Chapter 526 The Signboard of the Women's Competition
"...Sister Youen, this is almost the end of the review."
November 16th, South Korea Chess Academy in the capital city of South Korea.
A match in a South Korean domestic celebrity tournament has just ended.
With almost no suspense, Ryu Se-hyun, the world's number one player, easily defeated the Ice Queen Kim Woo-eun. The world's number one female chess player has yet to win against the young master of the Ryu family.
"Well, thank you for your advice.
"Xiao Liu, you... are in very good shape recently!
"This time the LIG Cup...should be within reach, right?"
After the Queen simply returned the gift, she also gave a heartfelt compliment.
“Ah, Sister Youen, don’t praise me so much...”
Liu Shixian's smile was natural and gentle:
"The domestic media also said the same thing at the time of the Miaojia Bailing Cup. Didn't the result also overturn?"
"But... I always feel that it is because You didn’t really show a 100% serious attitude.
“Like this year’s Tongge Cup and Yingyi Cup, you played at a dominant level when you took it seriously! "
"Oh Sister Youen, you only have two women's world championships every year, so you dare to say that..."
Liu Shixian smiled bitterly:
“This year... I have five!
“If you can really maintain such good energy and competition status for a long time, then you will basically be able to do it in China. You can't lose at chess!
"But the fact is... you still end up overturning in domestic women's competitions from time to time."
Kim Youen was silent for a few seconds, then narrowed his eyes and said:
"Does that mean...you've focused on the Nongshim Cup?"
"Well, after all, that's what piques my interest more."
Master Liu clicked. He nodded and then smiled:
“I just hope that Ni Jue won’t have any big problems. I have been looking forward to this game of chess with him.
“However, in fact, for the Miao family Bailing It’s not that I don’t care about the Cup and the next LIG Cup, it’s just that I don’t tighten myself up mentally.
"To be honest, I was quite surprised that Dai Ran beat me in the Miao Jia Bai Ling Cup last time - after the Yingshi Cup, I thought Dai Jiuduan might be old. It seems that I underestimated him too much."
"But he...may have really started to get old."
As Jin Youen began to collect the chess pieces, he said casually:
"This time in the LIG Cup, China will Lei Qi and Li Zhaokai are exempted from the selection, and the qualified ones are Sun Yi, Tang Guansheng, Ji Qiufuan, and Zhuang Zheng. "Well... China has also started to replace the old with a new generation."
Young Master Liu also put away the chess equipment and said with emotion:
“They are all about the same age as me or obviously younger than me!
“It’s a pity that the ones about my age are not that interesting. , so now I can only look forward to this little guy Lei Qi. "
Speaking of this, Master Liu seemed to have thought of something, and added:
"Actually... I think Sun Yi has always played well. In terms of strength, he is not inferior to Lei. How much difference.
"Compared to Xiong Siyi, his skills are very balanced, have no obvious weaknesses and are very cunning. I feel that if he can fully display his skills, he will be very difficult to deal with - including when I met him in various youth competitions when I was a child. Defeat him.
"That's right... I always feel that he is a little complacent after getting the title of [Yixian]. In addition, he has some mental problems. Every time he sees an opponent who is stronger on paper, he won't. It’s time to play chess. Now I can only hope that Lei Qi will continue to grow..."
After saying the above, Liu Shixian looked at the queen again with some fun:
" So...
"I really envy you, Sister Youen."
Jin Youen knew the meaning of the nonsense words of the world's number one person in front of him, so he couldn't help but retort a little:
"Xiao Liu, although I admit: you are standing in this world of Go. At the top of the mountain, I have seen a different scenery, and it is normal to have a different mentality.
“But...
“You may not have experienced that kind of thing where you have obviously tried your best. But the feeling of not being able to make any progress.
“It is still too arrogant to expect someone strong enough to challenge myself. ”
However, after hearing this answer, Liu Shixian, who had just rearranged the chess box, shook his head slightly and said:
"Sister Youen, let me be blunt:
"Compared to that little girl ...I'm afraid you can't claim to be 'trying your best' yet. ”
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"Tsk!
"Compared with when Sister Rui competed, there were a lot less media and chess fans coming to the scene..."
November 17, Dongjiang City, China Jianqiao College.
The opening ceremony of the 20th "Dongjiang Jianqiao Cup" Chinese Women's Go Open has just been held in the school auditorium.
Although this competition, Shang Chaotian and Both the leaders of the Chess Association, Lu Wenjie, came to the scene and paid high attention to it, but the little witch who had just attended the opening ceremony couldn't help but complain softly
The reason is very simple: this year’s Dongjiang Bridge Construction Cup is missing Rui Zhao, the most important celebrity topical figure, and it can be said that the momentum has been greatly reduced.
Although the on-site organizers tried hard to increase the popularity, judging from the number of media and chess fans present at the opening ceremony, it was obviously two levels behind the Women's Masters Tournament a few days ago.
You know, this is still in Dongjiang!
Although in terms of per capita GDP, you can’t even see the taillights of Or City in Dongjiang, but in terms of popularity, Dongjiang, a metropolis, is much stronger.
