The ten-year trace of the soul of chess

Liang once said that his greatest luck was meeting the light.

Perhaps, the companionship of Light will not have a decisive impact on the chess game itself, but it makes Liang's heart belong, and once a person's heart has a shelter, his mind will also become firm and clear—— The next day's celebrity match, and the next five rounds of matches, although there were always dangers, Liang won the chess match without any risk.

During this process, chess fans who followed the game carefully discovered that since the third chess game, every celebrity match between Taya Ryo's Throne in the future, whether it is the Kumamoto game, the Yamanashi game, or the subsequent Hyogo game In every field, among the commentators who are responsible for the local market commentary, there must be Shinto Mitsubadan, but it is just noticed.

11 month.

After fierce fighting in the first five rounds, the key battle for the title winner of the 31st Celebrity Battle finally kicked off in Atami.

Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture, the second day of the 31st Celebrity Tournament Challenge Hands Six Rounds.

At 2:[-] p.m., on the second floor of the Atami Sotei Hotel, where the game is played, there is a Japanese room specially set up for celebrity battles.

Continuing from yesterday's chess game, the chess game went to the 120th move, and it was Liang's turn to play chess.

At this time, even though White 110 "touch" successfully restrains the black chess below - if Black 113 wants to run out, after White "turns" and seals the black chess, the five black chess pieces in the middle will be forced to form a "no return" "However, if white continues the thinking just now and chooses to block in the "six of eight", and then black counterattacks with a "close" hand, then the white chess in the middle is likely to be reversed and face collapse.

To be prudent, Bai 120 still chooses to "jump", escape temporarily, and wait and see what happens.

However, Ogata obviously did not want to give White a chance to breathe. After Black 123's extremely tricky "stab", he once again provoked trouble in the middle abdomen.

The current situation...

Bright eyes stared at the chessboard.

If white chooses to stick on the right side, once the black piece "eight of 10" connects back, then white will be very tricky; and if white "connects" under black 123, because black is on "six of 8" If there is a "reliable" move in the position, then the white piece is very easy to be broken, and the situation is not optimistic.

Facing the increasingly complicated situation in front of him, Liang could not help but fall into the long test.

At the same time, it is located in the commentary venue of the Sotei Hotel's annex.

Although the day of the chess match happened to be a working day, perhaps because today's chess game is the focus of this celebrity match, the scene still attracted nearly [-] chess fans to participate in the scene. Considering that the challenge of the celebrity match is a two-day system, the schedule is relatively long And the process is slow, so the big game explanations for chess fans are usually arranged in the afternoon of the second day of each hand match.

On the stage, Hikari and the local chess player Akiyama Hinata [-]th Dan started from the prologue of yesterday's chess game.

"At the beginning of the chess game, the two sides started with 'Xingxiaomu' respectively. Then, Black had 13 hanging corners, and White had 14 Xiaofei..." Qiushan said, while replaying the chess game on the chessboard with the black and white magnets dedicated to explaining on the big board, "however , after Black 27 'jumped', White 28 unexpectedly chose 'Break'——"

Having said that, Akiyama paused for a while, then turned to Hikaru: "Shindo-kun, what do you think of this move?"

"Indeed, under normal circumstances, very few chess players would choose to fight at the layout stage." After receiving Akiyama's voice, Guang continued, "The chess shape here is actually a fixed pattern. White chess was originally in the '8-12 'The apex is my hand, and black is my hand at the 'six of [-]', like that."

Guang said while demonstrating in the lower left corner.

"But in actual combat, White 28 chooses to rush. There may be the following reasons," Guang continued after returning the Othello used for demonstration, "First, this move is a counterattack to Black 27's move. Because from the perspective of the board, black 27 had a chance to make up the breakpoint, which is where white 28 is now. White, so White also responds to Black's tough move with 'broken'."

Akiyama looked at the chess record on the big board, nodded thoughtfully, and then asked, "What about the second point?"

"Secondly, it's because of King Taya's understanding of Ogata famous people." Hikari said, "From the subsequent game records, white 28'breaks', black 29'strikes', white 30'long', Black 31 'blocks', White 32 continues to 'stretch', and then Black 33 plays the strongest move 'climbing'. It is not difficult to find that black's chess moves have become very tough since the 27th move. "

During the speech, the chess game on the big board has also been updated to the 33rd move with the explanation.

