Chapter 424 Everything is given by Yu Shao
The young man looked at An Hongshi and opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say for a long time.
"Teacher An Hongshi, have you changed?"
After a long time, the young man finally spoke.
"Changed?"
An Hongshi was slightly stunned and asked in confusion.
"Nowadays, all chess players are learning from Yu Shao, including me."
The young man was silent for a moment, then spoke again, "In fact, Yu Shao has never participated in the World Championship. Even if he won a title in China, in a sense, he still can't be considered a truly top chess player."
"Only the World Championships can prove a chess player's ability."
"It's just that his chess records are so revolutionary and shocking that even though he hasn't achieved any results in the world championships, everyone already regards him as a top chess player and is learning from him."
"But no chess player has ever been able to do it like you."
The young man hesitated for a moment, then said, "If you hadn't called me, I would have definitely thought that Shiau was Yu Shao's. The moves are so similar."
“Isn’t that good?”
An Hongshi smiled slightly and said, "Go players should not only be rivals, but also close friends who learn from each other and make progress together."
“But…but…”
The young man was somewhat speechless. After a long while, he finally spoke: "It's certainly right to learn from Yu Shao's play, but learning and imitating are two different things. You are An Hongshi."
An Hongshi couldn't help but smile and asked, "Perhaps it's really because I'm An Hongshi?"
The young man was stunned for a moment.
"You may find it hard to believe, but I think that when the World Championship begins again, there will probably be many players like Yu Shao emerging."
An Hongshi smiled faintly and said, "Yu Shao's playing style has brought almost subversive changes to the current Go world."
"Kimurago, Hans, and the others are no ordinary people. They must have realized this problem."
"If I tell you that you can't be like Yu Shao, you'll be eliminated from the World Championship, do you believe it?"
The young man was completely stunned when he heard this.
If someone else said this, he would probably refute it immediately. However, the person who said this was An Hongshi, the world's number one chess player, and he didn't know how to start for a moment.
But even so, the young man still gritted his teeth and said, "If you don't look like Yu Shao, you will be eliminated? This is... too exaggerated."
“I don’t think it’s an exaggeration.”
An Hongshi looked at the young man calmly, shook his head, and said, "I have been following Yu Shao since the Xinhuo War."
"At first, I just thought Yu Shao was a rebellious genius, but later, as Yu Shao's chess records became more and more, I found that this was not the case."
"Many people think that Yu Shao's strength lies in his astonishing and completely unimaginable moves, such as the Point Three Three, the Peak, and the Shoulder-Chasing Wuyou Corner. However, I don't think that's the case."
"If he only focused on Yu Shao, then he would definitely not be Yu Shao's opponent."
The young man looked at An Hongshi in confusion.
"His methods of attacking, his approach to penetration, the depth of his penetration... everything is completely different from what I think. This isn't just a difference in play style, but a difference in understanding of Go."
An Hongshi thought about it, opened the chess box next to the computer desk, picked up a black piece, and slowly put it down.
clatter!
With the crisp sound of the chess piece falling, a black piece suddenly landed in the center of the chessboard!
Ten columns and ten rows, Tianyuan!
"Tianyuan?"
The young man looked at the chessboard, somewhat bewildered.
An Hongshi did not explain and continued to place chess pieces. Soon, a relatively simple black and white battle pattern was formed in the center of the chessboard.
"For example, it's like this part."
An Hongshi looked at the chessboard in front of him and said, "Who do you think has the advantage?"
The young man frowned slightly, looked at the chessboard, thought for a moment, and then said, "White chess."
"Why do you think White has the advantage?"
An Hongshi didn't say anything, but just asked the young man why he thought White had the advantage.
"Isn't this obvious?"
The young man was a little puzzled, but he still said truthfully: "The black pieces in the center are too thin, surrounded by large white pieces on all sides. I can't think of any reason why white pieces are not at an advantage."
An Hongshi smiled when he heard this, but said nothing. He just took out another black chess piece from the chess box and put it down. Then he asked, "Who do you think has the advantage now?"
