After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

On March 20, 1986, the second opening ceremony of the China-Japan Go Tournament was held at Tokyo Go Institute.

This time the opening ceremony was held very grandly. The Japanese side directly invited all the members of the Chinese team to come to Japan to attend the opening ceremony, and the travel expenses were fully reimbursed by Japan.

For most chess players, in this era, it can be said that having a rare opportunity to travel abroad without spending any money is a very rare thing.

After all, now is not like the future. The opportunity to go abroad can be said to be very rare. It can even be an eye-opener for many people. Many people even feel like Liu Laolao visiting the Grand View Garden.

After all, Tokyo is now a super modern city.

But this is not the case for battle waves. Tokyo has basically no attraction for battle waves now. We have seen enough light pollution from battle waves in our previous life, not to mention that some places do not welcome foreigners.

Moreover, in the first China-Japan Go Challenge last year, Zhan Lang, as the main player, played with a companion in every competition. He made so many trips to Japan in a year that Zhan Lang himself was tired of it.

Especially after coming to Japan, some people had bad intentions towards me, and their idea of ​​becoming a son-in-law changed to an arranged marriage, but what remained unchanged was their desire for my body.

Scumbag!

He even deliberately found excuses to create opportunities for him to be alone, so that Zhan Lang could only display his true nature as a gentleman.

There is no way. Who knows if the other party wants to borrow your sperm? If he comes and gets you pregnant and claims you are his relative, you will be forced into a desperate situation.

Zhan Lang himself is now a public figure. If any news really comes out, Zhan Lang himself will not be able to bear it.

After all, news about celebrities getting pregnant before marriage is completely different from news about ordinary people getting pregnant before marriage.

Zhan Lang always holds one view every time he comes to Japan: boys must protect themselves!
This is also the reason why Ye Qing feels that international competition has become fierce.

Not only is the competition international, but domestic competition is also very fierce.

Therefore, in the second China-Japan Go Challenge, Zhan Lang directly applied not to participate in any other matches except the one he played.

It’s okay if I don’t come!

But after all, all the members of the Chinese team were invited to the opening ceremony this time. It would have been bad if Zhan Lang, the captain of the Chinese team, did not come, but he came after all.

Of course, it is inevitable to be harassed.

The opening ceremony was also attended by a gathering of dignitaries, including the president of the Japan Go Association, a Japanese congressman, the president of Japan Airlines, the president of sponsor CEN, and the Chinese ambassador to Japan. A total of 150 people from all walks of life attended the opening ceremony of the Second China-Japan Go Challenge.

In terms of scale, it was obviously larger than the first opening ceremony, but in comparison, the proportion of people from the pure Go community seemed a little small.

To some extent, the China-Japan Go Challenge has transcended the scope of Go, and its influence has penetrated into all walks of life in both China and Japan.

Both China and Japan do not simply regard this as an ordinary Go game, but it has even become an area of ​​competition.

However, the opening ceremony was still a platform for representatives from all parties to speak, and basically everyone politely expressed their expectations and prospects for the Second China-Japan Go Challenge.

Most of the speeches from the Japanese side focused on saying that they had lost the first tournament, so they had to win back the second one and could not lose again. They wanted to make the two tournaments a one-to-one tie and use fierce competition to promote friendship.

Listening to the meaningless conversation on the stage, Kiyotaka Taguchi, the organizer of the second and also the first Japanese tournament, couldn't help but glance at the Chinese team next to him.

The Chinese team's roster was within their expectations. After all, China really couldn't find anyone else who could participate in the competition. However, the Japanese roster had undergone major adjustments.

To be honest, although Kiyotaka Taguchi did not want to drag the two people who failed in the previous ring match into the ring, he had various sufficient considerations.

Kiyotaka Taguchi still tried his best to persuade two top-notch players, Kenichi Mitsuba and Masao Toya, to participate in the Second China-Japan Go Challenge.

He told them that only by getting up from where they fell can they truly stand up, just like himself. With Masahiro Takemiya and Katsuya Takenouchi, the four top Japanese players will serve the Chinese team. I'm afraid the Chinese team can't afford this blessing, even if it shortens their lifespan.

Even when the Chinese team faced this list, even out of the residual heat of the first tournament, everyone felt that being able to force out the opponent's main player was already very good.

Only Chief Editor Hao Qiang remained as optimistic as ever, saying that he had dreamed that he could win this time!

But apart from these two top-notch players, the other seven Japanese candidates have basically undergone major adjustments, although the list was drawn up by Katsuya Takenouchi.

However, Kiyotaka Taguchi, while drinking, tricked Takenouchi into changing several candidates, and even added people from the Kansai Ki-in.

There is no way. Although Guanxi has been laughed at for a while, he has to participate when the competition really starts.

However, Takenouchi, who came from an orthodox background, was determined not to let these beggars from Kansai interfere in his glorious competition. In fact, the list that Takenouchi had drawn up at the beginning was almost entirely made up of players from his teacher's school.

This is also the reason why Kiyotaka Taguchi wanted to change the opponent's list at first, but after seeing it, he had to change it anyway.

After all, the bias of this list is too obvious. It can no longer represent Japanese Go, but can only represent the Kitani school alone.

Yes, although Japan was the first country to start the dojo system, the master-disciple system and sectarianism are still very strong.

If you and I were from the same school, then I would treat you as my own brother and disciple, and would spare no effort in training you.

But if they are from other sects, even if they are not suppressed, they will definitely give priority to training people from their own faction.

In comparison, the dojo system in China and South Korea is more obvious and thorough. The master-apprentice system has basically been abandoned, and most of them are almost the same as schools. In the era of artificial intelligence, there are no core secrets in Go.

Just like in the national team later, Lao Ke also had the task of teaching chess players born after 00. Many of them had taken his classes. Even after the internal training of the Yunnan team, Lao Ke would give small classes to teach chess. However, there was no master-disciple relationship between them. At most, he called them Mr. Ke.

Kiyotaka Taguchi also had to coax and trick Takenouchi into changing the list while he was drunk.

However, one of the reasons why Takenouchi did not lose his temper after he sobered up was that the young chess player proposed by Taguchi Kiyotaka was a disciple on his original list.

This is also the reason why Kiyotaka Taguchi thought of adding young chess players as soon as Hao Qiang proposed adding female chess players.

Because in Takenouchi's original list there was a boy named Morita, who was only sixteen years old and had a professional rank of second dan.

Although there are two sections, these two sections are not the same as those two sections.

Morita once defeated a 9th dan player in a competition. Although many 9th dan players in Japan are exaggerated, his strength can still be demonstrated.

The reason why Takenouchi chose him was naturally because he was young and capable, but the more important point was that he was a disciple of Kitani.

If Kiyotaka Taguchi hadn't made a bold statement at the beginning that he wanted half of the candidates from Kansai, and only gave one spot in the end, Takenouchi would definitely have chosen the first dan over Kansai!
It is precisely because of the confidence that the young chess players can turn the score around that Kiyotaka Taguchi is willing to let the female chess players compete.

After all, most Chinese female chess players have to train and compete with male riders, but Japanese female chess players hardly play a game of chess with male players in a year, and they rarely have tough battles.

Even many female chess players' main source of income is not prize money but tips earned from playing instructional chess with wealthy bosses.

Under such circumstances, Japanese female chess players are naturally inferior to Chinese ones.

The previous few people who came on stage couldn't help but make a few jokes, so it was inevitable that there was some laughter in the venue.

But when it was Takenouchi 9th Dan's turn to go on stage, he first coughed dryly, which made the originally noisy scene suddenly quiet down.

(End of this chapter)