One week after the end of the qualifiers.

The Maple City Masters officially took place on Saturday, April 5.

Thirty-two amateur and retired professional chess players from Xi Province gathered in the Longcheng Hotel in Fengcheng to start the two-and-a-half-day celebrity tournament.

There were five rounds of the tournament this time, two sets on Saturday, two sets on Sunday, and after the last set on Monday morning, it was the medal ceremony.

Zhao Yajun, Zhang Xuebin, and Gao Pengfei stayed in the hotel on Friday night, and before going to bed, the three gathered in Gao Pengfei's room to talk about tomorrow's game.

"Teacher Gao, who are the best chess players in this competition?" Zhao Yajun didn't know much about the masters in the province, and this time he also wanted to learn more information from Gao Pengfei.

"Teacher Zhang knows this better than me, and I still participate in fewer competitions." Gao Pengfei smiled and looked at Zhang Xuebin, who was wearing a gray plaid shirt.

"As far as I know, Jin Yiming from Lancheng, Liu Sicong from Guangcheng, He Chang from Fengcheng, plus our teacher Gao from Rongcheng, these four retired professional chess players are currently more optimistic." Zhang Xuebin touched his chin and said with a smile: "Teacher Gao, those three professional chess players, I think you know their strength better than me." ”

"Retired professional chess players may have an advantage in mentality, but their real chess strength may not be much better than that of amateur heroes." Gao Pengfei shook his head, but I felt that those young amateur chess players were more aggressive.

"Teacher Zhang, who do you think is the most likely to win the championship?" Zhao Yajun looked at Zhang Xuebin and asked.

"If you say that the most promising one to win the championship, I think it is Jin Yiming of the Lancheng Chess Academy, and the last time I played the game in Lancheng, I lost it and was convinced." Zhang Xuebin thought for a while and continued: "But that Liu Sicong, I heard that he is equal to Jin Yiming's chess strength, and it's hard to say who is stronger." ”

"Oh." Zhao Yajun nodded.

"Mr. Zhao, your chess strength has improved by leaps and bounds during this time, and I think you also have a great hope of winning the championship." Gao Pengfei answered.

Since he watched a game of Zhang Xuebin and Zhao Yajun two days ago, he found that it was not Zhang Xuebin who was modest, but Zhao Yajun's chess had indeed become smart. Although he did not play with Zhao Yajun in person, from the perspective of watching the game, Gao Pengfei did not dare to ignore Zhao Yajun's chess strength at all.

"Yes, this week, I played three sets with Mr. Zhao, and as a result, I lost three sets, and I began to wonder if I had regressed too quickly." Zhang Xuebin mentioned the sad thing, shook his head, took off his glasses, took out the glasses cloth in his shirt pocket and wiped it a few times before putting it back on, "In this competition, I am really a little unconfident, I hope that Mr. Zhao can win glory for our Rongcheng Chess Academy and achieve good results with Mr. Gao." ”

"Teacher Zhang, no one can be sure about the competition, and it's just a fluke that I won a few sets of yours." Zhao Yajun smiled faintly, his words were pure modesty, after this week's competition with Zhang Xuebin, his self-confidence had already exploded.

Although the final has not officially started, he already feels that the champion is beckoning to him again, and he just asked who is more likely to win the championship, more to hear the objective opinions of the two colleagues.

The three of them chatted for a while, and then went back to their rooms to rest, Zhao Yajun lay on the soft bed, his mood fluctuated, and he closed his eyes, hoping that he could go further in his dreams.

More than a hundred kilometers away in Rongcheng, Zhao Ya sensed her uncle's thoughts, so she entered the spiritual space and activated the shadow of the chess god again.

"Entering the 1st Order, 961/1000 Spirit Maps, Locking the Target Zhao Yajun, Shadow of the Chess God No. 1, Chess Power Tongyun 4th Order, ready to transmit the Spirit Map."

"The success rate of this transmission is ninety-five percent, and fifteen spirit maps will be consumed, and the target will gain one-tenth of the spirit map ability, one hundred and fifty percent of the efficiency, and comprehensive

Average rating. ”

"Uncle, tomorrow is the final, come on." Zhao Ya secretly wished, and then began to cultivate and restore his spiritual diagram.

