1978 Synthetic Writers

Chapter 461: Heaven's Game

"White, move 116, column , row , first move."

"Black, eighteenth column, tenth row, block."

"White chess piece, 13th column, 9th row, first move."

"Black chess piece, 13th column, 7th row, short."

Hey.

The sound of chess pieces falling on the chessboard continued to ring out.

However, compared to before, the atmosphere at the Japan Chess Institute is much more relaxed.

In the laboratory, the Japanese chess players no longer stared at the board in deep thought like they did in the morning, but were silent. Now they were talking to each other, and some even had smiles on their faces.

"It seems that the Chinese have indeed conducted targeted research on Brother Xiaolin's chess. After watching several games, this one is the most targeted at Brother Xiaolin."

"Nie Sang is still very resilient, but unfortunately his skills in the middle and late stages were not stable enough, and he made such a big mistake."

"Okay, Nohara-san, go organize a meeting for chess fans after the game."

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Game room.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Kobayashi Koichi took advantage of Nie Weiping's bad move and kept sticking to him, gaining a huge lead.

Nie Weiping picked up the chess piece, looked up at his watch, and found that he had spent about an hour in this long thinking.

Of course, during this hour, Nie Weiping was thinking about how to turn the situation around.

The novel "Tian Ju" just flashed through his mind.

"Is this how it ends?"

Faced with such a desperate situation, Nie Weiping could not think of any foolproof plan, and the idea of surrendering immediately emerged in his mind.

No way.

He thought of the chaos in "The Heavenly Game".

At this moment, he was just like Hun Dun who accidentally entered the Valley of Confusion on that snowy night.

Surrounded by dark mountains, he seemed to be possessed. Even though he turned around, he always returned to the same place.

The night is deep.

The weather gets colder after the snow stops.

My body was shivering with cold. I looked up and around. The future seemed bleak. Where was the way out?

Do I have to accept my fate?

Is he going to freeze to death here?

no way!

Nie Weiping was filled with anger, and a surge of blood rushed to his forehead.

Heaven wanted Hun Dun to lose, so Hun Dun used himself as a threat and knelt down on the chessboard and died.

Even if it means sacrificing yourself, you still want to win.

Even if the opponent is the sky.

Today, fate somehow made Nie Weiping play such a rare and useless chess move.

Nie Weiping just doesn't believe in fate.

His eyes swept across the nineteen lines on the chessboard.

This vertical and horizontal line seem to be performing a perfect simulation of time and space.

The small chessboard hides the flow of time, the transformation of space, and the ever-changing mysteries of numbers, symbolizing the cosmic philosophy of the alternation and cycle of yin and yang.

At this moment, the black chess pieces have fallen into danger, trapped in the white formation, while the white chess pieces are going smoothly and taking the initiative. The player holding the black chess pieces, Kobayashi Koichi, has changed his previous style of play, and with a decisive and ruthless move, he suddenly launched a fierce attack on the black dragon with a volley to suppress the opponent's movement.

The black pieces, facing the fierce siege of the white pieces, are like a trapped beast, surrounded on all sides and can only whimper, being worn down to death like being cut by a blunt knife.

"Then don't live!"

Nie Weiping's eyes were sharp.

He stared at a corner of the chessboard, picking up the pieces and making their moves.

Hey.

The black chess pieces were placed on the chessboard and made crisp sounds when they hit the chessboard.

The sound was like breaking jade.

Beijing.

Yanjing Gymnasium.

".I also hope that everyone can be more tolerant of chess players. It is said that 9th Dan Nie Weiping suffers from a congenital heart disease. He played so fiercely in the middle and late game. Perhaps because of this, he made such a useless move that he should not have made." Cao Zhilin explained to chess fans as a commentator.

He did this because he was afraid that chess fans would be too angry and take their anger out on Nie Weiping.

When Qian Yuping lost the game, his chess fans were very angry. Some of the crazier fans even went to Qian Yuping's home, wanting to beat him up.

Finally, after the chess team explained the situation to Brother Shu, Brother Shu said, "We laymen should stop making irresponsible comments."

Afterwards, the chess players of the national team were protected, and thus the matter of losing the game was suppressed.

Kobayashi Hikaru took action one by one, and six generals of the Chinese team were knocked off their horses.

Although, according to the goal set before the game, as long as Kobayashi Koichi can be invited out, the mission will be completed.

However, Jiang Zhujiu's "five consecutive victories" have boosted the enthusiasm of people across the country.

