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

Chapter 232 Net Worth
"I was surprised to find that each match is held in a separate hall. I thought they were all held in one large hall."

Looking at the competition venues planned in the manual, Yi Zheng couldn't help but say that their match against England would be in the Bailing Hall, and the sixteen teams would play eight matches in eight different halls.

This would definitely make the whole place much quieter. After all, if there are many people, there will inevitably be all sorts of noise. A small sound from one person may not affect many people, but if the sounds accumulate, they will create a lot of noise.

"If everyone is together, there will be too many people. After the competition, we will go to a fan meeting. Our team has quite a few fans."

Yun Linglei said that many chess fans from all over the world have gathered here. After all, the opening ceremony can be said to be the most complete gathering than the playoffs. All sixteen teams are present, even the reserve bench players who are not participating in the competition are there.

He has an enormous number of fans, and Yun Linglei himself already has a large fan base because he's very handsome.

Although Ke Lao sourly remarked that his looks were just so-so, Yun Linglei's appearance was actually quite good-looking, even by entertainment industry standards. This was during the peak of the entertainment industry, not the later era of chaotic and declining looks.

Therefore, in terms of popularity alone, Yun Linglei is no less popular than Jiang Mobai, the chess master who always surpasses him. After all, people always judge by appearance, regardless of gender.

This is one of the reasons why Yun Linglei is a master of time management.

Yi Zheng shook his head upon hearing this: "It's alright. Sixteen teams, each sending four people, that's only sixty-four people, which is just the scale of an ordinary competition."

Actually, I mainly wanted to see how other people played. If we all played together in a group, I could see many different games.

Hearing Yi Zheng's words, Yun Linglei couldn't help but snort twice: "You still have the mood to watch chess? I thought you had no mood at all. You're going to run into Ethan again in the first game. You two are really destined to be together."

"It's alright. If you want to reach the top of the world, you will inevitably encounter it no matter who you are."

If I could, I'd like to meet every one of the world's top five Go players, whether it's Jiang Mobai or Li Junhe. Playing against them would be a wonderful thing.

Yun Linglei felt something was increasingly off: "Are you trying to take my place as the commander-in-chief?"

"A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier."

Yi Zheng straightened his clothes slightly. This was a team uniform issued by the team, with the advertiser's logo on it.

Yi Zheng expressed his welcome to this type of clothing, noting that it is mostly casual wear and the material is of good quality, making it very comfortable to wear.

Yi Zheng really dislikes wearing formal attire, as many of them are designed to restrict body shape, making him quite uncomfortable during matches.

Upon hearing this, Old Ke couldn't help but shake his head: "What's the point of running into them? They're all my defeated opponents. I'd better let them go first."

How lonely it is to be invincible! How empty it is to be invincible! Alone on the summit, the cold wind blows endlessly! My loneliness—who can understand it!

"..."

When Yi Zheng heard Old Ke straining his voice, he didn't know what to say in comparison. Old Ke's singing ability was actually quite good. For example, when he went out to sing karaoke or hummed songs in private, he was clearly on tune. You could even say that Old Ke might have specifically studied singing.

However, when singing some strange songs, Old Ke would always deliberately sing off-key, which was very strange, as if he was deliberately torturing Yi Zheng's ears, since only Yi Zheng could hear him sing.

If Mr. Ke could hear this, he would wave his hand and say that Yi Zheng simply doesn't understand. Some songs are sung this way, and that's what respecting the original singer means! Authentic!
How strong is the flavor of black coffee?

"Ah Zheng, good luck to you."

At this moment, Miao Jun saw Yi Zheng sitting at the door tying his shoelaces and came over to pat him on the shoulder and say a word of comfort.

I ran into Ethan in the first game, which was really bad luck. Starting the game badly is not a good thing and it really affects my mood.

Yi Zheng couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this. He felt like he was going to lose this round, even though he had won before.

"If I can win once, I can win twice. The duration of a rapid chess tournament is about the same as that of the World Go Tournament."

The time control for the World Go League is as follows: for slow games, each player has 2 hours of play followed by 5 one-minute byo-yomi periods; for rapid games, each player has 1 hour of play followed by 3 30-second byo-yomi periods. The start time is 12:00 noon local time.

