After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

Looking at Ye Qing's smiling face, Hao Qiang, who was a little disappointed, still joked: "What's wrong? Is there any happy event? There haven't been any wedding wines to drink recently. When can you treat me to a glass of wedding wine?"

Ye Qing felt a little helpless when he heard this. Now everyone was teasing him and Zhan Lang, and people outside who didn't know would think that the two of them were together.

But the reality is that international competition is extremely cruel. Ye Qing should not worry that he will be excluded from the competition if he is not careful.

And in fact, the more others say it, the more difficult it is for two people to be together sometimes because of various reasons such as pressure.

"I'll be grateful if you guys stop talking."

"They say it's easy for a girl to chase a boy, but your work is more tiring than moving mountains."

"If only Yugong could move the mountain!"

When Ye Qing heard this, he said something indifferent.

As the saying goes, if you work hard enough, you can grind an iron rod into a needle.

In a few years, Zhan Lang will finally understand the benefits of having an older sister.

Ye Qing just finished speaking when he thought of something: "Come to think of it, the popularity of the China-Japan Go Challenge is still high.

My mom even called to ask if I had participated in the competition and whether there was a Chinese-Japanese women's Go competition."

Although half a month has passed since the last game, the China-Japan Go Challenge is still a topic of conversation after dinner in various places.

After all, in today's underdeveloped information age, the vitality of hot events is much longer than in the future Internet era. It is not the case that a hot topic today will be forgotten by everyone tomorrow.

Ye Qing's mother, who was far away in Suzhou, knew the news and wanted to know whether her daughter had participated.

After all, the anti-Japanese heroes who really became popular in the China-Japan Go Challenge were only Fang Yuan and Zhan Lang, and no one could name most of the other contestants.

"I don't think Japan will hold this competition."

Hao Qiang couldn't help but shook his head when he heard this. It's not that China favors boys over girls, but it's mainly because such a competition is impossible to organize. Even if China pays for it, Japan will never agree to it.

Although there is a huge gap between Chinese and Japanese Go, if we only talk about the level of women's Go, the level of Chinese women's Go is much higher than that of Japanese female players, or at least one level higher.

It is naturally impossible for Japan to hold competitions to prove itself like China does, regardless of whether it can win or not. Instead, out of the dignity of Japan as the Go kingdom, it will never expose its own weaknesses.

After all, Japanese Go players don’t think they can’t really beat China, but if we only talk about female players, that’s not necessarily the case.

There is no way. The environment in Japan, even during the three-wallet period, the status of women was like that, even worse than in the hometown of Confucius and Mencius.

In this era, women in China still hold up half the sky, and there are many female model workers.

Ye Qing also knew that the idea she had just said was not very realistic, so she changed her suggestion: "It is very difficult to get the Japanese team to hold a women's Go challenge tournament, but if we add a female player to the lineup of the China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament, it might be more interesting."

That being said, what a female chess player says may really affect the overall combat effectiveness.

Although the overall level of Chinese female chess players has surpassed that of Japanese female chess players, that is a comparison between a single gender.

The gap in strength between female chess players and male chess players is still huge, and it can even be said that the gap is unimaginable.

In other words, in all areas of sports competitions, whether it is physical strength or intelligence, the gap between women and men needs to be distinguished by different competitions, otherwise there will be no fun at all.

Most sports competitions do not have a men's group, only a gender-neutral group and a women's group. It's just that since there are basically no women in the gender-neutral group, it is defaulted to a men's group.

In the modern history of Go, there is only one woman in China, Japan and South Korea who has won the gender-neutral national championship, which is considered a miracle among female players. There is not even one world champion.

It can be said that the right time, right place and right people made Da Zhuang of South Korea win the world second place, which is a miracle that can hardly be replicated. In the first round, Japan's A Liao played a super big spoon that is rare in a year, and the Chinese chess players who had not played games and trained for a long time in the quarterfinals were in a slump. In addition, the Korean Ka Zi Ge's technique changed in the key game before he won the world championship. All these factors together gave birth to Da Zhuang, the women's world second place.

