"Elder Fang, when did you come to the capital too? You're here for that seminar, right? By the way, have you made any new discoveries now? If you have one, take it out and show it to me. ｀｀｀”

When Li Xiaoqiang came to the training room of the Go team, he did not find Nie Whirlwind. On the contrary, he unexpectedly saw an old acquaintance of himself, that is, Fang Lao of Shencheng. Not only that, but next to Fang Lao stood the old man Jin from Hong Kong, and they seemed to be chatting about something there. After seeing the two of them together, Li Xiaoqiang estimated that Fang Lao should also come to attend that seminar.

The research on medieval chess initiated by Li Xiaoqiang and Fang Lao has been serialized in the magazine "Go" for a long time. Li Xiaoqiang and Chang Rensheng's "research results" have also been published one after another. Of course, the current research is very slow, according to the four stages that Li Xiaoqiang began to divide, Fang Lao's research article has just entered the second stage. However, this did not prevent the series from becoming very popular.

To be honest, the reason why the article is sought after is not because of Li Xiaoqiang's research results. It is because of Fang Lao's brilliant pen that he wrote the history of Go in the Ming Dynasty vividly and interestingly. He writes very popularly, and writes the flavor of romance. This is the main reason why this serial article is so popular.

Among them, due to the lack of many historical materials of Go, Fang Lao added a lot of his own inferences to it. In the words of later generations, Fang Lao added a lot of "reasonable yy" to the article. As for Li Xiaoqiang's "research results", they actually provide rigorous arguments for these inferences. In this way, this series of articles is not just as simple as "interesting", at least it looks very rigorous and can stand up to scrutiny. This also underscores the academic value of this series of articles.

It must be admitted that the complementarity of the two is actually the effect that Li Xiaoqiang and Fang Lao are willing to see. At least for now, it seems that Li Xiaoqiang and Fang Lao's approach was successful. This series of articles not only attracted the interest of many chess fans, but also had a great impact. In fact, it is also subtly changing everyone's concept.

to the Hereafter. There was once a saying in the Go world, that is, "Chinese Go was 4,000 years ahead, Japanese Go was 300 years ahead, and South Korea was 20 years ahead......

It was a Chinese who put forward this statement. But Li Fa, he doesn't agree! At most, Li Xiaoqiang admits that Japanese Go is only 100 years ahead, and absolutely not 300 years. The reason why everyone thinks that Japanese Go is "200 years ahead" is only because Japanese Go is well promoted and packaged. As people usually say, it gives people a feeling of "unknowing". Therefore, Li Xiaoqiang and Fang Lao are doing what they are doing now. In fact, I want to make up for this lesson in second-hand chess.

It's funny to say that Lee "South Korea is 20 years ahead of Go". has the experience of his previous life, no matter how narrow-minded Li Xiaoqiang is, he must have no choice but to admit this fact. Li Xiaoqiang has always believed that the reason why he chose Go in his life is probably because of this "narrow-minded" thinking. One of my very important ideas is that I really want to destroy the emergence of such a situation.

“。 I've really come up with an interesting question right now. Not only that, but the reason why I came up with this question is actually related to your most recent match. I said Xiaoqiang, you are too unkind, you should have thought about this problem a long time ago. And they are all used in actual combat. But I never told my old man. I think you obviously look down on my level. Not enough friends, you are really not enough friends......"

When Fang Lao saw Li Xiaoqiang, he also seemed very happy. He enthusiastically said this to Li.

"Oh? What did Elder Fang find again? Let's listen to ......."

After hearing Elder Fang say this. Now even the old man Jin next to him is interested. He immediately asked impatiently.

To say that just a few days ago, Li Xiaoqiang and Old Man Jin were not familiar with each other. However, as a "gold fan", Li Xiaoqiang also knows a lot about Mr. Jin. And what about Old Man Kim? He is a huge chess fan. Then he must know Li now, and the two can be regarded as "gods have been friends for a long time".

Especially on that day, when Old Man Jin mentioned the issue of "realm". Li Xiaoqiang showed off in front of him, and made Old Man Jin realize that he was a real "gold fan". That made Old Man Jin introduce Li Xiaoqiang as a bosom friend.

Many people know that in Old Man Jin's martial arts, there have been many scenes of Go. Not only that, in fact, when Mr. Jin was describing the "realm" of his martial arts, he had actually borrowed from the description of the "realm" of Go.

For example, the "nine-grade system" of ancient Chinese Go should be such a situation.

In ancient China, there were nine grades for chess players, similar to the modern rank system. This kind of chess system has already appeared in the Three Kingdoms period. For example, the "Book of Arts" that once quoted Handan Chun of the Wei State on "Saying Guo" has:

"There are nine products of Fu Go: one is to enter the gods, two is to sit down, three is concrete, four is quiet, five is wise, six is small, seven is fighting power, eight is foolish, and nine is clumsy. Outside of the nine products, there is no cloud again. ”

Not only that, but by the time of the Ming Dynasty, more detailed descriptions had already appeared. For example, the Ming scholar Xu Zhongye explained the Nine Grades of Go in "Stone Room Immortal Machine" as follows:

A product into the gods, means: "changes are unpredictable, but can be prophetic, essence and righteousness, without a fight and surrender to the chess of others, there is no rival, this is counted." ”

In modern parlance, the key to this is "the ability to foresee change, and the ability to surrender without a fight." This is probably considered to be the "highest level" in Go

And the second-grade sitting photo refers to: "If you enter the gods and spare half a half, you will not be reluctant, and you will get it without thinking", and you have the ability to "respond to the humility and kindness". This counts as medium.

