Oda Nobunaga glared at Akihei viciously, and Akihei looked at him without fear. The two of them were in a stalemate for a long time, but in the end, Oda Nobunaga couldn't let go. Now he has a not so violent personality, and he will not do such perverse things as the heir of a man.

"Okay, you kid can do whatever you like!" Oda Nobunaga snorted coldly and waved his big hand, "Get out!" Don't let Yu see you! ”

As soon as Yu Qiuping heard this, he was about to leave the room. At the moment when he closed the door, Oda Nobunaga once again shouted dissatisfiedly: "The Imperial Tournament of Go is about to be held, and many good players from all over the world are coming." Yu heard that your kid is good at chess, so you gave Yu the first place in the imperial competition! Otherwise, it's good to have you kid! ”

"What?" Yu Qiuping was taken aback when he heard this, "Lord, I haven't played chess for a long time." ”

"What's the matter?" Oda Nobunaga smiled disdainfully, "When the time comes, the final of Go will be played in front of the emperor." If none of us in the Oda family's own competition make it to the finals or lose in front of His Majesty the Emperor, you can wait and see! ”

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After being given the death order, Yu Qiuping immediately panicked and bought chess pieces and chessboards at a grocery store in Kyoto, and found all the people around him who could play Go to spar him. The first thing he found was Shigeharu Takenaka.

"Your Highness, it is naturally an honor to be able to play against Your Highness." Shigeharu Takenaka smiled bitterly with some embarrassment, "Just forgive me for being blunt, I have seen the game of chess between His Royal Highness and the Second Prince." His Royal Highness's chess skills are far above the bottom. His Royal Highness is looking for a game of chess, but I am afraid it will be in vain. ”

The second one he found was Naohu Ii. And Ii Naotora also gave a similar answer to Shigeharu Takenaka.

"It's not a secret, I've been learning chess for many years, but compared with His Royal Highness, I'm like a frog at the bottom of a well." Jing Yi Naohu said with great envy: "His Highness's layout, battle, actuarial calculations, and grasp of life and death and chess patterns have all reached the peak. I have never seen anyone stronger than His Highness. At that time, in the Imagawa family, the main hall of the Ministry of Governance was extremely talented, and he did not lose a single defeat for more than ten years, but he was also forced to level by His Highness. His Royal Highness's strength can be seen in this way. ”

The third one Yu Qiuping found was Imagawa Kaede, who refused more decisively.

"Ping, you deceitful liar, you played chess with me at the beginning and deliberately let me win to make me happy." Kaede Imagawa got angry when he thought of this, "Later, I learned that your level is so good. You have your set of formulas and skills that you learned in your previous life, who can beat you, even the family can't take you, so I don't want to accompany you! ”

Several people in his own family were reluctant to accompany Yu Qiuping, so Yu Qiuping had to find Niwa Nagahide, Mori Kosei, Ikeda Hengxing, and Maeda Toshiya. But after two or three sets, several of them were unwilling.

"This is too strong, isn't it..."Ikeda Hengxing searched the chessboard, but he couldn't find a few pieces of live chess he still had, "Momiji, I'm also a top master in the Oda family, and I was actually killed by you without leaving a single piece of armor." ”

"What a top master, less bragging." Maeda Toshiya sneered and said, "You didn't even play with the young master of the Wonderful Pill last time, and you still have the face to say that you are a top master?" ”

"That's not to make the young master happy!" Ikeda Tsuneko's face flushed all of a sudden, and he slammed Maeda Toshiie's head hard.

"Your face was the same as pork liver at that time, why didn't I see that you were making the young master happy." Maeda Toshiie laughed insolently again, so angry that Ikeda Tsuneko wanted to beat him up.

"At the level of red leaves, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a national player in the world." After watching chess for a long time, Sen Kecheng praised sincerely. "In Oda's family, I'm afraid it's hard to have an opponent."

