Li Xiaoqiang and Zhang Zhidong walked on the road.

Fang Lao and Zhang Zhidong are in the same unit. However, the two of them are not very acquainted, anyway, Fang Lao is offered as a bodhisattva in the unit, and Zhang Zhidong also treats others as bodhisattvas in his heart. Of course, there is superficial respect, but there is obvious disapproval of people who are fiddling with those yellowed books and pieces of paper every day.

Although they are all mixed Go. Reporter Zhang Da prides himself on being a trendy youth, and of course he must keep up with the "advanced technology in the world". In his opinion, if Fang Lao studied things like the "Thirteen Chapters of the Book of Chess" and something reasonable, such things were still relatively mysterious and seemed to be more classy. You said that you are so old, what is the meaning of going to the countryside every day to study those wild histories of Go. I was so happy to find an ancient chess game in the countryside. What if it's the chess king of that township? Can I win with two sons?

Of course, Zhang Zhidong would not say this to Li Xiaoqiang. No matter what you say on the side, you are also known as the "heir of ancient chess", so Zhang Zhidong is purely speechless:

"Xiaoqiang, did your master tell you about his past? Also, don't you have to study every day now, and there will be a game tomorrow, why do I think you value visiting Fang Lao more than tomorrow's game? ”

Li Xiaoqiang glanced at him, and secretly despised him in his heart:

"What kind of reporter are you still doing? As a reporter, you can also play Go. Packaging, packaging, do you understand? If you go to the entertainment industry, you will be bombarded with scum long ago. ”

Li Xiaoqiang now of course has to find a way to package himself. With the name of an ancient chess heir, of course it doesn't matter if he is young now. Anything can be excused by saying that he is young and does not know what to do. But what about growing up? What's even more terrifying is what if you really make a name for yourself in the Go world? What if someone asks you some questions about ancient Chinese chess, and you don't know what to do? Wouldn't it affect one's glorious and correct image?

Of course, Li Xiaoqiang knows a little about ancient Chinese chess, and it is certainly no problem to deal with a novice reporter like Zhang Zhidong. However, I am not afraid of 10,000, but I am afraid of ......

So Li Xiaoqiang decided to strengthen his "cultivation" in this regard.

But this kind of cultivation is not so easy to strengthen. Li Xiaoqiang was a science and engineering student in his previous life, and used the same set of science and engineering students to study Go. Anyway, I always come to some very strange conclusions, so I have to find a master to help me correct it.

Li Xiaoqiang has always thought. The study of ancient Chinese chess is a bit too messy. There are a lot of useful things that no one values, but useless things make people talk about them.

Zhang Zhidong saw that Li Xiaoqiang had not spoken, and asked:

"What are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking about Rotten Ke."

Zhang Zhidong glanced at Li Xiaoqiang strangely. I don't know how Li Xiaoqiang thought of this, and everything else is not necessarily clear, the legend of the bad Go Ke Zhang Da reporter must know it. Rotten Ke is almost another name for Go. It's about a child who goes up the mountain to chop wood. I saw the two old men playing Go, and when they finished playing, they found that the handle of the axe they used to chop wood was actually rotten. Only then did he know that he had met an immortal. This story roughly describes the game of Go as easy to fascinate people. In addition to this, Li Xiaoqiang really can't see any other significance.

"Reporter Zhang, let me ask you a question? What do you mean by the author of this rotten legend? Isn't he afraid that the mothers of other people's children will be in a hurry? ”

Reporter Zhang Da was dumbfounded, first stunned for a moment, and then laughed:

"You, how could you have such a strange idea. Haha"

"Isn't his story as unnutritious as mine?"

Zhang Zhidong's face was straight, ready to educate Li Xiaoqiang. Let him know the great significance of the legend of the Rotten Ke, but if you think about it carefully, the meaning is a little bit. The meaning is really disproportionate to the circulation of this story.

"Let me ask you another question, do you know the way of the immortal figure of the Song Dynasty in my country?"

Zhang Zhidong didn't know if he was lucky today or if Li Xiaoqiang had changed his temperament. Anyway, Li Xiaoqiang happened to know the two questions he asked today. So his eyebrows flew and he began to gush:

"Of course I know this......"

