Chapter 867

The next day in Tokyo, a special guest visited Meng Huo.

"Curator Wuteng, I haven't seen you for a long time..." while receiving this go guest in his office, Meng Huo speculated in his heart that the purpose of his visit was that the cartoon of "the spirit of chess" was still in series, but there should be no big deal recently.

Wu Teng says hello to Meng Huo with a smile. He hasn't met Meng Huo for a long time. But this time, he doesn't come here to talk about the past. Instead, he invites Meng Huo as a guest to go to the Jidong Junior Amateur Go competition.

"Young Amateur Go competition?" Meng Huo is a stranger to the competition.

"Yes, although it's an amateur competition, there are a lot of applicants this year. I just heard that Mr. He Xi, you've come to Tokyo. How about going to have a look?" Taketo said with a smile: "if you are the guest, the competition will become more lively."

Go competition - in fact, Meng Huo is not very interested in this kind of activity. However, adding more experience may be helpful to the spirit of chess. If it does not hinder his work, he is not unable to consider it.

"When?" Meng Huo asked.

"This Saturday." The time that Wuteng said is exactly the time when Meng Huo plans to return to Ninghai. However, after he returns to Ninghai, he will only go to work after a day off, so it's no problem to take part in this amateur go competition.

So he nodded his head and agreed. Early on Saturday morning, Takashima gave up his holiday and drove Meng Huo to the go game. After hearing about this, he also wanted to see it.

Wuteng had been waiting for them outside the competition hall, but as soon as Meng Huo got out of the car, he was surrounded by the children around him without saying hello to him.

"These are the players?" Standing beside the curator taketo, Yinger Takashima, who had parked the car, asked in surprise. Most of the children around Meng Huo were young, and there were many boys and girls who looked like junior high school students and primary school students. They all looked very excited.

"Yes, they are the players." "And they are all fans of" the spirit of the chess. "

He was not surprised at Meng Huo's popularity. In fact, in previous years, the amateur games of juvenile go were very cold, and even there were more boards than players. But this year, the number of applicants has skyrocketed. As a last resort, the extreme east go association has set up go matches in three major cities. However, the number of people at a match in Tokyo is twice as many as in previous years.

There is no doubt that the reason for this phenomenon is the emergence of "the spirit of chess". Since this cartoon was serialized, the number of go lovers in China has been growing rapidly, not only in Jidong, but also in other areas.

As the source of all this, He Xi, the original author of the spirit of chess, will naturally be warmly sought after.

Takashima Yinger smiles: "the president will be popular everywhere, but curator taketo..." he frowns again and says: "should you separate these people?"

There are more and more people around Meng Huo. When people from far away places saw his appearance, they all came over, including many parents and elders of the players, as well as some reporters. These people gathered around Meng Huo. Takashima Yinger found the confusion on his face.

"I know." Wu Teng also noticed that the situation did not develop well. He quickly asked someone to help isolate the crowd, protect Meng Huo, and then took him to the guild hall.

The competition started at 9 am. As a guest, Meng Huo didn't have much work. He gave a very brief speech and encouragement before 9 am, and then just had to sit and watch the teenagers' competition.

"Although it's a juvenile competition, why is it mainly for primary school students?" After the competition started, Meng Huo asked the curator of taketo that there were hundreds of people playing chess in the whole guild hall, but Meng Huo found that two-thirds of them were primary school students - there were fewer junior high school students, and senior high school students were rare.

"Because these children are the main applicants." Taketo said with a smile that most of the people who signed up for the competition were children under the age of 14. In fact, the younger they were, the more likely they were to be influenced by the spirit of chess, and the more tolerant their parents were.

Older students are facing more academic pressure. Take high school students as an example, many parents are reluctant to let their children participate in this kind of game - because although the juvenile go game is nominally amateur, it is also a place for professional players to choose their disciples.

In the go industry, it used to be teachers choosing their students, and the young amateur go competition was the key for players to choose potential students. This also leads to the fact that this kind of game is not a pure entertainment game in the mind of the participants, but a platform to enter the go world.

"More than 70 percent of the children here want to be liked by professional chess players." Wu Teng glanced at the children all over the hall, who were playing chess nervously, and said, "and those parents, perhaps in their heart, are expecting their children to have this talent."Meng Huo understood that it was the same as learning piano and dancing. Because children were young, parents were more willing to let them try different directions. However, when the children grow up, the behavior of parents will be conservative.

"But to be honest, we didn't even think about it before." Wu Teng then said, he looked at Meng Huo: "all this thanks to teacher He Xi you."

The success of the game comes from the success of "the spirit of chess". Wuteng knows this very well in his heart. In the past, the society generally did not recognize go. Even if some parents found that their children had this talent, they would not let them try it.

But now the situation is different. With the success of "the spirit of chess", the impression of the go industry has changed in all aspects, the exposure rate has become higher, and the go events are often broadcast on TV - and the Go Association has also made great changes.

One of the biggest changes is to improve the training of chess players. Now the training of new players in any industry needs a lot of money, and all kinds of training courses have to be charged. But go is different. When a child is mined from an amateur game, goes to a chess hall for training, becomes a college student, and takes a professional exam, he doesn't need any expenses. In the eyes of many parents, it's quite cost-effective to let the child go.

No expensive training costs, the risk is very small, failure can be a hobby. And if you succeed in becoming a professional chess player, you will have a fixed income every month. Isn't that like pie falling from the sky