Go: I’m 50-50 against the AI

Chapter 109 108. National Team Selection

The Sino-Japanese Aghan Kiriyama Cup competition officially opens.

More than a hundred professional players and several amateurs who stood out from the online preliminaries all gathered inside the Chinese Chess Academy.

A total of 128 chess players will participate in a four-day single-elimination tournament here. In the end, only eight players will successfully advance and continue to compete with the eight top players who will directly enter the competition.

In the hall of the Chinese Chess Academy.

It is still the usual leadership speech session in every large-scale competition, but as the China-Japan Agama Kiriyama Cup is a national competition, this time all the leaders related to Go should be gathered together.

The relevant director of the General Administration of Sports, the dean of the Chess Academy, the president of the Chess Association and the local urban leaders of the capital all delivered speeches respectively.

There were nearly two to three hundred people in the audience, including the contestants, but Ying Jie and the others were completely overwhelmed among the hundreds of people in the audience.

"The top players in Chinese Go are all here."

Xiao Xiao looked around and saw that the people who could enter this competition were basically the top 100 or so people in terms of levels.

As for the top 30 players in the rankings, not all of them were at the ninth-dan level, and the entire venue seemed to be full of ninth-dan players.

Xiao Xiao estimated that for his own level, in this tournament, winning one game was within his ability, winning two games would be unlucky, and winning three games would be impossible.

The first round is a little better, but in the second round you will most likely encounter a big boss at the seventh, eighth or ninth dan level.

This is the horror of the national competition.

Grand chess players who are rarely seen on weekdays are sprouting out like cabbage.

"Are you confident?"

Xiao Xiao asked Ying Jie next to him.

He definitely has no chance, Ying Jie, maybe he can create a miracle and enter this competition.

Ying Jie just nodded: "Do your best."

To be honest, even with Ying Jie's current strength and a start that transcends his times, his opponent's winning rate is reduced to 0% in almost every game.

But Go is not a game about winning percentage, but about the final result.

In the AI ​​​​era, many chess fans will immediately curse the spoon as soon as they see the winning rate declining.

If the winning rate reaches 100% and the opponent still gets overturned, that is simply heinous. How can you still play chess when you are worse than shit? He should be dragged out and killed.

But only the two sides of the game know that under the complex mid-game calculations and countdown pressure, no one can guarantee that every step they make is correct.

Even AI that has been updated for several generations will make calculation errors sometimes, let alone flesh-and-blood humans.

Countless chess players who ranked at the top of the world rankings in previous lives lost good games.

Ying Jie didn't think at all that after gaining an advantage at the beginning, he would definitely win 100%.

To quote a sentence, saying that you have a 100% winning rate in front of so many outstanding chess players is an overestimation of your abilities.

At most only 95%.

"what's on your mind?"

Looking at Cugu Yun who looked thoughtful, Ying Jie asked a little strangely.

After coming in just now, Cugu Yun took one look at so many people around him, fell into a strange thought, and couldn't help but shake his head.

"I'm thinking……"

Halfway through his words, Cugu Yun glanced at his father who was not far away from him, and swallowed what he wanted to say.

It's too dangerous to complain casually in public. Let's talk about it later.

However, although Cugu Yun swallowed his words, he then said mysteriously: "I will tell you a little tidbit."

"what news?"

Ying Jie already knows that Cugu Yun's family is full of people in the system who are engaged in sports-related work, so compared to people like him who have no channels at all, he often receives some news in advance.

"The selection for this year's national team will begin soon."

"National team!"

Xiao Xiao's eyes lit up when he heard this.

You must know that in the world chess world, the national Go team model is China's first. In this world, China is the only country with a national Go team.

Even in the previous life, South Korea did not start to learn lessons until it was completely defeated in 2013, and then it started to form a national Go team.

Fuso, on the other hand, doesn't even hold the World Series anymore. It's completely ruined. How can it still hold a national Go team?

Foreign Go players are all inferior. We at Fuso Go focus on the Tao, and the beauty of the chess shape is the right way. It doesn't matter whether we win or not, our domestic competitions are more important than international competitions anyway!

China's national Go team is divided into three categories, youth group, women's group, and junior group. The registration conditions for each group are different.

Youth Group:

1. Those with the latest grade score of 2360 (inclusive) or above are not limited to age.

2. Those born after January 1, 1991 (inclusive), with the latest grade score of 2240 (inclusive) or above.

Women's group:

1. Those born after January 1, 1992, with professional rank.

2. Those born after January 1, 1979, with the latest level score of 2200 or above.

3. The 2008 women’s siege team registration members.

Junior group:

1. Those born after January 1, 1993, with professional rank.

The national team adopts the tradition of concentrating its efforts on big things, and helps the top chess players who join the national team to undergo collective training, psychological counseling, physical exercise and logistical support, so as to help the players to improve their abilities quickly to the greatest extent.

But even the registration conditions for the youth group of the national team are extremely loose, and the grade requirements are only the initial grade points for the first stage.

It is precisely because of this that even chess players who meet the age limit of the national youth team will participate in the selection of the national team. After all, the players and all the resources of the two groups are completely different.

Once you join the national team, the people you brag about become world champions.

However, although the registration conditions are relaxed, those who can be truly selected are all top chess players.

"So how many people will be selected this year?"

Cugu Yun seemed to have inquired about the news a long time ago: "It is said that it is an eight-round round-robin competition, and the selection will be based on results.

According to the rules before the game, the top three in each group will definitely be shortlisted for the national Go team.

However, the specific number of chess players to be selected to join the national team seems to be very ambiguous. According to the head coach, a group of players must be selected based on the performance of other competitions and after comprehensive evaluation. "

Looking at the two people who nodded, Cugu Yun had already guessed what they were thinking: "You all plan to join the National Youth Team, right?"

"Yes."

Hearing this, Cugu Yun felt helpless. After losing a few games, his level score dropped directly below the issue price.

He did not meet the 2240 points required by the National Youth Team, so he could only sign up for the National Youth Team.

…

No, Xia Yingying’s level seems to be enough to register?

You have to find a way to trick her into getting beaten.

The leader spoke on the stage, and the following people were whispering to each other in twos and threes. The time soon came to the exciting card drawing session.

Xiao Xiao glanced at the numbered ball in his hand, and the chess players on the stage who drew numbers connected to his couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fourth dan, not bad."

Xiao Xiao breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't draw the ninth level at the beginning. He could win every game.

And Ying Jie glanced at the No. 1 ball in his hand, waiting for who his opponent would be?

"Liu Jingxing 9th Dan, what is the number you drew?

Number two! "