Chapter 212 Le Haoqiang...should be able to win, right?
Hearing Jiang Xiahua's words, Yu Shao was slightly stunned.
In Go, it is not uncommon for low-level players to occasionally win a few games against high-level players.
However, if there is a clear gap in chess skills between the two sides, the lower-level chess player can beat the higher-level chess player. Most of the time, it is because the higher-level chess player made a mistake and was able to win by luck.
To use the most extreme example, even if a high-level chess player is almost certain to win, as long as he makes a mistake in the next move and loses the big dragon with a hundred eyes, the situation of sure victory will instantly turn into sure defeat.
Of course, this kind of low-level mistake is unlikely to occur in professional chess players, who usually only reveal flaws due to omissions, which are then caught by the opponent and lead to the loss of the game.
Unlike one or two hundred years ago, nowadays almost all chess games are decided within a day. In such a fast-paced fight, the strong are not necessarily the winners, and even the strongest person may be blown down by an unexpected strong wind.
Go is vast, mysterious and unpredictable. Everyone is moving forward in the dark. After each move, there are hundreds of billions of possibilities. No matter how strong a person is, he is destined to be unable to exhaust all the variations of Go.
Because of this, in the game of Go, victory or defeat is not only determined by chess skills, but also emotions, strategy, will, concentration, physical strength, and even luck!
Go is not only a contest of chess skills, but also a testing ground for human nature, which is the charm of Go.
but……
Even a Go AI without humanity and emotions could fall in an unexpected storm! In the past, even though the fully mature third-generation Go AI was widely recognized to be much stronger than the second-generation Go AI, it was still defeated by the second-generation Go AI more than once.
Because the key to victory or defeat often depends on who can seize that fleeting opportunity!
In the ever-increasing complexity of Go, even a Go AI as strong as it is is only a seeker and can only watch and sigh in despair. Even if it is walking on thin ice, it may not be able to reach the other side.
Whether it is a human chess player or a Go AI, their entire life is just to seize the fleeting opportunities as much as possible in the most complex situations.
Jiang Xiahua's meaning was very simple. His master Zhu Xinyuan, 9th Dan, was not like him in the previous game he lost to Wu Zhixuan online. He made a big mistake by accident and eventually lost the game.
In that game of chess, the reason why his master lost to Le Haoqiang was simply because Le Haoqiang successfully seized the fleeting opportunity and used it to win the game.
"In short, be more careful."
Jiang Xiahua reminded with a serious face: "He is definitely not an ordinary person."
"Got it. I'll take it seriously."
Yu Shao smiled and asked, "Who is your opponent today?"
"Zhou Licheng, second dan."
Jiang Xiahua clenched his fists and said confidently, "It's decided. Starting from today's game, I will start to win all the way and then be promoted to the second dan!"
"Do you know that flags cannot be set up randomly?" Yu Shao glanced at Jiang Xiahua and said.
"What is a flag?"
Jiang Xiahua patted his chest and said proudly: "I don't know what it means to be young and frivolous. I only know that the winner is the king!"
Not long after, as the game time approached, a group of professional chess players walked into the game room one after another. Yu Shao's opponent today, Fei Hanfei, 6th dan, also came to the opposite side of Yu Shao.
He glanced at Yu Shao, took a deep breath, then pulled out a chair and sat down opposite Yu Shao.
After a while, two referees walked into the game room. When the time was almost up, one of the referees announced the start of the game, and the sound of chess pieces clattering suddenly rang out in the room.
After guessing the first move, Yu Shao will play black in this game.
"Please advise me."
Yu Shao bowed slightly towards Fei Hanfei and spoke.
Fei Hanfei on the opposite side also bowed his head and responded immediately: "Please give me your guidance."
After the two of them finished their greetings, Yu Shao lowered his eyes to look at the chessboard, reached into the chess box, and slowly picked out the chess piece.
The black spot is between the index finger and the middle finger, with the middle finger on top and the index finger on the bottom, while the ring finger and the little finger are slightly separated.
The next moment, the chess piece gently fell into the crisscross chessboard! Snap! Sixteen columns and four rows, a star! …
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Three days later.
Another round of Yingjiao Cup qualifiers finally started again.
The Yingjiao Cup qualifiers are coming to an end, but even so, there are still many chess players in the chess room where the Yingjiao Cup qualifiers are held today.
They do not have the Yingjiao Cup qualifiers today. There are only a few players left in the Yingjiao Cup qualifiers today, and players whose points are below the standard have been eliminated.
Because of this, these chess players did not show any nervousness on their faces, but they still looked worried, and from time to time they raised their heads and looked towards the door of the chess room.
They were waiting for the final outcome of today's chess game, because today's qualifying round would directly determine the final ownership of the two places in the main tournament! Everyone knew what it meant to enter this year's Yingjiao Cup main tournament.
Each division has three places for the Yingjiao Cup, and there are five divisions in total, so the total number of chess players entering the Yingjiao Cup is fifteen from the five divisions.