"Still white?"
The young man was puzzled and said, "Even if Black plays here to reinforce the position, it will be difficult to escape from the double-teaming of White."
"But what if I tell you that I think Black has the advantage?" asked An Hongshi.
“Are you kidding me?!”
Hearing this, the young man lost his composure and blurted out, "How could Black have an advantage?"
"What if I say that I am not filling in the pieces, but I am dealing with the isolated pieces? It is obvious that the white pieces are weaker here, so it is the white pieces that should pay the price?" An Hongshi continued to ask.
Hearing this, the young man looked at the chessboard in disbelief.
What An Hongshi said does make sense, and if you insist on understanding it that way, it's not impossible, but everyone can see that it's obviously far-fetched.
It is clearly the white pieces that are attacking the black pieces, how could it be that the black pieces are attacking the white pieces?
An Hongshi seemed to have seen through the young man's thoughts. He pushed the chess box containing the white pieces to him and said, "Then you play the white pieces, and I'll play the black pieces."
The young man took the chess box and looked at the chessboard with some doubt. After frowning and thinking for a moment, he finally took out the chess piece and put it down.
Seeing the young man place his chess piece, An Hongshi followed closely and placed his black chess piece.
Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da…
For a moment, the sound of chess pieces falling echoed in the room.
As more and more chess pieces were placed, the game became more and more complicated, and a look of disbelief appeared on the young man's face!
Soon, An Hongshi landed again with the black chess piece between them.
"this……"
Seeing An Hongshi's move, the young man broke out in sweat on his forehead, and continued to place the white chess pieces in disbelief.
clatter!
clatter!
clatter!
"How is it possible..."
After a few more moves, the young man gritted his teeth when he saw An Hongshi make another move. He still refused to believe it and continued to place the white piece.
In the blink of an eye, another seven or eight moves passed.
The young man stared blankly at the chessboard and stopped making moves.
After a long moment, he spoke in disbelief, his voice a little hoarse: "Offense and defense... reversed?"
An Hongshi remained silent, staring at the chessboard in front of him. After a long moment, he spoke, "Many people feel that Yu Shao's appearance has revolutionized Go."
"They believe Yu Shao has overturned a certain move, a certain way of playing, a certain pattern, or a certain variation."
"That's certainly not bad."
An Hongshi paused, looked at the distraught young man in front of him, and said, "However, if he only realized this, then it can only be said that he only saw the surface."
"This subversion concerns everything about Go."
"In the past, what we thought was right was right, but after Yu Shao appeared, I began to doubt whether what we thought was right was really right."
“Everything that was once certain is no longer certain.”
"This uncertainty isn't just about a single move, like the three-three move, or a single variation, like the charge in the Demon Sword pattern. It's about the entire game."
"This is the biggest disruption that Yu Shao's emergence has brought to the chess world today."
"Whether Yu Shao's move was correct or not is far less important than this question. Even if his move was only half right, it would have already revolutionized everything about Go."
The young man was still staring blankly at the chessboard in front of him, his mind was blank and he couldn't even think.
"Aren't you asking why I look so much like Yu Shao?"
An Hongshi raised his head, looked at the laptop beside him, and said, "Actually, this is also thanks to the opponent I met online the other day."
"He was clearly deeply influenced by Yu Shao. Playing against him, I could clearly feel the difference compared to other players. This difference wasn't just a difference in style, but a difference that's hard to put into words."
"It was this difference that put a lot of pressure on me. Even though I won in the end, I still felt extremely nervous."
"It was after this game that I began to study Yu Shao's chess records in more depth, from his debut to the Gemini Cup, and even to the Xinhuo War that just ended not long ago."
An Hongshi smiled and continued, "I study Yu Shao's chess records almost every day. I can say that I have reviewed every game more than a hundred times."
"Although I've reviewed a lot of Yu Shao's chess games and seem to have thoroughly studied them, I still feel like I'm still looking at things in a fog. There are some things I still can't see clearly."
"Until one day, an idea came to me."
