In Hong Kong in the summer of 2012, the end of the world had not yet come. The hot flashes are still unbearable, even in the air, there seems to be the smell of a sauna, the men are wearing trousers as always, covering their two hairy legs until they are white, and the women are wearing less than last year, even if they are office OL, white-collar workers or gold-collar such professional women, the material of the skirt is becoming less and less, while showing a pair of slender legs, it better highlights the health theme of 'advocating a low-carbon life'.

It's been a bit salty this summer.

Yau Ma Tei is next to Tsim Sha Tsui and Mong Kok, and those who love to watch Hong Kong movies and TV series know that this area has the most complex product flow, and it is usually a place where Hong Kong's 'small citizens' gather together, with cheap prices and a lifestyle that still maintains the taste of the old times, which is a good place to taste the original customs of Hong Kong, and it is also a place where successful people disdain to live.

Sitting in a tea restaurant outside the apartment, Zhou Yi tasted Xiangjiang's famous stockings milk tea and creamy pineapple buns with great interest, enjoying the feeling of fragrant and smooth milk flowing slowly in the esophagus. Liu Wu didn't seem to have much appetite today, only drank half a cup of iced lemon tea, and a little lazily plunged himself into the inhalation chair of this tea restaurant, looking at Zhou Yi with a confused look, not knowing whether he was reminiscing about last night's passion or admiring his eating. Xiao Yezi held a plate of egg tarts, eating fragrant mouths, but she was very puzzled in her eyes; Yesterday she just finished turning on the TV, Uncle Zhou hugged her and kissed her, and when his fingers crossed her head, she fell asleep, but when she woke up, her aunt seemed to have changed, her face was like a red apple, and she looked like she had seen Gargamel, a Smurfs

Children in this era are very precocious, but they are familiar on the surface, and they still seem to understand some things, and Xiao Yezi is the same, I only feel that Aunt and Uncle Zhou are a little weird.

"Liu Wu, why do you live here? Is it arranged by the Li family?"

Zhou Yi was somewhat dissatisfied. Yau Ma Tei is the most 'low-grade' area in Yau Tsim Mong area, like the Zhabei shantytown in the old magic capital. After the return, there are still gangsters rampant, the buildings are fragrant, and there are many prostitutes in the old-style residential buildings that look like pigeon cages, and there are prostitutes who are playing the legal game of 'one floor and one phoenix', and he can't imagine that the apartment arranged by Li Jucheng for Liu Wu is actually in this area.

At this time of drinking tea, there were already two brawls outside, and there were seven or eight 'phoenix girls' wearing black fishnet stockings and dressed up in flowers. There was actually one who winked at himself through the glass, which was clearly teasing.

"No, don't get me wrong. Liu Fu smiled: "Originally, my aunt let me live in the mid-levels, and I took the initiative to ask to be in charge of the dock company, so I applied for an apartment near Yau Ma Tei; you know, some time ago there was a wharf strike, in fact, money is only a factor, more than a sense of belonging to the workers, I found that many worker leaders live near Yau Ma Tei." I want to get to know them."

"You're hard enough, so hard?"

Zhou Yi frowned, women are desperate, which usually means that men are incompetent. He didn't want his woman to continue living in such a dangerous place: "Don't you do the work of the docks, go back with me." ”

"Good!"

Liu Wu agreed very simply, which made Zhou Yi a little strange, he once insisted like that, saying that he wanted to make his own career. She doesn't want to be a little woman behind a man, but she is a little woman at this time.

Is it the woman's rapid change, or is her charm improved again? Zhou Yi is more willing to believe that it is the latter. Just like all the narcissistic big men in the world

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Yau Ma Tei connects Mong Kok and Tsim Sha Tsui, which is the most chaotic area of Xiangjiang and one of the most lively areas, with all kinds of shops lined up, mixed with three religions and nine streams, but to understand the most original Xiangjiang, it is necessary to visit, Zhou Yi made a phone call with Dean Chen De of the Go Branch, and agreed to go to the Xiangjiang Sports Center to report in the afternoon, so that there will be a whole morning to accompany catkins and small leaves.