"It is precisely because he understands Ogata's chess style, and can even predict his most likely follow-up moves, that Taya Throne decided to strike first and fight back with the strongest hand."

"As for the last point," Guang turned his gaze from the chessboard to the audience, a knowing smile appeared on the corner of his lips, "Although winning the chess game is very important, I think it is better to play a 'safe move' step by step than to follow the steps." On the premise of being sure, Throne Taya himself may be more willing to try more changes.”

Although it was known earlier that Toya Ryo and Shinto Hikaru were rivals, this was the first time Akiyama heard one of them analyze the opponent's chess so thoroughly.

After being surprised for a short time, he couldn't help but say with sincere admiration: "Mr. Jindo really knows his opponent very well!"

Unexpectedly, Akiyama would say such a sentence. Hearing the words, he changed his calm and unhurried explanation just now, and hastened to deny: "Nothing, this is just my one-sided statement." After finishing speaking, as if afraid of Akiyama's further words, He hurriedly turned the topic back to the explanation of the market.

But despite his humility on the lips, Guang was still happy in his heart.

Originally, he was not the commentator selected by the Chess Academy for the three rounds of the Celebrity Tournament. It was he who had the cheek to find Mr. Ogata and was qualified to be the commentator for the follow-up game of the series.

During the celebrity battle, when the two were alone, Liang also asked himself, why did he come to commentate?The commentator is usually also responsible for guiding the chess on the first day of the chess game, and cannot see the real-time chess game on the spot. Wouldn’t it be better to review with other chess players in the review room?

At that time, Guang just came back, wanting to pretend to be a public servant for personal gain, and lived in a hotel with Liang in a grandiose manner.

This is of course one of the reasons.

But the real reason, after all, was a bit skinny and shameless, and Ryo didn't ask again later, so Hikari never said it out—when he and Ryo were mentioned together before, people always said that Shinto Hikari was Toya Ryo's strong enemy.Although this is also an indisputable fact, gradually, he began to become greedy. He was no longer satisfied with the identity of "Taya Ryo's rival" in the eyes of everyone. When talking about the two of them together, the first thing that comes to mind is "Hitaka Shinto is the person who knows Ryo Toya best", but whenever there is a chess match with Ryo Toya, he will first want to hear how Hikari Shinto analyzes .

And this time, it may be due to some inexplicable premonition of Guang-I want to stand on the "VIP Seat" and witness you win the second chess title in your career.

While the two were explaining the market in detail, in the game room, Liang finally finished the long exam.

Facing black's repeated disturbances, White 130 finally chose to "touch" and directly hit the bar with black.

Seeing the position of Bai 130's "6 out of [-]", Seiji Ogata couldn't help but glance at it, and when he looked at the chessboard again, his eyebrows frowned slightly.

From White's 110 move just now, Black has fallen into a slight disadvantage.

Although he kept setting traps, Xiao Liang avoided them calmly and sharply.

In the current situation, if black 131 "pulls" and white 132 makes a move of "Worriless Calamity", black will be even more unfavorable.

Thinking again and again, black 137 sacrificed a "town" at the "eleven of 15" position, trying to weaken white's power in the middle on the right side.

And in the commentary venue of the Sotei Hotel's villa, the explanation of the chess game is still going on enthusiastically.

"Black 103 and 105 can be said to be good players who can disrupt the game." Akiyama faced the chessboard and explained to the audience, "In the middle and lower part of the board, Black 103's 'jump', although it looks like a backhand, it not only reinforces the At the same time, the position of the middle side also connects with the lower left side of the black piece. In this way, if the white piece is charged at the shoulder of 'Nine of 8', the black piece can do some work, and the middle piece can also take the opportunity to run out. On the left, black can mess up the game on the right, no matter which one is used, white is not very easy to handle."

Hikari followed Akiyama's words and further explained: "Usually, chess players will settle their solitons first, and then open up new territories. Of course, it is not ruled out that some chess players will first make a move in the new area to adapt to the hand, to test The reaction of the opponent. If you have paid attention to the three rounds of the celebrity battle, you may have the impression that in the three rounds of the game, when the chess game reached the 17th move, Taya Throne made a move in the lower left corner to test Ogata Meiren However, in today's game, the two moves of Ogata Celebrity are, to a certain extent, adaptive moves, in order to test the choice of white chess. gone."