The game time is actually easy to understand. Reserved time means that both sides have a base time. After the game starts, both sides' time starts counting down. How long you think, that's how long your time goes. After you make your move, the time is paused and it's the opponent's turn to go.

However, if the game hasn't ended by the time the window expires, the countdown begins.

Five one-minute countdowns mean you must complete a move within one minute to avoid losing your countdown time. However, if you think for more than one and a half minutes, you will lose one countdown, leaving you with only four one-minute countdowns.

If you think for more than four minutes at a time, and I use up all my countdowns at once, leaving me with only one minute of countdown time, then every move I make must be completed within one minute.

Therefore, how to reasonably allocate time is a complex skill. You can't go down too fast and become a disadvantage, nor can you go down too slowly and run out of time.

That's what they say.

Miao Jun couldn't help but shake his head. Most people still believed that Yi Zheng's victory over Ethan was definitely due to his skill level, since even if an ordinary professional fought to the death, they couldn't beat Ethan.

Yi Zheng's victory certainly proves that his strength has reached a certain level, but it is definitely not at the world's top level.

Everyone believed that luck played a significant role, since Ethan panicked in the end and handed a situation that everyone thought was impossible to lose.

Therefore, if the first game is the first in the top division, it is probably also Ethan's revenge game for his crushing defeat in the World Go Tournament.

Old Ke couldn't help but click his tongue twice: "Everyone still doesn't have confidence in your strength. They all think you can't beat them."

Yi Zheng didn't seem to care when he heard this: "It's normal. I didn't even get half as much money as Ethan. Isn't it normal that they think I can't beat them?"

After all, the market judges a person by their market value. If a person can command a high market value, even if other factors are involved, it inevitably represents their strength to some extent.

"Ethan's salary is more than double yours, which doesn't seem like a lot. It's not considered a high salary in Armenia."

After doing the conversion, Mr. Ke couldn't help but shake his head. It looked like a lot, but it wasn't actually that much. After all, earning RMB and spending USD was a bit of a struggle.

"Where is it not a high salary? His annual salary, including his base salary, is nearly ten million."

"That's only a million dollars."

"How did you calculate this exchange rate? The exchange rate between the US and China is about one to one."

Yi Zheng was a little confused when he heard this. "You're cutting too hard! If Ethan only earns this little bit, it doesn't do justice to his status as a star chess player."

"...Wait, you mean the exchange rate?"

Old Ke was stunned when he heard this. He had been comparing the exchange rate of the original world with that of this world, but the exchange rate of this world seemed to be different from that of their original world.

In addition, Mr. Ke usually doesn't eat or spend money, at most he might subscribe to a membership, which means he doesn't really understand the prices in reality, since the prices in TV dramas are already outrageous.

"Wait a minute, let me catch my breath. So Li Junhe's income of over 100 million last year was the kind of 100 million. The 150,000 you won per game in addition to your basic salary is completely different from the 150,000 I won before."
"It's not that your net worth is about the same as mine before, it's that your current net worth is seven times what I used to be? Holy crap!"

After a quick calculation, Old Ke immediately shrank into a corner and started drawing circles, completely withdrawn.

But if you think about it carefully, it seems quite reasonable. After all, in his original world, a mid-level NBA contract was worth 20 to 30 million a year. The popularity of Go in this world is comparable to that of the NBA in his original world, so how could Go players' income be low?

The income from this world league might be slightly lower, since players receive income from various other cup competitions in addition to the league, but it can't be much lower.

But this is too much!
Is my status as number one in the world really that valuable? But there's absolutely no way to monetize it.

Seeing Ke Laoyi drawing circles in the corner, Yi Zheng couldn't help but scratch his head. What's going on now?

Meanwhile, the English team, the opponent of the Wood Fox team today, also arrived at the scene. Ethan couldn't help but smile when he saw Yi Zheng sitting on the stool by the door.

I didn't attack the main general because I wanted to catch Yi Zheng, and I still managed to run into him despite the one-in-three probability.

Sure enough, even God wants him to take revenge; this is destiny!
Thinking of this, Ethan couldn't help but make a throat-slitting gesture at Yi Zheng.

You're ready to be slaughtered!

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(End of this chapter)