Therefore, if you enter the Yingjiao Cup, it means that you will most likely become one of the ten chess players participating in the competition!
Wu Zhixuan did not have any competition today. Knowing the importance of this round of competition, she came to the game room early in the morning and looked towards the door with a worried look on her face.
“Here it comes!”
Just then, someone looked at the door and spoke.
Hearing this, everyone's eyes turned to the door and instantly saw Yu Shao's figure.
When she saw Yu Shao, Wu Zhixuan's eyes lit up slightly and she quickly waved to Yu Shao.
Seeing Yu Shao looking at her, Wu Zhixuan immediately clenched her fists and placed them in front of her, as if to cheer Yu Shao on. She did not go forward to talk to Yu Shao, and was obviously worried about putting pressure on Yu Shao.
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Seeing this scene, Yu Shao smiled in his heart and nodded gently to Wu Zhixuan. Just as he was about to look away, he was suddenly startled and saw Zheng Qin who was also sitting in the back seat.
Zheng Qin had a complicated expression on his face at this time. Seeing Yu Shao looking at him, he nodded slightly to Yu Shao.
Yu Shao also nodded, and finally withdrew his gaze, first looking at table number two, and then at table number one.
Today he was at table number two, and Su Yiming was at table number one. At this moment, both sides of the two tables were empty. Obviously, he was the first one to arrive today.
Yu Shao walked to the side of table number two, pulled out a chair and sat down, and began to wait quietly for the game to begin.
Not long after, Su Yiming also came to the game room, glanced at Yu Shao, then walked straight to table number one, pulled out a chair and sat down beside it.
After a while, Le Haoqiang finally arrived at the game room. The first thing he did when he arrived at the game room was to look towards table number two.
Seeing that Yu Shao was already sitting on one side of table number two, Le Haoqiang walked to the other side of table number two, pulled out a chair, and then sat down opposite Yu Shao without saying a word.
After a while, another young man wearing round-frame glasses and a middle-parted hair walked into the game room, then came to table number one, pulled out a chair, and sat down opposite Su Yiming, with a look on his face as if he was facing a formidable enemy.
As the game time approached, chess players such as Yang Yuqiang and Qiu Jingrui also entered the game room one after another.
After they came to their seats and sat down, they couldn't help but subconsciously look towards table number one and table number two, and they all had different moods at the same time.
However, there is one thing they have in common -
Before this, none of them could have predicted that Yu Shao and Su Yiming, two beginner chess players who had just successfully qualified as professional chess players this year, would be able to make it this far.
Now, the two of them were only one step away from the main tournament of the Yingjiao Cup! Regardless of whether they could continue in this round, they were already worthy of the title of Yingjiao! Seeing that all the chess players had taken their seats, the chess players in the back seats immediately stood up, and soon everyone surrounded Table 1 and Table 2 inside and out.
However, compared to table one, the game between Yu Shao and Le Haoqiang at table two obviously attracted more attention.
After all, Su Yiming's opponent was only Feng Zhenzhong, 6th dan, while Yu Shao's opponent was Le Haoqiang, 5th dan!
Even though Feng Zhenzhong's rank is higher than Le Haoqiang, everyone knows that Feng Zhenzhong is far inferior to Le Haoqiang, and his chess skills should be comparable to Dou Yiming.
Therefore, it was actually quite unexpected for them that Feng Zhenzhong could make it to this round. After all, both Dou Yiming and Feng Zhenzhong had hopes of entering this tournament, but the hope was not great and it was purely a matter of luck.
It is obvious that Feng Zhenzhong's luck is better than Dou Yiming. Now Dou Yiming has completely lost hope, but even if Feng Zhenzhong loses this round, he still has a glimmer of hope to grab the third spot, which is truly incredible.
"Le Haoqiang...should be able to win, right?"
Many people in the crowd couldn't help but secretly look at Le Haoqiang with mixed feelings, because, when this question appeared in their minds, it was actually a question rather than an affirmative sentence!
Zheng Qin stood among the crowd, saying nothing.
He also couldn't accurately predict the outcome of this chess game, otherwise he wouldn't have come today.
Before, other people didn’t know about the game between him and Yu Shao in the national championship, but as one of the players, he was naturally very clear about that game.
In that game, Yu Shao played almost like a god, and his five-way shoulder charge was so powerful that it was no exaggeration to describe it as a fairy from the sky. Until today, he is still repeatedly analyzing that five-way shoulder charge.
However, Le Haoqiang was no ordinary player. He almost made it to the title match as a 5th dan player! Not to mention that was once, not long ago, Le Haoqiang even had an impressive record of defeating Zhu Xinyuan, 9th dan. Even if he only won one game, winning one game was a sign of strength! He didn't know who would win or lose, so he wanted to know! Finally, after a while, two referees came to the game room.
With the arrival of the two referees, the entire chess room became quieter, and everyone could clearly feel that the atmosphere seemed to become tense all of a sudden.
(End of this chapter)