Li Cai was alone, wearing an invisible ring, and wandered outside for a long time before returning to Shangjing.

Because the third "Hope Cup" final is about to start again.

In the 12-13 Go World Championships, Hua Guo won four of the five world championships, and South Korea only won one this year, almost shaving his head again when there was no Li Cai.

Only in the Samsung Cup in December, South Korea's first Go player Lee Sedol retained the world championship, winning 2:1 against Lee Cai's brother Gu Dali.

As for the Asian Cup TV Go Rapid Chess Tournament, Kong Erjie defended the championship and won again against a Korean player.

On January 19 this year, Zhou Ruiyang defeated Chen Yaoye 3:0 and won the first Bailing Aito Cup World Go Open Championship.

On February 20, this year's World Go Championship ushered in the first Sino-Korean decisive match, and Shi Yue defeated Yuan Shengqin 2:0 to win the 17th LG Cup championship, thus keeping the LG Cup in China for eight consecutive years.

On March 6, Fan Tingyu defeated Park Tinghuan 3:1 to win the 7th Ying's Cup championship, so far, Fan Tingyu has become the second youngest world champion in China at the age of 16 years and 7 months, and also became the second youngest nine-dan chess player in the world.

If there is no Li Cai, Fan Tingyu would be the youngest in the world, the youngest nine-dan chess player.

Of course, not everyone is famous at a young age, Fan Tingyu has been mediocre since he won this world championship, and there is no outstanding performance.

This also made Li Cai's junior brother Ke Jie's performance more and more eye-catching in the future, and no one could compete with him.

Because in the 12-13 years of Go competitions, there are only five world-class Go tournaments.

As for the Chunlan Cup, it will have to wait until June this year, and there is a conflict with the "Hope Cup" competition, so it will be placed in the next year's "Hope Cup" competition.

Because the Chinese players accounted for the majority, Lee Sedol was the only one who entered the "Hope Cup" competition.

Originally, Lee Sedol did not plan to participate, but in order to expand the influence of Go, just like tennis, there was a tournament with a high prize money, so under the communication between FIDE and the domestic chess association, it was decided to reorganize the "Hope Cup" and make it more formal.

Although there is still the previous mode of guarding, players who enter the tournament as world champions will receive a reward of 500,000 yuan.

Of course, in order to increase the influence of Go in the world, a place will be given to non-Asian countries to compete, which is equivalent to a wild card, but there is no bonus, after all, it is not a world champion, and the level of Go is limited, but this wild card player can get one million as the world champion when he enters the next round.

In short, for the sake of Go's international influence, the "Hope Cup" can be said to be the largest tournament in the chess world, just like the year-end finals of tennis and the playoffs of the NBA.

Although the number of people in the competition is still very small, the meal must always be eaten one bite at a time, and you must not eat it all in one bite, otherwise you will choke.

Moreover, the rest of the World Go Championships also have seeds for European and American chess players, and they can get experience, and the "Hope Cup" can have a participation, so that they have the motivation to chase the high prize of 50 million, which is already good.

Because it is six chess players, after two or two duels, there are still three people left.

The remaining three naturally have one is Lee Sedol, the first person in South Korea, one is Shi Yue, and the other is Kong Erjie.

There are three people left, although they want to use a round-robin tournament, where the three play against each other to see who can win more games.

But this has been too long, and it is very likely to encounter a draw, that is, Lee Sedol won Shi Yue, and then lost to Kong Erjie, and Kong Erjie lost to Shi Yue, this is a dead loop.

So after discussion, it was decided to draw lots to see who was lucky, and whoever had a bye would directly advance to the next round.

The only remaining Korean chess player, and the only Korean chess player to participate this time, Lee Sedol was so lucky this time that he won a bye and directly advanced to the next round.

It can be said that in the three "Hope Cups", Lee Sedol has entered the challenge twice and this time he has also entered the semi-finals, and it is very likely that he will challenge Li Cai again.

In the match between Shi Yue and Kong Erjie, in the end, Kong Erjie was the better one, winning 2:1 and competing with Lee Sedol for the right to challenge.

And this time Lee Sedol may have run out of luck in the front, and as a year has passed, Lee Sedol's strength in Go has declined to a certain extent.

Therefore, in the five-game game, after drawing 1:1 in the first two games, Kong Erjie showed great power, won two games in a row, won 3:1, and got the opportunity to finally challenge Li Cai.

And Lee Sedol also had no chance to challenge Li Cai again to compete for a high prize of 50 million.

However, because of the restructuring of the "Hope Cup", Lee Sedol reached the finals, and he was able to get a total of 2 million bonuses, which is not a loss, and the income from the competition is almost the same as that of winning a year for him.

Although he can't abuse Lee Sedol again, Li Cai is still very happy to see Huaguo chess players challenging him.

After all, after he no longer participated in Go competitions, Koreans have always praised Lee Sedol as the world's first person in Go, and South Korea is still invincible and the most powerful in Go.

It's a pity that this year, even without Li Cai, Huaguo Go ushered in the spring of Go in the growth of a new generation of chess players.

As for South Korea, in addition to the praised Lee Sedol, among the new generation of chess players, there is only one Park Yeon-heng, which can be said to have no successor.

Compared with the emergence of many talented chess players in Huaguo, it can be said that it is miserable.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that South Korea is too small, where the fart is bigger, and South Korea attaches less and less importance to Go, and even in terms of military service, the champion and runner-up in the world Go competition can be exempted from military service, and they can only be exempted from winning gold medals in competitions such as the Asian Games.

It can be said that this is basically difficult to get, and the players who generally get it are strong veteran players, like Lee Sedol, who have long been exempted from military service, and some talented chess players have no hope at all.

And after two years of military service, even if you are a genius, if you don't have a cheat like Li Cai, if you don't have a cheat like Li Cai, it will be impossible to achieve something in Go.

Therefore, even though Go is more influential than in previous lives, the current situation of Korean chess players has not improved.

Unless their American "dad" takes Go seriously, their government will have more benefits for Go players.

In the ten games with Kong Erjie, Li Cai still won eight games, and after playing Kong Erjie to give way, he lost two games.

Therefore, the third "Hope Cup" was still successful with Li Cai, and this time Dad Li did not give Li Cai 50 million, but doubled it tenfold and gave 500 million.

Because Li Cai has been playing everywhere during this time, after the game, he is ready to spend money and invest.

It can also be said that I went to the "loser".