The ten-year trace of the soul of chess

The warm spring breeze blows all the way north, blowing a line of cherry blossoms from the southernmost Ryukyu Islands.

In Tokyo, the steel-reinforced forests seem to put away the coldness and harshness of the past, and rarely reveal a little softness and loveliness unique to the spring season.

It is the second Tuesday in early April.

Ten past ten in the morning.Nihon Kiin Tokyo Main Academy.

A ray of sunlight diffused through the snow-white and flexible shoji paper into a chess room on the leftmost side of the fifth floor of the chess academy.

There are two chess players sitting on both sides of the pier.

The elder, wearing a brown suit, has bright hair and brows, eyes like a falcon; the young, with long dark green hair tied behind his head, calm eyes, straight back.

The bright light infiltrates the figures of the two people. There is a clear age gap between the two parties, but they both give people an unfathomable feeling.

It's like a dragon and a tiger fighting, and it's about to explode.

Under the seemingly peaceful appearance, there is a more intense smell of fire/powder after each move.

Swords and swords, hidden murderous intentions.

Between Youxuan.

Here is the scene of the 63rd Honinbo title tiebreaker.

Today is also a key battle to determine the eligibility of the Honinbo title challenger.

For both sides of the game, Toya Ryo is the white man, and Kuwahara Hitomi Honinbo is the black man.

The winner will join Shinto Mitsumoto Honinbo in the current Honinbo title seven-ban chess challenge.

The winner will be crowned the crown of "Honinbo".

The contest between the two celebrities and Honor Honinbo is destined to be an unusual round.

From the very beginning, it was unusual.

Star;

Star;

Hanging angle, hanging angle.

In the first 6 moves, both the black and the white sides started with the "star hanging corner", which seemed to imitate and provoke.

According to the usual way of playing, after the "star hanging corner", the chess player must respond with a move, in case the opponent plays "Shuangfeiyan", which is not good for one's own side.

But in this chess game, when Kuwahara Jin played the corner again, instead of defending, Liang chose to take off first and continue to play the corner.

"Kid Jinto came to watch this chess match today, right? But, I'm afraid I'll disappoint him!"

"How could it be? Although Shinto couldn't show up today because of something, but after the game, the feeling of loss must not be as great as that of you, Mr. Kuwahara."

Suddenly, he remembered the conversation he had with Kid Taya before the game.

Although the young man sitting opposite has a humble attitude, his implication is that he hides knives everywhere.

——It is true that Shindo was not present today, because there is no need to be there.

——Today Bai Xing is none other than me, I'm afraid it is, so don't bother you.

Kuwahara Ren caught them all.

It's really like his father.

The same reverence and arrogance, conceit and innocence.

Looking back on half my life, I have traveled through the chess world for fifty years.

He never imagined that after so many years, his old bones would one day be brought back into the furnace to compete with the young child for the Honinbo title challenger qualification.

It's really a joke, extremely ridiculous.

When his eyes returned to the chessboard, Kuwahara Jin shook his head as if he was brooding.

However, it is also interesting.

Before the match, he had specially studied Taya boy's chess moves.More than once.

Different from Jin Teng's style, this kid's chess style is tough, he is decisive in killing and cutting, he is good at using offense as defense, and using subtleties to seize vitality.

now it's right.

A gleam of light emerged from Kuwahara Ren's eyes.

If the prey is too weak, how can the hunter enjoy the double pleasure in the hunting process.

Since Kid Taya is so arrogant, then as soon as the chess game starts... just break his wings.

Just heard a "pop".

Black 9, the "six of 3" position, Shuangfeiyan.

Lifting his eyelids and looking lazily at the young man sitting opposite him, Hitoshi Kuwahara suddenly felt regretful and happy.

What a pity, what a pity.

You can only use your tongue for a while before the start of the game, Taya, Ming, Ren, Jun.

Kuwahara-sensei, did you laugh just now?

Inexplicably shivered.

