Chapter 217 Lakeside Cup
"Well... Lei Qi, he seems to have become weaker in these two games recently..."
July 31, 8pm.
Dongjiang City, Wanyuan Times Community.
After dinner today, Rui Zhao continued to study and review the game between Dajing team coach Lei Qi and Suhu team coach Sun Yi in the second round of the Siege League today.
What she prioritized reviewing yesterday was the match between Lei Qi and Tang Guan Sheng.
The reason why Lei Qi’s chess is given priority is, on the one hand, because in China, Rui Zhao believed that Lei Qi’s overall strength was the strongest from the beginning - the progress of the chess holy war can be seen from this.
On the other hand, it is also to learn more about Lei Qi's game, so that if we meet him in the future, we can talk about it easily, which may change Lei Qi's impression of him.
However, what surprised Rui Zhao was that although Lei Qi's level in these two games was still high,...
it was not that high.
If the young official had been entangled with Tang Guan Sheng yesterday and gave up when he saw that he was about to lose, everyone would still think it was understandable.
After all, "Brother Ruth" plays chess bravely and is in the best state. When the state comes, he can really stop and kill the god.
Liu Shixian was blocked by him in this year's Sanshuang Cup. It is not surprising that he won Lei Qi in a single set.
But in today's game, Lei Qi was suppressed by Sun Yi from the beginning and firmly took the initiative. In the last 185 moves, he gave up in the middle of the game, which caused chess fans to talk a lot on the Internet.
You know, Sun Yi is a famous "strength and weakness evaluator" in the Chinese chess world.
It stands out that it is difficult to win against someone who is stronger than him, and it is difficult to lose against someone who is weaker than him. The judgment is extremely stable! (Except for buffs in the Yi Xian Tournament)
After Lei Qi lost today, all kinds of memes started flying on major Go forums.
Various [Sun Yi: Appraisal completed, a novice at a glance] emoticons are everywhere to poke fun at Lei Qi’s state.
Of course Ruizhao didn't pay much attention to these online forums, but she could still tell from some of the chess games in the game that Lei Qi had indeed become weaker...
This... Is the status not adjusted?
Rui Zhao couldn't help but feel a little worried.
However, this thought only existed for a second, and he immediately devoted himself to research and analysis.
As a new junior player, she knows that she is not qualified to worry too much about the problems of top-level players like this. The most important thing is to be herself.
At this moment, the mobile phone nearby suddenly vibrated violently and continuously: someone was calling to find her.
Rui Zhao took it and took a look and found that it was Ai Jian'an calling.
She knew that Ai Jian'an usually wouldn't call suddenly when there was no big deal, so she quickly picked up:
"Sister An An! What's the matter?"
Ai Jian'an's voice from the opposite side. Although it sounds like the emotions are complicated, he does look very hurried:
“That... Xiao Zhaomei!
“This year, this year, it’s actually done! ”
"What to do?" Rui Zhao was still confused after hearing Ai Jianan's words.
"Challenge, ring competition!"
Ai Jian'an's tone was still a little rushed.
“Lakeside Cup Women’s Arena Match!”
“Huh?!”
Hearing this, Rui Zhao also exclaimed:
"Hupan Cup? Didn't everyone say this competition will not be held this year?"
Hupan Cup Three Kingdoms Women's Go Tournament, Equivalent to the women's version of the Nongshim Cup, five players from each of the three countries are selected to compete in the ring competition for the final team championship.
However, compared to the Nongshim Cup, which has a long history and has never been interrupted, the women's group competition has a much more troubled life.
Because the overall attention of women's Go competitions is far less than that of men's, and the scale of the group competition is quite large, the holding of the women's group competition is not stable. It has been renamed twice and the venue has also been changed from the original Huaxia. South Korea now.
After the first Lakeside Cup was held last year (the first one after the name was changed to Lakeside Cup), there was no news about the second one that was supposed to be held this year, as if everyone and officials had forgotten about it.
However, the female players from various countries also tacitly agreed not to ask.
