The group stage entered the third round, and Ye Xiaoya met Zhou Yangfan, who also won two consecutive victories.

"Mr. Ye, I can finally play another game with you." Zhou Yangfan said with a smile.

"Teacher Zhou, it's been a long time." Ye Xiaoya said.

"Don't call me Teacher Zhou, Teacher Ye, just call me by my name, I'm your loyal fan." Zhou Yangfan waved his hand again and again.

"Otherwise, I'll call you Senior Brother Zhou." Ye Xiaoya smiled, she had also heard of the Chess God Research Association established by Zhou Yangfan of the Beijing Chess Academy, but that was his choice, not to mention that she did not officially admit that she was Tong Yajing, even if she was named the chess god of Tong Yajing, she could not directly call Zhou Yangfan by name out of politeness.

"Don't dare to be, if you don't call me by my name, then call me Kuroko."

"Kuroko? Why this nickname? Ye Xiaoya was very curious about this nickname.

"Teacher Ye saw that my face was black, and for a period of time after I set a stage, I especially liked black chess, so I was called a sunspot by people close to me." Zhou Yangfan said with a smile.

"Alright then, Brother Kuroko, shall we start now?"

"Teacher Ye, I still have a few words to say." Zhou Yangfan looked a little nervous, and there was a hint of firmness in his eyes, "I want to worship Teacher Ye as a teacher." ”

"Worship me as a teacher?" Ye Xiaoya was stunned for a moment, then immediately shook her head and said, "Don't be kidding, I can't teach you." ”

"Of course I teach, there is a good saying, there is no order to learn, and the master is the teacher." Zhou Yangfan said seriously: "Obviously, Mr. Ye, you are the master, and I am your student." ”

"Actually, don't you have a better choice?" Ye Xiaoya said: "Zhao Yajun is more suitable for you. ”

"Teacher Ye, in fact, I don't just want to learn Go, I also want to learn artificial intelligence from you, I think I can use artificial intelligence to play Go." Zhou Yangfan said.

"Oh, that's it......" Ye Xiaoya hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's talk about this matter later, let's play chess now." ”

"Okay, Mr. Ye, in fact, I am already taking the graduate school entrance examination of Jingcheng University, and I also heard that you will take a graduate student next year." Zhou Yangfan said cautiously.

"Then come on, I'm optimistic about you." Ye Xiaoya smiled, this week Yangfan is obviously a man of action, he is almost thirty years old, and he still has to go to graduate school, obviously working hard for his goals.

"Thanks, I'll try."

Five minutes later, the two officially started.

Zhou Yangfan started with two consecutive stars, and Ye Xiaoya also responded with two consecutive stars.

In the first 30 moves, the two sides walked in a decent manner, and black always maintained the first-move advantage.

At the 38th move, white touches a corner and begins the first battle of the prologue.

Zhou Yangfan was obviously prepared for this move, and quickly chose a simple change, until 50 moves, each side ate a piece, and white did not take any advantage.

Ye Xiaoya saw Zhou Yangfan so calm, and couldn't help but think highly of him, if Ye Xiaoya was just coping with errands in that game of rapid chess a few years ago, then now in this game of chess, she plans to guide this top talent in the Go world well.

In the 56th move, White chose to hit the black space again, this time it was obviously more ferocious than the first time, and it had the momentum of not taking advantage of it.

Black was a little flustered, but quickly stabilized his position, and by the end of the 72nd move, there was no damage in the number of goals, but the initiative was taken away by white.

Of course, judging from the current situation, black is still very easy to play, especially the advantage of letting the first always exists, and if white does not play the trick as soon as possible, then it will be more difficult to win later.

When the spectators saw this game of chess, they felt that the black chess really had some hope of winning, but Zhou Yangfan did not feel relaxed, or he knew that the chess god on the opposite side did not play with all his strength.

Ye Xiaoya really didn't do her best, or she didn't use the strongest means, firstly, she wanted to test Zhou Yangfan's strength, and in addition, it could be regarded as giving this senior brother some face.

Of course, it's almost now, and at the time of the 78th move, Ye Xiaoya began to lay out, planning to clean up this black brother.

When Zhou Yangfan was about to fall the 79th step, he stopped again, thought carefully for a long time, and finally didn't see any problems.

Later, he played very cautiously, and every move had to be considered, but it was not until the 102-move white chess diagram was exhausted that Zhou Yangfan suddenly realized that he had already fallen into the trap.

Fortunately, he handled it properly, and his moves after 103 moves were correct, so that after reducing his losses, his black still had a slight advantage until 117 moves.

Of course, this advantage is the last bit of benefit that is accepted, and if it is exhausted, it will be lost.

At 142 moves, white grabbed the most crucial point and took the advantage.

At this point, black chess has been powerless, or Zhou Yangfan has known that he will definitely lose.

In fact, from before the start of the game, Zhou Yangfan didn't think that he could win, but he at least had one hope, in the case of being first, he could still struggle, if Ye Xiaoya underestimated the enemy, then his hope would be greater.

Obviously, this possibility is very small, and after seeing the landing point of the 142nd move, Zhou Yangfan's hopes were dashed.

But as a student, even if he knew that there was no chance of winning, he would still play all the chess seriously, and the overall situation ended with 199 moves, and black lost 180 pieces.

He didn't lose much in this game of chess, only one and a half eyes, but Zhou Yangfan could deeply understand the invisible gap, which was an insurmountable huge gap.

"Teacher Ye, thank you for your advice." Zhou Yangfan said sincerely: "I hope I can worship Teacher Ye as a teacher." ”

"I am very much in favor of your ambitions and ideas, but don't talk about apprenticeship anymore." Ye Xiaoya doesn't have much kung fu to take students, even if Zhou Yangfan's talent is very good, but that's not something she worries about.

"I'm sorry for the rudeness." Zhou Yangfan looked very frustrated, but he was not discouraged, because he knew that he still had a long way to go.

He didn't think that Ye Xiaoya would agree to his apprenticeship request, and the other party's relatively tactful refusal was already a very good result.

The group round-robin ended successfully, Ye Xiaoya won three consecutive victories to enter the finals, and Zhao Yajun also won three consecutive victories to enter the finals.

This is the result that was expected when the rules were formulated, and the real uncertain factor was whether Ye Xiaoya would be able to win three consecutive victories when he gave the lead.

But now it seems that Ye Xiaoya does have the strength to compete with Zhao Yajun.

After a day of rest, the final of the Huaxia Cup Chess King Championship begins, and Ye Xiaoya and Zhao Yajun will play a three-way chess duel again.

This duel has undoubtedly attracted wider attention, who is the real world No. 1, the battle of the peak of Heaven and Dragon Slayer, has once again stimulated the interest of chess and sports enthusiasts.