[Soul of Chess] What if

"Has Sai not appeared yet?"

Resisting his joyful heart, Rimitsu Matsuo turned his attention to the staff in charge of reception outside the venue.

Hearing the chairman's question, the staff replied with some shame: "Yes, so far there is no person suspected of Sai appearing near the venue."

"Is that so..." Li Guang couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

After learning that Sai hoped to replace the reward for winning the game with a certificate of exemption, they immediately convened an emergency council to discuss the matter solemnly.

Although some people proposed to issue only honorary certificates to sai at the beginning, the council finally decided to grant sai a nine-duan certificate of exemption.

After all, the honorary rank is just an honorary title, which only has the effect of commendation, and has nothing to do with the real level of the chess player.And since Sai has shown that he cares about the immunity, then he probably hopes that his strength can be affirmed by the world.

In this way, the attractiveness of the honorary certificate is definitely not as good as that of the professional rank certificate.

In order to maximize the chance of Sai being willing to show up, the council officially changed the reward for Sai's victory to a nine-duan grid exemption certificate.

Of course, when making this decision, their emotions were actually very complicated.

After all, professional rank certificates are not something that can be easily obtained.

To obtain a certificate of exemption, one must first take the annual professional chess player examination.Only those who rank in the top three can pass the exam and get the first-stage exemption.

The first stage exemption only means that you have stepped into the world of professional chess players.The real battle is just beginning now.

After being promoted, if you want to get a higher level of exemption, you need to participate in the promotion competition called Dashouhe.In the promotion match, you must get as many white stars as possible, and you can advance to the next tier only after you have accumulated enough points.

For example, after becoming the first tier, you must win at least 30 wins in the promotion match before you can be promoted to the second tier, and you need to accumulate another 40 wins to be promoted from the second tier to the third tier.

At present, the current promotion standards are as follows: 30 wins are required to advance from the first stage to the second stage; 40 wins, 50 wins for 70th dan to 90th dan, 120 wins for 150th dan to 200th dan, [-] wins for [-]th dan to [-]th dan.

In other words, if you want to be promoted to Jiuduan, you need to win at least 750 games from the day you were promoted to Duandan!

Even if you have become an eight-dan chess player now, it is not an easy task to be promoted to a nine-dan chess player.

Since the current average number of games played by eight-dan chess players is only about 30 games a year, even if they win all 30 games, it will take at least seven years to reach the number of games that can be promoted to nine-dan players.

What's more, so far, there is no chess player who can win all 30 games every year.

Now, just sending the nine-duange certificate to sai who knows nothing about all the information about it, I don't know if there will be any negative effects.

However, since the rank certificate of a professional chess player has a considerable possibility of attracting Sai, it is necessary to try it.Moreover, even if Sai did not show up in the end, since the certificate has been issued, it means that Sai has officially become a chess player of the Chess Academy.

Such a powerful existence will inevitably bring great possibilities for the development of the Chess Academy.

Since the potential benefits of this option far outweigh the disadvantages, why not do it?

Although there is not much hope for Sai's appearance.However, after realizing that the plan had failed, Li Guang still felt a little regretful.

After deliberating for a moment, he made arrangements for the next process of the award ceremony: "The award ceremony for sai will be temporarily cancelled, and we will skip directly to the stage of donating money to public welfare organizations. When I deliver the closing speech, I will apologize to the guests for this matter. As for the exemption certificate prepared for Sai, I will ask you to keep it. Thank you for your hard work."

According to the director's instructions, the ceremony proceeded in an orderly manner.

Although I couldn't see Sai's true face, most of the guests expressed their understanding.

Just as the closing ceremony was coming to an end, a staff member trotted to the side of the chairman.

Liguang is delivering the closing remarks at this time.

After hearing what the staff said, he froze for a moment.Then, a gratified smile appeared on his face.

He raised the microphone and said to the guests with a little excitement: "I'm sorry for interrupting the speech. Just now, the planning department of our Chess Academy received a message from Sai. Now please let us see what Sai said together what!"

The staff in charge of venue arrangement quickly arranged the large screen, and then a dialog box appeared on the screen.

According to the content of the previous conversation, this sai is true.

But he didn't say anything, but sent an audio file.

After opening it, a gentle male voice sounded in the venue: "Hi everyone, I'm sai..."

Hearing this voice, Taya opened her eyes in disbelief.

