The ten-year trace of the soul of chess

On the afternoon of the next day when all the Chinese and Japanese players arrived in Seoul, the event organizer held a group draw ceremony at the Korean Chess Academy.

This draw is divided into 12 groups from A to L.

Light and Bright are divided into Group G and Group I, respectively.Watani and Ikaku who participated together were assigned to Group B, Ochi was assigned to Group D, and Hideyoshi was assigned to Group C.

Seeing the results of the grouping, He Gu immediately grabbed Yijiao and shook it unsteadily.

The light and light on the side looked at each other at the same time as if they had a tacit understanding.

Just smile. —Are you sorry?

Ryo shook his head invisibly. ——It’s just delaying the game.

经过2日的休整，综合预选赛终于在7月15日正式打响。接下来的5天里，所有参赛选手将在韩国棋院内角逐19个本赛名额。本次比赛，贴目：6目半。每方限时2小时。

The opponent in the first round is a three-dan chess player from the Korean Chess Academy.

With the previous experience in the Beidou Cup competition, Guang’s attitude in this open preliminaries is very good. He played steadily from the beginning of the game, and gradually opened up the lead. It took only one and a half hours to bet on the opponent.Liang also won the first round with three and a half eyes.

On the second day of the game, Guang played against Chinese chess player Li Linxin.

During the entire game, Guang always had a feeling of deja vu.

In the 25th move, after Guang made a move of "Xiu Cejian" in the upper left corner, the opponent blurted out: "Sai..."

The name that is too familiar is spoken from a stranger.

Light was startled slightly.

Knowing that he had made a slip of the tongue, Li Linxin couldn't help covering his mouth, and then put his hand next to the black tip.

Although the opponent's "Sai" made Guang a little distracted, Guang quickly stabilized his mood. After thickening his own camp, he saw the right time and attacked White's territory in one fell swoop, breaking the connection between White's pieces and grabbing the white piece. Gotta go first.After that, although Baiqi desperately wanted to get out, but the situation was over.

In the end, black won five eyes and a half.

When clearing the chessboard, just listen to the other party ask in English: "DoyouknowSai? HeisatopGOplayeronthenet.OnceIplayedwithhimandwastotallydefeated. (Do you know Sai? He is a top chess player on the Internet. I have played against him and lost completely.)"

Guang barely understood what he wanted to express, and said tactfully: "Sorry, but Iamnothim." (Sorry, but I'm not him.)

"I know, but it just seemed like that I played with himat some moment. (I know you are not him, but at a certain moment, I feel like I played with him at some moment.)"

"It's my honor." Guang responded with a smile, and couldn't help but clenched the folding fan with his left hand.

……

Although there is only one chess game a day, each game takes as little as 1 hours and as much as 2 hours. In addition to the review and review with the players, on the third night, Guangyi returned to the room , fell down on the bed and did not move.

At first it was still early, so Liang let him sleep.

At ten o'clock in the evening, after Liang finished washing, seeing that he was still sleeping, he walked beside the bed and gently pushed him: "Jin Teng, Jin Teng..."

Unexpectedly, as soon as Guang stretched out his hand, he took Liang's right hand into his arms.Liang's body suddenly lost its balance and almost hit him.He hurriedly put his hands on the edge of the bed, and barely stabilized his body.

It was the first time that he looked at the person in front of him so closely.Fluttering eyelashes.Warm breath.No matter how hard he tried to argue with himself on weekdays, his sleeping face at this moment still looked childish.

Just looking at it like this, Liang couldn't help being crazy.Everything around him seemed to disappear, and it had nothing to do with him anymore.

"Shinto, Shinto..." tentatively calling the other party's name, after confirming that Hikari was asleep, Ryo finally called him uncontrollably, "Hi, Hikari..."

A soft place in the heart was opened, and the corners of the eyes and brows were full of pampering that could not be hidden.

Ryo involuntarily touched Hikari's cheek with his knuckles.

soft.warm.

