Chapter 56 I am still far from enough

The competition venue was set up in the conference room on the third floor. At around 8:30, led by Chen Jiaming, Yu Shao, Xu Zijin, Zhong Yufei and Zhou De rushed to the competition venue on the third floor.

At this time, the conference room was already crowded and noisy. There were chess tables neatly arranged in the middle of the conference room. Many people were playing chess and warming up before the game. The sound of chess pieces dropping could be heard constantly.

"Teacher Wang, long time no see. Judging from your current state, you seem very confident that you can achieve good results in the league this year."

"Hahaha, with South China No. 3 Middle School here, who can say we are full of confidence? But these guys have made great progress this year, I hope they can make it to the third round."

There were many acquaintances who rarely met each other and they started to greet each other.

At this time, in the corner by the window of the conference room, the Go instructor of Guangnan High School was also cheering for the contestants from their school.

"Our school has a great chance of winning this time. Even if we meet South China No. 3 Middle School, we will still be able to compete."

The Go instructor of Guangnan High School was named Jin. He whispered, "Although two of the players from Huanan No. 3 High School came from the dojo, the strength of their other player is not that strong."

"So, as long as we can defeat him, we can still win according to the best-of-three rule!"

"Our school has never achieved good results in the high school Go league. This year is the most promising year. We may even have a chance to win the championship. Everyone should go all out!"

After saying that, Teacher Jin noticed a boy who was curiously fiddling with a timer. He was startled and asked, "Su Yiming, why are you playing with the timer?"

"A timer?"

Su Yiming was a little confused, and immediately put down the timer in his hand and asked, "Teacher, this is used to measure time? What time? The time of a whole game of chess?"

"Don't you know?"

Teacher Jin was a little speechless. Although Su Yiming was a very strong Go player, he often showed extreme ignorance about some basic knowledge of Go, which made him feel a little unbelievable.

A man who could play a chess game like that didn't know what a timer was for? "I don't know."

Su Yiming looked at the timer curiously and asked, "Does this mean that the countdown starts at the beginning of the game, so that both sides must complete the game within the specified time?"

"It's not the time of a whole game of chess, it's the time available to both sides."

Teacher Jin patiently explained: "This thing is called a Go timer, also called a Go clock."

"Whether it is an amateur or professional competition, a chess clock will be set to limit the time taken by the players."

"Because in a game, both sides have limited time available, so there will be no situation where you have to think about the next move for a whole day."

Su Yiming seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly realized: "Just like online Go?"

"Yes, just like online Go."

Teacher Jin looked at Su Yiming with some surprise, nodded, pointed at the timer and said, "Do you see the two buttons on the timer? You need to press that button for each step."

"For example, if you have an hour available, when you run out of time, you will enter a countdown. If the countdown is 20 seconds, then you must make a move within 20 seconds. If you exceed the time limit, you will be declared the loser."

After that, Teacher Jin paused and continued, "As for the timekeeping method you mentioned, there is also one called the lump sum system. Each side has a certain amount of time. Once the time is up, they will be directly judged as the loser. There is no countdown in this case."

"Therefore, in a formal Go game, it is not only a test of chess strength, but also a test of the timing strategies of both players."

Teacher Jin thought for a moment and said, "For example, some chess players would try to save as much time as possible for the middle game, because the battle in the middle game is more complicated and intense, and requires a lot of time for calculation and thinking."

"But some players will leave a lot of time in the middle and late game, so that if the opponent enters the countdown, he is likely to make mistakes and reveal his skills. If you can seize the opponent's mistakes, you can win the game."

At this point, Teacher Jin couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Your words really reminded me. I'll ask the principal to buy some chess clocks for the school."

Hearing this, Su Yiming looked at the timer and nodded thoughtfully.

"Now that Go has a time limit, I'm a little uncomfortable with it, but... it seems quite interesting. It turned out to be the right decision to participate in the Go competition."

Su Yiming couldn't help but smile.

"In the past 100 years, the world has given me so many surprises."

"More than a hundred years ago, I could never have imagined that humans would be able to land on the moon, or that people would be able to play chess across thousands of miles of mountains and rivers through a small box called a computer."

Even though so much time has passed, Su Yiming still feels incredible from the bottom of his heart when he sees the changes in the world today.

At this moment, Chen Jiaming finally brought Yu Shao and four others into the competition venue.

"Teacher Chen Jiaming is here."

"We are finally here at Jiangling No. 1 Middle School. As the host, we are a little late."

"Although the results of Jiangling No. 1 Middle School in previous competitions were not ideal, this time Jiangling No. 1 Middle School is at home and has the home advantage, so we cannot take it lightly."

Seeing Chen Jiaming bringing the contestants from Jiangling No. 1 Middle School to the competition venue, many people immediately looked at Chen Jiaming, and some acquaintances took the initiative to greet Chen Jiaming.

Su Yiming also looked towards the door with some curiosity.

Coincidentally, Yu Shao also looked towards the competition venue at this time, and their eyes met briefly in mid-air.

Su Yiming withdrew his gaze and nodded slightly at Yu Shao.

Yu Shao was stunned for a moment, and after he came to his senses, he nodded slightly to Su Yiming.

"Yu Shao."

At this moment, a somewhat familiar voice suddenly sounded in Yu Shao's ears.

Yu Shao turned his head and saw that Zheng Qin had walked to the door with two young men who looked puzzled. They were looking at him with smiles on their faces.

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Yu Shao couldn't help but be a little surprised. Why was Zheng Qin here?

"You actually came."

Zheng Qin smiled at Yu Shao and said, "I came here only because I thought you might participate in this competition. I didn't expect to actually meet you... I originally thought that you wouldn't participate in this kind of competition."

"The principal asked me to attend."

Yu Shao explained, and asked in confusion: "Why are you here?"

"I was invited."

Zheng Qin smiled and said, "I graduated from the High School Affiliated to South China Normal University, and then my university won the national university team championship, so I was invited."

Hearing this, Xu Zijin remained calm, but Zhong Yufei and Zhou De widened their eyes and looked at Zheng Qin in surprise.

Even Chen Jiaming subconsciously pushed up his glasses and looked at Zheng Qin twice more in surprise.

The national college Go team championship is not as valuable as the city high school Go league championship. It can even be said that the two are not on the same level at all.

After all, it was a national college Go team competition. Even if professional players could not participate in such competitions, if they wanted to win a championship in a competition of this level, they had to have at least the level of amateur seventh dan or even amateur eighth dan.

You know, some amateur 7th dan players can even challenge professional chess players.

"I didn't want to come, but I thought you might be there, so I agreed."

As he spoke, the smile on Zheng Qin's face gradually faded.

He stared at Yu Shao and slowly said, "I have passed the semi-finals of this year's Go tournament. As long as I can pass the finals next month, I will be a professional player the month after next."

Hearing this, Xu Zijin, who was beside Yu Shao, also cast his glance towards Zheng Qin.

Zhou De and Zhong Yufei were so surprised that they couldn't close their mouths.

A semi-professional chess player? "Although I passed the preliminaries and semi-finals with a perfect record, but..."

Zheng Qin was silent for a moment, then continued, "When I think of those two games, I still feel that I... am far from good enough."

Zheng Qinzhang exhaled, looked at Yu Shao, and said, "I'll wait for you."

After these words were spoken, the two young men behind Zheng Qin were completely stunned. They looked at each other and were speechless.

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