Chapter 414 They Are Enemies for Life
Not only Zheng Qin, but everyone in the broadcast room also realized this and looked at the TV screen in shock.
There is no draw in Go. As long as both sides continue playing, there will be a winner.
However, there is one exception.
That is the cycle of multiple disasters!
The most well-known of these is the Three-Knock Cycle, where three knocks cycle over and over again until death. The Four-Knock Cycle refers to the fact that four knocks appear simultaneously in the game, forming a strange cycle of knocks!
A three-disaster cycle is already extremely rare, and a four-disaster cycle, looking through chess records from ancient times to the present, is only seen in... a handful of chapters!
Everyone was completely dumbfounded.
Inside the chess room, Su Yiming's forehead was still covered with fine beads of sweat. He stared intently at the chessboard in front of him, his eyes fierce and sharp!
If I had thousands of words!
"No, it's not a done deal yet!"
Yu Shao had a heavy expression on his face as he looked at the chessboard calmly. He quickly picked up the chess piece and placed it back on the board.
Seeing the white piece fall on the chessboard, Su Yiming gritted his teeth, then picked up the chess piece and quickly put it on the board.
He also knew that although there was a high possibility of a four-calamity cycle, it was not a foregone conclusion!
clatter!
clatter!
clatter!
On the chessboard, the black and white pieces are tightly entangled. Every time a black piece falls, all the black pieces on the board seem to let out a cry of resistance together, shaking the world!
Finally, under the watchful eyes of the whole world, another black chess piece, held between Su Yiming's fingers, slowly fell onto the chessboard.
clatter!
Eighteen columns and six rows, lift!
The whole world suddenly fell silent.
Although the four-calamity cycle has not yet fully manifested, everyone can see that the outcome is already clear.
Inside the broadcast room, everyone stared blankly at the two pieces in the center and upper right corner of the chessboard.
"White's advantage is too great. It's impossible to defeat. Black is doomed. He should have resigned long ago."
Le Haoqiang was stunned and said, "That's indeed the case."
"But the black chess piece performed a miracle in another way."
On the chessboard.
After the black piece is raised here, the white piece cannot escape the initiative. If it escapes the initiative and removes the black piece in the middle, it will pull out a flower, which is of great value, but a big problem will arise above.
After Black gained the initiative, he was able to block White's capture. There was no point for White to stick to the edge, because Black only needed to continue collecting Qi to survive.
If white chess pieces propose to ko, then black chess pieces will also propose to ko. If white chess pieces stick again, black chess pieces will capture. If white chess pieces continue to propose to ko, black chess pieces will also propose to ko. It seems that white chess pieces can survive by ko, but in fact, the ending is that white chess pieces' big dragon will die suddenly!
In other words, if White wants to survive, he can't move. He can only go back to the bottom and try to capture. Black captures, White captures too, Black captures again, and White can only capture...
Neither side will ever give in here!
Black and white can only cycle back and forth continuously, constantly raising the rob!
On the chessboard, black and white pieces continued to fall.
Soon, after another six moves, neither side made any more moves...
Looking at the chessboard again, in the upper right and center areas of the board, two black and white pieces are entangled, and four extremely shocking fights for pieces have emerged!
"Two pieces form a four-disaster cycle."
Xu Zijin, who was standing by, stared at the TV screen with a dazed look in his eyes. He said absentmindedly, "It's over."
A shocking and surprising situation.
The four-disaster cycle is rare in the world, and the four-disaster cycle formed by two chess pieces is far less than the four-disaster cycle formed by four chess pieces, which is unprecedented!
"It's a draw..."
At this moment, the whole world fell into a deep silence!
Everyone was shocked to the extreme. They never expected that this game of chess would end in this way!
The two sides fought fiercely from the beginning. At first, Su Yiming made a series of brilliant moves and came up with new changes that had never been seen before, which gave him a slight upper hand. However, before he could expand his advantage, he was completely defeated by Yu Shao's extremely brutal attack!
Next, the black chess piece made a desperate move, determined to fight to the death with the white chess piece at the bottom of the board. However, the white chess piece was so skilled that even if the black chess piece tried its best, it still could not move!
After falling into this utterly deadlocked situation, Black's seemingly suicidal attack on White's dragon piece only dragged the board into a treacherous situation once again.