"Yes, with our level, I'm afraid it won't be helpful to play against Momiji." Niwa Nagahide smiled helplessly, "Momiji might as well try to play against himself, maybe it will be more beneficial?" ”

"Yourself and yourself... Down? Yu Qiuping muttered with some hesitation. There are many good moves in Go, and they are expensive to surprise and attack them unprepared. But if you play against yourself, wouldn't you be able to clearly predict the opponent's next move?

However, there is no other way to do it right now. Yu Qiuping had to lock himself in a small room and practice hard for three days, hoping to get back to the level he was at back then.

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On December 23, the chess competition was held as scheduled on several grassy fields outside the palace. It is said that it is a pre-imperial competition, but the emperor actually only comes out to patrol once a day in the morning and in the afternoon, and only the finals will be watched in the whole way.

In order to make the tournament more pompous, Oda Nobunaga not only sent invitations to famous chess players, but even all the samurai of the Oda family and the families of the Oda family's allies were allowed to participate. If you can make it to the finals, you will have a chance to face it, something that many samurai will never think of in their lifetime, so they are actively participating, and the total number of participants has reached an unprecedented number of more than 1,000.

The tournament is played in a knockout format, with the loser automatically leaving the field and the winner waiting for the next round. Two rounds are held each day in the morning and afternoon. A large number of chessboards and tatami mats are spread out on the grass outside the palace, and it is quite spectacular to look at from the heights. This year's winter was warmer, otherwise the race wouldn't have been played outside.

When sitting in front of the chessboard, Yu Qiuping still had some apprehension in his heart. His opponent appears to be a samurai from the Isshiki family, who came with several of his companions. Listening to the chat between them, it seems that the person in front of Yu Qiuping is still the strongest among them, and he is also a famous chess player in Tango.

However, after getting up, Yu Qiuping realized that the praise of his subordinates and colleagues might not be a compliment. This Danhou boss has not yet reached thirty hands with Yu Qiuping, and he has already lost his appearance, and finally cried and surrendered with a sad face when he was sixty-five hands. After only sixty-five moves, he had already been killed by Yu Qiuping with two pieces.

Immediately after the second round, Yu Qiuping simply solved the opponent before the start of the middle game. This is true for the third round, the fourth round. On the first day of the game, no one could go down to the end of the middle game with Yu Qiuping, so they threw themselves to admit defeat. At the beginning of the game, they were already suppressed by Yu Qiuping's stereotype and overall situation. Every time Yu Qiuping took off the front, they were led by the nose in embarrassment, and the rhythm was completely in Yu Qiuping's hands. And when Yu Qiuping found that there was a chance to fight, he would act decisively, relying on his super actuarial ability to calculate all the changes, as long as he never failed. Basically, with the end of the first fight, his opponent was already out of luck.

In the second day's game, Yu Qiuping also crushed all his opponents like chopping melons and vegetables, without encountering the slightest resistance. In his opinion, the strength of the opponents he encountered was not even as strong as the opponents he had encountered in the second dan before.

By noon on the second day, the fame of Akihei Akihei, who wore a shawl of autumn leaves, had already spread among the players and the spectators in Kyoto. Some people call him "Red Leaf Chess Saint", and others call him "Rainy Autumn Midgame". So much so that in the afternoon game, when the two chess players found that they had drawn the red leaves of rain and autumn, they were already like mourning, and they hastily resisted a few times and then admitted defeat.

Entering the third day of the competition, there were only 8 players left. The density of the games has also been reduced to one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The two winners will advance to tomorrow's final. On this day, Yu Qiuping finally met decent resistance - but it was only resistance, and he still entered the final without any suspense.

Yu Qiuping is only now finally realizing how important the formula, actuarial calculation, and layout he brought from his previous life are. He is just an amateur fifth-stage level, and he grabbed a lot of it in his time, but back in ancient times, he was already a rare opponent. He thought that the Japanese Go masters were about the same level as Imagawa Yoshimoto back then, so he didn't think he was very strong. But now it seems that it is actually Imagawa Yoshimoto's outrageous.