At the bottom of his heart, there seemed to be a voice confessing for him: This young man who is close at hand is the one he likes...

So careful, but so happy.

But why him?Why is it him?Liang also asked himself more than once.

Shinto Hikaru, what he broke into is not only his Go world, but also his whole life.He is like a ray of light, illuminating his boring and monotonous life.I used to have nothing but Go, but after meeting him, I saw the most splendid scenery.The enthusiasm of red, the warmth of orange, the sunshine of yellow, the vitality of green, and the melancholy of blue.

I thought that I just saw the phantom of the chess god and paid attention to him, but maybe, since the day I played chess with Shinto in the clubhouse for the first time, his gaze could no longer be taken away from him...

It was an unintentional remark of Miss Shihe a few months ago that made Liang feel enlightened - it feels like you are always together.Shinto suddenly stopped coming, seeing his fixed position is always vacant, I'm really not used to it...

Because we were always together, I never thought or imagined that one day someone else would fill up the seat opposite me.It always feels natural that they will always be together.

In the past, I simply thought that maintaining the status quo was good, but I found that I had become greedy unknowingly.

Want to call him by his first name.

I want his eyes to be on me.

Want to mess up his hair like Kawai-san.

Such thoughts expand and become stronger day by day.

He suddenly didn't want to wait any longer...

"Sai, someone mentioned you today..."

Hearing Guang whispering, a bitter smile flashed across the corner of Liang's mouth.Hikari Shinto, how long are you going to hide from me?

In such a quiet night, Liang maintained the posture of kneeling on one knee, staring at the light like a statue for a long time.Gentle.Nostalgic.

It wasn't until Guang turned over that he finally had the time to pull out his arms, and leaned over to tuck the quilt for him...

Who is calling my name?

In the darkness, there seemed to be a figure shaking in front of his eyes.

Hikaru instinctively covered his head with the quilt, but was ripped off immediately.

Reluctantly opened his eyes...

A dark green little sister?

Taya?Taya? !South Korea? !Hualing Cup! ! !

The moment he saw Taya clearly, Hikari's brain was awakened instantly, and then he sat up abruptly.

"what time is it now?"

"08:30. Another hour and a half."

"Ahhh!! Why didn't you wake me up earlier!!!"

After rushing to the bathroom to wash up in a hurry, when I returned to the room, I saw the breakfast already on the table.

"I brought you some breakfast from the restaurant, and I don't know if it suits your taste."

"Oh." Guang nodded silly and sat down at the table.

Looking at the lunch box full of things I like to eat, I am a little confused, but also feel too familiar.

It always seems to be like this.It was the same in Kobe.

The person in front of him always seems to be able to arrange everything properly.Obviously the timing is just right, but it's me who looks so clumsy and at a loss every time.

Just came out of the shower, and her bare hair was still wet.I was burying my head in eating breakfast when I suddenly felt a warmth in my head.

"You eat first, and I'll dry your hair for you." As if knowing what Guang wanted to ask, Liang stood behind him and said while blowing.

Liang's technique is very skilled, and the temperature of the hair is just right.Coupled with the fact that he was full of food and tea, he became a little sleepy after a while.

"It's you, Taya, I want to sleep again now..."

Just as he was speaking, he was suddenly flicked on his forehead.Guang stared at Ta Ya in pain, and was about to blow his hair, when he saw him laughing and said, "Now? Are you more awake?"

"No, it's not good at all!"

After everything was tidied up, Guang shouted: "Taya, hurry up!" and walked out of the room first.When he left the door, there was no sign of light.

Following Guang all the way to the Korean Chess Academy, Liang finally stopped Guang when he was approaching the gate of the chess academy.

When he turned around, he saw Taya stepping forward and straightening his crooked tie.

It was such a common and ordinary move, but Hikari couldn't look directly into Taya's eyes, so he could only look down at his fingers straightening his collar.

In fact, when we met for the first time, I just thought that Tayanako's fingers were very beautiful.Today, his fingers look fairer and slender.Although Sai's hands are also very beautiful...

