Chapter 361 Yu Shao blasted open the Go Hall, and I found that there was no one inside!
As time passed, both sides entered the final battle of endgame.
Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da…
After a long time, both sides finally finished the game, and the outcome of the game finally came to light, clearly visible on the chessboard.
The winner has been decided.
"Black, after the points were added, lost half a point."
Yu Shao looked at the computer screen, having already calculated the final number of points, and murmured softly: "This game of chess, shiau, won."
In Go, the number of points at the end of the game cannot usually be used as a criterion for measuring the difference in chess skills.
Because when you have enough advantage on the board, you need to control the situation and avoid overly drastic changes, which will create other variables and lead to losing the game.
Therefore, sometimes the difference between winning and losing by half a point can be even greater than slaying the dragon in the middle game.
But this game was different. The two sides were evenly matched from the beginning to the end, and White had the advantage in the middle game.
In the middle and late game, black pieces showed their shocking strength in the middle and late game, catching up with the opponent in an astonishing manner, and the gap between the two sides was narrowed.
Although White was trying its best to control the board, the gap between Black and White was still narrowing. Unfortunately, after the final official move, Black was still half a point behind.
“It’s a really good game.”
Yu Shao looked at the chess game silently. He never expected that he would see such a chess game on the Internet that made him cheer. Both sides did not have any dull moments throughout the whole game and competed to the end.
He was the only spectator in this game of chess.
Seeing such a chess game, he couldn't help but have a strong urge to play a game of chess with these two people.
Yu Shao took a deep breath, moved the mouse, and prepared to submit a challenge to Shiau.
However, just as Yu Shao moved the mouse to Shiau's ID and was about to click the right button, he saw that Shiau's ID turned gray, obviously offline.
"Offline?"
Yu Shao was a little disappointed, and moved his gaze to the ID "Gang Xue Bu Bu Xia". Seeing that the other party had not logged off yet, he right-clicked on the battle application.
However, Yu Shao waited for a long time but the other party did not agree.
"never mind."
Yu Shao shook his head and quickly exited the 19Go platform.
"Since they have this kind of strength, there will be a chance for them to face each other one day in the future."
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On the other side, Jiangling.
Su Yiming stared at the computer screen without saying a word, looking at the chess record on the computer.
“Lost…”
He himself was not very fond of playing online chess, but after watching the national player match between Yu Shao and Zhuang Weisheng, he suddenly wanted to play a game of chess, so he improvised and matched himself with an opponent online.
Before, he played Go on the domestic Go game platform "Shou Tan Chun Qiu". His ID was "Gang Xue Bu Bu Xia". Later, he learned about the 19th platform and registered an account. Because he could not type in Chinese, he chose Pinyin.
Because he didn't like playing online chess very much, he only played about 40 games in total.
He never expected that this time, he would end up losing the game of online Go.
He doesn't like playing chess online. As a chess player, he prefers to sit opposite each other and talk with each other. But as long as it is Go, no matter how it is played, he will give it his all.
But even so, he still lost to the opponent named Shiau.
More than a hundred years ago, a game of Go often took several days or even a month to play. However, online Go is a super-fast game where one move is played every 60 seconds, and he was not used to playing so fast.
However, even if it was a blitz game, if he lost, he lost. He would never make such excuses and refuse to admit that he lost.
"Not Yu Shao."
"I know Yu Shao's chess moves very well."
"If it was him, he would definitely sacrifice a lot of pieces when facing my Xiao Fei in the middle game. He would not be obsessed with the gains and losses of the goal and the ground, but always focus on the overall situation."
"I lost to...someone else."
Su Yiming was silent for a moment, then suddenly thought of something. He moved the mouse, wanting to play another game of chess with Shiau, but found that Shiau had already gone offline.
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On the other side, Seoul.
"Teacher An Hongshi, were you playing chess online just now?"
A young man about twenty-five or twenty-six years old walked into the chess room and sat opposite An Hongshi. While packing up the chess pieces, he asked curiously.
