Go: I’m 50-50 against the AI

Chapter 223 222. Xiao Xiao can’t even laugh anymore

"Xiao Xiao, why don't you smile? Why don't you smile?"

Looking at Xiao Xiao sitting opposite him, Ying Jie said with a smile on his face.

In my impression, you are a big boy who loves to laugh.

Why don't you laugh when you play chess with me?

My Go game will make everyone smile.

Smailu, Smailu.

Looking at Ying Jie with a faint smile on his face, Xiao Xiao really wanted to go up and punch him twice.

Still happy.

You want me to laugh.

Why do you think I can't laugh?

"Why aren't you at the general stand?"

Xiao Xiao looked at Ying Jie sitting opposite him and couldn't help but ask.

From the perspective of strength, Ying Jie must have been able to achieve the position of commander.

After all, he has a terrifying record of defeating all the chess players in the country. Looking at the whole country, no one dares to say that he can beat Ying Jie.

This is indeed the case. In the first few games of the League One playoffs after the end of the year, Ying Jie was assigned to the main position.

After all, if the leader is guaranteed to win, he can directly score two points for his team.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, powerful people will definitely be prioritized on the main stage to ensure that their team wins.

Xiao Xiao originally thought that Ying Jie would still be the leader in this game, and even comforted his team's leader, Lao Xie.

Victory and defeat are normal in military affairs, and losing is also normal. No one has won anyway.

But when Ying Jie came in front of him, Xiao Xiao felt that he couldn't laugh.

You're a normal guy, who wants to lose if you can win?

"We need to adjust our tactics, and I have been flying all over the country recently. I am very tired, so I want to take a rest and adjust.

Don’t start preliminaries for the Nongshim Cup now. You need to adjust your condition. After all, there are only two places in total, and each of these contestants is better than the last. "

The Nongshim Cup that Ying Jie refers to is a Go team competition among China, Japan and South Korea. It is held every year. Last year, South Korea successfully won the championship.

This year, China and Japan will start the first round of competition. The winner will become the champion. South Korea will take the stage to challenge. The winner can continue to be the champion and accept challenges from other countries in turn.

Until all five players from the other two countries fail, the country of the player who is still the leader in the ring wins.

It can be said that it is a project where three countries compete tit-for-tat every year.

Even Fuso, which doesn't pay much attention to international competitions, most of the time fields the strongest lineup in the country.

For a while, South Korea formed the legendary Nongshim Iron Gate in this Nongshim Cup. It seemed that no one could break through South Korea's strong lineup and win the championship.

In fact, this is indeed the case. If we look at the five players, the gap between the top five in Korean Go and the top five in Chinese Go is not big, not to mention that the opponent has Gao Yongxia, the world's number one player.

It can be said that it is extremely difficult to break through the opponent's encirclement.

Therefore, it is only natural that South Korea has dominated several Nongshim Cups.

As for the selection of the five players on the Chinese side, two people who won the world championship last year can enter without selection. If there are more than two world champions, they will be ranked according to their level.

Therefore, it is certain that Lu Li 9th Dan and Shi Mingzhi 9th Dan can enter without selection.

One of the remaining spots will leave a wild card to prevent an upset in the selection and produce some unfavorable lineups.

Wild cards are reserved for players that the Chinese Chess Academy believes can play an important role, ensuring that the probability of the Chinese team winning the championship is increased.

Others will have to compete for the remaining two spots.

The requirements for participating in the trials are even higher. It can be said that even the best among the best are not eligible to participate.

Last year's World Series runner-up plus ranking according to grade, a total of 16 people can qualify for the trials.

Then the 16 chess players were divided into two groups for a knockout round, and the first place player in each group was selected for the Chinese team.

Including the Chinese team's wild card, a total of five people were formed to participate in the arena competition.

Although Ying Jie has participated in relatively few competitions during this period, his level score is still relatively low relative to his strength, so he is still in the stage of rapid growth.

Ying Jie's level score is currently ranked 17th. If he wins two more games soon, he should be able to meet the qualifications for the competition.

After all, wild cards are generally those who can participate in the qualifiers and are unsuccessful. If they can't participate in the qualifiers, then there will be trouble.

"Nongshim Cup."

Hearing the name of this competition, Xiao Xiao couldn't help but feel a little excited.

Young people, who doesn’t want to denounce Fang Qiu internationally and bring glory to the country?

The reason why Mr. Nie can be called the chess saint is that he single-handedly defeated all six super first-class chess players in Fuso in the Sino-Japanese arena competition and won 11 consecutive victories in the arena competition.

Several times, he emerged from the desperate situation of one person against the entire Fuso team, and helped the Chinese team win the arena championship with the weak defeating the strong.

In that era, those who could win foreign championships were national heroes.

The same is true for women's volleyball team, and the same is true for Go.

This is true even now. The concept of all Chinese people is that a country is strong only if it can win foreign wars.

Except, of course, table tennis.

If you think about it, it’s not just the national competition.

The Asian Games, which will start in a few months, will definitely have a higher level of competition than the so-called Go World Series.

If Ying Jie can win the gold medal, he will truly bring glory to his country.

MD, this guy unknowingly got people like him into trouble.

Seeing Xiao Xiao's eyes as he wanted to stab himself with a knife, Ying Jie looked fearless.

If Xiao Xiao dared to stab him, he would have stabbed him long ago. Why wait until today?

Just to make him angry, just to play.

Xiao Xiao and Ying Jie had not known each other for only a day or two, so they naturally knew what Ying Jie was like.

If it weren't for the fact that the lineups of the two teams were not public to each other, Xiao Xiao would have doubted whether Ying Jie came to snipe him deliberately.

My conscience is very bad.

The home and away matches of the Go League A have been decided in advance, so there is no need for players to guess first.

Xiao Xiao got the black chess piece, while Ying Jie got the white chess piece.

The two of them looked at each other and smiled, as if they were back to the dojo.

Then, Xiao Xiao's first step was to give Ying Jie a fancy job.

Black's first move is out of sight.

In the traditional Go layout, the first move in the corner is usually made at the small target position, and less often outside the target position.

However, with the development of Go theory, placing the first move outside the target position often occurs in actual combat.

After the first move is outside the target, if the opponent moves with the small target, our next move will be a big diagonal flying cover, which will produce many changes, so there is a saying of "a big diagonal and a thousand changes".

But even professional chess players believe that it is difficult to defend the corner, and the related formulas are few and relatively complicated.

Seeing Xiao Xiao's first hand, Ying Jie couldn't help but put his head in to cheer up.

First hand, do you want to do anything fancy for yourself?

But Xiao Xiao's third hand immediately landed on the small target position, forming a worry-free corner.

Directly pouring cold water on Ying Jie who was full of expectations.

Alas, it’s nothing, just teasing you.

PS: There are three more chapters in the evening.

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