After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

"Why are you so late today?"

Looking at the members of the Chinese delegation who entered the laboratory just before the competition began, Fujii Hideaki asked with some surprise.

After all, in his impression, the Chinese team has always been synonymous with arriving early. They would rather leave time for preparation in advance and would never allow themselves to encounter emergencies.

In the two competitions, there has never been a case of someone arriving just in time.

Today, the competition has already started, and two talented players from the Chinese team finally arrived and entered the laboratory.

Judging from this time, even if Fang Yuan was not late to enter the competition room, he probably just made it in at the last minute.

Hao Qiang couldn't help but shook his head when he heard this: "Fang Yuan was so slow this morning. No matter how we urged him, he wasn't in a hurry. As a result, we only arrived just before the game.

The game was about to start in one minute, but he still walked in leisurely. He was in no hurry at all! "

Hearing this, Fujii Hideaki couldn't help but smile and said, "It seems that Fang Yuan is sure of winning, otherwise he wouldn't have such a performance."

"There is no such thing as a sure win in this world. It doesn't matter who loses."

After Zhan Lang arrived at the laboratory, he sat cross-legged next to the chessboard in the middle. There are too many upsets in Go.

Let’s not even talk about the legendary plane crash king Lao Ke. Shen Zi could have lost to him even if he didn’t do it directly.

Sometimes the outcome of a game of Go depends on a single thought.

Even after the game is over, there are many people who still think that the opponent is not as strong as themselves. They say that they are not in good shape, they are playing online chess, they did not prepare in advance, and they should not take it to heart.

But no matter how much you think, you can't change the outcome of the game. Losing is losing.

Fujii Hideaki just smiled and said, "That's true, but the possibility is very small."

Zhan Lang took a look at the changes on the chessboard. Fujii Hideaki had already arranged a lot of chess pieces according to the chess record passed to him, and there were already quite a few chess pieces in the upper left corner.

After all, when Zhan Lang and Hao Qiang sent Fang Yuan to the door of the competition room, the competition was about to start in one minute, not to mention that the two of them had to walk from the competition to the laboratory, which took some time.

However, Fujii Hideaki can see the latest changes being played out on the physical chessboard directly through the live broadcast on TV.

Although the game had been going on for a while, both sides started with a large-scale fixed variation in the upper left corner, and it was played very quickly.

Looking at Fang Yuan who had directly hit Lin Hongshu's ninth-level small eye below, Zhan Lang couldn't help but shook his head.

So relaxing!

To be honest, relaxing during a Go game is a good thing. At least you won’t have too much burden or pressure in your mind, so you can better display your strength.

Because not everyone can become more powerful the more pressure they are under.

Excessive pressure will only prevent people from exerting their full potential, especially when facing people who are stronger than themselves.

But Fang Yuan is too relaxed now, and seems to be in the mentality of bullying the weak.

But Lin Hongshu, the 9th dan, is not just some mediocre player, he is a genuine Japanese 9th dan.

Now Zhan Lang can only hope that Fang Yuan will relax his mentality, be serious in his heart, underestimate his opponent tactically, take his opponent seriously strategically, and play this game well and honestly.

After all, if Fang Yuan really lost, Zhan Lang would feel overwhelmed facing the five members of the Japanese team who are still majority.

One against five, this is really too difficult!
That means there is no World Series these days.

Otherwise, what is the difference between defeating four top-notch Japanese players plus a 9th dan and winning a world championship in this era?
Even winning the World Championship normally isn’t that difficult, right?
After all, there are rookies who give away points in the World Series. The World Series is a purely hell-level difficulty.

If it's a small 24-team world series with a bye in the first round, winning five times would be really good enough to win a world championship.

Or the 32-player final could be a world championship where the winner is decided in one game and the champion could win five games in a row.

However, when Zhan Lang traveled through time, he had never heard of a world championship where the finals were decided by a single game. Basically, they were all game of chess. If there was such a world championship, 8U would probably be expelled from the world championship.

Not necessarily. If the event is hosted by China and the winner is a Chinese, they will be expelled. But the same may not be true for Japan or South Korea.

Just like when Japan held a competition for the strongest chess players, the number of participants was only four at the least and eight at the most. Because it was hosted by Japan and South Korea won the championship, many chess fans have been wondering why it could not be listed as a world championship.

The last Bailing Cup, a competition among sixteen players, was considered by many chess fans to be not up to the standards of a world championship and was resolutely expelled from the world championship.

But the prize money is only 200,000 or 300,000, which is less than the prize money of ordinary domestic competitions. It is also a competition with 16 people, and even many top Chinese and Japanese players will not participate in the Mountain Cup. Yet, many people want to promote it to the status of a Class A world championship.

What is the intention? Those who understand will know.

"Thank you."

Looking at the waiter who was handing him water, Zhan Lang looked at the chessboard in front of him and replied without even raising his head.

However, after taking the water, Zhan Lang discovered that the other party seemed to have been sitting next to him and had not left. Zhan Lang looked to the side in some surprise and found that the person who handed him the water was not the waiter, but Lin Heye.

Zhan Lang was a little surprised, but as a relative of contestant Lin Hongshu, it was normal for him to be here.

But Zhan Lang then remembered that he had already drunk the water she handed to him. Could there be something in the water?
After all, the previous times I met Lin Heye, some of his actions were already scary and proactive.

Boys should protect themselves well when they are outside!

However, Zhan Lang thought about it carefully. There are so many people here, including those from the Japanese Chess Institute and the Chinese delegation. Even if the other party drugged him, he would not be able to get out.

Thinking of this, Zhan Lang started drinking with peace of mind.

Looking at Lin Heye who was sitting next to Zhan Lang very consciously, Fujii Hideaki couldn't help but frowned.

It's not that Fujii Hideaki is against romance between Chinese and Japanese players. On the contrary, he supports it and even believes that it can further promote exchanges between Chinese and Japanese Go players.

Especially for Zhan Lang, if he finds a Japanese wife, even if she is not a Go player, Fujii Hideaki will definitely support it with both hands and feet.

So the reason why he frowned was not because he thought his flower was eaten by a pig, but because he thought that Lin Heye, a country girl from Kansai, was not worthy of Zhan Lang.

If the young man Zhan Lang wanted to find a Japanese wife, Fujii Hideaki would just wave his hand and hold a beauty pageant for Zhan Lang in the Japanese Go community, and he could choose the one he wanted.

Moreover, Fujii Hideaki was certain that other people in the Japan Chess Association would not object and would even support it wholeheartedly.

There is no way around it. After the first China-Japan Go Challenge, Zhan Lang has now been basically recognized as a top-notch player.

Now all the top-notch ones basically have strong connections with Japan. They are either Japanese or trained in Japan.

Only Zhanlang has basically nothing to do with Japan, and it is even difficult to find any connection.

You can't say that someone was trained in Japan just because he participated in a few competitions organized by Japan, right?

If it is true, it would be a bit embarrassing.

But if Zhan Lang finds a Japanese Go player wife, then the Japan Go Association can declare Zhan Lang the son-in-law of Japanese Go.

So these high-end competitions are still just civil wars among Japan, and it’s not shameful to lose.

But if Kansai intercepts us, the situation will not be good.

Fujii Hideaki could already imagine what kind of reports the newspapers in Kansai would have.

No, I have to remind Hasegawa and the others next time we have dinner. Aren’t there any Japanese female chess players who are pretty and interesting to play against?
Everything is for the friendship between China and Japan!

(End of this chapter)