The time was almost up, and many chess players took their seats one after another. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The President of the International Go Association took the stage to deliver an opening speech, announcing the official start of the first World Cup Go Challenge.

There are more than 1,000 players who enter the second round of preliminaries, and they will continue to use the elimination method to determine the top 32 in the next few days, the top 32 are divided into eight groups, each group of four players enter the group stage, the group stage adopts a point system, the winner has three points, the draw each gets one point, the loser has zero points, the top two in each group enter the round of 16, and then the knockout round, the knockout round is three games each time, and if there is a tie, there will be an extra match.

Overall, the format is similar to the World Cup in football.

Wang Ling's first opponent met Garnett from the United States.

"Hello, I'm Garnett from the United States, and it's a pleasure to meet you."

"Hello, my name is Wang Ling, let's start."

"Okay, but are you going to race with sunglasses and a mask?"

"Can't you? Is there a rule that you can't wear sunglasses and a mask? ”

"That's not it."

"Let's get started, then."

Garnett can't help it, and he is no longer entangled in this matter, he is full of expectations for this competition, although he is only an amateur chess player, but he has been king in the United States for a long time, and his chess strength has reached the professional level, he also knows that he can not achieve any good rankings in the face of many professional chess players from China, Japan and South Korea, but he must also play the level of the Americans, so that he and the United States Go can be famous in the world.

He saw that Wang Ling was not a professional chess player, so he didn't take him to heart, but as soon as the chess game began, he was shocked into a cold sweat.

Seeing that Fan Xiping's layout was relatively sharp, Wang Ling hurriedly whispered to him: "Fan Fan, the opponent is just an amateur, don't go too fast, put some water, so as not to make people recognize their identity."

"Why?"

"You have been playing chess on the Internet for so long, there must be a lot of enemies, and it will be bad if people recognize me, maybe they will put my sack in the toilet, knock on my stuffy stick, and slap me with bricks. I don't want to give you this black cauldron. ”

"Your psychology is too dark, and the character of chess players is very noble, so you won't do such a thing."

"It's strange, people who can play Go don't commit crimes?"

Garnett was thinking about the chess moves while observing Wang Ling, and found that this suspicious person was quite strange, his mouth wearing a mask kept moving, whispering to himself, and secretly said in his heart: "It can't be a psychopathy, right?" I was so unlucky that my first opponent ran into this. ”

Garnett slowly calmed down, and he found that his opponent had slowly become mediocre and his moves were no longer so sharp, except for the good start that had put a lot of pressure on him, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

"He shouldn't be a fan, if it was a fan, I would have lost a mess a long time ago, how can I go down until now." The chess game slowly entered the middle game, Fan Xiping did not use his fighting ability, but slowly grinded with the opponent, Wang Ling explained that he could only win the opponent less than two eyes, he was calculating, guiding the opponent out of the line he wanted.

If this kind of coaching is a seasoned professional player, he would have noticed that something was wrong, but Garnett did not have such an eyesight, he thought that his opponent's strength was similar to him, and the victory or defeat was only a line, completely unaware that he had been played by his opponent in applause.

The chess game slowly came to an end, Garnett pondered and struggled hard, but he still lost a glance and a half, as the king of the American Go world, he held his head and grabbed his hair in pain, "Lost?" I only lost one and a half games, and I didn't think that I would be eliminated in the first game, or I lost to an amateur chess player. ”

"Thank you for the guidance." Wang Ling said very politely, pressed the button on the table, and called the referee to come and record the results.

But his voice in the mask was muffled, and Garnett sounded particularly terrifying.

The second round of the preliminary round is divided into three days, with only one game on the first day, and two games each on the second and third days, which are divided into morning and afternoon.

Wang Ling hurriedly left the game after the game.

Garnett sat in his seat in a daze until Barkley came looking for him.

"Garnett, how's it going, did you win?" Barkley asked.

"See for yourself!" Garnett gestured to the chessboard in front of him.

"Lost?"

"yes, lost a glance and a half."

"Is the opponent a professional chess player? You're out of luck. ”

"No, it's an amateur."

"No, it won't!" Barkley couldn't believe it, "Are amateur chess players in China so good?!" ”

"Maybe I was careless, and that's the end of my World Cup journey, by the way, how are you?"

"My luck is good, my opponent is also an amateur, or a san, and I played very well."

"Did you win? Congratulations, it looks like the task of reviving American Go is up to you. ”

"Don't say that, I'm just lucky, it doesn't mean anything if you lose a game, in my heart you will always be the king of American Go."

"Have you ever seen a king who loses to an amateur chess player in the first game?" Garnett laughed to himself.

"What are your plans for returning to China?" Barkley asked.

"No, I'll stay, support you on the one hand, find out the fan on the other, and then worship him as a teacher."

"Will the fan come to this competition?"

"Yes, it will, I let people observe, after the start of the World Cup, Fan has never appeared on the Internet again, which means that he has also participated, and the conflict in time makes him no longer have time to play chess on the Internet."

"I hope so."

The first match of the second round is slowly over, and anyone whose opponent is an amateur player will be asked the same question by their peers, "Is your opponent a fan?" ”

But the results were all disappointing to them, and they still didn't find out who Fan was.

Huaxia's Wang Hao successfully advanced to the second game in the fourth section, and Yan Dong also advanced, while Lu Wei was unlucky and ran into a professional chess player and was eliminated.

Most of the Japanese chess players also successfully entered the second game, only the son of Aoi celebrity, Aoi 6th dan was unlucky, and in the first game, he met South Korea's No. 1 master Lee Zongrui 9th dan and was eliminated.

Although Aoi celebrity is a strict father, he is a little dissatisfied with his son's elimination in the first game, but the opponent is the No. 1 master in South Korea, which makes it difficult for him to be too harsh on his son.

The Japanese delegation gathered together and returned to the hotel, and Kuwahara Inbo was also the leader of the delegation as the president of the Japanese Benz Chess Academy, and he was quite satisfied with today's results and encouraged everyone.

"Everyone did well today, rest well in the evening and prepare for the game, don't run around, and continue to work hard tomorrow."

"Yes, Dean."

"The only regret is that we didn't find the fan." Kato Throne is obsessed with Fan and has always kept it in mind.

"Kato, don't worry, after today's game, there are only more than 500 players left, most of the amateur chess players have been eliminated, and there are few amateur chess players left in Huaxia, this range has been narrowed, I believe we will know his identity soon." (To be continued.) )