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

Chapter 512 Comprehensive Preliminary Selection

"Rui Zhao...

"I've really been targeted badly recently..."

On the evening of September 9, in a hotel near the Dongying Chess Institute in Dongcheng City, Dongying.

Uesaka Rei, who will rush to Dongjiang City, China early tomorrow morning to participate in the Miao Family Bailing Cup comprehensive preliminaries, just finished reading today's latest Chinese Weiqi League battle report and seemed quite conflicted.

And the person she is troubled by... is naturally the captain of her Poyang Women's Team, Rui Zhao.

Ever since being defeated by Kuai Liang in the Pinghu Rapid Chess Tournament, Queen Zhaotian’s current situation can be said to be still in a state of disarray.

On September 9, in the seventh round of the Chinese Weiqi League, the Pohu team visited Bincheng.

The Bincheng team was not very strong. Apart from the South Korean foreign aid Park Min-yeol on the main stage, there was no other ninth-dan chess player in the team. Rui Zhao finally encountered the Chinese eighth-dan chess player Fu Yu on the fourth stage.

In this game, Fu Yu still used the old methods of Tuzai and Long Bo. But this time, Rui Zhao saw that something was wrong. Facing an opponent who was not a power chess player, he decisively fought with the opponent and played extremely tough moves in succession. I am afraid that even if Long Bo was pulled over, he would still say something extreme!
But Fu Yu, who had been prepared, had expected Rui Zhao to do this. He learned from the lesson of Li Tingyan's hesitation and ultimate loss in the Yingyi Cup, and fought back decisively, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

In the end, although Rui Zhao saved the situation to a large extent by relying on his better performance in the middle game, he was ultimately forced to admit defeat because he had lost too many points previously and was unable to win the key ko fight.

Next is September 9th - that is, today, the eighth round of the Weiqi League, Pohu will face Qiannan at home.

The two teams were of similar strength, and facing the third from the bottom of the "9776" configuration, Elder Du decided to take a gamble and take all three points from the opponent. He decisively raced and pushed Wei Zhenzhong to the main podium, intending to take all three points through victories on the other three platforms and overtake the opponent in one fell swoop.

Unfortunately... this time the team that was predicted to win was the Pohu team!
The Qiannan team also had a horse race! They put their own 6th dan young player Fu Liangyou on the main stage.

Rui Zhao played against the top player of the Qiannan team, the 26-year-old 9th dan master Man Jiageng, on the first stage of the fast chess table. Although Rui Zhao played very bravely on the fast chess table, he still failed to change his fate of losing again.

Fortunately, young player Wei Zhenzhong, who had not scored in the first six rounds, performed well in this game, defeating his opponent and winning a valuable main victory for the Pohu team. At the same time, thanks to Du Weichen's victory, Pohu finally got two points in a single round for the first time this season.

But Pohu, which only recovered one point, is still two points behind Qiannan, ranking second from the bottom - this is also the purpose of the Qiannan team following the horse race, to ensure that the Pohu team does not overtake in one fell swoop.

The team's star player Rui Zhao suffered eight consecutive defeats against high-level male chess players.

For a while, people inside and outside the Chinese chess circle believed that Rui Zhaoying's outstanding performance in the previous Cup was just pure luck.

Some people even believe that the key to the poor performance of the Pohu team now is that Rui Zhao's position as a main player has been determined.

However, Rui Zhao did not make any comments on this, and worked hard in training and competitions, as usual. On the contrary, Uesaka Rei, who had not been in contact with Rui Zhao for a long time because there was no Women's Go League to be held, was a little entangled.

"What's wrong, Rei-chan? This is...

"A bit worried about Rui Zhao?"

"No, no! Who's worried about her?"

Uesaka Rei reacted rather fiercely and denied it first, then said in a low voice:

"It's just that seeing her keep losing like this... I always feel a little uncomfortable."

"what……"

After hearing this, Ichinose finally understood a little.

It has to be said that since Shang Banli joined the Pohu Women's Team to compete in the Weiqi League, her stability has greatly improved. She achieved 11 wins and 3 losses on the second stage, which is the same as Zhong Wan on the second stage of the Jinfen Team and Wu Yueyun on the second stage of the Dongjiang Team, and second only to the little witch's 14 wins.

The reason why Uesaka Rei has made such progress is partly due to competition training. Another reason is that she has a great role model like Rui Zhao, who has given her a lot of inspiration and reference. This has greatly improved her mentality of being worried about gains and losses in competitions.

