After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

The chairman of the Japan Go Association, Hasegawa, announced on the stage that Japan hopes that popular competitions such as the China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament can be held every year and forever to promote the healthy development of the world crisis.

This sounds nice, but in fact, to many people at the scene, there is a tacit meaning behind this statement, but no one says it out loud.

Because in fact, a few months ago, in the game in China before Zhan Lang came to Japan, the attitude of the Japanese Go side was completely different.

After Kenichi Mitsuba, 9th dan, defeated Yuanmin Wu, 9th dan, Ando, ​​the director of the Japan Shogi Association, had already clearly hinted that the second challenge tournament would not be held.

After all, according to the original Japanese estimate, Mitsuba Kenichi would successfully defeat Zhan Lang. This time, Japan has fully proved its top-notch strength, and there is no need to do such risky things again.

After all, Fang Yuan’s sudden emergence shocked the Japanese Go community and really stimulated their heart rate and blood pressure.

On the other hand, no matter what, the Chinese can never defeat the top-notch ones. You are such a loser, why should I play with you?

Japan has many reasons for not holding the competition, but China certainly does not want the competition to end with just this one, and would like to see the competition continue.

Even because Japan hinted that it would not hold the competition, a Chinese minister even went out of his way to contact the Japanese side to see if there was any room for maneuver. In the end, he was rejected and not given any face at all.

After all, in China at that time, it seemed very likely that Zhan Lang would lose to Sanye Jianyi! Even the vast majority of people had completely given up hope.

After all, the pressure displayed by Kenichi Mitsuba was so terrifying that almost no one had any chance.

This China-Japan Go competition not only failed to break the myth of Japanese Go, but Japan's top-notch players will become a huge pressure on Chinese Go.

However, if there were no such international competitions, Chinese chess players would have no professional stage to truly compete with Japan's top players.

The China-Japan Go Exchange Tournament is always just an exchange tournament, not a professional competition that can be put on the stage.

If the two sides don’t even have the opportunity to compete in a professional match, let alone break the myth of the other party’s invincibility.

Chinese chess players don't even have a chance to defeat their opponents.

But now, everything has changed.

Hedong in thirty years and Hexi in thirty years.

Especially when speaking in such a public occasion, Hasegawa, as the chairman of the Japan Go Association, dares to say such words, which must represent the attitude of the entire Japanese Go community.

If he dares to speak carelessly, others will also have the courage to rebel, after all, there are people who want to sit in the position of chairman.

Now, perhaps from the Japanese perspective, at this point in the game, the possibility of Japan losing is very high, and they must make plans for the future.

After all, Japan can't just hold one game and lose. That would be too embarrassing. Where would the face of the great Japanese Go kingdom be?

In particular, even until now, the entire Japanese Go community believes that even if they lose this game, it is not a problem of Japanese Go!
The loss was caused by the entire Japanese Go community who underestimated their opponents and became a little too proud and complacent over the years, not taking their opponents seriously.

If Japanese Go really sends out all its elite forces, Chinese Go will no longer have any chance.

Just like in Go, if you lose to a player who plays a spoon move, or even a hawk move, would you hold your breath and kill him in the next game?
You can't wait to face him in the next game and kill his dragon!
The entire Japanese Go community now has this mentality, and they can’t wait for the next competition to start right now.

Use various victories to wash away the shame of this Japanese Go competition.

Yes, the game is now tied at 7-7 with the main players of both teams playing against each other, which is already a shame for Japan. It would be even more shameful if they lost.

After all, when it comes to Chinese Go, no one really takes it seriously at all.

Ye Qing has been in charge of the logistics of Chinese Go. Naturally, he knew the attitude of Japanese Go before. He couldn't help but said with a smile: "It seems that the position of the Japanese Go Association has loosened up a bit."

Ye Qing's words were still full of sarcasm, because several Chinese leaders had come forward to coordinate and hoped to continue holding the next competition.

The Japanese directors said that Japan has a rigorous spirit of craftsmanship and has made careful plans for everything. The decision not to hold a second competition was made after deep consideration and serious discussion.

Decisions are not made casually, and they are certainly not changed casually.

But now, this huge change may happen in just two or three days.

Ok.

Japan's craftsmanship is indeed very rigorous.

Rigorous and unusually flexible.

Hao Qiang smiled smugly when he heard this and said, "As long as Chinese chess players keep winning, we don't have to worry about the Japanese chess institute not holding competitions."

"If you keep winning, the other side won't do it again."