Judging from the old man's expression, he seems to be sure of winning today's chess game, so his facial expression also looks so "intriguing".

10 minutes into the game, when secretly observing the expressions of the two on the side workbench, Takayuki Kibe, who was one of the recorders of this game, judged in his heart.

But after only half an hour, he completely overturned this idea.

He saw that Kuwahara Ren's face gradually became tense.

The chess game is about to move to the 28th move, but the board is already full of gunpowder.

In the lower left corner, just after the contact war caused by "Shuangfeiyan" ended, Black 29 "flyed" with one hand, and once again ignited the battle in the upper left corner in the shape of "Shuangfeiyan".

White's 30 "rely", keep a close eye on the black piece above.

Black has 31 "tips", while surrounding White on the right side.

Bai 32 "stands down" and slowly expands its territory downwards.

Black 33 "shoulder charge", once again monitoring White from above.

Afterwards, White seeks a change at 34, and Black pushes out tenaciously at 35.

Since Black 35, the battle in the upper left corner has escalated. Black is trying to divide White's camp, and White is also constantly breaking out to the left, looking for a way out.

However, the fighting did not continue in depth.

For a wonderful chess game, from the beginning of the layout to the middle stage, top chess players often seek to "leave aftertaste", that is, during the game, they are not in a hurry to complete all the changes in the local chess shape, but to assess the situation and wait for the time to mature. , and then turn back and continue playing chess, thinking that there is room for change in the follow-up battle.

When White 48 settled down, Kuwahara Hitoshi seemed to feel that "this is enough". After Black 49 made a pincer attack, he fled to the upper right corner, and White 50 immediately followed.

The battle in the upper left corner stopped, and the battle in the upper right corner started again.

In this chess game, according to the rules, each side has five hours of chess playing time.

However, right now, things are flying like flying on the board, and the tricks are full of blood.

Professional chess players can be divided into three types: balanced, offensive and defensive.

Although it was known before that Ryo Toya and Hitoshi Kuwahara were attacking players, Kibe didn't know that they were "attacking" players until they were on the scene, and they were divided into three categories: beginner, advanced, and hell.

Ryo Toya and Hitoshi Kuwahara undoubtedly belong to the last category.

At this moment, seeing the two sides taking turns to play chess, he felt that the moves on the board seemed to turn into afterimages in his eyes, and the right hand that recorded the game records could hardly keep up with the speed of both sides' moves.

Takayuki Kibe felt like he was about to break out in a cold sweat. This was obviously not the first time he had recorded a game record, but it was the first time he was so looking forward to rushing to the noon break.

Unfortunately, it backfired.

The watch on his wrist made a clear movement sound, as if gloating and joking, telling him that it was not over yet.

It's still a long time before lunch break.

The chess game is still going on.

Just when the chess game reached the 76th move, the original two-point situation was suddenly shaken.

On the upper right side of the board, after Black 75 "breaks", White 76 suddenly uses a move to "strike and capture", and together with the other two white pieces, they all show their sharp minions to the black piece at "17 of [-]".

Black 71 is actually the emergency on the right.

If the piece is captured, the connection between the lower right black piece and the upper right black piece will be interrupted; if you ignore this emergency and turn to attack the upper right white piece, it is very likely to kill [-] enemies and lose [-].

After weighing again and again, Kuwahara Jin had no choice but to give up the first move, and was forced to make up a move under Black 71.

Afterwards, the chess game unknowingly entered the rhythm of white chess.

White 78 "town", black 79 "long", white 80 "touch", while monitoring the movement of black, white is waiting for an opportunity to consolidate the lower right field.

However, after only dormant for a moment, seeing that the time was ripe, Hitoshi Kuwahara shot another carbine and returned to the upper left corner.

Black 87, hit and eat.

After a while, most of the beacon fires above reappeared.

By the time of the lunch break, black had successfully established an external momentum after discarding a few pieces at the top, and white's 96 queen had also successfully formed a live chess within black's influence.

The chess game has been reversed several times, but it is still unclear.