At 9 a.m. on the 5th, the first game of chess began.

Zhao Yajun against Sun Guotao.

This amateur 6-dan chess player who is a few years younger than him, Zhao Yajun still has a little impression, in the Nine Cities Chess King Tournament, he first lost to Jiang Bowen, and met Zhao Ya in the last round, and he was abused without a little temper.

Zhao Yajun knows that this opponent is very strong, if it is his former self, I am afraid that he will not be an opponent with two pieces, but now he is full of confidence to win.

"Teacher Sun, I've admired my name for a long time, I have the honor to play today, I will do my best." Zhao Yajun said politely.

"Teacher Zhao, if you don't dare to be it, I will take it seriously." Sun Guotao said politely: "It's a pity that Teacher Zhao Ya didn't participate in the competition this time." ”

Sun Guotao also recognized Zhao Yajun at this moment, although Zhao Ya's uncle was not very good at chess, he still admired him very much for being able to teach a genius chess player like Zhao Ya.

"Yes, Xiaoya's health is a little bad, this time I, as an uncle, have to come to make up the numbers."

"Mr. Zhao's chess strength is not weak, so you don't need to be so modest." When Sun Guotao heard Zhao Yajun say this, he was a little vigilant, how could it be as simple as making up the number of chess players who could pass the qualifiers of more than 200 people.

"Okay, it's almost time to start, Mr. Sun, what chess do you choose?"

"Oh, I'm casual, Mr. Zhao, you choose." Sun Guotao saw that the other party looked calm and relaxed, and secretly reminded himself that maybe this Zhao Yajun was a master who pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger.

After all, with Zhao Ya's experience, even if Zhao Yajun is weak, he must not underestimate the enemy.

"Alright then, I'm low, I'll use black."

"Okay, please advise." Sun Guotao nodded, and the other party used black chess, which was exactly what he meant.

From Zhao Yajun to the first son, the faces of both of them became solemn, and the speed of playing chess was very fast, and they played more than 100 steps in ten minutes.

At this time, Zhao Yajun slowed down, not because he had encountered a problem, but because he found that his chess strength had grown a lot, and the other party had been in his calculation, if there was no accident in this game of chess, he had already won.

"I'm sorry, I'll go to the bathroom first." After Zhao Yajun made a black move, he couldn't suppress his joy and left his seat to go to the bathroom.

At this time, Sun Guotao, who was on the other side, was still staring at the chessboard, rubbing his eyes, and calculating carefully.

Sun Guotao is better at rapid chess, because his chess sense is better than his calculation ability, and many times after the long exam, he will come out of some stinky chess.

So after Zhao Yajun played fast, he was not to be outdone and played chess with a sense of chess, but although the current situation is not bad, there is no advantage at all.

And when he looked at the thick shape of the black chess, he felt that his white chess was not so good.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Sun, haven't you fallen yet?" Zhao Yajun glanced at the chessboard, and naturally knew that Sun Guotao didn't play chess, but he still asked.

"Smack!" Sun Guotao did not respond, and landed heavily on the chessboard with the chess pieces.

This move directly broke into the big space of the black chess, with a momentum of death and life, and won and lost the hand with one move.

Zhao Yajun was slightly stunned, and then the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, obviously he had expected this kind of trick for a long time, so he picked up the sunspot unhurriedly and dealt with it.

Half an hour later, the whole army of Baizi who broke into the black chess air was annihilated, Sun Guotao held his head and rubbed it for a long time before he sighed and said, "Teacher Zhao, I admit defeat." ”

"I was just a fluke." Zhao Yajun said with a smile.

At the end of the first round, Zhang Xuebin and Gao Pengfei also won.

At the end of the second round, Zhang Xuebin lost and Gao Pengfei won.

At the end of the first day of the game, Zhao Yajun and Gao Pengfei won two consecutive games, and the two seemed to be more interested, while Zhang Xuebin, who lost a set, was a little depressed.

"Mr. Zhang, the most important thing in playing chess is to have confidence." Zhao Yajun patted Zhang Xuebin's shoulder encouragingly, not remembering at all that he didn't even have confidence in playing on the Internet more than a month ago.