reborn in the fiery age

If it's not that he didn't work hard enough, then he can only admit that Sun Zujie's talent is higher. Thinking of this, Chen Guoshou, a sophisticated man from the capital city, feels a little helpless. Although he doesn't want to admit it, but the facts are in front of him, there is no way not to admit it!

With more contact, Chen Guoshou also knows Sun Zujie better. He thinks that Sun Zujie's talent is really good, and his memory is also very good.

But Sun Zujie's reaction was not so outstanding compared to other chess players, so how talented Sun Zujie is is really uncertain. In Chen Guoshou's view, what makes Sun Zujie really unattainable is that he is very good at games.

Sun Zujie never seemed to know the pressure when he played, and he always played at his due level; and when he played against Japanese chess players, he always played at a high level, which is really rare.

So even if the real level is not as good as that of the opponent, Sun Zujie can win chess. According to Wa Guo, Sun Zujie is the kind of natural winner.

Therefore, the Japanese chess world pays more attention to Sun Zujie and promotes it than Chen Guoshou, and believes that Sun Zujie is the most likely Chinese chess player to defeat Wa Guo's [-]th dan first, but Chen Guoshou is really hard to accept this.

Because from the very beginning of learning chess, Chen Guoshou's dream was to represent the country of Hua and defeat the [-]th dan of the country of Wa in an upright manner, and he was really very close to this goal.

The year before last, Chen Guoshou defeated Kagawa Nine Dans under the handicap of his opponent;

Last year, he defeated the sixth-dan Otake, the hopeful star of the Japanese country, in an upright manner;

And just this year, he won two victories in the five contests with Wa Guoyuan Baduan, who was visiting China.

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The reason why Chen Guoshou was so entangled was because he had just been notified that the first chess player to represent Hua Guofen against Wa Guo [-]th Dan was Sun Zujie, not him, so Chen Guoshou was really unwilling.

Of course, the words of the leader are very beautiful. The visiting Japanese Iwata [-]-dan level is too high. In the past, Hua Guo players didn’t have much contact with him. Sun Zujie was young. He was the first to fight. The chess players facing the battle know Iwata better, which is very important for defeating the [-]th Dan of the Wa Kingdom and breaking through this layer of window paper.

The leader's words were impeccable, so of course Chen Guoshou could only execute them. He turned his head and glanced at Sun Zujie. Sun Zujie's face was very flat, and he couldn't see anything at all, and he didn't seem to understand what he was responsible for.

In fact, Sun Zujie had noticed Chen Guoshou's abnormal mood for a long time, but he couldn't say anything, because this is the essence of competitive games. Seniority and favor are very important, but the most important thing is strength. What is wrong with him, because his record this year is no worse than Chen Guoshou.

In the Year of the Dragon, Sun Zujie performed better than Chen Guoshou in the Wa Kingdom, but facing Mr. Dazhu's performance made it clear that Hua Guo was really relying on Chen Guoshou.

But in the Year of the Snake, things are a little different.This year, the exchange of Go between China and Japan reached its climax. Two delegations from Japan visited China successively.

Chen Guoshou, Sun Zujie and this older player who is obsessed with layout and local changes fought for a full eight games. Compared with Chen Guoshou's two wins and three losses, Sun Zujie's results were better. He came from behind and won A good result of two wins and one loss.

During Ohara's visit to China, Chen Guoshou was the first to play. He won the first battle and won the first battle, which made everyone very happy;

But in the second match, under the watchful eyes of Boss Chen, Chen Guoshou did not perform well and was defeated in the mid game. This revealed a major shortcoming of Chen Guoshou, who could not perform at his due level under pressure.

In the subsequent third and fourth sets, Wu Guoshou and Chen Guoshou, who played for the third time, both lost. After the three-game losing streak, the entire Huaguo chess world was in despair.

In the crucial fifth game, Sun Zujie, who performed well with other visiting low-level Japanese chess players, got a chance to play for the first time.

No one expected that in this game, Sun Zujie, who was less than 14 years old, turned pressure into motivation and played a hearty game of chess.

Aiming at the characteristics of the opponent who is good at local areas, Sun Zujie deliberately provoked the battle in the local area first, and when he saw that the opponent was greedy in the local area, he decisively discarded a few pieces in the local area, thus confirming the advantage in one fell swoop.

Afterwards, Sun Zujie played steadily, without haste or impatience, and continued to expand his advantage. In the end, Ohara Baduan had to admit defeat in the middle of the game.

This victory proved that Sun Zujie's level has improved rapidly, and he has the ability to compete with the first-class chess players in Japan. It also shows that under pressure, his psychological quality is extremely strong.

That is to say, from this moment, in the competition between Sun Zujie and Chen Guoshou, he got the chance of fair competition for the first time.

In the next four games, maybe intentionally or unintentionally, the two played alternately, and the results were good, with a record of one win and one loss.

This aspect shows that Chen Guoshou does have the strength to compete with the first-class chess players of the Japanese country under the situation of low pressure;

At the same time, it also shows that the strength of Sun Zujie and Chen Guoshou is extremely close. One victory was accidental, and the two victories against Ohara are the embodiment of his true strength.

So when the second Japanese Go delegation visited China in December of the Year of the Snake, Sun Zujie won the trust of the Go team and the leaders behind him, and he was the first to play against the Japanese [-]th Dan.

This is a historic moment. A 14-year-old boy from Huaguo will challenge Waguo Jiuduan first, so the whole Huaguo held his breath, and everyone prayed silently in their hearts.

