Chapter 399: Throwing an egg against a stone
“Well, these people from China are really chicken thieves!
“If I had known this, Youen, you would have stopped participating in the qualifiers! ”
At 2:30 pm on March 15, one and a half hours after the first round of the fan-air battle started.
Park Moon-mi, who was watching the game with Kim Woo-eun in the room, saw the first
In this air-to-air battle, China got a wild card, while South Korea did not add any more spots.
Even if Zheng Caixi, who had won the Women's World Championship once, overturned in the qualifiers, the Japanese Chess Academy had no intention of using wild cards to win - the last wild card was directly given to a Russian player.
Therefore, in the first round, only South Korean player An Huilin played, while China had two players, Rui Zhao and Yang Manjing.
However, Jin Youen frowned after hearing what his teammate said:
"Wenmei... I was the last champion, so I took up the quota directly!"
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"Ah..." Pu Wenmei finally reacted.
Jin Youen added:
“And, to be honest.
“Even if I am not the champion, as long as I am absent from the preliminaries, the Japanese side is just hoping that I will not participate. ! "
"Huh? ”
Pu Wenmei was startled:
“But you are undoubtedly the number one woman in the world! Rui Zhao and the others have all taken it!”
“Of course Rui Zhao and the others have to take it!
< br>“For a niche sport like Go, being number one among women is definitely not as important as a star player like Rui Zhao! ”
The Ice Queen explained:
"As soon as I don't participate in the competition, Japan's chances of achieving good results or even winning the championship will be greatly increased, and my commercial value is not very high. They have no reason to bring me in at all.
"And even if it is Rui Zhao, the Japanese Chess Academy only said that they wanted to bring her over to compete, and they didn't take care of anything else.
“Otherwise, with her strength, she wouldn’t have made it to the first round!”
“Uh...
“This, this is...”
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Although she was a little dissatisfied, Pu Wenmei still had to admit: She was put into a seed, and Rui Zhao was still in the first round, which was really not taken care of at all.
Similar to the Wuyue Cup, because the number of 24 participants is not a power of 2, the first round of the Fan Kong Battle also has eight seeded players with byes.
However, unlike the Wuyue Cup, which mainly considers historical results in the seed allocation method, although the Japanese Chess Academy has always said that it selects seeds "mainly based on performance," in actual operation, nationality has always been the main consideration.
In recent years, the allocation of eight seeds for Fan Kong Battle has always maintained the configuration of "4 Ying, 2 Korean and 2 Chinese", which has never changed - even in fact, the overall number of Chinese and South Korean female chess players The actual strength has always been stronger than that of Japan, and this is also the case.
This year is no exception. The eight seeds are:
South Korea: Kim Woo-eun, Park Moon-mi
China: Liu Yuhong, Zou Yang
Japan: Natsukawa Aoi, Shokura Haruna, Sanada Asa, Uesaka Rei
——Yes , this kind of sub-quota allocation is so unreasonable.
Although among these eight seeds, a certain live broadcast queen brutally tortured four of them in the Lakeside Cup, and even Park Moon-mei was "scored twice"!
However, considering that the previous results and current strength are slightly inferior to the Chinese women's doubles, Zhao Tianhou was still arranged to start from the first round.
What's more, the Japanese side really hopes that this "idiot beauty" and "future number one woman" who has attracted much attention from the domestic media can compete in another round!
“But...it’s just right to let one more person in...”
Compared to Park Moon-mi, Kim Woo-eun himself seems to have no objection to having one more person from China enter this game.
"What I said after the Lakeside Cup...
"I'm not talking about it for fun!"
After saying this, the Ice Queen narrowed her eyes slightly, and an awe-inspiring fighting spirit arose spontaneously.
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“Lu, Vice Chairman Lu…
"I, should we...should we play Idiom Solitaire?" At the same time, in the corner of the Japanese Chess Academy, there was a temporary live broadcast room of [Go Xiao Zhao].
Hearing the introverted Hua Ran’s cautious request for pick-up games, Lu Wenjie, who was the guest commentator, was a little speechless.
"That...Xiaohua.
"That's what everyone usually says, not that we really want to play Solitaire..."
However, Hua Ran had her reasons for making such a request.
The match between Rui Zhaozhihei and Japanese Sakurai Miko, which the two are currently live broadcasting, has now reached the 73rd move.
The winning rate of Rui Zhao, who is in charge of black, has exceeded 99% at this time - it is already a "dragon within a dragon" situation.
Hua Ran, who was rejected by Lu Wenjie, glanced at the board and said helplessly:
“But... if we don’t play Solitaire... there is nothing to talk about in this game...
"Originally, Miko Sakurai suffered a loss due to her lower left position, and the entry position in the 52nd move just now was not good.
"Now it is forced to open the robbery again. It has not been dealt with well, and the winning rate is already less than 1%.
“With Sister Rui Zhao’s stability, this game can no longer be lost...”
“Well, then... let’s explain Yang Manjing’s game!”
Lu Wenjie glanced at the phone and replied briefly:
"Although she has an advantage now, her opponent is still struggling. She is not so dead, but she can still talk about it..."
"Okay!"
Hua Ran clicks He nodded and was about to change the channel when he suddenly remembered something:
“But, but Vice Chairman Lu...
“I am Sister Rui Zhao’s live broadcast assistant, is it appropriate to broadcast Little Witch? ”
"Uh...I think it's okay.
"With Rui Zhao's style, she won't care. "
"But I am in the Little Witch fan group...ah, no, I am lurking in the Little Witch fan group. I feel that the Little Witch is quite hostile to Sister Rui Zhao! "
"...It's okay, this is not a matter of principle. ”
Lu Wenjie was a little speechless, thinking that this girl was working for Rui Zhao. If she had to change to a small-minded employer, she would be afraid that Hua Ran would be fired sooner or later.
"Okay, okay!"
Seeing that there was no need to continue to forcefully explain the game that had lost the suspense of victory, Hua Ran happily started to adjust to Yang Manjing's game.
But during the process of changing channels, Hua Ran seemed to suddenly remember something, and said with confusion:
“But... Vice Chairman Lu, I really don’t understand.
“Why does Miko Sakurai have to start a riot with Sister Rui Zhao? Isn’t Sister Rui Zhao famous for her strength?
"And everyone has seen the final result. It really feels like throwing an egg at a stone..."
"Uh..."
Hua Ran's question stopped Lu Wenjie, and he pondered for a long time before speaking. Answer:
“It can only be said that compared to the loss of Shokura Haruna to Rui Zhao in the Lakeside Cup, everyone still hopes to try hard and give it a try. After all, chaos is relatively small. It’s easier to have accidents.
“Since he is obviously not as strong as Rui Zhao, he has to choose one of the two bottles of poisonous wine placed in front of Sakurai! ”
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That afternoon, the 2024 fan air battle ended the first round of competition.
In a high-profile match, after three hours and 137 moves, Chinese sixth-dan player Rui Zhao used a huge advantage of 40 points on the board to easily defeat Sakurai Miko's third-dan, and got off to a good start.
(End of this chapter)