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

Chapter 166 The Person Behind Me [Fifth Update, Requesting Monthly Tickets!]

"Is he Yi Zheng?"

Beside him, a young white man watched Yi Zheng, who was speaking eloquently during the interview, and asked the coach next to him a question.

Upon hearing this, Benjamin, the coach leading the American youth team, nodded: "It's him. He's the most promising young chess player emerging from China this year, and he's already become a key player in our national team."

The Alica national team pays close attention to some promising young Chinese chess players, and has a dedicated research team to analyze game records and styles, and generate analysis reports.

The "Three Musketeers" have been a focus of the Aliza national team since they were very young a few years ago.

The same applies to China, which also focuses on analyzing other countries, especially emerging competitors like Alicia.

Some even joked that both sides knew more about each other's talent pool than the other side did.

However, the problem is that Yi Zheng emerged a bit too quickly. After becoming a professional, he quickly skyrocketed in his career, as if he had popped out of a rock.

If the upward curve of a normal person is around 45 degrees, then that of a genius is 70 or 80 degrees.

The rising curve of Yi Zheng is no longer visible because it is now parallel to the y-axis.

"The game records you showed me were interesting. His extended ideas about the moves AlphaGo made were very interesting."

The young man was none other than Ethan, whom Amelika was hailed as the most likely future world number one Go player.

"If the difference in strength wasn't so great, I would suspect that he was AlphaGo."

Ethan felt terrible thinking about how the mysterious AlphaGo had appeared during his last match, and how he had missed the chance to face that guy.

Despite AlphaGo's numerous consecutive victories online, Ethan still felt that he might have a chance to beat it.

Although AlphaGo is powerful, it is not powerful enough to completely overwhelm everyone. Based on my analysis offline, I can still see that it made mistakes in the middle game.

However, even Kuroki Teruto and his group failed to catch him. If it were me! If it were me, I might be able to find their weakness!

And that Lee Jun-hyuk!
Thinking about this, Ethan felt a surge of negative emotions.

Because of a challenge, Li Junhe suddenly felt like he had taken some kind of tonic and experienced a sudden burst of energy, which stunned Ethan.

This directly led to the loss of a World Cup title.

A World Cup champion!

Many people, even those ranked among the top in the world, never achieve this honor in their entire lives.

They won when they had the best chance, the most likely chance, and even the chance to break the record, but in the end, they were just one step short and were overturned.

After the match, Ethan hid in a dark room and remained withdrawn for several days before finally emerging. Even when he did emerge, his resentment was palpable.

"That damned AlphaGo!"

Meanwhile, Old Ke, who was still hopping around, suddenly sneezed again: "What's going on! I've been sneezing non-stop for the past few days, and there's no such thing as ghosts catching colds in novels or movies! It's a ghost!"

Seeing that Ethan didn't look too good, Coach Benjamin asked with concern, "Why don't you go back and rest for a bit?"

Ethan's form has been poor since the World Cup final. After all, it's inevitable that a young man's initial burst of energy being interrupted halfway through will have some lingering effects.

Fortunately, Ethan was the last to appear in this ring match. Even if the Central European Vanguard defeated everyone, Ethan would not appear until the final stage.

That would be six months from now; it's impossible for Ethan not to have recovered by then.

Ethan waved his hand upon hearing this, "No rush, I'll go and meet this little guy." In Ethan's eyes, Yi Zheng was indeed a little guy in his presence.

This applies to both skill level and age.

Theoretically speaking, Ethan is only three years older than Yi Zheng, but in the context of Go, three years is almost a generation apart.

So in Ethan's eyes, Yi Zheng was just a newcomer who had just started out, but since he had said such arrogant words, he naturally had to suppress his arrogance.

Seeing the white youth walking towards him, Miao Jun remembered that Yi Zheng had never seen Ethan before, and said in a low voice, "This is Ethan."

Yi Zheng glanced at the white youth in front of him.

"Tall and robust, blond hair and blue eyes, well-defined features, sharp eyes, and a strong physique."

Of course, this is Mr. Ke's voiceover.

However, it must be said that Go players seem to be quite tall, especially the men.

Yi Zheng's height has also increased dramatically this year, and he has now reached 1.85 meters. The other members of the Chinese youth team are also basically over 1.8 meters tall, with only Miao Jun being slightly shorter.

However, Ethan is about 1.9 meters tall, which is considered very tall even for athletes in other sports.

Ethan walked over and stared at Yi Zheng, whom he had never seen before, but he just stared without saying a word, because he was waiting for Yi Zheng to speak first.

In his view, Yi Zheng was also staring at him without saying a word. This was a contest of their momentum since their first meeting, and whoever lost their composure first would lose.

"Nice to meet you?"

Yi Zheng looked at Ethan, who was staring at him without saying a word, and after a moment of silence, he tentatively asked a question.

Why did you walk towards me without saying anything? Don't you speak Chinese?

Ethan's lips twitched involuntarily when he heard this, because although Yi Zheng spoke first, he felt that the other party was looking at him strangely.

It wasn't a normal look in their eyes, it was more like...

However, Ethan maintained excellent facial expression control, keeping a serious expression: "You're very good. I've always cared about the people behind me. In the past year, your performance has been no less than that of the Three Musketeers. I hope you can bring me some surprises."

Ethan's Chinese was not particularly fluent compared to the Asian contestants, and his accent was quite heavy, but it was still understandable.

Yi Zheng laughed and said, "The person behind you? Who's behind whom is still uncertain. You think I'm behind you, but maybe you're going the wrong way?"

“You young people are all so confident. The three musketeers behind you were just as confident back then, but I think they aren’t as confident now.”

Ethan felt a great sense of accomplishment in defeating these geniuses, and it was also a psychological tactic to plant a seed in the minds of his opponents.

A seed of fear of oneself.

So as the seed keeps sprouting, their fear of themselves grows stronger and stronger, and they become increasingly unable to overcome themselves.

Ethan: "You are the vanguard, I hope you can meet me. After this, you will revere me like a god."

Old Ke: "Menstrual disorders."

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