After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

"Ahem, Dean Chen and I just came back from Japan and called everyone to this meeting. The purpose is actually very simple. We just want to report to everyone the results of our trip to Japan."

Looking at the several main forces of Chinese Go who were called over, Hao Qiang didn't say any empty words and went straight to the point.

"It's actually very simple. Everyone knows that I want to do something with the list of players for the China-Japan Go Challenge. Adding some new faces will allow the audience to enjoy the game better.

So before we went there, we had already decided that we hoped Japan would agree to our proposal to have one female pioneer each. The good news is that this proposal was passed!"

After hearing this, Zhan Lang and Fang Yuan, both chess players, couldn't help but look at each other. After all, they didn't expect that Japan would agree to this proposal.

After all, this is a losing deal for them.

But in fact, the situation was exactly as they thought. The Japanese side originally thought that this negotiation was just a formality. Everyone would meet symbolically to express their opinions and then go back to their own homes to prepare for the competition.

However, it was unexpected that the first opinion from the Chinese side directly made Kiyotaka Taguchi, the person in charge, unable to hold back.

And this opinion is that Hao Qiang proposed to change the eight people in the challenge match to nine people, and each side would add a female chess player as a pioneer.

When Hao Qiang gave his opinion, he also emphasized that we had absolutely no other ideas in adding this, it was purely to increase women's attention to Go and to add more highlights to the second competition.

Moreover, if there are additional expenses due to adding a chess player, the New Sports Magazine, as the organizer in China, can fully bear the cost.

Hao Qiang did not intend to enhance the strength of the Chinese team through this method, but in fact it did achieve this effect, so it is impossible for the Japanese side to think that the Chinese side has no selfish motives and is not just considering the game.

Kiyotaka Taguchi directly and strongly opposed it. He was also aware of the gap between Chinese and Japanese women's Go. If this proposal was passed, to some extent it would be adding a member to the Chinese team for nothing.

However, there were unexpected differences on the Japanese side.

Katsubo, who was the Japanese sponsor's candidate to attend the conference, turned against the company, saying that from the company's point of view, adding a female chess player would indeed attract attention.

Hao Qiang has done a lot of preparation for this matter.

We had in-depth communication with the electrical company that was the sponsor in advance, and explained that Chinese women have a high status in the family, and many families are afraid of their wives. Even the purchase of household appliances requires the opinions of women.

If you can add female chess players to attract female attention, it will be of great significance to your company's further development of the Chinese market.

Therefore, out of consideration for the company's interests, as the representative of the sponsor, Shengbu will definitely agree to this request as long as the Japan Chess Association has no objection.

Although this is what they said, the attitude of the sponsors is already very clear.

Kiyotaka Taguchi naturally did not want to offend the sponsor in this regard, but he did not want to agree to this request.

But during the lunch break, Kiyotaka Taguchi came up with an idea.

He said that China's idea of ​​allowing female chess players to participate in the competition is a good one and we wholeheartedly support it.

But we also have some opinions. In order to cultivate new forces for both sides, should both sides send out another young player under the age of sixteen after our female pioneer?

In this way, wouldn't the combination of women and newcomers attract more attention from the public?

When Hao Qiang heard this, he didn't expect that Japan would actually make such a request, but to some extent, this also catered to his ideas.

To some extent, the Chinese side originally wanted to increase the points for the Chinese team by adding female chess players, but the Japanese side's method of adding young chess players deducted the points.

However, since the Japanese side has agreed to China's request to increase the number of female chess players, China has no reason to reject Japan's proposal.

So after a brief discussion, Hao Qiang and Chen Long expressed that China fully agreed with the other party's suggestions.

So this time the two sides reached a new agreement in the talks. Each side will send nine players to the second China-Japan Go Challenge, including a female player and a young player.

The competition will officially start on March 20th, and the names of both teams must be reported to the public within half a month. And Hao Qiang's purpose of coming back to hold this meeting is also very clear, at least to determine the candidates for the new competition.

"Young chess players under 18 years old?"

Zhan Lang couldn't help but shook his head when he heard this. Zhan Lang himself was already an old man who was about to turn twenty, so it was naturally impossible for him to meet this condition.

Torajiro from Japan is about the same age as him and is also unable to take up such a spot.

However, there have always been many candidates from Japan, so there is no need to worry too much about young chess players.

But in China, this is more troublesome.

Because most talented chess players are basically over 20 years old, Zhan Lang is stuck at this dividing line. It is really difficult to find any good seedlings at a younger age.

"Where are Ritian and Xiaozhu?"

Hao Qiang took the initiative to change the topic to Zhan Lang's two disciples. After all, judging from the performance of the national youth team, Zhan Lang's two little disciples have achieved outstanding results.

Lu Hao has always focused on stability, taking one step at a time, and his style of play is moderate and peaceful, very generous, and is loved by many old comrades.

Zhu Zhuojiang has a very high ceiling, but sometimes he is very abstract, often playing the role of anyone can win and anyone can lose.

For example, during the last visit to South Korea, facing the Korean teenager genius Li Shiqing, basically no one on the Chinese national youth team could do anything to the opponent, but Zhu Zhuojiang seemed to defeat the opponent very easily.

But after returning, Zhu Zhuojiang's winning rate in the national youth team that month was only 61%, ranking in the upper middle level.

However, during the 9th dan class at the end of the year, Zhu Zhuojiang defeated Wu Yuanmin, the 9th dan.

If we talk about stability, Lu Hao is definitely more suitable, but if we talk about more impact, Zhu Zhuojiang may be more suitable.

Of course, there is also the possibility that you will be swept away by the opponent in one wave and not cause any waves at all.

Zhan Lang just shook his head when he heard this. Perhaps it was because he knew the styles of his three disciples too well. Every time he taught them a game, he felt that the three disciples were very unskilled.

But if you think about it carefully, it seems that other people are indeed worse, and there are too few choices in China.

Looking at Zhan Lang who was shaking his head as if trying to avoid suspicion, Hao Qiang made the decision himself.

"Then let's go with Ritian, he's more stable."

After all, the China-Japan Go Tournament is an international competition. Compared with high risk and high returns, people will still choose a more stable type of income.

"What about the female chess players..."

This is the main point of discussion in this meeting. There are very few young chess players to choose from, but for female chess players, there are many main players to choose from.

In some ways, many people at the meeting even have a vested interest in the issue.

Zhan Lang looked at the people in front of him with changing expressions and curled his lips: "Then just hold a selection, whoever wins will go up."

How simple a thing?

No one dares to use connections in this kind of thing, but they want their own people to compete, so why not just let everyone compete based on their own abilities?

It's just a waste of time.

(End of this chapter)