"Brother Zeng, your condition...has really recovered!"
At ten o'clock in the evening on May 17th, Qiantang City, China.
Zeng Guangwen, who had just experienced another reversal, couldn't help but smile when he heard Rui Zhao's praise!
Although he originally thought that his master's voice was quite pleasant, now he felt it was like listening to the sounds of nature!
Is this, is this a reward from the Queen!
Zeng Guangwen sighed a little in his heart.
Tonight, Rui Zhao rushed back to Hongdu City, the capital of Pohu Province, from Zhujin, and immediately came to visit Zeng Guangwen without stopping, wanting to spar with Zeng Guangwen, intending to test his "condition recovery."
Fatty Zeng was already prepared for this.
After half a year of being the Queen of Queen's underdog, he knew that his master was a chess madman who could never forget chess.
80% of them will come to him for sparring as soon as this one-month period comes and the Zhujin Station competition is over!
Therefore, after explaining the women's siege match between Rui Zhao and Liu Yuhong yesterday, Fatty Zeng rarely continued to open the book as he had done in the past month. Instead, he took the time to have a good rest and have enough energy to wait for this "life and death" game. war".
And the result... fortunately, I lived up to my fate!
Although Fatty Zeng is not good at mid-game combat, as Rui Zhao's long-term sandbag, he really understands some of Rui Zhao's little habits in the process of playing chess!
Combined with the "Zhao Tianhou Response Plan" that the Japanese Chess Academy mobilized most of the chess academy to urgently summarize, Zeng Fatty is now able to deal with Rui Zhao in a relatively less intense way.
At the official stage, it was time for Zeng Guangwen to launch a counterattack!
In the two "test matches" that just ended, Zeng Guangwen lost in the middle of the game but did not collapse. He then used his good official skills to regain the situation, and finally narrowly defeated Rui Zhao by one and a half eyes.
Now it seems that Queen Zhao is very satisfied with Zeng Qiduan's performance. Fatty Zeng also hurriedly responded:
“That, of course!
“Since you are in need, Queen of Heaven, then I must give my 120% performance! ”
“That’s the best! ”
But after hearing this, Rui Zhao, who was on the video connection, suddenly tilted his head:
“But, why do I feel...
“Why is your physical condition not so good? That’s right!
“I have lost a lot of weight, I have dark circles under my eyes, and even my cheeks are a little sunken...”
“Illusion, this is all an illusion!”
Zeng Guangwen responded quickly:
"I am in very good condition now! Otherwise it would not be easy to win against you, the Queen of Heaven!"
"Ah...yeah, too!"
Although she was a little embarrassed, it was rare for Empress Zhao to receive such secret flattery.
"I have indeed become more powerful recently! I recently won the league against Senior Sister Zou and Queen Mulan!"
Seeing that the time was ripe, Zeng Qiduan hurriedly struck while the iron was hot:
“Then...will you still be willing to join me in a mic sparring match?”
“That’s for sure!”
Rui Zhao responded crisply:
“To be honest, I really need you, Brother Zeng!
"Since I decided to come to Pohu, Senior Sister Zou is not willing to train with me.
"Originally, I have been training with Teacher Lei during this period, but it turns out that Teacher Lei seems to have been training with me recently. A bit...
"A bit... um..."
Fatty Zeng, who was good at observing people's emotions, was surprised when he heard Rui Zhao's words. He would not embarrass his master and immediately took over the conversation:
“Don’t worry, Queen!
"I, Zeng Guangwen! I am willing to do my best for the Queen!
"It's just...it's just sparring, no need to be so exaggerated! "
Rui Zhao, who was a little embarrassed at first, immediately became a little embarrassed.
"That's right...that...
"Brother Zeng." , can you...become stronger again?"
"Ah——?"
Hearing this, Zeng Guangwen couldn't help but lengthen his tone.
Become stronger again?
What does this mean?
