Chapter 390 Gu Qingqingqing

That’s right, this “Chess Soul” app also has the function of helping amateur chess players to get ranked.

Go dan is a level used to describe the level of Go. In China, there are two types of Go dan: amateur dan and national professional dan.

The amateur ranks range from 1st dan to 8th dan, and the professional ranks from low to high are professional first dan, professional second dan, ..., professional eighth dan, and professional ninth dan.

Amateur dan is divided into two levels: level and dan. The levels from lowest to highest are: level 10, ..., level 2, level 1, amateur 1 dan, amateur 2 dan, ..., amateur 8 dan, etc.

Generally speaking, the level difference between two adjacent dan is one zi. For example, the level difference between amateur 2 dan and amateur 6 dan is about 3 to 4 zi.

Before the internet became widespread, becoming an amateur 1st to 5th dan required participating in promotion tournaments organized by district or county-level sports departments and achieving a certain winning rate in a certain group. Reaching the 6th or 7th dan level was much more difficult.

Since the popularity of the "Hikaru no Go" app, it has become much more convenient for amateur Go enthusiasts to get promoted, because this Go game platform basically organizes a large-scale competition every season, from online "auditions" to offline competitions.

One season lasts for three months, which is similar to the "King of Glory" in the original world.

In short, the popularity of this "Hikaru no Go" app can maximize the discovery of Go talents. Those who stand out in the final offline competition, if they are indeed extremely talented, will often be noticed by the China Chess Academy. After training, they may become real professional players.

It can be said that compared with the threshold of Go in the original world, Go in this world is much more approachable, because as a traditional culture, it has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. There are even special Go classes in elementary schools, which are taught as a puzzle game.

Children who are interested will naturally delve into it, and those who are not interested can at least understand the situation and experience the fun of this chess sport.

If Gu Qingge had not drawn the expert-level Go skills before, she might not have understood the Go atmosphere in this world well enough, but now, she has understood the high status of Go as a chess sport in the Greater China cultural circle.

National Go players have a very high status in China. It is a particularly noble profession. When people hear that someone is a national Go player and a professional ninth-dan, they will respect him or her and think that the other person must have a very high IQ.

However, in the Western cultural circle, the most influential chess sport is chess. In many Western fantasy works, many characters are set as wise men, and they also like to show off by playing chess.

However, due to the influence of Chinese culture in the world, there are of course some foreign players who study Go and come to the Greater China cultural circle to participate in various competitions. After all, the prize money of these competitions is indeed considerable, and their influence in the world is also very large.

Go is also an official event in the Asian Games and the Olympic Games.

In short, because China has never fallen behind in this world and is full of martial virtues, many of its traditional cultures also have a strong influence in the world, and Go is just one manifestation of this.

However, Go in the original world is just a very niche chess game. It seems that not many people can understand Go. Its influence among ordinary people is not even as great as that of chess. At least chess is easy to understand.

When playing chess with friends, we don’t even compete with each other in Go. Gobang is almost the same. Beast Fighting Chess, Flying Chess, and Monopoly are actually more interesting.

Ultimately, the threshold for playing Go is too high and it is too out of touch with reality. However, many people in this world have been exposed to it since childhood, and it is also the "national chess game", so there are many people who like to play a game of Go when they have nothing to do. Some people even use this method to communicate with others. People who are not familiar with each other may become familiar with each other after playing a game of Go.

Gu Qingge was naturally happy to see this happen. The greater the influence of Go, the more valuable the Go skills she drew would be. In addition, she also had the god-level skill "Program Elf", which was equivalent to an intelligent brain. It was like she had her own AlphaGo to play Go, which was very unfair.

Of course, there is no AlphaGo in this world, which of course gives Gu Qingge a greater advantage. Others can only reach the peak of the human brain at most, but Gu Qingge is a combination of the human brain and artificial intelligence, which is a complete success.

Gu Qingge chose the nickname [Gu Qing] on the Go game platform "Qihun" without thinking much about it, but she found out that it had already been registered by someone else.

This is actually normal. After all, many people spend their time on this Go game platform. Sometimes playing Go can be addictive. It can be compared to playing mahjong or playing pesticide. The worse you are at it, the more addictive it is.

Gu Qingge simply added the word "Qing" to her nickname, but found that it was still repeated, so she added another one, and finally it became the nickname [Gu Qingqingqing], and she finally passed.

After she entered the battle platform, she actually paid some attention to its fancy features and found that it also had the classic daily login function to earn activity points, happy beans, etc.

Well, this battle platform is indeed invested and operated by Penguin. No wonder there are so many familiar elements. Gu Qingge even feels like he is playing the original world's Pesticide Squad. He can even draw characters. In the entertainment mode, the skills of some characters are quite interesting.

As for the skins, I won’t mention them. Legendary skins, Valentine’s Day limited editions, etc. are all here…

After adding so many fancy elements to Go, its appeal has indeed increased a lot. Many people install the app "Hikaru no Go" on their mobile phones, not for playing Go seriously, but for socializing and showing off. They feel that if they have a certain character or a set of skins and show them to others, they will feel very proud.

As for ranks and the like, forget about it, because they are too lazy to play the ranking mode. Wouldn't it be better to just play the entertainment mode?

Gu Qingge was certainly not interested in the entertainment mode, so she played the ranking mode directly. This mode did not require any game coins or the like, only points. Once the points reached a certain level, she would naturally be promoted.

The more you win, the greater the possibility of matching with a master.

At the end of the season, only those who have reached at least Amateur 1st Dan are eligible to participate in the online "audition" competition.

For real masters, this amateur rank 1 can be reached by just having skills, and even a newbie can get there by playing more games. It's like the king rank in the original world of Pesticide Squad. As long as you play enough ranked games, you can get there easily.

But the fact that he can play so many games shows his love for Go. How about giving him a chance to participate in the "audition" at the end of the season?