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

"Wen Jie, although I expected that Ni Jue would gradually start to move after this surgery...

"But this is too immediate, isn't it?!"

April 4th is the day after the Tianyuan Tournament ends.

Shang Chaotian, Chairman of the Chinese Chess Association, who had just awarded prizes to his students yesterday and was strolling around Tongli Town, Suzhou Province today, could not help but complain to his deputy over the phone:
"Last year, Xiao Lei lost two games cleanly without any flying knives. This year, Ni Jue lost two games cleanly again without any flying knives...

"This Tianyuan battle was too bland. Mr. Huang even called me last night to express his disappointment!

"It's only because the celebrity three-game match was so exciting, otherwise I wouldn't know how to explain it..."

"Uh, Brother Tian...

"If you ask Ni Jue directly and he refuses to tell you the reason, how would I know?"

Lu Wenjie on the other end of the phone seemed a little helpless:

"But, in fact, I think that we don't need to pay too much attention to this matter. After all, it's already in the past...

"In fact, the focus of this Tianyuan Tournament is on the older chess fans. The younger ones are all paying attention to the wild cards for the Spring Orchid Cup...

"By the way, Brother Tian, ​​for the first round of the Spring Orchid Cup...do you think we should let the contestants draw lots on the spot?
"The day after tomorrow is the welcome dinner, we have to confirm it now."

"..."

Hearing this, Shang Chaotian's expression became a little out of control.

Indeed, although in the professional circle, the fact that Ni Jue easily handed over the title of "Tianyuan" seems to be the number one topic at the moment.

But in fact, judging from the situation in major Go forums and even comprehensive online communities, the fact that Rui Zhao got the Spring Orchid wildcard caused an uproar.

Although a number of prognosticators had predicted that the wild card would be given to Rui Zhao 4% of the time after the Spring Orchid Cup announced that it would have a wild card, when the Spring Orchid Cup organizing committee officially announced the list of participants on April 4, the confirmation of Hua Xia Zhaojun's inclusion still caused great controversy.

As for what the controversy is about... we can only say that there are angles in all directions, and many of the angles are so tricky that even the two leaders of the Chess Association were amazed.

Moreover, it is just controversial.

What is even more troublesome is that in this Chunzhilan Cup, both the Chess Association and the Chunzhilan Group had intended to arrange a European or American friend to play for Queen Zhaotian in the first round, just like the previous Mengli Lily Cup, so as to avoid the extremely embarrassing situation of Rui Zhao getting the wild card given as an exception and being eliminated in the first round.

Unfortunately...the haters had already predicted the Chess Association's plan.

After the list of participants was announced, the black fans who had vowed that "the wild card would definitely go to Rui Zhao" were suddenly excited. Many of them immediately made the next prediction based on some of Queen Zhao's past world championship experiences:
In order to prevent this wild card from being given too stupidly, the Chess Association will definitely arrange an internal draw for Rui Zhao in the first round, allowing her to face European and American players or Seo Koji, who she has defeated once before, so that she will not be defeated miserably in the first round and will save face.

Soon, this extremely accurate "conspiracy theory" quickly fermented in public opinion, and almost all Zhaohei said with certainty that this time the competition would definitely not be an open draw on the spot, which suddenly posed a huge public opinion risk to the original arrangement of the Chess Association.

There is something to be said about the fact that the selection was predicted by others - after all, Rui Zhao is the real Nongshim Cup terminator, so it is reasonable for him to be invited by a foreign card.

But if the lottery method was predicted so far in advance... that would be extremely embarrassing!
“…Let’s just draw it on the spot!
"Be as transparent as possible. If you have chosen to leave everything to fate, then don't let anyone talk about it."

After two seconds of silence, Shang Chaotian made his final choice.

Only then did he understand what it meant to say, "Some things don't weigh as much as 10 grams if they are not weighed, but if they are weighed, they weigh as much as 1,000 pounds."

The organizer's appropriate arrangements for the first round of games have existed to a greater or lesser extent in the professional Go circle in the past.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with this - Go is a niche sport, and arranging matches to highlight the focus or letting the "publicity horse" go a little further is very beneficial for the promotion of the event, and players in the circle basically acquiesce to the existence of such a situation.

But the problem now is that when the chess association and sponsors did this kind of small operation, no one paid attention to it at all, so it didn't matter at all.

However, Rui Zhao is now a well-known celebrity! Countless eyes are on her!

If this kind of dishonorable little action at this time causes public opinion, not to mention the chess and card center, even the General Administration may intervene!

Shang Chaotian, who has been working as the chairman of the chess association for some years, naturally understands the pros and cons, so he decided to do things honestly.

"Okay, I understand!"

Seeing that the top leader had made the final decision, Lu Wenjie on the other end of the phone responded immediately.

However, hearing Shang Chaotian's tone seemed very helpless, the vice chairman of the chess association still comforted him:

"Brother Tian, ​​don't be so depressed! Actually, it's not that difficult for Rui Zhao to get a first-round pick this time!
“Just think about it, the strongest opponent she could draw is none other than Park Min Yeol!
"But the problem is...

"It's still unknown whether she or Park Min Yeol is afraid of being picked!"

"……hiss……"

Hearing his deputy's reminder, Shang Chaotian couldn't help but blink his eyes, and then took a tactical breath:

"If you say so...

“…It seems to be true!”

...

...

"Open lottery?!

"No, how can we do this!" "Wouldn't it be better for the Chinese Chess Association to arrange a European or American match for that little girl, just like they did in the Lily Cup in my dream last time?!"

