LOL: Can’t I play other games professionally?

Chapter 318: Qualify with all wins and welcome this competition.

Four days passed in a flash, and the first eight rounds of the qualifiers all came to an end.

Early in the morning of December 12, the final round of the preliminaries kicked off amid widespread attention. Many contestants got up early and braved the cold wind to come to the venue.

On the large wall in front of the outer hall of the venue, the staff of the Go Association specially made a table ranking the points of the first eight rounds and posted it high on the wall for the players to see.

The table is not very large, and it only shows the points of the top 100 players. As for the rest, they had already been eliminated in the first eight rounds.

After nine rounds, only the final fifty-six of the one hundred contestants stood out.

There will still be endless fighting.

"First place goes to Lin Ruo, who won all eight matches. Look at his small score, he's way ahead of second place Yu Yao who has the same record."

"If I beat the opponent into submission every time, how can my accumulated scores not be high?"

"It's okay. He played both games pretty slowly yesterday. I felt like he was letting it go. Of course, it could also be that his opponents are getting stronger as he's had more wins."

Listening to everyone's words, a young man with a stunned expression asked, "By the way, who is Yu Yao?"

According to the rules of meeting each other with the same number of wins, the top two teams with all wins in the final round will inevitably face off, which will undoubtedly be a clash of titans.

Of course, it is also possible that it will still be a one-sided beating. After all, in the minds of the young players who are trying to get a dan, Lin Ruo's strength has already exceeded the scope of being a dan.

He should be participating in the World Series, not this so-called small qualifying tournament.

"He's the grandson of so-and-so, a 20th-dan Go player. I don't know the others. If you search for th-dan Go players with the surname Yu in the th century, you'll probably find out."

"It must be poisonous. Who has time to search for it?"

...

"Why are they all talking about Lin Ruo? I've won all eight battles."

Lying on the sofa outside the venue, Wu Yiming, who didn't tie her hair into a bun today, was quite complaining.

Yu Yao next to him smiled and said, "You're not in the men's group, why are they discussing you?"

They both belong to the Hangzhou branch of the Chinese Go Academy. This time, there are many young players from the Hangzhou branch who came out to participate in the qualifying tournament.

"Brother, you can't beat Lin Ruo. He is a very scary person." Wu Yiming said the truth.

"It doesn't matter. There are more than one spots available for professional qualification." Yu Yao, who just turned 15, is in a good mood.

Of course, this mentality stems from realistic considerations.

Although both of them have won all eight games, the score difference is too big, which is enough to judge that the gap between them is also very large.

After tidying up, Yu Yao walked into the venue. There was still half an hour before the game started. Sitting at table number five, which belonged to him, was a girl with a low ponytail.

Zhang Ruo was saying excitedly, "I'm telling you, there's no way I'll run into Wu Yiming today."

"why?"

"Because I was already defeated by her in the eighth round yesterday, there's no way we'll meet her today because of the inconsistent wins."

Lin Ruo responded casually. This joke was actually not funny at all.

"Did you advance?"

"No."

"Then you're still in the mood to joke around here." Lin Ruo was completely confused. When did his National Games partner have such a good attitude?

"I came to see you because I haven't advanced yet." Zhang Ruo said helplessly.

Because Lin Ruo was too calm, she would also habitually calm down when standing next to him.

"Okay, wish me good luck." Seeing that there were only 15 minutes left before the game, Zhang Ruo got up and went to look for his own game table.

After returning from the toilet, Yuyao took his own seat in the battle seat.

As Wu Yiming's senior, the two had met in the first round of the preliminaries, so they exchanged a brief greeting and then waited for the competition to begin.

Time passed quickly, and the referee looked at his watch and started the game after confirming the time.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the last round of the preliminaries officially began.

Lin Ruo reached into the chess box as usual, took out a white piece nearby and held it in his palm.

Yuyao, who knew the situation well, casually took out three chess pieces, guessed the odd number correctly, and played black first.

After a smooth start, Lin Ruo took the initiative to start the battle with a flying pressure in the lower right corner in the eighth move.

Black chess breaks through.

The white chess piece continued to press forward, and with a sharp move, the black chess piece flew straight down and split into two pieces.

Yuyao immediately realized the big problem. If these two pieces were not handled properly, White would gain a huge advantage in less than 20 moves.

Today's opponent came on very aggressively, but fortunately he had studied the chess formation and chose to fly directly behind the previous white chess piece.

White chess piece supports downwards, and black chess piece follows and blocks.

The white pieces blocked, and Lin Ruo temporarily took the initiative, but at the same time, it also allowed the black pieces to move thicker in the corner.

In the 30th move, White moves out, and the goal is still to fight a decisive battle in the right area, especially in the lower corner.

Black followed with a charge.

Lin Ruo calmly counterattacked and captured one of the black pieces, and then continued to capture upwards.

Black can only connect.

Lin Ruo plays the second move to fill the gap above and below.