Just like the TV performance, the Yau Tsim Mong area can be described as a prosperous industry, electrical appliances, clothing, food, gold and diamonds into the Yau Tsim Mong area, as if plunged into the big Taobao, you can think of everything, you can find it here.

The small half circle turned down, Xiao Yezi held a package of butter corn grains in her left hand, a cheesecake in her right hand, a long-lived golden lock that Zhou Yi just bought for her around her neck, and a red tourist hat on her head that said "Welcome to Xiangjiang", as if she was a qualified little tourist;

Although the date has not yet been finalized, the good things of the two can be counted on their fingers, and Liu Wu's heart is full of happiness and love, which is really good.

Shopping time passed the fastest, unconsciously at noon, Zhou Yi directly set up the temporary borrowed Mercedes-Benz car from the Li family, took catkins and small leaves straight to the Xiangjiang Ocean Park, and after eating seafood nearby, he was admitted to the hospital to play, and played until about three o'clock in the afternoon, watched all kinds of performances, played all kinds of water games Xiao Yezi finally couldn't hold on, so Liu Wu drove her back to the Li family's old house, and Zhou Yi called a taxi and went straight to the Xiangjiang Sports Center.

The Ying's Cup is funded by Mr. Ying Wanying, a Taiwanese businessman, and is held every three years, taking turns to compete in Baodao, Xiangjiang, Modu and other places, because the championship prize is as high as 400,000 US dollars, so it not only attracts Go masters from China, island countries and Nanbang, but also Europe and even Africa such underdeveloped Go regions also come to join in the fun, although every time it is to play soy sauce, but it is played without regrets.

The first Ying's Cup was still Mr. Ying's initiative to invite Go masters from all over the world, so it was called 'Ying's Cup Invitational', but later, the high competition prize money made all the masters rush to it, and it simply became a selection or recommendation of masters from various countries and regions to participate, and the Ying's Cup completely became a tournament, and the participants were all the world's top players, as if it was already a world-class Go event.

And compared with previous editions, this year's Yingshi Cup Invitational Tournament is even more different. It is said that Mr. Ying Wanying has been in poor health since years ago, and I am afraid that time is running out, so his eldest son Ying Baizhi has specially increased the prize money of this game, and wants to make this Ying's Cup the most grand in history.

The number of participants in this year's Yingshi Cup has also increased from 16 to 24 in the previous year, of which in addition to the top eight of the last year, there are five places for China, four places for island countries, three places for Nanba, two places for Taiwan, one place for each in the Americas and Europe. Zhou Yi can be regarded as catching up. If it weren't for the fact that China Xia only accounted for two in the last quarterfinals, and this time there were five ordinary places, even if Chen De wanted him to participate, he would also be in a dilemma because of the lack of places;

Before the handover, Hong Kong was a region that valued sports, and even after the handover, it was eligible to participate in events such as the Olympics and the Asian Games as a region. Therefore, the sports center is very large, and it is not much inferior to the sports center in Kyoto, China.

After walking into the sports center, Zhou Yi was also a little dazed, and was about to call Chen De and them, when he suddenly saw Nie Xiaochun walking out of the elevator with a red face, pointing at him and saying with a smile: "Brother Zhou, you are late, you must be punished for drinking at night!"

Chess players are good at drinking, and this trend is still transmitted from the island country. When it comes to the chess players of Huaxia and Nanba, it is especially carried forward. Nie Xiaochun is famous for his wine-colored double color, and before the competition, people were playing music and meditating. The more mellow and beautiful the wine, the better his performance the next day, or how to call it the 'demon knife'. It's really wicked

"Lao Chen, they are on the south stick, and they are pretending to say hello, especially let me pick you up. Let's go, Brother Zhou, I'll introduce you to a few masters of the South Base, these guys are not simple, if you meet them on the field, you must be careful. ”

In the previous games in the Huaxia Chess Academy, Zhou Yi did not show his killing intentions, after all, he was going to participate in the Ying's Cup, and it would be unkind to win too badly and easily affect the state. When playing chess with Nie Xiaochun, Zhou Yi didn't care much about winning or losing, and spent most of his time figuring out the 'chess path' of the masters, these Go masters may not be as good as him, but they have their own understanding of the chess way, such as Cao Yuan's thunderbolt killing, Nie Xiaochun's ethereal demon knife, and Gu Li's thin chess Although these masters are some distance from the road of chess, they can give him a lot of insights.

