After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

"The atmosphere in Japan right now is really good, and people are so optimistic.

Yes, it has become like this, and we cannot be optimistic. "

Zhan Lang was sitting in the hotel restaurant, flipping through the newspaper provided by the hotel, and couldn't help picking his teeth after his meal.

The wagyu meat is not that great, it's praised as such, but the taste is just so-so.

Fang Yuan’s defeat yesterday was beyond the expectations of almost everyone on both the Chinese and Japanese sides. After all, before the game, Kenichi Mitsuba expressed his desire to warm up and go on the court, ready to directly snipe Fang Yuan.

After all, Fang Yuan’s performance in the last session was still very impressive, and they started with a five-game winning streak.

Therefore, he is also one of the opponents that Japan pays more attention to this time. The reason why Japan put Kenichi Mitsuba in a relatively forward position when arranging its troops is because he defeated Fangyuan in the last session.

He was going to have him snipe Fang Yuan directly to prevent Fang Yuan from winning several consecutive victories with great momentum.

However, Lin Hongshu won beyond everyone's expectations.

All the preparations that Kenichi Mitsuba had made before were completely useless. After the Japanese side was worried for a while, they found that all their previous worries were in vain.

How can I put it? Anyway, this is extremely good news for Japan.

After all, in their opinion, there were only two people in China who posed a threat, and one of them committed suicide. Isn't this worth being happy about?
In the newspaper on the rest day after the game, the news of the China-Japan Go Challenge was published in the sports section of the Asahi Shimbun, a famous Japanese news media, which gave it an unprecedented one and a half pages.

Because it was so important and it greatly boosted the confidence of Japanese Go.

After all, as the media organizer of the China-Japan Go Challenge, Asahi Shimbun was also a target of attack during the first challenge.

In particular, they have published many articles encouraging their own chess players and belittling Chinese chess players, which is very normal for Japanese newspapers.

But it was later revealed that they were praising their own chess players too much, causing them to be careless about Chinese chess players.

In the second round, Japan is now clearly on the verge of winning by a large margin, so Asahi Shimbun will naturally publish more news.

The first one is an article with the title "Hayashi Hayashi defeats China's Fang Yuan, Fujii Hideaki's prediction fails."

When Zhan Lang saw the title, he didn't have much interest in reading on. After all, he could roughly guess the meaning of the article from the title. However, Fujii Hideaki's blood pressure would probably rise after reading it.

The lifelong reputation of the Go master has been ruined in an instant. Now the Japanese Go community only knows the gambler Fujii Hideaki, but not the Go master Fujii Hideaki.

After repeated hype about the title of gambling monster and the final confirmation by the Asahi Shimbun, Fujii Hideaki will never be able to break free from it in his lifetime.

It is not very clear what mood Fujii Hideaki is in, but it is possible that when Japanese chess fans meet him in the future, they may ask, can you cheer for the Chinese chess players?

In later reports, Lin Hongshu also said in a post-match interview that victory was not easy, but after the lucky win, he felt completely relaxed.

After passing this level, I can focus on the duel with Zhan Lang. I dare not say that I can defeat Zhan Lang 100%, but after all, I am the only one in Japan who has never lost to Zhan Lang, so I am still very confident.

With the addition of the trustworthy 9th dan Mitsuba Kenichi behind us, I believe that with just the two of us, the Japanese team will be able to avenge their defeat in the previous tournament by a large margin.

Lin Hongshu did not say too many wild words. After all, he knew Zhan Lang's strength. If he said too much, he would easily get embarrass himself if he lost.

There’s still time to show off after you win.

As the organizer of the competition, Kiyotaka Taguchi was even more arrogant and completely forgot Sakamoto's previous warning to keep a low profile.

The organization of the game was put in the hands of Katsuya Takenouchi. He decided the roster and the order of play, and even served as the head coach. The outside world thought that it was Katsuya Takenouchi who organized the game, and if they lost, he would be the one to take the blame.

When Japan really wins, it won't be too late for Kiyotaka Taguchi to come out and reap the rewards, as he has shown his perseverance and perseverance.

But now, in Taguchi Kiyotaka's opinion, victory is already in his grasp! It's time to pick the peaches!

Now is not the time to discuss who should take the blame!

Is coming out to grab the credit!

Kiyotaka Taguchi even wrote an article with a stroke of his pen that was a "fairy tale that is impossible to happen in reality."

The first China-Japan Go Challenge was entirely due to Japan's carelessness. It was all accidents that led to the defeat.

