Chapter 280 The opponent is the ninth stage
After a national player match, there is still some time before Yu Shao's next national player match begins, but the chess competition continues day after day, still attracting the world's attention, and every game causes heated discussions around the world.
Chu Jingfeng won the seventh set and in the eighth set he had the upper hand with his ghost hand, but was eventually overturned by his opponent and lost by one and a half points.
Zhu Huaian then came on the court and after winning a game, he started a bloody battle with Anton, who held the title of "Chess King". The two sides were evenly matched and fought until the last half point. In the end, Zhu Huaian lost by half a point.
Then, the great chess player Fu Shunan won three consecutive games, until only two players were left on the American side, and the whole network was in an uproar! However, in the fourth game, Fu Shunan was obviously exhausted and made a shocking mistake, which led to his opponent's defeat.
In the next game, the American player withstood the pressure and caught up, defeating Fan Shengjie the next day. However, after Jiang Changdong came on the court, he finally captured his opponent's big dragon and entered the deciding game directly.
The last American player to play is Xi Rui, who currently holds the Tianyuan title.
This game was extremely exciting. Xi Rui sacrificed pieces in the middle game in an unpredictable way, and finally abandoned the corner to form a huge space. The white pieces were already in a state of overturning the game, and the black pieces were almost helpless! However, the development of the game made everyone feel deeply shocked from the bottom of their hearts! At this moment of life and death, Jiang Changdong, after a long consideration, actually burst out with amazing killing power, relying on a piece of blind lone chess to lock the opponent's five big dragons! Afterwards, Jiang Changdong caught up, and finally the sword shadow flashed and killed the opponent with one sword.
The black piece swallowed up the white piece's huge space. It turned out that in a deadly game, he found a ray of hope and played a practical game of Yang theory, achieving a stunning comeback! Before Lu Bo, the 9th dan, and Zhuang Weisheng, the 10th dan, had even entered the game, the second game of chess ended! "The game of chess is over."
Seeing this scene of Xi Ruituozi, Yu Shao finally took his eyes off the TV, turned his head to look at his parents, and was suddenly a little surprised.
Yu Dongming and Cai Xiaomei were still staring at the TV screen, their faces flushed with excitement. They seemed to be still immersed in the chess game and had not come back to their senses.
"Dad, Mom, do you understand?"
Seeing this scene, Yu Shao couldn't help but ask.
The store was being renovated during this period, so Yu Dongming and Cai Xiaomei did not go to the store. Today was the final game of the chess competition, so the two forced Yu Shao to watch the game together.
How come they understood it even though it looked like this? "Look... I don't understand."
Cai Xiaomei was the first to come back to her senses. She shook her head and said, "But after listening to the commentary, I feel like I understand a little bit. Anyway, it was very exciting. This game was full of ups and downs. It was amazing!"
"yes."
Yu Dongming also nodded and said, "When you participated in the chess competition before, your mother and I also watched it this way. Although we didn't understand it, we could feel that it was exciting. I want to learn chess."
“Is this true or false?”
Hearing this, Yu Shao was a little surprised and asked, "Dad, how about I teach you?"
“No, no.”
Yu Dongming smiled and waved his hands, saying, "How can you have the time to teach others? I don't have the time to learn in detail. I will buy a few chess books and read them to get a basic understanding. Maybe I can become a self-taught person like you."
Yu Shao was speechless for a moment.
"By the way, Xiao Shao, the second game of chess is over. Is it time to pay out the prize money?"
At this moment, Cai Xiaomei suddenly realized something, and quickly looked at Yu Shao and asked, "I heard that if you win two games in a row, the prize money will be higher?"
"According to the rules of the chess competition, if both games are lost, the initiator of the game will be responsible for three times the prize money."
Yu Shao thought for a moment and said, "Fifty percent of the prize money will be divided equally among the ten people, and the remaining fifty percent will be divided according to the number of wins."
"Xiao Shao, you won ten games, so the 50% is all yours, right?"
Cai Xiaomei calculated it and her mind suddenly started buzzing. She asked in surprise, "Shouldn't that be several million?"
"That's about right."
Yu Shao nodded and said, "The prize money for the first chess game is not as high as the second one."
The prize money for this World Go competition is very generous because there are so many sponsors. This can be seen from the popularity of this game. Regardless of whether the game is won or lost, the sponsors are definitely the winner.
Therefore, in fact, sponsors are the main driving force behind chess competitions. On the contrary, chess academies in various countries are often reluctant to accept sponsorship. Unless they are sure of winning a game, they will not easily compete for chess.
Hearing what Yu Shao said, Cai Xiaomei and Yu Dongming were both stunned for a moment.
They already thought the prize money for the first chess match was a lot, but the prize money for the second match was even more than the first? How much was it?
This is faster than robbery! "But your teammates haven't played yet, why do you have to take half?" Cai Xiaomei couldn't help asking, "Shouldn't you take all of it?"
"Of course not."
