After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

Chapter 57. Saint

Holy, what is holy?
sacred?

Your Majesty?

The Great Saint? The Great Saint? The Poet Saint? The Medical Saint?
It seems that all noble words have infinite magic in this word.

There is even a saying among the people that when the Yellow River becomes clear, a sage will appear.

It is difficult to make the Yellow River clean, and even more difficult to produce a sage.

In another world, the only saint that is generally recognized by the people is probably hybrid rice.

Since the new era, there is only one person who has been officially awarded the title of saint, and in a special event under a special historical background, there is only one chance.

That was in nineteen eighty-four.

It is now almost autumn of 1980, and only a few years are left until 1984.

For Zhan Lang, time is not waiting for him.

Becoming a chess player in Japan is not as simple as many people think. It is not just like traveling. It is even more complicated than studying abroad.

Zhan Lang not only had to get a visa and other things required for a long-term stay in Japan, but he also had to transfer his relationship to the Japan Chess Association so that he could participate in official competitions.

China itself does not have professional ranks, and even if it did, Japan would not necessarily recognize it immediately.

Therefore, Zhan Lang not only had to transfer his relationship to the Japan Chess Institute, but also had to start with amateur competitions after he arrived there, because Japan would not give you a professional player's certificate as soon as you arrived.

Who are you, Zhan Lang?
Who do you think you are?

Who the hell do you think you are? If you come here, I will let you have a job?
If you follow my procedure honestly, I won't hold you back. If you pass the exam, you'll be registered as a professional chess player.

Due to various factors such as procedures, I will definitely not be able to participate in the Japanese Professional Go Ranking Tournament which is scheduled to start in less than a month this year.

This means that Zhan Lang must spend a year as a student in Japan, and then train with a group of Japanese students, who are similar to the Chinese teenagers who are often referred to as young people who are trying to become Dan in later generations, and at most participate in some amateur competitions.

Then, when they think you have the necessary skills, you will be allowed to participate in the 1981 professional ranking tournament, and only by the end of 1981 can you become a certified professional chess player in Japan.

This is the case when everything goes smoothly without any unexpected factors. In a foreign country, any unexpected situation is possible.

Not to mention that the only foreign languages ​​Zhan Lang can speak now are the few words taught by teachers like Furukawa Hoshimiya and Mikami Morisawa.

At most I'll say one more sentence, Bakayaloo!
At the earliest, Zhan Lang would not be able to officially participate in professional competitions until early 1982.

Two years is too short a time in the professional chess world. Because of various cycles, one may not be able to participate in all seven waves of Japan's major title tournaments, not to mention whether one meets the registration requirements for the title tournaments by then.

More importantly, the China-Japan Go Tournament was launched in 1984. If Zhan Lang wanted to participate, he had to transfer his relationship back to China before that, otherwise he could only consider representing Japan in the competition.

The subsequent procedures and various relationships are very complicated and cannot be resolved so easily.

You have only studied in Japan for a few years, and now you suddenly have to go back for a competition against Japan. It is a question whether they will be unhappy and block your steps.

If Zhan Lang had not been able to prepare for a long period of time in advance, or even transferred his connections back before there was news of the competition, he might not have had enough time to participate in the China-Japan Go Challenge.

And the most important thing is that it is a turning point in the history of Chinese and Japanese Go, the China-Japan Go Tournament.

A true turning point.

In another world, someone in the first session was in a desperate situation, but he single-handedly reversed the situation and defeated three top-notch players of the time.

In the second session, he still faced the greatest desperate situation. This time he had to directly face the remaining five opponents, and they were five people who were carefully prepared and fully armed for revenge.

But he still won.

It was also from that moment that Chinese Go officially entered a stage of rapid development.

The game of Go always seems to carry a bit of mysticism. For example, after some players defeat the number one player, they always enter a climax period and perform well.

You can say it is a psychological factor, or you can say it is other reasons, but there are still many professional chess players who believe in luck.

Even someone dyed his hair gray, and was said to be trying to change his mood and felt that it would be easier to get white pieces with white hair. It was impossible for Zhan Lang not to participate in such a game.

Just like every time traveler in the entertainment industry, they always check in with Liu Huazi and Da Mi Mi.

More importantly, the two consecutive reversals in the China-Japan Go Tournament greatly boosted the national self-esteem and gave a shot in the arm to the Chinese people who believed that they were inferior to other countries in the world at that time.

It can be said that it was not an exaggeration to call Nie a national hero at that time. He was actually lifted up on the road by the college students at that time, in a physical sense.

Since he is no longer in this world, Zhan Lang feels that he has to take over.

But if a Chinese who was trained by Japan defeated Japan, would there still be such an effect?

Others will just say that there is no one else in China, or that everyone else is just there to make up the numbers.

Japan can only be defeated by a person who studied in Japan. All his skills were learned from Japan. In essence, it was Japan that defeated Japan, and it had nothing to do with China.

Don't think that such a thing will not happen. Japan still believes that it lost to its father, not China.

The gap between the two is too big.

In a competition involving the honor of the word "saint", there can be no mistakes, and it must not be shrouded in any shadows or flaws.

Otherwise, Zhan Lang would definitely not get the title of Chess Saint.

Don’t think that this title is simple. It is not a title or an honor. It is the first official certificate in the new era that contains such words.

If the history of modern Go is mentioned in another textbook in the future and there can only be one person's name, that person must be Nie, not Ke.

The special products created in a special era and environment cannot be replicated at any other time.

Everyone thought that Lao Ke's later becoming the number one person in the world was a natural result.

Because before him, China had already covered South Korea and gained an advantage, and he was just the leader who emerged from the leaderless China. Without him, there would be others.

But the title is different this time.

A unique SSS-level title.

And if you are not careful it will be out of print!

It is not difficult to become the first Chinese person to become the number one in the world. Zhan Lang feels that with his talent and cheats, if he still cannot become the number one in the world, he should go to the back of the Forbidden City early to see if there is a crooked tree like Chongzhen's and hang himself on the southeast branch in advance.

But this title is something you will never get again if you miss it once.

There is only one chance.

The right time and place are indispensable.

Zhan Lang had no way to explain this to others, so he could only say: "So, I will win them all!"

"Isn't that right?"

Fujii Hideaki looked at the shapes on the chessboard and touched his chin. He took out the music notebook he carried with him in his bag, wrote down the situation, and then tore it off and gave it to his assistant.

"Fax this back to that person in Japan.

No, wait a minute…”

The assistant was stopped by Fujii Hideaki before he even walked out of the door. After thinking for a while, Fujii Hideaki wrote out a chess score in the music notebook and wrote a few short lines of words and handed it to the other party.

"Fax these two chess records and this note together."

After the assistant left, Fujii Hideaki lay on the bamboo chair, looked at the chessboard in front of him and said something in a low voice.

“Funny kid.”

(End of this chapter)