After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

"It's true that there are enemies on opposite sides of the road."

Fang Yuan looked at Sanye Kenichi who was standing not far away and couldn't help but complain.

Naturally, Fang Yuan couldn't feel too happy about this stumbling block that had once caused him so much trouble.

Although to some extent, Fang Yuan often mentioned Kenichi Mitsuba for no apparent reason during interviews, even though no one asked about him at all.

But as the fact is, when it comes to Fang Yuan’s journey in international Go, Kenichi Mitsuba is definitely a topic that cannot be avoided.

As the number one person in China, Fang Yuan has an indissoluble bond with Mitsuha Kenichi in a sense, and they can even be considered enemies to some extent.

The first time Fang Yuan lost to a top-notch Japanese player in an exchange match was to Mitsuba Kenichi, and he suffered many consecutive defeats to him afterwards.

He had never won, and even Fang Yuan began to feel irritated and fearful.

When Fang Yuan won five consecutive games in the first tournament, he was full of confidence and felt that he could compete with the top players.

But the reality was cruel. The first person he faced was Kenichi Mitsuba, and Kenichi Mitsuba kicked him off the altar without hesitation, ending his five-game winning streak.

After that match, Fang Yuan, who had just shown great momentum, became withdrawn, and his self-doubt became even stronger since then.

In the second Fang Yuan tournament, they ended Japan's winning streak. When they felt they were doing well again and were going to Japan with full confidence to challenge Kenichi Mitsuba, they didn't even see him and were defeated in the first round.

Until later on, Fang Yuan always had a fear of the top-notch ones that was similar to a mental demon. He had reached the level of strength, but his skills would be distorted when he encountered them.

It was not until Zhan Lang beat Fang Yuan so hard that he became even more autistic that Fang Yuan came out of his autism.

In the third ring match, Fang Yuan finally overcame his inner demons and defeated Kenichi Mitsuba, also setting his first record of defeating a top Japanese player.

So now when facing Kenichi Mitsuba in the world competition, Fang Yuan did not feel as scared as before. He felt that Kenichi Mitsuba was just like that, similar to himself.

However, what is more surprising is that Fang Yuan will meet Kenichi Mitsuba again in the World Championships. After all, this is a low-probability event.

However, some people are like stand-ins and will attract each other, just like in future world competitions, there will always be some people who will always run into each other.

"If I take him down, the tie between China and Japan in the semi-finals will be 2-2.

Moreover, Japan has seven contestants, and we only have four. No matter how you look at it, China tends to be more prominent in the world competition.

Just wait and see, it’s not just a competition! We Chinese will also fight for our place in the world championships!”

Fang Yuan is indeed very confident about Zhan Lang. In his opinion, Zhan Lang is 100% sure to win the championship, let alone the top four.

There was no way. Not to mention anything else, even if he used only the three-tenths of his strength to teach himself a lesson, he would still be completely invincible.

The top Japanese players present at the scene went back and discussed with him at the same time. Even if a game of chess lasted for a year or two and the opponent could stop at any time and find anyone to study at will, they still could not win.

It's so scary!
Invincible terror!
Therefore, Fang Yuan was not worried about Zhan Lang's victory or defeat, and since he defeated Sanye Kenichi last time, Fang Yuan had great confidence in himself.

In his opinion, there are already two Chinese spots in the semi-finals.

After hearing Fang Yuan's words, Zhan Lang was actually a little helpless. How should he put it? First, Fang Yuan's evaluation of himself came from Jueyi, and he was not as good as a dog.

And you can't drive a dog during the competition.

One is that the education he received since childhood does not support Zhan Lang doing such a thing, and the other is that if he opens a dog, the bonus given by the system will be gone.

I can win and gain something by myself, but I am adding unnecessary things to it. Isn't this just asking for trouble? How could Zhan Lang do such a stupid thing?

What worries Zhan Lang the most is that Fang Yuan is always jumping back and forth between extreme confidence and extreme doubt, and there is no way to find a middle value.

Fang Yuan felt that he was in an extreme mental state all the time and he never had the feeling that he could calm down.

Either you are extremely confident or you are extremely self-doubting.

