After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

Chapter 78 78. Hell Joke
World Amateur Go Championship, top 16.

The quarterfinals seem to be a strange watershed in various competitions. For example, some people always fall outside the quarterfinals, but once they enter the quarterfinals, they can pick up the championship.

Looking at Nakagawa, with whom he had played against in a friendly match, Zhan Lang couldn't help but yawn.

Perhaps because it was an amateur competition, the schedule was very tight and there was not even a day of rest before the final.

You should know that most professional competitions in Japan are held over two or three days. Even decades ago, the players even had the right to close the game at any time.

To put it simply, you can stop the game at any time when you get started, and then restart it when you feel ready, and then stop again at any time. Such a game of chess may even last for several months.

Even decades later, when artificial intelligence becomes popular, Japan is the only country among China, Japan and South Korea that has not lifted its ban.

Unfortunately, the super-long Go game played in two days in Japan at that time was not as exciting as the super-fast game between China and South Korea.

It can be seen that the longer you think in Go, the more exciting the game will be. The depth of human thinking is always limited.

As time went by, the competition officially began soon.

By the third round, the venue had become empty, with only eight games remaining.

When Zhan Lang saw Nakagawa, who was hanging high at the beginning and then was pushed up by him, he felt a little speechless.

Is this going to cause another avalanche for me?

I made the four corners of the big avalanche like that in the first game, why is there still someone else who can make a big avalanche?
Haven't you received any news from the Japan Chess Association?
A normal person wouldn't dare to play this thing with himself when he sees a huge avalanche breaking the four corners, right?

No, Lin Heye seems to be from Kansai, so it seems normal that there is no news from Japan.

Maybe they don’t know yet that the big avalanche is no longer effective?

But in fact, Nakagawa had already obtained Zhan Lang's chess record the day before. Nakagawa still found it a little hard to believe the new changes or the overturned way of playing the big avalanche.

It’s not that this kind of thing will not be overturned. The fact is that Go has been developed for thousands of years, and countless times things that were regarded as truth by everyone have been overturned and eliminated in the process of development.

However, Nakagawa believes that for a pattern like Snow Avalanche, the jewel in the crown of human Go, it may be changed by the top-notch players, or it may slowly lose its luster over time.

But it is impossible for the team to be overthrown by an amateur chess player from a weak country like China when it is at its peak.

This is not something that will be regarded as an industrial pearl as long as China cannot produce it. It is the true pride of human Go and a pearl that is revered as a treasure.

One of the most complex variations in Go that has been truly researched by humans!

In Nakagawa's opinion, maybe it was just Lin and Ye who were not good enough, not the big avalanche.

When facing Nakagawa's push again, Zhan Lang neither grew to form a big avalanche nor pushed up directly to form a small avalanche.

Instead, he stood directly down.

If an ordinary chess player makes this move, he will be slapped on the head by the teacher, as he will always feel that it is a loss to make such a move.

At least from Nakagawa's point of view, it was also a loss, it was just a move by the opponent to forcibly avoid the big avalanche change.

But Zhan Lang's next move made Nakagawa even more confused.

Zhan Lang actually climbed several steps along the three lines. It seemed like he was giving orders, but in fact he was helping himself to create a thick momentum outside. It was an incomprehensible behavior.

But Zhan Lang, who had been playing chess with Yingzi from the very beginning, didn't think so at all.

Whether it is Yingzi or Xiaoxiao, their understanding of thickness seems to be very different from that of the current mainstream chess world. For example, Zhongchuan thinks that this black stick is thick, but Zhanlang, who is trained by various chess players in the system every day, thinks that it is just a stick.

A stick that can't even tell whether it can stir up something dirty.

"Brother Fang, it's really unfair of you to hide such a secret weapon without telling me."

Outside the competition venue, Inoue handed Fang Yuan a cigarette and said cheerfully, "I wanted to find you yesterday, but I couldn't find you.

But isn't it a bit overkill to use such a killer weapon in this competition? "

"The trump card?"

After Fang Yuan took the cigarette handed over by the other party, he was a little confused. What was the killer move?

"It's that kid from your family. Are you pretending to be confused with me?"

Hearing this, Fang Yuan let the other party light up his cigarette and nodded: "What kind of killer is this? We still have a lot of young chess players like Zhan Lang.

And the two games we won were not against strong opponents, so it’s not an exaggeration to say that we got through it by luck, you guys are too kind.”

Of course, Fang Yuan was just bragging. Although the next generation of Chinese talent pool will be much stronger than his own generation, it is hard to find someone who can truly compare to Zhan Lang.

However, Zhan Lang's luck in the draw seemed to be pretty good. The opponents he met in the first two games were relatively weak, but his luck seemed to have run out in the third game, as he met Nakagawa, the favorite to win the championship.

"Who told you this?"

Inoue couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this. "I don't know what your family looks like? Why are you pretending to be so arrogant?"

"I mean, about the avalanche, when did you come up with new changes? Any new conclusions? What's the difference between a lever and a length?
Can you share the information? Don't worry, we won't treat you unfairly."

After hearing what Inoue said, Fang Yuan was completely confused. He could understand every word the other party said, but when they were put together, he had no idea what it meant.

Big avalanche?
What's new?
pull?
When did the Chinese Chess Academy improve the variation of the big avalanche? How come I didn't know about it?
Am I not the boss? Am I not the number one in China?

Is there anything else about the Chinese Chess Institute that I don’t know?
Looking at Fang Yuan who looked confused, Inoue said in disbelief: "You don't know?"

"What do I know? What a huge avalanche?"

There haven’t been any competitions in China recently, nor any exchange competitions between China and Japan. In addition, there haven’t been any new results from collective research recently, so nothing can be leaked.

Wait a moment……

The other party just said that the boy inside...

"What new changes have occurred under the battle waves?"

"You don't know? I don't know where the Japanese Chess Institute got the information from, and you yourself don't know."

Inoue was speechless when he heard this. He didn't know who had planted an insider at the Japan Chess Institute to get the news, but it turned out that you, an old family member, knew nothing.

Or was this change really the idea of ​​the kid named Zhan Lang? And he didn't even tell his own people?
"..."

Fang Yuan looked at Inoue, who had an expression of disbelief on his face, and suddenly fell into silence.

The Chinese government was the last to know about the new changes made by the Chinese. What kind of hell joke is this?
(End of this chapter)