But it is precisely because Uesaka is "crossing the river by feeling the way" and seeing her team's main player achieve great results in the Chinese Weiqi League and Yingyi Cup that for Uesaka Rei now, Rui Zhao has a deeper meaning besides the so-called "learning object" and "opponent she hopes to surpass"...

Ichinose Airi came to her senses and pursed her lips, then comforted her:

"Li-chan...

“I think… you can trust Rui Zhao.

"She's the one that the Chess Master said he'd let you defeat in the future! Don't think this mission will be that easy!"

"what……

Hearing this, Uesaka Rei was stunned for a moment, then suddenly became excited. I don't know who she was cheering for:
“Yeah, that’s right!

"Brother Ichijo is already the world runner-up! He thinks that troublesome people must not be so easy to deal with!
"Yeah! This way, Rui Zhao is worth defeating!

"Next time we meet, I will beat her into a crying mess!"

“Uh, that… Li-chan, let me remind you.

"You are in the women's 2 group in the comprehensive preliminaries this time. If nothing goes wrong, you will face Rui Zhao in the second round..."

"…Huh? In the next round?!
"Uh……

"Well, then it won't be too late next time..."

...

...

"Goddess, have you been... okay lately?"

At 11 o'clock in the evening of the same day, at Zeng Guangwen's home in Qiantang City, China.

Zeng Guangwen, who had just finished reviewing a practice game with Rui Zhao, couldn't help but ask.

He had just turned off the live broadcast, so naturally he was not allowed to tell outsiders about business as he was chatting with his master.

Rui Zhao was puzzled when he heard Zeng Shabao's question:
"Hmm? It's pretty good!

"Brother Zeng, why do you ask that?"

"Uh……"

Zeng Guangwen hesitated for a moment and answered truthfully:

"After all... all your domestic competitions have been targeted recently.

“I’m worried… that it might affect the comprehensive preliminaries for the Miao Family Bailing Cup that starts the day after tomorrow.

"Although you are not in the same group with the Ice Queen, there are also Xiao Niao, Sister Xiachuan and Xiao Shangzaka in the group, so you have to be careful..."

——Yes, just as Zeng Guangwen said.

Although it is a qualifying round, because the Miaojia Bailing Cup qualifying round has always adopted the "comprehensive qualifying" model, Rui Zhao will meet foreign chess players in the qualifying round.

The characteristics of this model are: except for the allocation of seeded player places, all other qualifying places are not divided by country. Instead, the chess players registered from various countries and regions are randomly grouped. All participants in the qualifiers gather together to complete the comprehensive qualifying competition, and those who qualify from each group enter the main competition.

For example, this year's Miaojia Bailing Cup has 32 players in total, and five elimination rounds are held. The semifinals and finals are both three-game matches, but the retention time for the final has been increased from two hours to three hours, which is the same as in previous years.

The 32 places for this tournament include 14 seeded players: the top four from the previous tournament, four from mainland China, two each from South Korea and Japan, one from the Taiwan Strait Province of China, and one wild card.

As for the remaining 18 places, a comprehensive preliminaries will be used: a total of 15 open groups (all players can sign up), two women's groups (only female players), and one world group (only players from outside China, Japan and South Korea can sign up).

The characteristic of the "comprehensive pre-selection" system is that the competent will be selected. In the past, South Korea's two world competitions, the Sanshuang Cup and the LIG Cup, both adopted this system, and the Yumeli Lily Cup also followed suit at the beginning. But later, as the strength of Chinese Go became stronger and stronger, it obviously overshadowed Ying and South Korea, and it was often the case that about 90% of the open group quotas were Chinese players. The Sanshuang Cup and the LIG Cup quietly changed the selection system to a system of allocating quotas by country.

The Mengli Lily Company also felt that it was a bit embarrassing to have nearly fifty Chinese chess players out of a 64-person tournament, so they followed suit decisively. As a result, among all the major competitions, only the Miao Family Bailing Cup still has comprehensive preliminaries.

"Ah, Brother Zeng, you're talking about this!"

Rui Zhao smiled in the camera:

“It’s nothing!

“Although, seeing everyone making such targeted moves during the game was quite uncomfortable.

“But there is nothing I can do about it, after all it’s my own fault that I’m not good enough.

"I have always hoped that everyone would target me, hoping to overcome my shortcomings as soon as possible."

