Go: Is the portable old man the nine-time champion?

Chapter 111 When New Stars Shine

Mr. Ke perked up instantly when he heard this: "He's appeared. Whether he's a tsundere or a classic villainous little boss remains to be seen."

Because his predictions have been proven wrong too many times, Mr. Ke is very cautious about the positioning of newly emerging characters.

"what?"

Miao Jun couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Shen Guhong's words: "You two know each other?"

Yi Zheng shook his head when he heard this: "I don't know him."

Yi Zheng could understand Miao Jun's doubts. Even if he was blind, he could hear the hostility and sarcasm in the other party's words.

But Yi Zheng didn't know where this inexplicable hostility came from, because he didn't remember any intersection with the other party.

Of course he had heard of Shen Guhong, one of the three musketeers of the national team. It was even said that he was the strongest among the three because he was also the oldest.

Among the Three Musketeers, Miao Jun is more than half a year younger than Yi Zheng. Qi Ling and Yi Zheng are about the same age, while Shen Guhong is a little older, already seventeen years old.

But Yi Zheng didn't remember any interactions with the other party. It seemed like they had never met before.

Well, maybe I'll meet him in the qualifying tournament.

Using his novel writing experience, Mr. Ke offered a clue: "You could ask this guy if he likes Xiao Xun'er, no, Wen Xiao. Beautiful heroines always attract a lot of hostile bosses."

But after hearing Yi Zheng's speculation, Miao Jun waved his hand and said, "You're overthinking it. Sister Wen Xiao does feel like a lot of people like her, but everyone knows that she has someone she likes.

Not to mention that Lao Chen can't do anything except playing chess, he is a complete chess fetishist.

He didn't even have any communication with the women's team, thinking they were too weak and most of the players weren't worth playing against."

Although many people find various objective reasons and say that Go is essentially a physical sport because it can be played by old people and children, and can steal other people's takeout.

There is a difference in physical strength between men and women, so women are weaker than men, or female chess players do not receive as many resources and training as men.

However, no matter how many objective reasons there are, the reality that cannot be changed is that in the competitive sport of Go, female players are much less competitive than male players. Even the current number one female player is not even ranked in the top 30 in the domestic ranking, and sometimes even falls out of the top 40.

Top female chess players barely qualify to play in the Weiqi League, and may not even reach the threshold.

Essentially, there is no distinction between men's and women's competitions, only all-gender competitions and women's competitions.

Female chess players can participate in any competition, but male chess players cannot participate in women's competitions. Even if you think you are a transvestite with a female mentality, or a lesbian with a female sexual orientation, you cannot participate.

Therefore, it is normal for Shen Guhong to look down on the level of the women's team, as they were able to enter the national team with only 24 players selected.

After all, the number one female player in China is probably not as good as him.

Miao Jun was also puzzled by Shen Guhong's attitude, because he was quite familiar with Shen Guhong: "So I was also very surprised. He is not usually like this. Why did he suddenly speak like this? And you said you don't know him."

Although Shen Guhong usually looks quite cold, he would not say such weird and offensive words for no reason.

But Yi Zheng said he had never seen him before, which was really weird.

"It doesn't matter. Don't think too much. Just find a place to sit." Yi Zheng has no internal friction at all. He cares too much about other people's opinions or starts to reflect on himself just because of a random word from others. He always wonders if he has done something wrong. This is too easy to exhaust himself.

If I get into this state, I won’t even have the energy to learn chess.

As the most important seed force of Chinese Go, the selection of national team members is as grand as any national competition, so the customary leader speech segment is naturally indispensable.

Basically all the leaders related to Go gathered together, and Secretary-General Zhou, who was familiar to Yi Zheng, was also in the first row.

But his style is still abstract as always.

After the leaders come to the stage, they always give long speeches about how to attach importance to the development of Go, and encourage the elites below the stage to work hard and work together to create a strong Go country.

Zhou Songxing pointed to the sky after he came on stage and said, "I need everyone to applaud me for three sentences. The leaders before me have already said everything I need to say. I really don't have anything else to say, so please just applaud."

Upon hearing this, many people in the audience burst into laughter and applauded.

Looking at Zhou Songxing who was playing with abstractions in such occasions, Yi Zheng always felt that if Mr. Ke had a physical body, these two people might be able to chat with each other.

Yi Zheng couldn't help but look around. Most of the people sitting on his side were young people. The capable high-ranking players and title holders were sitting in the front row, and Jiang Mobai, the number one Go player in China, was sitting in the first row.

Of course, there is also the senior brother Yun Linglei, whom Yi Zheng is more familiar with, but if you count, Jiang Mobai seems to be the senior brother as well.

"If I join the Chinese national team, I'll be seeing these people all the time."

Miao Jun looked at Yi Zheng, who had a serious expression, and asked, "Are you confident?"

"Do your best."

"Do whatever you want."

Yi Zheng had grown accustomed to listening to Mr. Ke's unhurried idiom-chaining game nearby. "I'd rather see how big the gap is between my current abilities and those of my peers. And how long it will take me to make up for the lost ground I've missed."

Putting aside super talents like Miao Jun who are being trained by the national team, many other chess players of similar age to Yi Zheng have reached the level of fourth or fifth dan.

After all, some of them have successfully become professional players at the age of eleven or twelve, and it has been four or five years now. There are even many young people in the Go B-level league, and some of them are playing as main players.

Miao Jun nodded when he heard this, and then his expression even became a little serious: "It feels like our generation has produced a group of geniuses explosively. In the past, it was a big deal to have one or two talented people a year, but now there are four or five geniuses born in the same year.

Don't underestimate them. Each of them is very powerful, and I may not be able to defeat them 100%.

A Zheng, although your strength has improved rapidly, what you have accumulated now is still too little.

It is not that easy to join the national youth team. There are 24 places, and there may be more than 24 players aged 18 and above who are 4th dan or above.

Look over there, they're Wang Lin and Li Qing, known as the Magic City Twins. Over there are the Five Tigers of South China, the Four Heroes of Shanxi, and the Tiger of Donglai..."

As Yi Zheng listened, he felt something was wrong. Why was it fine in other places, but in Jiangsu, the situation was so accurate that it reached the village level?

This...this isn't right.

(End of this chapter)