As soon as the voice fell, a small amount of discussion immediately sounded from the audience.

But amidst the discussion, just seeing, from time to time, some chess fans nodded their heads in agreement.

With the continuous deepening of the explanations of the two, the whole explanation of the big game has caught up with the progress of the chess game without knowing it.

On the large screen on the side of the commentary venue, the chess record of this chess game is being broadcast simultaneously at the moment, and the game record has clearly marked the order of each move from the beginning to the present of the entire chess game.

"From the perspective of the board, black 137 played the strongest hand, and then black and white started a fierce battle in the right middle. After white 148 captured two black stones, it temporarily maintained the lead. But it should be noted that, White can't be too strong in this area, otherwise the situation is very likely to be reversed by black..." During the early game explanation, Guang faced the chess fans and kept talking, but at this moment, looking at the game record displayed on the screen next to him, He was just talking, but suddenly there was no sound—even though he knew from the beginning that this chess game would be a tough one, the complexity of the current game was far beyond his imagination.

Holding the microphone in his hand, he stared at the broadcast screen beside him, feeling that the blood all over his body was rushing to his brain, his face was getting hotter and hotter, but his hands and feet were getting colder and colder.

On the screen, the chess game between Ryo and Mr. Ogata has reached the 150th move. It can be said that White has taken the lead.

However, Mr. Ogata will definitely continue to seek opportunities in the future, and do everything possible to connect back the broken black chess in the middle.

Facing the repeated troubles of the Ogata fox, Ryo, what would you do?

Seeing Guang's lack of focus, Akiyama Hyouhei standing aside calmly said: "It seems that this game is really difficult, even Jinto chess players have fallen into the long test."

Hearing this sentence, Guang suddenly came back to his senses, gave Akiyama a "thank you" look, and hurriedly followed his voice to continue the words: "Huh~ This chess game is really too intense, although it is currently It is a situation where white is winning, but in the future, as long as the two players are a little careless, they may lose the whole game."

As he spoke, he wiped his forehead and turned his palm to Akiyama: "Mr. Akiyama, did you see that? After explaining for a while, my forehead is already covered with sweat. I feel like I can't go on talking about this game of chess." .”

When Akiyama heard the words, he immediately retorted: "No, no, if you can't even go on with Jin Fuji-kun, what do you want me to do? Or, you hold on first, and I will go to the examination room and bring a rescuer?" With that said, he was about to go down the stage.

Guang quickly ran over and pulled him back to the stage.

After the two sang together on the stage, the dull atmosphere in the audience became active again.

And while the two were joking around, in the game room, the chess game had entered a heated stage.

It can be felt that the end is very close.

But as the saying goes, "A person who travels a hundred miles takes half ninety years", Liang did not dare to relax at all. His right hand couldn't help but grasped his left arm tightly. His nails were deeply embedded in the skin and he didn't feel it until he felt a little pain. Can calm down, take a deep breath, and once again set his sights on the board.

At this time, the white chess is already in a winning situation, and the white chess below only needs to communicate with the center smoothly, and the overall situation is settled.

however……

Black 159's "sharp" move disrupted the situation again, attempting to connect black back in the chaos.

That being the case... Liang pondered for a moment, then picked up a white piece, settled on the town of "Twelve of Twelve", stretched out his butcher knife, and completely killed the big dragon in the middle of the black piece.

In the commentary venue.

Seeing Black 173 consecutively offering winners and losers, White 182 responded calmly, and then White 200 successfully connected back the white chess in the middle belly, Guang swallowed lightly, and said: "This game, this game has progressed so far, the winner is already divided." .”

In the subsequent explanation process, although Guang tried his best to analyze in an objective and calm tone, his heart still beat wildly involuntarily.

A voice kept shouting in his mind, success!Bright he succeeded! ! !

He almost wanted to drop the microphone immediately and go directly to the door of the game room to intercept his celebrity on the Throne of Taya, but the chess game was not over yet, and he was still shouldering the task of explaining, so he could only stand on the stage and explain step by step .

