After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

Chapter 137 136. Two and a half years of training...

"Sato-kun."

"Kashima-kun, what's going on?"

Looking at Kashima Torajiro who called him after coming out, Sato Toshito asked with some surprise.

Sato Toshito was quite friendly towards this future rising star of Japanese Go.

The main reason is that Torajiro Kashima beat him in this round-robin tournament, making his current record six wins and one loss.

As I said, people with strength will always be respected.

If Torajiro Kashima was a rookie, Sato Toshito wouldn't even look at him.

Who are you? Are you qualified to talk to me?
Kashima Torajiro hesitated for a moment, but still asked the question: "Are you confident in facing Zhan Lang tomorrow?"

“Hahaha, it seems like you’re all intimidated by the aura of the Chinese chess player Zhan Lang.

From the game between him and you till yesterday's game, I watched all seven games of his competition.

He is very sharp in the mid-game, and once his opponent makes a mistake, he will seize it and may even completely secure the victory.

But generally speaking, his level has not yet reached the first-class level. He is just very sensitive in the middle game. Once your small mistakes are magnified by him, he will start to lose his composure and finally destroy his own city.

You all think that his seven-game winning streak is more impressive, but I think he is already at the end of his strength and his decline is obvious.

In today’s seventh inning, when he faced Omori, he was obviously not as sharp as in the previous innings.

Da Sen's strength is not that strong among us. It was hard for him to defeat him today, let alone me."

To some extent, Zhan Lang's style is like that of a top assassin. Everyone has been slowly testing him, but he is slippery and it is not easy to catch him.

But once you reveal a flaw, Zhan Lang will stab you without hesitation, delivering a fatal blow.

But in the last few rounds, although Zhan Lang was still able to seize the flaws, the stabs he made were not as deadly as before.

But there is no way around it. Zhan Lang has been competing for seven consecutive days, and the players he faces are basically professional level players.

This kind of continuous professional competitions can be said to be a matter of overdrawing physical strength.

It doesn't mean that you can fully recover the next day after a good night's sleep. If that were the case, professional competitions would be held every day of the year.

Just like the Stone Buddha who later fought in the Nongshim Cup for several days in a row. After the game, he returned to his room and fainted. If no one found him in time, no one knows what would have happened.

After fighting for seven consecutive days, Zhan Lang was obviously approaching the limit of his physical strength.

This can be seen intuitively from the game content.

So his knife now is not fierce enough, nor fast enough.

Sato Toshito, who had just had a day's rest today, is very confident. With Zhan Lang in his current state and his twenty years of chess skills, he can't stop him!
“Having said that, you must not take it lightly.”

Sato Toshito smiled and said, "Don't worry, although I think I can win, I respect this guy's ability. He can reach this level at the age of sixteen, which is already amazing.

When I was the same age, I was probably slightly inferior to him.

Unfortunately, he met me. I am four years older than him. He is improving and so am I. At least in the first half of his career, I should be able to suppress him. For the second half, I can only rely on you. "

Hearing this, Kashima Torajiro couldn't help but frowned: "But, the Chinese side said that Zhan Lang has only been learning Go for two and a half years from zero contact to now.

At this rate of progress..."

"Hahaha!"

Before Kashima Torajiro finished speaking, Sato Toshito burst out laughing when he heard this: "Do you believe it? Anyone who has a deep understanding of Go will not believe this!
Even if he had been guided by top-notch opponents since he was young, and could reach the strength of a novice professional in two and a half years, he would already be a rare genius in a thousand years!
If we can reach his level in two and a half years, then we don’t need to study Go anymore.”

You know, normally you can reach a strong amateur 5th dan level in about two years, and as long as you are not too old, you can become a core professional player.

If one can become a professional in more than two years, he would be a rare genius and would be reported by various news media and hailed as a top hope for the future.

A genius among geniuses, a prodigy among prodigies.

As for being able to reach Zhan Lang's level in two and a half years, Sato Toshito can only say that it is not even bragging.

Zhan Lang, a Chinese professional fourth-dan player, would definitely be at a solid level even if placed in the Japanese professional world. There is nothing exaggerated about it and the rating might even be underestimated.

Therefore, Sato Toshito is 100% convinced that Zhan Lang is definitely a genius cultivated by China since childhood, but he just hid it before and is now showing it off.

He also used exaggerated lies to exaggerate his talent and increase the confidence of the Chinese Go community.

Sato Toshito thinks that China's approach is really stupid. In fact, with the level that Zhan Lang has reached at his age, it is entirely possible for him to become top-notch in the future.

There is no need to use lies to pave the way for the story, which is simply superfluous and only adds to the joke.

When Torajiro Kashima heard this, he nodded. Deep down, he didn't believe that Zhan Lang could reach this level in two and a half years.

You have to know that the other person practiced for two and a half years, but he could only become the material for ghost videos.

If this is true, wouldn't Zhan Lang be able to reach the top-notch level in another two and a half years?
How can it be?

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Torajiro Kashima quickly dismissed this absurd idea from his mind. Why would he, a top-notch student who is less than 20 years old, have such a dream?

"Is there anything else?"

Looking at Kashima Torajiro who suddenly shook his head in front of him, Sato Toshito asked with some surprise.

“Oh, Fujii Hideaki 9th Dan once told me before the game that there is a way to deal with Zhan Lang.

It is best not to be hit by the three-three, and then go for the real situation instead of the outside situation, and don't make too much difference in time. The opening battle wave may not be good. You have to withstand the particularly sharp mid-game, but if the official game is similar or slightly worse, your chance will come. "

Hearing this, Sato Toshito nodded with a serious expression.

Regardless of Fujii Hideaki's style, as one of the few top-notch people in Japan, his suggestions are worth referring to, and even the truth.

Looking at Sato Toshito's serious expression, Kashima Torajiro also said solemnly: "I'm counting on you, Sato-kun, you must win!"

If we lose again tomorrow, all of Japan's young elite will be wiped out, and we will be too embarrassed to face anyone.

(End of this chapter)