"Your chess path is narrow!"

In school, in the chess room.

A man in his early forties, looking at the half-grown children in front of him who were yelling under the quilt and didn't dare to speak, his eyes were full of angry disappointment.

After all, this group of half-grown children are all the top young chess players selected from all over the country.

But these little chess players who have been selected by thousands of people, between their starts and downs, they are all pretending to be sophisticated in the human world.

I don't know who taught them these emotional accidents, or who taught them unnecessary humility on the chessboard.

Do they know that these unnecessary humilities and this complicated human sophistication may ruin the careers of these little chess players?

Do they know that the next Asian Youth Chess Tournament will be held in half a year? Do they know that the third place result in the last edition can make their seniors laugh at it for four years.

Could it be that this time, they are going to become a bigger joke?

Thinking of this, the man wanted to put away the disappointment in his eyes, and he seemed to be mustering all the strength in his body to brew hope.

But he clearly overestimated himself, just by virtue of his thin body.

What can change?

……

The current Chinese chess industry is quite a bit of a green momentum.

Although the younger generation still has top masters such as "Heavenly King" and "Madman", the older generation also has many Taishan Beidou recognized by the chess world. But in the generation of teenagers, there are few good players.

On the one hand, there are too few chess tournaments, which leads to a low average income for professional chess players.

On the other hand, there is media and technology.

Media technologies have changed a lot of things, but they have also destroyed a lot of things.

Chess, for example, is one of the most devastated traditional sports.

As the name suggests, media is the television, news, and reports that can be accessed at will in life.

As the threshold for self-media is getting lower and lower, too many false reports are destroying the future of chess.

More and more irresponsible self-media workers have deliberately put an ugly coat on chess for the sake of traffic, and have also labeled traditional domestic chess games as outdated, imbecile, and inferior to artificial intelligence.

Although some of what they say is true, they are too arbitrary, trying to stir up hatred among netizens with most of the illusions, selling the despair and anger they want to see.

But more than the media, technology is a knife that kills juvenile chess.

Science and technology refers to artificial intelligence, in fact, in China, there are even more chess software for artificial intelligence than Go.

Not to mention the early dream of artificial intelligence, a single Lianzhong can make many people who can't play chess, as long as they obediently follow the computer prompts, they can play on a par with the vast majority of professional chess players.

However, compared to media and technology, the main reason for ruining the dream of young people in chess is still a proud word.

Many domestic masters and grandmasters look down on domestic amateur chess players and foreign professional players.

They even look down on professional chess players with low ranks.

They are more passionate about challenging AI than people.

This is both a good thing and a bad thing.

Because, artificial intelligence, it is also the product of human creation and integration.

He is indeed strong, but who can say that artificial intelligence must be invincible?

At least in the eyes of this man in his early forties, no matter how powerful artificial intelligence is, human beings will slowly accumulate experience and finally defeat artificial intelligence because of repeated failures.

However, now from the eyes of this group of children, he can't see the slightest hope of defeating the artificial intelligence that is now boasted by the media as almost invincible.

He trembled for a long time, but in the end it did not dilute the disappointment in his eyes.

He could only say helplessly: "After practicing for half an hour", he sat down weakly in the chair.

……

"Isn't it just a draw? As for the coach to practice for half an hour? A fourteen or fifteen-year-old chess player pinched his chess pieces and whispered to his opponent on the opposite side.

"yes, it's annoying, I wouldn't have learned chess if I had known. Did you know that playing computer games can now be considered a sports competition? As long as the game is played well, the annual salary of tens of millions is not a problem. His opponent also complained dissatisfied.

Compared with the boring chess, the colorful and exciting video games have almost become the dream of many teenagers.

They look forward to the millions of annual salaries boasted by the media, and they also look forward to those professional gamers who can gain fans and love while playing games.

They even feel that playing games has a better future than chess.

Because, after the professional players of e-sports have retired, they can still do live broadcasts and become a favorite anchor of 10,000 people.

As for professional chess players, maybe they will probably live in this small chess room like this unpleasant coach for the rest of their lives, playing chess in the dark.

……

"Let's go."

After half an hour of practice, the little chess players walked out of the dark classroom with a relaxed face.

They were away from the chessboard, away from the nagging of the coach, they walked in the sun and habitually took out their mobile phones.

On children's mobile phones, there are too many games that adults and children love to play.

These games are not only exciting and exciting, but also because of this great era, they have spawned one profession after another that was scolded by adults ten years ago.

Because of these professions, too many children now have their own choices.

Perhaps, because of these, they have a little more "dream".

……

The progress of the times is actually a fist that breaks the rules.

Sometimes progress is so fast that the fist that breaks the rules is too big and too fast, and this big, fast fist not only breaks the rules, but they also knock down the children who should be innocent.

Is this a bad thing?

Maybe it's not bad, because there are too many media outlets, too many authors are advocating these fists in order to curry favor with them.

They even want to be these fists, too.

And those old people who want to protect their children have also become ugly, inflexible, and stubborn sandbags under these fists.

Under the blow of this punch, some of the sandbags compromised, and some of the sandbags broke, revealing the sand and stones inside.

But more sandbags did not flinch, still using their ugly bodies to stand in front of the innocent child.

……

How good it would be if I could be born again?

The coach looked at the empty chess room, where no one wanted to continue practicing after class.

He smiled bitterly.

If he can be reborn, he will definitely choose to be born in ancient times, so that he can become a generation of chess kings with his chess skills and persistence.

But he knew that life was not born again.

There is no golden finger falling from the sky.

You can only live on your own.

"Coach, can you guide me alone."

As the man was immersed in fantasy and reality, a timid voice came from behind him.

He looked back at the boy who was talking.

It was a small, inconspicuous boy.

He had the impression that this boy was the worst chess boy in the class.

is usually the most ruthless boy he scolds.

He looked at the timid boy, and he subconsciously asked, "Give me a reason to guide you alone?" ”

The boy looked at the expressionless coach, his legs shaking again.

"Forget it."

Looking at the boy who didn't even dare to speak, the coach smiled bitterly in his heart again.

"I want to be different!"

The boy suddenly shouted this sentence.

Because of this roar, the wry smile that had just emerged in the coach's heart seemed to have turned into a wonderful force, and this power finally diluted the disappointment he had been putting in his eyes.