Go: Is the portable old man the nine-time champion?

Chapter 55 Acquaintance
"This is your room. You can take a rest here and get something to eat nearby at noon. There will be an opening dinner in the hall around six o'clock in the evening. I will take you there then.

The draw will be held at the opening ceremony in the evening, and the competition will start the next day.”

After Yi Zheng took the high-speed rail from the capital to Huangshan, his teacher Cao Ming took him from the high-speed rail station to his room at the competition hotel.

Most commercial competitions, unless they are of a special nature, are held in hotels. One reason is that hotels have banquet halls and other places with ample space for competitions, and the other is that it is convenient for players to rest and compete without having to run back and forth.

Looking at the single room, Mr. Ke couldn't help but say, "You guys are actually offering single rooms for amateur competitions here? There's even a sofa, and it's a suite? That's quite a high standard!"

Mr. Ke couldn't help but sigh that even the professional national competitions in his own country might not have such standards, and he suddenly felt even more jealous.

I hate myself for not having a physical body. Even if I had two fingers, it would be fine!
Yi Zheng pushed his suitcase aside and lay down on the bed feeling a little tired. "Let's go out for dinner first. After dinner, we can go straight to bed and sleep until night. I'm exhausted after sitting on the high-speed train for six hours."

Yi Zheng always felt that giving himself a wild card was a spur-of-the-moment decision, and it was done in a very hasty manner.

Because there was not much time left before the competition started, Yi Zheng took the high-speed train at six o'clock in the morning the next day after receiving the notice and took more than six hours to reach Huangshan.

It was already twelve o'clock noon when we arrived at the high-speed rail station, and it was almost one o'clock when we took a taxi to the hotel.

Yi Zheng stood up, yawned, and prepared to find a random restaurant outside the hotel to eat with his hotel card. But just as he was about to leave, Old Ke suddenly called out, "Emperor's talent?"

When Yi Zheng heard this, he turned his head to the side and found that the occupant of the next room had also just left, and was actually an acquaintance?
Maybe not an acquaintance, but at least I know him.

"He's Mr. Wang's grandson."

Looking at the neighbor next door who opened the door and walked out, Yi Zheng recognized him at a glance.

It’s not because of how deep his impression of the other person was, but because Mr. Ke had nothing to do before and liked to say that this name had great karma. Although he had the potential to be an emperor, he offended some evil-hearted people and it was easy for him to have an unlucky old age.

Wang Teng, who had just come out, seemed to have noticed the sound of the door closing next door. He turned around and saw Yi Zheng, then said in surprise, "Yi Zheng? It's really you!"

As he spoke, Wang Teng came over and patted Yi Zheng on the shoulder: "Not bad, you actually got a wild card for the National Amateur Competition.

I was very surprised when I saw the wildcard list published a few days ago. I had never heard of this name in amateur Go. I wondered if it was you. Sure enough, your name is also difficult to repeat.

There are fewer top players in the amateur circle than in the professional circle, so most people know each other. Suddenly, an unknown person shows up as a wildcard to participate in the competition, and everyone naturally talks about it in surprise.

Some people speculated that it might be a relative of the sponsor who was just playing around, which was a possibility after all, but when Wang Teng saw the name, he immediately thought of Yi Zheng.

There is no way around it. Because of the classic life-and-death problem of solving two problems with one piece, Wang Teng has been joked by many friends in the past six months as a classic background board.

However, Wang Teng was also a little puzzled: "The Dan-level tournament is coming up soon. Why don't you prepare well for the Dan-level tournament and still come to participate in this competition? Are you planning to change the track?"

Young players like Yi Zheng who are striving to become a professional Go player are different from ordinary amateurs. Although they sometimes participate in amateur Go competitions, their main focus is on striving to become a professional Go player.

The professional Go tournament is about to begin, and the schedules of the two tournaments seem to conflict. Could it be that Yi Zheng is ready to give up his professional career and turn to amateur Go?

Yi Zheng shook his head upon hearing this. "No, wasn't there a dan exchange tournament a while ago? I won every round in the round-robin tournament. Then the sponsor heard about it and invited me to come and play in this tournament, so I did." "Win every round in the dan exchange tournament?!"

Wang Teng was stunned when he heard this. Just because he is now in the amateur Go circle doesn't mean he doesn't understand some things in the professional and professional Go circles.

Those who rank top in the mock exam for ranking professional chess players organized by the seven major chess academies are almost the most popular candidates to become professionals that year.

Wang Teng found it incredible that Yi Zheng was ranked among the top students. After all, half a year ago, Wang Teng still remembered that Yi Zheng was not a student in Class D? A triple jump in half a year?

Gao Qiqiang's upgrade wasn't as fast as his?!
Not to mention that with a perfect record, unless you get lucky, you will definitely reach the professional level this year.

And wasn't there a guy named Shi Yu who was said to be at a professional level this year? How did Yi Zheng beat him? Could it be that Shi Yu had a stomachache again?
No, being able to win all the games is already a professional level, right?

"Let me think about this for a moment. This isn't right. Did I travel through time? What year is this?"

Wang Teng felt like he was dreaming. Could it be that he hadn't lived for three years instead of six months? Even if Yi Zheng's level improved rapidly, it couldn't be this fast.

This, this is not right?

Looking at Wang Teng who was stunned by the shock, Yi Zheng glanced at his watch and said, "I'm going to go eat something first. I haven't had breakfast yet."

Yi Zheng estimated the time and thought that he could sleep for a while after dinner before attending the opening ceremony.

Wang Teng nodded when he heard this: "Let's go together. I haven't had breakfast since I slept until now. I'll treat you."

Without waiting for Yi Zheng to refuse, Wang Teng pulled him downstairs and found a Xinjiang fried rice noodle restaurant.

"Boss, give me two servings of slightly spicy fried rice noodles, put the toasted naan directly in there, and two bottles of Coke."

Yi Zheng was about to eat the fried rice noodles when Mr. Ke next to him suddenly sighed, "I didn't expect it to be the immortal elixir baked naan. I haven't seen it in a long time."

Yi Zheng glanced back at Mr. Ke in confusion. What kind of precious thing was this? It was just a pancake? Or an immortality elixir?

Even if the status of Go is so low in your area, it shouldn't be so low that you can't even afford naan, right?
Looking at Yi Zheng who didn't know what was going on, Mr. Ke suddenly put his hands behind his back and said, "It is said that there was once a chess master who was severely injured and his strength declined. However, after eating toasted naan, he was reborn and started a winning streak.

If you eat this today, it means you are about to win the championship! Another similar flower! "

Yi Zheng didn't know where to start complaining after hearing these two sentences. What on earth does naan have to do with championships? It's not even as close as chicken to basketball, right?
Also, is this chess master you are talking about you yourself?

Wang Teng glanced at Yi Zheng, who was staring at the air beside him, and asked curiously, "Eat? Why not? It tastes good."

Yi Zheng came back to his senses after hearing this: "Oh, okay, by the way, I was just about to ask, are there any opponents in this competition that I need to pay attention to?"

(End of this chapter)