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

Chapter 41 Chief
"A dan ranking exchange tournament. I almost forgot there was such a tournament."

After hearing this, Yi Zheng climbed up the ladder and got on the bed. Yi Zheng hadn't participated in this competition for many years. When he heard the name, his thoughts seemed to be pulled back to a long time ago.

The Go professional ranking tournament is a competition for amateur players to become professional players, which is like the college entrance examination. It can be said that thousands of troops are crossing a single-plank bridge.

Not only is the number of places he can pass very limited, but only a very small number of the more than one thousand contestants can become professional players.

Moreover, the number of places for participating in the competition is extremely limited, and you can't participate just by signing up.

It is not easy to get a place in the qualifying tournament, otherwise the number of people registering every year would probably exceed hundreds of thousands.

It is basically confirmed that the maximum number of people participating in the ranking tournament each year is only more than a thousand places. As one of the seven major chess academies, Yunyi Chess Academy itself has ninety-six fixed places.

Of course, there are some additional places from other sources, such as recommendations from high-level professionals. Even so, the number of people who can participate in the professional ranking tournament of Yunyi is only about one hundred people every year.

The number of people in the other chess academies is similar or even a little less.

Therefore, among the more than 1,000 places, a considerable number are still in the hands of other Go training institutions and related people. It is not the case that the seven major Go academies directly monopolize the places in the qualifying tournament.

In order to enhance students' ability to adapt to professional ranking tournaments and mutual understanding between competitors before the competition.

Every year, the seven major chess academies will take turns to hold a small exchange competition for their top students before the ranking competition, which is equivalent to the joint examination of several provinces before the college entrance examination. This is the origin of the ranking exchange competition.

"hiss--"

Xiong Chong dipped his feet into the hot water in the footbath and shuddered, letting out a refreshed sound. "Aside from the ten spots allocated to the organizer that year, each other chess academy will have eight spots. It seems two spots will be given to other places, too?
If there are eight of you, you two will definitely be selected, but I heard that we also need to select a few under the age of fourteen, so it depends on whether I can find anyone in this age group.

If the three of us participate together and become professionals together in the qualifying tournament, with three people in one dorm, we'll be the new generation's Three Musketeers!"

The rules of the professional Go ranking tournament are not static. For example, there was a period of time when the enrollment was expanded, but later it was considered that the quality of the expanded enrollment was not good, so the number of professional places was reduced.

There are also some rumors about this year's Go professional ranking tournament. One of them is that the number of professional players will be expanded because the demand for professional players is so great that the current profession is in a state of supply exceeding demand.

Another is that the competition will be divided into children's group and youth group.

There is no way. The age limit for professional ranking tournaments was 20 years old before, but there were a lot of people who made it to the last year of their twenties to become professionals.

Sometimes your child is very talented, but at the age of ten it is difficult for you to beat a twenty-year-old who is not as talented as you.

Most of these players who rely on their age to become professionals do not have much development prospects, but instead squeeze out the places of talented young children.

Therefore, if we conduct group competitions, we can better select talented children.

Xiong Chong can be assigned to the children's group under fourteen years old. Shi Yuhan is just fourteen years old this year, so he can only compete in the youth group.

Shi Yuhan shook his head when he heard this: "Don't try to offend the Three Musketeers. They are only two to three years older than me, and some are even more than a year older than me.

One reached the semi-finals of the Asian Cup, one won the national championship, and one was the Rookie of the Year for three consecutive years.

well……"

Shi Yuhan couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this. With such an age gap, they might even be classmates in an ordinary school.

But now, in the same field, they are not even in the same circle. The gap between people is sometimes even greater than the gap between people and dogs.

Yi Zheng: "There are examples of people who achieve success late in the professional world. It just takes hard work."

Yi Zheng’s chicken soup is fresh and delicious, but most people just feel it’s too hot.

The reality is very cruel. After becoming a professional, there are still very few people who can become champions, even if it is just an ordinary national commercial competition champion.

Shi Yuhan shook her head. It would be more practical to think about becoming a professional than to think about this now. "Let's focus on the Dan Tournament. Boss Xiong, are there any other chess academies worth noting?"

"There are some!"

Xiong Chong immediately became excited when he heard this. How could he not have any information with so many gossip groups?

"Before each dan tournament, each academy would privately select the so-called "top player," just like who the most popular players in the academy consider to be the strongest.

On our side, you, Boss Shi, and Yu Renjian from Class 6 were the two most promising candidates before, but now..."

Xiong Chong raised his head and looked at Yi Zheng, who was lying on the bed and still solving life and death problems. His fists instantly stiffened.

From the sound of your voice I thought you were watching TV series, but it turns out you are secretly doing something else again!
He was playing a TV series on his phone and putting it aside without watching it, while he was doing life and death puzzles with a notebook!
Damn the King of Rolls!
Shi Yuhan didn't say much when she heard this, but just nodded: "We all know the ones from our school, what about the ones from other schools? Are there any newcomers worth noting this year?"

"It's still the same old stuff. For example, Bashan's Shu Buque. He seems to be a few months older than me, but he's said to be the most likely to be selected this year.

There seems to be nothing worth paying attention to in the Northeast. Fang Jie in Central China is also quite strong, but the biggest rival is definitely North China. It is said that there are more than one professional-level players in Jingwei.

The first recommendation is still Shi Yu over there, known as the chess king of Southern Liang. He had won all the games last year and was only two games away from being promoted to the professional level.

It turned out that he went out for a late-night snack and got food poisoning, so he was hospitalized and put on IV drips for several days. He failed the qualifying tournament.

"The Southern Liang Chess King? Why is he called that? Could it be that he has a Southern Liang Chess Saint Chu Ying inside him?"

When Mr. Ke heard this topic, he raised his head from watching TV and asked curiously.

Yi Zheng was also a little surprised when he heard this. Could he be from Jinling? But how could someone from Jinling go to the capital to study? After all, Yun Yi was closer.

"I don't know. Anyway, his family is from Tianjin. I don't know where this nickname came from, but everyone calls him that anyway."

Xiong Chong spread his hands when he heard this. Some nicknames are just inexplicable and may not even have any connection, but if enough people call it, it becomes your nickname.

"It's the joint entrance exam for the seven colleges! If I can rank in the top few, as long as there are no problems, I can definitely become a professional player."

Shi Yuhan lay on the bed, looking at the ceiling and muttering to himself.

Such conversations are happening in the seven major chess academies. Everyone is each other's biggest competitor, and everyone hopes to win the final spot on the shore.

And this competition is the touchstone!

(End of this chapter)