Hearing this, Zhan Lang took a sip of the champagne in his mouth and always felt that something tasted wrong. For such a large buffet banquet, there was not even a two-liter can of Coke, which was really a bad review.

"Don't worry, Japan considers itself the kingdom of Go and will definitely try their best to prove itself."

In Hao Qiang's opinion, with the pride of Japanese Go players nowadays, they are all holding back their efforts to prove themselves in the remaining games.

No matter what, it is impossible to cancel the competition easily. However, the two people have different ideas.

Hao Qiang believes that China will win more and lose less in the China-Japan Go Challenge, and the two sides will have give and take, which will thoroughly arouse the enthusiasm of both sides.

However, in Zhan Lang's opinion, if Japanese Go fails continuously or even fails to win a single match, it is very likely that the country will be closed to the outside world.

After all, falling from the empire of Go all of a sudden is a feeling of loss that most people cannot accept.

It’s just that the Japanese have always been slow to react, and by the time they realize they should close their country to the outside world, the whole world may have already been turned upside down.

If Hao Qiang knew Zhan Lang's inner thoughts, he would probably be scared. After all, Hao Qiang is already a well-known optimist in Chinese Go, but he would never dare to have such a heaven-defying idea.

Let Japan, the world's dominant Go player, lose a single game?
How can it be?

After Chairman Hasegawa finished speaking as the representative of Japanese Go, Hao Qiang took the stage to speak as the representative of the Chinese Go team.

His speech was very simple. Because of Zhan Lang's hard work, he won two games in a row during this period of the game, finally making the score of the game 7 to 7, and brought the game to the final intense showdown between the main generals.

Chinese and Japanese Go fans will also be able to see games between top players representing the two countries. We sincerely look forward to Mr. Fujii Hideaki coming to China as the Japanese head coach, and we would also like to thank the sponsors for this competition.

As an official representative, Hao Qiang's words outside were basically very positive, even with a bit of clichés, to prevent people from catching him in any small details, but they did sound very dull.

As the Japanese coach, Fujii Hideaki also came on stage and said something, and of course the last sentence was the most important.

Fujii Hideaki said as if jokingly that he had contacted a Japanese barber shop and asked them to leave the best razor for him. If he lost the last game in the Chinese capital, he would shave his head to apologize.

But Zhan Lang knew that the other party was not joking.

Fujii Hideaki will try his best to finish this last game.

Because it was a buffet dinner, after everyone finished speaking, many people came over to raise their glasses and congratulate Zhan Lang on his victory, some took photos, and some even asked for autographs.

Zhan Lang naturally accepted everyone who came, and even signed autographs that Zhan Lang had specially practiced.

After all, these days, Go is to some extent a symbol of culture. Many players have practiced calligraphy and even designed their own signatures.

Even when I’m helping people sign autographs, I’ll suggest poems for them.

This is much better than any TO signature.

To some extent, the overall competitive level of world Go has improved since then.

But including Japan, which has always regarded Go as an art, the handwriting of Go players in various countries is getting uglier and uglier, and some even look like dog crawling.

After a whole day of hard work, Zhan Lang finally finished his meal, which was not enough to fill him up at all, and got on the car to the hotel.

Yes, after the game, the Japanese officials finally helped Zhan Lang and his team book a hotel.

"Please order me some ramen. I'm not full at all. I'm so tired today. I feel like I'm going to collapse."

Zhan Lang got in the car and immediately lay down like Ge You and started moving.

Looking at Zhan Lang who was starting to give up, Hao Qiang smiled and said, "Don't worry, I was worried that you wouldn't have enough to eat, so I asked the hotel to prepare a midnight snack.

That’s not all. I’ve even arranged a Japanese masseur just for you.”

Japan.

masseur.

Zhan Lang suddenly remembered some series about married women staying at home that he had seen before...

His eyes turned slightly serious.

This kind of thing won’t corrupt my will, right?
No, only after going through this kind of torture can one's will and heart become indestructible!

No, Ye Qing is still here, how could Hao Qiang order this?
Ye Qing smiled and said, "Editor-in-Chief Hao Qiang is a man of great talent, but he is also very considerate. He is worried that you may suffer from excessive exertion, so he specially found you the strongest male masseur.

I have even called the hotel's housekeeping department and asked them to prepare hot water for you so that you can take a nice hot bath."

For a moment, Zhan Lang didn't know whether he should be happy or not.

But bathing and massage did relieve Zhan Lang's fatigue to a great extent.

But it would be nice if tonight's massage wasn't a Thai massage.

(End of this chapter)