Zhou Mian followed Ke Weiyi down the steps of the track and field and walked into the eight-story building.

The first floor is a swimming pool, basketball hall, gymnasium and kickboxing hall. Zhou knows that at the Olympics, these events are the strong points of China, especially Hong Kong. The Hong Kong team often trains here, so Ke Weiyi deliberately set up these four halls at the lowest level. If it were in the past, Zhou Mian would definitely go to the museums to see if there were any stars he liked and if he had any familiar friends.

But today he is only interested in Ke Weiyi.

The building is huge, not ordinarily big. But there is no elevator in this building, only a very old-fashioned staircase.

In order to leave enough space, each floor is high, so the stairs on each floor are long.

After they went up to the second floor, entered the Go hall, and sat in the elegant game room, Zhou Lu found that Ke Weiyi was a little out of breath. He felt slightly strange and thought: "Ke Weiyi has always attached importance to physical exercise. Although the building is very tall, he is not allowed to install an elevator, saying that he wants to maintain the true character of the Olympics, and the people who go upstairs to take the elevator are not worthy of coming to this building. What's wrong with him today, he can't go up one floor? ”

Tea has already been brewed. Zhou took a sip and was ready for the fire.

Ke Weiyi glanced at Gao Shan. Takayama made an affirmative gesture. Ke Weiyi immediately said: "Brother Zhou, there is someone who wants to talk to you. ”

Zhou smiled and said, "Okay, which one is it?" His eyes swept away Gao Shan and Zheng Gui. He knew that the "talk" that Ke Weiyi said was the "hand talk" of playing chess, and "talking" was the next game.

Gao and Zheng hurriedly waved their hands: "It's not us." We don't need to play today. ”

Zhou Mian said: "Who is that?" I thought: "You two are the best chess players in Weiyi Company, not you, is it Miss Song?" ”

Ke Weiyi looked a little embarrassed and said, "Brother Zhou, this person is very arrogant. He wants to play against you on a computer board. If you can win him, he will worship you as a teacher. Otherwise he won't come out. ”

Zhou Mo frowned, but still agreed. Although Ke Weiyi did not say it explicitly, he had already heard that this opponent was not ordinary.

Takayama reached out and pressed a button on the outside of the right armrest of the seat. Zhou's chair slowly turned 90 degrees to the left and slid into a small glass room in front of him. When I got to the door, the two glass doors were divided left and right, and after letting the seats in, they closed silently.

The chair stopped at a delicate small table. The table is criss-crossed, carved with a chessboard, the color is light yellow, and the green jade table contrasts with each other, very pleasing to the eye.

Zhou Mian recognized that this small table is a special fingerprint chessboard, only need to enter the fingerprints of both sides of the game into the computer in advance, and when the fingers touch lightly on the intersection point during the game, the board will automatically present black or white.

Zhou Mian remembered very clearly that this chessboard had only been used by himself and Wei Tianxing. In other words, there are only fingerprints of himself and Wei Tianxing in the computer. Ke Weiyi is very particular about specifications, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter this game room at all, let alone this special game room. He once joked that if he didn't come with Wei Jiuduan in the future, wouldn't he have to go down with himself? Ke Weiyi said very seriously, you can bring Xiao Ai here, otherwise you will have nothing to do with yourself.

Who is this opponent today? He is actually qualified to use this chessboard and input his fingerprints into this computer.

Zhou Mu turned his head and saw that Ke Weiyi and the others were already facing one direction, looking at the giant terminal on the wall.

There is only one chessboard in the terminal.

Zhou Mian's left hand found the button of the sound device on the side of the stone table and pressed it gently. The phosphor screen in front of me didn't light up, and obviously the visual system wasn't connected.

Zhou Mian paused for a moment, and when every muscle in his body relaxed, he gently and clearly said to the opponent he had never met, "Please." ”

A cold voice came: "No, guess first." ”

Zhou was stunned. Guess first? He hadn't heard that in years. In recent years, no matter what level of competition, the opponent will always be black. Even if it's a title battle or something like that, the first game is the first game for the opponent. This has become a common practice in the world chess world, and players use it to show their respect for Zhou Jiuduan.