In this, the "勉" in "not reluctantly" means "diligent", which can be interpreted as "hitting the key point without effort". No matter what trick the other party makes, I can raise my hand to break it, effortlessly. Compared with the "concrete" of the three products, "sitting photos" does not need to see the tricks and then break the moves, but the realm of breaking the world's moves with one move.

In Old Man Jin's martial arts, we can see a lot of similar descriptions. For example, Ling Hu Chong's "Dugu Nine Swords". Isn't it similar to the "sitting photo" in Go?

Interestingly, when Mr. Jin asked Li Xiaoqiang what "realm" he had reached, Li Xiaoqiang honestly replied that he might have barely reached the "concrete" realm at present. At this level, it is probably to the point where you can "see the tricks and dismantle the moves". Compared with such a realm, Li Xiaoqiang thinks that his current level is like this.

I remember that when everyone was chatting at the time, everyone was still making fun of Li Xiaoqiang's fake modesty, because the new world champions were only "specific", which made so many "fascination" in the Go world embarrassed. But then again, in fact, the rank system has developed into modern times. It should be said that it has long since gone sour. Everyone knows this.

For example, when the Japanese Go industry first created the rank system, they also believed that "mastering" could be achieved by hard work, and "celebrity" must be "heavenly". If you really want to say it, in the Japanese Go world in the era of "Imperial Chess City", they actually strictly followed this and strictly implemented it, and it didn't change until modern times.

At that time, when we were chatting, there were a lot of "engrosses" around, so it seemed a little inconvenient to talk about this topic. At that time, everyone looked for it the other way. I want to put the martial arts characters portrayed by Mr. Jin into the right seats. Let's see how many of them are there. However, when everyone looked around, they found that the characters portrayed by Mr. Jin were very exciting. They all look great. However, there are unexpectedly few characters who are "in the gods".

This is actually very easy to understand, if Linghu Chong can only be a "sitting photo", then everyone will follow this standard. The one who best meets the requirements of "entering the gods" may be the "sweeping monk". And what about the others. It always feels a little worse.

At that time, Li, in the triptych version of "Tianlong Babu", there is a detail describing Murong Bo's "one block and one retreat". That has the realm of "sitting photo", but unfortunately it was deleted in the new version, and this detail did not appear. Li Xiaoqiang asked Mr. Jin. At that time, did you think that Murong Bo was not qualified to "sit and take photos", so you deleted this detail.

In Mr. Jin's other book "Smiling Proud Jianghu", the Taishan faction has a trick called: "How is Dai Zong", if someone can practice it, this should be the realm of "entering the gods". However, in it, Mr. Jin did not arrange for the characters to be trained.

When Li said this, it was needless to say that Old Man Jin must have been impressed by him. Because whether it is Murong Bo or the Taishan faction, they are all tricks in the original book, and they all play supporting roles. It is not surprising that everyone can know that Xuzhu is in that section. If you can know this, you must be a senior gold fan. And you must be a senior fan who understands traditional Chinese culture, at least a senior gold fan who understands the nine-grade system of Go, to notice such details.

As a super chess fan, it is strange that Mr. Jin does not introduce Li Xiaoqiang as a bosom friend. Therefore, when he heard that Fang Lao had discovered something interesting, and this thing was also related to Li Xiaoqiang. He hurriedly asked with great interest.

"You take a look at this first, especially this sentence, after you finish reading this sentence, you think about Xiaoqiang is not interesting enough......"

As Old Fang spoke, he took out a manuscript-like thing and showed it to Old Man Jin. It can be seen that this should be a "research article" that Fang Lao just wrote. Judging by that, the article should not be completely finished, this should be a draft.

At this time, Li Xiaoqiang also came up. Because Li Xiaoqiang wants to know very much, although he is swaggering and deceiving everywhere in the name of a "descendant of ancient chess". But Li Xiaoqiang really didn't understand, didn't Fang Lao's research have always been limited to the pile of yellowed ancient books, and what does this have to do with himself? Is it really that coincidental? What did you inadvertently comprehend the true meaning of ancient chess?

After Li Xiaoqiang got up, the first thing that caught his eye was this sentence:

"Where the corner must fight for the beginning of the two or four, the external system of three or six can still be used to rotate. If Sanqi is injured by a tiger. Four-six was scrapped by the tiger......"

When Li Xiaoqiang saw this sentence, Li Xiaoqiang thought about it for a while. Especially when he thinks about the game he played with Mr. Hideyuki Fujisawa. At this moment, Li Xiaoqiang smiled.

Because at this moment, Li himself means "not enough friends". Because in this sentence, it seems to say a very interesting ancient and modern coincidence. And behind this sentence, how much is worth pondering? (To be continued......)

ps: It's too cold.,Strictly speaking, this chapter isn't finished.,But I have to send it now.。 u