"Okay, everyone is here, let's start today's combat meeting."
At three o'clock in the afternoon on March 8, in a suite at the Tengjiangge Xihuan Hotel in Hongdu City, Pohu Province.
Tiangang team coach Yao Han 7th Dan called together several players who will play in the second round of the Weijia playoffs tomorrow and started the pre-match meeting.
To be honest, the Sky Harbor team's record this year cannot be said to be very good.
Since spending a lot of money to form the "Galaxy Battleship" of the "Nine Nine Nine Nine", which also led the generation leader Lin Ruixin, the Tiangang team won a championship in the second season of the team - that is, the 2023-2024 season. Championship, but the results have been declining since then.
Ranked second in the regular season last year, they lost to the Dajing team in the finals and finished second.
Originally, this year, according to the boss's request, the Sky Harbor team should revive their morale and make a comeback. However, due to the poor condition of the main player Lin Ruixin for a long time after losing [Chess Saint], coupled with Rui Zhao and Sun Yi taking turns to lead the team in sniping in the final stage, the Tiangang team this season only ranked third in the regular season. In the second round of the playoffs, they will face the challenge of the Pohu team.
What makes Yao Han even more cautious is that although the Pohu team is obviously at a disadvantage, in the first round of the contest with the Dongjiang team, the Pohu team showed quite strong combat effectiveness.
Especially the main player Rui Zhao, facing the two nine-dan chess players from the Dongjiang team, played two consecutive games of black chess with a jaw-dropping performance that made people have to guard against it. So at the beginning of the meeting, Yao Han once again reminded the players to pay attention to their opponents:
"...Well, I already reminded everyone in the car just now:
"Although there are women, children, old people and dogs on the other side, I have to say that except for Du Weichen, who is really hopeless, everyone else has considerable fighting capacity. We must pay high attention!
"Based on the formation situation between them and the Dongjiang team in the first round, there will be no surprises in the first round. They will still let Rui Zhao play black and let Zeng Guangwen and the little witch who plays fast chess play white to win.
"My idea is that facing Elder Du, no matter who among the four players in our team is autowin, the key lies in Zeng Guangwen and the little witch on the fast chess table.
"My idea is to try to catch them in a set! Try to win three away games!
"So... Ruixin and Xu Jiuduan.
"Can you two take charge of Black in the first round?"
As soon as Yao Han finished speaking, everyone here already understood the coach's intention.
Although the four main players of the Tiangang team are all 9th dan, as we all know, there is a gap between 9th dan and 9th dan.
Although Lin and Xu are past their prime, they are undoubtedly still among the top chess players.
Although He Wei is also a member of the "Yi Guan Group", as one of the "91 Four Elders", he is now nearly 35 years old, and his strength has long fallen to the weak nine level similar to Tao Chen.
Facing Zeng Guangwen, who is obviously above average in the ninth dan, He Wei and Tao Chen may not be able to cope with it. Even if they face the little witch who is generally the weakest among men, whether they can keep food and shelter will depend on it. Put a question mark.
Therefore, if we had to "catch" Zeng Xigou and the little witch, it would only be Lin and Xu.
"Okay, I understand."
In almost no time, Lin Ruixin took the lead in answering, but didn't say anything else.
And soon, Xu Xiangheng also nodded - since he slapped himself several times in the last regular season battle, Lao Xu really didn't want to take advantage of his big mouth anymore.
"Okay, let's arrange it this way!"
After finalizing the formation of troops, the main content of the combat meeting came to an end. But Yao Han still did not forget to give a special reminder:
"Also, there is one more thing...
"No matter who of us faces Rui Zhao, don't think about winning, the most important thing is to stay steady!
"Our team's strength is not inferior to Rui Zhao's chess game. What I'm afraid of is that someone is too smart and insists on going up to kill someone. As a result, the whole team will collapse and the overall situation will be ruined!
"Like Zhuang Zheng of the Dongjiang team, he is a typical negative example in the first round of the first round!
"So, I have another small request - no matter who plays against Rui Zhao tomorrow, just treat this game as a loss!
"I allow everyone to have euthanasia against Rui Zhao tomorrow! But don't do anything stupid like struggling desperately at a disadvantage, losing more and more, losing in just two hours, disturbing the mentality of your teammates! Do you understand?"
"Ah?"
Hearing this, He Wei was slightly unresponsive and couldn't help but raise an objection:
“Coach Yao, isn’t this appropriate?
"As a chess player, once you sit on the chess table, you must try your best to win?! How can you treat yourself as a loser before you even start playing..."