The only person in the world who requires any competition to guess with Zhou is only one person. But Zhou Mian knew that this opponent would never be that person.

Gao Shan's voice suddenly interjected: "Two, now I have a chess piece in my hand, and Chairman Ke is supervising by the side." Let's take a guess! ”

Zhou Mian secretly raised his vigilance: "They actually think that this person is qualified to play against me." He didn't care about the question of guessing first, but felt that the chess players in the world rushed to take the black chess, which seemed to be advantageous, but in fact he was quite suspicious of taking advantage of it. Because it made him feel condescending and psychologically the upper hand, he had long wanted to give up this privilege. But Ke Weiyi and others have always been their die-hard supporters, and their unusual attitude towards this game shows the delicate position of their opponents in their hearts.

The cold voice suddenly said: "No, Zhou Jiuduan is older than me, I'll guess!" ”

Zhou Mian said: "Please! ”

The man said, "Double." ”

There was a "bang", followed by the sound of Takayama Shuzi. After a while, he said, "Fifteen, single." ”

Ke Weiyi said: "Not bad! ”

The man said, "Please." As he said this, Gao Shan immediately turned off his intercom system.

Zhou closed his eyes and adjusted for a moment, opened his eyes, stretched out his index finger, and lightly tapped on the "Tianyuan", and made the first move.

From the birth of Go to the end of the last century, in this long time, people were enthusiastic about the battle of corners, and in the various games, there were only a handful of games in the Tianyuan position. By the beginning of the century, there was a growing interest in the vast mid-belly. By the end of the thirties, a revolution finally broke out in the heyday of Chinese chess. As a result, the layout of "Chinese grass belly flow" with a profound theoretical foundation was born, which greatly shook the world chess world. This layout became popular and dominated the layout for two decades. However, the great labyrinth of Go once again shows its profundity and variability at this time. After a long period of theoretical and practical research, many famous players who insisted on cornering finally created a new corner layout in the 50s and 60s that was enough to compete with the "grass belly flow" layout. These are the two new layouts known as "Japanese Golden Horn Stream" and "Korean Silver Border Stream". By the time of Zhou Xuan's debut, these two layout theories had gradually matured, overpowering the "Chinese grass belly flow" and becoming the mainstream layout.

Zhou Mian realized from practice that the "grass belly flow" still has great potential. Determined to rejuvenate the "grass belly flow" through his own efforts. His idea was strongly supported by Wei Tianxing. But today, apart from the two of them, there are still very few people who are willing to lay out the "grass belly flow". Because although they have an impressive record, the results of other chess players are extremely inconsistent after using the "grass belly flow" layout.

In the past two years, this "Chinese grass belly flow" has been widely known as the "Zhou-Wei spacecraft flow". An expert wrote that the midbelly of Go is too wide and there are too many unknowns. This kind of place is only suitable for geniuses like Zhou Mian and Wei Tianxing, who are full of imagination and desire to conquer, to fly freely in a spaceship. If others insist on squeezing into this boat, they will either be hit by a meteorite and their heads will be broken and bleeding, or they will lose their footing halfway and fall into the vast black hole, and they will never be able to turn over.

As soon as this statement came out, many people echoed it. Zhou Mian was very annoyed. After a check, it was found that this "expert" was only at the level of an amateur, and he was even more angry and wrote many articles to refute this argument. Due to his personal charisma, the "spaceship stream" has a huge influence among amateurs and enthusiasts, and more and more people play this layout. But the professional chess players did not react, and they still called it "Zhou Weiliu". This has created an interesting phenomenon: Zhou Jiuduan can smoothly lay out the proud "spaceship flow" in professional chess battles. But playing against an amateur chess player, no matter how many pieces you concede, the opponent's first move will inevitably be to grab Tianyuan.

Faced with this situation, Zhou Mian also called in vain.

