Chapter 124 Winner Group

"Yu Shao, you finished so early?"

Yu Shao walked out of the game room, then left the hotel and went to the restaurant where he had dined with Jiang Xiahua before. Halfway through his meal, Jiang Xiahua's voice was heard behind him.

"Yeah, you're done too?"

Yu Shao looked at Jiang Xiahua who walked into the restaurant with a relaxed look on his face and asked, "Did you win?"

The two of them were not in the same game room, and Yu Shao didn't know how Jiang Xiahua was doing.

"I won, how about you?" Jiang Xiahua ordered a plate of pork trotter rice and asked.

Yu Shao nodded and said, "We won."

“That’s amazing!”

Jiang Xiahua was a little surprised. He sat opposite Yu Shao and asked, "Who is your opponent?"

This question stumped Yu Shao.

It seems to be called...Wan something?

Yu Shao thought about it, but in the end he couldn't remember the name of his opponent, so he could only shake his head and said, "I forgot."

"You can forget the name of your opponent in the game that just ended?"

Jiang Xiahua was speechless, and finally said: "There are still four rounds to go. After four rounds, it will be the finals. I hope we don't meet."

There are not many rounds in this competition. There are 400 chess players entering this competition. In the double-elimination tournament, only five rounds of competition are needed to screen out the remaining 50 players.

Only these fifty people can continue to enter the finals.

The other three hundred and fifty people will be eliminated and will not be able to continue on the path of becoming professional chess players.

At this time, two more contestants walked into the hotel together.

“Too strong…”

One of the young men, who was about 20 years old, looked sad and said, "His judgment of the situation was too accurate. It was obviously a slow game, but he made his moves almost instantly, just like playing blitz chess. He is only 13 years old, so he is no match for him at all."

“You are unlucky. You met Zhuang Fei in the first round. But it’s okay. You still have one chance. Just keep winning next time.” The person next to him comforted him.

"But there is no margin for error, and the pressure is huge..."

The young man shook his head, and after a moment of silence, he said, "If I still can't get a promotion this year, I'll give up and find another way out."

"This... isn't necessary. You're only twenty-three, and the upper age limit for the professional qualification tournament is thirty. You still have seven years to qualify," the person next to him comforted him.

"I come from a rural area, and my family is not well off. My father has always been against me learning Go, thinking that I am not cut out for it. Only my mother supports me."

The young man shook his head, a wry smile appeared on his face, and he said: "I wanted to become a professional chess player to prove myself to my father, but now I find out... my father was right."

"I can either become a Go teacher, a Go commentator, or play amateur games. In short, I have to make money."

"Otherwise... I fail every year. I'm so old and still keep asking my family for money, but I can't get a settlement. I really can't face my mother."

After hearing their conversation, Jiang Xiahua, who was eating, suddenly fell silent.

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the next day.

The atmosphere was different from yesterday. Yesterday, the atmosphere in the game room was tense, but also full of excitement and excitement. But today, the tension in the game room was mixed with confusion and hesitation.

No one would be eliminated yesterday, regardless of winning or losing.

But today, one hundred people will be eliminated directly from the loser group, and the losers will make way for the winners, watching others step by step on the path to becoming professional chess players.

“I lost.”

A fourteen-year-old boy placed two chess pieces on the board, lowered his head with reluctance, and admitted defeat.

"call……"

Jiang Xiahua breathed a sigh of relief and nodded. After exchanging greetings with his opponent, he raised his head and looked in the direction of Zhuang Fei.

Zhuang Fei's table was surrounded by a crowd of people, and even the referee was watching Zhuang Fei's game.

Jiang Xiahua curled his lips and looked at Fang Haoxin's table. He found that Fang Haoxin's table, like Zhuang Fei's, was also surrounded by people and had a lot of attention.

Today he, Zhuang Fei and Fang Haoxin were all in the same game room.

"I played with Zhuang Fei in the preliminaries before. He is indeed very strong, but I don't know Fang Haoxin well enough. Let's go and take a look."

Jiang Xiahua thought about it and was about to get up and go to Fang Haoxin to take a look at Fang Haoxin's chess, but at this moment, Jiang Xiahua's peripheral vision noticed Yu Shao's side again, and he couldn't help but be slightly startled.

At this time, He Zhian was standing behind Yu Shao, watching the chess game played by Yu Shao with an extremely solemn expression.

"He Zhian? Doesn't he go to watch Zhuang Fei and Fang Haoxin play chess?" Jiang Xiahua recognized He Zhian at once and couldn't help but feel a little confused.

He looked at Yu Shao's opponent again and recognized the identity of Yu Shao's opponent.

Zhu Yi, a 15-year-old teenager who is trying to become a professional dan in Zhifeng Dojo, is getting promoted to a professional dan for the fourth time this year. Last year, he persisted in the loser group until the last round before being eliminated.

Jiang Xiahua hesitated for a moment, and finally walked towards Yu Shao. He soon stood next to He Zhian and looked at the chessboard.

