Chapter 530: The Stupid Little Contestant

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the semi-finals officially began.

The semi-finals, also known as the knockout rounds, are to select the top 16 from more than a hundred players to enter the national team for training.

Of course, these top 16 will still have to compete in the final.

Because there were so many people, ten chessboards were set up in the competition hall, and every ten groups, or twenty people, started the game at the same time.

Each group will have two referees watching the competition. While ensuring fairness, they will also try their best to discover the most promising players among the eliminated contestants.

Ding Huang’s identity is a referee.

For example, Yao Jinyu, Su Wan'er and others are high-level chess players of the national team. They do not need to participate in the initial qualifying knockout rounds, so in the initial stage of the knockout rounds, Yao Jinyu and Su Wan'er also acted as referees.

However, Su