Generally speaking, when talking about the Chess Academy in the imperial capital, it generally refers to the Imperial Capital Chess Academy.

It is a sacred place for all chess players. In addition to the task of training new players for the motherland, various Go competitions are often held here.

From the national players to the young chess players who have just entered the profession, they usually go in and out of here.

Fang Ze originally thought that the junior group Go competition that Fang's mother mentioned was just an entertaining amateur game conducted by a group of little children.

But after coming here, Fang Ze found out that the children who were playing here were all young chess players who had just entered the profession and studied in the chess academy.

Most of these young chess players are around eleven or twelve years old. Although according to the regulations, the age limit for participating in the junior competition is under 20 years old, it is difficult to find even a 15-year-old teenager here.

This is because there are three types of Go grades, Rank, Amateur, and Pro.

The level is generally from beginner to beginner, and the highest is level 1, and players above level 3 can be qualified to participate in the amateur Go fixed-stage tournament.

The amateur ranks are divided into one to eight dans, of which eight dan is not established in China, and the only way to obtain them is to apply to the Neon Chess Academy for the World Amateur Go Championship champion.

However, even if it is a seventh stage, the threshold for obtaining it is very high. Applications can only be made by the champion of the domestic amateur Go competition.

However, those who are amateur 5 dan or above and under the age of 15 can apply for the qualification of the National Professional Dan Competition.

Well, you read that right, an amateur Go player must be under the age of 15 in order to qualify for the top professional tournaments.

There is a saying in the Go world, that is, 'If you don't become a national player at the age of 20, you will have no hope for life.' ’

If a person is not famous before the age of 20 in Go, then basically he is not the material to do this.

The reason for this is that Go is a game that requires not only great talent, but also hard work to make a name for itself.

If a person wants to become a national player, then he has to be nailed to the front of the chessboard every day for at least six hours, at least from the age of eight.

Of course, this is only the most basic, and in addition to the need for hard work, Go must also require players to have a talent far beyond ordinary people.

Although no matter what industry you are, talent is ultimately required. After all, only those who have really worked hard can understand the importance of talent. But the Go world's demand for talent is even more perverted.

In other industries, although a talented person can occupy a little advantage, but a person with a little less talent can close this gap through hard work.

But Go is different, on the premise of solid basic skills, talent can do whatever you want.

For example, the famous chess player, Mr. Wu Qingyuan, the chess saint, single-handedly downgraded all the neon super-first-class chess players, and unscrupulously brushed the scores in the neon chess world, just like a college student going to kindergarten to be a school bully.

At that time, it was still a strong era in the neon Go world, and there were many famous chess players, but no matter how hard these chess players worked, they still couldn't beat the old man Wu Qingyuan.

For example, Minoru Kitani of Beninfang, the Kitani Dojo founded by him, was known as the No. 1 school in the world chess at that time, and he was a grandmaster-level figure in the neon Go world back then.

But it was such a great god, and Mr. Wu Qingyuan played ten rounds of chess, and fell on the spot with a nosebleed. But he was still being run over by Mr. Wu.

It can be seen that in the Go industry, a person's talent determines how far a person can go.

And what's even more terrifying is that the Go world not only looks at talent accidents, but also looks at young skills.

For a player to make a career in the game of Go, he or she must learn the game from a very young age. After the age of fifteen, he began to learn modern Go, and became a professional player, and there is no player in China who has won the ranking in the competition.

The most inspirational example is that Liu Xiaoguang Jiudan began learning Go at the age of thirteen and became a famous chess player.

Therefore, even the children who are playing in front of Fang Ze's eyes now, although they look at them one by one at the age of elementary school, when it comes to chess power, they can already crush most of the adult amateur chess players in the outside world.

Just as Fang Ze turned to a corner, about to stop and take a lazy rest, he suddenly heard a neon word sounding beside him.

"Hello, can I excuse me?"

Fang Ze turned his head and found that it were two children who looked to be only eleven or twelve years old.

One of the children had dyed yellow hair, and the other had black hair, but it looked neutral, so that Fang Ze couldn't tell whether it was Zhengtai or Lori for a while.

It was the yellow-haired kid who spoke to Fang Ze, and while he spoke this Japanese, he tried to make Fang Ze understand what he was saying while using broken English and sign language to assist.

"Where is there a restaurant around here?"

"Are you hungry?" Fang Ze had seen these two children before, but at that time, both of them were playing chess, Fang Ze thought it was a child in the chess courtyard, and now it seems that it should be a foreign friend who came to participate in the competition. So he communicated with the two children in neon.

"Yes, yes, because it's time for dinner. The yellow-haired child immediately became excited after hearing Fang Ze's words.