Could it be... Shinto is really not Sai? !

Taya never gave up the idea of ​​associating Shinto with Sai.

Because, there are too many similarities between this sai and Shinto: the ancient Dingshi, who likes to start with a showmanship style, the peaceful but likes to take advantage of the strength of the chess style, and the sharp and aggressive style shown after being forced. Chess moves...

So many similarities cannot be explained by a coincidence.

In addition, in that game of Internet Go, the image of the opponent hidden in the darkness overlapping with the past Shinto has been deeply engraved in Taya's mind, and when he asked, Shinto seemed to be hiding What kind of appearance is very interesting.

Of course, Taya also knew that if he went to ask Shinto himself, Shinto would definitely pretend to be confused like last time.After the professional chess player's exam was over, he finally had enough time to think about how to get the answer he wanted.

Just recently, the Chess Academy announced the announcement of the match between his father and Sai.Taya felt that this might be the opportunity to figure out whether Sai was Shinto.

The first three games were all scheduled on weekdays. Assuming that Shindo is Sai, if he wants to participate in the game, he must not be able to go to school.

If he chooses to lose without a fight, that's another matter.

On the first day of the competition, after learning of Sai's appearance, Toya immediately went to Haze Middle School as soon as school was over.

However, after arriving at the school gate, Taya couldn't help feeling a little dazed.

Because he didn't know where he should go to find Shinto.

He didn't know what class Shinto was in, and it was already past school time, so even if he went to the class by himself, he might not be able to meet Shinto.

Although he knew that Shinto had joined the Go club, Taya didn't know the exact location of the Go club, and if there were no club activities today, Shinto might have gone home.

In addition, now that Shindo has become a student, he may have already quit the Go Club.

Just when he was hesitating, someone suddenly came to him.

It's a girl.

She was wearing the school uniform of Hasase Junior High School, and she looked cute.

However, thinking of the previous experience, Taya couldn't help but want to leave.However, the girl's next words stopped him.

"You came to look for Xiaoguang...ah, is it from Shinto Hikari?"

"Yes" Taya replied politely, and then she was a little puzzled, "You are?"

Taya was sure that he had never seen this girl before, but why did she know that she was here to find Shinto?

Seemingly feeling the other party's question, the girl explained: "I am a classmate of Hikari Shinto, and I have met you before."

It was at the beginning of this year when Haze Middle School held its school celebration. Although Akira Fujisaki wanted to invite Xiaoguang to play with him, he was ruthlessly rejected.

Although Xiao Ming yelled at A Guang that she would wait for him at the school gate, she also knew that Xiao Guang would not go, so she and Sha Ye joined them.

When they were having fun, Xiao Ming saw Xiaoguang by chance. He was sitting in front of the table in the Go booth, and he seemed to be playing Go with someone.

She was going to go up to say hello, but saw Xiaoguang pulling an unusually handsome man away.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Ming felt inexplicably lost for a moment.

What... No wonder Xiao Guang refused his invitation...

Although she didn't quite know why she was so unhappy, she couldn't help but look in their direction.

Then, Xiao Ming discovered that it was a boy who was with Xiao Guang.

For some reason, after learning this fact, Xiao Ming couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

I didn't expect Xiaoguang to have such a good-looking friend.

"You can't wait for him here, because he didn't come to school today." Akira Fujisaki said to the person in front of him with a smile.

"Didn't come to school?"

Xiaoguang is really serious, he didn't tell his friends in advance when he asked for leave.

Seeing Taya's unconcealed surprised expression, Xiao Ming couldn't help feeling a little dissatisfied with Xiaoguang.So she patiently explained: "Teacher Yuzi... ah, she is the instructor of our class. I heard from the teacher that Shindo is going to participate in some competition, so he can't come to school for class."

The girl's words deepened Taya's suspicion of Shinto.

But...it is also possible that the Kiin really has some arrangements...only if the day when Shindo asks for leave and the time when Sai appears almost exactly coincides.

Taya thought so, so he tried to ask: "What about tomorrow? Will he be at school tomorrow?"

Xiao Ming replied apologetically: "He won't be here tomorrow. He has been on leave for the past few days, and he probably won't be able to come to school until next week."

"If you have something important, I can help you convey it. After all, I live very close to him." She said with concern.

"No, thank you." Taya politely declined the girl's offer.

"You're welcome." Xiao Ming smiled and left.

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Ugh……