Rebirth of the Great Power

After the game ended, it was You time, which was already late spring, and the sun began to grow slowly, so the sky had not yet completely darkened.

Mu Yuan stood up and stretched his muscles, only then did he feel a little hungry.This game of chess started early in the morning, except for a temporary break at noon for lunch, he and Master Jing Kong sat in front of the chessboard all the time.It would be no wonder if ordinary people sat like this for a whole day without back pain. Fortunately, Mu Yuan has long been used to such high-intensity games. He is already young, and the exercise during this period has been quite effective, so he can bear it.The exhaustion of mental concentration is also offset by the excitement of playing against masters.

On the other hand, Master Clearance showed a little fatigue after the game ended, and even though he went all out, he still lost to an unknown young man, which was a bit of a mental blow to him.Master Jingkong didn't cover up much, and laughed loudly: "It's so good, I haven't played so happily for a long time! It seems that I can rest earlier tonight. If little benefactor Mu is fine, you might as well stay in the temple for a few more days. Then ask the little benefactor for advice."

Mu Yuan bowed and said, "Never dare to ask for advice. Thanks to the master for not giving up, the younger generation can't ask for it."

Pushing open the door of the meditation room, a group of monks had already gathered outside the door.

Originally, everyone didn't take this chess game seriously. Every year, there were hundreds or dozens of people who challenged the host.Everyone also went from being curious at the beginning to being familiar with it later.

The monks in the temple have nothing to do on weekdays. Apart from chanting scriptures and worshiping Buddha, playing chess has become the best means of leisure.Coupled with the fact that there is a host with excellent chess skills in the temple, everyone's chess skills are getting higher and higher, and their eyes are naturally high. Why don't ordinary challengers pay attention to it, and no one has ever thought that the host will lose.

However, this game of chess was a bit unusual from the very beginning. In the past, chess games usually ended in one or two hours, at most no more than three hours, but this game was played for a full five hours.During the break, Mingyuan, who followed Master Jingkong to watch chess in the meditation room, came out to prepare lunch. Everyone laughed and asked how the battle was going. However, Mingyuan's face was not as calm as before, and his expression was also a little serious. Say no more.

The monks looked at each other in disbelief.But senior brother Mingyuan never lied, and he was the most skilled chess player among them, so it is definitely not optimistic for him to say that it is not good.

However, the host is about to lose! !Really? ?

how is this possible! !

All the monks were discussing one another while guarding outside the meditation room. No one dared to go in and disturb without the approval of the abbot, and even kept their voices to a minimum.

As the door opened with a "squeak", everyone's eyes were focused on it.

The first to come out was Master Clearance.Master Jingkong looked as usual, he was neither happy about victory nor depressed about defeat, and walked at a leisurely pace.Everyone hurried out of the way, and Master Jing Kong walked straight forward.

After Master Jingkong walked over, everyone turned their questioning eyes to Senior Brother Mingyuan who was following behind the master. Mingyuan's handsome face was slightly sad, and he slightly lowered his eyes and shook his head slightly.It is self-evident what it means.

Everyone was in an uproar.

When Mu Yuan walked out one step later with Tian Yuan, all the monks greeted him with eyes as if they were looking at a visitor from outside the sky.It is really that the invincible image of the host is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it is difficult for everyone to accept a sudden loss, not to mention that the loser is not some well-known national player, but an unknown young man like Mu Yuan.

Mu Yuan calmly accepted the baptism of such gazes, and calmly walked through the passage that everyone unconsciously gave way to.Having experienced the test of various modern spotlights and flashes, I naturally don't take this point of attention to heart.

Tian Yuan, who had never seen any battles, couldn't bear it anymore. For the first time in his life, he was stared at by such eyes, even though he knew that the focus of everyone's eyes was not on him.Tian Yuan tried his best to imitate his young master's calm and calm appearance, but the deliberately raised head and chest and slightly trembling calves still betrayed his nervousness.