"Yes, I just finished watching the game between Zhuang Weisheng and Yu Shao, and suddenly wanted to play another game of chess."
An Hongshi nodded absentmindedly and replied.
“That game of chess was so stunning!”
Hearing this, the young man immediately became excited and said with admiration: "It's incredible. It really makes my scalp numb. Even Zhuang Weisheng lost to Yu Shao. That's Zhuang Weisheng!"
"Like you, Zhuang Weisheng is the goal of almost all chess players. Although Yu Shao is strong, I still feel that he can't beat Zhuang Weisheng, but he really won!"
The young man became more and more excited as he spoke: "And the changes in that spire are incredible. As soon as the game was over, I called you to review it with you."
"After a while, it will be summer again, and major international competitions will start one after another. Maybe I will have to compete with Yu Shao at that time. To be honest, it is really stressful for China to have such a chess player!"
"I saw some Chinese media reports online saying that Yu Shao might lead the third era of Go. Although I feel a little uncomfortable, I am convinced!"
An Hongshi heard this, but was still a little absent-minded, and just said "hmm" softly.
The young man also realized this and asked in confusion: "Teacher An Hongshi, what's wrong with you?"
An Hongshi came back to his senses, shook his head and smiled, and said, "Nothing."
"You don't feel right. Haven't you always been very concerned about Yu Shao?"
The young man looked at An Hongshi strangely, his eyes swept to the computer next to the chess table, and suddenly he thought of something, and his hands that were packing up the chess pieces stopped suddenly.
"Teacher Yasuhiroshi...you..."
The young man showed a look of disbelief on his face, and asked with some stammering: "You didn't...you didn't lose the game of chess you just played online, did you?"
An Hongshi was stunned, then shook his head and said, "No, I won."
"call--!"
The young man breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help patting his chest. He said exaggeratedly, "You scared me. I mean, how could you lose playing chess online!"
“How come it’s impossible for me to lose online?”
An Hongshi shook his head and said.
"Don't even mention playing chess online. Even in professional competitions with top players, if you lose a game, it will be news!"
The young man smiled and said to himself, "How many chess players have spent their entire lives aiming to defeat you once? There's a saying that goes, as long as he can beat An Hongshi in a game, it means he is a top-notch chess player."
"How can it be so exaggerated?"
An Hongshi couldn't help but laugh, shook his head and said, "I'm still a long way from that."
"Oh, you're still far away?"
The young man said with an exaggerated look on his face: "There is something even more exaggerated. At the beginning, you couldn't lose if you played a split two move. As a result, other chess players saw you play a split move and ignored everything else and directly challenged you to a fight."
"I was still young at the time, and when I saw you remove the edge and someone else hit it directly, I was stunned, thinking to myself, is this a master? How can someone remove the edge and hit it directly? It's so scary."
"I later realized that it wasn't others who were scary, it was you who were too scary."
Hearing this, An Hongshi couldn't help laughing and said, "You are the only one who knows how to flatter."
"Isn't what I said true?"
The young man put the chess piece back into the chess box with a smile, and said, "Who in the world doesn't know the name of Qianshou?"
"Most people have their own unique style of play, but your style is unpredictable, like a thousand hands, one solid and steady, one ethereal and ethereal, one chasing the ground, one casting a shape, there is no specific way of playing chess, it changes with the changes."
"Every time I play chess with you, I feel very stressed. I feel like all the senior chess players will appear behind you, including myself."
Although he knew that the young man was flattering him, everyone loves to hear flattery, so An Hongshi laughed and shook his head, saying, "Okay, okay, let's start reviewing the situation."
Hearing this, the young man put away his nonchalant expression and turned serious. He picked up the chess piece, put it down quickly, and began to review the game between Yu Shao and Zhuang Weisheng.
An Hongshi watched the young man making moves one after another, but his mind couldn't help but think of the chess game he had just played online.
"I only won half a point in that game. It's not that I controlled the board to the point of half a point, but even if I tried my best, I could only win half a point at most."