The story has also been widely circulated. Talking about a certain national hand of the Song Dynasty. Once in an inn, I actually met two women playing blind chess. The national player was shocked and hurriedly wrote down the chess score. found that the tricks were exquisite, and knew that he had met the immortals. So I studied this game. Unexpectedly, the strength has greatly improved. This chess game is still very famous in history, and the old man Jin is proud of the rivers and lakes. In order to save anyone, Xiang Wentian found a chess game to bribe the black and white son in prison. That's the game I used.

In Li Xiaoqiang's view, such a story is not even gossip. It's more like a bad taste. Very simple reasoning, this story must be fake, this game must have been forged. Most of the people who forged it were still enemies of this national player. Think about it, everybody. Why do you want to say that this national player has met two women? In this story, these two women can be regarded as the masters of this national player. So this story is mostly a satire of this national player:

"Your kung fu was taught by your master, right?"

From this point of view, the story still has a bit of dry humor.

There are good things left over from ancient Chinese chess, and there are many things that the gods are chattering about.

Good things are "Ten Tips for Go" and "Thirteen Chapters of the Book of Go". Go is inherently a strategic game. It's not surprising to sum up these things in Go. It's just these good things, which are often tricky and inexplicable.

Let's take the simplest example. The nine-grade system of Go should be strictly hierarchical. He learned from the Jiupin Zhongzheng system of that era. Now Taiwan is still using this set. Every product has a name, and there is nothing in the first place with a name. However, those names are also a little too literary, and ordinary people really can't tell which product is higher.

Normally, we understand that the first product is the highest "into the gods", and what is "concrete" and "quiet" in the middle has been until the ninth product is "clumsy".

Li Xiaoqiang really read a paper in his previous life. The paper seems to have been written by a Taiwanese chess player. In his thesis, he argued that it should be the highest in the nine grades and the lowest in the first grade. It really makes sense, and the analysis is still like that.

For example, "into the gods", he said that into the gods that is a beginner, you didn't know Go before, you just learned it now, is Go very attractive, you "into the gods". That clumsiness is simpler, refer to Li Shifo.

Something like this can be read backwards. It can be seen how mysterious Go is made by our ancestors.

In this regard, the situation in Japan is much simpler. If it is said that ancient Chinese chess is like a beautiful essay or a hazy poem. The ancient Japanese chess game is like a popular novel.

Popular is popular. But it's beautiful, it's enjoyable.

In ancient times, they had four major schools, namely the Benyinfang family, the Inoue family, the Anjing family, and the Lin family, and the four major schools fought for a "chess house". A history of Go is like a river and lake, culture is no culture, and when your ears are red, you will shout. also made a "wonderful hand with red ears". But there are always swords and swords in it, and there are always vertical and horizontal. There's always happiness and revenge.

Tell everyone to choose, which one to choose? If Li Xiaoqiang was not a descendant of ancient chess, he would definitely choose Japanese ancient chess.

Li Xiaoqiang is going to visit the old man for something. That's because Fang Lao is an expert in studying Ming and Qing Go. In that era, the level of Chinese ancient chess competition reached a peak. The chess world also has a bit of a river and lake, for example, there were three major schools in the Ming Dynasty. There are also many stories of their struggle for world domination. This is fun, Li Xiaoqiang likes it.

Li Xiaoqiang and Zhang Zhidong came to Fang's house. Elder Fang was very enthusiastic and came out to greet him in person. Li Xiaoqiang took a closer look at Elder Fang, who was nearly 60 years old. Dark-skinned, like a dry old man. But the voice is loud and seems to be very energetic. But the first sentence was startled:

"Xiaoqiang is from Ganyuan, Ganyuan is good. In the past, Ganyuan had a Go master. Come on, you will also become a generation of grandmasters in the future, Ha Lu Ha. ”

Li Xiaoqiang glanced at Zhang Zhidong and said in his heart, you didn't bring the wrong door. Is this person Elder Fang? Not a pseudo-expert. I'm half-though. However, I still know if there is a Go master in our hometown. I've never heard of it.

Li Xiaoqiang, a half-man, doesn't know what to do, and Zhang Zhidong, a little white, doesn't know what to do. So the two of them stared at each other.

Fang Lao didn't have the slightest expert, and looked at Li Xiaoqiang with a smile:

"It's understandable that Xiao Zhang doesn't know what to do. You, the heir of ancient chess, don't know the way? Hehe. ”

Originally, I didn't know that there was nothing in the way. However, Li Xiaoqiang thought that he actually wanted to be on a par with Zhang Zhidong, a little white. Hurriedly started to search with his brain, and suddenly a flash of inspiration asked:

"You mean, Xin'an Pai ......"

