Generally speaking, when people talk about chess academy in the imperial capital, they usually refer to the chess academy in the imperial capital.
This is a holy place for all chess players. In addition to undertaking the task of training new chess players for the motherland, various Go competitions are often held here.
From national chess players to junior chess players who have just entered the profession, they usually come and go here.
Fang Ze originally thought that the youth Go competition mentioned by Fang's mother was just an entertaining amateur game played by a group of brats.
But after arriving here, Fang Ze discovered that the children competing here were all young chess players who had just entered the profession and were studying in the chess academy.
Most of these young chess players are around eleven or twelve years old. Although according to regulations, the age limit for participating in the youth group competition is under twenty years old, it is difficult to find even a fifteen-year-old boy here.
This is because Go levels are divided into three categories: level, amateur level, and professional level.
Levels generally range from beginner to beginner, with the highest level being level one. Players with level three or above are eligible to participate in amateur Go competitions.
Amateur ranks are divided into 1st to 8th dan, of which 8th dan is not established in China. The only way to obtain it is for the World Amateur Go Championship champion to apply to the Neon Chess Academy for award.
But even for seventh-dan, the threshold for obtaining it is very high. Only domestic amateur Go competition champions can apply.
However, those who are amateur 5th dan or above and under the age of 15 can apply for the qualifications of the national professional dan competition.
Well, you read that right, if amateur Go players want to be qualified to participate in top professional tournaments, they must be younger than fifteen years old.
There is a saying in the Go world that if you are not a national player at the age of twenty, you will have no hope for life. '
If a person does not make a name for himself in Go before the age of twenty, then he is basically not qualified for this career.
The reason is that Go is a game that requires not only strong talent, but also hard work to become famous.
If a person wants to become a national player, then he has to be in front of the chessboard every day for at least six hours starting from the age of at least eight.
Of course, this is just the most basic. In addition to hard work, Go must also require players to have talents far beyond ordinary people.
Although no matter which industry, talent is the most important. After all, only those who have really worked hard can understand the importance of talent. But the Go world's demand for talent is even more perverted.
In other industries, although a talented person can have a slight advantage, a less talented person can narrow the gap through hard work.
But Go is different. As long as you have solid basic skills, you can do whatever you want with your talent.
For example, the famous chess player, Mr. Wu Qingyuan, the chess master, demoted all the top Neon chess players by himself, and unscrupulously racked up points in the Neon chess world, just like a college student going to kindergarten to become a school bully. .
That era was still an era when the Neon Go world was strong, and there were many famous chess players. However, no matter how hard these players worked hard, they still couldn't beat Mr. Wu Qingyuan.
For example, Kitani Minoru of Honinbo founded the Kitani Dojo, which was known as the largest sect in the world of chess at that time, and he was a grandmaster-level figure in the Neon Go world at that time.
But it was such a great master who played ten rounds of up and down chess with old Mr. Wu Qingyuan, until his nosebleed and he collapsed on the spot. But he was still being run over by Mr. Wu.
It can be seen that in the Go industry, a person's talent determines how far a person can go.
What's even more frightening is that the Go world not only looks at talent, but also at young skills.
If a chess player wants to achieve success in the professional field of Go, he must start learning Go from an early age. So far, there is no player in China who started learning modern Go after the age of fifteen and became a professional player. He has won the ranking in the competition.
The most inspiring example is that Liu Xiaoguang, a ninth-dan player, started learning Go at the age of thirteen and became a famous chess player.
Therefore, even though the children playing in front of Fang Ze are all at elementary school age, in terms of chess ability, they can already crush most of the adult amateur chess players in the outside world.
Just when Fang Ze turned to a corner and was about to stop and take a rest, he suddenly heard a neon slogan ringing around him.
"Hello, may I excuse you?"
Fang Ze turned around and found two children who looked to be only eleven or twelve years old.
One of the children had yellow-dyed hair, and the other had black hair, but they looked so neutral that Fang Ze couldn't tell whether they were a shota or a loli.
The person talking to Fang Ze was the yellow-haired child. While speaking Japanese, he used broken English and sign language to help Fang Ze understand what he said.
"Excuse me, is there a restaurant near here?"
"Are you hungry?" Fang Ze had seen these two children before, but at that time they were both playing chess. Fang Ze thought they were children from the chess courtyard, but now they seemed to be foreign friends who came to participate in the competition. So he communicated with the two children in neon language.
"Yes, yes, because it's dinner time." The yellow-haired child immediately became excited after hearing Fang Ze's words.
"Good standard neon language. Brother, are you a compatriot working in China?"
