Chapter 129: Overwhelmed numerous opponents and shook the chess world
6pm.
After a fierce battle, the competition in the winner group of the Dan ranking tournament finally came to an end. Twenty-five players were able to advance to the finals in advance, and twenty-five fell into the loser group.
The main competition of the winner group has ended, but the competition of the loser group is still going on. They still need two days of fighting to compete for the remaining 25 final places in the loser group.
Some people may be able to climb up again from the loser group and embark on the road to becoming a professional player again, but more people will become dried bones and become stepping stones for others to embark on the road to becoming a professional player.
But after the game, the atmosphere in the winning group's game room was still extremely depressing. Even the winners who advanced to the finals in advance felt as if a stone was pressing on their hearts, and there was no joy on their faces.
Because Fang Haoxin… lost! As the game ended, the news that Fang Haoxin lost to an amateur chess player and fell into the loser group spread completely, causing an uproar immediately! "Fang Haoxin lost?!"
When several reporters and cameramen in the competition hall heard the news, they were all shocked and looked at each other with shock on their faces.
"Who is Su Yiming?"
"Fang Haoxin lost to him?"
"How is this possible? Apart from Zhuang Fei, Fang Haoxin should have no rivals at all!"
After everyone was stunned for a long time, a reporter was the first to react and said excitedly: "No matter who this Su Yiming is, there is such a dark horse this year, this... is definitely big news!"
Such scenes happened everywhere, and the name Su Yiming instantly spread throughout the entire qualifying tournament, even affecting the women's group!
Especially when the people in the loser group learned the news, there was a huge uproar.
The players in the winners' group face such tremendous pressure even if they have advanced in advance, let alone the losers' group who have already lost a game.
Fang Haoxin fell into the loser group. If they were unlucky enough to run into Fang Haoxin, they would almost certainly die. Fang Haoxin would definitely step on their corpses and make it to the finals! However, compared to the winner group, a few people in the loser group were not surprised after hearing the news.
They had lost to Su Yiming before and had personally experienced that Su Yiming's chess skills were far beyond theirs.
In the loser group, a young man looked at Qiao Anli and He Zhian beside him, swallowed his saliva, and asked in disbelief: "You said before that this year is more difficult than I imagined. Is it because you knew that there would be Su Yiming this year?"
But when the boy saw the expressions of Qiao Anli and He Zhian at this time, he was stunned.
At this time, Qiao Anli and He Zhian also had dazed expressions on their faces, and seemed to find it hard to believe that Fang Haoxin had lost to Su Yiming and fell into the loser group.
"No, it isn't."
He Zhian also swallowed his saliva: "We never knew about Su Yiming..."
Hearing this, the boy didn't react at first, but soon he gradually realized the subtext of He Zhian's words. His heart trembled and his eyes widened little by little.
Not...Su Yiming?
"It's hard to decide."
At this time, Qiao Anli rolled his Adam's apple and slowly said, "Why don't we not decide this year? Let's... wait until next year?"
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Although the winner group competition ended in just four days, the loser group still has two more days to compete before the winner is decided. The final will be held in three days.
"Yes, we won today and advanced to the finals in advance. The finals will start in three days. It will be a double-elimination tournament. There will be about six rounds of matches to decide the top six."
At eight o'clock in the evening, Yu Shao received another call from Yu Dongming.
These days, Yu Dongming would call him every night to ask about his performance in this tournament.
Yu Shao didn't mind the trouble and always told Yu Dongming about his recent situation tirelessly.
After all, he is not yet an adult, traveling alone and participating in a career-defining tournament that affects his entire life. It is understandable that Yu Dongming and Cai Xiaomei are worried.
"Adjust your mentality, don't be too nervous, don't think about the finals these days, just have a good rest, or even play some games."
Yu Dongming's voice rang out from the other end of the phone: "When you get to the finals, just treat the finals as an ordinary daily chess game. You must keep a normal mind."
"Yes, Xiao Shao, even if you lose the game, don't take it too seriously."
At this time, Cai Xiaomei's voice came over: "Winning all the time is a good thing, but I heard that there are many people who always win, but after losing once, their mentality becomes unstable, and they end up losing again and again."
"You are so talented, which is beyond your father and I's expectations. But compared to others, you still lack the experience of playing in major events like the Dan Tournament."
What Cai Xiaomei said actually makes a lot of sense. In large-scale competitions, mentality is very important. Even if one's chess skills are higher than that of the opponent, if there is a problem with one's mentality, it is easy to make a mistake that will lead to eternal regret.