Chapter 41 Courage

This year, the Wa delegation did not detour to Hong Kong Island, but flew directly from Wajing to Shanghai.After the Chinese welcome ceremony, Iwata Kudan, who got in the car and rushed to the hotel, rubbed his temples.After all, he is getting older, and he has worked very hard recently to prepare for the trip to Huaguo, so it is not surprising that he is a little tired.

Iwata Nine Dans attaches great importance to this trip to Huaguo, the reason is Ohara Nine Dans, yes, Ohara Nine Dans was promoted to Nine Dans shortly after returning to China.

Ohara actually lost four games of chess in Hua Kingdom, which shocked the entire Japanese chess world.The strength of Hua Guo Chen Guoshou is obvious to all. It is not surprising that the person who can beat Dazhu beat Ohara. Whoever made this Ohara, who has never had a title, has already looked down on the outcome, and only knows how to study partial methods all day long.

It is not surprising that such a de facto second-tier chess player would lose one or two games against Chen Guo, who is on the rise. What's more, after five games, Ohara still won three games. For this result, the Japanese chess world is acceptable.

The problem is that Ohara also lost two games of chess with Sun Zujie, which is a bit unacceptable.Especially in their first chess game, Sun Zujie's performance caught everyone's attention.If the identity of the player is concealed, it is not surprising to say that this is a chess played by a first-line nine-dan player.

So far, Sun Zujie's impact can be seen at a glance. Of course, he is still very young, so his performance is very immature and unstable, as evidenced by the second game against Ohara.Sun Zujie was always in the lead throughout the whole chess game, but Ohara seized the opportunity inadvertently because he was too strong in the game, and successfully reversed in one fell swoop.

But Sun Zujie obviously learned his lesson. In the third game, after he took the lead, he changed his approach and kept making moves first. As a result, there was almost no chance of counterattack at the end of the whole game.

Maybe it was seeing Sun Zujie's outstanding performance in these three games of chess that Huaguo Chess World let him be the first to play against him, but in this way, he would be roasting him on the fire.

Iwata couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile. They are both in East Asia, and the thinking patterns of the two chess schools are very similar.The country of Wa already knew that Hua Guo had made significant progress in Go, and outstanding young players were constantly emerging, and there were even geniuses like Sun Zujie, who made the whole country of Japan envious.

In fact, the level of this group of chess players from the Hua Kingdom has already reached a very high level, but they have too little experience in the game and too little knowledge, so they have been oppressed by the chess players of the Japanese Kingdom and have no way to breathe.

For example, Chen Guoshou, since he can defeat Dazhu, it is possible to defeat any Japanese Ninth Duan, at most it is the difference of chance.

But half a year ago, he couldn't even beat Lao Ohara in chess. Apart from his poor experience in the game, he was probably more timid before fighting, and was intimidated by the reputation of the high-level chess players in the Japanese country.

For this situation, the Wa Guoqi Academy is actually well aware of it, but no one wants to tell the truth, and it will be a day if it can be delayed.

It's just that in this way, it will be miserable for him, who was kept in the dark and is about to go to China. If he fails, how can the people let it go.

Therefore, the helpless Iwata Kyudan has consciously collected and studied the chess records of the top chess players in China, especially Chen and Sun, since the second half of the year.

After research, Iwata quickly discovered that compared to Chen Guoshou, Sun Zujie's chess is more unpredictable. First, he is in a period of rapid rise and has a strong impact. Although he is unstable, once he plays crazy, he may really be unable to stop him. live;

The second is that although Sun Zujie's chess style belongs to the force-fighting school, he always seems to be able to find a way to restrain the orthodox Japanese style. It is too strange that the winning rate of Japanese chess players is super high.

Iwata is a pure Japanese style, so he has quite a headache. If he loses to this kid who is less than 14 years old, his fame will be wiped out.

Deep down in his heart, Iwata was already a little shaken about whether he could keep his undefeated [-]th dan this time, so he made up his mind that he would rather lose to Chen Guoshou than to lose to Sun Zujie.

This is not only for himself, but also for the Japanese Go.Once such a child is defeated by him, his confidence will definitely increase, and he may quickly break through the bottleneck and become a real first-class or even super-class chess player. Are there few such examples in the history of Japan?

On the contrary, once frustrated, it is very likely that you will not recover from the setback, and you will not be able to recover for a long time, or even a lifetime.

Now that he has made up his mind, when Iwata Jiudan played against Sun Zujie, his attitude was very correct. Although there was a huge difference in age between the two, Iwata regarded Sun Zujie as a real opponent and did not relax at all.

Sun Zujie soon discovered that Iwata knew him well.Sun Zujie likes to fish first and then wash. This is a common problem of the farming party. Generally, he will go out to do things after he has enough land.

Therefore, in the layout stage, Iwata changed his previous style and grabbed the ground with Sun Zujie. He played very resolutely. Not only that, but his chess was also very solid. It can be said that the fence was firmly established, and Sun Zujie did not cause much trouble. Opportunity.

When Sun Zujie finally couldn't bear it anymore and started to do whatever he wanted, Iwata relied on his own white chess with few loopholes, and constantly seized Sun Zujie's weak points to launch counterattacks, causing Sun Zujie a headache.

This chess game lasted more than 100 moves, and all the Chinese personnel in the research room looked serious. Obviously, they had seen clearly Iwata's intentions. His actions just stopped Sun Zujie from playing. Sun Zujie should also be aware of this, so he has been playing Long exam, the chess record has not been updated for a long time.

Chen Guoshou was also bowing his head in thought. From the perspective of his teammates, assuming that he was the one playing the game, what would he do if he encountered such a problem?