Go: The live broadcast queen launched a gorgeous rebellion against the dog

Chapter 397 Revenge
"I said……

"Lin Ruixin, the 27-year-old No. 1 in the country, has any shame?!

"He actually said, 'I'll beat Rui Zhao every time I see him in a formal competition'? Isn't that shameful!"

March 3, Dongjiang City, Dongjiang Garden Community.

Lei Jingming, who was driven into the room by Qin Xiaoxue, was chatting with two old friends through the Internet about his student Rui Zhao's recent study situation. But after a few pleasantries at the beginning, the conversation turned to a hot gossip in the chess circle recently.

Yes.

Thanks to some big-mouthed sponsors in the captain group, the reply given by the chess master Lin in the group a few days ago spread throughout the chess circle in just a few days, and almost everyone knew about it. At the same time...

This triggered widespread ridicule from chess fans who understand chess.

Although many of Lin Ruixin’s fans think that the saying “torture him every time I see him” is very impressive, many even think it is very domineering.

But for those who truly understand professional Go competitions, such a statement really makes people feel that it is strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

The reason is very simple:
In an official match, there is only one kind of match: a match between two teams with the best score. A domestic leader in his twenties and a female rookie who just turned 19 are clamoring to defeat each other in a match between two teams with the best score...

This is very, very demeaning.

There is a considerable gap between the upper limit of female chess players and that of male chess players, which is an almost universally acknowledged fact in the circle.

For example, the two leading figures in domestic women's Go are both slightly defeated by Lin Ruixin when they were given a handicap. When Rui Zhao played against Lin Ruixin when she was given a handicap, it was estimated that the odds would be 30-70, and it would be basically one-sided if they were to decide the handicap.

In this situation, Lin Ruixin's words "beat me every time I see you" really make him lose face even if he wins!

You are so awesome, why don't you go and beat Young Master Liu!
I also don’t understand what his fans are bragging about every day!

At this time, Li Wangyuan interrupted again and said:
"And even if we take a step back, there's no point in saying this.

"What's the meaning of 'beating each other every time I meet'? He has to wait for the great chess master Lin to meet Rui Zhao!

"Lin Ruixin couldn't play in the women's competition, and Rui Zhao had a hard time getting into the main draw of an open-ended competition.

“Even if you make it once in a while, the probability of drawing Lin Ruixin in the first round is so low!
"Zou Yang and Liu Yuhong have been playing for so many years, but one of them has only met Lin Ruixin once in an official match, and the other has never met him at all! I really don't know why Lin Ruixin talks so much every day, which is neither graceful nor likely to happen!"

"You are so petty and just want to save face!

"Hey, now that I see it this way, I feel like Sun Wukong isn't that bad..."

Yu Qingguang's tone was full of disdain.

Even compared with the great chess master Lin, even the Monkey King who embarrassed him in the Nongshim Cup looked handsome.

Seeing that the two old friends couldn't stop talking once they started, Lao Lei Jiudan quickly changed the topic:
"Oh, forget it! Anyway, it's the chess master Lin and his fans who are embarrassed. Let's talk about Rui Zhao!
"She has been taking extra lessons with you these days. How is she feeling?"

"It's good. I teach in the morning, Lao Li teaches in the afternoon, and I practice on my own in the evening. It's full and I don't waste any time."

Yu Qingguang briefly summarized:
"This child is really very talented and can understand a lot of things very quickly. I feel it's only a matter of time before he can achieve success.

“That’s right… I’ve only been teaching for half a month, so there isn’t any obvious effect yet.

"Endgame experience and layout research, these two are things that require a lot of accumulation...!"

"That's what I said..."

Lei Jingming scratched his head:

"But seeing that the Fan Air Competition is coming up soon, I always hope that Rui Zhao can get a better result..."

"Then instead of counting on us to give her extra lessons for half a month, you might as well hope that she can perform better on the spot!
"The more you practice Go, the more you rely on long-term persistence and accumulation. You know that!"

Coach Yu scolded his old friend again, then suddenly thought of something and asked:
"Hey, Lao Lei, wait a minute!
"Didn't Rui Zhao come to your house today to restore the teacher-student relationship with you?!

"Why are you talking to us about Rui Zhao's recent 'make-up lessons' instead of chatting with him?"

"Hey! Don't mention it!"

Lei Jingming waved his hand and glanced towards the door. He could only hear the faint sound of Rui Zhao and Lei Qi discussing the chess game in the living room. He then sighed and said:

“After a brief apprenticeship ceremony, I wanted to talk to her more.

"But who knew that when my son and her started to review the Nongshim Cup match, my wife wanted to kick me out! She also said that my current level was too low to review my son's game!
"I just don't understand. I just can't calculate anymore. I was a world champion back then! Why can't I participate in the review?
"I argued with my wife, but she threw me into the room! Who can I talk to?"

Lao Lei Jiudan said this with a lot of grievances, and he thought he could get resonance and comfort from his two old friends, but unexpectedly, there was no sound in the microphone.

Yu Li and the other seemed to be silent, as if they were thinking about something.

"What's going on? Why aren't you talking?!"

Lei Jingming was a little unhappy: What about the revolutionary friendship of the older generation? Is it so cold?

But Yu Qingguang still had no intention of paying attention to him, and just said to himself:
"Um……

"As for Xiao Lei...it's just barely ok!"

"Just barely?"

Lei Jingming was confused for a moment, and Li Wangyuan immediately followed up:
"Hmm... we need to observe further!