"Well, that's it."

The moment Guang raised his head, his eyes met with Liang's.Hikaru's face became hot, and he looked away unnaturally: "Thank you."

"Let's go."

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Kobayashi Xingko standing not far away, looking at them with a smile, Liang's expression remained unchanged, and he only nodded slightly as a greeting.

The opponent in the fourth round of light is South Korean chess player Jang Sung-ho.

During the previous review with Ta Ya, he had studied Zhang Chenghao's chess strategy.Although he is an up-and-coming chess player in Korea, his moves are extremely stable and he is good at step by step.Facing such a chess player, if you want to win, you have to play cards unreasonably.

Therefore, as soon as he got started, he directly adopted a somewhat crude strategy of "grabbing by force", first capturing the three corners, and then waiting for an opportunity to go deep into the belly of the white chess.The seemingly rampant play made the opponent frequently fall into the long test.Guang also took advantage of the opponent's thinking time to carefully estimate the current situation on the board.If the black chess dragon can survive smoothly...

There are three areas that have not yet been distinguished from the ground. As long as the black chess on the upper left can be cleared, there is hope for this game!

Light glanced at his opponent.Almost at the moment when the opponent placed a piece, he quickly dropped the sunspot.

After some fighting at the upper left, the black dragon finally managed to kill the tendons of the white chess, greatly damaging the ground of the white chess.But White didn't flinch because of this, and launched attacks again and again targeting Black's weak points.Guang made a slight mistake, allowing the white chess in the lower right corner to double live.

Thanks to the previous lead, after more than 3 hours of hard work, Guang finally narrowly defeated his opponent by one and a half.

The tense state of the game made Guang focus all his attention on the game.

Once the match was over and he relaxed, Guang immediately felt his body was hollowed out, tired, hungry and sleepy.Even at dinner time, Totaya just brought some food for himself, and just slept in the room in the dark.

In the past few days, during dinner time, Xiuying would always do her best as a landlord, leading He Gu and others to taste local delicacies in different ways.

When passing by an audio store, Liang only felt that the music played in the store was very familiar.It seems to have been heard in the hotel lobby the other day.

The sound of the piano is like the waves of the sea, one wave after another, one after another.Smooth but full of delicate emotions.

"Xiuying, have you heard this song?"

"This one, "riverflowsinyou"[1], many places in South Korea are particularly fond of this pianist's music recently. A particularly popular Korean drama used his music before."

Liang just nodded and said nothing.

When passing by a ramen shop, Liang went in and took out a ramen before walking back to the hotel with everyone.

Seeing that Liang bought ramen, Xiuying smiled immediately: "I bought it for Shinto, right? You really know him well. A few days ago, he asked me to recommend ramen to him."

Back in the room, seeing that Hikari was still asleep, Liang poured the noodle soup into a takeaway box containing ramen noodles before waking him up: "Get up and eat."

Guang opened his eyes ignorantly, and his first reaction was: "Are you going to compete again?"

Liang flicked Guang's nose lightly: "I brought you dinner, ramen. Get up quickly."

"Ramen?!" Hikari's eyes brightened instantly.Beside him, he could hear his swallowing.

While the two were talking, the doorbell in the room suddenly rang.

Get up and open the door.Hikaru poked his head out and saw Sachiko Kobayashi standing at the door.

She is also here for this competition?

I don't know what she said to Taya, but after returning to the house, she just heard Taya say to herself: "I'll go out for a while, I'll be right back." She took the coat from the closet.

go out for a while?And Sachiko Kobayashi?Just two people?Or big night?

He glanced at the time, it was 7 o'clock in the evening.

Staring at Taya's back, Hikari's heart twitched.I want to say, if they want to play chess, there is a chessboard in their room, why go outside, as if they want to deliberately avoid themselves... and feel, it seems that it is not appropriate for a girl to go to a boy's room at night.

