Rebirth of the Great Power

The life-and-death puzzle that Mu Yuan posed is quite special. Black chess uses ten stones from the second to fifth roads to enclose a square field, leaving two points on the road, and the black chess surrounds the white chess four roads. The two stones were surrounded by white chess from all the way.Then it is black's turn to go first and ask for work.

Tian Yuan thought seriously, the young master said that the principle of working is to expand the eye position first.After thinking about it, he picked up a chess piece and blocked it along the way.

Mu Yuan didn't say much, picked up a white ball and crawled in from another direction, narrowing the opponent's eyes.

The black piece is held, and the white piece is called to capture.

Tian Yuan fell into deep thought: If I pick up from the first road...no, then as long as White makes a random move on the third road, I will be dead.

Ok……

Tian Yuan frowned, bit his fingers and calculated for a long time, suddenly his eyes lit up, yes, it can be like this, thinking about it, he put the chess pieces in the second lane, playing and eating, and doing robbery.

Tian Yuan looked at Mu Yuan with a smile: "Master, is this right?"

Before Mu Yuan could answer, there was a light knock on the door.

"Guest officer, we have a visitor." It was Xiaoer's voice.

It was undoubtedly Ji San who came to visit at this time.

Mu Yuan opened the door, and Ji San, who had his back turned, turned around, slightly raised his forehead, and smiled, "Brother Mu."

Mu Yuan laughed too, stretched out his hand and said, "Brother Ji, please come in."

Ji San stepped in and said, "You didn't bother Brother Mu, did you?"

"How come, I have been waiting for a long time."

As soon as Ji San entered the door, he saw the chessboard on the table, raised his eyebrows, and immediately became interested: "Playing chess?"

Mu Yuan explained: "I saw that life-and-death question on the street today, so I thought of a few interesting examples and put them out for study."

"Do you mind if we take a look too?" Ji San pointed to himself and Mo Yan who was following behind.

The corner of Mu Yuan's eyes twitched: "I can't ask for it."

The four gathered around the chessboard again. When Ji San saw the question types on the chessboard, he showed some interest in his eyes: "This question is quite interesting. What is the question like?"

Mu Yuan took out the chess pieces that the two of them put on when they were solving the problem just now, revealing their original appearance: "Tian Yuan, please demonstrate the solution just now."

"Yeah." Tian Yuan responded, and quickly re-arranged the solution, explaining his thinking at the same time, and finally said: "In this way, a robbery is made, and the black chess can be used as a robbery. Young master, does this count as a solution?" gone?"

After Tian Yuan finished speaking, he looked at Mu Yuan expectantly.

Mu Yuan smiled without answering, and asked Ji San instead: "Brother Ji thinks so?"

Ji San also smiled, and said to Mo Yan: "Mo Yan, do you want to try?"

When Tian Yuan was solving the problem, Mo Yan was also thinking seriously. He followed Ji San since he was a child, and he also learned a little bit of everything that his master knew.The master has the strongest interest in chess, and Mo Yan learns the most attentively. Occasionally, when the master wants to play chess but can't find an opponent, he can play two games with him.After so many years, I dare not say that I have become a master, but I still have a certain level.For this question of life and death, he has a deeper thought than Tianyuan.

As soon as the master opened his mouth, Mo Yan knew that this was a test for him by the master, so he didn't hold back, picked up the pieces and demonstrated them on the chessboard: "The first move of the black piece is not to block, but the sharp one. If the white piece is Compress the eye position and turn in, black can block it here. At this time, the chess shape is very good, no matter whether white wants to point the eye from here or from here, as long as black calls capture on the same way, it is a clean job, and It's not robbery."

After Mo Yan finished speaking, he looked at Ji San and Mu Yuan confidently. From robbery to clean work, the difference is not small.

Mu Yuan nodded secretly, Mo Yan's train of thought was closer than Tian Yuan's, but it was still a little short, so he smiled and said: "If the black chess is blocking the way, the white chess will not nod, but squeeze here How about one move?" Mu Yuan said and placed the white chess piece on the empty spot along the way.

