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

"Liu Jiudan, congratulations on winning your ninth championship!

"At the same time... I also completed the Grand Slam!"

At the same time, Dongjiang Center, Dongjiang City.

In the "Touching the Sky in the Southeast" private room of the Dongjiang Jin Hotel restaurant, the third match of this year's Yingyi Cup finals just ended here.

The world's number one player Liu Shixian went through a long and fierce battle, and responded appropriately to the continuous winning moves released by the Japanese chess master. After the transition, he successfully simplified the situation and secured victory.

At the 242nd move, Takuya Ichijo resigned. The young master of the Yanagi family won the Yingyi Cup for the first time with a total score of -. While winning his ninth world championship, he also completed the Grand Slam achievement in one fell swoop, and his accumulated honors officially ranked among the top three in history!
"Ah, thanks."

In response to this not-unexpected result, Liu Shixian responded gently and modestly in Japanese:
"The chess master played very well these few games! I really enjoyed it."

"Where there!"

Ichijo smiled helplessly and said politely:
"These three sets... I really feel like I have no chance of fighting back."

Hearing this, Young Master Liu closed his eyes a few times, seemed to think for a while, and finally spoke:

"Ichijo Chess Master, please allow me to say a few... somewhat arrogant words.

“For this Yingye Cup, I took the same attitude as I did for the Nongshim Cup, and even gave up some domestic competitions to adjust my condition.

“So, I am… probably still quite capable now!

“But I don’t think it was easy to win these three games.

"As expected, when the retention time is long, your Japanese chess players generally perform much better."

The Japanese chess master was also somewhat surprised by Liu Shixian's words, and was stunned for several seconds before he came to his senses:
"Ah...thank you...

"After all, our domestic title fights generally take a long time."

"Understandable."

Liu Shixian nodded:
“To be honest, I was really looking forward to seeing Lin Ruixin make it to the finals this time – I was even a little disappointed when I saw him get eliminated.

"But now it seems...it's still a very good final.

“I look forward to seeing you again in the Miaojia Bailing Cup in October or the Mengli Lily Cup final next year!”

After the three games in the final, Master Liu sincerely wished Takuya Ichijo.

As for why these two competitions were singled out for discussion, Takuya Ichijo knew the reason.

Among the few world championships that are still held regularly today, except for the Yingyi Cup which will have to wait another four years, only the Miaojia Bailing Cup and Mengli Baihe Cup finals have the longest time, which is "three hours and one minute".

“This is also necessary to advance to the finals!”

Ichijo Takuya was quite emotional:

"To be honest, being able to enter the Yingyi Cup finals this time... is actually a large part of luck. Apart from the chess master Lin Ruixin, I haven't met any other nine-dan chess players along the way.

"I am very clear that even if I can only enter the quarterfinals, I will need a certain amount of luck. And I don't know when I can enter the finals.

"However, I have finally understood recently that one should focus on Go itself, and success will come naturally.

"In short, I will definitely continue to work hard on Go, and as for the finals...

"It all depends on fate!"

Young Master Liu nodded slightly:
"The chess master's thinking is very clear."

"Ah, I'm ashamed. I didn't think it through until recently. I'm already 27 years old. It's a bit late."

Ichijo scratched his head a little embarrassedly.

In front of the usually calm Young Master Liu, the older him seems like the younger one.

"You are too modest, Chess Master Ichijo! It's not too late at all!"

Young Master Liu answered half politely and half seriously:

“You know…

"Some people don't realize this at all even at this age."

...

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"Liu Shixian, 9th Dan, congratulations on winning the Yingyi Cup and completing the Grand Slam achievement!" Half an hour later, in the auditorium of Pujiang Zhijin Hotel.

The award ceremony of the 10th Yingyi Cup is being held here.

As the host, the Chairman of the Chinese Chess Association Shang Chaotian naturally needed to attend the award ceremony and present the award to the champion Liu Shixian.

Of course, although King Shangqi tried hard to keep a business smile on his face, his smile became somewhat stiff when he thought about the fact that China had not won a heavyweight championship for more than a year, and that the Yingyi Cup, which it had held for twelve years, was handed over to others, and even the country's players did not even make it to the finals.

As the recipient of the award, Young Master Liu saw this very clearly, but he sensibly pretended not to know and completed the award ceremony as usual.