Fang Lao Ha laughed:

"Yes, yes, it's the ancestor of the Xin'an faction, Ha Luha. I've been to that place, and it's so beautiful. ”

Li Xiaoqiang breathed a sigh of relief. The Xin'an faction knows the Tao himself, but the ancestor himself really doesn't know the Tao.

There were three major schools of Go in China during the Ming Dynasty. It is the so-called Yongjia faction, Jingshi faction and Xin'an faction. It's almost all divided by geography. Yongjia is now centered on Wenzhou, Jingshi is naturally the current capital, and Xin'an is the ancient Huizhou of Anhui Province. Ancient Huizhou included part of what is now Ganyuan. The place that Fang Lao went to is the place known as "the most beautiful village in China". It used to be part of ancient Huizhou.

So, any culture is useful. Li Xiaoqiang used his own culture to get it right.

Elder Fang seemed to be very interested in talking, and he was talking there endlessly. Li Xiaoqiang secretly admired on the side, you must know that the history of Go in that era did not form any system at all, and it was almost scattered among the people. In Fang Lao's mouth, it was like a complete picture scroll displayed in front of Li Xiaoqiang. There are many stories that Li Xiaoqiang has never heard of.

Li Xiaoqiang's knowledge of Go after the late Ming Dynasty is a little more knowledgeable. I didn't know much in the early stage, but I could only catch up with one or two sentences occasionally, and reporter Zhang Da couldn't open his mouth at all. But I also listened to it with relish.

Li Xiaoqiang listened to Fang Lao's swing of the dragon gate array for almost 10 minutes, and finally heard a name that seemed to be a little impressive to himself, and couldn't help blurting out:

"Li Cao!"

Elder Fang stopped and asked in surprise:

"Xiaoqiang also knows about Li Cao?"

Li Xiaoqiang's face flushed. I blurted out just now, definitely not how familiar I am with Li Cao. It's completely that he is too inferior in front of Elder Fang, and he is like an illiterate person in front of Elder Fang. It's like when Wei Xiaobao saw the "Forty-two Chapters Sutra", and found that he actually knew 3 words out of 5 words, of course he couldn't help but scream.

However, it must be told the truth, Li Xiaoqiang still knows a little about the deeds of Li Ke and Li Da Devil. It's a shame to say that I know that Li Pu didn't know Li Pu at the beginning because of his identity as a chess player, his status as a national Go player. Li Ke also has an identity, that is, the famous Jinyiwei. Li Xiaoqiang was very curious about a chess player going to be a Jinyi guard, so he paid attention to it. Slowly collecting some information, I found that my own family seems to be very powerful. There was a time when the world was invincible.

Gossip is such a thing, even if Li Xiaoqiang prides himself on being a real chess fan. If he wants to know some knowledge of Go, he still has to start with gossip.

Fang Lao talked unabated. Slowly talking about Bailing, slowly talking about Huang Shifan, Li Xiaoqiang can pick up.

On that day, in Fang's hometown, a real expert, a half-hanger, a little white. Talking about it is called elation, and talking about it is earth-shattering.

Of course, there is still a game on the second day, and it is impossible to talk about it for too long, in fact, Chinese ancient chess cannot be finished in a day.

Leave Fang's hometown. Zhang Zhidong couldn't suppress his excitement, so excited that he couldn't even care about the second day of the game:

"Xiaoqiang, is your idea true? What a clever idea. ”

"Of course, when did I lie to you. However, it is too difficult to do this, and it may not be possible to do it in 10 or 8 years. ”

Zhang Zhidong assured his old man that he really hoped to be able to do this for 10 years and 8 years. Even, there is no problem in doing it for a lifetime.

"In that case, I'll ...... with that girl"

Yes. Li Xiaoqiang said the preliminary idea of the Chinese version of the chess soul.

Of course, there is fantasy in it, and such things are as natural as breathing for Li Xiaoqiang. But what about Zhang Zhidong? Isn't it "cleverly conceived".

The Japanese version of Chess Soul has become a classic with its exquisite graphics and its unique Japanese anime flavor. Li Xiaoqiang knew that there were some flavors that could not be learned. So. Li Xiaoqiang wants to win with stories.