It wasn't until he was completely out of everyone's sight that Tian Yuan relaxed all of a sudden, shed the restrained disguise, and revealed his lively nature.The suppressed excitement surged up, Tian Yuan couldn't help jumping up, and couldn't stop praising, "Young Master, you are so amazing, you even lost to Master Jingkong. The appearance of the group of monks just now, haha, really It was so much fun, everyone's eyes widened and they couldn't say a word. Seeing you, you look like a ghost. Oh, I'm not saying that you are a ghost... Oh, anyway, you are the best, young master. Already!"

Mu Yuan stopped, and said gently and earnestly: "Tianyuan, don't speak nonsense, let alone make fun of others. Master Jingkong is not only an eminent monk, but also a master. This game of chess was not easy for me. If I made a careless move, It is possible to lose the whole game. What's more, Go itself is full of changes, and there is no game through the ages. The momentary victory or defeat does not mean anything. Winning should not be arrogant, and defeat should not be discouraged. Only by maintaining a normal heart can you appreciate the more beautiful landscape."

Tian Yuan lowered his head and said in a weak voice: "Yes, young master, I was wrong. It will definitely not be like this in the future."

Mu Yuan smiled lightly, and patted his head comfortingly: "Tianyuan's young mind is unavoidable to get lost for a while. Besides, you are happy for me, I understand."

Tian Yuan swept away the frustration just now, and raised his head with sparkling eyes.

Without waiting for him to speak again, Mu Yuan said, "Okay, let's have dinner first, you should be hungry too."

Tian Yuan's stomach let out a "grunt" sound at the right time, and scratched his hair a little shyly: "Hey, it's okay if you don't mention it, young master, but once you mention it, it will arouse my glutton. Feel hungry, young master, once you say it, it will be hungry."

Mu Yuan smiled and said, "Then hurry up."

After dinner, Master Jingkong and Mu Yuan had gone back to their room to rest first, but the monks surrounded Mingyuan and asked him to tell the story of today's game.

Mingyuan didn't like talking at all, and it was hard to evade the requests of the juniors, so he directly took out the recorded chess records and handed them over to them.

The monks couldn't wait to set up the chess game, one piece fell down one by one, and everyone's expressions became more and more surprised.Originally, everyone was thinking that the Grandmaster was in poor condition today and lost the game, but when the game was played, no one present was a mediocre player. Naturally, they could see that it wasn't that the Grandmaster made a mistake in playing chess, but that the opponent was more serious. clever.

"This, this... The host is at a disadvantage in almost the whole situation!!"

"Look here, this move has almost cornered black's piece of chess. Fighting in the middle game is indeed the host's forte, and the host's move is really wonderful!"

"However, black made a split move, and the situation suddenly went to two points. It not only disintegrated the offensive of white chess, but also thickened its own piece of chess. Road land. Wouldn't it be better!"

"The length of the hand actually plays a role here. I never would have imagined it! If the opponent is a god, then this Mu Yunzhi's sense of chess is quite good. But if he is playing this long hand It's time to count the changes in the future..." The monk who spoke was a little shocked and couldn't continue.

Another person spoke out for him: "Then his computing power is too amazing!"

"Senior brother Mingyuan, tell me quickly. You were watching chess at the time. Do you think he was a genius or did he have a budget?"

Mingyuan has been sitting quietly listening to their discussion, and when he heard the question, he responded in a low voice: "I don't know whether this benefactor is a god or has a budget, but before he made this move, he had It's a long test, and it's the only long test in the whole world."

"Brother means..."

"Already have a budget!!"

For a moment, everyone was speechless, and the room was silent.

The monk who was placing the pieces was a little emotional, the chess piece in his hand was not steady, and it landed on the chessboard with a "snap", knocking out the sound of gold and stone, and turned a few times on the chessboard, disrupting the situation of one side.

Mu Yuan accepted Master Jingkong's proposal to stay in Lingyin Temple for two more days.

The next morning, the two of them set up a chess game again, because in yesterday's game, Master Jing Kong held the white first, and today the two of them no longer guessed first, but Mu Yuan held the white.

