After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

Chapter 131 130. Heretics are more hateful than pagans

"Lao Yu, it turns out that you are the one coming to compete from Guanxi?"

Looking at Yu Zhengcai, a contestant from the Kansai Chess Institute who appeared at the competition venue, Zhan Lang felt a little surprised.

Yu Zhengcai is considered a guest chess player from Kansai, and there is only one spot available from Kansai this time. Zhan Lang originally thought that it must be the Hattori he met last time. After all, the other party is not yet twenty years old, and is also the best player in Kansai.

It turned out that the person who came was Yu Zhengcai, which was indeed a bit surprising.

Yu Zhengcai scratched his hair a little embarrassedly when he heard this: "Luckily, the connection organized a small-scale selection competition, and I was selected.

Hattori was unlucky and was eliminated by others, so I got the advantage."

"There is no such thing as luck or bad luck. The fact that you were selected means you have the ability."

Upon hearing this, Zhan Lang said directly that the preliminaries can be said to be the fairest way to select places for all competitions. If there is anything else to say about this, there is really nothing to say.

With the qualifiers, basically everyone has the opportunity to compete. Even if there is some luck involved occasionally, it does not mean that there is no luck factor in the main competition.

The most outrageous thing is that even after this, there are still people who say that the qualifiers are for selecting a bunch of local bullies, but there are also free spots available by winning the championship and runner-up points in foreign wars.

He failed to get selected in either of the two categories and yet he is still nagging about it. I can only say that he has something wrong with his brain.

Using the results to infer the process is wrong and can only be said to be cerebellar atrophy.

"Good luck, good luck."

When Yu Zhengcai heard this, he just shook his head slightly and repeated this sentence. Yu Zhengcai, who had studied abroad for a long time, seemed to have no confidence in his own abilities.

And this time, it wasn't him who eliminated Hattori, he was able to get in because of the elimination of others.

"Zhengcai, it's you, long time no see."

Seeing the two people chatting, the two representatives from Formosa also came over to say hello.

Looking at the two fellow villagers who came over to say hello, Yu Zhengcai felt a little embarrassed: "Coach Liu, Lin Jie, long time no see."

Wang Linjie smiled and said, "Long time no see. What level of professional skill are you now? We were about the same in the beginning, but now you are much better than me."

Fortunately, I came out early, and I can enjoy more resources in Japan, unlike me who can only live on the island. "

Hearing this, Yu Zhengcai just smiled awkwardly. Baodao and the other man didn't say much either. They exchanged a few words and left.

Looking at the few people chatting awkwardly, Zhan Lang couldn't help but ask curiously: "You are not from the same place, why do you feel like you are not very familiar with each other..."

After all, Taiwan is such a small place, and there are even fewer Go players, so it is impossible for anyone to not know anyone else.

Even chess players who are somewhat talented should be very familiar with each other.

Even though the number of Go players in China grew so large later, it was impossible for teams from the same province to not know each other.

Yu Zhengcai just shook his head when he heard this: "There are not many people who play chess seriously in Baodao Chess Academy, but there are many who just want to get by and cheat for funds.

Previously, an old man who loved Go invested a lot of money in order to support the development of Go in Taiwan, but it turned out that he just spent money without any effect.

Even when I was patrolling in the past, I found that people in the chess academy were either playing cards or gambling, or drinking in the daytime, and there was no one playing chess.

Wang’s talent is not bad, I even feel that his talent may be better than mine, but he did not make progress in that kind of environment, and now he is not even at the professional level. It can only be said that this is a weak profession.

If Taiwan Go had any momentum, I wouldn’t have come here.”

Although Japan and Taiwan have always communicated frequently, especially in the Go community, the frequency of communication between the two sides even exceeds that between the mainland and Taiwan, which can be said to be far higher.

But if Taiwan could really strive for something and have a good environment, Yu Zhengcai would not want to stay in Kansai.

It is not easy to be a stranger in a foreign land.

"If there hadn't been a kid from South Korea coming over this time, I think he would have been ranked last."

In Yu Zhengcai's opinion, apart from the kid who was just over ten years old next to him, the weakest player in the entire game was his fellow villager.

Fortunately, there was a kid to support him, otherwise he might not win a single game in this round-robin tournament.

"Zhanlang, Zhengcai, you two are hiding in this corner."

Lin Hongshu from the Kansai Chess Institute came over at this time, looked at the two guys huddled in the corner and said something speechlessly.

What are you two doing hiding in the corner?
If someone doesn’t know, they would think you are plotting something.

"I can't understand what other people are saying, so why not sit here and chat with them?"

Lin Hongshu seemed to have thought of something at this time, and frowned and said, "Zhan Lang, I heard that you used the money you won to organize a competition? Organizing these two competitions must have cost you a considerable amount of money."

