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

Chapter 141 Asian Cup Qualifiers

"Braised pork."

"Scrambled eggs with tomatoes."

“Stir-fried pork with peppers.”

Hot and sour shredded potatoes.

"Ants climbing a tree".

"rack of lamb."

"Here comes the chicken soup!"

After Wenxiao placed the last chicken soup on the table, she urged the people sitting at the table to eat quickly: "Eat, why aren't you eating?"

"The food will get cold if we don't eat soon. We're in your house, why are you being so formal? There are just a few of us, so I only cooked a simple meal. Please don't mind."

"No, I just feel once again that Yi Zheng deserves to die! He should have been sent to the national highway tonight."

Looking at the abundant dishes on the table, Shi Yuhan shook her head helplessly, her heart filled with resentment.

She's a strong chess player, beautiful, a good cook, and seems to have a good temper.

It's only because he's my good brother that I have to say: He deserves to die! Yi Zheng!

Thinking of this, Shi Yuhan angrily downed the entire disposable plastic cup of cola in one gulp! The cola stung her throat!
Jianghu and many others around them couldn't help but nod in agreement.

Although the two are a perfect match, what does it have to do with me if I have a problem with them?

Why didn't your best friend come?

Seeing that Wen Xiao was the only girl in the room, Yi Zheng couldn't help but ask. To prevent Wen Xiao from feeling awkward, Yi Zheng had specifically asked her to bring Dilidar along, but she didn't come.

Upon hearing this, Wenxiao tucked her hair behind her ear and shook her head: "She said she finally arrived in Lin'an and wanted to stroll around the streets to see if she could bump into AlphaGo."

Wen Xiao couldn't help but shake her head as she spoke. AlphaGo has never appeared in real life, so no one knows what it looks like. Even if you actually bump into it on the street, you would just pass by and not know it's it.

Because AlphaGo appeared in Lin'an twice, many people believe that he is a reclusive master living in Lin'an.

However, Yi Zheng could only laugh awkwardly when he heard this. The AlphaGo that Dilidar wanted to run into was currently watching a TV series in his room, and the other party had made a completely opposite choice.

Even setting aside the possibility of passing each other without recognizing each other, even if they did recognize each other, Dilidar wouldn't be able to see Professor Kelvin at all.

send.

Yi Zheng couldn't help but shake his head; Dilidar's expectation could only remain in the beautiful fantasies of her teenage years.

At this moment, Miao Jun raised his glass and said, "Okay, let's all raise a glass. It's fate that we're here. Let's cheer for the upcoming Asian Cup qualifiers!"

"Okay! Keep it up!"

"come on!"

Miao Jun's words also revealed the reason why everyone had gathered in Lin'an. It certainly wasn't just for a meal; the Asian Cup preliminary rounds, one of the nine major tournaments, were about to be held there. Not only Chinese professional Go players, but also talented and promising professional players from all over Asia would be coming together to compete for a ticket to the main tournament.

The nine major tournaments are the domestic Chess Saint Tournament, the National Games and the National Championships, the Asian Games, the Asian Championships and the Asian Cup in Asia, and the world-class Olympic Games, the World Championships and the World Cup.

The domestic Chess Saint Tournament is divided into several title zones, and anyone can register to participate. The National Games allocates participants according to the quota of each province, while the National Championship selects the top 32 players based on their rating.

However, the entry requirements rise sharply when it comes to competitions in Asia and even worldwide.

The Asian Games and the Olympics are held every four years, with teams competing on a national basis. China only has two spots for individual events, meaning that only two people can participate in each Games, making the competition extremely fierce.

The Asian Championships and World Championships are slightly better, as they are held every year, but the Chinese National Individual Championships also only have five slots, making the competition extremely fierce.

The World Cup has a total of 32 main tournament slots. Two of these slots are given to the previous year's champions and runners-up, while the remaining slots are distributed among the world's major Go-playing countries. Sixteen of these slots are seeded, and the remaining fourteen are then distributed among the four continents in a 5-4-4-1 ratio.

There are only five qualifying spots for the entire Asian region, making it extremely difficult to secure either a seeded spot or a general qualifying spot.

However, the Asian Cup is much better. Although it is held every two years, there are a total of 64 spots in the main tournament.

Similarly, the two seeded spots from the previous champion and runner-up were allocated to 32 seeded spots for Asian countries, but the remaining 30 spots could be used for a comprehensive preliminary selection.

The so-called comprehensive preliminary selection is to divide everyone into thirty groups regardless of nationality or gender to compete, and whoever can advance from their group will get a spot.

This is undoubtedly a major piece of good news for Chinese chess players.

It's very simple. China has eight seeded players, which is more than enough to cover all the title holders. For players from countries like Japan, South Korea, and India, who don't have seeded players, very few can stand out in the overall selection process.

Therefore, in each Asian Cup, there are 30 qualifying spots, and Chinese players will not only sweep them all, but they will at least get 20.

Therefore, compared to other world-class competitions, the Asian Cup has the lowest difficulty level for Chinese players to enter the main tournament.

"However, luck plays a big part in these preliminary rounds! You have no idea, last time they put me, Qi Ling, and Lao Deng all together, and it was a hellish group!"
But Old Chen, he's actually the strongest in the group! The rest are all newbies, isn't that ridiculous? Sometimes luck is just too important!

Miao Jun started complaining while drinking his cola. He still remembered that he failed to qualify for the Asian Cup two years ago.

Yi Zheng shook his head in disagreement: "Luck is important, but strength is more important. As long as you are strong enough, you can fight your way out of any group."

The "death group" thing is just an excuse for not being strong enough. As long as I'm strong enough, there's nothing I can't overcome!

"Sigh, someone sent a message saying the preliminary round group assignments have been released!"

Shi Yuhan heard her phone ring once and saw that it was a message from Xiong Chong. She quickly said something to the group of people who were eating.

Although Shi Yuhan knew she had no hope of making it, the preliminary round was being held in her hometown, and everyone had already signed up, so she figured she might as well come all this way.

"It's not clear on the phone, let's use the computer in the room!"

There were just too many people in the qualifiers, so even though they were divided into thirty groups, each group was still full. The pictures and names on the phone were so blurry that they were almost impossible to see.

So, Mr. Ke, who was watching TV in his room, was completely bewildered as his drama was interrupted, and a group of people gathered around the computer and started shouting.

"No! I'm really getting to the exciting part!"

(End of this chapter)