The eighth-ranked chess player is a teenager named Dong Jiliang, who just won the second place in the Wanbao Cup a while ago.

In the first stage of the competition this time, he lost to Xu Jiahua, so he ranked eighth in the final points, but Dong Jiliang did not feel that he was inferior to his opponent, but he was eager to prove his strength, so he directly challenged Ye Xiaoya.

Seeing that Dong Jiliang chose Ye Xiaoya, Chen Gang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, he was scared by Ye Xiaoya last time, originally this time he didn't plan to win the first place, he wanted to win the second place.

But after he knew the current rule, he immediately knew that his second place was probably going to fail.

Because according to the rules of this post-position challenge, if everyone chooses an opponent with similar points, then he will meet Ye Xiaoya in the first round.

Fortunately, there was a stupid bold to challenge Ye Xiaoya in this first round, otherwise he was afraid that he would be eliminated in the first round.

Soon, the rest of the chess players also chose opponents, and Chen Gang's opponent was Xu Jiahua, who ranked third.

Xu Jiahua is also quite helpless, the rules of this competition are really some pit masters, let the low-level ones choose the opponent first, so doesn't it mean that the remaining masters will kill each other?

And it's a knockout round, as long as you lose a game, you won't have a chance, what does such an idiot rule mean?

However, as a retired professional third stage, Xu Jiahua does not think that he is worse than anyone else, except for the terrible genius Ye Xiaoya.

He lost to Ye Xiaoya in the first two sessions, and he was not convinced when he lost in the first session, but he was convinced to lose in the second session, and he originally planned to compete for the second place in this competition, but according to the current rules, he is likely to meet Ye Xiaoya after winning the first round.

Soon, the morning game was over and the quarterfinals were born.

The first place Chen Gang has 29 points, the second place Song Lijun has 25 points, and the third place Ye Xiaoya has 25 points......

In the afternoon, the eighth place with only 3 points selected the opponent first, and he really chose the person with the closest points, and then so on, until the fourth place chose the opponent, and the second place Song Lijun was selected.

Then, as expected, Chen Gang faced Ye Xiaoya in the second round.

Chen Gang saw Ye Xiaoya sitting opposite him, and couldn't help sighing, and said, "I didn't expect that we were going to fight so soon." ”

"Teacher Chen, it's been a year, it's not fast." Ye Xiaoya said with a slight smile.

"I don't mean it's fast, it's just the second round and we're going to see for it." Chen Gang reluctantly eliminated Xu Jiahua in the first round, and he was not happy at all.

The rules of this competition are really too pitiful, or the champions and runners-up this time seem to have a big difference in strength.

Of course, the real reason why Chen Gang felt unfair was the trace of awe of Ye Xiaoya in his heart, he was worried that he was really inferior to the girl in front of him. If he thinks he's secure in first place, he doesn't feel unfair, or doesn't care about it.

"Teacher Chen doesn't feel sure?"

"Yes, how can I be sure in the face of a genius like you." Chen Gang shook his head and smiled bitterly.

The game was as he expected, he was killed in 196 steps, and the overall situation was over, he didn't say anything, glanced at Ye Xiaoya's timeclock, which only took fifteen minutes, and left the game room directly.

The next game also lost its suspense, and the crown of the 3rd Fengcheng Celebrity Tournament still fell on Ye Xiaoya's head.

The second place went to an amateur 6-dan player with average results in the first stage, who received a reward of 10,000 yuan and hugged each judge excitedly.

He even wanted to hug Ye Xiaoya on the podium, but was pushed away by Ye Xiaoya's indifferent aura.

The third Celebrity Tournament came to an end, but this one was questioned by many people, and the rules of the second stage of the competition were discussed by many netizens on the forum.

It is not fair at all to say that the rules of the game of this kind of pit master, the strength of the second place is too watery, and there may be a situation of fake chess in this rule.

A netizen named Fang Yuan No. 1 said on the Fengcheng forum for example, because the first place is to fight for strength, but the second place depends on choice, Chen Gang's chess strength should have the second place level, if he wants to win the second place, he must find three low-ranking chess players, and then let them directly challenge him, so that he can be guaranteed to the final round.

Of course, according to the rules of the round of 16, from the first stage of the game, you can play fake chess to protect and compete for the best position of the fourteenth place in the first stage.

The organizers of the Maple City Celebrity Invitational Tournament responded to many doubts, saying that there was a bit of a loophole in the rules this time, and the original intention was to stimulate the challenge spirit of the junior players, but I didn't expect this result.

But no matter what, after the Maple City Masters Tournament was held this time, Ye Xiaoya, who won three consecutive championships, was no longer the focus, and this annoying game rule became a hot spot of condemnation among chess friends.

Perhaps the organizer felt very unhappy and made this third edition nondescript, so the Maple City Celebrity Tournament was suspended, and there was no subsequent competition.

It's mid-June 2003, and it's been more than a year since the last Maple City Masters.

There have been some changes in Huaguo Go, and the rules have been changed from 6 and a half black posts to 7 and a half meshes.

Zhao Yajun has also become the hegemon of the world chess world, before the age of eighteen, he already has 16 world championship titles, and the winning rate of professional chess tournaments has been as high as 80%, this terrible opponent has become a nightmare for other chess players.

Ye Xiaoya, who has graduated from junior high school, has begun to prepare for the high school entrance examination, and in recent months, Ye Xiaoya has rarely played chess, and she has no opponents to play.

She let Mr. Bai's four sons play a few games, although each has its own winners and losers, but this kind of game has not helped her improve her chess skills much, and Bai Changle doesn't want to be let the four sons play, so he rarely plays games later.

occasionally played chess online, but could not find a suitable opponent, which made Ye Xiaoya fall into a situation where there was no chess to play.

Nowadays, she no longer plays scores, she can memorize chess games at a glance and deduce them directly in her mind.

With the development of the Internet, Ye Xiaoya learned to look up chess games on the Internet, and many chess games that could not be bought in bookstores before can also be seen on the Internet.

This makes Ye Xiaoya's chess skills still improve rapidly when she has no chess to play, and every day from the deduction of chess games, she will get a flash of inspiration for advancement.

As her chess skills improve again, Ye Xiaoya will look at the chess games she has played before, and she will find more shortcomings from these chess games, and have a deeper understanding of the mentality and thoughts of the opponents.

In such a dull day when she studied Go alone day after day, Ye Xiaoya walked into the examination room of the high school entrance examination, and as a high-profile genius student, her results had been circled to the top ten in Fengcheng.