Chapter 445: The atmosphere in the Go world was distorted by him!
Seeing that Su Yiming was about to start drawing lots, he immediately attracted everyone's attention again.
Su Yiming quickly took out a piece of paper from the ticket box, and then, under the gaze of everyone, he opened it bit by bit. On the paper, there was only one number -
8.
Seeing this signature number, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Su Yiming, number 8."
Su Yiming raised his head and spoke to the staff.
The staff nodded, quickly found Su Yiming's name on the list, and wrote down the number eight behind his name.
"We're lucky. At least so far, there haven't been any duplicate numbers. It seems that even if there is a civil war in the first round, the probability is not too high." Zhu Huaian smiled and said when he saw this.
The World Championship is indeed an individual battle. There is no such thing as teammates, and everyone is an opponent. But even so, everyone still hopes to avoid civil war as much as possible.
Of course, if you are really unlucky and a civil war breaks out in the first round, then you will have no choice but to draw your swords and no one will show mercy.
The contestants of the Chinese team began to come forward one after another to draw lots. After more than a dozen players drew lots, there was no case of duplicate numbers.
Although no one wanted a civil war to occur in the first round, this situation was inevitable in the end.
"Li Congyou, No. 381."
After seeing his signature number, Li Congyou glanced at Chen Shan beside him, his expression slightly gloomy, and spoke to the staff.
Suddenly, everyone looked at Chen Shan, even Yu Shao and Su Yiming were no exception.
If they remembered correctly, Chen Shan's signature number just now was 381.
This also means that in the first round, one of Chen Shan and Li Congyou will definitely be eliminated!
When Chen Shan learned that Li Congyou had drawn number 381 like himself, his expression suddenly became a little ugly.
"This is too unlucky."
Zheng Qin looked at Chen Shan, then at Li Congyou, his eyes a little complicated. He whispered to Yu Shao, "Teacher Chen Shan and Li Congyou, 8th Dan, both have a high probability of making it to the top 64, and maybe even further, but..."
Zheng Qin didn't continue speaking, but Yu Shao already knew what Zheng Qin was going to say.
Although it is a pity that one of Li Congyou and Chen Shan will take a turn, there is nothing we can do about it. The competition system is so ruthless, where the fittest survive and the strong are respected.
Luck is also a part of strength, unless you already have the strength to ignore luck.
"Teacher Chen Shan, there's nothing we can do. It looks like we'll have to fight on the field." At this time, Li Congyou also turned his head and said to Chen Shan, "I also want to pick a weak persimmon."
"It all depends on your ability."
Chen Shan took a deep breath, controlled his emotions, and answered without showing any emotion on his face.
Seeing that someone had already drawn the same number, the remaining people who had not yet drawn lots felt a little heavier in their hearts, and then walked forward one after another and drew their own lots.
Finally, after a while, all the remaining Chinese chess players had drawn their lots. After seeing their lot numbers, they couldn't help but feel relieved and breathed a long sigh of relief.
Except for Li Congyou and Chen Shan, there was no other case of duplicate numbers within the team, which also means that there will only be one civil war in the first round for the entire Chinese team.
"There's only one civil war in the first round, which is considered pretty good luck." Cui Junzhe said with a smile as he looked at the sign number in his hand.
"Lucky? Really?"
Chang Yan was somewhat noncommittal about this. Looking at the lottery number in her hand, she said calmly, "As long as they don't encounter the strongest players in the country, many players who have participated in many world championships would actually prefer to be drawn into a civil war."
Hearing this, Cui Junzhe was slightly stunned and a little confused.
"There are only a few truly top-tier Go players in a country. As long as we don't draw one of them, it's generally acceptable to draw someone else."
Chang Yan glanced at Zheng Qin and the others with a hint of smile in her phoenix eyes, and deliberately said: "However, foreign wars are not necessarily the same. If you don't get a civil war, then the probability of encountering top foreign players is actually higher."
Upon hearing this, the expressions of Zheng Qin, Qin Lang, Cui Junzhe and other chess players who were participating in the world championship for the first time changed.
Indeed, they do not have the same numbers as each other, which means that their opponents cannot be Zhu Huaian, Zhuang Weisheng, Yu Shao and others.
