Dongdong unexpectedly ran into Qian Xi at the entrance.

She came a little late, but she wasn't late.

She looked at Qian Xi, hesitated for a while, and then whispered to Qian Xi Come on today.

And Qian Xi looked at Dongdong cheering for herself, and the corners of her mouth rarely showed a smile.

Qian Xi was not good-looking, but she smiled beautifully, she looked at this girl who was much younger than herself, and the smile on the corner of her mouth was like a lilac blooming - plain and peaceful.

"It's strange that you would cheer for your opponent." Qian Xi's voice was as gentle as a flower, but her eyes were as cold as a stone after she said this.

This contrast made Dongdong suddenly feel at a loss.

"However, even if the two of us fight, there will only be one time at most." Qian Xi couldn't help but stretch out her hand and touch Dongdong's head, and then she said: "Today's game is likely to be a round-robin match. ”

"Round-robin?" Dongdong was a little surprised, obviously today's competition system has not been announced, why did Qian Xi predict the prophet in advance?

She didn't think that the organizer would reveal the news to Qian Xi in advance, because the chess club that Qian Xi represented behind her was just a small chess club that was established this year.

is not even as good as Jiang Bingbing's chess club, and it is said that the chess teacher with the highest chess strength in that chess club is just an ordinary second-level chess player.

This is what Dongdong learned from her father in the morning.

And her father, in fact, didn't rest last night, but frantically used his mobile phone to collect information about today's game for Dongdong on the Internet.

Pity the hearts of parents in the world, a father who is not very good at chess, a man with limited economic strength, all he can do is to pick up Dongdong, stuff all the money on her own and tell her to eat and drink well, maybe this is the only thing he can do.

"If you think about it, a game of chess is played for a maximum of an hour. If we had played the elimination system, the five of us would have played five or six games at most, and if we had done it quickly, it would have been over in one morning. ”

"And if we use a round-robin point system, then we have 10 games today, which means that we can't finish until at least four or five o'clock in the afternoon, which also has the advantage of making today's game a little bit fairer than yesterday."

"You may not know the turmoil caused by yesterday's game, after yesterday's game, many managers of big chess clubs began to question the fairness of the computer lottery, because people like me and you who were born at the grassroots level were able to reach the final five because of the good draw. And many seed chess students of big chess clubs such as Nanfang and Jingshan were cut out of the top five by them because they drew Li Tiandao and Sun Pojun. ”

"It's ridiculous that these so-called big chess clubs don't look at the chess strength of their students, those seeded players, who have the strength of the second or third level chess players in the sky, actually dare to whimsically reach the final five in this qualifying tournament full of masters?" Qian Xi's tone was obviously a little unpleasant, because the second and third level chess players are the most distributed group of professional chess players, and they are the most active backbone of the chess association.

There are even many newcomers who have just become professional chess players and have self-knowledge of their chess skills, and they regard second-level chess players as the main goal of their future chess careers.

But looking at Qian Xi's confident appearance, Dongdong rarely has the illusion that the second- and third-level chess players are indeed not worthy of entering the final five.

"Let's talk about the publicity of the Chess Association yesterday, today's game is definitely the highlight of what they want to get out of the circle. You should know Sun Pojun's identity, right? As a Chinese who has renounced his nationality, his identity in the competition is very sensitive. ”

"If you don't believe it, look at today's newspapers and the headlines on the Internet, basically they all say that they are all guarding the last quintessence of China, as a traitor who renounced his nationality, if he doesn't show his super chess strength, how can he make the audience pay attention to today's decisive battle?"

"And according to my observation yesterday, Sun Pojun's chess strength is most likely inferior to Li Tiandao, but it is slightly stronger than Yue Jianping. But who can say that they will win such a thing as chess? There is a high probability that the organizer is also very aware of this truth, so he will definitely let Sun Pojun show his strength first, and then let Li Tiandao completely defeat Sun Pojun and make Li Tiandao today's hero. ”

Qian Xi was smart enough to compare the three who were seeded today, but she also cleverly avoided herself and Dongdong.

Dongdong listened to Qian Xi's analysis, she was silent, it seems that the young lady in front of her, who is a few years older than herself, is not as simple as she showed yesterday.

After a moment of silence, Dongdong suddenly asked:

"Then who do you think is more powerful than you or Sun Pojun?"

Qian Xi looked at Dongdong who suddenly spoke, she didn't see any expression on Dongdong's face, which also made her feel that Dongdong, a little girl, was not only stupid and cute, but also a little stupid and naïve.

However, Qian Xi did not refuse to answer this question.

"I think I should be better than Sun Pojun!"

"Because, I know a truth better than him, that is, the road is three thousand, and the different paths lead to the same end!"

……

"I'm a little curious, where did you get the three thousand endgame?"

Lao Zhou looked at the thoughtful Wine Sword Immortal, and he threw out this question.

Lao Zhou, who has lived for nearly 100 years, can be said to be a living fossil of modern chess.

And the endgame he has mastered in his life is just over 2,000. He understands the character of the wine sword fairy, and also knows that he spits and nails, especially for chess, he will not be untargeted.

"There are about 400 records on the fragments of the Dream Machine, right? You also know that my master and brother had a lot of friends during their lifetimes, so naturally there are some rare stocks, and as for the remaining more than 2,000 plates, they are all calculated by one person. Jiu Jian Immortal looked at Lao Zhou, and he replied frankly.

"Calculated by one person?" Lao Zhou was a little unconvinced, because he really couldn't imagine that someone could deduce more than 2,000 endgames that had not been recorded by history and times from the endgame of 400 games.

And according to him, "Dream into the Divine Machine" was probably only released in twelve volumes at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the total number is probably difficult to exceed 3,000 copies.

Not only that, but the energy and time to calculate the 2,000-game endgame is by no means something that can be completed by one person in a lifetime.

"That person, you also know, he is Feng Qingfeng."

"Feng Qingfeng?" Lao Zhou muttered these three words, and the long-lost memories suddenly flooded out.

"It turned out to be him, I said no wonder, how could Lao Sun give up his hard-won privileged life and bring his grandson all the way to China to participate in the professional chess player assessment. It's no wonder that Lao Sun is so obsessed with the thing "Dream into the Divine Machine"! Feng Qingfeng, Feng Qingfeng, you have been dead for almost twenty years, and you have actually laid a game of endgame that will never end to the entire Chinese chess world! ”