Chapter 350 Do you think I can’t beat Yu Shao?
The next day, a report titled "A Strange Injustice Throughout the Ages, a Book of Blood and Tears for Generations" was published on the front page of a new Go magazine called "Go Blood and Tears".
Following the publication of this report, the second game between Yu Shao and Zhu Xinyuan was hotly discussed by countless people, and countless people began to repeatedly analyze and score the game.
Even the proprietress of the Donghai Chess Hall, where the two played this game, printed out the chess record and posted it on the wall of the hall the next day.
The attention to the title match was already extremely high, and the second game between Yu Shao and Zhu Xinyuan further increased the popularity of the title match.
The title match is a stage for the strong, and all the chess players who enter the title match are top masters.
Yu Shao not only defeated Li Congyou, but also defeated Zhu Xinyuan. He even played a shocking game of chess with Zhu Xinyuan in private, which impressed everyone and made Zhu Xinyuan lose again.
Everyone began to wonder how far Yu Shao could go on the stage of the title match, and whether he could finally reach the position that all chess players dream of.
title!
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Donghai, in a high-end apartment.
Jiang Changdong looked at the chessboard in front of him. The board was already densely packed with chess pieces. It was exactly the game that Yu Shao and Zhu Xinyuan played at the Donghai Chess Hall yesterday.
Opposite Jiang Changdong, Chu Jingfeng looked at the chessboard with a serious expression. After a moment of silence, he asked, "So, Mr. Jiang Changdong, you watched the whole game?"
"Um."
Jiang Changdong's face showed no emotion and he nodded slightly.
Chu Jingfeng looked at the chessboard, then suddenly raised his head and glanced at Jiang Changdong again. His expression became more serious. Finally, he took a deep breath and said, "I understand."
"You know?"
Jiang Changdong looked at Chu Jingfeng with some doubt and asked, "What do you know?"
"There is still one month left until the National Team Challenge."
Chu Jingfeng stretched out his hand and said as he collected the chess pieces: "From today on, I will work with you to continuously study and disassemble all of Yu Shao's chess records and find his flaws!"
Hearing this, Jiang Changdong's expression suddenly changed and he asked, "Chu Jingfeng, what do you mean?"
Chu Jingfeng was slightly startled, then immediately shook his head and explained: "Teacher Jiang Changdong, I didn't think so, I——"
Jiang Changdong was like an enraged lion, with a hint of anger on his face. He interrupted Chu Jingfeng before he could finish his words.
Jiang Changdong stared at Chu Jingfeng and asked, "You mean, if Yu Shao makes it to the title challenge, do you think I can't beat Yu Shao with my current chess skills?!"
"Teacher Jiang Changdong, I don't have such an idea."
Chu Jingfeng immediately denied it and said, "But only if you know yourself and your enemy, you can win every battle."
"Compared to other people, Yu Shao left too few chess records. We don't know him well enough. Since he has the possibility of entering the title match, we have to start preparing from now on!"
"Anyway, he has never lost a game of chess until now!"
After hearing Chu Jingfeng's explanation, Jiang Changdong suddenly became even angrier. He stood up and said, "So what you mean is that I can't beat Yu Shao?!"
Chu Jingfeng opened his mouth but didn't know what to say. Looking at Jiang Changdong, he felt extremely unfamiliar.
"Teacher Jiang Changdong..."
"Why is it so out of control?"
He had never seen Jiang Changdong lose his composure like this before.
To be honest, he really didn't think from the bottom of his heart that Jiang Changdong would definitely not be able to beat Yu Shao, but to say that Jiang Changdong would definitely be able to beat Yu Shao was also nonsense.
After all, Go is a game full of surprises. No one can win all the time. Even the strong players are not necessarily the winners, even if everyone knows that there is a clear gap in the two players' skills.
However, there have been cases where title holders have lost to first-dan players before! Moreover, Yu Shao is not a first-dan player. His chess ability has been proven. From this game, we can see that he is extraordinary. I am afraid that no one can underestimate the name Yu Shao anymore.
"I did think about the possibility that Jiang Changdong would lose to Yu Shao, but why is there such a big reaction?"
"There is indeed a possibility of losing. Teacher Jiang Changdong should be fully aware of this!"
"I can't say that Mr. Jiang Changdong will definitely beat Yu Shao, right?"