However, after the defeat in the first tournament, Japanese Go learned from its mistakes and now in the second tournament, Japan has fully demonstrated its true level!
As everyone can see, Japan has surpassed China by a large margin.

But there are still some people! Once bitten by a snake, they are afraid of ropes for ten years!
With an absolute advantage of five to one, some people were actually worried whether the team that won three consecutive games last time would be able to win five consecutive games.

I can't help but think of the places where Japanese Go went for exchanges a few years ago. The people welcomed them wholeheartedly. It was truly the perfect time. The scene of vibrant vitality and flourishing development is still vivid in our minds.

After just a few years, Go fans have completely lost faith in our national players?!
In any case, the battle force is five to one, and the advantage is on my side!
Regarding these groundless worries, I can only say that such worries only appear in stories from the Arabian Nights! It is absolutely impossible for them to happen in reality!

"A fairy tale? But unfortunately, stories always have to be logical, and reality doesn't follow these principles." Zhan Lang couldn't help shaking his head. There are so many stories in history that if you really want to write them into novels without citing the historical prototypes, you will be scolded for having a low intelligence.

But it actually happened in reality.

Who knows if our reality is a story compiled from countless novels.

“So anything can happen in reality.”

"Reading the newspaper? It's a pity that Fang Yuan is not in good condition now, so he can't play chess with you."

Hao Qiang looked at Zhan Lang, who had arrived at the restaurant early and seemed to have finished his meal, and sat down next to him and greeted him.

If someone helps you prepare before a Go game, it can sometimes be twice as effective. After all, other top players can sometimes find some blind spots that you have overlooked.

Therefore, in later world championships, during the finals, China and South Korea sometimes provided some accompanying services.

But it is obvious that Fang Yuan can't accompany him now.

The whole person was still in the hotel room with NetEase Cloud Music activated.

"It's okay, someone will prepare it for me."

"Are you planning to look for a Japanese chess player? I see you and Takemiya seem to be pretty close.

That guy looks quite generous and doesn't seem to have any bad intentions. The last time we were drinking, he said that his family moved there from China hundreds of years ago.

However, he is still a Japanese chess player. Even if he himself does not have such an idea, if the Japanese officials have such an idea, he will be in a dilemma and cannot refuse.

In such an important competition, we should not have the intention to harm others, but we must be on guard against others."

Hao Qiang couldn't help but shook his head. If you practice with a Japanese chess player, you may not be able to say some things without reservation.

It’s better not to prepare at all.

Because you always have to worry about whether the other party will leak your training content due to position issues.

Once the training content prepared by a chess player in advance is leaked, it can be said to be a huge blow to the chess player, because the opponent can conduct targeted research on the content of your training.

Not only did all the previous preparations go to waste, a lot of time was wasted, and it even gave the other party the opportunity to see one's weaknesses.

Just like during the final of the World Chess Championship, the online training accounts of Chinese chess players were dug out, which added a lot of difficulty to the final.

Although Hao Qiang is a half-layman, he has been engaged in related work for such a long time that he still knows a lot.

"I know, I wouldn't be that stupid."

Zhan Lang couldn't help but shook his head. No matter how stupid he was, there was no way he would play chess with the Japanese players.

Looking at Hao Qiang humming a song and ordering food, Zhan Lang couldn't help feeling a little strange.

The current public opinion on the future of the ring match can be said to be very bleak, but Hao Qiang seems to be fine.

There are only two possibilities for Hao Qiang's attitude. One is that he is still very optimistic, and the other is that he doesn't care about things like the ring match at all.

But the second one is impossible. As for the first one, Hao Qiang can still be optimistic now, and Zhan Lang admires him very much.

"If Dean Chen Long and his men were here, they probably wouldn't be able to eat now."

After Hao Qiang ordered, he handed the menu back to the waiter: "They still don't trust you, but I trust you very much.

To be honest, although I don’t understand a lot of the content of the game, every time I see you play chess I feel at ease.”

Hao Qiang has always believed that since Zhan Lang won three consecutive games in the last session, it would not be a problem for him to win three consecutive games this time.

There are still two people left, Takemiya and Takenouchi, but Zhan Lang said at the opening ceremony that Takenouchi can be easily defeated, so the actual opponent is only Takemiya.

If you think about it this way, there is absolutely no reason to be pessimistic.

However, Zhan Lang is not so optimistic.

For him, chess should be played one game at a time and food should be eaten one bite at a time.

The most important thing at the moment is how to defeat Lin Hongshu.

(End of this chapter)