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On December 26th, the Go Imperial Contest was held in a chess room specially built by Oda Nobunaga. The two players sit on either side of the board, while Emperor Shokincho sits on the side and watches. In the magnificent chess room, there are also a number of big people who came to watch the game. There are many daimyo such as Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Asai Nagamasa, and Matsunaga Shu, as well as Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Hosokawa Fujitaka and other shogunate dignitaries, as well as the emperor's court secretaries.

Outside the four doors of the chess room, four huge chessboards are hung high, and a large number of Othello nails are prepared on both sides. There will be a special clerk who will go back and forth between the chess room and the chessboard outside, write down the chess game of the final, and place it on the big chessboard outside for everyone to watch. The pre-imperial competition is a once-in-a-century ceremony, and there are so many big names and palace secretaries participating in it, which makes it difficult for people who love to be lively to refuse. The crowds who came to watch the game included Kyoto and even, and the chess room was crowded with people, and had not been so lively for many years.

Before the start of the competition, Emperor Shokincho also appeared in front of justice in person, announcing that next year he would change his name to "Motokame". The emperor's appearance drew a tsunami of cheers from outside the chess room. This grand chess game, which attracted so much attention, is also destined to go down in history, that is, the famous "Yonglu Imperial Competition" in later generations.

Since it is the final, the rhythm will naturally not be as fast as the previous game, and Yu Qiuping also showed full spirit. However, it won't make much of a difference to the big picture. Opposite Yu Qiuping is a famous Go player from Yamato Province. However, after facing Yu Qiuping, he was still at ease before, but he seemed powerless. Yu Qiuping can feel that this is the strongest opponent he has encountered since this competition, but it is also the level of the amateur third and fourth dans. If he let him have two sons, it is possible to open five or five. But since it's an equal showdown, there's no suspense. While the chess player was sweating profusely, Akihei still had time to pay attention to the expression on the face of Emperor Shokincho and the conversations of Oda Nobunaga, Asai Nagamasa, and others.

In the stadium, the hearts of the crowd outside the stadium were also touched. Every time the clerk hurried out, there were bursts of cheers from the crowd watching the game outside. From the beginning of the twentieth hand, Yu Qiuping has already mastered the initiative on the field. Every time the rain and autumn are settled, the chess player opposite him is forced to fall into a long test. And Yu Qiuping, when he was thinking about it, calculated the next change in advance, so that every time the opponent fell, Yu Qiuping's response would fall immediately - the clerk didn't have to run twice.

In this way, it was carried out until the middle game, and as the big dragon of white chess was successfully strangled, the flag bearer of Yamato who held white reluctantly threw a son to admit defeat. In the whole game, he failed to eat Yu Qiuping, not even a child, not a single child, not a single abandoned child. Such a strong control and a huge difference in strength actually happened in the final of the imperial competition, which shows the strength of Yu Qiuping's skills.

After seeing the overall situation, Emperor Masakincho admired Yu Qiuping's chess skills and said: "This son is a celebrity in the world!" The title of "celebrity" in Japanese Go was born, and Yu Qiuping became the first player in the Japanese Go world to receive the title of celebrity. In later generations, celebrity meant the highest power in the Go world. In later generations of Go classes in China and Japan, a portrait of Yu Qiuping would always be hung to show respect for this first generation of celebrities.

Later, the emperor himself ascended to the pavilion outside the chess hall and announced to all the people who came to watch the game that the winner was Akihei Akihei from the Oda family, and the autumn leaves were in the autumn of the rain. And the title of "celebrity" of Yu Qiuping has also been praised in the world.

In the crowd of spectators, a little novice who was just ten years old was riding on the head of his senior brother, looking enviously at Yu Qiuping, who was enjoying everyone's cheers. Every move of Yu Qiuping in the game just now made him fascinated.

"Senior brother, one day, I will also become a 'celebrity'! Become a great chess player like His Royal Highness Momiji! ”

"Okay, Rihai, don't make trouble. I will take you out secretly to watch chess today, and the abbot will definitely scold again, so let's wait to sweep the floor together at night. The senior brother glanced at the little novice with some annoyance and knocked him the head.