"Good standard neon language, brother, are you a compatriot working in Huaxia?"

"No, I'm from Huaxia. Fang Ze said as he said to the two children, "You come with me, I'll take you to the restaurant." ”

"Thank you so much. The two children thanked Fang Ze together. "Because our tour leader didn't know where to go, we didn't know who to ask, and when we saw you in overalls, we came over. ”

"Are you two professional chess players in Neon?" Fang Ze asked curiously, "It's hard to come so far to compete." ”

"It's not hard. "It's a great luck to be here and play with so many players of the same age." It's hard to have this opportunity at home. ”

The yellow-haired child's sentence 'It's hard to have this opportunity in Neon' is not polite, but there is a big gap between the young professional chess players of Neon and the young professional chess players of China.

Now that the Go system is built by neon, there is almost no controversy about this.

In the process of the development of modern Go, the neon Go world abolished the seat system and returned the head, making the opening of Go more free and changeable, and laying the foundation of modern Go layout theory.

The establishment of the rank system and the clarification of the difference between the ranks of each rank and the rules for promotion are equivalent to the establishment of a title system for Go.

In the end, the neon Go community established a sticker system after World War II, which is a prerequisite for the modern Go competition system. So there is a saying that Huaxia is the biological mother of Go, and Neon is the adoptive mother of Go, but there is not much wrong with it.

But even though Neon has contributed so much to the modern game of Go, the gradual decline of the Neon Go world is an indisputable fact.

During the period of China's reform and opening up, the neon Go world could almost completely crush the Chinese Go world, but with the development.

The Chinese Go and Nanbang Go circles have gradually risen by virtue of the school-style talent training system, but the neon Go world has led to the discontinuation of talents because of the ancient master-apprentice training system, and has been easily overtaken by Huaxia and Nanbang.

Fang Ze took the two to the restaurant in the chess courtyard and introduced the Chinese food in the restaurant to the two neon children.

"This sounds like it's delicious. After discussing with the two children, they chose the yellow braised chicken rice.

It just so happened that Fang Ze was also a little hungry at this time, so he ordered one for himself, and the three of them sat down to eat together.

"What's your name? After Fang Ze asked, he also said his name by the way, "My name is Fang Ze." ”

"My name is Hikaru Shinto. The yellow-haired kid said.

"My name is Ryo Taya. That Fang Ze, who couldn't tell whether Shota or Lori's child, also sat down and introduced himself.

Judging from the sound, it should be Xiao Zhengtai.

"At such a young age, I became a professional chess player. Your teachers must be famous. ”

"I'm self-taught. After Hikaru Shinto finished speaking, he pointed at Taya Ryo and said, "Taya Ryo learned chess from his father. ”

"Self-taught!" Fang Ze looked at Hikaru Shinto, a little surprised.

As mentioned before, the method of cultivating newcomers in the neon Go world is still the ancient master-apprentice system.

In Neon, if a chess player feels that his chess strength is starting to decline and he is unable to fight for results, he will start to recruit apprentices.

Generally, the source of apprentices is either discovered by themselves or recommended by others.

Once the apprentice is accepted, the apprentice will leave his parents and live in the master's house, where he will study, eat, live, and live with the master, and all the expenses incurred during this period will be borne by the master. And after the disciple leaves the teacher, he will pay a part of his income to the master.

This is also the so-called inner disciple system, and the Chinese cross talk world used to be this inheritance method, so there is a reason why the cross talk world is declining year by year.

In Huaxia, there are teachers who are specially responsible for guiding young chess players to play chess, teachers who are specialized in training basic skills of life and death, and teachers who specialize in layout and stereotype.

And in Neon, all of this is done by the master alone.

Therefore, Hikaru Shinto said that he was a self-taught professional chess player, which would make Fang Ze feel incredible.

This talent is afraid that it is comparable to or even surpasses the rhythm of the chess saint Wu Qingyuan.

After all, the reason why there were six super-first-class players in the neon Go world back then was because these six players all had a common teacher, Minoru Kitani.

It can be seen that in the neon Go world, the influence of a good teacher on chess players.

And the little chess player in front of him, called Jinjiguang, actually said that he was self-taught, which is indeed quite terrifying.

The three of them chatted for a while, and Fang Ze finished eating with Taya Liang first.

He glanced at his watch, then said to the two children, "I have something to do and need to leave for a while, if you need any help, you can wait for me in the hall." ”

"Thank you then. The two neon kids thanked Fang Ze together.

"This is where the guests are supposed to come. Fang Ze walked to a place where there was basically no one and looked around, hoping to spot the guests who had arrived this week in time.

He is really curious now, if the guest who came is indeed a young version of Tang Seng, then if he eats his meat, will he live forever.