In this state of 'learning', although Zhou Yi showed an enviable ability to calculate, he gave people a feeling that his state was not very stable and his chess style was changeable, and even Chen De did not hope that he could win the championship in the Ying's Cup, but only hoped that he could be trained in this competition. After all, Go is not chess, and computing power alone cannot dominate the world.

Listening to Nie Xiaochun's words, Zhou Yi smiled slightly, and didn't say anything, when he was in the Go branch, he only cared about figuring out the way of chess, looking down on the outcome of the game, but he didn't want to be looked down upon by him.

Chess players from all over the world participating in the Ying's Cup are arranged on the ninth floor, which is also a special floor arranged by the Xiangjiang Sports Center for Go players over the years, because nine is extremely numerous, implying the meaning of 'Tianyuan', and in ancient times, the national players were divided into nine levels, and now the national players are divided into nine sections, all of which are related to nine, and the chess players on this floor also like it.

Zhou Yi was still in contact with the Go circle for the first time, and followed Nie Xiaochun to Room 903 with some curiosity, just knocked on the door, a young man who was not tall and had small eyes opened the door, nodded at Nie Xiaochun, but said in a Chinese-style Chinese language: "You are Zhou Chuduan, I am Li Jieshi, welcome to you." ”

"Xiao Li?" Although Zhou Yi doesn't know much about the Go world, he has also heard of the name of South Korea's big and small Li, but he didn't expect this former rookie king in the Korean chess world and the top master with the first Korean professional player points last year to be so approachable.

Zhou Yi has a good impression of him, first of all, he has no plastic surgery, he is generous, and his temperament seems to be very gentle, but he is not like Korean Go who works hard everywhere, and he is worthy of being a character with great achievements.

"Haha, Xiao Li. How is Lao Gu and Da Li doing, I can put two thousand yuan on him"

Nie Xiaochun patted Li Jieshi on the shoulder and led Zhou Yi into the room.

There are also seven or eight chess players in the room, Cao Yuan, whom Zhou Yi knows, is also there, as well as Mao Mao and others, and there are also several chess players on the Korean side, both old, middle and young. Seeing Nie Xiaochun walking with Zhou Yi, Mao Mao beckoned to him again and again: "Brother Zhou, come and take a look, can Gu Li win this game?" Several Korean chess players also raised their heads when they heard Zhou Yi's name and smiled at him kindly.

The circle of chess players is so big, and they will make friends with chess. Regardless of country, inside and outside the chessboard, there is no country hating national hatred, some are just a common exploration of chess, the chess players of the island country and South Korea are friends, and the chess players of the island country did not come to the party today, nor were they excluded by China and South Korea, but the people of the island country like to close their eyes and meditate before encountering the event, and they will generally not see these guys holding up the island country sake and singing the spring of the northern country until dinner in the evening.

The confrontation between Zhou Yi and the ultimate computer did not attract the attention of the island country and the Korean chess players, mainly because of the addition of Miss Gu. Many TV stations have kept a low profile, and the news media have also received some warnings from relevant departments and requests from the Huaxia Chess Academy, and the Huaxia Weiqi Branch does not want Zhou Yi to be noticed by the outside world too early.

However, his participation in top tournaments such as the Ying Cup as a professional starter still surprised the island and Korean chess circles. But this is not too strange thing, the current professional competition is high in intensity and heavy tasks, many low-level chess players are not interested in participating in the promotion competition, and many of them have obviously reached the high level, and they still carry a low-level name, the most typical example of which is Li Jieshi. This product not only once became the Korean Go champion with the strength of the first dan, but also until now it is only a seventh dan

Zhou Yi has no record of participating in professional chess tournaments, and it is a preliminary stage, so in the eyes of chess players in island countries and South Korea. This should be a rising star and a key training object in China. The Huaxia Chess Academy will recommend him to come, he should be aiming to exercise, but not to get any ranking, after all, there are two 'seed players' Nie Xiaochun and Gu Li. There are still a few generals in the formation, and the Huaxia side doesn't care about wasting a place.