After thinking about it, I had no choice but to say "um", which was regarded as an answer.

After Taya left, the whole room seemed to become empty, and even the sound of sucking surface was particularly abrupt.

After eating the noodles, he threw the takeaway box into the trash can and looked at the time again, feeling resentful.

"'Immediately', 'immediately', I have been out for half an hour, and I still say 'immediately'!"

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, he just sat down on the chair angrily, crossed his arms and said, "I want to see when you come back!"

On the other side, it is located in the special chess room on the second floor of the hotel.

After Liang and Kobayashi Xingko guessed, they started to play chess in a mutual-first way.

As expected of a female chess player Honinbo, she does not hesitate to make a move, and has the judgment and calculation ability not to lose to male chess players.The oppressive feeling from the opposite side when playing chess is completely different from her usual impression...

After nearly two hours of the game, Sachiko Kobayashi finally voted: "Ah, as expected of Taya-kun. I admit defeat!"

After stretching, she noticed that Taya was looking at the clock on the wall. Sachiko couldn't help but smiled, and said in a low voice, "In such a hurry to go back? It feels like you care about Shinto-kun."

Ryo was not surprised that Sachiko Kobayashi would ask this question.

But it was unexpected that she would ask so directly.

"Why do you ask?"

"Hmm..." Sachiko tilted her head and thought for a while, "Maybe this is a woman's terrible intuition!"

After waiting for a long time, when Liang did not answer, Xingzi put her hands on the table and moved closer: "I didn't deny it, I just admitted it?" Receiving Liang's suspicious gaze, Xingzi said generously: "You don't have to have any Concerns. If I reject it, I won’t even ask. I’ve heard stories about your “chess twin stars” before, including the story about Shinto-kun’s defeat without a fight. In fact, I’ve always felt that if the “chess world If something can really happen to Gemini, it must be a very good thing. Please believe me, this is what I mean."

Sincere eyes.Frank words.

Liang observed the girl sitting across from him, and it took him a long time to reply: "You are really... very special."

Xing Zi hurriedly stopped: "Don't! Just say this to your family."

Liang: "My family?"

Xingzi: "You know who I'm talking about. It's a matter of time anyway." She covered her mouth and yawned, "Ah~ I'm so sleepy, I'll leave first! Come on!" Zhao Liang blinked, Sachiko Kobayashi left.

At 09:30, there was finally a sound at the door.

came back?

Seeing that Shinto was still asleep, Ryo was a little surprised: "Waiting for me?"

"No, no! I, I was just wondering if you didn't bring your room card! I'm going to take a shower." As Guang said, he got up and rummaged through his pajamas.

Seeing the flashing notification light on his mobile phone beside the bed, and the bright spot opening a text message, he immediately smiled.

Time: 20:00.Sender: Light. --When will you come back?

Time: 20:01.Sender: Light. ——That... I was just afraid that I would fall asleep and you didn't bring the key...

Time: 20:30.Sender: Light. ——I won't wait for you!

Finally found the pajamas, when Hikari passed by Taya, he heard his slight smile: "Shinto?"

"what?"

"Thank you!"

Thank you, thank you for what?Why are you so serious all of a sudden!Guangzheng was at a loss, seeing that Taya was holding the phone, the smile on the corner of his mouth became more and more intense, he felt his head heat up, and rushed to the bathroom.

Really, it is not allowed to send the wrong text message with slippery hands!Take off your clothes as if venting.

I didn't notice that you didn't bring your mobile phone!In the mirror, there is a little lion with fried hair.

The phone is really broken, why is there no text message recall function...

Unscrew the shower, but the cold water still can't reduce the scalding temperature on the bare face.

--What's wrong with me?

Note:

[1] "riverflowsinyou": a piece composed by Korean pianist Li Runmin, included in the album "firstlove" released in December 2001.I think many of the songs in this album are very suitable for Guangliang's relationship at that time, even the name of the album is also very suitable!I wrote it into the article, and I recommend everyone to listen to it, it’s great~~