"this?"

Seeing the situation on the chessboard, Jiang Xiahua's eyelids twitched and his expression was somewhat shocked.

The two sides have now entered the middle game, and the situation is complicated. Black has an overwhelming advantage, and all three of White's dragons are threatened, and the corners have been beaten into a stupid shape by Black!

"How did this chess game come about? How could Zhu Yi play like this?"

Jiang Xiahua quickly looked at the timer on the chess table, and was shocked to find that Zhu Yi only had ten minutes left to play. After ten minutes, the countdown would begin! Yu Shao's time was actually two hours! "Even the time difference is so huge?"

Jiang Xiahua found it a little unbelievable.

If one has the advantage in chess but the time difference between the two sides is not big, then it can be considered as evenly matched. However, if one has the advantage in chess and time as well, then it can be said to be a crushing victory!

Because this means that Zhu Yi's moves have been seen through by Yu Shao, and he doesn't need to think at all, but the chess moves made by Yu Shao make Zhu Yi think hard and he doesn't know how to deal with it! "Isn't Yu Shao an amateur chess player?"

Jiang Xiahua forced himself to suppress the shock in his heart and continued watching the game.

The white piece often has to think for a long time about its next move, but the black piece moves very quickly, almost at the moment the white piece falls, and soon, the white piece is about to enter the countdown.

“So strong!”

Jiang Xiahua looked at the chess board, his heart was shaken, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath.

"Just now, the white piece's support was actually very tenacious, but the black piece made a move and then attacked, which immediately magnified the white piece's weakness infinitely."

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"This method is difficult to discover. If I am given some time, I might be able to figure it out."

"But...he came out in an instant."

"Yu Shao, actually has this ability?"

Jiang Xiahua was a little shocked. He always thought that Yu Shao was lucky because there were only two amateur chess players in the qualifying group who managed to get into the tournament.

"White has lost. Actually... you can resign now."

Jiang Xiahua had already made a decision in his mind about this game of chess, but Zhu Yi was obviously still unwilling to give up and continued to make moves.

Jiang Xiahua suddenly thought of something and hurried to the door of the game room and looked at the battle schedule posted next to the door.

Because there were too many players in this competition and there were several match schedules, he only paid attention to himself and did not look at the performance of Yu Shao and his junior brother.

After searching for a long time, he finally found Yu Shao's name on a battle list.

"In the first round, Yu Shao versus... Wan Bohan?"

"turn out……"

Seeing the battle schedule, Jiang Xiahua couldn't help but take a deep breath in shock.

"Wan Bohan lost?"

He and Wan Bohan had fought against each other several times, and generally speaking the odds were 40:60, with Wan Bohan 40:60. But even so, in Jiang Xiahua's opinion, Wan Bohan was an opponent whom he could not be careless about.

As a result, Wan Bohan actually... lost to Yu Shao in the first round?

Jiang Xiahua turned his head in shock and looked towards Yu Shao, just in time to see Zhu Yi placing two chess pieces on the chessboard. Obviously, he finally recognized the situation and chose to admit defeat.

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Two days passed in a flash.

After only three days of brutal competition, many players have been eliminated, but there is also a loser who is still struggling to survive in the loser group.

As for the winners group, there are only a handful of them left, with only the last fifty people left.

Today, the winner group will decide the top 25, and these 25 can advance to the finals in advance. As for the loser group matches in the next few days, they have nothing to do with the winner group at all.

Yu Shao arrived at the game room early in the morning. At this moment, the atmosphere in the game room was so depressing that it was almost suffocating. It was so quiet and silent.

In this game room today, there are only fifty people left in the winner group.

Among the fifty people, only twenty-five can advance early, and the other twenty-five will fall into the loser group. If possible, everyone wants to advance to the finals early.

Seeing Yu Shao come in, Su Yiming, who was sitting at the fifth table, raised his head and looked at Yu Shao.

Not only Su Yiming, but everyone else also cast their glances towards Yu Shao, with some curiosity and a hint of fear in their eyes.

Those who have been able to maintain three consecutive victories and come to the winner group game room today are all weak and are likely to be the opponents in the finals. Even if they have never met Yu Shao before, they must be prepared.

Jiang Xiahua was also in the winner group. He looked at Yu Shao with a slightly complicated look.

Yu Shao looked at the battle table, quickly found his name, and then walked to table 12 and sat down.

Not long after, Zhuang Fei also came to the game room.

Although he was only thirteen years old, he had already shown his brilliance. As soon as he arrived at the game room, everyone's eyes became heavy and they all felt a bit of pressure.

Zhuang Fei took a look at the match schedule, quickly walked to table 21, pulled out a chair and sat down.

Although he already knew that his opponent today was Zhuang Fei, the fifteen-year-old boy sitting opposite Zhuang Fei still looked a little pale.

Not long after, as Fang Haoxin arrived at the game room, the atmosphere in the entire game room suddenly became depressing to the extreme. Even Su Yiming looked at Fang Haoxin twice.

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