Glancing at the Korean chess player opposite Gu Li, Zhou Yi felt a little familiar. For a while, he couldn't recognize who it was, so he quietly asked like Mao Yu. Mao Yu, a beautiful chess player with average results, has good popularity, and often cooperates with the five sets of ccav to talk about chess, and there are no chess players from all over the world that she doesn't know.

"You don't even know him, do you?"

Mao Yu's eyes widened, and he lowered his voice and said, "Stone Buddha!"

"Stone Buddha?"

Compared with Lee Jie-seok, the first person in Korean Go today, this is the real world's No. 1 Go player, who ruled the world chess world for 15 years from the mid-90s of the last century to 2010! In his most glorious time, he almost included more than a dozen world championships such as Samsung, Ying's, and the Three Kingdoms Arena, and was a mountain pressing on the hands of Chinese chess and the 'bitter hand' of chess players all over the world!

The stone Buddha at its peak was completely flawless. A good view of the overall situation, a mid-game with both offense and defense, a dripping official, and supercomputer-like computing power At that time, the stone Buddha had no shortcomings, and he was not a human being at all, but a god and a Buddha! In the era of the stone Buddha, only Ma Weiping, who was known as 'invincible in the world in the first thirty hands', could slightly suppress him, but once the thirty hands passed, Master Ma only had to collapse.

As he grew older, married a wife and had children, Shi Buddha also moved his heart, and his achievements in recent years were not as good as in the past, but his achievements were second only to the real god in the history of Go - Mr. Wu Qingyuan, who swept the great masters of the island country in the year of his establishment and was respected as a true god by chess players all over the world.

Zhou Yi was a little excited, not because of Shi Fo's brilliant record, but because he was able to meet this 'giant' who once ruled the world in the Ying's Cup, which must be of great help to him in his quest for chess, I wonder if there is a chance to talk to him about a game?

Ying's Cup is a lottery elimination system, Shifo Lee Changho is the seeded player in the last quarterfinals, Zhou Yi is unlikely to encounter him in the first round, after entering the second round of the game, whether he can meet him depends on the result of the draw. Of course, this refers to the general situation, if Zhou Yiken cheats, there are many chances.

Gu Li and Lee Chang Ho are old enemies and good friends, and neither of them is good at drinking, so after lunch, the two sober-minded masters decided to talk about a game. After all, the current world Go has entered the era of competition for hegemony, and the two former rulers of them are not able to play chess if they want to, even if they come to the Ying Cup, they may not be able to meet it, this opportunity is rare.

At the beginning of the chess game, there is almost no color, and the two of them are a 500 yuan lottery head, which is calculated according to the rules of the Ying Cup. This color head sounds big, in fact, the victory and defeat between masters like them are often half a eye, and the difference between three or five eyes is called a big win, so this color head is also a meaning.

However, there are many external disks, like Nie Xiaochun, the few bet four or five hundred, the more five or six thousand, and even Mao Mao followed the bet of 1,500 yuan. The little girl's chess strength is limited, and she usually can't get any prize money, and her life is not relaxed, she is more nervous than anyone else, I am afraid that Gu Li will not give her strength and lose to Shi Buddha.

"I'll see, it's a game of chess, and it's very fierce. ”

At present, it is the middle game stage, the black and white sides on the chessboard each occupy two corners on both sides, and a black dragon and a white dragon in the middle game are fiercely strangling, you have me, I have you, the situation is extremely chaotic, no wonder Mao Mao said that he couldn't see clearly. Not to mention her, even Nie Xiaochun, who is known as a new generation of chess saints, was dazzled, standing behind Gu Li with his cheeks and calculating.

Zhou Yi knew at a glance that this was because of the informal game, and the mentality of the two masters was also relaxed, so they launched a fierce confrontation from the layout stage, which continued to the middle game, the strength of the two was almost the same, and it was a chaotic battle, not to mention the bystanders, I am afraid that they themselves may not be very clear, and now the two of them have almost used their time, and they are fighting for feeling and experience.

"Good chess"

With Zhou Yi's terrifying calculation power, he also watched it for five minutes, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he shouted in his heart: "It's a catastrophe in the world!"

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