Therefore, when this opponent of his life fell to White 2, he couldn't help but be surprised.

The white seed shown on the plate is clearly on the head of Black 1.

Zhou Mian thought secretly: "Who is this person?" Is it an amateur chess player? ”

No wonder he thought so. Because among the professional chess players, there are not many people who really understand this town. They don't study this at all. There is only one person who likes to go down and dares to go down in front of him.

Wei Tianxing!

Speaking of which, this town is still Wei Jiuduan's proud work. Four years ago, Wei Tianxing won the right to challenge the "Space War". In the first game, he was defeated. In a fit of rage, he made a vow to the press: "If I don't defeat Zhou Mian, I will go home and sleep, and I won't go out of the rivers and lakes for three years." ”

At that time, Wei Tianxing was growing in his wings and was thriving, and he had gradually fought against Zhou Mian. He suddenly uttered such resolute words, and the press and public opinion were like a treasure and hyped it up. Suddenly, the enthusiasm of the whole world was stirred. Everyone is looking forward to seeing the showdown between two of the most talented top masters.

On the day of the second game, more than 70 TV stations around the world broadcast live, and more than a billion chess fans put down their work and stared intently at the network terminals, and many big cities even used giant advertising screens on the streets.

Naturally, the mood of both sides of the game is more tense.

In order to win, Wei Tianxing sacrificed a new move. When Zhou Lu fell on Zi Tianyuan, he did not fly next to Tian Yuan or Xiao Fei as usual, but immediately put a hand on the top of the other party's head.

With this hand, the world was in an uproar. Jin Yijiuduan, who was commenting on the scene, was dumbfounded, and reluctantly said: "This can be called the modern 'town god head'." Ai Buyu, who was partnered with him, saw that he was unsustainable, and hurriedly continued: "This work is not so much Wei Jiuduan's new research results, but rather shows his determination to fight against the odds. I admire Wei Jiuduan's courage and fighting spirit. However, it is still difficult to judge the merits of this work. ”

His words undoubtedly represent the thoughts of all professional masters, even Zhou Xuan.

But he was wrong. Everyone is wrong!

After a series of responses, Wei Jiuduan was confident.

Zhou Mian resisted with all his might. The two of them were inseparable, and the world was fascinated by it. In the end, Wei Tianxing got what he wanted, and the novice succeeded and won this game.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xuan suddenly thought: "Could it be that Wei Jiuduan also went to Hong Kong and teased me with Mr. Ke?" I couldn't help but look back at Ke Weiyi. I saw that his expression was solemn, and he seemed to have a lot of thoughts. But it's not like a joke.

Zhou Mian was uncertain and decided to try the other party. He immediately leaned to the left of White 2.

Black 3!

Originally, the left and right sides were of the same type, and there was no difference between the left and right sides. But he was on the left side of Wei Tianxing's game back then. Since then, Wei Tianxing has fulfilled his oath and retired for three years, and since his comeback last year, he has never met Zhou Mian in the competition, and Zhou Mian has never had the opportunity to avenge his revenge. At this time, his mind moved, and he unconsciously leaned on his hand from the left side.

The following moves are like a smooth flow. Zhou Mian changed when he was on the eleventh hand, and used the results of his painstaking research. But no matter how Zhou Mu changes, the other party can always randomly make the strongest and best response, and it is obvious that this situation has also been studied in depth. In the blink of an eye, more than 40 hands have been played, and they are still equal.

Zhou Mu became more and more shocked. At this point, he could already conclude that the opponent was not an amateur chess player, but a super chess player! Is he Wei Tianxing?

The game was played in a stalemate.

White made the seventy-second move and made a solitary move below.

Zhou Mu pondered for a while and began to carefully judge the situation. Now his power in the lower half of the board is very strong. However, white occupies the upper left corner, and the upper right corner even encloses a large empty space, and if the opponent really surrounds it, it is actually a big advantage.

Zhou Mian has a strong feeling that the other party is very confident in this situation. This feeling made him feel excited, and at the same time, he couldn't help but want to laugh.

