"The name of this endgame is Zai Lo Erzai." The old man pointed to the chess game on the chessboard and said with a smile.

After Yang Zheng heard this name, he stared at the endgame in front of him for a long time.

Carry and lose, and will help. It is from a poem called "New Year" in the "Book of Songs", the author of this poem is unknown, but this is a satirical poem that is difficult to forget as long as you read it once.

And this endgame, like that poem, is a game of wonder through the ages. Judging from the chess surface alone, in this strange game, the veterans on both sides are drinking and having fun in Jiugongge, but Chu Ge is everywhere.

Judging from the number of chess pieces, the red side has five pawns and two rooks to fight into the enemy formation, and the two phases and one soldier are in harmony, and there are eleven discs left between the middle game. On the other hand, when Black crossed the river with three pawns and one cart, the two elephants looked at each other and looked at each other, and counted to seven sons. It is clear that the red side has the advantage of "people". Finally, judging from the layout of the two sides, there is a black pawn on the left and right sides of the red boss, and the black car on the side must have at least two hands to checkmate him. Black's veteran was not as fortunate as Red's, not only was he besieged by three soldiers, but the red rooks were even more pressing on the nine palaces, and if it weren't for a loyal old elephant who sacrificed his life to delay time, Black would have been completely checkmated. It is obvious that the red side has the advantage of "geographical advantage". Coupled with the rule that red moves first in the endgame, red takes up the "time of day" again.

Since the red side has the right time, the right place, and all the people are occupied.

Then the outcome of this endgame can naturally be booked in advance as a victory for the Red side.

But Yang Zheng also seems to remember that his father once mentioned this game of chess, when he was very young, his father, a chess enthusiast, liked to collect old chess books the most, and there was a book that recorded this endgame, Yang Zheng forgot, as for what the ending of this endgame was Yang Zheng forgot, but he still remembered that his father said that this endgame can be played a total of thirty second-hand games.

As we all know, chess is a "fast-paced" game, especially in this day and age, where the end of the round is fixed at 60 rounds between the two sides. In some chess matches, the winner can be decided in twenty or thirty rounds. As for a game like this that can be played thirty-two times, it can only exist in ancient books.

Yang Zheng calculated in his heart for a long time, and he suddenly found that he didn't seem to be able to find the answer.

Because of this game of chess, red can win, and black can also win. It's mainly about people who play chess.

"Do you want to win in red? Or did the black win? The old man looked at Yang Zheng, who was silent, and he stepped forward and asked.

"I figured it out, red can win, black can win." After Yang Zheng gave this ambiguous answer, he looked at the old man and unconsciously repeated the question he had just asked: "Then do you think red wins, or black wins?" ”

"Yes and." The old man sat at the chessboard and slowly demonstrated the endgame.

Thirty-two second-hand, just as Yang Zheng's father said in his memory, this old man has a total of thirty-two second-hand, although these thirty-two second-hand looks sparse and ordinary, but from another angle to show Yang Zheng a different way to play.

That kind of method is exactly what the old people call "summing".

"Since ancient times, the battle between chess and Go can represent a microcosm of an era."

"Some dynasties regarded Go as the national chess, while others exalted Xiangqi exclusively. But chess and Go, who can represent the soul of the Chinese people? ”

"Is it the game of Go, which has a complex algorithm and is known as the pinnacle of human intelligence? Or is it like us, in this dilapidated room, playing chess at random on this broken chessboard? Do you know the answer? ”

"I... I do not know. Yang Zheng replied honestly. Of course, in his heart, he longed more for the answer to the old man's next answer, which was chess.

Because, what he is after is chess.

"The answer is a sum word." The old man smiled and gave the answer in his heart.

"Go is more complicated than chess, and that's really a fact that can't be changed. Because he is like all the wisdom accumulated by the Chinese people over the ages, people can't help but pursue black and white on the huge chessboard. ”

"But chess has something that Go doesn't have, and that's tie. If Go is considered by the world to be the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese people, then Xiangqi is the spirit of the Chinese people that has been passed down to this day. ”

"Because of chess, he sets too many rules, just like a horse must walk the sun, like a field, he fixes each piece on this broken chessboard. As chess players, we must break these rules in order to win or lose. ”

"Horses, we can walk the chain of horses, and we can also walk the heaven and earth cannon."

"Chess is dead, people are alive. Just like life, when we are faced with a fate and a dilemma that we cannot change, we can rebel against the rules, we can break the rules, and of course we can compromise. Isn't chess that has been passed down for thousands of years to tell us this truth? ”

So, the answer you're looking for is actually very simple. That's a sum word. ”

"If you want to do this, you have to memorize one sentence. No one's life is smooth sailing, and no one's life is always winning, being a man should be the same as playing chess, you shouldn't care about winning or losing from the beginning, even if you end up losing, don't feel ashamed. Because it's not terrible to lose, it's terrible that after you lose, you don't have the courage to get back up and win a game of chess that belongs to your own life! ”