Yao Han couldn't help but give He Wei a small look, and said patiently:
"Lao He, this is a group game! We are competing for a global victory!
"You can struggle if you want, but you must support me until all the officials are collected or the other three channels are completed!
"When the time comes, don't think that you can't finish the game after losing dozens of moves!" "Uh..."
Hearing this, He Weiwei suddenly became silent.
Although he felt that the little girl Rui Zhao was not exaggerating to such an extent, but after thinking about the "lonely chess to kill the strong force" that Zhao Tianhou had just performed not long ago, he had to admit that Yao Han's idea was to ask everyone not to struggle too much. Yes.
As a chess player, it would be really ugly to finish a game of chess with twenty or thirty moves without admitting defeat!
However, He Wei still felt that there was something wrong with this statement of "directly accepting defeat". He glanced at Tao Chen and Xu Xiangheng with his peripheral vision. Both of them had expressions of aggrieved but speechless—after all, they were both people who had been bloody tortured by Queen Zhaotian.
Lin Ruixin's face was as dark as water at this time. Although he didn't say a word, he contained thousands of emotions.
Seeing that He Wei should have understood the key point, Yao Han stopped giving the players a chance to raise objections and asked everyone to take a rest early. The Tiangang team's pre-match meeting ended.
It's a pity... Even though coach Yao Han made his wishful thinking, after all, playing against Pohu is not a game of man and machine, the opponent will also use their brains...
At 11:45 noon the next day, it was in the game room of Tengjiangge Xihuan Hotel.
In the first round of the second round of the Weijia League playoffs, Pohu team played against Tiangang team at home and the specific matchup was announced:
[Zeng Guangwen] on [Tao Chen]
【Du Weichen】vs.【Xu Xiangheng】
【Rui Zhao】vs.【He Wei】
[Yang Manjing] versus [Lin Ruixin] (Quick)
…
…
This, this, this...
How much hatred and hatred is there? !
At the same time, inside the game room.
When Zeng Guangwen saw the match schedules of both sides, the expression on his face couldn't help but be a little complicated.
As for why the expressions are complicated... the reason is simple:
Because today's matchup situation was just as Du Weichen analyzed yesterday, the Tiangang team really arranged the two top nine players to the second and fourth stations to catch themselves and Yang Manjing!
Originally, Zeng Guangwen felt that Elder Du had exaggerated yesterday - didn't he just want to win two more games of chess and take the opportunity to beg for bones from the fans? ! As for being so targeted? !
But the Tiangang team currently equipped with the Galaxy Battleship told him with facts: As for it! Very good!
He once said that Xigou was so qualified to enjoy this treatment!
This made Zeng Guangwen, who had just realized this fact, feel a little unreal again... did he deserve to be targeted?
Shouldn't it just be the roadside where people come up to make up the numbers? How many bites can I bite each other?
By the way, aren't there a lot of unreal things happening recently?
Promoted to eighth level, Siege A [Fastest Improvement Award], entered the top eight and semi-finals in the national competition, promoted to Nine, and even about to win the Siege A [Best Winning Rate Award], and was specifically targeted in the playoffs...< br>
Hiss...
Zeng Guangwen frowned thoughtfully and walked to his chess table. However, he saw that Tao Chen, who had already taken his seat, was staring at him as if he was facing an enemy, looking quite uneasy - this was something that had never happened before!
Although Tao Chen does not have any particularly outstanding results in competitions, he is still a chess player who has reached the highest level. In the past, Zeng Shabao, a strong competitor in the "weakest high-level category", had always been taken lightly.
As a result, today, the momentum of both sides has reversed! It turned out that Tao Chen was quite afraid of meeting Zeng Guangwen!
Is it difficult? Is it difficult?
Myself...
Already considered the number one figure in the chess world? ! ! !
Zeng Guangwen, who had always been obsessed with earning his bones and thinking of retiring early, finally reacted belatedly.
But...it seems so?
Those who can be promoted to level nine and win the [Best Winning Rate Award] in Siege... shouldn't be just ordinary people, right?
But I didn’t do anything!
Don't you just want to keep your qualifications to be a dog for the queen, and then earn more money to retire earlier? !
Thinking of this, Zeng Guangwen couldn't help but turn his head and look at his master. Rui Zhao on the third stage looked normal, but the world champion He Wei was holding his breath and concentrating, with a more fearful look on his face than Tao Jiuduan on his side!
Seeing this, Zeng Guangwen couldn't help but feel a little enlightened, and then he took a deep breath and began to prepare for the upcoming game.
Oh...no wonder they all say...
It’s the greatest honor to be the queen’s dog! (End of chapter)