Yu Yao captured a piece in the lower right corner, but looking at the situation on the field, he couldn't help but frown.

Although the corner area survived, the outer area fell into the control of the white chess pieces.

"What a strong offensive planning ability." Yu Yao sighed inwardly. Just from the tactic of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west, and achieving the goal in one battle, he was dumbfounded.

The two people's thinking and layout concepts were clearly on different levels. Yu Yao couldn't help scratching his head, and fell into a long period of contemplation.

See this scene.

The two referees patrolling the match subconsciously came over to admire the contest between the two undefeated winners.

The battlefield of both sides is concentrated on the right side. Almost all the black pieces are retreating to the edges and corners. Their sense of position is very poor. Even in the corners, there is still a possibility for the white pieces to fly.

After flying and then pulling back, even if the black chess piece can be clamped, it still cannot stop the white chess piece from playing a cool and worry-free capture.

There is a great risk that the black pieces will be completely eaten up, and the situation is quite grim.

So what's next?
While the two referees were thinking, they couldn't help but look forward to Yu Yao's subsequent response.

A black chess piece was picked out of the chess box. Yu Yao held it and stood up the next moment.

"You want to go to the bathroom?"

"No."

Yuyao chose to place the chess piece casually on the side of the chessboard: "I give up."

He doesn't play anymore.

When you meet an opponent who can see the gap in your subconscious, continuing is like an egg hitting a stone.

He was in no mood to continue admiring the superb skills his opponent could display in front of him, let alone learn from them, because sometimes you couldn't even understand the other person's layout.

What you should do at this time is to stay as far away from your opponent as possible, the farther the better.

The two referees were very disappointed upon seeing this. They didn't see any exciting points in the game, and the decisive battle with the highest score came to an abrupt end.

Fast, too fast.

It’s not even fifty hands yet.

The surroundings were once again drawn to attention. For the young men striving for the dan level, this situation was no longer so surprising.

When they met Lin Ruo, everyone had the same idea in their hearts: to end the torture as soon as possible and not to struggle at all.

The more you struggle, the more likely they are to be with you like a pervert. Instead, they will simply knock down your winning rate line until it becomes a straight line with no ups and downs until it lies flat.

"Thank you for your advice." After the referee confirmed the result, Lin Ruo lowered his head and put away the chessboard.

The end of the game means that he will be the only one in the preliminaries among the junior men's group to achieve a perfect record and qualify.

Yu Yao on the other side put his hands on his hips and sighed, then responded.

In the past, the ranking tournaments were mostly a battle between many strong teams, or at worst one super team and many strong teams. However, this year's ranking tournament was different. It was like a scene of adults playing with children.

Except for this undefeated one, they are all children, and can also be called younger brothers.

...

Lin Ruo walked out and sat quietly on the sofa outside the venue. As time passed, more and more people walked out, some with frustration, some with excitement, and everyone had a different expression.

But it is foreseeable that most people's expressions tend towards the former.

This is just the qualifying round.

And this qualifying round has already eliminated most of the people.

At 12 noon, all the competitions came to an end. A total of more than one hundred contestants in the four groups finally reached the threshold of this competition.

Those who want to become professional chess players will have three days to adjust and prepare before continuing the more brutal competition in the main tournament.

Three days later, the rematch of this competition is about to begin.

"I tell you, it was not easy. I almost thought I was going to lose." Zhang Ruo, who came out, kept wiping the sweat off his face with a tissue.

Lin Ruo often teased: "You think you're going to lose after just one preliminaries? That's it, how are you going to play in the main competition?"

Hu Peng was shocked when he heard this.

Don’t say that. My disciple has a very bad mentality and will collapse if you say that.

But when he saw Zhang Ruo laughing from ear to ear, Hu Peng knew he was overthinking it.

If it were anyone else, their mentality would definitely collapse, but Lin Ruo really couldn't.

Well, there are still differences in the influence between people.

Everything a strong and handsome person says is a joke.

Everyone did not leave immediately after the game because the chess association would announce the group rankings for the next stage, which is the rematch, in advance.

This is also equivalent to giving the competing players some opportunities to study their opponents.

Of course, this possibility is very small.

Because you may only know your opponent's name, and you don't even know what he looks like.

Unless the opponent is the favorite in this qualifying tournament, but is it necessary to study the favorite?

"Oh my god, why am I in the same group with the God of Killing?"

As soon as the list came out, many young men who were striving for the promotion showed expressions of despair.

Especially the seventh group.

The name at the top of the list is Lin Ruo...

The other three people in the same group can only fight for the second place in the group.

Lin Ruo took a quick look and didn't recognize any of them, so he didn't care much.

Zhang Ruo was carefully memorizing her opponents on her mobile phone. She was lucky today as she had played against two of the three opponents in the same group in the preliminaries.

In the next three days, she would review the chess games they had played against each other in order to study her opponent.

(End of this chapter)