Chapter 431 Fried Fish
"The decoration of this chess hall is so touching."
Wu Zhixuan looked at the Phoenix Chess Hall in front of her with its antique decoration and couldn't help but sigh.
Yu Shao also looked at the chess hall in surprise. The chess hall was made of green bricks and tiles and paved with stone bricks, and it looked simple and rustic.
In fact, chess halls with retro decoration are not uncommon, but this chess hall is located in the ancient city and blends perfectly with the environment, which is indeed quite elegant.
"Yu Shao."
Wu Zhixuan thought for a moment and said excitedly, "I just bought a chess fan and was worried about having no place to practice. I'm going to go in and play a few games and show off my skills!"
Apparently, Wu Zhixuan was in high spirits having just bought a chess fan, and couldn't wait to play a few games of chess with the fan.
"You have to show your skills in professional competitions. As a professional chess player, isn't it a waste of time for you to play chess in a chess hall?" Wu Shuheng couldn't help but disagree with Wu Zhixuan as usual.
Wu Zhixuan didn't bother to pay attention to Wu Shuheng at all, and pulled Yu Shao towards the chess hall. Seeing this, Wu Shuheng had no choice but to follow them.
The three of them walked into the chess hall and saw that the chess hall on the first floor was already full, and there were spectators standing by many chess tables, watching the game attentively.
The players had different expressions. Some looked heavy and depressed, some were concentrating, some were smoking dully, and some were holding their chins with one hand, frowning as they stared at the chessboard in front of them.
Although there were many guests in the chess hall, it was surprisingly quiet, with only the sound of chess pieces being dropped echoing.
"Brother, want to play chess?"
A bald middle-aged man was sitting at the front desk. When he saw Yu Shao and the other two walk in, he asked Yu Shao Dao.
"I won't get off."
Yu Shao retracted his gaze, looked at Wu Zhixuan, and said with a smile: "She's leaving."
"Female chess players? Our chess club is usually populated by men, not many female chess players."
The bald man looked at Wu Zhixuan in surprise, then looked at Wu Shuheng and asked, "Beautiful lady, are you playing with your friend?"
"No, no, he can't play chess."
Wu Zhixuan didn't want to sit down with Wu Shuheng at all. She immediately shook her head and asked, "Boss, can we share a table with other guests?"
"this……"
Hearing this, the bald man was suddenly in a dilemma. After thinking for a moment, he said, "These past two days, most of the people who were playing together were friends, and the guests who shared the table have already finished playing. If you are not in a hurry, you can wait for other individual guests, or wait until others have finished playing."
"Ah? We have to wait?"
Hearing this, Wu Zhixuan was immediately disappointed. She glanced at Wu Shuheng, then shook her head with disgust.
"What? Did I wrong you?"
When Wu Shuheng saw Wu Zhixuan's expression, he suddenly became angry.
Yu Shao thought for a moment and said, "Why don't you come with me..."
"no!"
Before Yu Shao could finish his words, Wu Zhixuan interrupted him and refused firmly, "This is my first fight since I bought the folding fan. I will never allow myself to lose!"
Yu Shao was somewhat speechless. After pondering for a moment, he asked, "Then what about giving five pieces?"
"I'm shameless!"
Wu Zhixuan's eyes widened as she angrily said, "I'm not going to play with you anyway!"
Just then, a man and a woman walked into the chess hall together. Both of them were wearing masks, but judging from their eyebrows and eyes, the man was about 27 or 28 years old, and the woman was very young, probably less than 20 years old, and was wearing a long skirt.
Wu Zhixuan's eyes suddenly lit up, and she quickly walked over to the two of them and greeted them, "Hello, hello! Are you here to play chess? Do you want to play a game with me?"
Hearing this, the two people who had just entered the chess hall stopped in their tracks and looked at Wu Zhixuan in confusion.
Seeing that the two hadn't responded yet, Wu Zhixuan thought they hadn't heard clearly, so she spoke again: "Are you here to play chess? Do you want to play a game with me?"
At this time, the girl who was about the same age as Wu Zhixuan said in English: "Sorry, I don't speak Chinese."
“Not Chinese?”
Wu Zhixuan was a little surprised, but not too shocked. Now that the Phoenix Cup World Championship was approaching, it was normal to have foreign tourists, so she quickly repeated her question in English.
"Play chess?"
Upon hearing this, the two of them looked at each other in surprise.
"You two have a mutual agreement?"
Seeing this, Wu Zhixuan thought that the two had agreed to a game, and was immediately disappointed.
"No, no, we just came to this chess hall to take a look, we didn't want to play chess." The girl shook her head and explained quickly.