After a fierce battle, the two sides finally went through a four-calamity cycle and ended in peace!
A game of chess is full of twists and turns and is magnificent, just like the art of black and white!
it's over!
Finally, after an unknown amount of time, the entire Internet exploded!
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"It is the custom of nature, that when she fashions a genius, she usually fashions not one, but another at the same time!"
Ding Huan's face flushed, he was so excited that he couldn't speak, and could only pour out all his emotions into writing!
"I never expected that with White's huge advantages in the center, lower left, and upper left, which almost guaranteed victory, Black would actually put on a breathtaking performance that took the world by surprise, ending the game with a four-fold cycle!"
"It's outrageous! It's awesome! It's beautiful!"
"This is truly a masterpiece of God. I even believe that God wanted to see Go, so He had Yu Shao and Su Yiming play this game."
"Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a die-hard fan of Yu Shao. Many people online used to say things like, 'If you have Ming, why do you have Yu?' or 'If you have Yu, why do you have Ming?' I find that disdainful."
"Because, in my opinion, Yu Shao is the chess player who pioneered an era. Although Su Yiming is also a genius, he is destined to be unable to compare with Yu Shao. At best, he is just an opponent!"
"But after watching this game, my mind has changed!"
"I'm finally convinced."
"They are no match!"
"They are the real enemies of this life!"
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Inside the studio.
"Four cycles of disasters, a draw."
Zhuang Weisheng stared at the market for a long moment, then slowly exhaled, sighing with genuine emotion, "What a truly astonishing and bizarre situation."
"Why?"
Chang Yan stared at the big screen in amazement. Even now, she was still deeply puzzled: "Why did White, with such a huge advantage, end up in a four-fold calamity cycle?"
Hearing this, Zhuang Weisheng smiled faintly and said, "Because White played chess so well."
Chang Yan was stunned for a moment. She turned to look at Zhuang Weisheng and asked, "Teacher Zhuang Weisheng, what does 'it's so good...' mean?"
Her first reaction was that Zhuang Weisheng was being sarcastic, but looking at Zhuang Weisheng's attitude, there was no irony at all. Instead, his attitude was extremely sincere, and he was really praising Yu Shaoxia.
“It’s because he plays so well.”
Zhuang Weisheng seemed to see Chang Yan's confusion and said with a smile, "So every move he makes is designed to maximize efficiency, making it incredibly tricky, leaving no room for retreat. Every move is filled with coercion and pressure."
"Isn't that great?"
Chang Yan was even more confused. Even though she was a ninth-dan who had won a title, she couldn't understand what Zhuang Weisheng said.
"It's really good, but... Go is very mysterious. After all, it's about the principles of yin and yang."
Zhuang Weisheng stared at the chessboard with his dark eyes and continued, "If you don't leave your opponent a way out, your own will often become less."
"It can't even be called a weakness, but, at least in this game, it became the key to victory or defeat."
"When the white piece finally tried to survive, it was discovered that while it could definitely survive, the only way for it to survive was through the four-kill cycle."
"In the final moments, Black used a four-ko cycle to punish White's overly efficient tactics..."
Zhuang Weisheng couldn't help but laugh and joked at this point, "It seems that the principle of being kind is universally applicable."
After hearing this, Chang Yan finally understood what Zhuang Weisheng meant. She stared at the big screen in a trance and said, "Maybe."
She looked at the chessboard and actually felt a sense of admiration for it.
"But punishing the opponent for being too efficient is a bit too... nerve-wracking."
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Hands talking indoors.
Yu Shao finally withdrew his gaze from the chessboard, looked across at Su Yiming, and said, "It's a draw."
Upon hearing this, Su Yiming seemed to have unloaded a hundred-pound burden. He leaned heavily on the back of the chair, breathing heavily, his face pale, as if he had just run a marathon.
“It rains so beautifully.”
At this moment, Yu Shao's voice rang out.
Su Yiming was stunned for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Yu Shao opposite him.
Yu Shao's face was covered in beads of sweat. He looked at Su Yiming and said with a smile, "I thought I was going to win, but I didn't expect that I wouldn't win in the end."
Su Yiming laughed when he heard this and said, "Actually, I thought I was doomed to lose."