Yu Shao couldn't help laughing when he heard this and said, "The chess players who didn't play later will also help stabilize the morale of the troops."
"Generally speaking, the best players will be arranged to play at the end, so that the players ahead can give it their all. The players who play at the end often bear the greatest pressure."
"For example, in the second match, Zhuang Weisheng, 10th dan, and Lu Bo, 9th dan, hadn't even appeared on the stage yet, but they must have put in a lot of effort and time, so we can't not give them a share of the prize money, right?"
After hearing Yu Shao's explanation, Cai Xiaomei thought for a moment and said, "I see. What you said does make sense."
"But, Xiao Shao, I still have to save this money for you."
Cai Xiaomei's expression became a little serious as she spoke: "You are not yet an adult. You can't keep so much money by yourself. You will need money to buy a house, a car, and get married in the future."
Yu Shao didn't care much. He didn't know why, but ever since Xu Zijin gave him two boxes of chess pieces last time, he even felt that a few million was not that much.
Yu Shao nodded and said, "Mom, the bonus will be distributed in a few days, you can use it for your own use."
"That won't work, you earned it yourself!"
Cai Xiaomei immediately shook her head and said, "Mom and Dad will definitely not use your money. They will give it to you when you come of age."
After hearing this, Yu Shao didn't say anything else, because he knew it was useless to say anything. Cai Xiaomei and Yu Dongming said they wouldn't use it, so they definitely wouldn't use it.
"By the way, Xiao Shao, your next national team match is about to begin, right?" At this time, Yu Dongming suddenly thought of something and asked.
"right."
Yu Shao nodded and said, "Tomorrow."
"What about the opponent? Who is the opponent?" Cai Xiaomei couldn't help but ask curiously.
Yu Shao thought for a moment and replied, "Yin Yanang, 9th Dan."
Hearing this answer, Yu Dongming and Cai Xiaomei were stunned.
"Nine stages?!"
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That night, as the chess contest ended, the entire Internet was in an uproar! Two chess contests, both victorious! Reports, posts, and videos about the chess contest almost swept the entire Internet, because the second chess contest ended, and the first chess contest became popular again.
The night passed quickly amid the discussions among netizens.
Time came to the next day.
Early that morning, after Yu Shao had breakfast, he took a taxi to the chess academy.
As soon as Yu Shao walked into the hall of the chess academy, he saw a familiar figure.
"Su Yiming?"
Seeing Su Yiming standing in front of the vending machine scanning the code, Yu Shao was a little surprised and asked, "You have a game today too?"
"No."
Su Yiming shook his head, paused, and then said: "I came here specially to watch your game today."
Yu Shao was speechless and asked, "Do you know who my opponent is today?"
"Although it is a preliminaries tournament, the official website of the chess academy also announced it."
Su Yiming looked at Yu Shao and said calmly, "I've seen who your opponent is in every game of chess."
Hearing this, Yu Shao was slightly stunned.
At this time, Su Yiming spoke again and asked, "You signed up for the China-Japan-Korea team competition, right?"
Yu Shao came back to his senses and nodded silently.
Su Yiming bent down, took out two cans of Coke from the dispenser of the vending machine, handed one to Yu Shao, and said, "I've signed up, too."
"Thanks."
Yu Shao took the can of Coke from Su Yiming and thanked him while pulling the ring of the can.
"You don't have to participate in the preliminaries, you can directly get a place in this team competition."
Su Yiming still looked at Yu Shao and said, "But there will still be a selection to decide who will be the captain of the team competition. You... should know, right?"
Hearing this, Yu Shao’s hand that was pulling the ring of the can stopped for a moment.
Yu Shao raised his head and looked at Su Yiming.
Su Yiming's eyes were calm as he stood still, looking at Yu Shao, without showing any sharpness.
“I didn’t know that before.”
After a moment, Yu Shao finally retracted his gaze, opened the can, nodded, and said, "But now I know."
Su Yiming stopped talking, quickly opened the pull ring of the can, and walked towards the game room first.
Yu Shao didn't say anything either, and walked towards the game room with Su Yiming.
Not long after, Yu Shao and Su Yiming finally arrived at the door of the game room together. However, unlike in the past, there seemed to be surprisingly many people in the game room today.
Seeing another person coming to the door of the game room, almost everyone in the room immediately cast their eyes towards the door.
"It's Yu Shao!"
"Yu Shao is here!"
"Why is Su Yiming here too?"
After seeing Yu Shao and Su Yiming, the whole game room suddenly became noisy.
Yu Shao glanced around the game room and saw many familiar faces. Many of them obviously did not have any games today, but they still came to the chess academy today.
Yu Shao cast his gaze towards the fourteenth table. At this time, there was still no one on both sides of the table.
Yu Shao’s table number today is table 14.
Yu Shao walked towards table 14, and soon came to the side of table 14, pulled out a chair and sat down.
Seeing this scene, many people in the game room looked at each other, then stood up and walked towards table number 14. Soon everyone surrounded table number 14, making it impossible to get in or out.
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