Sister-in-law, you might as well ask me to be your watchdog!
When he thought about the life of a cow and horse in the past month, Zeng Guangwen's expression suddenly became distorted.
However, Queen Zhao didn’t seem to pay much attention to the embarrassment in Fatty Zeng’s tone, and said to herself:
“Fortunately, this time, you were just in bad shape some time ago, and now you are adjusting.
“Otherwise I don’t know who I should be sparring with during this time! I know you are the only grandmaster I can find at any time...
"But I'm worried that if I can continue to improve in the future, it may not be easy to find you, Brother Zeng... That's really What a pity!”
"So... do you think you can try harder? Help me!
"Ah! If you need sparring fees, I can pay for them! I have so much bonus in the past year that I don’t even know how to spend it..."
Uh... I forgot...
This little girl has won the little sheep and the little bird recently. Yes, this definitely shows that her strength is still improving! For a moment, Zeng Guangwen complained in her heart, and she felt like she was coming out of the tiger's mouth and into the wolf's den again:
"Queen of Heaven, this is not about money at all..."
But when the words came to his lips, Zeng Guangwen hesitated again.
Eh, isn’t that right...?
If you don’t follow the Queen now, that would be obvious “absolute disloyalty”!
Isn’t it only a matter of time before I am abandoned again?
But in this case, will my hardships in the previous month be in vain? !
So, be afraid of sunk costs in everything.
Thinking about the wealth and wealth that I had managed to catch with great difficulty, and then thinking about the sleepless nights I had spent in the past month.
Even though the road ahead seemed extremely dangerous, Fatty Zeng could no longer let go at this time.
Hmm...
Anyway, she is just a girl, so she probably won’t have much room to improve her strength!
Bake it for a while...it definitely won’t take too long!
After a while of entanglement, Fatty Zeng finally gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, bit the bullet, and answered with great determination:
"...Don't you hurt my feelings if you talk about money with me?
“I, Zeng Guangwen, would like to continue to work hard and make progress, and always be the Queen’s loyal sandbag, even if I die! ”
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After the women’s round at Zhujin Station, Fatty Zeng began to work diligently and exhaustingly to keep his dog position. Not much to mention.
In mid-to-late May, there was no big news in the Chinese chess world, just various bits and pieces.
First of all, on May 23, the women’s siege ended the fourth round of competition. The Pohu team faced the Pengze team led by Jia Feiquan at home.
Because it was only a week apart, Kogamizaka was not in a hurry to go home, but planned to wait until the fourth round.
The next round of competition will be in mid-to-late June.
In the end, all three Pohu teams playing at home performed well and once again scored 4.5 points. A certain little crybaby can finally return to Japan with a smile on his face.
As for men, the Chinese Go Dragon Star Battle, a fast chess competition with a unique format, finally came to an end on May 31 after more than half a month of competition.
Actually, the Dragon Star Battle started on the 14th. However, even though it seems that the event went from the 14th to the 31st, it seems to be a long time, but the actual schedule is extremely tight.
Different from the current single elimination elimination, double elimination, round robin, group competition and other competition systems that are more common at home and abroad, the arrangement of Dragon Star Battle is extremely unique, mainly using the bubble competition system and blitz chess rules.
The Dragon Star Tournament is composed of twenty-two players. The last champion, runner-up and the top six players in the ranking (if there is repeated promotion) will directly enter this tournament as seed players.
In addition to the above eight players, another twenty-eight players will be selected in order of grade to conduct a round of qualifying to determine the remaining fourteen players.
In this competition, the twenty-two contestants are divided into two groups, A and B, with eleven people in each group. The twenty-two people were arranged in a serpentine shape from top to bottom into two groups A and B according to the order of comparison of ranks and grades.
In this competition, the bottom player in each group will challenge upwards step by step, and the winner will advance. The winner with the most winners in each group and the last winner will each advance to the semi-finals.