The two smiled at each other, stretched out their hands, and began to clean up the chessboard together. All the grudges that had been on the chessboard were completely wiped out.
The two referees on the side looked at each other and could see that each other was having a headache.
"Four calamities cycle to a draw. This is truly, completely unexpected."
The referee sitting on the left couldn't help but scratch his hair.
Before the game, he considered various possibilities. He thought that Yu Shao would win both sets in the end, and he also thought that Su Yiming would successfully take revenge and the two sides would tie at 1-1.
However, the only thing he had not considered was that in this game, both sides actually played out such an unprecedented situation of four disaster cycles, and he had no contingency plan at all for this.
"It's really... an incredible game of chess."
He looked at Yu Shao and Su Yiming packing up the chess pieces on the chessboard not far away, as if he could still remember every move made by both sides. Every move in this game still deeply shocked him.
Looking at the two seventeen-year-old boys not far away, he was suddenly filled with mixed emotions.
"According to the rules of professional competitions, if there are multiple rounds of draws, a rapid match will be held."
A referee on the other side suddenly whispered, "I once encountered a three-disaster cycle in a celebrity match, and it ended in a tiebreak."
“Hmm…”
Hearing his colleague's words, the referee sitting on the left nodded thoughtfully and complained quietly, "I guess I'll have to work overtime today."
Although he complained, he had no complaints in his heart. He was even a little happy. If he could continue to see the game between Yu Shao and Su Yiming, what would it matter if he had to work overtime?
It's really wonderful.
He is willing to play chess like this until the end of time.
At this moment, he seemed to understand somewhat why the woodcutter in the legend could watch two gods playing chess for a full hundred years.
He even had an idea in his mind: Could it be that the two legendary gods were Yu Shao and Su Yiming?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh.
"Referee, that's enough."
At this moment, Yu Shao's voice suddenly rang out.
Hearing Yu Shao's words, the two referees and Su Yiming were stunned for a moment and looked towards Yu Shao.
"The Gemini Cup was a temporary event, so there shouldn't be a draw rule. Furthermore, when Chairman Ma first told me about the Gemini Cup, he said winning was a win in both games. He never mentioned a draw."
Yu Shao smiled, put the last white piece back into the chess box, and said as he closed the lid, "Since I didn't win both games, then it means I'm not qualified for this title."
"Huh?"
Hearing this, the referee sitting on the left was a little confused and said quickly: "But, you have already won one game. This game is a draw, so it should be-"
The referee had just finished speaking when Yu Shao interrupted him and said, "We have to win both games. Besides, I'm a little tired."
"Besides, the Gemini Cup isn't a title match after all. To win the title, you have to win every single match. A draw isn't acceptable. That's going to be a bit difficult, right?"
The referee and his colleagues looked at each other in confusion, all speechless.
Although the Gemini Cup is a tournament, it was a spur-of-the-moment event and was held in a hurry, so the rules did not take into account the possibility of a draw. It only stated that if the opponent won both games, he would seize the opponent's title.
Yu Shao is a contestant and has the upper hand. Since Yu Shao does not intend to continue playing with an extra game, then whether or not to play with an extra game will naturally be determined by Yu Shao.
The two referees exchanged glances, and finally, the referee sitting on the right nodded and said, "That's indeed the case. Then... there will be no extra round."
At this moment, Su Yiming opened his mouth and was about to say something, but Yu Shao shook his head again and interrupted him with a smile: "There are still many opportunities to fight."
Su Yiming looked at Yu Shao and finally swallowed back what he was about to say.
"That's right."
The referee sitting on the left suddenly thought of something and said quickly, "Don't rush to review the game. Since you don't plan to play an extra game, go and interview the reporters first."
"right."
The referee on the right finally nodded in realization and said with a smile, "This competition was specially set up for you two. There's never been a precedent before. The reporters are going crazy."
"Many reporters have greeted me and asked me to remember to invite you for interviews after your game."
"You guys go together! Those reporters will definitely have a lot to ask you."
Yu Shao was slightly startled when he heard this and turned to look at Su Yiming.
Su Yiming smiled slightly, stood up and wiped the sweat from his face, then said with a smile: "Then let's go together. I've never been interviewed with you before."
"OK."
Yu Shao didn't care about it, nodded, and said with a smile: "Then, let's go."
(End of this chapter)
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