After the award ceremony, the scene entered the media interview session.

Although the humiliating defeat of the chess master Lin has become the biggest topic in the Chinese Go world in recent days, the Chinese media would not bother themselves by asking questions about the foreign champions and runners-up. Therefore, the scene was basically filled with Japanese and Korean media.

On the Chinese side, only the "Go Fangyuan" magazine arranged people to come and support the situation, while the rest of the domestic media were waiting to dig up the ready-made news.

After the reporter from "Go Circle" asked two fairly balanced questions on behalf of China, the host very tactfully gave the opportunity to ask questions to the reporters from Japan and South Korea - this time, one of the two countries won the championship, and the other won the runner-up in the World Championship after an absence of seven years, so both countries were very happy.

But the host never expected that just after asking the question, a South Korean reporter asked a question that the host didn't want to hear:
"Liu 9th Dan! First of all, congratulations on winning the Yingyi Cup, recreating the 'Grand Slam' feat that Choi Myeong-ho 9th Dan had achieved.

"After winning your ninth title, domestic media generally believed that your career achievement surpassing Choi Sung-seok 9th dan was a foregone conclusion, and the suspense was in the battle between you and Choi Myeong-ho 9th dan for the first place in history.

“But I just noticed that there is another achievement currently held by Choi Myeong-ho 9th dan.

"Choi Myung-ho won four consecutive world championships, and other than him, no one else has the record of only two.

“You previously won the Spring Orchid Cup and LIG Cup in 2021, but unfortunately you lost to Zhu Yuanjun th Dan in the Yumengli Lily Cup and were unable to continue.

"This year, you first broke Choi Myeong-ho's record of Nongshim Cup cross-border winning streak and single-session winning streak, which had been sealed for nearly 21 years. You then became the second person in history to complete the Grand Slam after Choi. Your momentum is even better than in !
"With such a strong upward momentum, I wonder if you are also interested in taking this opportunity to challenge this record and continue to win the World Championships three or even four times in a row? Thank you!"

As soon as this question was asked, the auditorium fell silent for a moment, and an indescribable embarrassment was quietly spreading.

Judging from the question itself, there is actually nothing inappropriate about it - the local journalists are just helping the contestants to look forward to a bright future, which is no big deal.

But once combined with current affairs...then there is something to explain!
Since Lei Qi won the Sanshuang Cup last year, no player from the host country has entered the finals of this Yingyi Cup. China has failed to win the world championship for six consecutive times!
You know, ever since Shang Chaotian won the Yingyi Cup for China for the first time and announced that Chinese Go had the strength to compete with South Korea, China's previous record of not winning the championship was no more than four times in a row!

This wave of championship shortage has brought unprecedented pressure to Chinese Go!

And if Master Liu wins two more championships...

This is simply unimaginable!

However, Liu Shixian is such a smart person!

After noticing that the atmosphere was not right, he immediately said in a humorous tone:

"oops……

“Although I have always taken the World Series very seriously…

"How about winning three or even four championships in a row?
"If you ask other active chess players who have won two consecutive championships, they all know that it is exhausting!
"Friends in my country's media, please at least cherish me!"

After hearing this little joke, there was a burst of laughter at the scene, and the slightly awkward atmosphere just now disappeared without a trace.

Although all the Chinese Go players present knew that pointing out that Young Master Liu was holding back and deliberately losing the game in the Miao Family Bailing Cup was definitely overthinking!
But at least at this moment, the guest appropriately resolved the embarrassment caused to the host by this problem in his own way, which shows his talent and virtue.

But the chairman of the Chinese Chess Association could not help but narrow his eyes when he heard this:
tsk...

This young master has tricked me again!

The head of the chess association couldn't help but curse inwardly.

——“Other active chess players who have won two consecutive championships.”

This statement may not seem to be a problem at first to people who are not familiar with the situation.

But Shang Chaotian, who was very familiar with the situation in the circle, was the first to react to Young Master Liu's little show-off.

because……

Among all the active chess players now, apart from Young Master Liu, no one else has ever won two consecutive world championships!

The Miao Family Bailing Cup in October...

I’m afraid he’s here with bad intentions!

The Chairman of the Chinese Chess Association could not help but ponder inwardly. (End of this chapter)