When the Women's Masters Tournament was held in Or City, a large number of media chess fans came to support it. However, the Dongjiang Bridge Construction Cup held in Dongjiang was not as popular as the former. This already shows that Rui Zhao, a star player, has great interest in women's games. Go tournaments have a huge stimulating effect.
However, Liu Yuhong on the side was not very surprised by this, and said lazily:
"Jingjing, why have you forgotten it in just over a year?
"Isn't it all before? Is that so? It might even be worse..." "Well..."
Yang Manjing thought about it briefly and knew that Queen Mulan was absolutely right.
After the advent of the AI era, women's Go competitions, which have a lower overall competitive level, have not received much attention, and the stability of the events has always been much worse than that of men.
If it weren’t for Rui Zhao, the Lakeside Cup Arena Tournament, which had only been held once before, would have almost ended in vain.
Although Yang Manjing has always had complicated emotions about this female chess player of his generation who firmly suppresses her, the little witch has to admit her outstanding contribution to the women's Go competition. Admitted.
But because of this, Yang Manjing couldn't help but ask Queen Mulan on the side:
"...Sister Yu Hong.
"That Sister Rui... shouldn't she stop participating in women's competitions from now on?"
These words shocked Xiaoxiaotiao, who had been in a downturn recently because of becoming a "loser dog":
“That’s not true, right?
“She is already the holder of the title, so why should she give up the title voluntarily?
“Moreover, Rui Zhao is really important to women’s events now. This time it was announced that he would no longer participate in women’s events before the Spring Festival. I heard that Jianqiao College and Wuxing County had a lot of objections. .
"Even if Rui Zhao doesn't want to play women's competitions in the future, it's probably hard for the Chess Association to agree, not to mention there are so many bonuses!
"This time she temporarily withdrew from these three competitions, it's probably true. There must be some personal reasons! "
"Yeah, too. "
The little witch nodded:
"That's it...where has she been recently?
"There is no news about her!"
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"Zhaozhao! Here!"
5 o'clock in the afternoon on November 21, Dongjiang City , Exit 1 of Caiqiao International Airport.
Rui Guoquan, who came to pick up his daughter, saw Rui Zhao wearing sunglasses and a mask at the exit, and waved and shouted.
"Dad!"
Hearing the voice, Rui Zhao found his father, and then he ran over and gave his father a hug, just like before.
Rui Guoquan was also very happy to see his daughter at this time: since her daughter has been stationed in Pohu, he has seen his daughter much less often in the past six months.
As for the Dongjiang Construction Bridge Cup, he originally thought that his daughter would be able to stay at home for a while, but he did not expect that his daughter would unexpectedly choose to withdraw from the competition, which made Rui Guoquan, who had been looking forward to it for a long time, feel quite a bit worried. Lost.
But who knows, there will be twists and turns.
Just when Rui Guoquan thought that seeing his daughter again would have to wait until the Chinese New Year, Rui Zhao proposed to go back to Dongjiang for a week. This made Rui Guoquan overjoyed and he immediately took half a day off to pick up his daughter!
After a brief exchange of greetings between father and daughter, Rui Guoquan led his daughter to the parking lot and asked by the way:
"That Zhaozhao... how is your senior brother Ni?"
He certainly knew that this time his daughter gave up her Masters preliminaries and rushed to Dajing just to visit her senior brother. Rui Guoquan also understands this very well. After all, Chinese celebrity Tian Yuan has taken great care of Rui Zhao since the City Cup - but he is a little puzzled as to why the visit takes so long.
However, I thought that maybe my daughter wanted to wait until her senior brother had surgery before leaving, which was understandable.
“Well, Senior Brother Ni’s surgery was very successful!
“The doctor said it shouldn’t have any impact on the body, and he will be able to compete again after half a year of rest! "
The girl responded to her father's words happily, then seemed to think of something and asked a little cautiously:
"Um, dad...
"...Isn't mom here?"
"Ah, your mom probably just got off work right now."
Rui Guoquan explained:
"It's not easy for her to ask for leave. , I thought I would pick you up first, and you could see her when you get home."
"Ah..."
The girl pondered for a while after hearing the words, as if she was thinking about something. The atmosphere between the father and daughter felt a little cold for a while.
Rui Guoquan didn’t want to let the topic get cold with his daughter, so he asked casually:
“Hey, by the way Zhaozhao... why did you say you didn’t participate in women’s competitions years ago? ?
“I understand that you may be worried about my senior not participating in the Dongjiang Construction Bridge Cup this time, but the other two competitions will not be affected. ”
Rui Guoquan had already asked his daughter about this matter before, but at that time Rui Zhao only said, “We will talk about it in person.”
Regarding this question, Rui Zhao did not answer directly, but first suggested:
"Well, dad, can we find a coffee shop to sit down?
"I am just right for this matter. Let’s talk to you. "
"...Huh? ”
Rui Guoquan was stunned and couldn’t help but said:
"Then just go home! I just want to talk to your mother."
"Let's go to the coffee shop first, Dad."
Rui Zhao's tone was calm, not at all like the girl in the past. An innocent romance.
"The reason for this...
"I want to talk to you alone first. ”
(End of this chapter)