"Why are you so excited?"
Chu Jingfeng looked at Jiang Changdong, his eyes full of confusion.
"It's strange to emphasize that you can definitely win so much."
"Yu Shao may win, and Mr. Jiang Changdong may also win. Isn't this natural? There is never a certain winner in Go."
Suddenly, Chu Jingfeng looked at the chessboard in front of him and finally realized something.
"Is it because of this game of chess?"
"Unlike me who only saw the chess record, Mr. Jiang Changdong was there and witnessed the entire game."
"Did this game of chess put too much pressure on Teacher Jiang Changdong?"
"So, Mr. Jiang Changdong himself feels that he is no match for Yu Shao."
"But Mr. Jiang Changdong himself refuses to accept this, so that's why he's so sensitive?"
"How... is this possible?"
"He is Jiang Changdong, a national player!"
After realizing this, even Chu Jingfeng himself found it unbelievable.
After a long time, Jiang Changdong gritted his teeth, finally calmed down, and suddenly asked: "We haven't played chess for a long time, right?"
Chu Jingfeng came back to his senses and nodded immediately: "It's been a long time."
"Let's play the next one."
Jiang Changdong sat back in his chair again and began to pack up the chess pieces: "If you think Yu Shao can beat me, then let's play a game of chess!"
Chu Jingfeng was a little stunned when he heard this. He wanted to explain, but after seeing Jiang Changdong's aggressive look at this time, Chu Jingfeng's expression became more serious.
Finally, Chu Jingfeng nodded and agreed: "Okay."
The two of them quickly put away the chess pieces, guessed who would go first, and bowed to each other.
In this game, Chu Jingfeng played black and Jiang Changdong played white.
"Teacher Jiang Changdong, we haven't played since the last Tianwang Cup."
Chu Jingfeng looked at the chessboard and suddenly said, "In the end, you, Mr. Jiang Changdong, won that game."
Jiang Changdong did not reply.
Chu Jingfeng did not continue speaking. He looked at the chessboard in front of him, quickly reached into the chess box, picked up the chess piece, and made his first move.
Da! Sixteen columns and four rows, star! Seeing Chu Jingfeng make his move, Jiang Changdong silently took out another chess piece from the chess box and dropped it quickly.
Da! Three columns and seventeen rows, three three!
Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da…
The sound of chess moves began to echo in the quiet chess room.
Time passed by amid the sound of chess pieces falling one after another.
I don’t know how long it took.
Chu Jingfeng looked at the chessboard with a pale face. Finally, he reached into the chess box again, grabbed two black pieces, then stretched his hand holding the black pieces to the center of the chessboard and slowly released it.
“Da da.”
Two black pieces slowly fell onto the chessboard, making a crisp sound.
“I lost.”
Chu Jingfeng stared at the chessboard silently again, and after a moment, he finally spoke.
Jiang Changdong stood up slowly and said, "You also have your own competitions to attend to. You don't need to review the game with me."
"If he really makes it to the title challenge, I can still beat him!"
After saying that, Jiang Changdong turned around and left the chess room.
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The other side.
"Yu Shao, you've been making quite a fuss lately."
On the basketball court, Zhou De patted the basketball with a look of resentment on his face, saying, "I see you on the news every now and then."
"Didn't you just say that maybe I'd see you on the news in a few days?"
Yu Shao glanced at Zhou De and asked, "I didn't expect that I would be unable to get rid of you in the East China Sea."
Recently, because Zhou De is coming to Donghai to participate in a long-distance running competition, and he is currently participating in a title battle in Donghai, the two of them made an appointment to play basketball together today.
"Hey, what are you talking about? You've become rich and you've forgotten your brothers, right? Seeing your brothers appear in the East China Sea, shouldn't you jump for joy?"
Zhou De immediately blew his beard and glared, cursing: "I am a sports student and I haven't been specially recruited yet, but you have been specially recruited by Yanda University now, what a beast!"
After saying that, Zhou De suddenly started dribbling the ball between his legs, then turned around and cosplayed as Brother Ji dribbling the basketball from his left shoulder to his right shoulder. After that, he proudly raised his eyebrows at Yu Shao and asked, "Can you do it?"
“Maybe I won’t play this.”
Yu Shao rolled his eyes, reached out to grab the basketball from Zhou De, and then threw it towards the basket.
