"Hey, not bad! We got another point today!"
On the evening of November 8th, Tongge Hotel in Gezhou City.
Today in the ninth round of the Siege League, the Pohu team played well.
Facing the Gezhou team, which is currently ranked tenth, even though the leader, Elder Du, lost again. However, with the two victories of Gu Chuxiong Yiyi and Rui Zhaosantai, the Pohu team, ranked second from the bottom, still grabbed a valuable point from Gezhou and took a solid step towards the great goal of being third from the bottom!
Therefore, the four members of the Pohu team also gathered together in the hotel restaurant to celebrate today's victory.
As Rui Zhao, who won the opponent's strong support of Wencheng Town, was naturally the first to contribute today, and was highly praised by the team leader:
"...Hey, second niece, you did a good job today!"
“I saw Mr. Wen was completely dead after the game. He couldn’t recover for a long time, and his expression was so ugly!
"Haha, let him blast gold coins in our siege every day! He kicked the iron plate today!
"I just like to see how these foreign players are defeated! ”
"Ah, thank you, Brother Du!"
Although Rui Zhao was not sure why Du Weichen was so happy about Wencheng Town's loss, seeing that the general was in a good mood, Rui Zhao was also happy to see the result, so he immediately thought of something to say. :
"Well, that...
"Since even Brother Du thinks I played this game of chess well, don't you..."
"...said Okay, CD for three months, come back and challenge again in one month. ”
Elder Du was well prepared for the expectant look that the female celebrity had given him, and choked back his words.
"Uh...!"
Having predicted his intention, the girl immediately raised her mouth to make a puffer fish shape to express her dissatisfaction.
Du Weichen didn’t want to get involved in this troublesome matter, so he immediately turned a blind eye and changed the topic:
“Well... by the way, in a few days there will be the preliminary round of the Masters.
"Second niece! This time...are you determined to challenge this competition?"
"Hey, this competition?"
Hearing this, Gu Chuxiong was a little surprised:
< br>"This... is a bit difficult."
Objectively speaking, Gu Chuxiong's surprise is not unreasonable.
After all, except for the Chess Saint Tournament, there are only thirty-two people participating in all other title tournaments in China.
The requirements for the Chess Saint Tournament, the first title tournament in the country, are even more stringent: only the top eight in the domestic rankings are invited (including current chess masters or those who have given up, the postponement will be postponed), through double elimination, six rounds A competition determines the challenger.
Precisely because the requirements for the title competition are extremely high, in his opinion, Rui Zhao may still lack the strength to enter this list.
But it’s obvious that Elder Du doesn’t think so...
“Hey, Xiaogu! You don’t have to worry about running into Rui Zhao in the armor. I don’t know about the fast guy in our team. What a great chess player!”
Du Weichen couldn't help laughing and said:
"You know, the qualifiers of these domestic competitions are basically all fast chess formats.
"If I compete with Rui Zhao in fast chess, even if the opponent is targeting me, I will It is estimated that all 8-dan chess players have to consider whether they can pass the test safely.
"In my opinion, as long as Rui Zhao draws the seeds from the lower-ranked groups, he has a great chance of qualifying!"
After explaining, Du Weichen said again Looking at Rui Zhao, he said with an encouraging tone:
"How about my second niece? Are you confident that you can achieve your first championship in this Masters?
"I heard that my eldest nephew has been working really hard to prepare for the Nongshim Cup recently. Here he still has to defend his title of [Celebrity] - this is a title he has held for five years!
"If I could see you enter the title match for the first time at the Masters, I think my nephew would be very happy! It would also be a cheer for him! What do you think?"
"Enter...this competition?"
Rui Zhao blinked, and then said a little embarrassedly:
"Actually, I generally don't like to set goals for myself when playing chess.
"In my opinion, every game of chess should be played well by myself.
"But...it's true, as you said, Brother Du, Senior Brother Ni has been working very hard for the Nongshim Cup recently.
"If entering this competition can make Senior Brother Ni happy, , I will work hard! "
"Tsk, tsk... Not bad, not bad! ”
Du Weichen nodded when he saw this:
"...No wonder my eldest nephew values you so much!
