Chapter 244: Living Expedition

what happened?

Yu Shao looked at the young man in front of him, then looked at everyone in the chess hall, his face full of confusion.

Everyone in the chess hall obviously knew that Yu Shao didn't know the situation, and immediately started explaining to Yu Shao.

After a while, Yu Shaocai finally pieced together the whole story from the discussions around him and was speechless.

The boy's name is Inoue Yasushi, a professional chess player from Japan. He recently came to Gangneung for a trip and heard from somewhere that there was a very good professional chess player named Zheng Qin who often hung out at the Shanhai Chess Hall, so he came to find him.

In fact, Zheng Qin has rarely come to Shanhai Chess Hall since he became a professional chess player. But when I heard that he came to Shanhai Chess Hall yesterday, Zheng Qin happened to come today.

Then, naturally, a game of chess was played between the two, and Inoue Yasu won.

Seeing Zheng Qin lose to a chess player from another country, everyone in the chess hall was naturally indignant and shouted that he had the ability to beat Yu Shao. Inoue An was so angry that his face turned red and his neck became thick, and he said that even if Yu Shao came, he could not beat him.

As a result, I just happened to come today...

However, he actually beat Zheng Qin?

Looking at Inoue An, who was half a head shorter than him, Yu Shao was a little surprised.

"you!"

Inoue An stared at Yu Shao and said again: "Play chess with me!"

Hearing this, Yu Shao looked at Liu Peiran standing beside him.

Seeing Yu Shao looking at him, Liu Peiran nodded immediately and said with a smile: "It's okay, you play with him, I'll watch you play chess, come on!"

Yu Shao then looked at Inoue An in front of him, nodded, and said, "Okay, let's play the next game."

After saying that, Yu Shao walked towards an empty chess table, came to one side of the table, pulled out a chair and sat down.

Jingshan An's eyes were determined, he clenched his fists, and quickly walked to the opposite side of Yu Shao, pulled out a chair, and sat down.

Seeing the two of them sitting down face to face with each other, everyone in the chess hall stood up, ignoring the chess games at hand, and soon surrounded the chess table where the two were.

Zheng Qin also took a deep breath, stood up, and squeezed into the crowd.

"Guess first."

Yu Shao looked at Inoue An and spoke.

Inoue An quickly reached into the chess box, grabbed a handful of chess pieces from the box, and clenched them tightly in his palm. Yu Shao also took out a black piece from the box and placed it on the chessboard.

Inoue Yasu loosened his grip, and six white pieces fell onto the chessboard.

"I'm black."

Inoue An raised his head, looked at Yu Shao, and spoke.

Yu Shao nodded, put away the chess pieces on the chessboard, and then exchanged chess boxes with Inoue An, lowering his head and saying, "Please give me your guidance."

"Please advise me."

Inoue Yasuya immediately bowed his head and saluted in not very fluent Chinese.

The chess game has begun.

Inoue An looked at the chessboard in front of him, his eyes became sharper, he reached into the chess box, picked up the black piece from the box, and then put it down immediately.

Da! Seventeen columns and four rows, small eyes!

Yu Shao looked at the chessboard, quickly reached into the chess box, picked up the chess piece, and slowly placed it on the board.

Da! Four columns and sixteen rows, a star! Seeing the white pieces on the chessboard, Inoue An gritted his teeth.

"No matter how powerful he is, I will never lose to him!"

He reached into the chess box again and took out the chess piece.

Da! Sixteen columns, seventeen rows, small eye! After placing the chess piece, he glanced at the onlookers around him, gritted his teeth, and revealed an amazing fighting spirit in his eyes.

"No matter what, I'm going to win in front of you!"

Yu Shao looked at the chess game in front of him calmly, then quickly reached into the chess box, slowly picked up the chess piece, and gently put it down again.

Da! Four columns and four rows, stars!

The two sides started with a wrong small eye against two consecutive stars, then the black piece made a worry-free corner in the upper right corner, and the white piece made a small flying hang in the lower right corner, thus starting a fierce battle.

Da! Da! Da! The crisp sound of pieces falling began to ring out.

As the situation between the black and white sides on the chessboard became increasingly complex and intense, everyone remained silent and stared intently at the chessboard. The atmosphere began to become a little depressing.

"It's too much of a stretch to take the initiative here. Do we really have to do this? The situation is too complicated. If we make a wrong move, there will be no room for maneuver..."

In the crowd, Liu Peiran looked at the chessboard. Even though he knew that Yu Shao was very strong in chess, he couldn't help but feel nervous. He couldn't help but look at Yu Shao worriedly.

