Go: I’m 50-50 against the AI

Chapter 221 220. Away game

"How many more hours?"

"It's estimated that we still have about three hours to get to the bus station over there."

"so tired!"

"Just get used to it. It's always like this every time I come to Shandong."

Ying Jie couldn't help but stretch on the long-distance bus. He almost forgot how long it had been since he had been on a long-distance bus?

In Ying Jie's memory, he was still very young in his last life. At that time, there was no high-speed rail station in his home county, and he had to take a long-distance bus to go to nearby big cities.

Children are very prone to motion sickness and vomiting, so adults have to carry a plastic bag with them. Even long-distance buses themselves will have some plastic bags.

With the advent of high-speed rail, long-distance buses have become a distant memory. Even cross-city buses from the county to the city can take more than half an hour to cover a long distance.

Ying Jie didn't take a few days off after returning from South Korea. Although he didn't participate in other national competitions, the playoffs of the Go League A were still in full swing.

Ying Jie also followed his team and ran around the country.

This time, we also followed the team to the home court of the Shandong team for an away game.

Because the Shandong team placed their home court in a small county town below, Ying Jie and the others had to transfer to a bus to go to the county town after flying to Qingdao.

In addition to all the time on the plane, it had been almost a day since the long-distance flight. Even Gu Shaoshang's ninth-level physique could not hide his fatigue.

Ying Jie has been a professional chess player for almost a year, especially after a year has passed and many competitions have been updated.

Therefore, Ying Jie gradually got on the right track in the professional arena, and his life began to become more rhythmic.

Based on the previous year's competition results and grade rankings, Ying Jie needs to participate in pre-selection for some competitions, and can directly enter this competition, but some still need to participate in pre-selection.

For some domestic competitions that require long-term pre-qualification, except for the title battle, Ying Jie basically chose to give up by default.

A person's energy is limited, so he must focus on the most important games.

But international competitions are completely different. The world championship can be said to be the most recognized competition, even if you have to qualify for the preliminaries.

After Yingjie has accumulated enough points in a year or two, he can directly buy the championship points to qualify for seeding and enter the competition directly.

But the accumulation now is not enough. The two domestic championship points in hand are not enough to exchange for a seeding spot.

Therefore, Ying Jie also participated in the preliminaries of several international competitions at other times, competing with others to qualify for international competitions.

Because the Go League A playoffs are divided into home and away games, they are not held collectively in one place, but are hosted by each team, and the visiting team goes to the host place to compete.

Judging from the competition plan formulated by the Chinese Chess Academy every year, domestic competitions and the Go League A generally do not conflict.

But if the game is postponed for various reasons, sometimes it is hard to say. After all, there will always be unexpected factors, and occasional conflicts are inevitable.

But international competitions are more difficult to talk about, especially world competitions held by other countries, which will definitely not take into account China's competition time.

Most of the players in the Go League A, especially the main players, want to participate in international competitions.

Once a conflict occurs, if two members of a siege team go to participate in international competitions at the same time, this round of siege can be postponed.

However, this kind of postponement is actually pushing back one day, so there will often be two sieges a week.

Moreover, due to the tight schedule and the current spread of news, which is not as developed as in the Internet era, after many chess fans received the news and went to the competition site, not to mention the competition and professional players, all the staff were gone.

Coach Long Yan sat on the bus and looked at everyone who was listless due to the long journey and clapped his hands: "Everyone should have been relaxed in the last game in the capital.

But part of the reason is because the other team owes half a year's salary, and the other team looks a little listless.

But the Shandong team does not have this situation now. Don't let everyone relax when playing chess because they are tired because of the long journey. "

Since the birth of the Go League A, the issue of wage arrears seems to have been accompanied by the development of the league.

In fact, it’s not just Go, it seems to be the case in every sports competition industry.

Especially in the Go team, the team leader and coach are acquaintances in the same industry, and people often ask about salary out of shame.

After all, most people do not rely solely on the income from the Go League A. Most people will not choose to fall out when they have money.

However, around the time of the 1990s, some people came to press conferences to say they were owed wages, and directly asked for wages online and other means.

Although the chess players have various methods, the reply is that they are not not sending, the finances are busy, please wait a moment.

This kind of thing has to wait for half a year or a year, and it doesn't happen even when the owner goes bankrupt.

Even for rental-type foreign aid like the Yellow River Ninth Section, it is common for the "lease fee" to be in arrears.

When Wei Jia met Ying Jie in the Ninth Section of the Yellow River before, he joked that if he didn't pay, he wouldn't be able to win.

Everyone subconsciously touched the bills in their pockets.

Compared with other bosses, Mr. Pei can no longer be regarded as a clear stream, it is simply a mudslide.

"But the Shandong team is different. Shandong has always done very well in Go, especially in Go marketing.

Unlike other teams, they play home games in provincial capitals or prefecture-level cities, but more often in counties.

And the marketing is very good. A lot of chess fans come every time, so everyone is prepared.

Especially Xiao Xiao, a new member of the Shandong team. It is often said that newcomers are strong in the Go League A, and the opponent's record during this period should not be underestimated.

The reason is that most people don't understand the newcomer's style, and the newcomer knows the tactics of you old people very well, and it is easy to be targeted. "

Hearing this, Ying Jie nodded. Although Xiao Xiao's strength has improved rapidly recently, it is still not enough to be considered as the main force in the first-tier league.

The reason why I have won so much recently is because Xiaoxiao suddenly appeared out of the blue, and everyone doesn’t know enough about Xiaoxiao. In addition, young people are making rapid progress, and some previous chess records are not of sufficient reference value.

Other elderly people have too much information, and often their skills have been fixed, making them easy to target.

If it comes to the Go League A next year, after everyone gets used to playing, it will be difficult to have such an effect.

If Xiao Xiao doesn't hurry up and continue to make progress, he probably won't be able to laugh anymore.