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

Chapter 385 Straight Hook Fishing
"I actually ran into him."

Alexander looked at Yi Zheng and Ethan sitting at a table and couldn't help but gasp from the cold air conditioning, feeling like his head was bigger than two heads.

When the roster was being submitted yesterday, Ethan insisted on playing on the white board, otherwise he would forfeit the tournament.

Alexander had no good ideas for dealing with Ethan, who seemed to have never grown up. Young people these days are all very individualistic and unruly.

Moreover, this guy is actually capable of forfeiting the game. Once he forfeits, the team is like a leg is broken, and the team's win rate will plummet.

After all, Alexander also thought that there were at least two white chessboards, and even if Ethan went to play, he was not guaranteed to run into Yi Zheng. There was still a 50% chance that he would run into Brian.

Brian: Thank you so much to your whole family! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻!
But these things are all about luck, and Yi Zheng always seems to catch Ethan by sheer coincidence, even...

"It's that brat again? You two are currently ranked second and third in terms of rating, it seems that whoever wins this competition will be ranked number one."

Looking at Ethan sitting opposite Yi Zheng, Old Ke couldn't help but say something.

Li Junhe is currently ranked first in real-time rankings, not because he is the strongest, but because he hasn't been caught by Yi Zheng to grind for KPIs three times in the past two months.

No, Jiang Mobai was attacked four times!
Lee Jun-hyuk has only lost one match to Yi Zheng in the past two months, and has won almost all other matches in his home country, so his rating is steadily rising.

On the other hand, the other people ranked at the top are in a terrible situation.

Kuroki Teruto lost three games in a row, causing Yi Zheng to drop points. Jiang Mobai fared even worse, being defeated by Yi Zheng four times in two months, causing his ranking points to drop to fifth place in one go.

Jiang Mobai sometimes wondered if he was the one living a simple life? Why are you relentlessly spamming my feed like this!
So sometimes having fewer matches isn't necessarily a bad thing; at least you won't drop in rating if you don't compete.

Yi Zheng climbed to second place in the rankings, while Ethan closely followed in third. The difference in rankings between the top three is now very small.

It's safe to say that whoever wins today will directly replace Li Junhe as the number one player in the real-time rankings.

In short, Li Junhe was eliminated in the match between Yi Zheng and Ethan.

"Rankings are a minor matter."

Yi Zheng waved his hand slightly: "Anyway, I will be number one in the end. It's just a matter of sooner or later. What I care more about is how long I can maintain my number one position in the future."

Moreover, I feel that playing chess with Ethan is a great thing; I always feel particularly good when I play with him.

My current form is already at its previous peak. My question is whether playing against him can help me improve further and reach a higher level.

Sometimes, even when a player is not in good form, they can immediately display extraordinary strength and overwhelm certain opponents, eventually recovering and improving their performance.

Such an opponent would be referred to as a player's "power bank".

No matter how bad the opponent is, they can still easily defeat them, and then recover their strength and become even better.

Yi Zheng felt that Ethan had the attributes of a power bank.

Ethan watched Yi Zheng get up and leave to get a drink, not hearing what he was saying. Otherwise, he probably would have excitedly pulled out his American-style iaido! You really think I'm a pushover?
However, what Yi Zheng said is indeed true. When one's cultivation level stagnates, sometimes hard work is useless; one needs some metaphysical assistance.

There are many mystical aspects to Go. Although most of the time people rely on pure calculation, the problem is that sometimes the outcome is decided by just a little bit of luck.

This is also why many Go players are particularly superstitious, because victory or defeat can be decided in a single move.

Let alone Go, many students in science and engineering majors are extremely superstitious, bowing twice to the experimental equipment before conducting experiments.

Let's make the machine spirit happy first.

According to them, whether you kowtow or not, the experimental results may be completely different!

In this respect, it does indeed have a hint of theology at the end of science...

Feeling Ethan's fierce gaze, Yi Zheng smiled slightly: "Don't worry, it doesn't matter if we lose today. We should be able to meet twice more this year. Of course, the premise is that you have to field your main player in the next round."

Yi Zheng's words were quite simple: he wanted to provoke Ethan into taking the position of commander so that he could arrest him.

Yi Zheng felt that he could easily arrest Ethan, but it was a different story with his other three teammates.

Yan Ran has very little chance of winning, Shen Gu Hong's record against Ethan is extremely poor, and Yun Ling Lei's chances of winning are not particularly high either.

If Ethan were placed in any other position, he might actually be able to take him down, so we have to personally lure him into the trap.

Just as Yi Zheng had guessed, Ethan took the bait immediately, just like he had fished with a straight hook: "Who do you think will lose? There's no need! I'm not only going to win this game, but I'm going to win the next game too! And the last game of the World Go Tournament! I'll crush you just the same!"

In this year's World Go Tournament, Yi Zheng, as the vanguard, has already defeated the European and American teams for eight consecutive hours. Now, only Ethan remains to face the entire Asian team.

Of course, most people pessimistically feel that Yi Zheng will most likely win nine straight games and clear the game directly.

But Ethan suddenly felt a surge of good fortune as he said this. If he won three consecutive games, the score would immediately become 3-2, and he would be in the lead!

This is God's chance for you! Hallelujah!
Thinking of this, Ethan suddenly felt much more confident. With God's blessing, he was sure he could win three consecutive victories!

Yi Zheng found it strange to see Ethan suddenly calm down, and even felt that there was a kind of holy light effect behind him.

"How can a young person's attitude change so quickly, or is Ethan really that good-natured?"

Yi Zheng couldn't help but mutter to himself, "If it weren't for the fact that you can't take drugs when playing Go, I would have suspected that he was taking some kind of tranquilizer."

Otherwise, one second he might be furious, and the next he might be incredibly calm, the contrast is so stark it's hard to believe he's the same person.

Old Ke shook his head: "It's always a good thing for young people to be confident. Maybe a miracle will happen as they keep believing."

"Forget it, the light of our generation has already been exhausted by some debt king. Instead of believing in the light, we should believe in ourselves!"

Seeing Ethan turn on the game timer, Yi Zheng took out a black piece and placed it down!
Let me show you the most terrifying darkness!
(End of this chapter)