Zhan Lang was a little surprised when he heard this. The news of his competition had spread to Japan?
But if you think about it carefully, it is normal for Japan to pay attention to the developments in the Chinese Go community, not to mention that what I organized is not a small matter. "Yes, I organized a rookie king and a national competition, which cost about 30,000 yuan."

"Thirty thousand yuan, I thought it would be closer to one hundred thousand. This is probably the cost price over there. You guys have already tried every way to help you save money.

But even if this is the case, how many times can you win with the money you have? What if you run out of money? Is the game over? You still have nothing to play.

Your method is unsustainable. If you spend money to keep yourself playing chess, how much competitive pressure will you still have?"

In Lin Hongshu's opinion, Zhan Lang has a strong sense of patriotism.

Two hundred thousand is nothing in Japan. For a professional ninth-dan in Japan, basically everyone can pay it out at once.

But given the current economic environment in China, this is a lot of money.

Zhan Lang could have lived a good life right away with this money, but he actually used the money to organize competitions without hesitation to give back to Chinese Go.

I can only say that from the Chinese perspective, Zhan Lang is truly great.

Even from a Japanese perspective, one cannot help but admire it.

Zhan Lang not only loves Go, but also loves his country.

Lin Hongshu also had to admire Zhan Lang. After all, it was impossible for anyone to admire a rare person.

But in this case, the competitiveness of Go will be greatly reduced for Zhanlang.

After all, in professional competitions all contestants will fight hard for the prize money, but the prize money and the money for organizing the competition are paid by Zhan Lang, so the appeal to Zhan Lang himself will be greatly reduced, or even non-existent.

The money goes into your right pocket but the left pocket doesn't bring in enough money. What motivation do you have to strive for success?
After hearing this, Zhan Lang didn't know what to say.

How should I actually say it?

The bonus is quite attractive to me.

For Zhanlang, the Rookie of the Year title alone earns 120,000 yuan, and the runner-up earns 70,000 yuan.

In a national competition like the Lan Ke Cup, the champion prize is 500,000 yuan, the runner-up prize is 150,000 yuan, and the prize money for the quarterfinals is also counted in tens of thousands of yuan. Making it to the top 16 can also earn several thousand yuan.

You said that my competitions cannot be cyclical, but in fact they are too cyclical...

I've made a lot of money.

To some extent, Zhanlang is using fighting to support "war", and others have to thank themselves.

Looking at Zhan Lang who had an expression of noncommittal, Lin Hongshu could only pat him on the shoulder helplessly: "There is more than one way to help the development of Chinese Go. Think about it carefully and don't delay yourself."

Looking at Lin Hongshu, who looked like he couldn't bear to see his pearl covered in dust, Zhan Lang couldn't help but complain in his heart: I've considered it, but what you gave is really too little.

The benefits are not proportional to the effort, who would go?
"Forget it, let's not talk about this. Do you know who the players from the Japan Go Association are who are participating in this competition?"

"Anyway, there must be Torajiro. There are nine people participating in the competition, one from me, one from your place, one from Taiwan, and one from South Korea. That leaves five from the Japanese Go Institute. If it's four against four, there will be one person who gets a bye every day."

Although the match schedule has not yet been released, Zhan Lang still estimated the course of the game.

The nine people will play the round-robin tournament for a total of eight days, with four-on-four matches every day. This means that one person will have a day off without a game. Theoretically, those who have a bye on the first and last days will be the most uncomfortable, as it is basically equivalent to having no rest time in between.

As for the five Japanese players participating in the competition, Zhan Lang did have a list and names, but he didn't know much about them.

It is natural that the Chinese National Go Team cannot but study Japanese players, but if they don't study the top Japanese players, they have to study the top nine. There is no time to find and study some ordinary and mid-level players whose chess records are rarely found.

There are hundreds of professional Go players in Japan, and everyone is exhausted from studying.

"Sato Toshito 7th dan, Miyauchi Ryuta 6th dan, Matsumoto Ryu 6th dan, Omori Kotaro 4th dan, and the Kashima Torashiro 1st dan you just mentioned, this is the entire Japanese lineup for this competition.

I have already sorted out the information of these people, and Zhengcai has already looked at it. I will give you the information later, and you should prepare it in advance.

Among these people, Sato is the most capable. He is actually over 20 years old now, but he was stuck at the registration period for the competition and was not yet 20 years old, so he was able to sneak in.

I just don’t know who you will play against tomorrow. The matchup list hasn’t been announced yet. They said we have to wait until after the press conference.”

Listening to Lin Hongshu's words, Zhan Lang fully felt what it meant that heretics were more hateful than pagans.

The Kansai Ki-in really wants the Japan Ki-in to die quickly, so it just stuffs the information into its own hands.

As a few people were talking, the lights in the banquet hall suddenly changed and instantly focused on the main stage.

The world's strongest talent battle, the press conference begins.

(End of this chapter)