At 4 pm on April 11, Hailing Hotel, Hailing City, Suzhou Province, China.

Park Min-yeol, who had just arrived at the hotel after a long journey, couldn't help but complain when he learned from Zhao Libo that the first round of matches would be determined by the chess players drawing lots on stage at tomorrow's welcome dinner.

This slightly exaggerated move soon aroused the suspicion of the "newcomer chess player" An Mingjiao.

"Uh, Min Yeol...

"What's wrong with you?"

When Park Min-yeol was asked this question, his mouth twitched, and he immediately put on a slightly PTSD expression:
“N-Nevermind!
"I just don't want to draw that Queen Zhaotian..."

But upon hearing this, Xu Xiangheng, the runner-up of the previous Spring Orchid Cup, couldn't help but laugh:

"Ah? Min Yeol, are you kidding?
"You're not afraid of being picked by Dai Ran, Ji Qiujuan, Zhu Yuanjun, these Chinese masters, but you're afraid of a little girl?

"Can you do it?"

"..."

Faced with Xu Xiangheng's ridicule, Da Pu was speechless.

Since the Spring Orchid Cup is a world championship for 24 players, eight seeded players have byes in the first round.

Last year's champion and runner-up Liu Shixian and Xu Xiangheng will definitely be seeded. The remaining six seeds will be determined by comprehensively considering recent achievements, grade ranking and nationality factors, and will finally be Lei Qi, Lin Ruixin, Li Tingyan, Ichijo Takuya, Sun Yi and Xiong Siyi.

As a result, China's Dai Ran, Ji Qiujuan, Zhu Yuanjun, Man Jiageng and Rui Zhao will need to compete in the first round, among which Dai, Ji and Zhu are obviously the most difficult to deal with.

But to be honest, for Da Pu, compared to these three, he really doesn't want to draw Rui Zhao!

This is certainly not a question of strength - in terms of slow chess strength, Rui Zhao couldn't even beat Jin Youen in December last year, and he was also firmly suppressed by Shangguan Sheng and Dai Ran in the recent Yixian Tournament and Tianyuan Tournament. Da Pu thinks that he has a greater chance of winning when playing slow chess!

But the problem is, some things... he didn't say that we only need to consider strength!
Park Min-yeol has always been indifferent to life and death when playing chess, and will fight if he doesn't agree.

So although some chess moves may be easy to make, when you are in the right mood, you may still win even if your opponent is Liu Shixian!

Because of this, he doesn't really care about drawing a strong opponent.

——No matter how strong you are, can you be stronger than Young Master Liu? It's over when you get down!
However, the legendary man who had always been fearless had just encountered an accident...

That is Rui Zhao!
The public opinion pressure and psychological impact of losing to Rui Zhao were really too great!!

Although it may seem a bit embarrassing to lose to some other lower-level players, in the game of Go, one wrong move can lead to the whole game being ruined, so it is normal for high-level players to fail occasionally.

Da Pu usually doesn't need to comfort himself, he can just act as if nothing happened!
However, Rui Zhao is different...

As a female chess player, she is not only very capable but also very popular!

Any defeat of a high-level chess player against her will easily be magnified exponentially by the media!
For example, the former Japanese celebrity Xiao Naofu almost committed hara-kata after losing a game to Zhao Tianhou! After that, he was in a slump for half a year!

Even though Da Pu had good psychological qualities, he was still ridiculed by the domestic media for a long time because of his historical record of 0-2 against Rui Zhao. The ridicule was not over even after a month, and he was really embarrassed.

So even though he believed that he was still stronger than Hua Xia Zhaojun, he really didn't want to take the risk of fighting Rui Zhao again this time - if he lost again, he would probably be so depressed that he would retire on the spot!

But just when Da Pu was feeling embarrassed, Li Tingyan at the side decisively smoothed things over:

“Uh, Sangheng. I think it’s okay for Min Yeol to have this reaction.

"This Rui Zhao isn't very strong, but he does put a lot of psychological pressure on people...

"I heard that Fu Yu from China has been at home adjusting his mentality after losing to Rui Zhao in the relegation battle, and he didn't even participate in the Tianyuan Tournament preliminaries. It's not surprising that Min Lie has this idea..."

"...Eh? Brother Li, you..."

"That! I agree with Ting Yan too!"

Seeing that Xu Xiangheng still had some ideas, the veteran "Brother Hammer" Wencheng Zhen also expressed his support:

"If possible, I don't really want to draw her - the off-court pressure is too great, and it would be a big mess if I lose a game!

"Xiao Liu, I guess you have an opinion too, right?"

"……ah?!!!"

After hearing this, Xu Xiangheng suddenly realized something.

--broken!
I seem to have entered Queen Zhaotian’s fermented bean curd den!

This time, a total of seven South Koreans came to China to participate in the competition. As a result, four of them, Liu, Li, Park, and Wen, had been defeated by Queen Zhaotian - and they were all world champions!

It’s not even as simple as these four having lost to Queen Zhaotian... None of these four has a positive record against Queen Zhaotian!

Even Liu Shixian, the world's number one, only tied Rui Zhao 1-1! The other three had not won a single match!
Just now, his slightly sarcastic words were just about Da Pu who is younger than him!
Liu, Li Wen and the other two are either very good at chess or have a lot of experience. He has no right to mock them!
However, just when Xu Xiangheng himself became the one who felt embarrassed, Young Master Liu, who was cueed by Wen Chengzhen, looked up and smiled:

"...Hmm? Are you stressed?
"I think she's pretty cute. I really want to meet her again." (End of this chapter)