Chapter 97: The last time you lost a game of chess...how long ago was it? (Fifth update, please subscribe first)

At this time, everyone in the competition venue was leaving one after another.

Only Su Yiming was still sitting on the chair, looking at the chess game in front of him, and seemed to have no intention of leaving.

Jin Xiao and two other contestants from Guangnan High School also stood aside, seeming to be hesitant to speak.

"The last time I lost a game of chess...how long ago was it?"

Su Yiming looked at the chessboard, and in a trance, he seemed to travel through time and return to more than a hundred years ago.

At that time, since he had mastered the chess skill at the age of 23, he had never lost a game, whether playing with black or white. However, he also felt lonely because he had no opponent.

In order to find a defeat, he was the first to propose the system of sticking points. Under the burden of sticking points, he sat alone in a secluded room and fought against masters from all directions who came to challenge him.

Faced with countless masters who came to challenge him, he had been involved in tough battles several times and was in desperate situations many times, but those people always returned empty-handed in the end.

Whether it is four and a half points or seven and a half points... it is the same.

Only when he was ten and a half points away did he finally face defeat. However, when he was about to resign, Fang Xin surrendered before him and told him that this was not a fair fight.

Afterwards, they played another game in which the black chess player had a seven-and-a-half-point advantage. In that game, he and Fang Xin fought until the very end, down to the last half point, and in the end, he was the better player.

Therefore, if we exclude the game between him and Fang Xin where he was ten and a half points ahead, he had not lost a single game of chess for ten years until he died of illness at the age of thirty-three...

More than a hundred years later, Su Yiming has thought about the possibility of losing. After all, Go has undergone countless new changes in the past hundred years.

But Su Yiming never imagined that he would be defeated in a city high school Go league.

He had never seen a defeat, but he just wanted to lose, and he even became sick because of it. But when the defeat really came, his mood was so complicated that it was unimaginable.

If both sides are evenly matched and fight to the end, but one side loses regrettably, that's fine.

But unfortunately, this is not the case.

This game of chess was completely controlled from the moment we fell into a disadvantageous position in the layout.

Su Yiming lowered his eyes and looked towards the upper left corner of the chessboard. After the star position was supported, he fell silent after those three shocking moves.

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At this time, He Yu was already sitting in the driver's seat of his car with his seat belt fastened.

Although he ran very fast on the way to the parking space, the rain was so heavy that his hair and clothes were still wet.

He Yu put his hands on the steering wheel and was about to drive, but the chess game just now kept appearing in his mind, and the sound of the pieces falling seemed to still echo in his ears.

In this state, it is impossible to drive.

Finally, He Yu let out a long breath, took out a cigarette box from his trouser pocket, then took out a lighter, lit a cigarette, and looked at the heavy rain outside the window in silence.

"Ding dong ding dong."

Suddenly, the cell phone rang.

He Yu picked up the phone, took a look at it, turned on the speakerphone, and answered the call.

Before He Yu could say anything, the person on the other side started to complain like a machine gun: "He Yu, where the hell are you? Didn't we agree to play mahjong tonight? We're short of one person! Urgent!"

He Yu exhaled a puff of smoke and said, "No, I have something to do today. You can call someone else."

"Damn it, is there anything more important than playing mahjong? When I usually ask you to play mahjong, you are more enthusiastic than anyone else. Why are you not playing the title battle today? Or are you busy sending a short essay to Xia Wen?"

Hearing that He Yu was going to stand up, the person on the other end of the phone was obviously angry and went straight to He Yu's weak spot.

After waiting for a while on the other end of the phone, he thought He Yu would fiercely refute the statement about sending a short composition to Xia Wen, but to his surprise, He Yu did not say a word.

The young man on the other end of the phone was stunned for a moment, and quickly asked: "No, God Yu, please speak, what's wrong? What happened?"

He Yu was silent for a moment, then answered, "Today... I went to watch a city high school Go league."

The person on the other end of the phone was even more confused: "City High School Go League?"

"Um."

"No, why is it necessary to watch this stuff? Even though you are not good at it, you are a professional 5th dan after all. This is a high school Go league, and it's a city-level one. You are too lazy to even watch a professional 1st dan?" the person on the other end of the phone asked in confusion.

"I came here just to verify something."

He Yu said, "Unconsciously, it has come to this point."

The person on the other end of the phone couldn't help but ask, "Verify whether they are playing Gobang?"

"No, you may not believe it..."

He Yu took a puff of cigarette, a bewildered look on his face, and said slowly: "The previous game of chess showed a completely new layout."

The car suddenly became extremely quiet.

The person on the other end of the phone didn't say a word for a long time.

"Do you think I'm mentally ill?"

After a long time, a voice came from the other end of the phone. It was obvious that the voice did not believe He Yu's words at all: "You want to tell me that in a city high school Go league, two amateur Go players came up with a new pattern in one game? Even movies don't dare to shoot it like this!"

He Yu did not argue, but just smoked dully.

After waiting for a while, he didn't hear He Yu's voice, so he couldn't help but ask, "He Yu, are you serious?"

"I'm serious."

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He Yu said, "Also, that game of chess, the way the white pieces were played, that grand way of playing chess, reminded me of Shen Yi."

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, and then he asked, "So, the one who made the... new move was the white piece?"

"No, it's Heizi."

He Yu shook his head and said, "Bai Zi lost in the end."

"No, what are you talking about?"

The person on the other end of the phone became a little impatient, thinking that He Yu was really insulting his intelligence, and asked:

"You said that the white pieces played in Shen Yi's style and gave such a high evaluation, but in the end it was the black pieces that won? What, you mean that the black pieces played in Mr. Zhuang's style?"

He Yu blew out a puff of smoke, his expression confused, and said softly: "I have a very high opinion of the white pieces, but the black pieces' moves are... a little creepy. As soon as the layout was completed, the black pieces were far ahead."

"But this doesn't mean that white pieces are weak. What I can tell you is that if I were to play that game, no matter if I played white pieces or black pieces, I would lose."

The person on the other end of the phone was completely stunned.

He instinctively thought that He Yu was joking, but he couldn't hear any hint of joking in He Yu's tone. Instead, he sounded extremely serious.

But this was too exaggerated, so exaggerated that he found it hard to believe.

"In this game, White lost due to timeout."

He Yu paused and continued, "So I've been thinking, if it wasn't super fast chess and the one playing the white pieces was really Shen Yi, then, would he be able to win in the end?"

"Shen Yi is very balanced in all aspects, with no obvious weaknesses, but his ability in the second half of the game is what stands out the most."

"Unless you have a 99% win rate in the middle game, it will be difficult to beat Shen Yi even if it is 90%. No one can match his performance in the second half of the game."

"No……"

He Yu thought about the situation of the chess game, suddenly shook his head and said, "In that situation...even if Shen Yi really played, he should have lost."

He Yu seemed to have forgotten that he was on the phone with someone, and just wanted to say what was in his heart: "Although I know this, I still can't help thinking this way."

After a long silence on the other end of the phone, the man finally asked, "Who is playing the white piece? Who is playing the black piece?"

"You don't have to ask, just keep it a little mysterious."

He Yu opened the car window a little, threw the cigarette out of the window, and said, "I have a hunch—"

"They will both enter the professional world soon and appear before us professional chess players!"

"By then, you will naturally know their names!"

"I really want to know what kind of storm they will stir up in the chess world if they enter the professional world!"

He Yu placed his hands on the steering wheel, looked ahead, and said, "They will definitely face off again. Maybe in that game, I can get the answer I want."

(End of this chapter)