Chapter 120 Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers of different species?

The preliminaries finally came to an end.

However, passing the preliminaries is only the starting point of the road to becoming a professional chess player. After the preliminaries, there are the main tournaments and the finals.

Only by going all the way to the end of this path and singing all the way can you become a professional chess player.

After the preliminaries, the players participating in the qualifying tournament will have five days of rest. After five days, they will face the more intense and fierce main competition.

The competition system is no longer a round-robin tournament, but a more brutal double-elimination tournament. Double elimination means elimination, so luck will also be very important, unless you already have the strength to ignore luck.

At the same time, with the end of the qualifying rounds, the annual city high school Go league is finally about to begin.

"Old Yu, I have been skipping my training these days. I have been studying chess and even playing chess in the activity room after school."

Zhou De's arrogant voice rang out from the headset: "Cramming is still useful. I feel so strong now!"

"Okay, so you're a foot fetishist!"

Yu Shao stared at the computer screen, sliding the mouse and typing on the keyboard, while saying with disdain: "How disgusting!"

"Um?"

Zhou De on the other end of the headset was stunned for a moment, and it took him a long time to react. He immediately refuted: "What, cramming is also considered foot fetish? And even if I am a foot fetish, what does foot fetish have to do with you!"

The two of them immediately engaged in a fierce verbal battle, from the high school Go league to the topic of foot fetishism, and unexpectedly, as they argued, they inexplicably returned to the high school Go league.

"Old Yu, do you know where this year's city high school Go league will be held?"

On the other end of the headset, Zhou De suddenly asked mysteriously.

However, Yu Shao generally calls this not mysterious, but vulgar.

"Where is it held?"

Yu Shao didn't know what Zhou De was up to, so he asked, "What's wrong? Where are you?"

"At Guangnan High School."

Zhou De said, "It's the school that competed with us for the championship last time!"

Hearing this, Yu Shao couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

"Do you think that guy named Su Yiming will still participate in this competition?"

Zhou De's tone was a little sad on the other end of the headset. He said to himself, "This year, you and Xu Zijin are not here. There is no tiger in the mountain, and Zhong Yufei is the monkey king..."

"Can Zhong Yufei shoulder the heavy responsibility alone? You know he doesn't have the ability! Sigh...what will he do if he faces Su Yiming? I, Jiang Ling Shen Yi, feel a little pressure!"

Yu Shao thought for a moment and said, "He probably won't participate in this competition."

"ah?"

On the other end of the headset, Zhou De was obviously stunned for a moment, then asked with some surprise: "Is it true or not? How do you know?"

"Feel."

Yu Shao couldn't help but recall the game he played with Su Yiming in the city's high school Go league a year ago.

"Although I don't know why he participated in the last high school Go league, I think he will most likely not participate in this one," said Yu Shao.

Hearing Yu Shao's words, Zhou De on the other end of the headset was obviously disappointed and said, "So you were just guessing too."

"Believe it or not."

Yu Shao didn't explain much and spoke.

In fact, Yu Shao had figured it out before. The reason why he agreed to participate in the city high school Go league was not only because of the principal's invitation, but more importantly, deep down in his heart, he actually wanted to continue playing Go.

He still wanted to hear the metallic sound of the chess pieces falling on the board.

However, he had a somewhat awkward mentality at that time. On the one hand, he thought that since he was reborn, he should change the way he lived, but subconsciously, he did not actually want to change the way he lived.

But at that time, he hadn't realized this yet.

Soon, after finishing the game with Zhou De, Yu Shao turned off the computer, walked to the balcony, looked at the scenery outside the window, and took a deep breath of fresh air.

There are two days left before the main tournament of the Dan-dan ranking competition.

"Only by entering the professional world can I gradually make up for my shortcomings and raise my chess skills to a whole new level, surpassing my previous life, until I reach the pinnacle!"

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Last year, the main tournament and finals were held in Gangneung, but this year, both the main tournament and finals were held in Shinan.

This year's Go qualifying tournament is the Lan Ke Cup. According to legend, a woodcutter went up the mountain to cut wood and saw two immortals playing chess. He watched the entire game without realizing it. When he came down the mountain, he found that the axe had rotted.

Xin'an is the birthplace of this legend.

The next day, Yu Shao arrived at Xin'an alone by car. Originally, Yu Dongming and Cai Xiaomei planned to close the store for a day and accompany Yu Shao, but Yu Shao refused.

Although the tournament will not start until tomorrow, when Yu Shao arrived at the Xin'an Hotel where the semi-finals and finals of this year's Go ranking tournament will be held, the outside of the Xin'an Hotel was already full of cars.

Obviously, many contestants had already arrived at the competition venue, waiting for the official start of the competition tomorrow. Yu Shao arrived a day in advance, which was actually considered late.

Yu Shao walked into the hotel lobby, came to the front desk, and told the receptionist his competition number.

"Okay, your room is on the twelfth floor, B103."

After checking the computer, the receptionist handed the room card to Yu Shao and said with a smile, "I wish you a good performance in the next game and a successful promotion."

"Thanks."

Yu Shao took the room card and thanked him.

In the previous qualifying round in Gangneung, Yu Shao did not choose to stay in a hotel because the venue was close to his home. However, this time the venue was far away in Xinan, so Yu Shao had to stay in a hotel during the competition.

Soon, Yu Shao took the elevator to the twelfth floor, swiped the room card and walked into the room. He put all his luggage away before leaving the room and preparing to go out for dinner.