However, he had experienced too many international competitions in his previous life that were far more prestigious and important than the qualifying tournaments, and his mentality had long been as tough as steel.
Soon, after chatting with his parents for a while, Yu Shao finally hung up the phone.
"The finals will be in three days... After the finals, it will be the professional world of this world."
Yu Shao walked to the window and looked out with a complicated look.
It was already seven o'clock in the evening, but because it was summer, it was not yet dark, at the border between dusk and night. However, the dim street lights were already on, and two or three people were walking by.
Yu Shao was not nervous about this qualifying tournament.
But when he thought about returning to the world of professional chess players to which he had devoted his entire life in his previous life, Yu Shao felt a little complicated.
In his previous life, he had once reached the top of the Go world, and even before he traveled through time, his Go skills still remained in the top five.
His ability to steadily close empty spaces, eliminate and convert surrounding territory into invisible territory, create pressure with momentum, and ultimately control the board until the end, winning without fighting, has overwhelmed countless opponents and shaken the chess world.
Even when the AI era arrived and countless chess players were eliminated by the times, he survived a period of confusion when almost everything he had learned was negated by AI. Through continuous learning, he was able to stabilize his position in the end and remained unshakable.
However, in this life, he will take a completely opposite path from his previous life——
A dangerous road that is good at attacking and killing, fighting for life in the thick and thin, in the treatment of orphans and in the struggle! This is also a field that he wanted to try in his previous life, but ultimately did not dare to set foot on.
But in this life, he finally took this step forward.
"How far can I go on this road?"
Thinking of this, even if he had to go through his career path again, Yu Shao couldn't help but feel a hint of anticipation in his heart.
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The next day.
At around five in the afternoon, Yu Shao left the room, took the elevator to the first floor lobby, and prepared to leave the hotel and go out for dinner.
Although the winner group competition has ended, Yu Shao and other winner group players have three days of rest, but the loser group competition is still going on.
As soon as Yu Shao walked out of the elevator, he saw many people sitting on the sofas in the lobby. Some of them bowed their heads and said nothing, while others looked up at the ceiling with confused expressions.
Yu Shao felt this extremely familiar atmosphere and was silent for a moment. Finally, he shook his head and walked out of the hotel.
"That person is from the winner group, right?"
In the hall, a boy wearing glasses looked at Yu Shao's departing back, his face full of bitterness, and said: "It's great to advance to the finals in advance... I thought I could make it to the finals."
"You were also unlucky. You met Fang Haoxin. It was different for me. I met an evenly matched opponent, but I still lost. This was even more painful."
The boy next to him sighed and asked, "How do you feel about playing a game of chess with Fang Haoxin?"
“Too strong.”
The boy with glasses looked a little disappointed and said, "If you don't play a game of chess with him in person, you won't be able to appreciate how strong he is. His reputation is really justified..."
"Although I am still far from being a professional chess player with my chess skills, I mainly came here to gain experience this year. But in the blink of an eye, the outcome of that game was clear, and I was beaten the rest of the way."
"But he lost, and not even to Zhuang Fei."
"I can't believe that, besides Zhuang Fei, there is actually someone who can beat him. Who is that Su Yiming?"
The boy next to him also sighed and said, "So don't envy the person who advanced to the finals early."
"There are Zhuang Fei, Fang Haoxin, and that Su Yiming. Even if they advance to the finals in advance, it is meaningless if they are not promoted to the 7th dan. They can only advance to the amateur 7th dan."
"Now, it depends on whether Zhuang Fei can defeat the dark horse named Su Yiming."
Hearing this, the boy with glasses was silent for a long time. Finally, he also sighed and said, "Indeed, this year is too difficult. Let's wait until next year..."
At this time, the elevator in the hall opened again, and then Fang Haoxin walked out of the elevator.
When the boy with glasses in the hall saw Fang Haoxin, his expression changed slightly.
But Fang Haoxin didn't even look at him. With a heavy expression, he walked towards the hotel entrance without saying a word and soon left the hotel.
"Isn't it just a loss of a game of chess? Is that a big deal?"
Seeing Fang Haoxin's attitude, the boy with glasses was a little unhappy and complained: "I didn't act like this even when I was eliminated. Others still say that he has a good personality. Bullshit."
Three days passed quickly.
During the two days that Yu Shao was resting, the loser group experienced an extremely brutal fight. In the end, twenty-five people successfully crawled out from the pile of corpses in the loser group, stepped on the corpses of others, and continued to move forward.
A total of fifty people will compete in the final battle on their way to becoming a professional! The finals are about to begin!
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