After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

Chapter 54 54. Rank and Level Points
"Brother Lang, let's go, we'll be late if we don't leave now!"

"I know, I know. Just wait for me to finish brushing my teeth! Why are you in such a hurry? I'm not a god. I'm just a Japanese 9th Dan."

"There won't be any good seats left when you wait. I'll go over first! I'll save a seat for you then. You can take your time washing your face and brushing your teeth!"

Looking at the people who ran away, Zhan Lang brushed his teeth slowly.

After returning last night, Zhan Lang heard news from several other people in the dormitory that a Japanese 9th-dan master, Heizo Takenaka, would give a lecture this morning.

A chess player of this level will naturally attract a lot of people to watch.

Currently, Chinese chess players are still in the stage of discussing whether the title of ninth dan can be awarded in the country. To exaggerate a little, it is not an exaggeration to say that a ninth dan chess player is a Go fairy in the current Chinese chess world.

Not everyone is as lucky as Zhan Lang, who has two world champion-level strong ninth-dan players available 24 hours a day to provide one-on-one game coaching.

If the opponent is not unable to play according to the instructions and receive one-on-one targeted coaching, it can be said that even in any era, few people can enjoy such treatment.

Even if he is the disciple or son of a world champion, it is impossible for him to be available at any time and provide personal service 24 hours a day.

Zhan Lang, who enjoys such treatment, naturally would not take the lessons of an ordinary Japanese ninth-dan as seriously as others.

After all, he already has a gold mountain at home, so how could he be interested in digging a copper mountain with others?

However, Zhan Lang also wanted to hear how the Nine-Section Basic Theory of this era was different from what he had learned now, what the differences were, and how he should deal with these differences.

After Zhan Lang wiped his face with the towel, he hung it aside, stretched himself, and walked to the classroom as the other party had mentioned.

The capital always seems to get colder in autumn overnight. It's still okay at noon, but in the morning and evening there's a distinct feeling of bleak autumn wind.

As soon as he arrived at the classroom door, Zhan Lang heard extremely noisy noises inside, and he felt like he was back in the days before junior high school.

Normally the national team does not have so many people, but this time it happened to be a few days before the provincial B-level team competition, and the players from each provincial team had almost all arrived, so naturally there seemed to be more people.

Such an ordinary small classroom was almost full of people. The desks had already been piled up at the back, and everyone was basically sitting together on one chair.

It seemed that there were not only people from the provincial teams, but also chess friends who came from outside, and even reporters with credentials hanging around their necks in the corner.

"Brother Lang, here!"

As soon as Zhan Lang came in, he saw someone waving at him in the middle, so he could only slowly move forward through the gap.

"We finally managed to get you a bench, but we were late even though we came so early. At least one row of seats was taken, and we almost had a fight over the first row.

There were guys who came in at four or five in the morning, and they were, as you would say, too aggressive.”

"Too studious, huh?"

"This is the ninth dan! The highest honor in Go!"

After hearing this, Zhong Min, who was also from Tianjin Team 2, said something without thinking.

Professional 9th ​​Dan, this is the highest realm in Go. In Dou Po Cangqiong, it is equivalent to a Dou Sheng level figure coming to Zhongzhou, and Zhongzhou does not have a Dou Sheng level figure, how can the middle and low-level sects not be excited?

Zhan Lang nodded when he heard this. After all, Go has not yet been fully developed, and the professional ninth dan has not depreciated.

Japan's professional promotion system actually has a particularly big drawback, which is that you can be promoted by accumulating enough wins.

For example, to advance from the second rank to the third rank, you need to win X games, no matter if you win X games out of ten games, or win X games out of a hundred games.

But in China, you have to reach a certain number of effective promotion games in a certain stage before you can be promoted. Simply put, you have to reach a certain percentage of winning rate in certain effective games.

Even before some other competitions incorporated valid promotion points, the difficulty for Chinese chess players to climb to the ninth dan was incredibly high.

Even some world runners-up and players who performed well in world competitions are not ninth dan in China.

Simply put, as long as Zhan Lao plays hard in Japan, there will always be a game he wins. As long as the number is large enough, there will always be a time to win, and when it accumulates to a certain level, he can be promoted.

However, if Zhan Lao wants to be promoted to the third dan in China, he must win a certain number of games in a row. Because he lost too many games in the beginning, the winning rate in the next dozen games may have to be as high as 70 to 80 percent.

Of course, many chess friends have also put forward constructive suggestions, which can help players like Zhan Lao, who are at the second dan level, to quickly advance to the next dan.

For example, players holding wild cards participating in the Chunlan or LG Cup, which currently have the least number of players in the world tournaments, will have a bye in the first round. In this way, as long as they win five games in a row, they can become world champions and be promoted directly to the ninth dan.

Of course, if you think this speed is still too slow, Mr. Zhan can also participate in the Three Kingdoms Go Challenge. As long as he wins three consecutive games, he can be directly promoted to the ninth dan. All he needs to do is win three games.

It’s simple if you think about it this way.

It is no big deal for Mr. Zhan to be promoted to the ninth dan, but Mr. Zhan is unwilling to participate in the world war.

It is also because of this, coupled with some other systems, that Japan and South Korea later often had some poor nine-dan players, and some nine-dan players might not be as strong as China's five- and six-dan players.

As the ranking system has gradually collapsed and can no longer reflect the actual level of chess players, various countries have begun to implement a real-time rating system to reflect the real-time competitive level of chess players.

But at least in today's era when Japan is still the kingdom of Go and the dan system is deeply rooted in people's hearts, the ninth dan is still an unattainable existence second only to the legendary top-notch in the minds of Chinese and Koreans.

It is not an exaggeration to say that she is the white moonlight.

"Didn't you say it would start at nine o'clock? Why haven't you come yet?"

Zhan Lang glanced at the clock hanging on the wall of the classroom and asked curiously.

Zhong Min and others felt that it was normal: "It's normal for a top master like this to be late. We don't have such a level in China. Just bear with it."

“The gap between China and Japan is so huge that they can naturally act like big shots when they come to our side.

If one day we are more capable than them, we can go there and act like a big shot, but what we can do now is to endure silently and learn from their strengths in order to defeat them."

At this time, the person sitting behind Zhan Lang and the others heard their discussion and said something silently.

PS: I have nothing else to say except that my head is a mess... I am numb and have to go to work. I really feel that every time Yang wears armor-piercing, he is numb.
(End of this chapter)