Li Xiaoqiang firmly believes that even if there is no chessboard, Go is still very flavorful and can tell a good story.

The story should be good. What is rotten, what is immortal is definitely not enough. He must be popular, he must be in the rivers and lakes. Must gossip.

This is the real purpose of Li Xiaoqiang's finding someone else, and his own ideas must absorb nutrients in the rivers and lakes of Go.

Li Xiaoqiang believes that whether it is rivers and lakes or gossip, as long as the idea is ingenious, then the nobility and elegance of Go, the indifference and calmness of Go, the mystery and unpredictability of Go, and the charm of Go must be unstoppable.

Only by doing these can we compete with the genuine chess soul.

"Yukari Umezawa, hehe, do you still have a chance to become the No. 1 beauty in the Go world?"

Li Xiaoqiang suddenly felt a little cruel.

Zhang Zhidong is still very excited, and he is still talking there:

"Xiaoqiang, just now Elder Fang asked you about the "Heavenly Dragon Diagram Order"......"

Li Xiaoqiang's face turned red, this is the reason why he wanted to run away. In front of a real expert like Fang Lao, of course, this little thing is not enough to see.

"In my last life, I studied science and engineering, so in this life, I want to get a diploma in literature and history. At the very least, I can give an account to my mother, Mr. Hu......"

Li Xiaoqiang thought crankily all the way.

Finally, the main topic turned to the upcoming competition. Reporter Zhang finally felt that he had to do something serious.

"Xiaoqiang, why did you use such a strange and extreme tactic yesterday?"

"I say it's because of the fear in my heart, do you believe it?"

"Fear? The big dragon who went to slaughter people's houses because of fear? ”

yes, is that an unusual idea? Facing an opponent who is so strong that he makes himself desperate, don't you have to resist violently? Without violence, how did so many "peasant uprisings" happen?

"What about the second set? What are you going to do, can you reveal it first? ”

"2nd Set ......"

yes, how about the second set? If you want to say that you are prepared to start yourself. Of course, the premise of this preparation is that you have never thought about winning chess at all.

"Extremist tactics" are not just a kind of dragon slaying. Extreme orphan treatment can also be used. That is, to find a way to hand over a piece of lone chess to you and let you kill it. Can you kill you and win, if I live...... That's sorry. This is also commonly known as the "gambling dragon". Originally, Li Xiaoqiang was ready to go down like this, using one method at a time.

But now?

Now that he actually won, more importantly, Li Xiaoqiang found that he began to seem to have walked into a misunderstanding. I have always regarded Ma Xiaofei as his peak and judged his strength.

It's certain that I'm not as good as him now, and the way is definitely to think about it.

But how do you conceive it......

"We have such a good relationship, can't you talk about it?

"Ha Luha, the key to the second set is not how I want to play. In my opinion, it should be how Mr. Ma will play. What will he do to teach me? I think he's going to have to think of something special. In general, can he be sure that he can win against me? ”

Li Xiaoqiang's pace accelerated, firm and powerful.

Zhang Zhidong didn't get what he wanted, and muttered there:

"Hubris, you are arrogant! Do you still need to use something special to deal with you? But isn't it really necessary......

"Mr. Ma, if I'm not mistaken, there must be something different about you. I'm really looking forward to it, and I'm ready to absorb nutrients in it. Don't let me down. ”

Does Li Xiaoqiang's idea make sense? Is he really arrogant? Who knows what the way is?

Semi-finals of China's first Go Tianyuan Tournament.

Li Xiaoqiang VS Ma Xiaofei, Li Xiaoqiang led 1-0 in the first set. Was there a bit of a final atmosphere in the second set?

The two returned to the station, and Li Xiaoqiang began his own preparations.

Early in the morning on the day of the game, Li Xiaoqiang woke up on time and was in good spirits. He didn't go anywhere and didn't want to be disturbed by the outside world.

In fact, Li Xiaoqiang was right to do so.

It doesn't matter what the real situation is. At least on the surface, Ma Xiaofei is not a last battle.

All the people were ready to watch with great interest. Even Liu Dazhui, who is the least "dealing" with Ma Xiaofei, is faintly worried about Ma Xiaofei.

Li Xiaoqiang sat quietly in the room.

"At this time, what is Mr. Ma doing?"

Li Xiaoqiang calmly walked onto the field.

What happens today? (To be continued......)