After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

Chapter 41. Dear Friends, Brothers and Sisters

Zhan Lang had many thoughts and guesses about Li Yiran, the captain of the Tianjin Go Team, wondering what kind of person he was.

But when they really met, Zhan Lang was still a little surprised. The other party was a little too modern, at least from the first impression of his dress, very modern.

He wore a denim jacket and jeans and had his hair permed. His whole look wouldn't seem out of place in the 21st century.

How should I put it? In this era of drastic changes caused by reform and opening up, some people have already stepped into the forefront of the trend of the times.

What’s quite embarrassing is that Li Yiran still has a plaster cast on his leg and is still sitting in a wheelchair. He can only look up at Zhan Lang.

Zhan Lang felt helpless. Until now, he seemed to have no choice but to look down at people, especially now that his naked height had exceeded 180cm, and not the kind of 179cm with a hard pad on the horse's eye of 180cm.

"Are you Zhan Lang?"

Zhan Lang nodded: "Yes, hello, captain."

"Don't call me captain, you are the captain!"

Hearing this, Zhan Lang was confused. What the hell? How did he become the captain? This is unacceptable!

Does Coach Luo know that you said this?

"I didn't expect that you would force Sun Zhouzhe to leave after I was away for only a month."

"No, his leaving has nothing to do with me. He applied to study abroad on his own."

Zhan Lang was speechless when he heard this, then turned to look at Coach Luo who pushed Li Yiran over, hoping he could explain.

After hearing this, Luo Han Guo turned to the side feeling somewhat guilty. Sun Zhouzhe's escape with the bucket was in some way closely related to him.

It was because Luo Han Guo sent the game record between the two players directly to the Chinese national team that this game record became popular in the entire Chinese Go community.

The national team conducted in-depth research on the change of "touching" and found that there is great potential in it. They also conducted intense discussions on subsequent changes, and even extended it to whether some other layouts could also be directly touched.

It can be said that this is a brilliant move that breaks the inertia of human thinking. The national team also specially issued a document to commend Zhan Lang for discovering this move and strongly praised Zhan Lang's innovative spirit.

As for money, the national Go team is rather short of money, so a little praise will be enough. The national team itself doesn't even have any prize money.

But is this a compliment to Sun Zhouzhe? This is a slap in the face to Sun Zhouzhe.

Originally, it would have been fine if it had just been like this. Sun Zhouzhe would just hold his nose and bear it, pretending to be dead for two days and the matter would have passed.

After a few months, you will be a brave man again.

But the problem is that this chess record was circulated too widely, and Luo Han Guo directly told the national team the names of the two players.

As one of the people who were killed, Sun Zhouzhe cannot be said to have died socially, but he has become the focus of discussion among many people.

He was Sun Zhouzhe, who was discovered to have used that new variation of Zhan Lang to kill an entire game.

In particular, people are not only concerned about the chess records, but also the gossip behind them.

For example, how did this new change come about, and why are these two people playing against each other?

After some people accidentally spread the news, many provincial teams knew what Sun Zhouzhe had done.

For example, they agreed to use the Chinese flow, but they changed their mind and used the mini Chinese flow that the national team was secretly researching and had not yet announced, and they confidently stated that this was the Chinese flow.

The situation was already ruined at the beginning, but he still refused to admit that the other party was right, and was eventually defeated by the other party.

After losing the game, he refused to admit it and demanded a rematch. He has no competitive spirit at all.

In the end, he couldn't win the argument and even resorted to hitting others.

Not to mention gossip, which will only become more and more outrageous as it spreads. A story needs a glorious and upright protagonist, but it also needs a clown.

Even if he is already Joker enough, people will continue to process him to the point where Batman has to beat him up every time he sees him.

The story of secondary processing goes back to the Tianjin Sports Team. Sun Zhouzhe found that the people from other sports teams looked at him strangely, and the rumors were like a knife that killed people.

Under such circumstances, Sun Zhouzhe could not stay in the sports team at all. Even if he changed to another provincial Go team, he would still have to face rumors.

After all, the entire Chinese Go circle is now very small and everyone knows everyone.

In other words, Sun Zhouzhe has become a clown in the Go world and has died socially.

For the first time, Sun Zhouzhe found himself deserted by his friends and relatives, with no one speaking up for him.

It's all the world's fault!

Saionji World, what are you going to use to pay back what you owe me?

But Sun Zhouzhe was also quite resourceful. He managed to get a government-sponsored study abroad quota and went to study in Japan.

Before leaving, Sun Zhouzhe left a letter for Zhan Lang with only one line of words on it.

I will definitely be back.

Zhan Lang was speechless after seeing this. You are not Gray Wolf. Besides, you are not an elite monster? You may not even be a small boss.