However, if we look at Da Zhuang's overall results and winning rate against various male chess players, we can only say that Da Zhuang has barely reached the level of a Chinese male ninth dan.

Why not talk about the level of Korean men at 9th dan?
To be honest, some of the Korean players with the ninth dan skill may not be able to beat the young new players of the fifth or sixth dan in China.

But even so, Da Zhuang's achievement has been regarded as a miracle by many people, and he is even considered a good candidate for women's boxing.

There was even a rumor directly spread that the male chess player who broke down and cried after losing to Da Zhuang in the semi-finals, and then in a post-match interview, he flirted with Da Zhuang during the game. Later, the male historian described this game as a Go witch, but fortunately, there were cameras to clear the name of the female hero Da Zhuang.

But in fact, because of the masks, this Samsung Cup was played entirely on computers.

Even when the semi-finalists were all Korean, for the sake of continuity of the competition rules, everyone was still asked to play chess in front of the computer in a room. Da Zhuang was not in a position to flirt, and Kazi Ge did not say such a thing in his post-match interview.

Unfortunately, because the rumor monger did not name the male chess player, people who did not pay attention to the game pointed the finger at Lao Ke.

After all, when it comes to Go, everyone only knows him, so it's right that he was the one who did the bad things.

However, the good news is that despite the rumors, Lao Ke successfully advanced from the top 32 in the first round of the competition to the top four, which is a cause for celebration.

Therefore, allowing female players to participate in the China-Japan Go Challenge will directly seriously weaken the strength of the Chinese team.

Because all the Japanese who can participate in the competition this time are the absolute backbone of the team.

If a female chess player goes up now, she will definitely lose.

“Although it’s quite innovative…”

Hao Qiang was about to politely decline Ye Qing's proposal, but since Ye Qing dared to say this, it was certainly possible that he did so without any consideration.

"My idea is that if China and Japan each send a female pioneer to the China-Japan Go Challenge, it will not only add new highlights to the Challenge, but also make up for the problem of no new faces you mentioned before."

Hearing this, Hao Qiang was stunned for a moment, and finally couldn't help but clapping his hands.

Yes, if we don’t want to change people, we can add more people!

Why didn't I wrap my head around this? The rules of the competition haven't been finalized yet, so it doesn't mean that the number of people must be the same as the first competition.

Hao Qiang felt that Ye Qing's suggestion was very innovative, and he immediately made the decision: "Your suggestion is very creative! I will go to discuss it with Chen Long right away."

Ye Qing's suggestion hit Hao Qiang's pain point, and Hao Qiang couldn't wait to share it with others.

But after taking two steps, Hao Qiang remembered that he seemed to be standing at the door of Chen Long's office!

Looking at Hao Qiang who turned around and went back, Ye Qing couldn't help but sigh.

I originally wanted to report my work to Dean Chen, but seeing Editor-in-Chief Hao Qiang's expression, I didn't know how long they would talk, so I had to go back first.

However, Ye Qing estimated that his proposal had a great chance of success, after all, it hit Hao Qiang's pain point.

But a bigger problem is that although Ye Qing proposed this proposal, her strength does not necessarily mean she can get on stage even if it works.

PS: Although Da Zhuang won the world runner-up, on average he certainly did not reach this level of strength. I know that many people will feel dissatisfied, but just talking about 2024, Da Zhuang had three losses and one win against the four Korean men's nines. From the record of some games on Yifuxi, it can be seen that Da Zhuang's winning rate against the overall men's nine is actually not high, and he can only win occasionally.

But even so, Da Zhuang can be said to have made a dimensionality reduction attack among female chess players. Every year, she comes to the Chinese Women's Go League B purely to carry sacks of money.

(End of this chapter)