"What if I start looking at every chess game from a completely negative perspective?"
Hearing this, the young man raised his head somewhat stiffly, looked at An Hongshi, and said hesitantly: "Totally... deny?"
"Um."
An Hongshi looked down at the chessboard, his eyes gleaming as he spoke, "Every time I make a move and feel I have an advantage, I start thinking about the problem from another angle—"
"That is, could it be that I'm not actually an advantage? From what perspective, am I a disadvantage?"
"Of course this is ridiculous, especially under certain circumstances. I searched for a long time before I could find a reason. If you look at it from this perspective, I might be at a disadvantage."
"If I were to tell you these reasons, I'm afraid everyone would just find them absurd and ridiculous."
"But when I actually tried it, I discovered that many ridiculous and absurd reasons actually... might not be invalid."
The young man was completely stunned.
He looked at the local change he had just made, and his vision seemed to become blurry.
In fact, he had been thinking over and over again about this game of chess. He was wondering which move he had made that was not good enough to lead to the reversal of the situation, but he couldn't figure it out even after racking his brains.
There may be a few moves that are not well considered, but it will definitely not turn the advantage into a disadvantage.
Now, the answer to this question may be...
In fact, he was not at an advantage from the beginning?
From the very beginning, it was obvious that Black was attacking White, not White attacking Black?!
"Of course, those reasons aren't always valid."
An Hongshi smiled and said, "In the beginning, I also made a lot of jokes because of these lame excuses. Fortunately, my opponents at that time were not strong, and I won them all in the end."
"Later, I started to look at Yu Shao's chess records again, and gradually I had new feelings about them."
An Hongshi slowly exhaled and said, "As I get to know Yu Shao better and better, I suddenly feel like the door to a new world is slowly opening to me."
"I used to think that Yu Shao's Go was revolutionary for Go, but now I think that Yu Shao's Go is actually subversive for Go."
"It's just this point that I'm afraid most people can't perceive at the moment."
An Hongshi looked at the young man and continued, "You think my current playing style is similar to Yu Shao's because you still look at Go with the old perspective. This way, you can only see the new side of our commonality."
"However, when you completely break away from your old perspective and look at my Go, you will find that the moves I make and Yu Shao make are still fundamentally different."
The young man was completely speechless.
An Hongshi's words were like a huge bell ringing in his ears, making his ears buzz. As a ninth-dan chess player, he actually fell into doubt about his life for a moment.
Like all chess players, he is also learning from Yu Shao, learning Yu Shao's way of playing, learning a new understanding of the thickness of Go, and the new changes in Go.
However, he had never thought of thinking about the chess game from the opposite side of the past. Not only was the idea absurd, but more importantly, this was the world that a chess player had devoted his entire life to!
"I'm afraid it's not just the vast majority of people..."
After a long moment, the young man finally spoke again with difficulty, "I'm afraid that apart from you, no one would think this way."
"No."
Yasuhiro smiled and shook his head, saying, "Then you are underestimating Honmurago, Nobukazu, Sho Misho and the others."
"Especially after Yu Shao won the title, they must have been reviewing all of Yu Shao's past chess records day and night."
"Perhaps everyone's progress is different, but I dare say that if they appear at the World Championship, their performance will surprise everyone."
"And all of this will be given by Yu Shao."
An Hongsheng smiled and said jokingly, "I have to say it's a blessing that I didn't face Yu Shao so soon. If I had faced Yu Shao earlier, I'm afraid I wouldn't have had any chance of winning."
Hearing this, the young man finally came to his senses.
He suddenly thought of something and asked quickly, "Teacher An Hongshi, will you participate in the Phoenix Cup World Championship this year?"
"certainly."
An Hongshi smiled and said, "It's been a few years since we participated in the World Championship. Many newcomers have emerged in recent years, and this year there are geniuses like Yu Shao and Su Yiming."
"If I don't participate in this year's World Championship, I'm afraid many people will forget about a chess player named An Hongshi, right?"
(End of this chapter)
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