Although the news that ‘Jue Yi’ appeared in the Samsung Cup has spread all over the world, it has triggered a series of heated discussions.
However, the Samsung Cup qualifiers were not affected in any way and continued in an orderly manner.
In the next three rounds, Li Jie met the third-dan professional chess player Xiao Lin from Country R, the first-dan Dan of professional chess player Li Jinming from Bangzi Country, and the fifth-dan professional player Wei Wei from China.
The final result is self-evident. Li Jie easily won these three games, ranked first in the group stage with the overall record, and advanced to the Samsung Cup with head high.
In the blink of an eye, a week has passed, and this year's Samsung Cup World Go Qualifiers have officially come to an end.
The next morning, a newspaper affiliated with the Huaxia Chess Academy also published a special report.
News from this newspaper: Yesterday afternoon, the preliminary round of the 4th Samsung Cup World Go Open ended in Seoul, the country of sticks.
A total of 232 people participated in this qualifier, competing for 16 tickets to this competition.
A total of 32 chess players from China signed up to participate in the preliminaries. Except for Zhang Zhongxia 5th Dan who did not participate due to personal reasons, the other 31 chess players all participated in the competition.
Like the last qualifier, Chinese chess players still achieved a complete victory in this qualifier. Among the 31 chess players participating in the qualifier, eight of them defeated their opponents and successfully entered the Samsung Cup competition, occupying 16 places.
Half of the seats in the promotion quota.
It is worth noting that one of the chess players promoted this time is very special. He is the young chess player ‘Duke’ from Yijianghu Dojo.
According to Go World Magazine, Duke is the youngest main draw player in the history of the Samsung Cup, creating new history.
In addition, Duke has not yet been officially determined, but is participating as an amateur chess player.
The most commendable thing is that the young chess player Duke successively defeated the Chinese chess player Wei Wei 5th Dan, the professional chess player of R country Atsushi Kurata 5th dan, Kobayashi Yumitsu 3rd dan and other professional chess players.
Moreover, the young chess player Duke won every time in the middle game, showing his dominance beyond his age.
After several rounds of games, Duke has already demonstrated his real chess ability that cannot be underestimated.
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Finally, I wish our Chinese chess players can achieve greater success again.
Since Chinese chess players have achieved quite good results, Go Daily devoted a considerable amount of space to describing this Samsung Cup qualifier.
At the same time, Go Daily also fulfilled Lao Nie's guidance very well. There were not many reports about Li Jie, just passing by.
However, Lao Nie's influence is limited to the country. Compared with the caution of domestic media, the reports of foreign media are much exaggerated.
"Duke——The strongest boy in China!"
"Making history! Chinese young Duke successfully entered the Samsung Cup competition!"
"Dark Horse--Duke, can he be the dark horse to the end!"
"The identity of the mysterious online chess player 'Jue Yi' is revealed!"
"Samsung Cup Preview: Mr. Xiao Cang, the famous Go player, boldly predicts that the young Duke will win this year's Samsung Cup!"
"Exquisite art = Duke = a once-in-a-thousand-year Go genius!"
"Excellent Art: SAI? Never heard of it, he is just one of my defeated generals!"
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All in all, foreign media reports followed the principle of being as exaggerated as possible and as explosive as possible, and conducted a series of follow-up reports on Li Jie.
Of course, in order to increase sales, some tabloids resorted to the traditional trick of "starting with a picture and editing the content" in order to increase sales.
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Country R, Taya family.
Seeing this morning's newspaper, Ta Yaliang couldn't help but tighten his hands and swore secretly in his heart.
'I will never give in!'
'Duke, wait for me, sooner or later, I will catch up with you!'
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Huaxia, Fangyuan City.
Shi Shi was eating breakfast while reading the latest newspaper. When he saw the news that the 'Fine Arts' was Duke, he couldn't help but turn his head and glance at Chu Ying beside him, and thought to himself.
'Chu Ying, Chu Ying, look here.'
'Where? Where?'
‘Here it is.’ Time clicked on the report on the left side of the newspaper: ‘Didn’t you always want to know the true identity of ‘Fine Art’ before? Look, it’s written here.’
'The mysterious chess player on the Internet is none other than our country's young general Duke, and this Duke is also from Fangyuan City. He learns chess at the Yijianghu Dojo in our city.'
'Really?'
Although Chu Ying was a well-read poet during his lifetime and was not illiterate, ancient and modern writing had changed a lot, and he was not used to horizontal layout.
Therefore, even if he was very close, it was still difficult to read.
Shi Guang didn't pay attention to Chu Ying's little actions, but said with a little emotion.
'Chu Ying, you may not believe it, but according to the news in the newspaper, Jue Yi is actually a young man about the same age as me!'
'What?'
Upon hearing the news, Chu Ying froze on the spot, staring blankly at the time.
'Haha, are you surprised?'
It was rare to see Chu Ying's stunned look, and Shi Shi was very happy. If Chu Ying was not a ghost that ordinary people could not see, he would even want to take a camera and record this moment.
'call.'
Chu Ying breathed a long sigh of relief and nodded.
'Yeah, it's really hard to believe, time, you know? In the game of chess played by Jueyi and SAI, I saw an opportunity from God's hand.'
'Who would have thought that Jue Yi would be a young man? How exciting!'
'Shi Guang, Shi Guang, didn't you just say that Jueyi is in Fangyuan City, let's go and play chess with him, okay? Okay?'
'no!'
Shi Guang shook his head and decisively rejected the proposal.
'Chu Ying, didn't we discuss it before? I will play all the chess games in the future. Otherwise, I will have to live in your shadow forever.'
After hearing these words, Chu Ying's face suddenly collapsed, with disappointment written all over his face.
'However, although we can't play chess with Jue Yi in real life, we can play chess with him on the Internet.'
yes!
Chu Ying's eyes lit up when he heard this, just like time said, I still have a chance, I still have a chance!
Looking at Chu Ying who had regained his composure, Shi Shi couldn't help but bring up a warm smile on his lips.
If he had a choice, of course he also wanted Chu Ying to play chess all the time, but he had no choice because he also loved Go.
He wants to play his own chess game!
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Bangzi Guoqi Academy.
The competition format of the Samsung Cup is very strange. The qualifiers, semi-finals, semi-finals, semi-finals, and finals are not consecutive, but there is an interval between them.
For example, the qualifying competition started in early August, but the main competition started in early September, with a full month in between.
Except for domestic players, it is impossible for other chess players to spend a month in a foreign country for no reason.
Therefore, as soon as the qualifiers ended, delegations from various countries began to pack their bags and prepare to return home.
The night before leaving, Lao Nie came to room 404.