Chapter 367: The Answer of a Hundred Years
Ta! Ta! Ta! The sound of chess pieces falling on the board continued to ring out. Everyone held their breath and stared at the chess game intently. Their expressions kept changing as the game progressed.
Time passed by little by little, and as the game progressed, everyone's expressions began to change gradually.
"No, how...how could this happen?!"
Some people stared at the chessboard, their faces covered in cold sweat, feeling extremely confused.
After White made that move, the board became extremely complex and intense, showing White's way out, but the situation that White had managed to save started to get worse and worse! Obviously, White made a brilliant move that could overturn the board, but Black's series of moves, almost every move hit White's weak spot!
At this moment, Yu Shao made another move.
Seven columns and thirteen rows, jump! "Jump, abandon the piece!"
Seeing this move, everyone's heart was shocked, and they felt the sharpness of this move: "He didn't choose to stick, but chose to jump in the middle!"
"The black chess piece has given up. He launched a general attack, trying to directly kill into the heart of the white chess piece and break the backbone of the isolated white chess piece!"
"This is the most ruthless way to play! If you want to be safe, you can choose to stick and block. If you want to attack, choosing tiger is also a good way, but White chose to use the most ruthless double attack!"
"But can we really get out of this situation? Even if the white chess pieces are not in a good situation right now, after the black chess pieces sacrifice their pieces, the white chess pieces can still fight back on the sidelines!"
Regardless of whether Black was sure of winning or not, everyone realized that the two sides were really going to fight to the death. Both sides were in a dilemma and could not give in! Black did not leave himself any way out. Since he had to give up a piece in this situation, he would have to fight to the death. If he failed, he would die!
Therefore, once this knife is unsheathed, blood will inevitably be shed.
It's either the opponent's blood or your own blood.
This is a battle of life and death!
Li Congyou looked at the white chess piece that fell on the chessboard. His forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and his back had been completely soaked with sweat without him noticing when.
That move was the one he finally found after exhausting all his efforts, and it did save the situation, but in the subsequent battle, he was... almost completely suppressed! After thinking for a long time, Li Congyou gritted his teeth and made another move.
Bang! One row and ten lines, sharp! Black sacrifices a piece to attack the lone piece in the middle. If White goes directly to the middle to fight and defend with Black, it will be at a disadvantage and may be led by the nose by White.
Therefore, at this time, the white chess piece can only fight back. Since the black chess piece is attacking the isolated chess piece in the middle, the white chess piece will ignore it and attack the empty space on the side of the black chess piece. Even if the isolated chess piece in the middle is killed, if the empty space is broken, it will form a transformation! For a moment, everyone held their breath, and the tense and anxious atmosphere filled the entire hand-talk room.
Everyone can clearly see that after Black chose to sacrifice his piece, the game has begun to move towards its end!
This fight will decide the outcome of this chess game! Da, Da, Da...
The chess pieces keep falling one after another!
Although it was just a chess piece, when it landed on the chessboard, it made a crisp sound, which seemed to have turned into the light of a knife and the shadow of a sword, ringing in everyone's ears! "Facing the tip of the white piece, the black piece chose to jump out. The next move of the white piece should be inevitable, but the white piece chose to... directly clamp it."
Zhuang Weisheng stared at the chessboard intently, his mind was shaken: "This move is unexpectedly good, too tricky."
Li Congyou was sweating profusely. He picked up the chess piece again, looked at the chessboard unwillingly, and put the chess piece down quickly.
At this time, the expressions of others also became extremely complicated.
They suddenly discovered that if in the previous game, every move of the black chess piece was upright, only seeking to win half a move and not to kill the enemy, but now every move of the black chess piece was to choose the most ferocious and cruel moves.
Almost every move made by the black chess piece is ruthlessly cutting off the white chess piece's chance of survival!
Although the white pieces put up a strong resistance, they still began to retreat in the face of the black pieces' impenetrable and surging offensive!
After more than a dozen moves, the chess room became even quieter.
"Too fierce and brutal!"
