Chapter 254 Advance Preliminary
“Huh? The Changqi Cup preliminaries have been moved to the 18th?!”
On September 7, the Pinghu Quick Chess Tournament preliminaries and this competition Rest day, 8:30 am.
Chu Jun, who came to Tang Guansheng's room to meet with three Pengze teammates, had just learned the latest news announced by the Chess Association this morning from Huang Bonan, and looked confused.
...Yes, three teammates.
The third person in the team, 26-year-old Fang Zhaoxiang 8th Dan, successfully passed the preliminary selection yesterday and has joined the large group of candidates who are exempt from selection.
This time Pinghu Rapid Chess Tournament, there are 32 people exempted from selection. Excluding two women, four teenagers and Shan Gang, the last four semi-finals, the actual invitations based on level are the top 25 people in the country. .
Fang Zhaoxiang's current level score is roughly between 28 and 32. He is currently ranked 29th and has to participate in the preliminaries. Fortunately, he didn't drown in the fish pond.
Facing the question from the younger brother in the team, Huang Bonan simply said:
“Yes, that’s the situation.
"Brother Hen and I are exempt from the selection, but you two have to be prepared. The schedule is a bit tight recently."
Changqi Cup Chinese Go Professional Championship, referred to as "Changqi Cup", was founded in 2004 and is held every year Held once. Organized by the Go Foundation founded by Ying Changqi, a famous Chinese entrepreneur and enthusiast, it is one of the most prestigious events in China.
By the way, the Yingyi Cup, an international competition held every four years and known as the "Go Olympics", is also organized and held by the Yingchangqi Go Foundation. Yingyi Cup and Changqi Cup are brother competitions, and they also use the "Changqi Rules" created by Mr. Ying Changqi.
The Erchang Chess Cup competition is held every year on October 23rd, the birthday of Mr. Ying Changqi, to commemorate the outstanding contribution made by this "Go Nobel" to the sport of Go.
Accordingly, the preliminaries and semi-finals of the Changqi Cup every year start from October 14th to 17th, which is a relatively fixed time.
But...it suddenly has to be advanced this year? !
Before Chu Jun could react, Fang Zhaoxiang on the side was already crying in pain.
"No! Why are you so nervous all of a sudden!
"The Pinghu Rapid Chess Tournament will be played until the 14th, and then the fourth round will be on the 16th!
“After finishing the siege, the next step is the Changqi Cup qualifiers and semi-finals on the 18th, and we have to go all the way to the 23rd.
"It's finally over. There will be domestic qualifiers for the LIG Cup from the 26th to the 38th!
"I have to participate in all these games with a rating of 29th from beginning to end. Are you tired? "
Chu Jun was stunned, and suddenly realized that Fang Zhaoxiang was right!
For these competitions, let alone Wei Jia, he will definitely participate.
He did not enter the top 25 in the Pinghu Quick Chess Tournament and could only compete in three qualifying rounds
The requirements for the Changqi Cup are that the top 20 in terms of rating (including the last four semi-finals) will directly enter this competition, and the 21-28th in terms of rating will directly enter the semi-finals. The rest will have to wait from the first pre-selection - naturally including Fang Zhaoxiang was just one short.
Forget it now, but the final domestic qualifier for the LIG Cup happened to include him.
In addition to Dai Ran and Lei Qi who directly exchanged their "international competition points" for seed seats in the LIG Cup, the remaining four places must be determined through pre-selection.
The other 12 players with the top 14 levels will directly enter the second stage of preliminaries, and the players ranked 15 to 30 will start from the first stage of the card selection - which also happens to include Fang Zhaoxiang.
So, for Fang Zhaoxiang, until the National Day, he could be said to be working like a cow or a horse, being squeezed to death. The plantation owners in North America at that time would shake their heads when they saw it. shed tears.
It’s just that after hearing this, Brother Hen couldn’t help complaining:
“Oh, Brother Fang, what’s wrong with you!
“You will most likely reach the end of the Changqi Cup preliminaries. Not fake. But for the Pinghu Rapid Chess Tournament and the LIG Cup qualifiers, there is a high probability that you will be able to take some time to rest!
"If it really comes down to the last day, I guess you will be happy instead!"
"Uh..."
Fang Zhaoxiang thought about it carefully...it's really good!
If these two competitions can go to the last day (respectively meaning guaranteed runner-up and one more win to enter the LIG Cup competition), what a hardship!
However, Fang Zhaoxiang had already spoken, so he couldn’t slap himself in the face too harshly, so he immediately said harshly:
“Don’t worry about whether I can play or not. In the end, at least the Chess Association suddenly adjusted the date of the tournament. The problem is even bigger! The date was suddenly changed inexplicably..."
"What do you mean by inexplicable?"
Huang Bonan frowned and retorted:
"This matter has actually been discussed within the association for a while, and we have been struggling."
"Huh? Why don't I understand it at all? ?”
Fang Zhaoxiang was a little confused.
Long Bonan glanced at him and said:
"Hey! The preliminaries for the Changqi Cup are always in mid-October, but there is the Nongshim Cup at that time! There is a conflict!"
"What does it mean to have the Nongshim Cup?"
Chu Jun Also confused.
His situation is similar to Fang Zhaoxiang’s, he is short of LIG Cup qualifiers, so he is also quite concerned.
“Who needs to qualify for the Nongshim Cup contestants!
"In the past few years, haven't we always played Changqi preliminaries and competed in the Nongshim Cup at the same time? The two sides are not next to each other!"
What Chu Jun said is absolutely correct.
Selectors for the Nongshim Cup must be among the top 16 in domestic rankings, and no substitutions will be accepted. Therefore, those who participate in the Nongshim Cup will definitely be able to enter the Changqi Cup directly at that time without having to qualify.
