What do people live for?

Yang Zheng has been thinking about this question for a long time.

When he was young, he felt that people live to achieve their ideals.

When he was very young, he had many grand ideals, such as being a scientist, such as being a writer, such as being an astronaut, and his ideals were colorful and beautiful.

But when he got older, he suddenly realized that his childhood ideals, although colorful and beautiful, were as fragile and unrealistic as soap bubbles.

It's as if the threshold for a scientist is too high, and with his mediocre qualifications, it is very likely to be difficult to become. is also like a writer, daily code words, hundreds of thousands of books are the norm, millions of words are the norm, he seems to lack talent and perseverance. Like an astronaut, one in million, he has neither talent nor physical fitness, and it is almost impossible to realize his dreams.

At that age when he was just learning about the world, the most he learned was to recognize his own mediocrity.

This mediocrity also made him confused for a long time.

In this confusion, he can only go to school like ordinary people, and regard the university entrance examination as his greatest mission.

He doesn't know what kind of person he will become in the future, and he doesn't know if he will be able to become one of those outstanding adults in the eyes of many people in the future.

He can only live like most people step by step.

When he was admitted to the university and chose a major, he didn't think about what he was good at or what he liked, he only thought about what major would have a future and what major would be good for employment in the future.

After he graduated, he, like most people, made his choice on the cusp of the times.

He's mediocre, that's what the school, the teachers, and society tell him.

He hates mediocrity, because mediocrity represents "substitution", just like his father, because of the mediocrity of his life, whether it is life or the workplace, he has always lived a difficult life.

He doesn't want to be mediocre like his father, so he will start a business with the rich second generation, when he thinks that he is no longer mediocre and can not be replaced.

Reality slapped him hard again.

Sober him up.

Mediocre, it seems, has become a derogatory term in this era, and it seems that it has also become a negative teaching material in this era.

Even in this world, 99% of the people are mediocre people.

Even if the world is built by one mediocre person after another.

Mediocrity is still a sin.

Chess has made Yang Zheng no longer mediocre, although it has only been a short year.

But it also made him reacquaint himself with the world.

It also made him return to the mediocrity he didn't like.

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In just two months, the chess world seems to have once again become the cusp of public opinion.

All this is just because chess, a chess game that originally did not have much value, quickly became the "mainstream" of this era with huge bonuses and cultural propaganda with traditional culture as a gimmick.

It's like a short video, and countless young people see chess as a new outlet and a new entrepreneurial opportunity because of their "value".

The mixed chess market has inevitably squeezed into all kinds of chess apps of different quality, as well as those so-called superior and inferior products in the cloak of high-tech.

As a veteran, or a pioneer of "chess every day" and in this outlet, and then received a foreign financing of up to one billion US dollars, for a time, the rich second generation has officially entered the ranks of young successful entrepreneurs, becoming the goal pursued by many young people.

Looking at the older generation of chess players, it seems that they are not as lucky as the new generation of young chess players.

In the recent Five Nations Chess Exchange Tournament, although the older generation of Chinese chess masters led by Master Li successfully won the championship of the Five Nations Tournament.

But they were defeated by the new Alpha Cat three generations.

Perhaps because the players participating in the competition are all over 70 years old, there are not many voices of domestic blame.

But everyone feels that now seems to be a critical juncture in the transition between the old and the new.

And the Xiangqi Association also realized that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and they opened up the selection of professional chess players, which also reduced the difficulty of becoming a chess master.

In these two months, Li Tiandao became a new chess master. He fought five games with Peng Fei, a representative of the same young generation, and finally won two wins, two losses and one draw, becoming the most watched young twin stars in the chess world.

Dongdong doesn't seem to have such good luck, although she got her wish and became the youngest female professional chess player, but as the chess nerds expected, the first and second level chess players are her ceiling, if there is no time, place and people, it is almost impossible to go further.

Maybe Dongdong also realized that he was actually an ordinary, mediocre chess player in so many failures.

Without Yang Zheng's guidance, she might not even be qualified to become a professional chess player.

She "messed up" with less training time and more time taking on commercials.

As a result, she earns the most among young players of the same generation.

It's just that by chance, in her free time, she will also be in a daze, thinking about where her future holds.

The champion of the Muzi Cup was Zhao Jinlan in the end, but the original champion Yang Zheng was announced by the organizer to withdraw from the competition for "irresistible" reasons.

This is a cheap old man, but because of his fame and good strength, he was on the list of candidates for the tournament and became a professional chess player as he wished.

But it's a pity that although the strange old man Zhao Jinlan's chess strength is good, and the strength of the subsequent seeded players is also good, in the national competition, he lost to the Central Plains team of the province with a large population and stopped in the quarterfinals.

The strange old man looked at the ending of the quarterfinals, his heart was unwilling, he vaguely felt that if Yang Zheng was still there, their capital team would at least reach the semifinals, and even have the possibility of winning the championship.

But in this world, the two words that people say the most are "if", and in this world, the two most useless words are "maybe".

When the strange old man regretted losing the game, he was also curious about Yang Zheng's recent situation.

Since the last time Yang Zheng defeated the chess robot of a large company again, he has disappeared.

However, the PR of large companies has done a good job, and they not only generously admit that the chess robot they designed has a difficulty ceiling. He also offered a reward, and if anyone succeeds in the challenge, the big company will give 100,000 cash as a reward, which attracted many chess masters for a while.

But unsurprisingly, no one succeeded in the challenge again.

Because no one succeeded in challenging again, many people began to doubt the authenticity of Yang Zheng's chess strength.

Coupled with his "voluntary resignation" from the chess club, Muzi Cup unilaterally announced that the original champion was invalid.

Yang Zheng is naturally suspected of being a liar.

It's just that this suspicion, in one after another exciting news about chess, like him, was drowned in the waves of the times.