Now everyone is looking forward to a victory over Kobayashi Koichi.

It is really a bit unreasonable for Kobayashi Koichi to "string seven candied haws".

Cao Zhilin only hopes that after this game is over, chess fans will not launch a massive condemnation against Nie Weiping because of this “useless move”.

"Oh, if I had known earlier, I should have agreed to the Japan Go Association and canceled the challenge match." In the laboratory, the members of the Chinese Go national team all had heavy expressions on their faces, and someone suddenly said this in a deep voice.

After these words were spoken, many people nodded slightly in agreement.

Just a month ago, when Kobayashi Koichi defeated Ma Xiaochun, the Japanese side hinted to the Chinese Go Academy that they did not intend to continue holding the challenge tournament.

The reason is also very simple.

There is a story about an empty city plan in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It was full of loopholes, so why didn't Sima Yi enter the city?

The purpose of the Japan Chess Association for this competition is to attract attention.

This is also one of the previous exchanges with Chinese folk forms of competitions, which has given inspiration to the Japanese chess world.

This is compared to the long-term "killing each other" among Japanese chess players who have firmly sat in the "top spot" in the world chess arena.

Competitions between countries are certainly more eye-catching.

Chinese Go has certain strength, but it cannot threaten the dominant position of Japanese Go. The game between the two countries is also a hot topic.

But the game is played like this. If Kobayashi Koichi continues to win, I'm afraid no one will take Chinese Go seriously anymore.

No audience likes to watch a game where the weak are bullied.

If this continues, the fans will only look down upon the strength of Chinese Go.

Being dominated by one company is not a good thing for Japanese Go.

To give a very simple example, in later generations, many mobile games in China held world competitions.

However, few people paid attention to it.

Why?

Because everyone knows that other countries cannot beat the Chinese team.

Then who's watching?

The Japan Shogi Association also hopes to hold more competitions in the future.

If this really happens, Kobayashi Koichi sweeps the Chinese Go world and makes Chinese Go look really bad, then the attention to future competitions will certainly decrease.

With the decline in attention, the sponsors behind the game, that is, the financial backers, will of course be unhappy, and the industry will then face a decline. Therefore, if the competition is suspended this time, the Japan Go Association believes that at least Nie Weiping can be left as a suspense.

However, their suggestion was rejected by the Chinese Chess Institute.

To be precise, he was rejected by Nie Weiping.

In the national team, everyone knows that Nie Weiping has always been "arrogant and conceited".

This guy has always been fearless.

For example, there was one time when Nie Weiping claimed that he could "fight ten games" with the male players of the national team, that is, play 10 games of chess with others at the same time.

He said he wouldn't lose a game.

Unexpectedly, the next day 10 team members came to challenge him.

This fight lasted from morning to noon. If it wasn't time for lunch, it would have been difficult for Old Nie to end it.

Even so, Nie Weiping still insisted that he would definitely win if he continued to fight.

With such a personality, it is certainly impossible for him to accept the hints from the Japanese side.

"Alas, this game is not without a chance. That move was due to Old Nie's physical condition."

As teammates who know Nie Weiping well, the chess players have roughly guessed why Nie Weiping made the 115th useless move.

"He has always had a bad heart. If he was in a normal state, there is no way he would make such a move."

"What a pity, it was just that short!"

"Alas, I missed a move by one step. It's God's will. Maybe I really didn't win Kobayashi Koichi's life."

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Outside the study room, because Nie Weiping took so long to think about this move, chess fans in their seats started discussing it.

"No chance. No matter how you look at it, there is no chance. The initiative of the entire right chess piece is in Kobayashi Koichi's hands."

"Alas, this move has such a huge impact! All because of this one chess piece!"

"Hey, you guys, this situation is really like a novel about Go that I read a few days ago."

"What novel?"

"It can't be Jiang Xian's "The Heavenly Game"."

"Oh, you've seen it too?!"

"Of course I've read it! It was first published in People's Literature, how could I not have read it?"

When a chess fan mentioned the novel "Tian Ju", it immediately attracted responses from many chess fans.

"Oh, that novel is so moving and touching!"

"I've read Jiang Xian's The Chess King before, which is about Wang Yisheng and chess, and it's a return to the basics. This time, his The Heaven's Game is about Go, and it's so grand and magnificent."

"One is about writing about the coming into the world, and the other is about leaving the world. Teacher Jiang's perspective on life is truly divine!"

“Is it that beautiful?”