"Okay, everyone, let's have a drink! I wish our little diva good results in the Masters! "
"Okay! "
"Come on, do it! ”
"Uh...ah?
"That, that!
"Sister, please get me a glass of milk! Thank you!"
…
…
A few days passed by in a flash.
At 4:30 pm on November 13th, Grand Blue Sky Hotel, Pengze City, Greater Bay Area.
The second round of the 36th China Go Masters Qualifying Tournament is now gradually coming to an end.
Chu Jun, who had just won his second round match, was in the chess players' rest area, looking back at the second round qualifying match of Queen Zhao.
In fact, normally, in the qualifiers of domestic competitions, no one will take notes and upload them - this requires too much manpower. For example, no one took notes on Chu Jun's chess game just now.
But... popular players like Rui Zhao are naturally excluded.
Although media outside the industry have basically stopped reporting on Rui Zhao's affairs, various organizers and media within the industry still take Zhao Tianhou seriously.
The organizer of the Masters Tournament specially arranged for staff to upload Rui Zhao’s chess scores for each preliminary round and synchronize them to major media in the circle. For example, Yiguo even reported in detail the results of each round of the Queen's preliminaries, and also invited inactive chess players to conduct online live broadcasts, so it was natural to find Rui Zhao's game information immediately after the game.
However, the boy with glasses frowned more and more as he looked at the chess game in front of him.
He could see it - Hao Runcang, the fourth-dan player who faced off against Rui Zhao today, was obviously fully prepared for the Queen Zhao and was extremely targeted.
It's a pity...
In the face of the absolute power gap, the so-called skills are completely vulnerable.
After playing two unreasonable moves that were criticized by the AI, Rui Zhao's winning rate climbed all the way, and he defeated his opponent in another ninety moves. The whole process was smooth and smooth, highlighting his cruelty and ruthlessness.
This sight made Xiao Chu Liuduan swallow subconsciously, and his whole body seemed a little numb.
Because...
His opponent in the third round of the qualifying round was none other than the extremely cruel Queen Zhao!
For a period of time after the Yingyi Cup, Chu Jun actually really wanted to face Rui Zhao.
In his opinion, although Zhao Tianhou has an extremely long board, her weaknesses are also very obvious in the final analysis. As long as he carefully targets them, there is still a high chance that she can avenge her shame - but it is a pity that the subsequent Pinghu Rapid Chess Tournament will Chu Jun failed to draw Rui Zhao, and he failed to enter this competition in the Changqi Cup. He had no chance, which made him very regretful.
But seeing that he finally had the opportunity to avenge his shame on the other party, Chu Jun was not happy at all.
Recently, even the old hammer of Wen was knocked away by Rui Zhao on the fast chess table. Now he meets Rui Zhao in the celebrity qualifier of the fast chess format...
...Is this really not a gift?
Especially, playing chess is still a key node for me...
For a moment, the bespectacled boy pressed his lips tightly and stopped moving. But at this moment, a familiar girl’s voice sounded from his ear:
“I found out that I was about to fight Rui Zhao in the battle of overcoming the tribulation...
"It doesn't feel good, right?"
"Wow!"
Because the voice appeared too suddenly, Chu Jun was jumped a lot.
Look at the speaker again, who is it if it’s not Yang Manjing?
Looking at the playful smile on the other person’s face, Chu Jun was quite annoyed:
"What's not so good! I, I'm still waiting to avenge her!"
But who knew the smile on the little witch's face became even stronger after hearing this:
"That's it... …
“Then I’ll be waiting for you in the seventh section? "
Tsk, this guy...
Chu Jun frowned, his expression obviously distorted.
Judging from the exchange just now, it is obvious that Yang Manjing knows that she is just short of winning a game of chess to be promoted to seventh place.
At the same time, the other party also knows...
I am afraid that if I play Rui Zhao, it will be very bad!
However, Xiao Chu was naturally a little angry about being teased by the little witch who was also the queen of fermented bean curd, and he immediately fought back:
"Damn! Why are you so proud of being a seventh-level chess player by playing against female chess players!"
Now Yang Manjing was unhappy and said with puffed lips:
"What does it mean to play against women?" Chess player! I've passed two rounds of preliminaries this time, okay?"