——It stands to reason.
But Long Bo smacked his lips and said:
"Why haven't you two reacted yet?
"Have you forgotten? This year, it will be held together with the Nongshim Cup and the Lakeside Cup! "
"Huh? "
Chu Jun was stunned for a moment, and then finally understood. "Yes! Those who participate in the Nongshim Cup must not place pre-selections. But if there are players on the women's side who sign up for the Changqi Cup, they will have to compete in the qualifiers.
"But because this men's and women's arena competition is co-organized, the women's schedules conflict!"
"Yes, that's the thing."
Huang Bonan shrugged.
"The first phase of the Nongshim Cup consists of four games, which will be held in Dongdu City, the capital of Japan, from October 17th to 20th. According to past practice, there are generally several days of intensive training and discussion before the start of each phase. . It directly conflicts with the Changqi Cup preliminaries.
“But moving forward, it is the National Day again - various long holidays, which are generally not scheduled for professional competitions.
"Moving forward, it can't conflict with the LIG pre-selection, so I just slipped in here."
At this point, Longbot paused and chatted a few gossips.
“Actually... I heard that there have been disagreements within the Chess Association on this matter.
“Although the three presidents and vice-presidents all suggested changing the preliminaries for the Chang Chess Cup for the women’s team members, The foundation also said it could cooperate.
“But most of the executive members believe that there are only four games in the first stage of the Nongshim Cup, and at most Rui Zhao and Yang Manjing will be affected.
"Anyway, it is basically impossible for these two people to enter this competition. Instead of changing the date temporarily, it is easiest to persuade them to give up participating in the Changqi Cup preliminaries."
The Nongshim Cup adopts a rotating format. In the first stage, if there are enough players from each country, no matter how unfavorable the situation of a single country is, at most two people will be eliminated.
In the eyes of most people, the only thing that can be discussed in the formation of the Chinese women's team is the order of the generals and lieutenants. It is inevitable that the three people with similar strength in the front will be ranked in the order of "Rui-Yang-Wen" from least to most experienced. That's why Long Bo said that only Queen Zhao and the little witch would be affected at most.
Hearing this, Fang Zhaoxiang finally came to his senses:
“Oh! I understand!
"But this time in the Pinghu Rapid Chess Tournament, both of them defeated the seventh-dan chess players and entered this tournament! So the reasons of the executive committee members began to be a little untenable!"
"Yes! "
Long Bo's hands spread out:
"Now the committee members are really speechless
"Although the number of people in the Pinghu Quick Chess Tournament is the Changqi Cup. More than twice as much, even though blitz games are very unexpected.
"But since the two of them can enter the Pinghu Quick Chess Tournament, it will be difficult for the committee members to insist that they will not enter the Changqi Cup - especially considering that they have to take care of the emotions of the two ring players. .
"So...the Chess Association held an emergency video conference yesterday afternoon to completely finalize the matter:
"Accommodating the schedule of the two, the Changqi Cup preliminaries will be changed accordingly. The game time has become like this!"
"Oh! What a big deal!"
Fang Zhaoxiang sighed slightly:
"As a result, these two middle- and low-level girls forced a lot of seventh- and eighth-level masters to change their schedules?
"Hey! If you are beautiful, you can do whatever you want! "
Hearing the hint of complaint in Fang Zhaoxiang's words, Long Bo corrected him decisively:
"Hey! Zhaoxiang, don’t be sour! I think this is what the two of them deserve - if you practice chess diligently, your results will be really good!
“Not to mention Rui Zhao, the famous scroll king. Recently, if you look at the number of online chess pieces played by Little Witch, something is getting more and more wrong!
"You two girls really changed the attitude of each executive committee member by winning one game after another. What kind of card is this!"
But Fang Zhaoxiang was still a little dissatisfied:
"Then I also I entered this Pinghu Quick Chess Tournament, why don’t you think about my tight schedule?”
“Hey, Brother Fang, you can’t compete like this!”
On the side Tang Guansheng also interjected:
"Who doesn't know that women's talent in playing chess is much lower than that of men?!
"Without any distinction, a man directly competes with little girls. This is even ugly to say..."< br>
But when it came to this, Brother Hen suddenly remembered something and looked at the younger brother in the team:
“Oh, by the way Chu Jun!
“You, the rookie king, really need to be well prepared when the time comes. Don’t lose to a little girl like Sun Houer! Our team cannot afford to lose this person!
"Did you watch [Go Xiao Zhao]'s live broadcast last night? He sounded very crazy. He said he wanted to catch up with Lei Qi, but he didn't even have a hair in his eyes! You can't swallow this, right?"
“...I saw the notification this morning.”
Chu Jun’s expression was a little distorted for a moment.
The defending champion of the Rookie King was a little unhappy as Rui Zhao showed no expression of his own in his eyes.
I previously told Lin Ruixin that I wanted to get the new queen and challenge him, but when I asked about the target, I directly said Lei Qi...
You really don’t take me, the last Rookie King Champion, seriously at all!
"However, she just got lucky in fast chess and relied on the opponent to win the 'weakest seventh level'... There is still a big gap between her current real strength and mine, Lei Qi How can I care about her!
“If I can meet her this time, I will make her realize the reality! ”
…
…
However...
Just when the boy with glasses was swearing in front of his three teammates...
"No! Catch me?
"This Rui Zhao really dares to say that. ? ! ”
At the same time, in another room of Pinghu International Hotel.
When Lei Qi saw the latest hot news pushed by the Yiguo platform, he couldn't help but stand up and say something, feeling a little excited for a moment.
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