The thing that people hate to encounter in this life is to face it.

However, people have to face it many times.

In the face of failure, in the face of fear, in the face of disappointment, in the face of remorse, in the face of death, in the face of one's own powerlessness...

It's as if people are always facing what they hate the most, what they don't want to face.

But facing it is the fastest way for people to break through themselves and sublimate their souls.

After all, after facing it, what you get is growth.

In the face of indignation after failure, in the face of fear without hesitation, in the face of hope after disappointment, in the face of regret after cherishing, in the face of death after the rebirth, in the face of powerlessness after the recognition of oneself.

These are all superimposed, and the words that come together are the strength and strength that most people have been pursuing.

Dongdong also had to face it at this time, facing the little fat man on the other side who had never won.

She knows that in this game, she not only has to face her fears and powerlessness, but she also has to face her once weak self.

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"I don't believe you don't do anything." Peng Fei looked at Dongdong's first opponent who was a seeded player from the Huajia Chess Club, and he questioned Wang Yifan with some indignation.

He knew that the little fat man was Dongdong's inner demon, and he also vaguely guessed that whether it was the little fat man or the previous female chess player with a physical disability, Wang Yifan specially arranged for Dongdong as an opponent.

He couldn't figure out Wang Yifan's intentions, and he couldn't understand why Wang Yifan would target Dongdong so much.

"Yes, I did it." Wang Yifan admitted all this calmly, he glanced at Yang Zheng, who was speechless, and said with a slight smile: "However, Pengfei, you are making a little fuss, this girl's master didn't say anything, but you jumped out with a sense of justice." ”

Wang Yifan deliberately used it to do it but but to come to Yin and Yang strange Pengfei, in his eyes, the thing that sounded a little despicable, but it seemed to be taken for granted and reasonable.

Wang Yifan's attitude naturally made Peng Fei even more dissatisfied, he raised his voice and questioned Wang Yifan: "What about the so-called fairness?" What about the random agreement signed before the competition? These things in black and white, you... How dare you disobey! Do you know that if your approach is exposed, it will make the Chess Association lose the word integrity that it has always adhered to! ”

"Really?" Wang Yifan still said indifferently: "Then if you don't say it, doesn't the Chess Association still abide by the word integrity?" ”

"But... It's not fair to Dongdong like that! ”

"And you tell me? How can we be fair to her? Wang Yifan looked at the quasi-professional chess players in the audience, and he said: "Do you want to arrange a few weaker opponents for her and let her lie down and enter the top four?" Or is it fairer to just give her the title? ”

"That's not necessary, you just follow what the agreement says, and it's fairest to use a random lot." Peng Fei said what was in his heart indifferently, but his words made Wang Yifan smile even happier, he looked at Peng Fei and said, "Little friend, is this the fairness in your eyes?" ”

"Yes." Peng Fei nodded and said firmly.

"And are you fair to them?" Wang Yifan pointed to the audience and busy staff around him, and asked this seemingly unrelated question.

"Yes... Is it fair to them? Peng Fei looked around, a little dazed, he didn't "understand" Wang Yifan's question.

"Yes, is it fair to them? Did you know that these staff members came to the venue at 6 o'clock in the morning to set up the arena and modulate the equipment? Do you know that these media people and guest judges invited by the Chess Association have turned down their day's work and opportunities to come to this arena to watch some inconsequential children's games, and do you know how much it costs to maintain a venue for a day? Did you know that the word fairness only means to people who are equal on both sides? Do you want this group of staff to set up the venue for hours, only to end up with a mediocre chess game? Do you want this group of media workers to stay bored for a day, and end up with only a few lines of record of this purely lucky professional qualifying match? Do you want the Chess Association to spend so much money in vain to run a tournament that has no commercial value? You should know that the Chess Association pays the salaries of professional chess players and the expenses of major tournaments every year, which is a considerable amount of money, do you want our Chess Association to be a moth to the country? Every time something happens, you can only reach out to the state to ask for money? ”

"You should know, you know that the world laughs at our chess association for playing with human feelings, not swords. Don't we want to play with swords? Our chess is not as well-known as Go, and its commercial value is not as good as the new sports such as e-sports? We are on the verge of being eliminated, and if we can't survive and find another way, then Chinese chess will be lost in the long river of history like other eliminated traditional cultures in another 30 years at most. ”

"Fairness, you ask? Why don't you ask, is the world fair to Chinese chess? Whether it is artificial intelligence at home and abroad, the first thing they do to test their performance after they are born is to challenge our Huaxia Chess, because they know that our Huaxia Chess is easy to bully, and they also know that even if Huaxia Chess is eliminated by history, Huaxia Chess still has Go. ”

"If we can't do the wonderful things in Chinese chess, if we can't save ourselves, then what is the meaning of our existence?" Wang Yifan looked at the stunned Peng Fei, and the smile on his face gradually converged.

He said very seriously: "The so-called fairness, in my eyes, means that the weak can have the opportunity to challenge the strong. Ordinary chess competitions can also be done more valuable than any domestic and foreign sports competitions, any commercial competitions! ”

"When one day, chess can bring more value than any sport, and we professional chess players will be able to stand up and talk about so-called fairness."

"This is also something that our older generation of chess players have been facing and changing, and this is the motivation for countless chess practitioners to improve their chess skills and pursue their dreams."

"Little children, you have to remember that every fairness in this world has to go through blood and tears."

This is also the reason why Wang Buregret would entrust the Chess Association to a businessman, because he shed all his blood and tears, and he was only one chance away! That's the chance for chess to prove its worth! ”

Wang Buregret looked coldly at the quasi-professional chess players in the audience, although he did not continue to speak, but his eyes seemed to say: "This is the opportunity for chess to prove itself!" ”