On December 23rd, the 9th National Collegiate Chess Game Competition was held at Kyoto University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

A total of 128 colleges and universities signed up.

On the morning of the 23rd, the opening ceremony was held in a large hall of the school.

The two days of 24 and 25 are the qualifiers for various chess sports.

Of course, for unpopular chess sports such as Amazon chess and Einstein chess, there are not many people who sign up, so there is no need to bother to engage in any qualifiers, and it is directly the knockout stage.

Tsinghua University's Go and Xiangqi, both of which are among the four major seed schools, do not need to participate in the qualifiers of the first two days, and can directly select the knockout round on the day of the 26th.

The day before departure.

In the activity room of the chess and card club, President Lian Qingfeng patted Cheng Nuo's shoulder.

"You are the only one of us at Tsinghua University who participates in the game of Go, you are the hope of our whole village, don't let us down. ”

"As long as you can play normally, that number one position is definitely yours. Lian Qingfeng said with some mixed feelings in his heart.

Originally, his original intention was to choose someone who could have half his strength. But now it's good, and I found a member of the club who is stronger than him for some reason.

The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and one wave is more than a wave!

Lian Qingfeng sighed in his heart.

Facing the president's encouragement, Cheng Nuo nodded with a smile, "Well, don't worry, I will let others understand that even if we don't have the president of Tsinghua University, we can still easily win the championship of the Go project!!"

Lian Qingfeng: "......"

Reason is this principle though.

But Cheng Nuo's words, how did Lian Qingfeng ponder, how did he feel that something was wrong?

............

This activity of the entire chess and card club is fully responsible for Vice President Zhang Yunjie.

Team leader + chess player, this is Zhang Yunjie's current identity.

On the morning of the 26th, eight contestants, including Zhang Yunjie, boarded a bus to Kyoto University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Why 8 people?

Because there are already two contestants who have been brushed down in the previous qualifying stage and have not been able to participate in the knockout round.

On the bus, Zhang Yunjie sat next to Cheng Nuo and unfolded a form.

"This is a list of all the 32 players in your Go event who have made it to the knockout stage, as well as the grouping of the players. ”

Cheng Nuo picked up the form and looked at it.

As a popular sport, almost all of the 128 colleges and universities have players signed up for the Go competition, and some schools even sent more than one person.

Therefore, a total of 158 players, after two days of fighting, 28 players entered the knockout round, plus one player from each of the four seeded teams, to form the final 32 players to participate in the knockout round.

Next, the 32 players will be divided into four groups: A, B, C, and D, with eight players in each group, for a one-on-one elimination round.

Due to the long duration of Go matches, all matches are won or lost until the semi-finals.

The winner will advance unconditionally. The loser will be eliminated immediately!

At the same time, for the sake of seed protection, the four seeded players were divided into four groups, and if they want to meet, they will have to reach the semi-finals at the earliest.

Cheng Nuo was placed in Group B.

The opponent in the first round of eliminations is called ...... Ma Boyong.

............

"Hello. ”

"Hello. ”

Ma Boyong is a chubby and round boy with a shiny head.

After shaking hands amicably, the two sides sat down on the playing bench.

The venue for the competition was an event room of BJA.

The four knockout rounds of Group B will be played at the same time. And there were only two referees watching from this side in four games.

However, there are at least dozens of large and small chess games held today, and it is good to have two referees to divide them.

Guess the child, Ma Bo Yongsheng, and take the black spot first.

Bang~

Bang~

Ma Boyong was unceremonious, relying on the advantage of holding black chess first, and directly used a small mini Hua Guoliu to start the game.

Using this small mini Hua Guoliu opening, you can play against white chess and expand the advantage of the first move.

Just a few hands in the first game, from the perspective of the situation, Cheng Nuo fell into passivity.

But...... Never mind.

When Ma Boyong was happy, Cheng Nuo picked up a white child and dropped it without hesitation.

Bang~!

Ma Boyong was also not to be outdone, and continued the layout of his small mini Hua Guoliu. In my heart, I am still full of confidence.

Cheng Nuo smiled and quickly fell again.

Bang~!

Bang~!

may have been stimulated by Cheng Nuo's rapid chess speed, and Ma Boyong also fell very fast.

As a result, the progress of the competition was much faster than that of the other three groups.

While the other three groups were still moving step by step and cautiously dropping their moves, Cheng Nuo's side had already filled almost half of the chessboard.

Cheng Nuo has a super brain comparable to a computer, so he can give his next judgment so quickly.

But what about Ma Boyong?

He has nothing.

Thereupon...... He was in a tragic.

Bang~!

Cheng Nuo's white chess pieces fell, and so far, Cheng Nuo's layout has also been completed.

"Universe...... Cosmic Flow?!"

Ma Boyong also instantly understood Cheng Nuo's layout, and his heart trembled.

He didn't expect that under his nose, Cheng Nuo had completely successfully laid out the playing style of the cosmic flow.

Fight back?

If you could have seen through it a few steps earlier, you could have barely stopped it.

But now...... There is no way back!

Ma Boyong was powerless to look at the sky.

Ten minutes later, the game ended.

"Referee, we're done. Cheng Nuo raised his hand to signal to the referee.

A referee came over the number.

In the final result, Cheng Nuo won two and a half goals, easily knocked out Ma Boyong, and advanced to the next round.

............

In the morning, Group B scored 8 into 4, and Cheng Nuo won against Ma Boyong from Yangcheng University.

In the afternoon, Group B will play two matches, 4-in-2 and 2-in-1, with the winner advancing to the semi-finals.

The afternoon game starts at two o'clock.

Cheng Nuo came to the competition venue early, and it was still the activity room, but there were only four people left in the competition.

The other three also arrived early, and when they saw Cheng Nuo arrive, they couldn't help but set their eyes on Cheng Nuo one by one.

There is exploration, but more of a scrutiny.

To be honest, the other three don't know much about Cheng Nuo. To be precise, I've never heard of it.

At the beginning, when they knew that they had been placed in the same group as Tsinghua University, they were quite desperate.

For Lian Qingfeng, the big demon king, these players are not just the first time to participate in the college chess competition, and they can't have any desire to fight.

But when they got the list of competitions and saw the name of Cheng Nuo in the column of Tsinghua University, they laughed with relief.

That's right, Lian Qingfeng is already a senior, and he doesn't have time to participate in the competition.

For a moment, they felt the urge to cry.

Finally, the shadow that has hung over the heads of all college students for three years has finally ...... Won't come again!

But what they don't know is...... That shadow will not disappear because of Lian Qingfeng's absence.

Because...... Cheng Nuo is here!