"Sensei Shinto, what's wrong with you?"

At that time, at two o'clock in the afternoon, it was located in the Intercontinental Hotel in Osaka Prefecture.

Here, the 3-day Baojiu Cup National Amateur Chess Challenge is being held. As a guest of this event, Guang was invited to participate in the exhibition match and one-on-one chess instruction on the last day of the event.

The exhibition game has come to an end in the morning, and at this time the last chess instruction session of the event is underway-the organizer specially invited several high-level chess players to play against the winners of this event.

Hikaru's guidance object this time is Mr. Tanaka from Tokyo, No.1 in the men's team of this chess tournament.

At the 17th move of the chess game, after Guang landed a sunspot on the board, he seemed to have sensed something, and suddenly looked up and looked behind him.

Mr. Tanaka, who was sitting across from him, also looked behind Hikari in puzzlement, but there was nothing special about it except for his chess players and staff.

"Ah, no, it's nothing." After realizing the strangeness in himself, Guang quickly looked away.

Although these words, even he himself did not believe it.

He really missed that person.

I want to be bright, and I am also thinking about the tiebreaker match between Youxuan.

Although he clearly knows that everything needs a first come, first served.

He was the one who accepted the organizer's invitation first, and after the time for the game between Liang and Mr. Kuwahara was confirmed, he understood.

But he really wants to know the situation of the chess match between Liang and the old man—even though he has tried his best to be very disdainful and indifferent in front of Liang.

So, after hearing that He Gu would go to the Chess Academy to watch the game that day, he still had the cheek to ask him to send the game report to himself every half hour. Although he may not have time to read it when he gets busy, he can know the progress of the game as soon as possible. It's also good.

Of course, Liang still couldn't let Liang know about these small actions behind the scenes.

Therefore, when I called Liang at noon, I didn't mention anything about the chess game.

Although he already knew that his chess player was "fighting" with Mr. Kuwahara inseparably.

But what happened to the inexplicable palpitation in his chest just now?

Subconsciously looking for the cell phone in the pocket of his trousers, the text message he just received half an hour ago resurfaced in Guang's mind.

——It has reached the mid-game stage, white chess chooses to attack the black chess below, and the old man immediately launches a concentrated offensive in the center, and the situation of white chess is not very good now...

That is, half an hour ago, the afternoon guide chess just started.

He deliberately turned the mobile phone to silent mode before instructing the chess.

At this moment, he clearly knew that there was another game report sent to his mobile phone, but it was inconvenient for him to check it.

feeling bad.

Scratching my heart and lungs is uncomfortable.

But soon, Hikari was angry with himself again.

Haven't you already decided that no matter what the result of this chess game is, you have to face it with a normal heart?

It's so unprofessional to bring your personal emotions into work, Hikari Shinto!

In just a dozen seconds, thoughts raced.

As if making up his mind, Guang took out his phone and turned it off, then nodded apologetically to Mr. Tanaka and said, "Sorry, let's continue!"

At the same time, between Youxuan.

If the fierce battle in the morning was just a skirmish, then the chess game in the afternoon was the real Shura field.

The chess game went to the 135th move, and it was like a scene of melee.

In the lower left corner, after White 134's "Xiaofei" move, Black 135 resolutely made a move at the "9 of 136", White 137 "connected", and Black [-] immediately "pulled" with a move, directly taking the eye position below White.

Seeing that Hei 137 settled the "Six of Nine", Liang's heart sank suddenly.

It is Black's "combined punches" of 135 and 137 that, within a square inch, forced White to have nowhere to go.

And the life and death of the upper and lower pieces of white chess has also become extremely unclear.

At this moment, the situation suddenly took a turn for the worse!

Mo Ran closed her eyes, Liang seemed to clenched her left hand on her lap intentionally or unintentionally.

If Kibe, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, observed carefully, he might be able to see that this time Taya Meiren wrote another sentence "Guardian Talisman" on the palm of his left hand.

