"Kuroko, according to this development trend, you will be the CEO in the future." Fang Tianhe said with a smile.

"Boss Fang, you don't have to joke, the current Orange Go is already a subsidiary of Tencent, and I only provide part of the technical support, I am also a small part-time worker, and as a professional chess player, it is impossible for me to really follow Tencent." Zhou Yangfan said: "This time it is also thanks to Zhao Yajun's help, otherwise our small Go platform, let alone holding a Go competition, I am afraid that we will have to stop serving for a period of time." ”

"Yes, Zhao Yajun is really a very person, I really admire him, although he is younger than us, but his mind is much more mature than ours, and his vision is also very far-sighted." After Fang Tianhe finished speaking, he changed the topic and said, "Who do you think can win the first place in this competition?" ”

"If Zhao Yajun doesn't participate, then Senior Brother Luo has hope, and Senior Brother Chang, their online rapid chess is quite powerful." Zhou Yangfan responded.

"You're not participating? Don't leave yourself out of the cracks. Fang Tianhe said.

"Of course I'm participating, but I'm still a little worse than them, or maybe I have a chance." Zhou Yangfan smiled, and then said: "Actually, in addition to real professional chess players, I think the real power in Orange Go is the mysterious 'Tong Ya Jing', I don't know if he is a professional chess player." ”

"Speaking of this guy, I was very angry, he made an appointment to play chess that time, and actually released our pigeons, and then he didn't go online for more than half a month, and then I didn't bother to pay attention to him." Fang Tianhe raised his eyebrows and said.

"Hehe, yes, I made Senior Brother Luo wait for a long time in vain, but his chess is really good." Zhou Yangfan said: "Although he doesn't play chess often, he has never lost, and now he has won 42 consecutive victories. ”

"I just changed the promotion rules this year, otherwise according to his forty-game winning streak, it wouldn't be 7D, it should be 9D." Fang Tianhe said with a smile.

The previous promotion rules of Orange Go were 5 points for winning a game, and 5 points for losing a game, and if you want to move up 1 stage, you must win 20 games in a row, and if you lose a game, you have to win back another game.

However, after the update on January 1, 2004, the rules for promotion have also changed, as long as you win 14 out of 20 games, you can directly move up 1 dan, and if you win all 20 games, you can directly go up 2 dans.

Similarly, the rules of lowering have also changed, losing 14 games in 20 games will be reduced by 1 dan, and if you lose all 20 games, you will be reduced by 2 dans.

"Yes, the rules for promotion have been changed, and for masters, you don't need to play so many games of chess to go straight up." After Zhou Yangfan finished speaking, he seemed to remember something, and then asked, "Boss Fang, do you think this Tong Yajing will participate in this chess god competition?" ”

"What? Do you want to fight him? ”

"I just think he's very good at chess, I'm afraid I'm not an opponent."

"Heizi, when have you been so modest, I remember you said before that you are not afraid of any opponent except for Zhao Yajun's BT."

"I said that, but now I really have an opponent to be afraid of, although I haven't officially played with Tong Youya, but I look at his chess games, and I have an unfathomable feeling."

"Oh, he's really as good as you say?" Fang Tianhe was a little surprised, he had a game with Tong Youyajing, although he lost very badly, and felt that the opponent was indeed very powerful, but he didn't think that this Tong Youyajing was really much better than those top professional masters.

"Boss Fang, you haven't studied his chess games carefully, a lot of seemingly casual chess moves are actually really powerful moves, which are imperceptible in the game, and I only found out when I really studied them." Zhou Yangfan sighed slightly.

"If it's really as you said, then if you participate in this time, then the prize for the first place is probably none other than him." When Fang Tianhe heard Zhou Yangfan say this, he also changed his initial opinion of Tong Youyajing, and he still trusted this junior brother very much in his judgment.

"It's just that since the revision, that Tong Yajing hasn't been on the line, I'm not sure if he will participate." Zhou Yangfan said.

"The prize of 100,000 yuan for the first place, no one will not care, except for Zhao Yajun, who won the championship like drinking water, he will definitely participate." Fang Tianhe said.

"I hope he will participate, and if Zhao Yajun is willing to participate, it will be even more interesting." Zhou Yangfan's eyes flashed with a different luster, he studied the elegant and quiet chess game, and found that every move he made was fast, but it was not leaky, and the most terrible thing was that he couldn't find his flaws.

There are no flaws in this kind of online rapid chess, so it is really difficult to estimate how strong the strength is.

In fact, he even had some suspicions that this quiet and elegant was Zhao Yajun's trumpet.

Zhao Yajun's tuba, naturally his real name, Orange Go directly helped him register an account of Zhao Yajun's 9 paragraphs, this professional chess player's real-name account, Zhao Yajun has logged in twice, but he didn't play against each other, just browsed on the platform and went offline.

However, this suspicion is unfounded and unrealistic, and as he analyzes the timing of the game in the quiet and quiet, he rules it out.

There are many times when the two are in conflict, and when Tong Ya Jing was playing chess offline, Zhao Yajun was participating in the world competition, and it was impossible to be the same person.

"I'm afraid we invited Zhao Yajun, and the 100,000 yuan bonus is still a bit small......," Fang Tianhe said with a smile.

In fact, a few days later, Tencent's Orange Go Promotion Department also tried to invite Zhao Yajun to become the seeded player in the finals, but Zhao Yajun directly refused.

However, the Orange Go Promotion Department was not discouraged, but thought of a compromise and decided to let the first place in this competition, Zhao Yajun, the world's No. 1 master, play a three-way chess game.

On January 21, Orange Go officially announced that the first place in the online chess god Grand Prix will receive a reward of 100,000 yuan, and also obtain the qualification to play against Zhao Yajun, the world's No. 1 Go master.

If the bonus of 100,000 yuan is the temptation of profit, then it is the attraction of fame to play with the world's No. 1 master Zhao Yajun.

Regardless of whether you win or lose, it is definitely a rare opportunity to play against Zhao Yajun or a three-way chess match.

If you can get lucky enough to win a game, then you will become famous in one fell swoop.

If you can kill Zhao Yajun by shit luck, then the title of the world's No. 1 will be worn on your head, which is undoubtedly a very cool thing to think about.

As soon as this news was launched, it immediately attracted a large number of masters to participate in the competition, and many top professional chess players who did not plan to participate in online competitions resolutely joined Orange Go under the stimulus of this news.

"Decisive battle against Zhao Yajun and become an online chess god!"

"Just because you can't win in reality doesn't mean you can't win on the Internet."

"That's right, although Zhao Yajun is good in world competitions, but when he plays online rapid chess, I don't think he is necessarily that good."

"The prize of 100,000 yuan is still secondary, and winning Zhao Yajun is my goal."

As more and more chess players joined, and chess players from Japan and South Korea also heard the news, and the members of Orange Go once again ushered in a new boom in joining.

Because it is mainly aimed at local Chinese chess players, those Japanese and Korean chess players who enter the server through proxies increases the burden on the server.

However, Tencent, which was originally just holding the attitude of giving it a try, found out that Japanese and Korean chess players had joined, and immediately opened a new server, and improved the Orange Go client to add Japanese and Korean versions.

This process lasted for half a month, and by the time it was February 8, the online chess Grand Prix had been upgraded from a local event in China to a world-class event.