"This..." Mo Yan was stunned for a moment, then began to calculate again, shook his head for a while, and said dejectedly: "No, because this problem is of the same type, no matter which side the black is called to eat, as long as the white piece stops eating, Black is dead. Even if black moves from above, as long as white moves all the way down, black is still dead."

"Well, yes." Tian Yuan also nodded, and he did the calculations together just now: "Master, can't black chess really do a good job of this problem?"

Mu Yuan didn't speak, but raised his eyes to look at Ji San.

Ji San and him looked at each other, smiled slightly, and said in a low voice: "If the black chess doesn't answer, it will live."

Mu Yuan immediately smiled, and the two looked at each other and smiled again.

Mo Yan and Tian Yuan calculated carefully again, and suddenly shouted: "That's right, if black makes a wrong move, it's White's turn to play, no matter whether White plays on the second or third way, because black has less collisions. In one breath, it can be made into a qusi, this is an iron chess piece."

The two of them showed joyful expressions while talking.

Ji San also laughed and said, "This question is really interesting."

Mu Yuan slowly withdrew the pieces, and said with a smile, "That's right. Go always pays attention to the first move and 'preemptive attack', but this question is an exception. If you want to answer it, no matter how hard you struggle, you will die. However, when you don't , but survived. So on the chessboard, there is no absolute move, and there is no absolute way of thinking. This is one of the most charming aspects of Go."

Ji San stretched out his hand to take out a chess piece from the chess box and played it between his fingers, his eyes showed a trace of intoxication: "Brother Mu is right, that's why this little chess piece is so fascinating."

Ji San said, looking up at Mu Yuan, with a deeper smile in his eyes: "Speaking of life and death, I happen to have a problem here, and I want to ask Brother Mu to solve it."

Mu Yuan smiled and made a gesture of invitation.

Ji San quickly set it up on the chessboard.

The three pieces of black chess were placed in a line and placed on the corner of the second road. The white pieces were placed on top of the three pieces, and one was blocked on the side, which basically blocked the way for black to escape.At first glance, it is almost a dead game.

At this time, Ji San added, "Hei does the work first." Then he said to Tian Yuan and Mo Yan: "You can also take a look."

Mu Yuan calculated carefully for a while, and soon he had a calculation, but he didn't rush to solve the problem, but waited for Tian Yuan and Mo Yan to give the answer first.

The two boys racked their brains and calculated for a long time, and finally shook their heads with bitter faces: "Master (Ji Sanye), is there really a solution to this problem?"

Ji San looked at Mu Yuan.

Mu Yuan smiled lightly, picked up a black stone and landed on the second and sixth positions, and the black stone caught it.

White naturally set up all the pieces together to avoid the fate of being hit and eaten.

The black chess is in the three-way tiger, and the white chess is sandwiched.The black chess is long, and the white chess is attacking and capturing.

Mu Yuan didn't pay attention to Bai's attack, but made a two-way charge on the other side.

Seeing Mu Yuan's move, Ji San stopped holding the chess pieces in the air, and after thinking for a while, he still set the white chess pieces together.

The black chess piece quickly clamped four ways with one hand, as if it had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

Ji San was stunned, he already had some premonition in his heart, looked carefully at the board, and tightened his fingers holding the chess pieces.

After a few more moves, although white removed a piece from black, black already had two eyes and was ready to work.

Ji San smiled brightly, and said in admiration: "I thought this kind of chess was already dead, but I didn't expect Brother Mu to have such a way to bring the dead back to life."

Mu Yuan smiled lightly and said: "As long as you don't hold the idea that you must die, and calculate carefully, there is still a way to survive. However, even if you survive, you will suffer a loss. In actual combat, such a chess is not worth living."

Ji San looked at the board and said, "That's right. Although the black chess survived, the price paid was too high, and the gain outweighed the loss. It can be said to be a fuss over a molehill. But as a life-and-death problem, this type of question is very interesting."