The female scorekeeper couldn't help swallowing her saliva, her face covered with cold sweat: "The black chess piece's moves were too decisive. After sacrificing the piece, the black chess piece did not show any weakness. Every move was extremely fierce, fully utilizing every piece around it and taking into account all kinds of changes!"
"Even if it's like this, Li Congyou, an eighth-level player, might..."
Not only her, but others have also seen the pros and cons of the situation. The situation between the black and white sides was once equal, but now it has begun to widen, and it is getting bigger and bigger.
White chess, I’m afraid you can’t hold on any longer!
Everyone thought that after the sacrifice, the two sides would continue to fight for a long time, but the facts were completely opposite to their expectations!
Black played several tricky and sharp moves in a row, some of which were so clever that people would not realize how clever they were until after they were played! Although White counterattacked in the empty space on the edge, Black ignored all of White's counterattacks.
No, it’s not so much that we turned a blind eye to it, but rather that we cleverly resolved it through various means.
The black pieces still almost completely suppressed the white pieces, and the black pieces were about to enter the black pieces' territory, almost unstoppable! "Too strong..."
Someone stared at the chessboard in a daze: "How can you play like this?"
Even though Black had the upper hand in the previous layout stage and the early middle game, White still had room to maneuver, and it seemed that the battle between the two sides was still a long one.
However, just after the white chess piece made that digging move, the black chess piece suddenly launched an attack, and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse in an instant. The white chess piece was suppressed by the black chess piece to the point that it had no power to fight back.
Is that hand digging not good enough? Absolutely not.
Everyone could see that after that digging move, the situation between the two sides had indeed become evenly matched. It could even be said that the black chess piece was in some danger at that time!
But as the game continued to develop, not only did the black pieces turn danger into safety, but the white pieces were even trapped in a dead end!
After another five or six moves, Yu Shao placed the black piece again.
"Da!" The sound of the plate falling was so crisp.
Li Congyou looked at the white piece and reached into the chess box, but he was unable to take the chess piece out of the box again.
There was silence in the chat room.
The music notator at the side withdrew his gaze from the chessboard, unable to bear to watch any further.
Because everyone has seen the current situation clearly, the outcome of both sides is already clear on the chessboard!
"You must be kidding. Li Congyou is an 8th dan player and played so well, but he still lost..."
Although Li Congyou had tried his best and fought hard, even if he played like this, in the end he was still suppressed by the black chess pieces.
Black chess, wins by slaying the dragon in the middle game!
Li Congyou looked at the chessboard for a long time, then lowered his head, said nothing, did not make a move, but did not continue playing chess either, and let the timer continue ticking.
“Lost.”
He has seen the end.
Going on would just be a meaningless waste of time.
Even though he tried his best, the final result was still so tragic. Even though he was extremely unwilling, the outcome had already been decided and there was nothing he could do to save the situation!
Yu Shao also stared at the chessboard in front of him silently. Although the outcome was already decided, he did not feel any impatience because Li Congyou did not play chess or make any moves.
He could probably understand Li Congyou's mood, and knew how painful it was to make all the efforts but ultimately fail and have all the efforts go to waste. After all, he had experienced this feeling before.
Frankly speaking, he was forced into a tough battle in this game. After that digging move, the situation was very critical for a while, but fortunately he won in the end.
When you meet a respectable opponent and play a wonderful game of chess, as the winner, there will never be any joy in your heart.
Because the opponent must be strong enough and play well enough to make the game exciting. No matter which side it is, every move they make will surely shine.
Anyone who can play such a game should win, but Go is not a win-win game. There must be a winner and a loser. Even if a rare draw occurs, an extra game will be played to decide the winner.
He won the game and directly qualified for the title challenge in the first game, but it came at the cost of Li Congyu's defeat.
After all, they are just opponents, not enemies.
Time just keeps passing by.
Tick, tick, tick.
It was not until a full twenty minutes had passed that the timer next to the chessboard, representing Li Congyou's time, returned to zero.
Seeing this scene, the entire chat room seemed to become even quieter.
"Li Congyou, 8th Dan, sat in meditation until the time limit expired and was judged the loser..."
A referee couldn't help but look at Li Congyou, who was still keeping his head down and saying nothing, with mixed feelings.
