That day, the chess coach of the national youth team, under great pressure, submitted a proposal to the above for a friendly match between Xia and Vietnam.

The people above didn't want to agree.

Because, they also pay attention to the movements of that small chess country, and over the years, they have produced too many amazing and gorgeous young chess players.

They don't have a network with such a high coverage rate as Huaxia, nor do they have the temptation of so many dazzling apps like Huaxia, they don't have games, and they don't have too much film and television entertainment.

They only seem to have chess.

Huaxia chess can't lose, he is not like Go, even if he loses to artificial intelligence, he will only be said to be the greatness of science and technology at most.

As the most controversial chess sport in the new era, as long as you lose, there will be countless "people" with a sense of superiority, who will accuse the chess players of being a national shame, and will also blame chess, which will never be a pastime that cannot be put on the table.

They will preach that Go is the quintessence of the country, and they will also step on the chess to vent this atrocity that is not angry at all.

Four years ago, that is, the year when the Chinese junior team finished third.

There was a man who, stepping on chess, criticized the group of children who were not half his age, and became famous for a while.

He is also now the most well-known critic and video maker.

Some time ago, he aimed at a chess cartoon, talking about all kinds of bad chess from the side, which led to a fierce game from all walks of life on whether to retain traditional culture.

If at this juncture, Huaxia Chess loses another game, is it as the critic said?

Has chess lost its value as a traditional culture?

……

"Why don't you think there are no chess novels now?"

Peng Fei lay on the grass, searching for novels about chess, but in the end, he found nothing.

He is a little nostalgic for a cartoon about chess in his childhood, which integrates chess into science and technology, and uses the battle flag mode to open the hearts of children like Peng Fei who love chess.

He was a little confused.

Why can Go be written in detail in the novel?

Why does the Go routine always look so elegant and beautiful in novels?

Chess, on the other hand, is mostly boring.

Many chess novels are afraid to write routines, and even rarely see anyone writing about modern chess.

Why?

Pengfei wants to make Chinese chess a greater chess game than chess.

He also wants those who look down on chess to know the charm and legend of chess.

He opened a copy of "The Chess Throne" serialized at a certain point, and he looked at the million-word novel, his eyes a little confused, and a little painful.

What is it that can make these authors who are obsessed with writing chess face such a bleak reality and still have enthusiasm to update?

Is it a dream?

No, it should be...

That heart that loves chess!

……

The instructor stood at the door for a day and a night.

also kept thinking about what he said to Pengfei at the door.

"It is enough for our generation to protect the history and culture of our country."

He repeated this sentence repeatedly, and he also repeatedly looked at the ordinary-looking old man in the office.

He gritted his teeth like the nagging Tang Sanzang, reciting this mantra that I don't know was binding that apprentice.

He muttered it countless times, from sunrise to sunset.

His words have been repeated countless times.

Slowly, his speech became slurred.

"What are you doing at the door? I wouldn't agree. The old man looked at him who kept chattering, and his old-looking face was a little more tired.

"Can our generation really protect the history and culture of chess as a country?"

"Can our generation really protect the whole game of chess?"

"No, we can."

"Because, if we can't do it, there will be the next generation of people who will continue to protect us and play chess for a lifetime!"

……

Chess is not going to die.

Because he has chess players, writers, painters, and these adults and children who silently guard chess, he has both poor and rich people.

He has a guardian like this unnamed coach, who constantly reflects on the future and the present.

"Hold it." Peng Fei faced his teammates who had been ridiculed for the past four years and were still reluctant to leave the chess team.

He whispered, "In the past four years, we have waited too long. ”

It's true that they've been waiting for too long, they've been playing chess day and night, and they've been thinking about the comments from three years ago that they were a shame, a piece of garbage, and a mess.

The strength of their grip on the hand grew.

It's like they've been silent for four years.

Perhaps the critic didn't know that he was criticizing everything about chess.

There is such a group of people who have silently gone from children to adults.

It's really a boiling word.

For the past four years, every day has been an ordeal for them.

They don't dare to improve their chess ranks, and they rarely show their heads.

Especially some time ago, when they saw the critic satirizing the current situation of chess with a cartoon.

The knife in their hearts has long been terrible.

The sword in their eyes is even more poised to strike.

Perhaps, they are now like Peng Fei's last words when he played against the coach.

They don't want to be changed by the world, they just want to change the world!

……

Aji gave Uncle Li the most regular fist salute.

This is a fist hug ceremony in which the left hand hugs the right hand and naturally hugs.

Uncle Li looked at Aji's standard fist salute, and he laughed.

It had been a long time since he had seen anyone treat him with such respect, and he remembered the enthusiasm and dedication to victory that Agina had surprised him for the past three days.

He couldn't help but say, "Aji, it would be nice if you were a Chinese." ”

Aji listened to Uncle Li's words and learned that this might be Uncle Li's highest evaluation of a foreign chess player in his life.

He really wanted to follow Uncle Li and hypocritically say, I am already half a Chinese.

But the words were in his mouth, but he swallowed them.

He can't forget the wheat fields in his hometown, and he can't forget the yellow earth in front of his door.

Although he also yearns for a stronger and stronger China in his heart, he can't become a Chinese person.

Because, he has his own country behind him.

Although the country behind him was poor and backward.

However, for an ordinary person, it is shameful to abandon the country.

It's also ridiculous.

"Although I am not a Chinese, I should not be a Chinese."

"But my first master will always be Master Li Tiansha Li."

Uncle Li laughed out loud after hearing this, he looked at the sunset and pointed to the distance.

"Let's go see the real chess world in Huaxia!"