Hearing this, Wu Zhixuan's eyes lit up again, and hope was rekindled. She asked, "Do you want to play with me?"
"Play with you?"
The girl looked at Wu Zhixuan with a slightly strange look.
She hesitated for a moment, seemed to be a little moved, and glanced at the young man beside her. Seeing that he didn't react, she finally nodded and said, "Okay, no problem."
“That’s great!”
Seeing that she had finally found a match, Wu Zhixuan was immediately delighted. She quickly looked at the bald man at the front desk and said, "Boss, is there any room left? Help us find a seat."
"There are seats available. The first floor is full. Go to the second floor. There are seats on the second floor. The fee is 40 yuan." The bald man spoke quickly when he saw that there was business.
"OK."
Wu Zhixuan nodded, and soon after scanning the code and paying, the five of them went upstairs together.
"Where are you from?"
As Wu Zhixuan walked upstairs, she asked curiously, "North Korea, South Korea, Japan?"
"Japan."
The girl answered in a soft voice.
"Japan?"
Wu Zhixuan suddenly became more excited about the upcoming game. After all, she had been a professional chess player for so long, but except online, she had never played chess with foreign players in real life.
At this moment, the girl asked, "What's your rank?"
"I--"
Wu Zhixuan's words came to her lips, her eyes rolled, and she finally replied: "Fourth stage, impressive, right?"
Hearing Wu Zhixuan's answer, Yu Shao couldn't help but laugh. Wu Zhixuan said she was a fourth-dan, and she really didn't lie. She really was a fourth-dan, it was just a professional word.
"Four sections?"
Hearing this, the girl was obviously a little surprised. Even being an amateur 4th dan was indeed very impressive for most people.
"Um."
Wu Zhixuan looked at the girl, then at the young man beside her, and asked uncertainly, "Who will play with me later?"
The girl smiled and replied, "Let me go."
"You coming?"
Wu Zhixuan was a little surprised. She originally thought that the young man who was traveling with the girl was playing chess with her. After all, she saw that before the girl agreed to play chess, she looked at the young man first, and only agreed when she saw that the young man did not refuse.
But Wu Zhixuan didn't think much about it, and quickly nodded and said, "Okay."
Soon, the five people came to the second floor. Wu Zhixuan and the girl found an empty chess table, pulled out chairs and sat down. Yu Shao and Wu Shuheng stood behind Wu Zhixuan, while the young man who was traveling with the girl stood behind her.
"Do you want to play black or white? Or do you want to guess first?"
Wu Zhixuan asked with a smile as she opened the chess box.
"Just guess first."
The girl also opened the lid of the chess box and spoke.
"OK."
Wu Zhixuan nodded. There happened to be white pieces in the chess box next to her, so she grabbed a handful of white pieces and held them in her palm. Seeing this, the girl opposite also took out two black pieces and placed them on the chessboard.
White chess pieces, five.
Black pieces, two.
"I play black."
Wu Zhixuan quickly picked up the white piece on the chessboard and put it back into the chess box. After exchanging the chess box with the girl, she bowed her head and said, "Please give me your guidance."
The girl opposite also responded: "Thank you for your guidance."
Wu Zhixuan looked at the chessboard, pondered for two seconds, and quickly picked up the chess piece and made the first move.
clatter!
Sixteen columns and four rows, stars!
As the game began, the girl opposite suddenly became extremely focused, with no distractions, as if she could only see the chessboard in front of her. She quickly picked up the chess piece and put it down gently.
Four columns and sixteen rows, stars!
Wu Zhixuan followed closely behind and made her move.
Sixteen columns and sixteen rows, stars!
The girl also made another move.
Four columns and three rows, small eyes!
"Xing Xiaomu?"
Wu Zhixuan seemed to be thinking about something. After thinking for a while, she put down the folding fan in her hand, reached into the chess box, picked up the chess piece, and put it down quickly.
clatter!
Three columns and seventeen rows, dot three three!
When the girl saw Wu Zhixuan play the three-three move, her eyes did not change at all. She quickly picked up the chess piece and placed it on the chessboard.
Four columns and seventeen rows, block!
The two sides began to make moves alternately, and the crisp sound of dropping pieces was endless.
Not far away, two young men finally finished the game of chess after a fierce battle. There were many people watching the game around. When they saw that the two had finally decided the winner, they couldn't help but whisper to each other, causing some commotion.
"Brother Li, your flying trick is pretty good."
"Hahaha, we can't always stay in the same place. I learned a trick and put it to use today."
"Wang Tianzhi, there seems to be something wrong with your hand..."
"Really? I feel like I didn't think that was possible. I didn't think it would be that easy for White to break in."