Although how to use the game time is up to the players themselves, when defeat is already decided, sitting still until the time-out is declared the loser is undoubtedly very rude, and may even be considered as having no magnanimity and being unable to accept defeat.
“Maybe we really can’t afford to lose.”
"But how can we blame them?"
"Li Congyou, 8th Dan, has made it to the final rounds of the title match for several years, and each time he was just one step away. But this year, Li Congyou, 8th Dan, his dream of winning the title was shattered again..."
"How many people can afford to lose in front of their dreams?"
He couldn't help but turn his head and look at Yu Shao again, with mixed feelings in his heart.
"More importantly, the one who shattered Li Congyou's dream of becoming an 8th-dan player was a newcomer who had only been a professional chess player for a year..."
Finally, he took a deep breath, collected his thoughts, slowly stood up from the referee's seat, and said, "White is out of time, according to the rules, he loses. The winner of this game will be Black!"
After the referee's voice fell, Li Congyou was still sitting opposite Yu Shao, with his head bowed deeply, as if he didn't even hear what the referee said, or he heard it but couldn't listen at all.
Seeing this scene, Yu Shao did not say anything. He silently stretched out his hand and began to pack up the chess pieces. Soon he put all the chess pieces on the chessboard back into the chess box. Then he finally stood up and turned around to leave.
Just as Yu Shao walked to the door of the hand-chat room and was about to push the door, Zhuang Weisheng suddenly spoke up: "Yu Shao, third stage."
Yu Shao was slightly startled, stopped and looked at Zhuang Weisheng.
Zhuang Weisheng looked at Yu Shao and said, "Congratulations on getting the qualification for the title challenge. I look forward to your performance in the title match final. Jiang Changdong is a bit difficult to deal with."
"Thanks."
Yu Shao was a little surprised, but he nodded quickly: "I will try my best."
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The other side.
“A wonderful game of chess.”
Su Yiming withdrew his gaze from the computer screen and slowly exhaled.
"This is... Yu Shao's chess ability."
"That Li Congyou was also very strong. Although he lost in the end, he was able to play such a game and find that digging move, which was enough for him to be proud of."
"But, more importantly..."
Su Yiming cast his eyes towards the computer screen again: "I finally found Yu Shao's flaw from this game of chess."
Su Yiming took a deep breath, slowly stood up, walked to the chess table beside him, took out the chess pieces, and began to review the game hand by hand. Although there were many players in this game, every move was flawless and accurate.
Soon, Su Yiming finished setting up the chess pieces and then stared at the chessboard.
"If I were to play this game of chess, I would win!"
Su Yiming looked at the chessboard with shining eyes.
"But... I still have shortcomings."
"What I lack is judgment. His insight into the subtleties of the situation in the most complex situations and his understanding of Go are still better than mine. That's why his overall view is so good."
Thinking of this, Su Yiming's eyes seemed to flash with every chess game played by Yu Shao, one by one, starting from the most recent one, and slowly moving forward until the one he played in the high school Go league appeared in front of his eyes.
This was also the first game of chess he played with Yu Shao. At that time, neither of them were even professional chess players. He didn't take Yu Shao too seriously at the time, and didn't think he would lose.
However, he never imagined that more than a hundred years later, he would lose to an unknown high school student in a high school Go league.
He still clearly remembers how he felt in disbelief at Yu Shao's chess skills after losing the game... and how unwilling he was to accept the result.
At that time, even if he lost, he just felt it was impossible.
There can't be such a person.
But, this kind of person just happened to appear.
Although he tried hard to improve himself later, the gap could still be seen from the second, third, and fourth games between the two.
It's just that the gap is narrowing little by little.
In preparation for their next match, he would practice chess and play chess scores almost every day, and the calluses on the fingers of his right hand became thicker and thicker.
"The reason why Li Congyou lost was because of the difference in overall perspective."
Su Yiming reached into the chess box and took out the chess piece.
"If I also had this kind of judgment and this kind of overall view——"
The chess piece falls!
Da! "More than a hundred years ago, the answer that I never found until my death will appear more than a hundred years later!"
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