"Oh, it's really good. I love that novel so much. I've been reading it over and over again these past two days. Every time I finish reading it, I can't calm down for a long time and it's always memorable."

"You say, how similar is Nie Weiping's current situation to the chaos in the Valley of Confusion in The Heavenly Game?"

"You are talking nonsense. Who was Hun Dun fighting? It was the sky. Nie Weiping was fighting a little Japanese. How are they similar?"

"Hey, don't be unhappy."

The elder brother who just spoke explained:
"If Nie Weiping didn't have a congenital heart disease, would he have been able to play that game? He didn't lose to the Japanese, but to his heart disease, or to God."

As soon as these words were spoken, the chess fans around him all agreed and nodded continuously.

"Oh, really, it's just like kicking a football into the goal post. What can you say? It's just that God doesn't have eyes and doesn't want us to win."

"Yes, this is fate. I don't want you to win this game, but I can find ways to make you lose."

"This thing called fate is so fucking mysterious!"

"I can't accept the loss!"

A female chess fan couldn't stand it any longer, "Can you stop whining? The game isn't even over yet. Lose, lose, lose, it doesn't matter whether you lose or not, but you're already complaining here. It's really unlucky."

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Several male chess fans were embarrassed by what was said. They were pursing their lips to make a few remarks, but they heard the announcement of the chess pieces on the stage.

"Move 125, Black chess, th column, st row!"

"block!"

"Good move!"

Cao Zhilin stood up immediately and said, "Good move, really good move! This move is priceless!"

Jiang Xian, who was sitting firmly in his seat, also breathed a sigh of relief.

In later generations, Nie Weiping's move was exactly the choice of artificial intelligence AI.

"Black blocks here and gains five points. It is of great value."

After Cao Zhilin calmed down, he quickly explained to the chess fans: "Moreover, everyone, look, after this move, the black pieces are completely alive. In the future, when trying to capture here, black pieces will still have the upper hand, and white pieces will need to make up for the lost pieces. This area also leaves material for black pieces to capture."

Kobayashi Koichi quickly came up with a response.

"White, ninth column, fourteenth row, jump."

Cao Zhilin nodded, his face full of joy.

"Comrades, let us now look at the situation."

"Black has 23 points in the upper right corner. The lower right corner has the first move, so it has 7 points. The lower left corner has 15 points, and the upper left corner has 8 points. In total, it has 53 points."

"As for the white chess piece, there are six points on the upper right, nine points on the right, six points on the lower right, and six points along the left side, for a total of twenty-four points on the upper side. Adding them together, the total number is fifty-three points."

"The board is now evenly controlled and it's Black's turn to make the first move. Nie Weiping still has a chance in this game!"

In the mournful atmosphere of the stadium, cheers broke out again.

The pupils of the chess fans, which had been out of focus for a long time, now showed a hint of anticipation.

"still have a chance!"

"This move was a good one. We can recover a few points, and then we can still play! This game can still be played!"

"Great! That's a great move!"

"If we keep the situation stable, there is still hope of winning."

"Come on."

Amid the cheers, there were some pessimists. "Yes, the situation is under control now, and it's the black chess' turn to move, but don't forget that Nie Weiping is the black chess. If you want to give the white chess a handicap, do you expect him to win by a handicap with just one move?"

"Gaining points" is a term in Go. As we all know, in Go, the black pieces move first and have the advantage of moving first. Therefore, when calculating the number of points at the end, they must give the white pieces a few points to make up for the disadvantage of moving later.

Hence it is called tiemu.

Because the Japanese Go Association is very powerful, the popular system at the moment is Japan's 5-point handicap for black, which means that black is naturally 5 points behind white.

Although both black and white pieces are at 5 points now, Nie Weiping's black pieces have to lose points, so he is still points behind Kobayashi Koichi.

In such a balanced situation, how easy is it to make up for the 5 points lost?
Even though Nie Weiping made a brilliant move in the 125th move, the situation still tilted in Kobayashi Koichi's direction.

The black dragon is still dying slowly.

"Hey, it's down, it's down."

Everyone looked at the market.

"Black chess piece, tenth column, fifteenth row, play."

After this move, chess fans started discussing it again.

"What does it mean?"

"Shouldn't we walk here?"

Cao Zhilin said nothing. He watched the next few moves with a serious expression, then uttered a few words in a low voice.

"Nie Weiping has chosen a path that is very dangerous for himself, but also easy for the opponent to make mistakes!"

"He wants to meet Kobayashi Koichi"

"Destroy everything together!"

(End of this chapter)