Three points, right in the middle.
Zhou De whistled, gave a thumbs up, and said, "Old Yu, not bad, you actually have something to offer!"
"good."
Yu Shao smiled and asked, "How is your training recently? Do you think you can be specially recruited?"
"I don't know. For the rest of this period of time, I may have to give up Go temporarily and concentrate on training."
Zhou De sighed and said with some melancholy: "In the blink of an eye, I will soon be a senior in high school."
"You should be able to do it. After all, as Jiangling's chess master, you may not be good at playing chess, but you are definitely good at playing chess."
Yu Shao smiled faintly, dribbled the basketball twice, jumped lightly, and threw it towards the basket again.
Bang!
This time it didn't work.
“It may not work for chess, but it may work for chess?”
Zhou De was confused and asked, "What is that?"
Yu Shao patted Zhou De's shoulder solemnly and said, "Zhou De, I tell you, you are different from others. Don't waste your time playing chess."
Yu Shao paused, then said earnestly: "You have to know that sometimes, the decision of winning or losing a game of Go is not only on the chessboard, but also outside the chessboard."
"Depend on!"
Zhou De finally reacted, and was about to hit him with the ball: "You look down on me, don't you?"
"No."
Yu Shao's tone was very firm.
Zhou De originally wanted to fight Yu Shao to the death, but he suddenly sighed, "Alas..."
"What are you sighing about?"
Yu Shao looked at Zhou De strangely. In his impression, Zhou De was always grinning with his teeth bared, and he rarely sighed.
After thinking for a while, Yu Shao asked again: "Which girl is so unlucky that you are attracted to her?"
"Get lost."
Zhou De seemed a bit emo, and didn't care about Yu Shao's weirdness. He said, "To be honest, I really envy you."
"how?"
Yu Shao frowned slightly and asked.
"You have already been specially recruited to Yanda University. I will soon be a senior in high school. To be honest, I don't know if I can be specially recruited in the end."
Zhou De sighed again and said, "I'm actually a little better, but others are not. Everyone is under a lot of pressure right now."
"You should still remember Zhang Wenbo, right? He used to call us to go to the Internet cafe every day to play games, but now he doesn't call us anymore. He just sits there and does exercises. He's actually studying."
"And Feng You, that kid. He played a lot last year and his grades are terrible. It seems like he's hopeless. It seems his parents are planning to send him abroad to study. Now he's memorizing words every day."
Zhou De showed a rare trace of melancholy on his face, and said, "I'm afraid no one will play with me next year. Everyone has started to plan for their future. Even those who used to clamor for love have settled down now."
"Unlike you, you just need to keep moving forward, but we don't even know how to move forward!"
After listening to Zhou De's words, Yu Shao was silent.
From the moment he embarked on the path of a professional chess player again, he and others were already people from two different worlds.
Things like which university to go to or what livelihood to make are never issues they need to consider.
As a professional chess player, all you need to do is to keep exploring the way forward and moving forward in the infinitely deep and dark world of Go, pursuing higher levels of chess skills.
Win and lose.
Life and death.
The life of a professional chess player revolves around these few words.
At this time, Zhou De seemed to remember something and said, "By the way, didn't I tell you that there was a transfer student not long ago who was once a teenager trying to get a Dan."
"But he has given up on qualifying and is planning to return to school. He said this path is too difficult. A genius like you is rare to find in a million, and he doesn't have the talent."
"He loves Go, and he told me that he really wants to devote his life to this world, but there is no place for him in this world."
"He has worked hard and fought hard, but it is time to give up. He needs to find another way out and consider going to college."
As Zhou De spoke, he became silent.
Yu Shaozang stood aside and looked at Zhou De, and suddenly felt that Zhou De seemed to have become a little mature.
"Forget it, let's not talk about this."
After a moment, Zhou De grinned again and said, "You should work hard and win a title. If you can win a title this year, I will be blown away!"
After saying that, Zhou De stood up, dribbled the ball twice, then jumped and threw the basketball into the basket.
"I'm going to try harder too!"
Bang!
It went in! "I'll try to get recruited to Yanjing as a sports specialty student, so we can go to the same university!"
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ps: The transition is a bit stuck, it’s 4k today, I kowtow and apologize.
(End of this chapter)
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