Compared to the unrestricted competition that represents the highest level of Go, it must be admitted that the overall level of women's competition is much lower. Especially with the advent of the AI era, using AI to analyze the performance of most female chess players is full of errors. The overall viewing value of women's Go has further declined.
If there are no gimmicks, even senior chess fans will just listen to the results of the women's competition and don't bother to watch it at all.
Therefore, it is common for women's competitions to be held and then disappear. If you ask why they are not held, you would be ignorant.
——These are what Rui Zhao heard from Yu Qingguang before.
The first stage of the Lakeside Cup last year started in May, and the news was released before the Chinese New Year.
And this year it’s the last day of July, and everyone has naturally already agreed that the second Lakeside Cup has come to an end. So Rui Zhao would ask this question.
However, Ai Jianan said quickly:
"Originally everyone thought so... But who knew it could actually fake corpses!
"The South Korean Chess Academy, Hupan Group, and Nongshim Group just issued a joint announcement, and it's absolutely true! I'll send you the link right away! "
"That's it! Then I..."
Rui Zhao's eyes just brightened up, but then dimmed again.
"Ugh...but I'm a new junior dan, and I don't have Teacher Lei to help me this time, I guess. I definitely won’t be able to make it into the lineup for the arena competition…”
According to the practice of previous arena competitions, player selection is basically based on players with the highest level scores.
As a new junior player, Rui Zhao naturally cannot be ranked high in level.
Although there may be a wild card quota, Hanhan, who has no idea of his commercial value, still feels that he is definitely not qualified to be selected as a wild card.
"Hey, don't worry about this - although I don't know if this news is good or bad..."
Speaking of this, Ai Jianan hesitated for a moment, her tone full of Worried:
"...Xiao Zhaomei, you, the Ice Queen and Xia Chuankui have been selected as the designated special guests for the tournament."
…
…
"No, Brother Tian, awesome...are you kidding me, awesome South Koreans?”
At the same time, Dajing City, Chinese Go Association.
Lu Wenjie sat in the office and stared at the latest announcement in front of him with his eyes wide open:
“Can we still designate the opponent’s contestants in this kind of competition that concerns national honor?”
“Hey, The one who paid for it is the uncle! What can we do? I can only say that it is better to hold this competition than not! Don’t be too demanding about some details..."
On the side is Shang Chaotian, who has just returned from Bianzhou. He sighed and said:
"But it's okay. At least with Rui Zhao's strength, it's probably not too much to be included in the five-person list..."
"Hey, Brother Tian! You think so, but people outside may not think so..."
Lu Wenjie immediately pointed out the naivety of his top leader:
"People appointed by South Korea and Japan Who are they? The absolute leader! Whether he appoints her or not, everyone will be involved!
"But our appointed Rui Zhao... isn't this going to put her in a pit of fire?" "
"Recently, many people on the Internet have said that Hei Ruizhao and Ice Queen made major mistakes in the game of chess, and they were not even professional at all.
"Although this is completely nonsense, it happened that Gao Yang was killed in the qualifiers of her national championship recently, which is terrible.
" Gao Yang's level is average, but he said this in an interview Damn it, Rui Zhao is already very controversial now, and she has to be directly designated into the arena lineup...
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I don't even dare to go to the Yiguo forum to read it."
"Hey, be satisfied! At least South Korea didn't make it difficult for me! I took the blame directly."
Shang Chaotian leaned on the sofa, folded his arms and said:
"If they ask us to issue a wild card to Rui Zhao, then I won't be able to escape even if I jumped into the Yellow River."
Hey, it was approved by the big guys again yesterday... ugh...
Of course, it’s my own food, so there’s not much to say.
A brief explanation: Since a large number of big bosses have opinions, I will consider their requests in the future, try to reduce Xiao Lei’s role as much as possible, and transition the relevant plot through side descriptions.
But I can’t really change the main storyline of the plot, and it does affect subsequent plots. I also ask for your forgiveness, gentlemen.
(End of this chapter)