Go: Is the portable old man the nine-time champion?

Chapter 9: God-Suppressing Head

"Diagonal star? I haven't seen this kind of layout in a long time."

"This is an ancient chess layout. It's hard for Black to make up for the disadvantage of being stuck in the goal."

"No, no, no! This kind of match will immediately turn into a fierce battle. Once the melee begins, the difference in handicap points may not be so important."

Seeing Yi Zheng, playing with black, actively choose the diagonal star layout, some of the onlookers couldn't help but murmur.

The diagonal star layout is inevitable in ancient chess, but it is rarely seen in modern games.

Because ancient chess uses a seat system, the black and white players have already placed two chess pieces on the board before playing, directly forming a diagonal star layout.

However, after the seat system was abolished and due to the existence of the point-handling rule in modern Go, black pieces need to make up for the point disadvantage through active attacks.

The diagonal star layout easily leads to a fragmented situation because the two pieces occupy the diagonals, making it difficult to form a continuous force, making it impossible for Black to effectively utilize the advantage of the first move.

Therefore, modern professional chess players tend to adopt concentrated layouts such as small eyes or star-shaped corners in order to quickly build a strong position and control the overall rhythm.

Of course, the diagonal star layout is not completely without advantages. Using this layout can easily lead to direct melee in the early stages. If the chess player is the kind of person who extremely loves fighting, he may not necessarily use this layout.

But because it is too extreme, professional players don’t want to get involved in such a large-scale melee right from the start.

Because it is easy to cause an embarrassing situation where you either win big or die suddenly.

The awesome ones will be defeated, but the idiots will be killed.

Looking at the diagonal star on the chessboard, Wang Teng couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly. Does this person want to fight with him directly?
Knowing that there is a certain gap between your strength and yours, you want to kill the master with just random punches?
But since you have drawn your sword, I will not show mercy.

Come on then!

The narrow road meets the brave to win!

star!
After seeing Yi Zheng's move, Wang Teng quickly placed the chess piece on the last corner star position. The two sides directly formed a diagonal star layout with each other, directly replicating the ancient chess seating system.

"What a rage!"

The crowd watching around could smell the smell of gunpowder in the air when they saw the four chess pieces on the board, and even the surrounding area immediately became panic-stricken.

This kind of layout means that this game will definitely not be like most games, where everyone starts by paying attention to balance and reality. It is more likely that a war will break out at any time.

There is even a high probability that they will be killed from beginning to end!

This is certainly a good thing for the spectators, because such chess is more entertaining to some extent.

Although the games of Kung Fu Chess are very valuable, they are too boring for most amateurs.

Or the flesh-and-blood fight makes everyone more excited.

"Click three three, click him three three!"

Although Mr. Ke felt that Yi Zheng was just being bored when he chose the diagonal star layout, it did have its advantages, as he could directly target the opponent's three-three formation.

However, Yi Zheng did not choose to point three-three, but simply made a small flying pass to the corner.

Last night, Mr. Ke had already talked a lot with Yi Zheng about Dian San San. At least Yi Zheng has already had a preliminary understanding of this new pattern.

It can be said that just a few hours of content made Yi Zheng feel like he had opened the door to a new world.

However, Yi Zheng did not immediately take this thing out to show off like a child getting a new toy.

That would be too childish.

First, I haven't fully mastered this layout, and second, this is just a training game for me.

If you use this kind of thing to kill your opponent directly from the layout stage at the beginning, then there will be no training value after the middle game.

It would be really stupid for me to come all this way just to show off in front of a bunch of amateurs.

Improving himself and training himself is what Yi Zheng wants to do now.

I'm not a natural ninth-dan, I can only accumulate little by little to move to a higher level. Watching Yi Zheng's ordinary little flying corner move, Wang Teng made an unexpected move.

The God-suppressing Head!
Seeing this step, many onlookers suddenly became excited.

A rare move!
Super strong courage!
"Zhenshentou" is the name of a classic tactic in ancient Chinese Go, which originated from a legendary game in the Tang Dynasty.

It is said that Gu Shiyan, a chess player in the Tang Dynasty, once used the "Zhenshentou" move to defeat the prince of Japan.

During the Dazhong period (847-860), the prince of the Kingdom of Dongying came to the court. Gu, following the order of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, played chess with him. The game lasted for 33 moves and the outcome was still undecided. Gu "feared to disgrace the emperor's order, so his hands were sweating and he was thinking hard before he dared to make a move. This is called the calming of the soul, which is the way to break the momentum of both sides' attack." He made his opponent stare blankly and retract his arms, and finally admit defeat in the middle of the game.

This has also become a signature way of playing chess in ancient times, because the diagonal constellation layout naturally forms a symmetrical structure, and the center becomes a must-fight place.

"Zhen Shen Tou" is a power that is deployed by using the struggle for central control to suppress the opponent's star position, such as placing a Zhen Tou next to the opponent's star position chess piece to force it to go on the defensive.

The central town will inevitably trigger a large-scale entanglement attack. With only six chess pieces, the smell of gunpowder on the chessboard is already overflowing.

The two sides fought back and forth, neither giving the other a chance to relax.

Seventh move, Black, damn!

"Here they come! It's really rare to start fighting right from the start."

In fact, there are only a few chess pieces on the board now, and both sides have the possibility to stop at any time without suffering too much loss.

But just these few chess pieces have made the opponent feel each other's aggressiveness. If they back down at this time and give in all at once, they will have lost half of the game.

As the saying goes, it is better to lose than to lose power!

Thinking of this, Wang Teng couldn't help but look up at Yi Zheng who was sitting opposite him. It was just a friendly training game of chess, why was this guy so angry?

But when Wang Teng looked up and saw Yi Zheng's current posture, he inexplicably felt a strong aura, or rather...

A feeling.

I never seem to have this feeling towards my opponents.

Rumors are on the back.

It makes people feel an inexplicable pressure.

What a strange boy!

I have seen many young people who are trying to get a dan, but this is the first time I have seen this type.

However, Yi Zheng did not notice the change in his opponent's expression and was fully immersed in the chessboard.

The reason why Yi Zheng made such an aggressive move today and chose a killing layout from the beginning was to prove one thing.

Or to retrieve something.

That is, my former self!
Although he had a game with Mr. Ke yesterday, because the difference in strength was too big, the opponent could basically be said to be an old man playing with a naughty boy, and Yi Zheng had basically no power to resist.

So he couldn't prove whether his talent had returned, but playing against opponents of the same level today allowed him to feel this intuitively.

The same goes for choosing complex, entangled attacks, because only in this chaotic battle can Yi Zheng clearly feel the chess sense he was once most proud of! Calculation ability!
And Wang Teng is the first whetstone for him after his return!
Take that as a stone.

Grind away rust.

Show off your edge!

Twenty-fifth move, Black chess, pull!

There is no feint, only main attack, the most primitive calculation, the most violent way of attacking.

kill!kill!kill!

(End of this chapter)