Chapter 26: The Chess Game
Qin Chuan only felt that it was dark in front of him, and although he couldn't see, his consciousness was still awake.
Then a song came to my ears:
The clouds are deep and I don't know where, the rocks are quiet, and my heart is clear.
Any way immortal, wearing a flower path alone, drizzling sycamore.
......
As he sang, gradually, he smelled an ethereal breath of mountain in his nose.
The darkness cleared before my eyes.
He suddenly realized that he had reached the foot of a plane tree, and the surrounding area was full of gloomy greenery.
And in front of him, there was a chessboard, two baskets of chess pieces.
There is already an endgame on the board.
It's a pity that he doesn't know how to play Go at all, so he looked at it twice and then shifted his gaze.
......
A game of bad chess fell, and outside the time, I saw the bright moon and a thousand pines.
Sitting alone in the secluded fence in the mountains, a song of piano gradually emptied.
......
The song fell, and behind the plane tree, an old man actually turned out, and he sang indulgently, singing to the depths of his love and laughing a few times.
A ray of sunlight shone through the gap in the leaves, shining on the old man's white hair, which was particularly dazzling, and although his face was like the roots of an old tree, his face was ruddy and shiny, and his spirit looked like that of a newborn baby.
Then when he set his eyes on Qin Chuan, the song stopped abruptly: "I once played against people, and because I lost half of my life, I was trapped here.
The man said that there would be someone who was destined to come here, or five or ten years, but I waited for more than 80 years before I finally arrived. ”
Hehe...... If it weren't for me, you might not have been able to wait for the rest of your life.
Qin Chuan thought to himself.
He had probably guessed who the other party was talking about.
"Dare to ask the seniors for their names. ”
"It doesn't matter who my last name is, because I'm good at calculations, you can call me an immortal. ”
The old man behaved arrogantly, and the young man in front of him was just refining qi and turning into a god, if it weren't for the gambling game back then, he would be just an ant in his eyes.
But Qin Chuan didn't care about the old man's demeanor at all, but continued to ask questions quietly.
"Okay, Ji Immortal, dare to ask that ...... Do you have something to say about the seniors who trapped you?"
"He asked me to play a game against you, and that endgame was left by the man that day.
He left behind two treasures, one of which was the secret realm outside. If you lose, I'll be free, and the two treasures will be mine, and you'll be trapped here for a hundred years.
And if I lose, I can still get out of trouble, and the two treasures will naturally belong to you. ”
Qin Chuan thought for a while, and suddenly smiled: "Then what if I don't play against you?"
"This endgame is in danger, I can let you hold the white. ”
Qin Chuan shook his head and continued to ask, "What if I don't play against you?"
The immortal seemed to have glanced at Qin Chuan at this time, sighed, and said, "If you don't play against me, I can still leave, and you won't be trapped, we will each have two treasures, and you will choose first." ”
"You want this treasure very much?" Qin Chuan laughed.
"Indeed, the secret realm outside is the treasure of our clan. Ji Xianren was outspoken and seemed to disdain to lie to Qin Chuan.
Qin Chuan fell into deep thought.
The immortal did not urge him. There is no time in the mountains, and after so many years of waiting, he doesn't care about waiting a little longer.
After a while, Qin Chuan said, "I don't play against you. ”
Ji Xiandao: "That sunspot is only two hands away from death." ”
Qin Chuan shook his head: "It's useless, I don't know how to play, the kind that doesn't even understand the rules, and if I really choose to play against you, I will definitely die." ”
"You don't know how to play!?" Ji Xianren was stunned for a moment and muttered, "How can this be?
It was only at this point that he finally showed a hint of impatience.
Could it be that the endgame is really a big advantage? But I really don't understand. Qin Chuan thought to himself.
In fact, Senior Brother Qin Chuan had also taught him to play before, but he was really not interested in playing in later generations, so he only learned a little bit about it.
Qin Chuan saw that the immortals had begun to doubt life, and felt that they had almost mastered it, so he suddenly spoke: "That person...... Did that senior tell us to play with the endgame?"
Only then did Immortal Ji come back to his senses, glanced at Qin Chuan deeply, and then shook his head: "This is not true." ”
Qin Chuan showed a kind smile: "Then I have a small suggestion, since you want the secret realm outside, and I can't play against it." How about we play the game differently?"
"A different way of playing?"
"Not bad. A simple way, so it's fair for both of us.
The rules are as follows: black first, regardless of vertical and horizontal, how about winning with five sons in a row?"
Qin Chuan didn't dare to touch the endgame, so he picked up a branch and spent a chessboard on the ground, and then used the stone as a chess piece to explain it to the immortals.
Ji Xianren pinched his fingers and calculated for a moment, then nodded: "Your rule is indeed simple. The man really didn't prescribe how we were going to play or what kind of rules to use.
Qin Chuan nodded, knowing that the other party would definitely agree.
Regardless of the other party's arrogant attitude.
Because for the immortals, there is no difference between losing the game and giving up the game by themselves.
With such simple rules, it's better to gamble again.
Qin Chuan continued: "Since you claim to be good at calculations and a true immortal, if you think that I, a little cultivator who refines qi and transforms gods, will definitely not be in my eyes, how about letting me take the lead in the black?"
"Yes. ”
The immortal waved his sleeves as soon as he spoke, and the endgame on the chessboard had all disappeared, he pointed to the chessboard and motioned to Qin Chuan Luozi.
Qin Chuan did not hesitate to drop the sunspot casually.
At this moment, he already had 100% confidence in the two treasures, and the two treasures had become his bag.
As a game lover, the ancestor of table games, backgammon, is definitely Qin Chuan's super mastery from junior high school to high school, regardless of his past and present lives.
As a middle school that lived in the school for six years and was forced by fully closed management, backgammon, which can be done with a pen and a piece of paper, is undoubtedly the lowest-cost game plan.
He once fought all over the school, and felt that invincibility was too lonely, and the only remaining opponent was himself, so he began to study the sao routine, and was addicted to it and couldn't extricate himself.
This kind of routine means that black will win first.
In the earliest days of backgammon, some people faintly found that the winning rate of the black first move was significantly higher than that of the white player in certain openings.
It wasn't until 1992 that a man named Victor Alis used programming to prove that under the rules of the game without any restrictions, black was indeed the first to win.
Therefore, for the sake of the fairness of the game, people began to add various forbidden moves to black chess, such as black chess cannot be double-three-double-four, or long-tie.
And this kind of forbidden hand play method is called Renju, which is different from the previous non-forbidden hand (Gomoku).
The friends can finally play backgammon happily again.
But it turns out that backgammon is really a game of bull B.
Even with the addition of a ban, at many specific openings, people still feel that black is significantly stronger than white, so there is a faint saying that black will still win under the ban.
It's just that this claim is like an urban legend and has still not been proven.
Then, nine years later, in 2001, another man named Janos Wagner wrote a paper that once again proved that even with the Renju rule, there was still a certain opening that could complete the black kill.
To add insult to injury, nineteen of the twenty-six professional openings have been found to be black-bound openings.
International rules can only continue to change.
Therefore, under the circumstance that the Immortal Ji agreed with Qin Chuan to take the black first move, and did not ban him, Qin Chuan had at least a hundred ways to hang him up and hammer him.
Don't say you're an immortal, computers have to die!