As they were chatting, someone suddenly noticed what was happening at Wu Zhixuan's table not far away and said in surprise, "There are two beautiful women playing chess at that table."
Hearing this, everyone looked towards Wu Zhixuan's table, their eyes suddenly filled with surprise.
"Let's go and see? Two women playing chess, that's rare."
"I've seen a lot of men and women having sex, but I've rarely seen women having sex with each other."
“Even though I can’t see their faces, they all look beautiful.”
"Go and watch? I love watching women fight."
"Hahahahaha, go go go!"
Many people walked towards Wu Zhixuan's table and soon surrounded the chess table.
Soon, after more than ten moves, Wu Zhixuan looked at the chessboard in front of her, thought for a moment, and picked up the chess piece again and put it down.
clatter!
Eight columns and twelve rows, tiger!
Seeing this, there was no change on Yu Shao's face, but the people around him could not help but be stunned, a little surprised, and then they started whispering to each other.
"This tiger move is wonderful."
"I originally thought that Black was going to break the edge here, after all, breaking the edge is a big deal. But the tiger on Black's side not only fills the gap, but also implies the deeper meaning of breaking the edge."
"Is it that powerful? White's moves are a little difficult to counter. If they push forward, they'll be cut off by Black..."
The girl sitting opposite Wu Zhixuan showed some surprise in her eyes when she saw what Wu Zhixuan did.
"Tiger?"
The girl looked at the chessboard, constantly calculating the subsequent changes of this move in her mind.
"A clever trick."
However, the girl was not panicked at all, and there was even a faint smile in her eyes.
"Her layout was very solid up to this point. Although her pressure was somewhat lacking and her attack power was insufficient, her maneuvers were very clever."
"I thought it would be a close match, but she's much better than I expected."
"Let's take her down in one go. Consider this a warm-up before the Phoenix Cup World Championship."
The girl lowered her eyes slightly, and after a moment, she finally picked up the chess piece again and quickly placed it on the board!
clatter!
Seven columns and thirteen rows, jump!
"So?"
Seeing the white chess piece use this move to jump to meet the black chess tiger, everyone around was stunned.
“No… not bad!”
"It's hard to counter, so she just jumped away. The changes suddenly became very complicated and a little hard to calculate, but I feel like White is not at all wrong!"
"Is this true?"
Everyone couldn't help but whisper.
"She actually figured out this trick? She's quite good at it."
Wu Zhixuan was a little surprised when she saw the girl jump in response. She subconsciously tapped her palm with her folding fan. After thinking for a moment, she put down the fan, picked up the chess piece, and put it down again.
clatter!
clatter!
clatter!
The black and white chess pieces began to spread across the chessboard.
The people around watched more and more seriously. At first they just wanted to watch the fun, but before they knew it, they were all attracted by the fierce confrontation between the two sides in the chess game.
"What are they looking at so seriously?"
At this time, the chess games at other tables ended. They saw that Wu Zhixuan's table was surrounded by people and looked at each other in surprise.
"Are you so engrossed in watching two girls play chess?"
"How about going to take a look too?"
"……Walk."
More and more people walked towards Wu Zhixuan's table, and soon the chess table was surrounded inside and outside. Before long, they were all attracted by the game of chess.
The entire chess hall became quiet for a moment.
Soon, after more than ten moves.
"Wu Zhixuan...I'm afraid something is wrong."
Yu Shao looked at the chessboard silently and had already seen the situation. Although it had just reached the middle stage, it seemed that both black and white were in a position to fight, but in fact, it was not the case.
The black pieces are somewhat passive. Although there is a large space below, it is difficult to escape the fate of being eliminated. Once the space below is broken by the white pieces, it will be difficult for the black pieces to make any moves. They will probably be beaten all the way.
Yu Shao glanced at Wu Zhixuan and found that Wu Zhixuan had frowned and clenched the handle of the folding fan with her right hand. She must have realized that the situation was not good.
This made Yu Shao feel a little relieved. If Wu Zhixuan hadn't realized that his situation was not good, he would have been defeated immediately. Fortunately, Wu Zhixuan had already noticed it.
If Wu Zhixuan could come up with some tricks at this time, the situation would still be acceptable.
After thinking for a long time, Wu Zhixuan finally put down the folding fan, picked up the chess piece again, and dropped it quickly!
clatter!
Eight columns and fourteen rows, clip!
"Planning to attack from the lower right corner?"
When the people around saw this, their eyes widened in disbelief.
"Isn't this... too strong?"
"Why? The situation is almost the same. There's absolutely no need to use such a risky move!"
(End of this chapter)
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