After Mu Yuan failed at the beginning of the game, he directly entered the corner at the other corner occupied by the black chess in the second move.

Pointing [-] is a decisive way to win the corner. Once the point is [-], there is no doubt that a piece of the corner will be cut off.In modern Go, which is dominated by seizing the field, the opening point three-three is a very common formula and method.However, in the ancient rules, because of the stipulation of "returning the head", very few chess players clicked three-three at the beginning.

However, very little does not mean absolutely none.

Master Jingkong has been playing chess for decades, and he has also played a chess game where he was hit three-three by his opponent at the beginning.However, in the only few games, one was that the opponent didn't understand chess and responded indiscriminately, which made people laugh and cry;At the beginning, the way of playing three-three is even more abandoned by the people of the time.

If Mu Yuan played this chess move yesterday, Master Jing Kong would inevitably think that he was blindly surprising.It's just that after yesterday's game of chess, Master Jing Kong knows that Mu Yuan's chess strength is not inferior to his own, and it is even more impossible to make an unreasonable move at the beginning of the game. Such a move must have a purpose.However, Master Clearance is not a mediocre player. Since the opponent wants to take the ground, then I will take the opportunity to take advantage of it. Go is a game that pays attention to balance, and it is impossible to occupy all the terrain.

In the following layout, the two took what they needed, Mu Yuan basically occupied the four corners, and Master Jing Kong also formed a big shape in the middle of the abdomen.

If it is in modern Go, there is no problem for the two players to play like this. One takes the ground and the other takes the position, and the situation can be regarded as two points.However, due to the rule of "returning chess heads", the current situation is not good for Mu Yuan, because the more detailed the chess is divided, the more ways to post and return the chess pieces to the opponent.Now Mu Yuan not only has to think about how to carve out a world in the middle of the black chess, but also how to connect his four corners so that they don't all become lonely chess.

Of course, it is impossible for Mu Yuan not to know the current situation. In fact, he did it on purpose.His idea is also very simple, that is, to decide the outcome in the middle game, to really appreciate the charm of ancient human chess, and at the same time, to test whether there is a way out for modern Go thinking and playing methods in the ancient rules.

With Mu Yuan's deep penetration, the real battle began.

With Mu Yuan's deliberate management and Master Jing Kong's cooperation, this game of chess is doomed to life and death, and the situation is extremely tragic. The two sides come and go, and the fight is extremely fierce.Master Jing Kong is worthy of being a contemporary chess master and a representative of Liqi. Such a hearty and let go fight shows his strength in mid-game combat, and has forced Mu Yuan out of breath several times.And Mu Yuan's decades of research on ancient and modern Chinese and foreign chess records and his own talent for being extremely sensitive to chess patterns have shown their advantages in such extreme battles.

In the end, Mu Yuan failed to connect the lonely chess pieces at the four corners, but he also destroyed the huge appearance of the white chess piece in the middle, and even ate a dozen or so small dragons from the opponent.Calculated in this way, even adding the number of pieces that need to be repaid due to the extra three pieces of chess, Mu Yuan still won three and a half stones, that is, Qimu chess.

After stopping, both sides let out a sigh of relief, Master Jing Kong was already sweating, and Mu Yuan didn't hesitate.The two looked at each other and laughed loudly.

Master Jing Kong shouted twice, "Happy, happy!"

The two played rapid chess today, the number of moves was not less than yesterday's game, but the time was reduced by half compared to yesterday's game, and the game ended at a quarter of noon.

And from the beginning of the game between the two, the monks set up a chess record outside the courtyard with the consent of Master Jing Kong and Mu Yuan.

The chess records were recorded one by one and sent out. The battle in the game room was fierce, and the spectators were amazed.Fighting together in the middle game, the ups and downs of the situation made the hearts of the monks watching chess fluctuate. While discussing the subtlety of this move, they guessed where the next move would be. The situation was more tense than in the game room. too much.

When the chess game is over, not only those who play chess, but also those who watch chess are sweating.However, everyone also repeatedly called wonderful.