Chapter 148 Manual Cutting

The next morning, Yu Shao got up early, washed up and left his residence. Yesterday, he and Su Yiming added each other's contact information and agreed to meet at the hotel entrance at nine o'clock this morning.

Yu Shao took the elevator to the first floor, left the lobby, and arrived at the hotel entrance, where he found that Su Yiming was already waiting at the door.

"How long have you been here?"

Yu Shao was a little surprised. He got up very early today and it was not yet 8:50. He thought he would have to wait for a while, but he didn't expect Su Yiming to come earlier than him.

"I just got here not long ago, less than ten minutes."

Su Yiming shook his head and said, "Let's go. I found a chess hall online yesterday. It's nearby."

"Wait a little longer, my classmate wants to go too." Yu Shao shook his head and said.

"classmate?"

Su Yiming was slightly startled, then seemed to remember something, and hesitantly asked: "Xu Zijin?"

"right."

Yu Shao nodded, a little surprised, and said with a smile: "It's a good thing you still remember her."

Yesterday, Xu Zijin sent a message asking about the chess game he and Su Yiming played the day before yesterday. Yu Shao told her that he was going to play chess with Su Yiming today, and Xu Zijin said that he wanted to go too.

The two were classmates and would both be professional chess players in the future, so Yu Shao naturally would not refuse. Besides, anyone could go to the chess hall.

"Of course I remember that a girl could have such chess skills."

Su Yiming smiled and said, "She is probably much more powerful now than she was a year ago, right?"

"Your answer really surprised me."

Yu Shao looked at Su Yiming strangely and said, "Shouldn't it be because she looks pretty that I remember her?"

"Yeah?"

Su Yiming was stunned for a moment, frowning, as if he was lost in memories. After a moment, he hesitated and said, "What does she look like? I kind of forgot."

"Good fellow."

Yu Shao was startled for a moment. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Xu Zijin walking towards the hotel entrance. He pointed in Xu Zijin's direction and said, "Look, she's here."

Xu Zijin was dressed simply today, wearing a short-sleeved shirt, loose jeans, canvas shoes, and her hair tied up, looking youthful and beautiful.

Soon, Xu Zijin arrived at the entrance of the hotel, looked at Yu Shao, then looked at Su Yiming, and asked, "What are you talking about?"

"Nothing."

Yu Shao shook his head, looked at Su Yiming, and said, "Okay, now that everyone is here, let's go."

Su Yiming nodded, and the three of them left the hotel together and walked towards the chess hall.

Not long after, Su Yiming stopped at the door of an exquisitely decorated chess hall and said, "We're here."

Yu Shao looked up and was slightly stunned when he saw the sign of this chess club. Not only Yu Shao, but even Xu Zijin was slightly stunned.

On the signboard of this chess club, the four big characters "Shanhai Chess Club" were written in a flamboyant style.

"Is Shanhai Chess Hall a chain store?"

Yu Shao was a little surprised.

Go chess clubs were extremely rare in his previous life, but in this world they could be opened as a chain store. Even though he knew that Go was quite popular in this world, it still felt a little unbelievable to him.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Yu Shao and Xu Zijin standing at the door of the chess hall, looking at the name of the chess hall, Su Yiming was a little puzzled and asked.

"I played chess at the Shanhai Chess Hall in Jiangling before, but I didn't expect there would be one here too."

Hearing Su Yiming's words, Yu Shao retracted his gaze, explained, and said, "Go in."

Xu Zijin also withdrew his gaze, looked at Yu Shao once more, and then followed Yu Shao and Su Yiming into the chess hall.

There were quite a few people in the chess hall at this time, both men and women, old and young. Although there were many people, the chess hall was very quiet. Everyone was focused on the chess game in front of them, and the crisp sound of chess pieces falling could be heard continuously.

After Yu Shao and Su Yiming paid the fee at the front desk, they found an empty seat and sat opposite each other. Xu Zijin stood quietly at the side, waiting for the game to begin.

"Guess first."

As Su Yiming spoke, he opened the chess box and reached into it.

Yu Shao nodded and quickly took out the white piece from the chess box. Then Su Yiming immediately placed the two black pieces on the chessboard.

"Five, I play black."

After Yu Shao finished counting, he raised his head and spoke.

Su Yiming nodded, exchanged chess boxes with Yu Shao, and after they greeted each other, the game began.

Yu Shao looked at the chessboard, thought for a moment, then picked up the chess piece and put it down.

Seventeen columns and four rows, small mesh.

Seeing this, Su Yiming immediately reached into the chess box, picked up the chess piece and put it down.

Four columns and four rows, stars.

Inside the quiet chess room, the two of them kept placing their pieces, their expressions extremely focused, and it seemed that their eyes could only accommodate the chess game in front of them.

Xu Zijin was watching the chessboard quietly at the side. Soon, when she saw the black piece landed in a position she had never expected, she was stunned and her expression changed slightly.

"Heizi... rushed down?"

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Three hours later.

Su Yiming looked at the chessboard, remained silent for a moment, and finally said slowly: "I lost."