It is still the three words engraved in my heart.

Shinto Hikaru.

The current situation is no longer suitable for fast-break warfare.

After taking a few deep breaths, Liang no longer clings to the gains and losses of the lower left, and instead begins to concentrate on managing the middle hinterland.

The essence of Go is a game of land grabbing.

If you have any position you must occupy, you must try to get close to it until you finally have the piece of ground.In this process, partial sacrifice and abandonment are unavoidable.

On the disk, the black and white sides are still stalemate in the middle.

Kuwahara Jin may have other plans, and he didn't cut the upper and lower white pieces with one knife, but Liang took the opportunity to contact the four sides to complete the chess shape.

After White made 168, Liang calmly connected the upper and lower white pieces.

In the research room, there was a low cry suddenly.

He Gu put his hands on the table unconsciously——

The white chess, which was still at a disadvantage just now, has gradually turned into a winning one at this moment!

On the work bench, Kibe subconsciously looked at Kuwahara Jin's face, and sure enough, he saw that the old fox's entire face was gloomy. When he lowered his head in thought, the loose skin on both sides of his cheeks was about to poke into his neck.

But after all, it is the honor of Honinbo, and the mind will never be disturbed by small waves.

After a long test, Hitomi Kuwahara played chess again.

After the upper left, lower left, upper right, black and white sides alternately played dozens of moves, Kuwahara Jin suddenly picked up a piece from the chessboard, and hit the "9 out of [-]" position heavily.

It's now!

Black 199, rush.

A black chess piece is straight like a ghost, inserted horizontally between the upper and lower white chess pieces.

Bai 200 immediately contacted with "Tiger".

However, the next move, Black 201, touches, unexpectedly cuts off the upper and lower white pieces from the middle belly!

Outside the window, there was a muffled thunder.

After a while, a spring rain poured down.

Outside, the rain is getting heavier;

In the house, all the hustle and bustle seems to be completely shielded, silent and solemn.

As the finale draws near, it's time for the final victory.

In the inspection room, everyone suddenly let out an exclamation.

It is this clever move that successfully restrains white from making an eye while breaking up the play.

For a while, the situation became confusing again.

In the examination room, everyone seemed to be concentrating and fell into silence again.

Black 201, touch.

Staring at this chess piece for a long time, Liang's face was so calm that he could not see the slightest ups and downs of emotion, but at this moment, his senses became extremely sharp.

He could clearly hear the sound of rain falling outside the window, his own breathing, and even the blood rushing through his blood vessels.

He could also clearly feel his strong desire to fight to the death.

On the chess field, for a strong person, there is nothing more exciting than meeting a strong player.

Because when the two armies are against each other, you can never know where your limit is.

In this chess game, if the black chess on the left can be strangled, it is possible to turn defeat into victory.

Win or lose, in one fell swoop.

He glanced at the timer calmly.

There is still plenty of time.

Carefully examine the entire board again——

After 1 minute, 5 minutes, and 10 minutes, Liang finally picked up a white piece slowly, and then resolutely knocked it off the board.

White 202, pull, invaded the left half again.

Black 203 remains unmoved and continues to split White's pieces from the middle.

White 204, small tip, settled on the opposite corner of White 202.

Black returns to defense at 205, and White clings to Black's 206 move at 205.

The final "carnival" has begun.

In the huge Japanese room, the sound of chess is clanging.

In the increasingly tense air, it seems that a pair of drumsticks are constantly beating the strongest sound on the timpani one after another.

Boom.Boom.

dong dong dong dong.

Straight knocking makes people panic, but also knocks people's soul uplifting.

At the same time, there seemed to be trombones, French horns, and several kinds of wind instruments playing together, just like the sound of attacking horns, which turned the air in the whole room upside down.

Vigorous and stirring.

In a game of chess, there are often consecutive robberies, but repeated robberies at the same place are rare.

After Black's 209, White's 210 resolutely raises the "6 out of ten" black piece.

