Go: I’m 50-50 against the AI

Chapter 199 198. The point of a needle versus the awn of wheat

“In this Yingshi Cup World Go Championship, the players who advanced in the first round are Ying Jie 7th dan, Shi Mingzhi 9th dan, Yu Liang 9th dan, Gu Shaoshang 9th dan, Xia Hua 8th dan, Cui Ze 8th dan, Park Zhenghuan 9th dan, Hanzawa Naoki 6th Dan.

The seeded players who directly advance to the second round are Lu Li 9th dan, Guangyin 9th dan, Huang He 9th dan, Zhang Xu 9th dan, Zhao Zhixi 9th dan, Cui Haoxian 9th dan, Gao Yongha 9th dan, and Lin Rihuan 9th dan.

The second round of this Yingshi Cup adopts a delisting system. Players who advance in the first round can freely choose to challenge their opponents among the seeded players who directly advance to the second round according to the lottery numbers. There is no avoidance principle of the same country. "

Ying Jie and the other fifteen promoted contestants sat in the audience and listened to the host explaining the rules of the competition, nodding while listening.

Among the sixteen players in the second round, China accounted for eight, half of them.

Most World Series games look like this.

In numbers, miracles can happen.

The top sixteen will account for half, the top eight will probably account for five to six, and the top four will be directly 3 to 1 by then.

Later, when the Korean leaders were unable to break through the thickness of China, the finals and even most of the time were Chinese civil wars.

There will be more civil wars in the future, and everyone is afraid that Korea will lose its mentality and will not hold World Series in the future.

As for why Cui Ze is an eighth-dan player, he can upgrade so quickly.

This is because the special promotion rules of China and South Korea are different.

In China, like Ying Jie and others, those who win the bilateral competition can be directly promoted to seventh-dan. Two-time world runner-up or one-time world champion can be directly promoted to ninth-dan.

The special promotion rules adopt a direct promotion system.

However, South Korea does not have a direct promotion system and adopts something similar to a cumulative system.

The world chess champion was promoted to three levels in a row, and the runner-up was promoted to one level.

The champion of the domestic chess competition (top three major chess competitions) has been promoted to two levels in a row, and the runner-up has been promoted to one level.

The champion of the domestic chess competition (the chess competition between fourth and tenth place) will be promoted to a higher level, and the runner-up will be rewarded with 200 promotion points.

Cui Ze has won several championships and runner-ups in Korean competitions in the past year, and his ranking has naturally skyrocketed, and he is actually one step higher than Ying Jie.

However, as long as Ying Jie holds the right to reach the finals of two world competitions, he will be promoted to 9th Dan by default.

So it’s hard to say who of the two will enter the ninth dan first.

But at this level, rank has no meaning, it is just an honorary title.

Just like no one would really treat Ying Jie as a seventh-dan.

Big fists are the last word.

“The following eight seeded players will be invited to take the stage.

Please stand in front of the number plate with your name on it.

The rules are very simple. The eight promoted players go on stage in order to make their selections. If they take down the name tags hanging on the wall, it is considered a success. Both sides will be each other's opponents in the next round.

Next, I would like to invite Yingjie 7th Dan with the number plate No. 2. Everyone is welcome. "

Hearing the sound of applause, Ying Jie stood up and nodded slightly to the crowd before going on stage.

At this time, the eight seeded players on the stage were all staring at Ying Jie, who was taking the stage.

"He will definitely not choose the three of us. The one who chooses Fusang can be walked. He has won several Choi Ho-hyuns from South Korea, so he probably won't choose him. Lim Il-hwan has a better chance.

But it's hard to say, it will be fun if this guy picks Gao Yongxia. "

This is the idea of ​​​​the Chinese trio.

Fusang and the two looked at each other: "Is this the hypertensive Chinese chess player who makes Dazhu ninth level? I don't know if he will choose me. I can try the opponent's quality."

Choi Ho-hyun: "If it were me, maybe I could avenge the last time."

Lim Il-hwan: "Young people should choose a difficult challenge. If they don't choose someone from their own country or those two from Fusang, there's a high probability that it will be me.

I have been preparing since before the game started. Let me see which one is more powerful, this genius or Cui Ze? "

Gao Yongxia: "..."

Facing everyone's gaze, Ying Jie basically didn't stop, because he had already made his choice before starting.

Ying Jie walked straight to Gao Yongxia's ninth section and took down the sign with his name written on it.

The moment Ying Jie took off the sign, Gao Yongxia Jiuduan opened his eyes.

The two people who had never met before looked at each other, smiled and shook hands.

This represents the conclusion of the contract. In the first round of the top 16 battle, Ying Jie's 7th dan versus Gao Yongxia's 9th dan.

Seeing this scene, the media in the audience took photos frantically, as if they were recording a historic moment.

It's not like everyone had never thought before that Ying Jie would be the first choice, whether he would directly choose the first person Gao Yongxia.

But if you think about it carefully, it seems impossible.

After all, participating in the World Series for the first time must be based on stability.

If you challenge Gao Yongxia directly, one thing is that if you don't do it well, you will easily break your teeth.

It's easy to get a bad start, and it's easy to leave a psychological shadow.

Second, if you want to truly replace the opponent, in theory everyone should defeat the opponent in the finals as the standard for replacing the number one player in the world.

So everyone agreed that Ying Jie would not choose Gao Yongxia, but would wait for the next encounter.

Especially the final encounter.

However, Ying Jie obviously seemed abnormal. The first choice he made was the one that no one wanted to choose.

Is it the youthful spirit that has completely failed him?

These are all very newsworthy headlines.

Ying Jie, my God!

Ying Jie and Gao Yongxia both maintained professional fake smiles and shook hands for the media in the audience to take photos.

The quality of a professional chess player is over.

When the filming was almost done, the two finally stretched out their hands.

At this time, the host stepped forward and asked: "I didn't expect that the first person we would choose would be the world's number one Gao Yongxia 9th Dan.

Ying Jie 7th Dan, let me interview you why you chose Gao Yongxia 9th Dan as your opponent in the second round. "

Hearing this, Ying Jie smiled and said: "I have seen a lot of Gao Yongxia's 9th dan chess records since I was determined to be a dan, but because of the different countries, I have never encountered them.

You can feel how powerful he is by looking at the chess records, but it’s still not as good as the real game. I finally got this opportunity today, so of course I have to seize it.

Because I have always wanted to know, what is the level of the world's number one Go player? "

Listening to Ying Jie's words, which he didn't know whether they were provocative or flattering, the host moved the microphone to Gao Yongxia's ninth section.

"Then what do you think of Ying Jie's seventh-dan answer?"

Gao Yongxia nodded after listening to the translator next to him, and then said with a smile: "I am very happy to compete with China's new talents.

The World Series has always been the stage where everyone shows off their best performance, and I hope they can play a good game.

For a newcomer, reaching the top 16 of the World Series is also a very good result. "

Hearing this, Ying Jie didn't seem angry at all. Instead, he responded with a smile: "I think it's a very good result. Maybe Gao Yongxia's 9th-dan score this year depends on when he meets me."

Listening to the head-to-head conversation between the two, the smell of gunpowder had already filled the entire arena before the game even started.

War is about to break out.