Go: Is the portable old man the nine-time champion?

Chapter 126 National Youth Team

“Welcome everyone to the National Junior Team. Well, this year there are many familiar faces, as well as some newcomers joining our team.

Although I guess many people are already familiar with me, I will still introduce myself as usual. I am Feng Yuhang, the coach of the national youth team. I hope you can give me your guidance in the future.

On behalf of the Chinese Go Academy and the Chinese national team, I welcome everyone here. I also hope that everyone can achieve good results in various competitions this year and in the future, and win glory for Chinese Go."

Listening to coach Feng Yuhang's words in the room, the teenagers sitting below burst into sparse applause.

There are a total of twenty-four people in the national youth team, which can be said to be an extremely small number, and may even be less than the number of small classes in some chess academies.

But gathered here are the youngest new forces in China, the most elite chess players under the age of eighteen.

Yi Zheng also clapped mechanically from below. He knew the coach above. He was the coach who led the team to participate in the Qinglong Cup before. Unexpectedly, he was also the coach of the national youth team.

Although Feng Yuhang did not win the title that year, he was also a chess player of the seventh dan rank, which could be said to be the pinnacle of normal chess players.

Because according to China's promotion system, without major honors, the highest level you can reach is seventh dan.

Feng Yuhang is 36 years old this year and has begun to gradually withdraw from the professional chess world. Since last year, he has applied for the coaching position of the national youth team and started to serve in training the next generation.

Of course, there is more than one coach for the national youth team. They often find some strong senior coaches to teach small classes, and people from the national team will also provide guidance for the players of the national youth team.

It can be said that the resources that countless young people who are striving for the championship dream of and even cannot find even with money are just daily courses for the members of the national youth team.

Because they are the hope of China's new generation, they also receive the greatest resources.

Training an athlete has always been like this: allocate resources, give opportunities, seize the opportunities, and then soar to the sky.

As for the national team, we can only say that they themselves are the biggest resource, and the coach cannot help them too much, or the coach’s current level is not as good as many of theirs.

So they can only conduct concentrated research, self-training, and seek breakthroughs on their own.

It is an old tradition that the teacher talks at the front and the students talk at the back. Even in the national youth team, it is no exception, especially when the teacher is talking nonsense.

Feng Yuhang was explaining precautions to everyone on the stage, and some young people in the audience were whispering to each other and passing on some gossip they had received.

"I heard that this year we'll have mentoring sessions, with 24 national team members mentoring us one-on-one."

"That's great! You said it would be great if I had a title to guide me. If the chess master Jiang Mobai could guide me personally, damn! I'd be rich then!"

"You're overthinking it. People like them have less time, with all the competitions, training, and activities. They're not as good as the ordinary national team members who have more time and can learn more."

“Not as good as AlphaGo.”

After hearing Jiang Hu's words, many people around fell silent. Jiang Hu was now simply the number one AlphaGo braggart, and he couldn't stop talking about AlphaGo.

Although everyone knows that he is powerful, he is elusive and cannot be our teacher, so what use is he?

No matter how much you praise him, he won't teach you anything.

Even Yi Zheng didn't know what to say. He had never imagined someone would actually pose a threat to him. Because this guy called Jianghu had praised Mr. Ke so harshly, Yi Zheng was worried that the effect of his flattery would be greatly reduced. How could he "motivate" Mr. Ke to voluntarily work overtime and teach for free?

Yi Zheng couldn't help but shake his head: "Even such a niche track has its tickets taken away, ah!"

"Okay, everyone, be quiet for a moment, we are about to start formal classes today.

The training camp for our national youth team is actually very simple. One is for everyone to discuss the latest current affairs together, and the other is team training.

"In the morning, we have a focused discussion, and in the afternoon, we have circuit training. We work six days a week and rest one day. If we have a competition, we can ask for leave. No! When you were young men trying to get promoted, you had it much harder than this. You were able to make it through then, so why can't you do it now?"

Feng Yuhang clapped his hands. "I think many of you have already seen the chess game we are studying today, and you may even be very familiar with it. After all, I heard a classmate bragging about the player in the game being invincible.

And today we may have to discuss a very sensitive topic. Look at what I have displayed. This is a game between our country's chess master Jiang Mobai and the online chess god AlphaGo more than half a month ago.

Since AlphaGo debuted, and in the past three games, there's one play that's very classic, and also something that's hard for people to accept: the three-three play."

To be honest, many professional players cannot accept Point 33. After all, this kind of thing is completely contrary to the education they received since childhood.

However, among AlphaGo's chess records, the three-three move may be the most intuitive and barely acceptable one. Some other moves simply make people feel illogical and incomprehensible.

Some even said that AlphaGo was simply too powerful. It was wrong at the beginning and was even at a huge disadvantage. It was only in the middle game that the gap in strength was overcome.

However, this statement obviously will not convince many people. After all, if it really collapsed like that, it would take a very strong force to save it.

Therefore, many professionals have begun to study AlphaGo's chess records and its openings.

After entering the professional arena, Yi Zheng also called out many triple threes, but not many people paid attention to him and just regarded him as a weird teenager.

However, when AlphaGo clicked 33, many people had to study it and felt that this move was still possible.

Well, everyone only believes what the strong say.

The same words spoken by two people of different identities and statuses will have completely different effects.

But Feng Yuhang suddenly smiled mysteriously: "However, I think many people don't know that this three-three strategy did not first appear in AlphaGo's chess records, but was first played by one of the players present here many years ago.

It’s just that he was rejected by many people at that time, but he always remained firm in his ideas, and now he has finally begun to gain professional recognition.

Let's welcome Yi Zheng, our new national team player this year. Would you mind sharing your thoughts and giving us some advice?

Hearing what Feng Yuhang said, the national youth team couldn't help but focus their attention on Yi Zheng who was sitting on the side.

No one expected that the move of clicking three times three was not originally created by AlphaGo, but was made by his teammates?

As the first AlphaGo fan, Jianghu also widened his eyes and looked at this new beginner that he was not familiar with.

Point 33 wasn't made by AlphaGo first?!

(End of this chapter)