After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

Chapter 49. League Construction
"I came here for another purpose. The national team is preparing to promote the construction of a professional system, and I would like to solicit your suggestions.

However, the plan is still being drafted. We have decided to award the first batch of professional players to several benchmark well-known chess players, and then based on their strength, let other people sign up for competitions of various levels to determine everyone's first batch of professional ranks.

But the more troublesome thing is that we are discussing internally whether we should grant the 9th dan rank to professional players.”

In the cafeteria in the evening, Fang Yuan took a sip of wine and started talking to the people who were having dinner with him.

The national team also realized that the gap with Japan is essentially the lack of systematic construction in the field of Go, so it began to imitate Japan to establish a professional Go system.

However, there is considerable debate within the national team about whether to award the title of professional ninth dan to chess players in China.

The reason is naturally that they feel they are not worthy, especially since there is such a big gap between Chinese and Japanese Go, whether a Chinese is worthy of the title of professional ninth dan.

It's not just Go. China as a whole is now in an extremely inferior atmosphere, and everyone is constantly wondering whether they are really inferior to others.

Even people like Fang Yuan who have defeated Japanese 9th-dan chess players would question themselves: Although I won, am I really stronger than others?

Can other chess players of 6th, 7th and 8th dan also do what I can do? If so, can I really be awarded the title of 9th dan?
"I remember reading in the news that you, Brother Fang Yuan, have defeated several Japanese chess players before, including one or two strong players.

You have reached this level of strength, so why not grant me the ninth level of my profession?"

Zhan Lang feels that the logic is very simple. You are better than others, so why can't you have the same hat as them?

Not to mention, although Japan is a Go powerhouse, it still has a lot of Shuijiu players.

And it wasn't just Zhan Lang who said that. The system rated Fang Yuan as a professional ninth-level player, and also helped Zhan Lang unlock a spot for a professional ninth-level player.

Fang Yuan couldn't help but sigh when he heard this: "I'm just worried that we are not worthy of our position."

It is mainly because of the huge gap between Chinese and Japanese Go that Fang Yuan and his teammates always question themselves and reflect on themselves every day.

Even though it is clear that 60 points will meet the standard, they dare not compare themselves with others unless they reach 80 points.

Zhan Lang was a little speechless anyway, but it felt normal to come into contact with so many people in this era.

This is the overall environment now.

"There are also issues like how chess players will advance to higher levels after the game becomes professional.

If you have any opinions, please tell me and I will bring them up when I get back."

Zhan Lang heard this and said without thinking: "It's not only a problem of building a professional system, but the main reason is that there are too few competitions, especially professional competitions like those in Japan."

No matter how professional ranks are awarded, final advancement in professional ranks still depends on competitions.

Without the support of numerous competitions, it is difficult for chess players to make progress, and they may even become depressed or even regress.

“We all want to have competitions, but the problem is that Japan has sponsors, and they are all traditional media giants. Where can we find sponsors now?
With the funding we have now, it is already very difficult to organize a national competition, and it is really stretched to the limit to organize other competitions.

Now the landlords don't have enough food, who has the money to sponsor us? And what's the benefit for them to sponsor us? "These are all very realistic things. In this day and age, the number of people who can afford to sponsor the game can be counted on one hand.

Moreover, sponsors sponsor competitions mainly for advertising. However, it was not until last year that China had its first concept of television advertising. Not to mention that the current sponsorship value of Go is actually not very high.

After several decades, some bosses may still support it out of sentimentality and friendship, but its commercial value is basically zero. However, most bosses now cannot afford to support it no matter how sentimental they are.

In the end it all comes down to an economic issue. Most children don't have the money to take this path, and similarly the national team can't hold competitions without money.

Luo Han Guo also nodded: "But it is still easy to organize the competitions that need to be held. For example, the provincial team can only train at home every day. It is too difficult to have any effect."

Other sports teams at least have preparation goals, such as the Asian Games and the Olympic Games, but there are currently no world-class competitions in Go, and there are very few domestic competitions.

In the absence of a goal to prepare for, it is inevitable that you will feel tired and exhausted. What's more, people who train usually do this back and forth, and there are few opportunities to play against masters.

“So I think we still need to promote exchanges between provincial teams and we can encourage provinces across the country to hold leagues.

The national team will take the lead, and each provincial team will select four people to participate in this league between provincial teams. We can even have two leagues, A and B.

At the beginning, each province was asked to organize two teams to participate in one competition. Every year, the last two teams in the A-league were eliminated to the B-league, and the top two teams in the B-league entered the A-league.

And it can be divided into two rounds. In the first round, everyone will go through a round-robin and be divided into the upper and lower relegation zones and the championship zone according to the points. In this way, the A and B leagues can be divided into four time periods and can be held directly in the national team.

While these leagues are being held, the players participating in the leagues are also receiving further training in the national team, which promotes communication and progress among everyone.

The national team can issue some bonuses according to this league, and can issue some kind of multiple-win award, and the provincial teams can also implement a reward mechanism, giving a certain amount of bonus for winning a game, and no money for losing, so as to stimulate the players. "

The tactics used by Zhan Lang are just a rehash of the later Chinese Go League, but they need to be modified to suit the current actual situation.

The subsequent rise of Chinese Go has a lot to do with the construction of the professional league. Many world champions were honed in the Go A-League, which is even called a precursor to the world championships.

Some foreign female chess players even regard the Chinese Weiqi League as a goal higher than winning the championship.

From here we can see the competitiveness and strong appeal of the Go League.

Of course, Zhan Lang’s main purpose in wanting to participate in this league is that he feels that the bonus given by the system can also be used for this.

You know, in later Go leagues, many players could earn tens of thousands of dollars for winning a game. Players like Lao Ke could earn 180,000 yuan for a game.

Some people in later generations always think that Lao Ke’s income from live broadcast rewards is higher than his income from playing Go. This is really a misunderstanding of his value as the former number one player in China.

Lao Ke, who has been the world's number one for five or six years, earns less from playing chess than from live streaming as a small internet celebrity. Go can really be declared doomed.

As for himself, the system gave him a match fee of several thousand yuan according to the minimum standard, and Zhan Lang did not mind it.

(End of this chapter)