirement is relaxed, the Rookie King competition will be no different from other national competitions. Why is it still called the Rookie King competition?

Even for the national competition like the Langke Cup, there is no need to hold preliminaries, after all, there are only 32 people in the competition.

It is even a question whether the qualifying round can be held. It would be better for everyone to directly participate in the main competition and then adjust the rounds according to the number of people, which would be more convenient.

This is the current situation of China's professional Go world. The qualifying tournaments, which were once considered essential for the core professional players to move up, cannot even be held now.

This is the current predicament of professional Go in China, where we hold competitions but cannot even gather enough people.

Even a national competition would be enough to give all Chinese chess players something to play.

In this era, Elder Zhan was able to directly participate in the main competition of the national competition, which was an achievement she would never have dared to dream of decades later.

Thinking of this, Zhan Lang couldn't help but feel a little... pathetic.

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