“That’s good!

"The Queen has been training so hard, she will surely become a great talent in the future!"

Zeng Guangwen heard this and quickly agreed. But he didn't expect Rui Zhao to add:
"But, if I must say...

"I've been a little troubled lately!"

Rui Zhao blinked and looked at Zeng Guangwen through the camera quite seriously:
“Brother Zeng.

"Have you become weaker recently?"

"Eh?"

Zeng Guangwen was suddenly shocked when he heard this and quickly began to explain.

"Hey hey hey! Don't talk nonsense, Queen! My grades are pretty good recently!
"I made it to the top 32 in the Pinghu Rapid Chess Tournament, and I also made it to the final round of the National Chess Tournament Qualifiers... This is my best result ever!"

"……Yeah?"

Rui Zhao frowned:
"But in recent sparring, I feel like my winning rate is significantly higher...

"A few days ago, it was basically 50-50, but now I feel like my winning rate is more than 60%..."

Zeng Qiduan quickly explained:

"Oh, that's not because I'm weak! That's because you, the Queen, have become stronger!

"You've made significant progress in closing your games recently, so it's no surprise that my winning rate has dropped!"

However, facing the reasons given by Zeng Guangwen, Rui Zhao disagreed and said a little depressedly:

"No way!

"I have lost eight games in a row against high-level male chess players..."

"Oh, my little aunt!

"You can't just keep looking up at the sky every day!"

Rui Zhao's words almost drove Zeng Shabao crazy, and his voice suddenly became a little hysterical:

"Look at the kind of people you've been dealing with recently.
"Every one of them is an 8th or 9th level expert, which one of them is easy to deal with?!
"The only 7th dan player is Lao Geng. I taught him all the tips I learned from playing chess with you, the Queen, and that's how he managed to win by half a point!

"Official games require time to practice!

"Your recent progress may not make much difference in the eyes of top masters of the eighth and ninth dan. They will admit defeat if they can't finish the attack. But to me, it is already a clear difference!

"If you don't believe me, why don't you catch Lao Geng again next time? I think he will definitely kneel... kneel...

"...

"……Eh?!"

Zeng Shabao spoke with saliva flying all over the place, but only when he finished speaking did he suddenly realize that he had just said something extraordinary.

……broken!
He was so excited that he even told Lao Geng about his experience teaching him!

What kind of self-destructive behavior is this!!!

Zeng Guangwen was just thinking about how to explain to his master when he heard the girl's clear voice:
"So this is ah……

"I was wondering why I felt that Geng Qidan played very much like you, Brother Zeng!"

For a moment, Zeng Guangwen broke out in a cold sweat:

“No, no!
"Queen, please listen to my explanation..."

"Hmm? What do you need to explain?"

The girl on the other side of the camera's eyes flickered, and she didn't seem to think anything was wrong:
"Brother Zeng, you are doing very well!

"Knowing that I wanted to be targeted, he even specially helped Geng Qiduan increase the intensity of the targeting! He did a great job!"

"Uh……"

At this moment, Zeng Guangwen didn't know how to react and could only give a dry smile.

If someone else said this, he would definitely think it was sarcastic.

But if it was this sweet, kind-hearted and naive master of his, maybe he really wouldn't be angry at all.

But just as Zeng Guangwen was thinking about how to test his own queen again, the girl's last words came:

“But, although this is a good thing…

"But if your winning rate in sparring remains the same, I will still be troubled..."

"...I, I understand."

Zeng Shabao shuddered subconsciously when he heard this, but he knew that now was not the time to bargain, so he gritted his teeth and said:

“Don’t worry, Queen!

"I will definitely follow the Queen's footsteps and be her punching bag!"

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On September 9, the Miaojia Bailing Cup comprehensive preliminaries ended in Dongjiang City.

In the women's 2 group, although Rui Zhao was doubted by some media in the circle before the game whether she could defeat Liu Yuhong and successfully qualify because of repeated defeats in the unlimited competition, the new "No. " of China still responded to everyone's doubts with her results:
The "Live Broadcast Queen Zhao Tianhou" won consecutive victories over strong domestic and foreign female players such as Uesaka Rei, Xiachuan Aoi, and Liu Yuhong with an almost overwhelming momentum, and entered the Miaojia Bailing Cup main competition to be held in Jinzhu City, Qiannan Province after the National Day holiday.

(End of this chapter)