As time passed, the involuntary suffering crept into his heart, making him almost agitated.

Is Ogata-san still planning to continue?

In the game room.

The chess piece was held between two fingers by Ogata, gently twisted up, and then gently put down.

He stared at the chessboard like looking for gold in the sand, and his body couldn't help but lean forward a little.

As a master spoiler, he naturally knows better than others how to create opportunities and how to give black a chance.

But right now, no.

No way.

Since the beginning of the 122nd move, Bai has been playing every step of the way, leaving no chance for him.

Over the years, the Celebrity War has changed owners several times, and it was only in the past two years that he finally held it firmly in his hands. He never expected that he would hand it over to someone else today...

Perhaps because he was not yet ready to admit defeat, Ogata fell silent for a long time as if he had fallen into a long exam.

Sitting opposite, Liang looked calm.

He looked up at Ogata Seiji, then closed his eyes slightly.

As if waiting for a signal.

That's it for this series...

The moment this thought flashed through his mind, Ogata remembered that it was up to him to draw an end to this series.

He finally lowered his head and saluted, "I lost."

I lost.

Upon hearing this sentence, Liang's first reaction was that it was unreal, like a hallucination.

lost?who lost?

But at the same time, a voice next to his ear told him clearly and calmly that it was Mr. Ogata who lost, it was you who won the sixth round, and it was you who won the title of the 31st Celebrity Tournament.

at last.

Look back at the road you have traveled behind.

Started learning chess at the age of 2.

At the age of 13, he officially became a professional chess player.

At the age of 19, he won his first chess title in his career.

Maybe it's because the journey has been too long, or maybe it's been nearly twenty years, and only he knows the bitterness and suffering. Liang can feel the excitement and joy surging back and forth in his chest, but when that moment really comes, he But his mind was blank.

He looked at the people around him as if asking for proof.

Did he really win?

He really defeated Mr. Ogata?

Did he really... have the coveted title of celebrity?

It wasn't until Liang finally settled his eyes on Mr. Ogata and saw him nodding his head affirmatively to himself that the question hanging in his heart finally came to the ground.

That's not hallucination, he really took the celebrity title.

The sentence "I lost" seemed to completely shatter the blockage in his chest, and a long breath finally came out of Ogata Seiji's mouth.

He looked at the junior sitting opposite him, who was a little at a loss at the moment, and there was a silent smile on his lips as if relieved.

But four years.

Four years ago, after the five rounds of the 57th Honinbo Cycle, he said to Liang: "Your strength is far from mine."

And today, four years later, after the 31st Celebrity Tournament challenged hand-to-hand six rounds, he looked into Liang's eyes and said word by word: "You are very strong now."

That is to say, after the game that day, when the reporters rushed into the game room to interview the new celebrity, several cameras also recorded the most touching smile on the face of the celebrity Taya.

In the countless interviews in the past, although Taya Ryo smiled, his smile was always calm and distant, like a portrait shrouded in mist.

The smile never reaches the eyes.

But this time, although Liang is still courteous, his eyebrows facing the camera are stretched, and the arc of his lips is like the sparkling lake water in the sun, gentle and dazzling, making people want to reach out and touch it. I want to freeze this smile forever.

for a long time.

The name "Taya Ryo" has always been tied with "Taya Yukiyo's son".

The first time this impression was shaken by everyone was the night when he entered the 57th Honinbo circle for the first time.

Hagiwara Kudan once said with emotion: "As expected of Toya Ryo."

But this affirmation is only heard by a small number of people.

The second time was the day when the title of the 54th Battle of the Throne was won. The change of the title of the throne gave everyone a new understanding of this 19-year-old chess player.

But today, with the final victory of the celebrity battle, Ryo finally proved his true strength to all those who supported him and doubted him, and at the same time, once again firmly nailed the three words "Taya Ryo" Into people's minds.

——In the history of Japanese Go, since the title match was held, the youngest professional nine-dan player is also the youngest double-title winner.

His name is Taya Akira.

Taya Ryo.

The author has something to say:

On the last day of 2017, congratulations to our little teacher for fulfilling his wish.

At the same time, a certain bear is here to wish everyone a happy new year!Thank you for your support and company this year!

See you in 2018^_^