Because he is very confident in this situation!

His confidence was built by hundreds of rounds against masters of various genres and gaining an overwhelming advantage.

What about the other party?

He smiled and shook his head. No, the opponent will never have such a chance of his own. Even Wei Tianxing, he didn't dare to vote for white chess in this situation.

It's so much fun!

He shook his head, stretched out his index finger, and was about to go down, when he suddenly froze.

His head also stopped when it was at the maximum angle to the right.

He suddenly realized that the reason why the other party was full of confidence was not that the chess game was the right way, but that the other party knew his weaknesses.

Zhou Mian never thought his chess was perfect. His strength lies only in his ability to play to his strengths. Better than anyone else!

But this opponent turned one of his habits into a weakness!

Zhou Mian doesn't like to go three 3, I don't like it very much!

But at this time, there is a hidden danger in the air on the upper right of white. If black is a little bit in the third and 3rd ranks, it can be a robbery. Although White is the first to rob, since White now has the solitary disc below, Black has an endless amount of looting. Therefore the black horn will live.

This change from sea to fertile land is easy to calculate for both black and white. The reason why the opponent dares to play chess against common sense at this time is to bully Zhou Mu's visual blind spot.

Zhou Mian remembered an article in the famous writer Du San's "Chess Warriors": "Three Chess Warriors' Witty Words".

There was a time when a few chess players were having a drink together. Half-drunk, Xiao Shihai Baduan said: "Every time I play the score of Zhou Jiuduan, there is always a feeling of fright, but if you look closely, he is not invulnerable, why can't we catch him?" ”

Wei Tianxing, who has been singing against Zhou Mian, was drunk and said: "Zhou Mian's chess is nothing special. He can win us, but as soon as he sits in front of the table, he becomes a madman, a madman who forgets everything and only sees chess in his eyes! So although you know that he has weaknesses, you are still afraid of him! ”

At that time, Zhou Mian's disciple Ai Buru was also there, he had a good relationship with Wei Tianxing, and he spoke casually, hearing him "slander" his master like this, he protested and said: "It's not right! My master is an artist. A talented artist who focuses on his own great work! We are not afraid, but we are stunned by his work, and we are ashamed of ourselves. ”

Wei Tianxing immediately agreed: "Yes, he is an artist!" Because artists are mostly insane! After speaking, he laughed out loud as if he had a bad breath.

At that time, he was overwhelmed by Zhou Mian, and he couldn't compete with Zhou Mian in chess, so he had to take advantage of it. Ai Buru understood his heart very well, and laughed a few times with him.

Xiao Baduan said with a sense of understanding: "So, if we can concentrate on chess like Zhou Jiuduan, calculate thoroughly, and not be overwhelmed by his momentum, we will be able to take advantage of his shortcomings and defeat him?" ”

Wei Tianxing glanced at him and said, "Can you do these ifs?" ”

Ai Bu Bu lowered his head and pondered.

……

This article was written four years ago.

Zhou Mian remembered that since then, the new generation of cutting-edge chess players have become more calm and solid.

I see!

Zhou Mian took a deep breath, and in an instant, his mind seemed to be clear. The fierce battle in the capital a few days ago is vivid. All kinds of difficulties and confusions suddenly came through.

He looked up and smiled, only to feel that there was a clear stream flowing slowly in his heart, and the bottom was clear, and there was no dregs.

It was a pleasant moment. Zhou Mian inadvertently touched the spiritual opportunity, broke through the barrier, and took another step forward in chess power. He didn't know exactly how big that step was, but it was enough to defeat the mysterious and powerful opponent on the other side.

It doesn't matter who he is!

He finally didn't make a three-3 move.

But that's just the game. In the future, he will no longer have any blind spots. As long as it is on the chessboard, he will carefully consider its value with reverence and reverence, and give full play to its role.

The chess game is over.

Zhou Mian looked at the excited people and quietly spit out three words.

"Who is he?"