On the side, Xu Zijin looked at the chessboard, looking at the extremely complicated situation on the chessboard, opened his mouth slightly, wanting to say something, but was speechless.

"how so?"

Xu Zijin looked at the chessboard, his clear eyes full of confusion.

Clearly after the layout was completed, the white pieces should have had the advantage, but as the game went on, the white pieces seemed to have difficulty moving and actually fell into a disadvantage.

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After reaching the middle game, the white pieces fought back, using a series of sharp and fierce tactics, even sacrificing pieces to gain the upper hand and engaging in a fierce battle with the black pieces.

In the end, after the white piece sacrificed its piece, it still failed to shake the black piece's advantage. Although the black piece was not ahead by much in terms of number of points on the board, the white piece's development potential was far from comparable to that of the black piece, so it had to resign.

"Thanks for your advice."

Yu Shao looked at the chessboard, lowered his head and spoke.

"Thanks for your advice."

Su Yiming bowed his head and returned the greeting. He looked at the chessboard again, was silent for a moment, and then said, "Sure enough... it started from the layout, not the middle game."

Hearing this, Yu Shao was slightly stunned and a little confused.

"Yesterday I was wondering why the situation had inexplicably fallen into a disadvantage, so I continued to play the demon sword today."

Su Yiming looked at the chessboard and said, "After I jumped, you continued to rush instead of cornering. This was the only move I didn't expect. In other words, the problem lies in this rush."

"I originally thought that there was something wrong with my subsequent download, but after downloading it again today, I still think that there was nothing wrong with my download."

Hearing this, Xu Zijin finally came to his senses.

In the game of chess the day before yesterday, was there also a change after the demon sword was played?

When Yu Shao heard Su Yiming's words, he was really surprised.

The reason why Yaodao was eliminated was indeed because of this vulgar move.

After the demon sword rushes down, it can easily eat a huge horn, directly increasing the winning rate by 15%.

A win rate difference of 10% for a point closer to the target or 15% for a point closer is equivalent to a win rate difference of 1.5 points closer to the target.

For amateur chess players, a difference of one and a half points may not be that big. If they don't have a good sense of chess, they may not even be able to feel it at all.

But in a match between high-level chess players, a gap of one and a half points is enough to be fatal, not to mention in the layout stage. Before entering the middle game, if you are not careful, the gap will snowball and widen again.

However, having said so much, it does not prevent everyone from assuming that the demon sword would suffer a great loss if it rushed forward, and then evolved countless complex changes based on the angle.

So generally speaking, when he makes this charge, even if other people lose the game, they will not think that their disadvantage is due to this charge, but will only think that they did not make good moves later.

Even if Yu Shao wanted to take the initiative to explain that the problem was in the judgment of thickness, it would be useless. This kind of chess principle that has been deeply rooted cannot be easily changed by just a few words from him.

For example, if he points to a line of chess pieces and says that this is not a thick position but an isolated piece, it is likely that others will just feel that he is insulting his intelligence.

I did lose the game, but that was because I wasn't as skilled as the other person and didn't make good moves later on. You said that it was because of the isolated moves that put me at a disadvantage. Do you think I'm not smart?

You say it is a solitary chess piece, so it is a solitary chess piece? Why? Unless he continues to win with this method and leaves everyone speechless, then it is possible that someone will try to change it. Only through a large number of disassembly and countless actual combat can the perception of thickness and thinness be finally overturned.

Because of this, when Yu Shao reviewed the game with Zhong Yufei, he never mentioned thickness, lightness, external force, actual situation, or efficiency, but only talked about the local gains and losses of each move.

Zhou De had asked him before why he played such a bad move as Dian San San. He never refuted that Dian San San was a bad move. He just replied that he liked to play it that way and he thought it was a good move.

When Zhou De heard this, he immediately put on a teacher's attitude and criticized Yu Shao harshly. Yu Shao retorted, "I'll talk about it after you win," and then, nothing happened.

However, Su Yiming actually thought that it was his own charge that caused him to fall into a disadvantage, and he did not think that he did not respond well afterwards, which led to him falling into a disadvantage.

This not only shows that Su Yiming has an amazing sense of chess, but also shows that he is extremely confident in his own chess skills, and it also shows that he... doesn't think he would make such a vulgar move.

Yu Shao thought about it. Although he didn't know how to explain the thickness of the demon sword, there was actually another way to explain the demon sword. He said, "In fact, we can analyze it by cutting it by hand."

"Hand-cut?"

Su Yiming was slightly startled. The so-called hand-cutting method is to change the order of chess moves, to the same situation, and then evaluate the gains and losses from the exchange of order.

"Um."

Yu Shao nodded and quickly put away the chess pieces on the board. Then, in a completely different order, he arranged the pieces one by one to form the basic pattern after the black pieces had used the demon sword.

"From the hand-cutting method, from the first to the ninth move, Black's moves were very strange, and he was at a loss." Soon, Yu Shao displayed the first nine moves of the Demon Sword pattern and spoke.

Su Yiming stared at the chessboard without saying a word.

(End of this chapter)