In fact, the closer it gets to the crucial game, especially the crucial last round, as long as the strength gap is not too big, the biggest factor affecting the game is often not strength, but a person's mentality.

This is also the reason why some people can always win the key games and are called the master of victory and defeat.

However, some people obviously have good strength, but they always have major problems in key games, which leads to their winning rate being ridiculously high, but their championship rate never goes up.

It is because people like the Great Winner can even exert their full strength in the crucial game and will not be affected by their own mentality.

There is no way. Mentality has a huge impact on a chess player during the game. Sometimes it is even more important than strength.

When a chess player is extremely confident, he becomes particularly optimistic, feeling that he will not lose no matter what. Then he is often severely taught a lesson by others during the game.

When you are extremely doubtful of yourself, you are particularly afraid of losing. Sometimes you scare yourself to death even when you are in an advantageous position, or even play too weakly and conservatively, ending up in the shape that others like best, which is also a very outrageous thing.

All I can say is that both excessive optimism and excessive suspicion are undesirable. One is the extreme of wastefulness, and the other is the extreme of cowardice.

Neither is desirable. The important thing is to have a normal mind.

It sounds easy to have a normal mind, but it is actually the most difficult thing in the world.

"Don't roll over."

"Don't worry, I guarantee you'll win, bro!"

The more you say this, the more worried I am! You said this to me twice! It's all fucked up!
Zhan Lang was speechless and didn't know where to start complaining. He could only watch Fang Yuan walk over and sit down opposite Sanye Jianyi, then fan himself with a confident look.

May God bless me.

Losing doesn’t matter, others could have clearly won but ended up failing.

Zhan Lang also found his seat and sat down. There were only four spots in the world championship quarterfinals, so there was nothing to find.

After Zhan Lang sat down, he found that there were still five minutes before the game started, but today's opponent Zhao Chikun had not arrived yet.

Theoretically speaking, the chess players from Japan should have arrived quite early.

It was not until one minute before the game started that Zhao Chikun walked into the game room with a cup of coffee and sat quietly opposite Zhan Lang.

Seeing that the other party was busy fighting with the coffee straw, Zhan Lang gave up the idea of ​​chatting with him.

There were reasons why Zhao Chikun came late. One was that he didn't like sitting in his seat for a long time before the game, because he would always have random thoughts if he did that.

Another thing is that he heard many people say that Zhanlang liked to chat with his opponents about some strange things before the game, so as to affect his opponents' mentality.

So in order to avoid Zhan Lang's "out-of-the-box tricks", Zhao Chikun also chose to come at the last minute. Zhao Chikun had just sat down and opened his coffee when the rules of the game were read out and the players were asked to guess who would go first.

"White, it's OK."

Looking at the white chess piece that he had guessed, Zhan Lang nodded slightly and didn't feel there was anything wrong.

Under the rule of six and a half points, according to the winning rate of artificial intelligence, the white chess will be slightly better, but only a little bit, which is theoretically imperceptible to humans.

But even at six and a half points, it is still easier for white to play for most top chess players.

The reason is that how to convert the advantage of the first move into six and a half points or even seven and a half points is a very difficult thing for most people.

After all, these days, the hardest job is to be a bootlicker.

Zhan Lang, playing with white pieces, started the timer first. After Zhao Chikun got the black pieces, he did not make a move immediately. Instead, he hesitated for a minute before placing the piece at the star position in the upper right corner.

Zhan Lang basically had no hesitation and made a small move in the upper left corner.

This time, both sides started the game diagonally. Zhao Chikun used the diagonal star small eye, Zhan Lang used the diagonal small eye, and then they started to cheat directly on each other.

Zhao Chikun used the not-so-common two-room low clamp at the beginning, but for Zhan Lang, there was nothing uncommon about it.

At the beginning of the game, there were no major problems for both sides. Zhan Lang always underestimated the two pieces on the left and only moved them up to borrow them.

And if Zhao Chikun dared not to lend it to him, Zhan Lang would dare to continue to stick to him, and he would have plenty of ways to severely punish the other party later.

It was impossible for Zhao Chikun not to see such a simple picture, so he pulled it up directly, and when the battle wave retreated, he stuck to it and firmly took over a piece of land in the lower left corner.

Zhan Lang did not hesitate at all and continued to attack from above.