Like an eye for an eye, after white 212, black 213 also raised a piece of white at the "5 out of [-]" position.

The so-called "robbery" means that after one's own side takes away a piece, the other party can't return it immediately if it can return it. It must make another move elsewhere, and can only return it after the other party responds.

But if this is the case, the future chess game will slide all the way to an uncontrollable direction...

White 220 mentions "6 out of ten" to Black 217.

Black 223 mentions "5 out of 220" to White [-].

White 226 continues to mention "6 out of 223" to Black [-].

In the sixth robbery contest, after White 228 "linked", Black 229 raised the "Ten of 5" again to White 226.

But after the six battles, the battle on the lower left is still going on.

When a lunatic plays chess, even the spectators go crazy.

In the examination room not far away, clueless exclamations gradually came.

"I don't understand it at all!"

"I can't see the current situation clearly."

"It's too complicated!"

He Gu stared straight at the broadcast screen, then swallowed hard, and for some reason, he took out his phone and sent a text message to Guang.

——I said, what happened to your family? !

——Why is it like eating □□ today!

After sending two text messages to Guang in a row, Hegu looked up and stared at the screen for a while as if reluctant to leave, and then,

And then sent a third text message in the past.

——Same place, six consecutive robberies!Shinto, today's chess game is really exciting! !Really wonderful! ! !

At the same moment, within the Youxuan Room.

As the robbery fight continued, the number of chess pieces on the sides of the two players continued to increase.

But when Bai played for the seventh time, Kuwahara Ren's heart sank suddenly——

Right now, black chess has no more talents!

At this time, "no robbery" means that the great rivers and mountains in the lower left are about to be handed over to others.

The old man's wrinkled face has never shown such a resigned and helpless look.

But the chess game has reached this point, but it can only be accepted.

On the left half of the board, the seemingly endless struggle for robbery finally came to an end after Black 237 eliminated the robbery with one hand.

After the killing round, corpses littered the field.

Although it seems that the battles for robbery are only aimed at the left half, they are actually related to the whole chess game.

Overall, black captures white in the center and top right, while white captures black in the bottom left.

At first glance, the two ends of the scale seem to be tilting towards black again.

But behind the messy eyes, in the examination room, He Gu suddenly opened his eyes wide, and then felt the blood all over his body boil up.

no!

Although White's upper right and center were captured, but Black eliminated Jie with 237, and the situation on the board changed, the actual result was just the opposite!

If...if I didn't make a mistake in my calculation...

"This chess game was won by White."

In the review room, instead of He Gu, a voice spoke out what was in his mind.

It was like a bell was ringing in my ears.

After Black 237, I saw that the black and white sides made more than ten moves alternately in the lower right part of the board.

In the 245th move, when it was Hitoshi Kuwahara's turn to play again, he hesitated.

It's time...to end.

A voice persuaded in his head.

Otherwise, it would be like a stalker, and it would be too ugly to be an honorary Honinbo.

One side of the pier.

The blue electronic timer is still faithfully counting down the time of the chess held by Hitoshi Kuwahara.

One second, one second.

Every time the horizontal line under the number jumps, it means that one second has passed.

The Japanese room and the examination room suddenly fell into an eerie silence.

Everyone was waiting, waiting for Hono Honinbo to make the next move, and waiting for the screen to flow again on the nearly dead broadcast screen.

Then--

As expected of Honor Honinbo, he didn't keep everyone waiting too long.

It may be the time to take a puff of cigarette, or it may be the time to drink a sip of water.

In the Youxuan Room, I saw Kuangyuan Ren raised his head, grabbed a handful of black chess pieces from the chessboard, and threw them on the chessboard in a very chic manner.

In an instant, the scattered black chess pieces hit the chess pieces on the board like pearls and jade, and then splashed, scattered, and noisy.

ended.

everything is over.

At the moment when several black chess pieces were thrown on the chessboard, everyone seemed to wake up from a dream——

The 63rd round of the Honinbo title tie-breaker has come to an end.

