11. Chemistry

Peng Fei is a national first-class chess player.

In fact, according to the world's expectations of his past talent, he who has just come of age this year could have challenged the rank of chess master, which is full of honor and strength.

But Peng Fei never challenged him, even though he won two prestigious top chess grandmasters in two commercial tournaments earlier this year.

Although these two top chess masters did not do their best on the board, they rated Pengfei's chess strength unexpectedly highly.

Especially the master Wang Zhiyue, who is known as the chess king of the Northwest, he commented that Peng Fei's chess is that there are many changes hidden between the start and fall, like the seventy-two changes of Sun Dasheng in Journey to the West.

Because of this, Peng Fei won his first nickname this year.

That is the "Peng Dasheng".

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Peng Dasheng comes from a chess family, his father is a well-known chess commentator in China, and his mother is also the vice president of the local chess association.

Therefore, since he was two years old, Peng Dasheng has been held on the chessboard by his parents to recognize his son and see the greatness of chess.

The persistence of his parents in his early years also made Peng Dasheng's childhood almost exclusively accompanied by chess.

He knew chess at the age of two, entered the chess academy at the age of four, was selected for the national junior team at the age of eight, won the national junior chess championship for the first time at the age of eleven, and at the age of fourteen, he went to represent China in the Asian Youth Chess Competition.

Although that year, Huaxia only won the third place.

But Pengfei's performance is deeply imprinted in the minds of judges from various countries.

It's not just because Pengfei's personal strength is on par with every young chess player in the championship team.

is even more because of Pengfei's mentality, which surpasses his peers, and even has a little vicissitudes.

If it weren't for Peng Fei, who withstood the huge pressure of 2:2 and won the most crucial game of chess by a narrow margin in the third and fourth place matches, the Huaxia Youth Team might have become a unique joke in the entire history of Chinese chess.

Although Peng Fei cried like a tearful man after the game.

But everyone, including domestic and foreign judges, believes that this is also a good thing for Pengfei.

Because this should be the first time in his life that he has been defeated by his peers, and it is also the first time that he has unwillingness in his heart.

He should never forget that the skinny monkey-like foreigner had a pair of big hands with thick calluses, and the calluses that crawled all over the hands were not available to the Chinese little chess players.

This may also be the most important reason for the decline of Chinese chess in this new era.

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Peng Fei Xi is the family heirloom "Plum Blossom Spring", different from Xue Bing's 210 changes and updated version of "Plum Blossom Spring" on the market, his family "Plum Blossom Spring" has been continuously revised by the ancestors for three generations, and has evolved into the current 361 changes.

These three hundred and sixty-one changes. It was the limit of his parents and grandparents.

It is also what his parents and grandparents expected of him.

They hoped that Peng Fei would be able to study the three hundred and sixty-second changes, so that "Plum Blossom Spring", which was originally inferior to "Plum Blossom Spectrum", would reappear in front of the world.

The art of change, how can it be so easy to say that change can change.

Every kind of transformation technique has come out through one footprint after another.

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Most of the young chess players who participated in the tournament with Peng Fei at the beginning are still in the chess team.

Although after they lost the chess, they experienced a period of abuse and ridicule from netizens.

But these children not only endured this so-called online violence, but also strengthened their ideals of continuing to play chess and being ashamed of themselves in these online violence.

Indeed, it should be ideal.

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In recent years, a lot of Chinese culture has suddenly become the culture of other countries.

For example, Chinese medicine, such as Goguryeo.

These things are things that many Chinese people dislike.

But these things have been in China for 5,000 years.

Will chess become another country's culture one day?

These are the words of the coach of their national youth chess team.

Every time he mentions it, these chess generations who can't be supported in the mouths of netizens will always answer angrily, no.

It's because these two won't.

The traditional culture of chess and Go will be selected as a sport recognized by the state by these people who love to play chess and can only play chess all their lives.

Nowadays, there are more and more nationally recognized sports.

Fun esports have become a "national sport".

Many children on the chess team feel that they prefer e-sports to boring chess.

Because they have the meticulous computing ability accumulated in playing chess, as well as their extraordinary reflexes and calmness, after transforming into a career related to e-sports, these chess teenagers should also be able to mix and thrive in this diversified world.

Not to mention Internet celebrities and anchors, which are more popular professions in the eyes of young people.

As a result, there are fewer and fewer professional chess players in the younger generation.

Peng Fei looked at fewer and fewer teammates.

He approached the coach and hoped that he would let them play a friendly match against the champion team of the Asian Junior Chess Championship four years ago.

The coach looked at him with a persistent face and asked him why with a smile.

He thought for a moment and said, since e-sports can make young people feel the charm of sports.

He imagined that chess should be able to do the same.

But the coach laughed even louder, and he said to Peng Fei, but chess is not as ornamental as e-sports, nor as elegant and beautiful as Go.

Peng Fei looked at the coach and asked, are you willing?

Although the coach did not speak, he would have been unwilling to play chess all his life.

After being silent for a long time, he finally decided to tell Peng Fei the truth, he said that people cannot change the world, they can only be changed by the world.

He also said that it is enough for their generation to protect the history and culture of chess as a whole for their country.

Peng Fei listened to the coach's unproductive words, he pointed to the calm chessboard on the side, and said, then let the chessboard prove whether he is changed by the world, or whether he can change the world.

The coach is a true chess master, and he is also one of the few masters who is proficient in "Plum Blossom Book" and "Plum Blossom Spring", and he understands that "Plum Blossom Spring" has many changes.

But he has never been able to defeat the Buddha's Five Finger Mountain.

However, the coach agreed to the fight.

Because, Peng Fei is known as the first person of the younger generation.

It is also the last hope of Chinese chess in his eyes.

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In this game of chess, the coach tried his best, but the final result was that Pengfei won.

He couldn't believe that he would lose so casually and at a loss.

Peng Fei looked at the victory on the chessboard and said calmly, it seems that in the end, he changed the world.