Move 35, Black, damn!

Seeing Zhao Chikun approaching, Zhan Lang couldn't help but touch his lips. Are you testing me?

If he uses force to grow it out, because there are defects at the bottom, once Zhao Chikun reinforces the top and then rushes down, it will be easy for air to leak on both sides.

So, take one back!
"A change of two-five invasion points."

It has to be said that even in Japan, every game of Zhanlang can be said to be a focus game.

Many people couldn't help but stand up and start hanging around Zhan Lang and his team's game not long after the game started.

Especially South Korea's Xu Zhixi, who couldn't sit still just after the layout stage ended.

In order to conceal his purpose, Xu Zhixi deliberately stayed around the other two games for a while before he was the last one to walk to Zhan Lang's game and watch.

But it was obviously too deliberate, because even when he was watching other games, his eyes would always unconsciously glance towards Zhan Lang, and his intention was already very obvious.

In fact, it wasn't just Xu Zhixi. Several top Japanese players couldn't help but run over here to see what the progress on the chessboard was like.

Zhan Lang and Zhao Chikun are now playing chess in the upper right corner, forming a classic variation of two-five invasion points.

However, Zhao Chikun did not continue to grow there. Instead, he flew to the right, trying to restrict Zhan Lang.

Zhan Lang was also a little confused. Aren’t they going up there?
It is obviously related to both the mesh count and the thickness.

But since Zhao Chikun is not leaving, Zhan Lang will have no choice but to be rude.

Move 66, White chess piece, capture!
This move is a direct and pleasant first move!

After Zhao Chikun mentioned it from above, Zhan Lang immediately came to the tip of the lower right corner.

Zhao Chikun suddenly felt a sense of crisis in his heart, a sense of crisis that concerned his life and death.

Zhan Lang issued a death warning to himself!

He is destroying his own roots!

Zhao Chikun didn't hesitate at all. He hit it directly after pulling it out.

Zhan Lang couldn't help but shook his head. He could clearly feel Zhao Chikun's sensitivity about life and death.

As soon as I showed the slightest sign of progress, the other party started to attack vigorously.

This sensitivity is a good thing to some extent, as it can help Zhao Chikun avoid many dangers. However, if it is too strong, excessive sensitivity will make Zhao Chikun complacent.

For example, now, Zhao Chikun's exchange with Zhan Langhu directly caused a lot of damage to the black piece in the center.

To some extent, Zhao Chikun lost out.

But Zhao Chikun's intention was also very clear. He wanted to take the initiative to activate this chess piece and let it grow roots as solid as a rock!
After fighting Langhu, Zhao Chikun came to the lower left angle.

But in Zhan Lang's opinion, this move was too slow! This was giving himself a chance! A chance to attack his dragon!

Zhan Lang naturally couldn't let go of such an opportunity.

Move 76, White chess, clamp!

Zhan Lang directly hit the flaw in Zhao Chikun's chess piece in the lower right corner, and Zhao Chikun didn't hesitate at all and stuck to it.

Zhan Lang then immediately jumped after rushing to the right.

Faced with the risk of death from his own dragon, Zhao Chikun seemed to be very confident in himself at this time.

He believes that his roots will never die!
and so!
I have to use some more extreme methods!

Move 81, black chess piece, breaks in!
Zhao Chikun simply ignored the big dragon that might have put his life in danger and forced his way in from the right!
PS: I said I am not a jinx, my prediction was correct! When Lao Ke was at his peak, the finals and semi-finals would drag on until the last game when facing theoretically absolute moves, let alone now!
The most troublesome thing is that in the past two years, Lao Ke has not won either a game or a decisive game, which has dealt a great blow and caused great psychological damage to him.

The biggest problem is that Lao Ke wants to win but is afraid of losing, and he has no confidence. He has no way to display his strength in crucial games.

Therefore, the key to tomorrow's game lies in Lao Ke's adjustment of his mentality. If he adjusts it well, he will be 80% successful. If he fails to adjust it well, he will only be 50% successful.

So I am still optimistic about A Liao in the next game. It is likely that Lao Ke’s mentality cannot be adjusted now, unless the Wo Ke from 2015 can come back.

(End of this chapter)