“Until the final number is counted, I don’t even know if I won or not.”
"In this kind of chess game, winning half a point is luck, winning one point is ground, and winning one and a half points is heaven..."
"So, luck?"
As An Hongshi thought about every move his opponent made, his expression became more and more solemn.
"His chess style feels familiar, but I can't find any chess players who are similar to him. His understanding of terrain, thickness, speed, and sequence is different from that of ordinary people."
"Somewhat similar to Yu Shao, but definitely not Yu Shao."
"Some of his treatments of details sometimes feel very old, such as the Yigai Dingshi, which is a very old way of doing things, but sometimes some of his ways of doing things are unheard of."
"I feel like he's trying something new, trying to change the old. More importantly, there's no doubt that his mid- to late-game chess skills are better than mine..."
"So, did I really win?"
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The sensation caused by this match between national players was beyond imagination. On that night, almost all Go forums were flooded with this game, and netizens discussing this game could be seen everywhere.
Especially in this game, Yu Shao played a new variation of the pointed top, which was a revolutionary change that almost subverted the chess world.
The scary thing is that if you fail to study the spire thoroughly, you may not even dare to hang the corner when facing the star position in the future!
If the opponent doesn't dare to hang a corner when playing a star position, then the Go of the past and the Go of today are completely different things! In a Go tutoring class in San Francisco, USA.
It was already daytime in the United States. A group of Go teachers gathered in front of the chessboard, reviewing the game between Yu Shao and Zhuang Weisheng in the national players' match.
All the Go teachers repeatedly analyzed every move in this game, and they could not calm down at all.
One of them was a tall and burly man who smoked one cigarette after another, his head buzzing all the time without stopping for a second.
"My God, this is too exaggerated, this is really the new era of Go!"
A man wearing glasses was shocked and couldn't help shouting, "The spire is real! And it is irresistible, like a divine punishment, like the scourge of God!"
"Impossible, if Xingwei can't hang on the corner and is really irresistible, then Yu Shao himself will not hang on the corner when facing Xingwei!"
Someone shook his head and said, "There must be a way!"
"Maybe there really is a way, but we have no way of finding it by ourselves. We must ask a professional chess player!"
The burly man took a deep puff of his cigarette, finally put it out in the ashtray, and said, "Although we are Go teachers, we really have to learn Go again!"
After hearing this, the Go tutoring class fell into dead silence.
A group of Go teachers looked at each other in confusion.
They were Go teachers themselves, but they had to learn Go all over again. How exaggerated and outrageous was this? Everything they knew before was actually wrong!
"Don't you realize it yet?"
The burly man said in a deep voice: "From point three three, to the wrong little eye without worry corner, to the three difficult patterns, and then to the current pointed top, in fact-"
"Compared to a year ago, the way Go is played has changed dramatically!"
"Thickness, lightness, heaviness, speed, reality, terrain...the fundamentals of Go have actually all changed!"
The burly man became a little excited: "Now if you look at those chess records from a year ago, you will have a very weird feeling, it feels like they played... all wrong!"
Hearing this, everyone was stunned.
Then, everyone's expressions changed.
It would have been better if they hadn't said this out loud. Once they said it, they realized belatedly that it was indeed the case. Their cognition had been changed imperceptibly.
Now, when they see the three-three move, they won't be shaken at all. Now, when they see two players play the heavy rain pattern, they won't be shocked by the complexity that makes their scalps numb! Now, when they see someone play the demon sword and avalanche, they will even frown. Even if they see someone play the big diagonal, they will feel that it is not as good as other variations! They suddenly thought of the wild words that Yu Shao had said at the China-Japan-Korea Go League -
Before me, no game of chess could be called a good game!
Now they even felt the same way!
"Whether you want to admit it or not, a new era of Go has truly begun."
After a long silence, the burly man slowly said, "Players who fail to step into the new era will only be left behind by the times."
"This chess player from China has opened up the world of Go."
"I just realized that the temple of Go is actually empty."
(End of this chapter)
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