Chapter 368: Their respective Januarys
“Tsk...she is really playing chess again!”
January 31st, 1:10 pm, Zhenze City, Huaxia.
The first month of 2024 is coming to an end, and seeing [Yizhao Qiyi] who is still playing online games on the Yiguo platform at this time, Yang Manjing, who is "on vacation" at home, can't help but sigh softly Finished sentence.
At the end of the new year, she had been out of competition for a year and will stay at her home in Zhenze City until the end of the year.
The reason why I put "vacation" in quotation marks is because in fact, the little witch didn't take much rest. Instead, she was constantly training at chess.
As for the reason, it is also very simple.
A certain live-streaming queen who also had no competitions a year ago has been focusing on online chess recently. However, she basically spends her waking hours playing online chess, which makes Yang Manjing really uncomfortable. Relaxation mood.
Since losing to the opponent in the last round of the women's siege, Yang Manjing has been holding back all her energy and vowed to avenge her shame, but she has not found a good opportunity yet.
Although she defeated Zou Yang in the Wuyue Cup semi-finals and entered the finals, it was a big breakthrough.
But in the finals, she faced the number one female player in the world and was defeated in two games with almost no power to fight back. However, the little witch did not feel any joy in her heart. Instead, she became more and more eager to become stronger.
——After all, Queen Zhao almost pushed the Ice Queen to a dead end in the quarterfinals! How can such a result be enough!
In January, the two of them did not play many games, and at first glance there was not much difference in their results.
Yang Manjing only has one competition in the Queen's competition, while Rui Zhao only has one competition in the Dream Lily Cup, which is a wild card entry.
In the Queen's Competition, Zhao Tianhou and Little Witch lost to Zou Yang in the semi-finals and the challenger final.
In the next three chess challenges, Little Sheep failed to regain the title of Queen from Little Bird, and watched her old rival achieve the Queen's third consecutive title with a total score of zero to two.
At the Dream Lily Cup, after Rui Zhao defeated a European player in the first round, he met Toraichiro Ueno in the second round. In the end, he failed to achieve an upset and was unfortunately eliminated in the second round.
Although Rui Zhao did not continue to make new breakthroughs in January, the little witch did not dare to relax at this time.
Because through more than half a year of contact and understanding, she knew that Rui Zhao was practicing chess almost all the time!
As long as you relax a little, you may fall more behind by your opponents in unknown places.
If you want to avenge your past humiliation, you must work harder and focus more like the other person!
Just when the little witch finished observing the enemy's situation and was about to start her next game, she suddenly discovered a rather abnormal situation:
[Yizhao Qiyi] actually left the game. status, directly offline!
Huh?
She actually stopped playing chess? !
Yang Manjing was shocked and confused for a moment.
What is going on?
If ordinary chess players were offline, Yang Manjing would never find it strange.
But when there was still a whole afternoon left, [Yizhao Qiyi] went offline directly, which surprised and confused the little witch.
However, this confusion did not last long.
Because she quickly remembered that there was still a fourteenth round of armor to be launched this afternoon!
Sure enough, when Yang Manjing turned on the live broadcast of [Go Xiao Zhao] on Station B, he saw that Rui Zhao had already opened several different AIs, and he and Zeng Guangwen started to explain and analyze in a row. Qi this round of the siege game.
The reason why Yiguo was shut down was because the built-in anti-cheating system of Yiguo would accidentally damage the AI, making it inconvenient to conduct chess game analysis.
I, know, know!
How could this crazy chess player do anything else?
Yang Manjing pouted, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes.
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“Lei Qi! Good job! Another win!”
On the same day, at 5:30 pm, Dajing City.
Lei Qi, who had just finished the fourteenth round of Siege, returned to the players' lounge. At this time, coach Fan Zhuo was already waiting in the lounge and congratulated him:
"You are in good shape recently!
"Dream Lily Cup Reaching the semi-finals, Wei Jia also had six wins and two losses since taking over as head coach again, which is a very good result!
“Thanks to you, we now have hope in competing for the Eighth National Congress!”
Fan Zhuo said this with enthusiasm, and it was true.
In the first six rounds of this year's Siege League, the Dajing team failed to win a single game due to their main captain, and their record was extremely dismal.
The score in each game is only 6 points, ranking second to last.
A team with a "9997" configuration is actually on the verge of relegation. It's really outrageous!
However, with the return of seven consecutive wins in the Lei Qi Nongxin Cup, Li Tingyan replaced Li Tingyan as the main player and achieved good results, the results of the Dajing team seemed to be getting better.
From the seventh round to the just-concluded fourteenth round, the Dajing team scored 17 points in 21 games and currently ranks tenth in the standings with 23 points and 27 points.
“Ah, thank you, Coach Fan!
“But...this is the hole I dug when I was in bad condition! ”
Lei Qi responded humbly and seriously.
Although his recent results have been pretty good, he doesn’t think this is something to be optimistic about.
[If you want to beat her, you must become the leader of Chinese Go as early as possible, whether on or off the board. 】
What Ni Zhanggen said to him before kept echoing in his mind, making Lei Qi dare not relax at all.
Although the team's record has recovered a lot now, Lei Qi knows that if he fails to bring his team into the top half in the end, it will be a huge failure.
There are currently sixteen teams in the Weijia League. According to the competition rules, the top eight teams in the regular season will compete for the championship through the bubble game mode in the playoffs, while the last eight teams will use the reverse bubble game to determine the two relegated teams.
Now the Dajing team is only one point behind the seventh and eighth-placed teams in terms of game points, and only one point behind the eighth place in game points.
Therefore, the last round can be said to be the key battle for the Dajing team!
If you win, you will have the opportunity to compete for the championship all the way, but if you lose, you will have to wrestle with a bunch of fellow sufferers in the lower half.
There is a thin line, a huge difference! It’s far from time to celebrate!
Seeing Lei Qi's calm reaction, Fan Zhuo nodded approvingly, but he also expressed concern:
"Xiao Lei, don't put too much pressure on me!
"Besides... we will face the Tiangang team in the final round the day after tomorrow, will you still take the lead?"
Lei Qi knew what Fan Zhuo meant, and smiled calmly:
"Coach Fan, weren't you the one who pushed me to the leading position earlier?
"Why do you want to replace me after I managed to achieve some results? "
Fan Zhuo was stunned for a moment when he heard this answer, then patted the young man on the shoulder and said:
"As long as you have confidence! Just go for it! Even if you don't achieve the desired result in the end, it's okay!
"Although the morale in the circle has been a bit low recently, when I think of young talents like you, I always feel happy. It’s still hopeful! "
"...Hmm. "
Lei Qi narrowed his eyes slightly and didn't say much.
As for the final battle with Lin Ruixin, Lei Qi, after all the things that happened in the past six months, , I have been able to face it with a serious and calm attitude, and there is no great psychological pressure
To put it bluntly, no matter how troublesome Lin Ruixin is, how can he be as difficult to deal with as Rui Zhao?
But regarding what Fan Zhuo said was "low morale", the young captain of the Chinese team in this Nongshim Cup couldn't help but feel a little worried.
The root cause of low morale is very simple and direct:
In the Dream Lily Cup that just ended in January, Liu Shixian, the world's number one player, defeated Zhuang Zheng and Xiong Siyi all the way. Five Chinese ninth-dan masters, Kuai Liang, Lin Ruixin and Sun Yi, reached the finals and finally defeated Ji Qiufui quite easily with a total score of three to one and won his seventh world championship.
Next goal: work hard to climb to 2 million bytes.
(End of this chapter)