Mu Yuan deeply agreed: "Yes. Life and death are the foundation of Go, which contains a lot of skills, such as chess shape, feeling, calculation, etc. Such life-and-death problems that seem to be ineffective but actually have a way can be improved if you do more. Sensitivity to chess patterns."

Ji San nodded: "Brother Mu is very good. However, I still have some doubts. Here, if the black chess first clamps instead of rushing first, is it feasible?"

Mu Yuan shook his head, and put forward a change: "If the black chess is clamped here first, then when the white chess moves here, the black chess will not be able to kill it no matter what."

Immediately afterwards, Mu Yuan made several changes, explaining that different moves have similar endings.

After the end, Ji San sighed again: "Talking about chess with Brother Mu really benefited a lot."

Mu Yuan smiled: "It's just that I play a lot of chess and I'm more sensitive to chess patterns."

Although Mu Yuan's statement is self-effacing, it is also the truth.He has touched chess pieces since he was two years old. Over the past few decades, he has read millions of chess records and played thousands of games.However, the phrase "play more chess" is far from being as simple as it sounds.

Mu Yuan dare not say that his talent in Go is unmatched, but Mu Yuan can be sure that he will not lose to anyone in his love for Go and the efforts he puts in for it.Not to mention the amount of time and energy he has spent on the chessboard for years, even outside the chessboard, he has never left the chessboard.Whether it's walking, sitting, lying, playing in the mountains and rivers, or even interacting with people, all kinds of daily postures, in Mu Yuan's eyes, are all a kind of practice of chess.The so-called "kungfu is outside of chess", one Litong, Bailitong, go down to the peak, and then want to improve, not just sitting on the chessboard.

Ji San could understand the unremitting efforts behind Mu Yuan's plain words. The man in front of him was younger than himself, but not only had such superb chess skills, what was even more rare was his indifferent but solemn posture.Ji San was not only a little confused, but more admirable.

Mo Yan, who has always considered himself to have a high vision because he followed his master well-informed, also admired this young man who had only met twice.

When I study Go, I always feel that time is rushing.

At sunset, the boss of the caravan sent someone to inform Mu Yuan that the caravan would be leaving tomorrow at [-]:[-] am, so he was asked to prepare in advance, so as not to miss the time.

Mu Yuan couldn't help looking at Ji San, it's rare to meet a friend who can talk so congenially, and he didn't want to be parted after reuniting just now, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

Ji San was obviously a little bit reluctant, and the smile on his face also faded a bit: "It turns out that Brother Mu still has companions."

"It's a caravan from my hometown. My father was afraid that I would not know the way, so he specially asked someone to take me with him," Mu Yuan explained.

"So that's how it is." Ji San pondered for a while, then smiled and said: "Actually, Ji is also planning to go to Yangzhou, and he has been back and forth many times along the way, so he is quite familiar with it. If Brother Mu is willing, he can go with me. After all, The caravan has a tight schedule, Brother Mu is going out for the first time, and there is still some time before the start of the Chess King Tournament, the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is very beautiful, if you pass by in a hurry, don’t appreciate it, would it be a pity?"

As soon as Ji San said that, Mo Yan was startled, and his eyelids twitched. Their original itinerary did not include Yangzhou.But since the master said so, he naturally couldn't object.

Ji San spoke sincerely, and Mu Yuan was also moved by it.

Not only he couldn't bear to miss the beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, but he also didn't want to say goodbye to the friends who could talk about chess together in front of him.

"It's just, will it be too much trouble?" Mu Yuan hesitated a little.

"How could it be? Along the way, Ji still wanted to ask brother Mu about his chess skills, and hoped that brother Mu would not hesitate to teach him." Ji Sandao.

"That's it, it's better to obey orders than to be respectful." Mu Yuan smiled slightly.

The author has something to say: I don’t know if I can post the picture,

Here are the pictures of the two life-and-death questions in this chapter. If you are interested, you can try to display them. It is very interesting.