"It doesn't show its gold content after two rounds, at least wait until you can reach the final round stably! ”
“It’s like I’ve never entered before! I made it to the final round of the Yi Xian Competition last year!”
"Stable, please note that I said stable!
"I don't mean to score every time, at least you can score once every two times, right? Have you done it? "
"Forget it, that's all you can do?
“Isn’t this ‘battle of overcoming tribulation’ a guaranteed loss?”
“Who, who said it is a guaranteed loss?”
Chu Jun gritted his teeth and said:
"Rui Zhao is said to be very strong in suppressing opponents. Except for her previous loss to Gao Yang due to poor health, she has never lost to an opponent.
"I'm going to break her record tomorrow morning! "
The little witch raised her eyebrows when she heard this: "You are already willing to do it..."
"This is just describing objective facts, not yourself..."
Chu Jun was about to argue with all his strength, but at this moment Yang Manjing raised his hand and made a pause gesture, signaling Chu Jun to stop talking:
"...Hey, Chu Jun, please wait a moment... …
“Do you feel like...everyone is talking about something there? "
"...Eh? "
Chu Jun was stunned when he heard this, then looked around and found that what the little witch said was indeed correct.
From now on, none of the players who finished the second round of qualifiers this afternoon seemed to have any intention of leaving. Instead, a few people gathered together to discuss something, so that the voices became louder and louder. So much so that the chess players' rest area, which is usually relatively quiet, actually started to get noisy!
What's going on? !
Could it be that... something happened?
The boy with glasses couldn't help but become confused.
He looked around and happened to see his friend Miao Yanlu spitting in a corner of the lounge, so he asked Yang Manjing to wait where he was while he touched him directly:
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"Hey, Lao Miao!
"What are you discussing? The discussion was so lively? "
Miao Yanlu glanced at it and said with a little surprise:
"Uh, you don't know yet? "
"Know...what? ”
Seeing that Chu Jun seemed to be really unclear about the situation, Miao Yanlu lowered his voice and said:
"Something happened to Ni Jue! It happened just ten minutes ago!"
Chu Jun heard this. Eyes widened:
“What’s going on?!”
“He was playing in the LIG Cup preliminaries in Dajing, and the next person suddenly collapsed from his chair and fell to the ground! I can’t even wake up! I’ve called an ambulance and sent him to the hospital!”
"Ah?!"
After hearing the whole news, Chu Jun was shocked:
"How could this happen? Don't cause any big trouble?!"
< br>“I’m not sure about the details, so aren’t we all here waiting for the news?”
Miao Yanlu spread his hands and said:
"I heard that both Chairman Shang and Vice Chairman Lu immediately ended what they were doing and rushed to the hospital!
"I didn't expect that the preliminaries for this celebrity competition were still going on, and the celebrities themselves had problems first!
“I can only say that I hope everything is fine with Ni Jue!”
After hearing what his friend said, Chu Jun was stunned for a while.
Injuries during the game may be very common in other sports, but Go is ultimately a mental game. In this game, it is still very rare for a player to suddenly have a problem.
However, he quickly thought of something...
If something happened to Ni Jue, Rui Zhao... would probably be affected too, right?
I heard that they have a good relationship as brothers and sisters...
I'm afraid that she won't be in good shape for the game of chess tomorrow!
Thinking of this, Chu Jun couldn't help but frowned again.
Although he has always been eager to avenge Rui Zhao and avoid being inferior to Sun Hou'er, Chu Jun still hopes to face Rui Zhao, who is normal.
If he just bets on the new female celebrity who is obviously affected, then for him it is nothing more than a "high achievement" - which is naturally not what the boy with glasses wants to pursue.
But the following facts told him: he still underestimated the impact of Ni Jue's accident on Rui Zhao.
An hour later, Chu Jun received the notice.
Tomorrow morning in the third round of qualifying for the Masters, Rui Zhao will abandon the competition due to personal reasons, and Chu Jun will not win.
At the same time, with the victory in this game, Chu Jun also reached the second responsible game requirement with a score of "24th game, 70 points" and was officially promoted to the seventh dan. (End of this chapter)