The next moment, she was stunned.

Yu Shao stared at the chessboard intently with a focused expression and a clear profile. Even though the board was so complicated at this moment, his face remained calm, as if he had already calculated all the life and death on the chessboard.

At this moment, Yu Shao was clearly using black and white to fight, but he had this almost inhuman calmness and concentration, which created a sense of oppression.

Makes you feel...

This person is definitely not an ordinary person and is out of reach.

Soon, Yu Shao reached into the chess box again and took out a chess piece from it.

The white piece is clamped between the index finger and middle finger, the wrist is suspended high, the fingertips are lightly hanging, and the chess piece gently falls on the criss-cross chessboard, making a crisp sound like water drops falling on a jade plate.

Da! Every time a chess piece falls, it seems that a bright star is born in the boundless universe.

“So handsome…”

Liu Peiran stared at the chessboard, a little dazed for a moment.

On the chessboard, chess pieces are still falling, and the situation has become increasingly intense. The black pieces and the white pieces are tightly entangled with the Hundred-Eyed Dragon, and every piece is filled with murderous intent.

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After a long time, everyone in the Shanhai Chess Hall stared at the chessboard in a daze, watching this fierce game. There was complete silence.

"I……"

Inoue Yasu stared at the chessboard in front of him, his eyelids twitching constantly, he clenched his teeth tightly, his face full of unwillingness, and he couldn't utter the next words.

"I……"

Finally, he lowered his head and finished the words on his lips: "I lost!"

"Thanks for your advice."

Hearing this, Yu Shao finally slowly withdrew his gaze from the chessboard and said with his head down.

Inoue Yasu clenched his teeth tightly and did not answer. His right hand was still on the chess box. Suddenly, with a "click", he grabbed a handful of black pieces tightly and could no longer let go.

"Thank you for your advice..."

Finally, Inoue An's weak voice sounded.

Hearing this, Yu Shao stretched out his hand and prepared to start packing up the chess pieces. At this moment, Jingshan An suddenly raised his head and looked at Yu Shao intently.

Inoue An's eyes were full of stubbornness, and he shouted in halting Chinese: "No matter how powerful you are, even if you can beat me, you are definitely not a match for Toushan Xun!"

After he finished speaking, before anyone could react, he stood up, gritted his teeth, pushed away the crowd, and then stumbled out of the chess hall at a rapid speed.

It was not until Inoue An's figure disappeared at the entrance of the chess hall that everyone finally came to their senses and started talking about it.

"Not even collecting the chess pieces, this is really..."

"Forget it, the Hundred-Eyed Dragon was killed, that's it."

"You started to talk big after you lost. Even if it's Dongshan Xun, I don't think he's necessarily a match for Yu Shao!"

Hearing the discussion among the crowd, Yu Shao was somewhat puzzled and asked, "Who is Dongshan Xun?"

“The strongest chess player among Japan’s younger generation.”

Zheng Qin came to Yu Shao at some point, sat down and helped Inoue An clean up the black pieces while saying, "He has a chess game that caused a huge sensation. Do you want to take a look?"

"Did it cause a huge sensation?"

Yu Shao was a little surprised. While collecting the chess pieces, he smiled and said, "Since you said so, let's try it out."

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In Yu Shao's opinion, Inoue An is indeed not weak, but he is not strong either. He is probably at the same level as Cao Xinghuai, whom he met in the first round of the Yingjiao Cup qualifiers.

"Yu Shao..."

A female voice suddenly sounded beside Yu Shao.

Hearing Liu Peiran's voice, Yu Shao finally remembered that he didn't come to Shanhai Chess Hall alone. He turned his head to look at Liu Peiran and said with an apologetic smile: "Then shall we play first?"

"No, you guys go ahead."

Liu Peiran shook his head and said apologetically, "It suddenly occurred to me that I have something else to do. How about we meet next time? I ordered you some milk tea as an apology, and it will be here soon."

Yu Shao was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, then you should be careful."

"rest assured."

Liu Peiran nodded and said goodbye with a smile: "Today's game of chess was really exciting. I hope to see your outstanding performance in the competition in the future. Goodbye."

After saying goodbye to Yu Shao, Liu Peiran looked at Yu Shao deeply again before finally turning around and leaving.

"who is she?"

After Liu Peiran left, Zheng Qin was a little curious and asked, "Classmate?"

"no."

Yu Shao shook his head, unwilling to explain too much, and said: "Don't you want to show me the chess pieces?"