However, it will not be the top domestic chess player, but more likely to be the top foreign chess players such as Yasu Hiroseki, Honinbo Shinkazu, etc.!
After all, the total number of top chess players from abroad is obviously much greater than the total number of top chess players in China!
When they thought of this, Zheng Qin and others suddenly became nervous.
"Look at how useless you are!"
Kong Zi couldn't stand the nervous look of Zheng Qin and the others, and cursed: "So what if we meet? What's wrong with meeting An Hongshi? We have to meet him, and we have to do it!"
"This is a chance for a good man to make a name for himself and be remembered for eternity! Why should you avoid his brilliance? Not only should you not avoid him, you should even use his blood as a sacrifice to spread your name!"
Kong Zi was closest to Zheng Qin, and his saliva sprayed on Zheng Qin's face. Zheng Qin twitched his mouth, but he was timid and did not dare to refute.
"Really? Then may I ask Master Kong Zi, what was your winning rate against An Hongshi before?" At this moment, Chang Yan's voice floated over with a bit of sarcasm.
"Ahem."
Kong Zi coughed twice when he heard this, and said without blushing or beating his heart, "It's just that the corner of my clothes is slightly dirty."
Hearing this, everyone present couldn't help but laugh, and the tense atmosphere just now was suddenly diluted a lot.
Finally, after a long while, all the chess players in the hall finished drawing lots.
Then a group of staff members took the list and walked to several computers to start entering data, preparing to arrange the match schedule for tomorrow's game.
Although there were many people in the hall, they were completely silent while waiting for the final battle list to be released, as if waiting for the judgment to come.
Finally, after about ten minutes, a battle list filled with names appeared on the big screen in front of the hall.
The whole audience suddenly became agitated, and everyone cast their eyes towards the big screen, looking for their first-round opponents.
Yu Shao also looked at the big screen and quickly found table 277. He saw the name of his first-round opponent and then a look of surprise appeared on his face.
Because the name of this opponent was not too unfamiliar to him.
Table 277, Yu Shao (China, title: national player) versus Dong He (USA, rank: 9th dan).
The name Dong He is, of course, a chess name. It does not mean that Dong He is Asian. On the contrary, Dong He is a native American chess player.
The last time the name Dong He appeared in front of Yu Shao was during the chess game. Kong Zi defeated Ma Dong with great force in the fifth game. In the sixth game, Dong He was ordered to face Kong Zi.
Among the ten players from the United States who participated in the second game, Dong He was the least famous and his past record was not very impressive. Kong Zi had just defeated Ma Dong beautifully the day before and was the talk of the town.
However, the final game between Dong He and Kong Zi was beyond the expectations of everyone, including Yu Shao.
Originally Kong Zi had the advantage, but later Dong He broke out in desperation, bursting out with amazing fighting power in the fight, and finally turned the tide, defeating Kong Zi in the middle game and forcing him to surrender.
However, in the next seventh game, Dong He lost to Chu Jingfeng, who was far less famous than Kong Zi. In that game, Chu Jingfeng was able to control the isolated pieces in the middle game and gather momentum to slay the big dragon, which was also quite exciting.
"Dong He?"
Kong Zi also noticed that Yu Shao's opponent was Dong He, the same man who had defeated him in the previous chess match, and warned him, "That guy has some unorthodox methods. Don't underestimate him."
"Got it. Thank you, Master Kong Zi."
Yu Shao nodded and thanked him.
Behind Yu Shao, Zheng Qin and Qin Lang couldn't help but twitch their lips when they heard these words.
A bit weird?
Is there a chess player in this world more devious than Yu Shao? Three-three, apex, demon sword vulgar rush, is there anything more sinister than this?
No, that's not right.
To be honest, it seems that in this year, all chess players have quietly transformed into evil practitioners. The atmosphere of the entire chess world has been led astray by Yu Shao, so that now Yu Shao can only be said to have gone evil in a righteous way!
When he thought of this, Zheng Qin's face became a little weird.
However, the most urgent task was to find his opponent. Zheng Qin quickly focused his attention and began to look for No. 207 on the big screen.
Soon, Zheng Qin found No. 207, saw his name, and his opponent. But when he saw his first-round opponent, Zheng Qin was stunned.
On the big screen, it was written:
Table 207, Zheng Qin (China, rank: 5th dan) versus Araki Noboru (Japan, rank: 9th dan).