"I always feel like he's still a little short of it! At least he needs to win three or four more world championships and solidify his status as a leader, right?

"But if the requirement is that the candidate must be someone in the same circle, then it seems that there are no other suitable choices among people of the same age..."

Lei Jingming was even more confused:
"Huh? How come my son is almost there?!
"And you two, what are you talking about? Why don't I understand anything?"

After hearing what his two old friends said, Lei Jingming looked puzzled and confused.

However, only two sighs were heard from the other end of the voice without any explanation.

...

…"Liu Yuhong, Zou Yang, Yang Manjing…

"And... Rui Zhao?!"

On the evening of March 3, two days before the opening of the 13 Fan Air War.

In a izakaya near the Dongying Chess Institute, Shindo Hiroaki saw the list of opponents for the first round of the Fankong Tournament that had just been released in the afternoon, and couldn't help but exclaimed:
"This time, there are four chess players from China participating in the air-fan battle?!"

"yes……"

After saying this, Aoi Natsukawa, who was standing by, took a sip of beer and looked a little helpless.

Seeing that his old friend had no intention of continuing to reveal the details, Shindo Hiroaki could not help but continue to ask:
"Uh……

“Although I think these four are fully qualified to participate in the fan-air battle, when the quota was allocated this time, one quota was indeed drawn from Europe and the United States as a wild card.

"But... the chess academy actually gave this wild card to China?!
"I thought that even if they didn't give it to their own people, they would give it to Europe, America and Pan Asia!"

Hiroaki Shindo's words came from the bottom of his heart.

He is very familiar with the petty-mindedness of his own country!

According to the previous promise made by the Dongying Chess Institute to the Chinese Chess Association, compared with the past, this time the quota for the fan-air battle was drawn from two people from Europe and the United States as wild cards.

The 24 places for this tournament are allocated as follows: 3 from China, 3 from South Korea, 2 from Pan-Asia (including China, Hong Kong and Taiwan), 1 from Europe, 1 from America, 12 from Japan, and 2 wild cards.

The champion and runner-up of the last Fan Air Battle were Kim You-eun from South Korea and Liu Yu-hong from China. According to the rules, each of them automatically took up one quota from their country. So in fact, China only had two quotas to compete for, which was extremely tight.

He was very surprised that the chess academy was so generous and unusual this time to give China a wild card spot.

"It seems like you haven't paid much attention to the women's competition!"

The female Honinbo sighed a little, and then changed the subject to something seemingly unrelated:

"Recently, you should have seen the promotion of the Fan-Air Battle by the Chess Academy, right?"

Shindo Hiroaki nodded:
“Well, this time the chess academy has a lot of publicity, so it’s hard not to see it.

"After all, we have a Go star like Rui Zhao who is quite popular and has a great image coming to participate in the competition. It would be a big loss if we don't take advantage of the publicity."

"Yup!"

Xia Chuankuai also agrees with this view:

"As a result... this point was taken advantage of by China!"

"ah?!
"Being used?"

Hiroaki Shindo still didn't understand what this meant.

Xiachuan Aoi then slowly explained:

"In the past, due to the limited quota, the Chinese Chess Association has always directly adopted the selection method of [only the top XX in the rating can participate in the preliminaries] for major competitions held abroad to reduce the workload of the preliminaries.

"Like last year's Fan Air Tournament, China had a round-robin selection of the top eight players in the rankings.

"Based on the recent results, if we still follow last year's selection rules, these two places will most likely be taken by Zou Yang and Rui Zhao - if that's the case, I feel that the chess academy will definitely not give China wild cards."

"if?
"From what you said... has the situation changed?"

"Yes... the Chinese Chess Association has done something really cool.

"In addition to the qualification of the top eight women in the last Fan Air Fighting Trials, they added the requirement that the qualification must have been established for more than one year."

"what--?"

This time, Shindo Hiroaki opened his mouth instantly.

"What kind of messed up conditions are these? Isn't this targeting Rui Zhao alone?"

"So, this time, Rui Zhao didn't even qualify for the trials. In the end, Zou Yang and Yang Manjing made it.

"This will put the chess academy in a state of disarray! But the chess academy cannot interfere with the pre-selection rules of other countries.

"In the end, we had no choice but to give Rui Zhao a wild card."

Shindo Hiroaki blinked, then came to his senses:
Our own chess academy has been taken over by the Chinese Chess Association!

As a popular player with outstanding image, great fame and excellent strength, Rui Zhao has recently been one of the promotional selling points of the Dongying Chess Institute for this year's Fan-Air Battle.

If Rui Zhao did not participate in the competition, the impact on this competition would be immeasurable. Therefore, Huaxia directly grasped the mentality of the Dongying Chess Academy and managed to get an extra wild card spot for themselves!

"That's it..."

Shindo Hiroaki pondered for a while:
“But I think it might not be a bad thing to let in more strong players from China and South Korea.

“For men, I always feel that we have too little direct competition with the other two countries, which directly leads to the gap between our level and theirs.

“Also, our players are not necessarily afraid of competing with other countries.

"Like Uesaka, I heard that she is eager to try out the Fankong battle this time, and she is always thinking about revenge on Rui Zhao!"

"Revenge...?

"It seems that she is still upset about the disastrous defeat to Rui Zhao in the Lakeside Cup..."

Xia Chuan Kui sighed, but then as if she had thought of something, she smiled bitterly and shook her head:

"I'm just afraid that this time I want revenge...

"But it's not just Rei-chan!"

(End of this chapter)