"No, I'm Chinese." Fang Ze said as he said to the two children, "Follow me, and I will take you to the restaurant."
"Thank you so much." The two children thanked Fang Ze together. "Because our team leader didn't know where he was, we didn't know who to ask. When we saw you wearing work clothes, we came over."
"Are you two professional chess players from Neon?" Fang Ze asked curiously, "It must be hard to travel so far to compete."
"It's not hard," said the yellow-haired kid. "It's a very lucky thing to come here and compete with so many chess players of the same age. It's hard to have this opportunity in China."
What the yellow-haired kid said, "It's hard to have this opportunity in Neon" was not polite, but there was a huge gap between the young professional chess players in Neon and the young professional chess players in China.
The current Go system is built by Neon, and there is almost no dispute about this.
In the process of the development of modern Go, the Neon Go community has abolished the seat system and the return of the head, making the start of Go more free and changeable, and laying the foundation for the layout theory of modern Go.
The establishment of a rank system and the clarification of the level differences and promotion rules for each rank are equivalent to the establishment of a professional title system for Go.
The final important thing is that the Neon Go community established a tie-me system after World War II, which is a prerequisite for the modern Go competition system. Therefore, there is a saying that China is the biological mother of Go and Neon is the adoptive mother of Go. In fact, there is nothing wrong with it.
But even if Neon has made so many contributions to modern Go, the gradual decline of Neon Go is an indisputable fact.
During the period of China's reform and opening up, the Neon Go community could almost completely crush the Chinese Go community. However, with the development of the times, the Chinese Go community and the Nanbang Go community relied on their school-style talent training systems to gradually rise. Neon Go However, due to the ancient master-apprentice training system in the world, talent has been eliminated, and it was easily overtaken by Huaxia and Nanbang.
Fang Ze took the two to the restaurant in Qiyuan and introduced the Chinese cuisine in the restaurant to the two children from Neon.
"This sounds delicious." After discussion, the two children chose braised chicken and rice.
Fang Ze happened to be a little hungry at this moment, so he ordered one for himself, and the three of them sat down to eat together.
"What are your names?" After Fang Ze asked, he also said his name by the way, "My name is Fang Ze."
"My name is Shindo Hikaru," the yellow-haired child said.
"My name is Tayashi Ryo." The kid who Fang Ze couldn't distinguish between a shota and a loli also introduced himself.
Judging from the sound, it must be Koshota.
"You have become a professional chess player at such a young age. Your teachers should all be famous."
"I am self-taught." Shindo Hikaru finished, pointing at Tayashi Ryo and said, "Takashi Ryo learned chess from his father."
"Self-taught!" Fang Ze looked at Shindo Hikaru, a little surprised.
As mentioned before, the method of training newcomers in the Neon Go world is still the ancient master-apprentice system.
In Neon, if a chess player feels that his chess skills are beginning to decline and he is no longer able to strive for results, he will start to recruit apprentices.
Generally, the source of apprentices is either discovered by oneself or recommended by others.
Once a disciple is accepted, the disciple will leave his parents and live in the master's home, where he will study, eat, live, and live with the master. All expenses incurred during this period will be borne by the master. After becoming a disciple, a disciple will contribute part of his income to the master.
This is the so-called internal disciple system. China's cross talk world used to have this inheritance method, so there is a reason why the cross talk world is declining year by year.
In China, chess academies have teachers who are responsible for guiding young chess players to play chess, teachers who specialize in training the basic skills of life and death, and teachers who specialize in layout and formulas.
In Neon, all this is done by the master alone.
Therefore, it would be incredible to Fang Ze that Shindo Hikaru said that he was a self-taught professional chess player.
This talent is probably comparable to or even surpasses the pace of chess master Wu Qingyuan.
After all, the reason why the Neon Go world had six super-class players back then was because these six players had a common teacher, Minoru Kitani.
It can be seen that in the Neon Go world, the impact of a good teacher on the players.
And the young chess player in front of him named Shindo Hikaru actually said that he was self-taught, which was indeed quite terrifying.
The three of them chatted for a while, and then Fangze, Fujimitsu and Tayashi finished their meal.
He glanced at his watch, and then said to the two children, "I have something to do and I have to leave temporarily. If you still need any help, you can wait for me in the lobby."
"Thank you then." The two neon children thanked Fang Ze together.
"The guests should be arriving at this time." Fang Ze walked to a place where there was almost no one around, and looked around, hoping to find the guests arriving this week in time.
He was really curious now. If the guest was indeed a young version of Tang Seng, would he become immortal if he took a bite of his meat
(End of chapter)