Yu Shao had just opened the door when the door of Room 104 next door opened almost at the same time, and a young man of about the same age as Yu Shao walked out.

He had a pair of very thick eyebrows, slightly curly hair, and bright eyes. When he saw Yu Shao coming out of the room, he took the initiative to ask, "Are you planning to go out for dinner too? Together?"

So familiar? Yu Shao looked at the boy with some surprise, but he didn't refuse. He nodded and said, "Okay."

"My name is Jiang Xiahua, what's yours?" Jiang Xiahua asked as he walked.

"Yu Shao." Yu Shao replied.

"Yu Shao? This name is good. I always feel like you are taking advantage of others. Whoever calls you is like calling you Young Master."

Jiang Xiahua couldn't help but smile and said, "I'm a young man who is trying to get a dan in Lan Ke Dojo. My master is Zhu Xinyuan, the ninth dan. You should also be a young man who is trying to get a dan, right? Why haven't I seen you before?"

“I’m not from the dojo.”

Yu Shao shook his head and said, "This is my first time participating in the Dan Tournament. It's normal that you haven't seen me before."

"You're not from the dojo?"

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Hearing this, Jiang Xiahua was obviously a little surprised and asked, "So you actually made it directly to the main tournament for your first promotion? Which province are you from?"

"Jiang Ling."

Yu Shao reached out and pressed the elevator button and answered.

"Jiang Ling?"

When Jiang Xiahua heard Yu Shao's answer, his eyes widened. He originally thought that Yu Shao came from one of those provinces where there were very few Go training grounds.

"I remember there are several dojos in Jiangling, and so many young men who are trying to become a Dan. You can even make it to this competition. Are you so awesome?" Jiang Xiahua said in shock.

You know, the more dojos there are, the more young people there will be who are striving for the dan rank, and the number of places to enter the main tournament is limited, so it will naturally be more difficult for amateur chess players to enter the main tournament.

"I was lucky. I was assigned to Group E, which only had two teenagers who were trying to get a dan title."

Yu Shao walked into the elevator and saw Jiang Xiahua still standing at the elevator door. He asked, "Aren't you coming in?"

"Come in, come in."

Jiang Xiahua hurriedly walked into the elevator, and then couldn't help but exclaimed: "There are only two teenagers in your group who are trying to get a dan. The other groups are doomed. I'm afraid there won't be many amateur players who can make it through."

"If you can't enter the main competition just because there are too many teenagers in your group, then it would be a waste of time even if you enter the main competition."

Yu Shao shook his head and said, "It's just that he was eliminated early."

"That's not the case."

Jiang Xiahua shook his head, looking like he had a lot of experience in the dan ranking tournament, and said, "For the dan ranking tournament, strength is very important, but luck is also very important. If you're unlucky, you won't be able to get a dan."

When Yu Shao heard this, he did not refute.

"But I don't know whether to say you are lucky or unlucky."

Jiang Xiahua suddenly sighed and said, "It's much harder for our region to get promoted this year than in previous years."

"What's wrong?"

Hearing this, Yu Shao was a little confused.

“You amateur chess players may not know this.”

Jiang Xiahua said: "This year, Zhuang Fei and Fang Haoxin will both be promoted to professional chess players. There are only six spots for professional chess players, which means two spots have been taken. The rest of us can only compete for the remaining four."

"Zhuang Fei? Fang Haoxin?"

Yu Shao thought for a moment and had never heard of these two names, so he asked, "Who?"

"Zhuang Fei is the son of Zhuang Weisheng, who is a 10th dan. As for Fang Haoxin...his great-great-grandfather is Fang Xin. He showed a talent for Go at a very young age, but he went to Seoul to learn Go when he was nine years old. He returned to China this year to get his dan title."

Jiang Xiahua couldn't help but complain: "Two second-generation chess players, they can even make me second-generation in chess. I'm so angry."

Yu Shao was a little surprised when he heard this. He was familiar with the names Zhuang Weisheng and Fang Xin.

One of them won the Tenth Dan title match twenty times in a row and is still active in the chess world, while the other was the only chess player who beat Shen Yi more than a hundred years ago, although that was an unfair game with a handicap of ten and a half points.

"I don't know much about Fang Haoxin, but in the qualifiers, Zhuang Fei and I were in the same group, and I played against him before."

Jiang Xiahua obviously had a lot of resentment towards Zhuang Fei. He said, "He has that kind of chess ability, but he has never been promoted to a professional player. Isn't this just trying to fry fish?"

Although Jiang Xiahua didn't say who won or lost in the game between him and Zhuang Fei, Yu Shao had already heard the result.

Obviously, Jiang Xiahua lost.

"You know what's most infuriating? People are talking about it online right now. They say that the match between Zhuang Fei and Fang Haoxin is a battle between the past and the present that transcends time."

Jiang Xiahua began to complain crazily: "It's not Fang Xin and Zhuang Weisheng who are playing, how can they even make such a far-fetched connection? They make us other chess players seem like foils."

"I'm so angry, so angry!"

Jiang Xiahua became more and more depressed as he spoke, and said viciously: "If I were to play against the two of them in this tournament, I would have to win. If I were to play Go, I would have to win the entire second generation. Are there any kings, princes, generals or ministers who are not of the same race? I would just take them and -"

Halfway through his speech, Jiang Xiahua seemed to have thought of something and suddenly stopped talking.

In the end, he couldn't continue speaking and just sighed helplessly.

"well……"

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