At this time, Yu Shao also noticed Zheng Qin's opponent and was also startled. Then he couldn't help but look at Zheng Qin and whispered: "Zheng Qin, this..."
"fine."
Zheng Qin shook his head and stared at the big screen. After seeing that his opponent was Araki, he seemed to be relieved, but then he took a deep breath.
Yu Shao was a little surprised at Zheng Qin's calmness, but he didn't think too much about it and quickly looked at the battle schedule on the big screen.
Yu Shao then discovered that except for Zhu Xinyuan's opponent who was Master Ma Dong from the United States, the opponents of other players were almost all names he had never heard of.
For example, Su Yiming's opponent in the first round is a chess player from the Netherlands, who is currently only at the seventh dan level. He should be a rookie chess player who has just entered the title match and qualified for the world championship.
The hall was also in commotion at this time. Everyone was staring at the battle schedule on the big screen and talking about it. Everyone had different expressions. Some were relieved, some were nervous, and some were already facing a great enemy.
Taking advantage of this time, Yu Shao looked for chess players from other countries on the match list and soon found the name of An Hongshi, who was at number 451. His opponent was a Japanese chess player named Dazai Eiichiro, who was a ninth-dan.
As for the name of this Japanese chess player, Yu Shao vaguely remembered where he had seen this name and had some impression of it, but it was obviously the kind of person who was slightly famous, but not very famous.
Suddenly, Yu Shao saw a familiar name on the battle list. When he saw the opponent following this familiar name, a look of surprise suddenly appeared on Yu Shao's face.
No. 71, Toyama Xun, (Japan, rank: 8th dan), versus, Kimura Go (Japan, title: 10th dan)!
Not only him, but also Toyama Xun and Kimura Go were two names that attracted much attention. Many chess players in the hall also noticed this, with stunned expressions, and cast their eyes towards Toyama Xun and Kimura Go.
Kimura Go has been one of the representative figures in the Japanese Go world for many years. More than ten years ago, he defeated countless opponents, forced An Hiroiseki into desperate situations countless times, and even defeated An Hiroiseki many times!
And Fumio Toyama is the strongest chess player of the younger generation in Japan. He was even praised by Japanese media as "there will be no more genius after Fumio Toyama."
Although Dongshan Xun lost in the end in the China-Japan-Korea Go League, those games in the China-Japan-Korea League made Dongshan Xun famous all over the world. It can be said that he still won honor in defeat!
In the China-Japan-Korea Go League, the reason why Toyama Xun lost was not because he was weak, but simply because... his opponent was too strong.
After the China-Japan-Korea League ended, Fumio Toyama from Japan actually bore a lot of criticism for a while. After all, netizens often don't care about so many things, they just want the results.
But as time passed, when everyone calmed down, the reputation of Fumio Toyama on the Japanese Internet changed dramatically.
Because as time goes by, many people now look back at the China-Japan-Korea Go League and even think that Toyama Xun is a tragic hero. It is not that Toyama Xun did not do well, on the contrary, he has achieved the ultimate!
However, the opponent that Dongshan Xun faced was too strong...
Without a complete understanding of Yu Shao and his playing style and strategy, Dongshan Xun was able to play like that, to be evenly matched with him at one point, and to fight to the end. It was already an amazing feat!
It is like a mortal trying to wrestle with God. Even if the mortal is defeated in the end, it is just a tragic situation of wanting to defeat God halfway but failing at the last moment!
So, a very strange scene happened in Japan. The better Yu Shao's record, the better Dongshan Xun's reputation in Japan.
After the Gemini Cup ended, the number of fans of Toyama Xun in Japan even far exceeded that of Yu Shao!
And now, Toyama Xun faced Kimura Go in the first round.
In fact, it is not uncommon for young rookies to face top players in the first round of the civil war. If one person is replaced, such as Kimura Go being replaced by Honinbo Shin'ei, it would not attract so much attention.
The key point is that Toyama Xun’s teacher is none other than Kimura Go, 10th Dan!
"If I remember correctly, Toyama Xun's teacher is Kimura Go, 10th Dan, right?"
Qin Lang was also surprised and said, "A battle between master and disciple? So one of the teacher and the student will be eliminated in the first round? This is going to be a good show!"
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