Five seventeen in the afternoon.Outside the Intercontinental Hotel in Osaka Prefecture.

Finally finished all the work for today, just as Guang walked out of the revolving door, he took out his mobile phone, and sent a call to He Gu.

"How's the chess match?"

On the other end of the conversation, He Gu Yigao remained silent for a long time.

While listening to the phone, he looked at the screen in front of him slowly, slowly, and then raised the corners of his lips, and said in a slightly teasing tone: "Congratulations, Jinteng chess players, you... are going to 'fight in the nest' soon .”

call--

The heart that had already jumped into the throat fell back into the chest cavity again.

Although he and Liang could still play hundreds of rounds in their free time if they didn't get what they wanted this time, it felt really good to be able to compete with Liang in the same arena. Compete.

Within the Youxuan.

After Touzi conceded defeat, the moment his eyes met the bright eyes of the celebrity sitting opposite him, Kuwahara suddenly leaned back, put his backhand on the ground, and laughed loudly: "It's really interesting to have you in the Japanese chess world, huh huh huh Huh..."

The haggard, hoarse and unique laughter continued to echo in the Japanese room.

The old man smiled unrestrainedly, but the staff at the side were horrified. Kibe stood stiffly at the side, feeling his back was sweating, and the goosebumps under his formal clothes had fallen layer after layer.

After laughing out loud, Kuwahara couldn't help squinting his eyes, looking sharply at the imposing young man sitting opposite him.

Perhaps, from a certain point of view, once you have passed the age of 20 and participated in the coming-of-age ceremony, you should not be counted as a "teenager".

However, the stubbornness of Ta Yaliang who is arrogant and unyielding still makes people think of the term "juvenile feeling" involuntarily.

That's right, juvenile feeling has nothing to do with actual age.

After this battle, it seems that I have also become younger.

It's like going back in time, and I went back to the time when I first entered the chess world 50 years ago.

Everything has just begun.

"Today, I lost." Putting his hands on his legs and knees, Kuwahara Jin's voice was full of joy and emotion, "Taya-kun, I am convinced that I lost."

So far, the 63rd Honinbo title tiebreaker has officially come to an end.

Ryo Taya finally won the challenger qualification for the Honinbo title with an impressive record of 6 wins and 1 loss.

A spring rain comes and goes quickly.

In the evening, the sky over Tokyo has regained its clarity, and the blue sky is dotted with orange red like the sunset glow of Apache.

After reviewing the chess game, Hitomi Kuwahara walked out of the game room first.

It's just that once he left Go, Yoshimoto Inbo seemed to be beaten back to his original shape, and he became an ordinary old man among all living beings again.

It is old after all.

I often hear people say that when a person is aging, his legs and feet are the first to know.

Seeing that Kuwahara Ren was faltering, the fellow staff rushed to catch up and tried to help him, but unexpectedly, he pushed him away without knowing what to do.

"Why are you so nervous!"

The voice was full of dissatisfied scolding and blame.

But this is Kuwahara Jin.

Even though the years have slowly broken him, his bones are still full of arrogance and uncompromising.

Isn't it just walking slower?

He is not old enough to need help.

He can also play more and more delicate chess games like those young chess players!

Take the elevator and go down to the first floor of the Chess Academy.

After getting out of the elevator, he walked towards the door step by step. Although he was slow, Hitomi Kuwahara walked resolutely. While walking, he tried his best to straighten his slightly arched back even more.

When approaching the door, the old man suddenly stopped without warning.

He stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes pierced through the moving door and looked out of the window at the thick night, and then, like someone else, he spoke in a low voice.

Language: "The future of Japanese Go will be dominated by Toya Ryo and Shinto Hikari!"

The author has something to say:

Congratulations to Wuli Liang, another wish has come true!

Sorry for the late update.Thick and long offer.

And, thank you to the little angel who silently irrigated me with the nutrient solution (it would be great if you can bubble, and a certain bear can comment and thank you one by one)!

Good night, everyone!