Even if you're filming a movie, you can't come back as a king. "Yes, didn't I tell you in the office that this matter has something to do with Zhan Lang..."

Before Coach Luo finished speaking, Li Yiran waved his hand to stop him from explaining.

"Coach Luo, don't say any more. Don't you understand after all this time?

Sun Zhouzhe, that was my beloved relative, my brother! I can't just sit back and watch him go!
If he knew that there was no one in the entire Jinmen Sports Team who cared about him, he would be so sad! "

Hearing this, Zhan Lang looked confused.

What the hell? Were all the gossips I heard in the team before fake?

Didn't Sun Zhouzhe say that Li Yiran was the person he hated the most? Aren't these two people on good terms?

In the past, conflicts would easily occur within the team, but how come they become close friends and brothers among us?

Wait a minute!
You're not asking me to pay more!

Luo Han Guo felt a little puzzled when he heard this. When did you two become so close?
I do not know how?
"So I want to play a game with you to avenge Sun Zhouzhe."

Hearing this, Zhan Lang breathed a sigh of relief. After all this time, just play a game of chess. Why didn’t you say so earlier?

"Then let's go ahead. I've basically played against everyone else, and you're the only one left. I'm also looking forward to playing against you."

Hearing Zhan Lang say this, Li Yiran suddenly asked, "It's not just a game.

Do you know what the gap is between Chinese and Japanese Go? "

Hearing this old-fashioned question, Zhan Lang was a little speechless: "You are not talking about the nationals..."

Don't you want to lead someone astray?
“It’s the system.”

"From a talent and other perspectives, I don't think China's top players are much worse than Japan's top players.

One is that there was indeed a lot of delay in the past few years, and the other is that the construction of the Chinese Go system is not yet mature.

Especially the lack of large-scale competitions and strong competitive spirit.”

Li Yiran glanced at Zhan Lang who was a little surprised: "There are not many popular competitions in the country, and there is no complete system for internal training between provincial teams.

Normally, no one will give 100% of their energy in the team's training matches. Even if they lose, many people will not care because it is insignificant.

But Go is a game of winning or losing. If you don't have the desire to win from the beginning, then the game is wasted, let alone making any progress.

But it is different in Japan. Competitions in Japan are extremely popular, and chess players can even use competitions as training in many cases.

Not to mention that various competitions also have high prize money. In the face of huge prize money, all chess players will try their best to play the best chess! "

Theoretically this is true, but there are exceptions. For example, two Japanese chess players conspired to draw in order to earn more game fees. After two games, their conspiracy was exposed, but they still ended up in a draw in the third game (the handicap at that time was an integer, and there were many draws).

Normally speaking, faced with high prize money, chess players will not cheat and will fight even if it means vomiting blood.

After all, even in the cup competitions of the 21st century, the prize money for the champion and runner-up is several times different, and some of the semi-finalists and quarter-finalists even only earn a few thousand yuan.

Unlike the guaranteed salary in the Go A-League, the income from the cup competition can be said to be very different. A wrong move in a game may result in the loss of tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But if there are enough temptations off the field, it’s hard to say.

For example, South Korea later introduced the Go lottery, and after the Go lottery was proposed, fake games began to appear on a large scale.

Especially in Go, games like the big spoon often appear in a must-win situation. It is too easy for players to control the game and lose reasonably with just a little manipulation.

If "fake moves" appear in professional games, then any professional game will be "unreliable". Any slow moves, missed moves, omissions and defeats will arouse suspicion of "fake moves".

As a Korean chess player said: What is more terrifying than the "fake chess" itself is the suspicion of fake chess.

The victory or defeat of Go is a contest of the players' hearts and willpower. No matter how objective the referee is, it is impossible to clearly determine which move a player made was a fake. Perhaps one day professional Go players will have to take lie detector tests after a game.

This is also why many people believe that the recent glory of Korean Go is all supported by the legacy of the Lin Shen twins, because it is not only a problem of successor talent, but to some extent the ecology of the Korean Go industry has been destroyed.

Compared with this, the budget cuts of the Korean Chess Institute are just a small issue.

It is easy to destroy something, but difficult to rebuild it.

Compared with the extravagance and waste of another Korean twin star in China, who spent several generations' family savings and asked sponsors to charter flights, resulting in no money to hold the qualifying competition and delaying a younger generation, these are all small matters. What Korea did can be said to be a complete waste of resources.

The one who used lottery to dig out the roots of Korean Go was the Go Emperor who first created a world for Korean Go when he became a member of parliament.

However, for now, this problem has not occurred in China, Japan and South Korea.

Competitions with prize money are indeed one of the reasons why Japanese chess players are so competitive.

“So in this game of chess, I’m going to give you a raise.

If you win, I'll give you the captaincy."

(End of this chapter)