Zheng Qin didn't intend to ask any further questions, and quickly took out the black piece from the chess box and placed it on the chessboard.

"This game was played by Toyama Xun, who was then a 6th dan, playing black, and Yokota Akira, a 9th dan, playing white."

After saying that, Zheng Qin began to pick out white pieces from the chess box again, placing them alternately on the chessboard.

As he watched, Yu Shao suddenly showed a hint of surprise on his face: "Did Zheng eat it?"

Zheng Qin didn't say anything, and quickly reached into the chess box again. Just as he was about to take out the chess piece, he heard Yu Shao's voice the next moment -

"Dig? He wants to be captured alive?"

Zheng Qin's hand paused in the chess box, and then he silently withdrew his hand, nodded, and said, "Yes."

Yu Shao looked at the chessboard and was a little amazed for a moment.

I won't talk about how the game went before, but at least in the current situation, this move of capturing pieces is a brilliant and amazing idea! Generally speaking, if capturing pieces is not favorable, you will never consider it, because not only will you not be able to kill the opponent, but you will also leave yourself with a lot of breakpoints, and the chess pattern is so weak that it can be said to collapse at the touch of a button.

But this game is extremely subtle. The black piece in the lower right corner is almost dead. The white piece has occupied the entire lower right corner and gained a great advantage. However, the black piece in the lower right corner is actually dead but not stiff! Therefore, in extreme cases, once the four white pieces that surrounded the black piece in the lower right corner are dead, the black piece in the lower right corner will not only come back to life, but also take over the entire lower right corner!

It is precisely because he realized this that Heizi made the move of Huozheng in the current situation.

This move seems incredible at first glance. The black pieces are at a disadvantage in capturing the pieces, and after the capture, the game is in a state of total defeat. But in fact, it is not the case.

In this game, after the black piece captured the opponent, there was a clever move of digging, which could directly kill the white piece in the lower right corner with the help of the capturing blade! Although he saw the black piece's subsequent digging method at the moment the black piece captured the opponent, even he did not realize that the black piece had a magical move of capturing the opponent on this board!

This move does not require amazing calculations, because the calculations are not complicated at all, and even amateur chess players can easily calculate it clearly, but the problem is that no one would consider playing it this way.

When most people are in an unfavorable situation, they will only consider how to lead the attack. This kind of active attack requires inspiration, which completely breaks the rules. It can be said to be wild and imaginative, and it has a deep insight into the life and death of the board.

"What's the follow-up to this game of chess?" Yu Shao asked curiously.

Zheng Qin glanced at Yu Shao, and finally reached into the chess box, took out the black and white pieces from the box, and continued to play a few moves.

After watching a few more moves, Yu Shao was a little surprised: "Before the black piece made a digging move and completely revealed its true intention, the white piece failed to detect the black piece's intention to fight back?"

Yu Shao actually did not underestimate the world's top chess players. Under this board situation, discovering the black piece's intention in this move only tested the chess player's insight.

“It seems…”

Zheng Qin was silent for a moment before continuing, "It shouldn't have been easily detected."

Yu Shao was stunned for a moment, looking at the chessboard, and seemed to understand something all of a sudden.

Indeed, this should not be easily noticeable.

If it were in his previous life, he might not have been able to immediately realize the purpose of this living sign, because it was really hard to imagine that the black piece would have such an incredible use of a dead piece.

But this life is different.

He has played many similar chess games...

At least now he has a keen sense of the use of dead children.

In this game, if the white piece can perceive the black piece's intention at the first moment and stop the loss in time, although it is at a disadvantage, the board is still close. The two sides will have a long and complicated attack and defense afterwards, and the outcome is undecided.

However, if the white piece fails to notice the black piece's intention in the first place, there will be no possibility of catching up.

Zheng Qin was obviously also aware of this, so he did not continue to play the chess game and said, "I heard that in two months, there will be a China-Japan-Korea youth team competition."

"As the champion of the Yingjiao Cup, you don't have to participate in the trials or the main tournament. You can directly get a spot in the team competition. If you choose to participate, you will most likely meet Toyama Xun, 7th Dan."

Zheng Qin paused and said, "Of course, this is a matter for a long time to come. The most urgent task is to fight for the chess piece."

Yu Shao nodded and said, "I know."

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The other side.

Liu Zhennan was a little surprised when he saw Liu Peiran coming home: "Why are you back so early? How is it?"

"fine."

Liu Peiran smiled reluctantly and said dejectedly, "But..."

"It seems a little too far away from my world."

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