"In this Yingshi Cup World Go Championship, the players who advanced in the first round are: Ying Jie 7th Duan, Shi Mingzhi 9th Duan, Yu Liang 9th Duan, Gu Shaoxing 9th Duan, Xia Hua 8th Duan, Cui Ze 8th Duan, Park Zhenghuan 9th Duan, and Hanze Naoki 6th Duan.

The seeded players who directly advanced to the second round are Lu Li 9 dan, Guang Yin 9 dan, Huang He 9 dan, Zhang Xu 9 dan, Zhao Zhixi 9 dan, Choi Haoxian 9 dan, Gao Yongxia 9 dan, and Lin Rihuan 9 dan.

The second round of this Ying's Cup adopts the delisting system, and the players who advance in the first round can freely choose to challenge their opponents among the seeded players who directly advance to the second round according to the order of the lottery number, and there is no principle of avoiding the same country. ”

Ying Jie and the other fifteen players who made the cut sat in the audience and listened to the host on the stage talk about the rules of the game, nodding as they listened.

Among the 16 players in the second round, China accounted for eight, half of the country.

That's what most World Series looks like.

A large number of people can work miracles.

Half of the top 16 will be accounted for, the top eight will be estimated to account for five to six, and the top four will be 3 to 1 at that time.

Later, when the Korean leaders could not break through the thickness of China, the final was even a Chinese civil war most of the time.

There will be a lot of civil wars in the future, and everyone is afraid that the Korean mentality will be broken, and the World Series will not be held in the future.

As for why Cui Ze is the eighth stage, he actually upgraded so quickly.

This is because the special promotion rules of China and South Korea are not the same.

China is like Ying Jie, who won the championship of the bilateral confrontation and could go straight up to seven dans, and two world runners-up or one world champion could go straight to nine dans.

The special ascending rules are based on the direct ascending system.

However, South Korea does not have a direct ascension, and it is somewhat similar to the accumulation system.

The world chess champion was promoted three times in a row, and the runner-up was promoted by one step.

The champion of the domestic chess battle (the first three chess battles) was promoted by two consecutive stages, and the runner-up was promoted by one stage.

The champion of the domestic chess battle (the fourth to tenth place chess battle) will be promoted by one level, and the runner-up will be rewarded with 200 promotion points.

Cui Ze has won the championship and runner-up in several Korean competitions in the past year, and his rank has naturally skyrocketed, and he is actually one step higher than Ying Jie.

However, as long as Ying Jie holds the right to the finals of the two World Series, he will directly be promoted to the ninth dan by default.

So it's hard to say which of the two people will enter the ninth stage first.

However, at this level, the rank has no meaning, just an honorary title.

It's like no one will treat Ying Jie Zhen as a seven-paragraph paragraph.

Big fists are the last word.

"Now I invite the eight seeded players to the stage.

Please stand in front of the number plate with your name written on it.

The rules are simple, the eight players who advance to the stage will be selected in order, and the name tag hanging on the wall will be taken down, which is a success, and the two sides will face each other in the next round.

Below, please have the number plate number two Ying Jie seven paragraphs, everyone is welcome. ”

Hearing the sound of applause, Ying Jie got up and nodded slightly to the crowd before going on stage.

At this time, the eight seeded players on the stage were all staring at Ying Jie, who was on the stage.

"He will definitely not choose the three of us, those who choose Fusang can be escorted, he has won a few Choi Haoxian in South Korea, and he probably won't choose, Lin Rihuan has a better chance.

But it's not good to say, this guy has a brain to pick Gao Yongxia, that's fun. ”

This is the idea of the Chinese trio.

Fusang and the two glanced at each other: "This is the Chinese chess player who put Dazhu Jiuduan Qi high blood pressure?" I don't know if I will choose myself, you can try what the other party is. ”

Choi Ho-hyun: "If it were me, maybe I could take revenge for the last shot." ”

Lin Rihuan: "Young people should choose a difficult challenge, don't choose your own country, don't choose Fusang, there is a high probability that it will be me."

I've been preparing since before the game started, so let me see which one is more powerful, this genius or Cui Ze, right? ”

Gao Yongxia: "......"

Facing everyone's eyes, Ying Jie basically didn't stay, because he had already chosen before the beginning.

I saw Ying Jie go straight to the side of Gao Yongxia's ninth section and take down the sign with the other party's name written on it.

At the moment when Ying Jie took down the sign, Gao Yongxia Jiuduan opened his eyes.

The two men, who had never met before, looked at each other and shook hands.

This means that the contract has been reached, and in the first game of the top 16 battle, Ying Jie 7th Duan vs. Gao Yongxia 9th Duan.

Seeing this scene, the media in the audience took pictures frantically, as if they were recording a historic moment.

Before, everyone didn't think about Ying Jie as the first choice, whether he would directly choose the first person Gao Yongxia.

But when you think about it, it feels impossible.

After all, the first time you participate in the World Series, you must still focus on stability.

directly challenged Gao Yongxia, one is that if you don't get it right, it's easy to break your teeth.

It's easy to be unfavorable in the first battle, and it's easy to leave a psychological shadow.

Second, if you want to really replace the opponent, theoretically, everyone will use the victory over the opponent in the final as the standard for replacing the world's first person.

So everyone acquiesces that Ying Jie should not choose Gao Yongxia, but will wait for the later encounter.

Especially the encounter in the final.

However, Ying Jie obviously didn't seem to be normal, he was the first to choose, but he was the first to choose someone who everyone didn't want to choose.

In the end, it was a teenager or a failure.

It's all newsworthy headlines.

Ying Jie, my God!

Ying Jie and Gao Yongxia both maintained professional smirks and handshake postures for the media in the audience to take pictures.

The quality of a professional chess player is yes.

When the shooting was almost over, the two finally reached back.

At this time, the host stepped forward to ask: "I didn't expect that the first person we were selected was Gao Yongxia Jiuduan, the world's first person."

Ying Jie 7 Duan, interview you why you chose Gao Yongxia 9 Duan as the opponent in the second round. ”

Hearing this, Ying Jie said with a smile: "I have seen a lot of Gao Yongxia's nine-dan chess games since the dingduan, but because of the different countries, I have never encountered them.

Looking at the chess game, you can feel his strength, but it is not as good as the real game, and today I finally have this opportunity, of course, we must seize it

Because I've always wondered, what kind of level is the number one Go player in the world? ”

Listening to Ying Jie's words that he didn't know whether to provoke or praise, the host moved the microphone to Gao Yongxia Jiuduan's side.

"Then what do you think of Ying Jie's seven-paragraph answer?"

Gao Yongxia nodded after listening to the translator next to him, and then said with a smile: "I'm very happy to compete with China's new talents."

The World Series has always been a stage for everyone to show their best results, and I hope to play a good game of chess.

As a newcomer, the top 16 of the World Series is also a good result. ”

Hearing this, Ying Jie didn't seem to be angry at all, but responded with a smile: "I think it's also a very good result, maybe what Gao Yongxia can achieve in the ninth section this year depends on when he meets me." ”

Listening to the conversation between the two of them, the smell of gunpowder had already filled the entire arena before the game began.

War is on the verge of breaking out.

(End of chapter)