If there is a tie for the most wins, the last one with the most wins will be chosen. If the winner with the most wins and the last winner are the same person, the winner with the second most wins will be chosen. If one person wins all the games, he or she will go directly to the finals.
The semi-finals will consist of the last winner of Group A versus the most winners of Group B, and the most winners of Group A versus the last winner of Group B. The winner will advance to the finals. The semi-finals are single-elimination, and the finals are best-of-three games.
The time limit is 30 seconds for each move. Each side has 10 1-minute free time. Overtime will result in a loss. It can be said to be the representative chess game of blitz chess.
At the same time, it is precisely because most games can be played in two and a half hours, and there are also a lot of rounds to be played, so the Dragon Star war can only be played between the bubble game and the semi-finals. Except for one day off, all other games are played continuously. It makes people have to complain about what kind of plantation Go this is.
By the way, this tight-paced event only has a championship prize of 200,000 at the end, which is also a major drawback.
If someone really wants to win 12 games all the way up from the bottom after playing in the preliminaries, he will only get 200,000, which is not even as good as the victory fee for the first round!
However, despite this, the players in this competition are very enthusiastic about participating, and few abstain.
The reason... is because the guarantee of Dragon Star War is so good, it is as good as the guarantee of a newbie in the first three months of a certain Chinese website.
The game fee for the Dragon Star Battle is as high as 6,000 yuan per game, and it also includes food and accommodation (note, it is the game fee, you can get it after signing up), so there is a strong sense of "friendship first, competition second" Nature, all major players from mid-level to top players are also willing to participate.
But precisely because this game has a strong friendly nature and it is blitz chess, most players are willing to come and go, but it is difficult to say how seriously they play.
That's why Lei Qi planned to take advantage of this opportunity to win the championship in one fell swoop, breaking the championship drought before the Tongge Cup and Yingyi Cup world championships!
However, although Xiao Lei's wishful thinking was successful, when he finally got up, he found that he was not the only one who was struggling!
First of all, there is Ni Jue who always loves to show off. He has always been a soy sauce in all previous Dragon Star battles.
But this time, the celebrity Tianyuan seemed very serious. He defeated Cai Shuang, Bian Lele, Shangguan Sheng, and Dai Ran one after another. As the player with the most consecutive wins, he directly entered the Group B bubble match. In front of Lei Qi at the top, he almost cleared the level in one fell swoop.
When Lei Qi finally defeated Ni Jue and entered the semi-finals as the final winner of Group B, there was also "Old Kuai" Kuai Liang who had won four consecutive victories on the other side waiting there. With.
In the end, Kuai Liang, who was very comfortable in blitz chess, performed well and successfully defeated Lei Qi in the semi-finals and entered the final.
Facing Lin Ruixin, who was also outstanding in fast chess, "Old Kuai" performed even better. In the end, the total score was 2 to 1 and he received a bonus of 200,000 yuan. Xiaolei's ninth-dan championship drought continues to this day.
The last thing is about the domestic qualifiers for the first Tongge Cup World Championship.
The first Tongge Cup has a total of 48 participants.
The specific quota allocation will not be detailed for now. The key point is that in addition to the normal open group qualifiers, China, South Korea, and Ying have all allocated a women's qualifier.
Because there are more participants in the women's group, there are obviously more rounds than the open group. Therefore, while the finals of the Dragon Star Battle are still going on over there, the women's group selection for the Tonge Cup Domestic Selection Competition has already started, and it will not end until June 5th together with the selections for the open groups that just started on the 2nd.
In the end, after six rounds of competition, Pohu women’s team coach Rui Zhao defeated Hua Ran in the first dan, Lu Shaozhi in the 4th dan, Yang Manjing in the 6th dan, Liu Yuhong in the 8th dan, and Zou Yang after a bye in the first round. Eighth dan, got the ticket for this tournament of Tongge Cup! (End of this chapter)