Go: I’m 50-50 against the AI

Chapter 194 193. Delisting System

The Ying Cup World Professional Go Championship is a world professional Go individual competition founded by Mr. Ying Lao, an industrialist from Baodao, China.

The first competition was held in the Chinese capital and is held every four years. It is known as the "Go Olympics".

The original intention of holding this event was that when Fuso Go dominated the world, both China and South Korea looked up to him and kept following him to learn.

However, after several Sino-Japanese arena matches, Chinese Go has the potential to overwhelm Fuso.

Mr. Ying organized this world competition just to help Chinese Go become the number one player in the world.

At that time, the favorites to win the championship were Fuso's Xiao Lin and China's Nie Lao, and those who entered the final were Nie Feng 9th Dan and South Korea's Cao Mingxun 9th Dan.

At that time, it was generally believed that Mr. Nie could win the championship because his relative record was more advantageous. Another person who was qualified to compete for the championship, Kobayashi 9th Dan, did not enter the finals.

Everyone feels that failure is impossible.

In the three games in the first stage, Nie Feng Jiuduan led 2:1 as everyone expected.

Basically everyone thinks that the overall situation has been decided and everyone feels relieved.

According to the original plan and the regulations before the game, the last two games must also be held in China.

But at this time, the Korean Chess Academy suddenly protested, believing that it was unfair for all competitions to be held in China, and demanded that the next two games must be held in South Korea, otherwise it would ask the participating players to withdraw.

This was used to blackmail the organizers and the Chinese Chess Academy into obeying their arrangements.

Mr. Ying firmly opposed the Korean side's unreasonable demands. He had obviously agreed to what he had agreed to before, but now he turned around and acted shamelessly.

Isn't this shameless?

If you want to withdraw from the competition, the championship will go directly to China. Anyway, the current process itself is us 2:1. No matter what you say, we are justified.

However, the Chinese Chess Academy, adhering to the so-called peace-oriented spirit, made a compromise and moved the competition venue to Singapore.

Then Mr. Nie took a flight to Singapore alone, but because he got off the wrong plane at the transit station and the air conditioning on the plane was too cold, he caught a cold.

Guanzi, who was originally a great player, made a bad move in the fourth round and was reversed.

Cao Mingxun took advantage of the big victory and won the fifth game again, becoming the champion of the first Yingshi Cup.

After returning to China, Cao Mingxun became a national hero in South Korea, and also set off a Go craze in South Korea.

In this battle of Go Tianwang Mountain between China and South Korea, Chinese Go failed, but Korean Go suddenly emerged.

In the following period, it continued to be suppressed by the Korean Wave. The first four Yingshi Cup championships were all won by South Korea.

It was not until the fifth Guangyin 9th Dan that he won his first championship. At this time, Mr. Ying, who organized the competition, had passed away, and the Chinese had never won the championship.

After a long dark night, Chinese Go has only been able to compete with South Korea in recent years.

There have been six competitions organized by the Chinese, and five of them have been won by Koreans. Naturally, everyone knows how they feel.

Therefore, the chess academy also said before setting off that this game can only succeed, not fail.

Whether it's for the country or for Mr. Ying.

One more victory must be gained.

And Ying Jie, who holds the wild card, has an even heavier burden.

"Taipei is okay. Although it is not as prosperous as the capital, it is not a small county town."

Tonight is the opening ceremony and banquet of the Yingshi Cup. After participating, there will be a draw for the competition.

Ying Jie did not draw the traditional European and American chess draw, but drew a Korean chess player who was an old acquaintance, Kim Dong-seok 9th Dan.

But if you calculate the other person's age, it's 20 years older than you, so it's considered a good sign.

Just focus on one thing and you can't fail.

Looking at the fried skewers snacks in Ying Jie's hands, Lu Li's 9th Dan and others couldn't help but complain: "The competition is tomorrow, and there is still time to go out to the night market."

“Tomorrow’s opponent’s sign is just right, he’s a chess player I know relatively well.

I feel that it is best to relax before the game at this time. Only when there is no pressure can you show your best strength. "

Ying Jie said while holding a piece of grilled sausage.

I was thinking about discussing Korean chess players with others, but a girl studying in Korea happened to volunteer to practice with me and introduce her to me.

And this girl is Kim Ji-yeon, the 9th-dan daughter of Kim Dong-seok, Da Zhuang.

Compared to other Korean chess players, the person she knows best is of course her old father, so she talked the most during the introduction.

For example, some interesting things about Kim Dong-seok’s inevitable defeat.

Coincidentally, I happened to meet the other party's old father in the first round.

Kim Dong-seok 9th Dan is really grateful to his little cotton-padded jacket.

“Give me a list, the night markets in Taipei are pretty good, but forget about the others, there’s not much else to do.

Except for a few big cities, Baodao's other small counties are just like rural areas, and they are not considered to be the urban-rural fringe style. "

“That’s what happens in a small place. Basically, we try our best to build a single point and take advantage of centralization.

Isn’t it the same in Korea? Seoul alone accounts for more than 1/5 of the population.

Fuso is the same. Except for cities like Tokyo and Osaka, other places are built like rural areas. Their counties are no different from our rural areas. There is basically no infrastructure, let alone job opportunities.

Only these cities have opportunities, there are no job opportunities elsewhere, so young people can only head here.

I remember that Fuso issued a policy and offered money to move out of Tokyo, but no one was willing to move. "

"The same goes for us, but our place is bigger and we can buffer it better than them."

Because Go is more popular in China, Japan and South Korea, the World Series is basically held alternately between these three countries.

Therefore, top chess players often travel back and forth between China, Japan and South Korea. In addition to competing, they will definitely also travel around.

Relatively speaking, I know a lot about Japan and South Korea.

“However, this time the lottery system is changed to the delisting system, the ones who are under pressure should be you seed players.

There is no avoidance principle this time. It is just like the products on the shelf, allowing people to choose.

If it doesn't work out, I'll just go on a tour. "

Ying Jie wiped the oil from his mouth and said as he looked at Lu Lijiu and others who were playing chess with the players in tomorrow's first round at night.

Delisting card.

That is, the eight players who qualify in the first round have the right to designate any of the eight seeded players as their opponents and select them in turn.

It can be said that it adds a lot of interest to the game.

"Most people will definitely give priority to those in Fuso for stability."

Hearing this, Ying Jie did not speak.

At least Ying Jie is very happy about the new competition format added this time.

Because he drew a group by lot, this also meant that he could be the first to choose his opponent.

Who is better to choose when choosing troops and generals?

Choose one lucky person and stop at the top 16.