The ten-year trace of the soul of chess

A peak, a dangerous journey.

The scenery on the top of the mountain is beautiful, but there are more eyes coveting it, and more people yearning for it.

For the challengers, the most difficult thing may never be how to successfully climb to the summit, but after reaching the summit, they still maintain the state of mind and ability to keep the lofty and vastness in front of them.

Although the battle of celebrities has added a lot of color to Liang's personal resume, he can't let him relax at all, and the 54th throne battle is approaching him with iron hooves.

12 month 14 day.

The final battle for the title of throne officially started at Chinzanso, Bunkyo District, Tokyo.

Since the location of the big game commentary is set at the Nihon Kiin, not in the game venue, Hikaru did not take the role of commentary for this chess game.

On the day of the chess game, after driving to Chunshan Villa with Liang, Liang went to the game room first, and after Guang stopped the car, he went straight to the review room at the other end of the corridor.

Pushing open the door of the examination room, there are still a few familiar old faces inside - the old and cunning Mr. Kuwahara, the like-minded Fox Ogata, Mr. Ashihara, and Kazutani and Ochi.

Guang nodded to everyone in the room, and seeing that the seat opposite Lu Yuan was still empty, he sat down opposite him.

After sitting down, like ADHD, he looked around and confirmed that "that person" was not there, but he was still a little lost for a second.

And in the press room separated by a wall, probably because today's World War I was related to "Whether Taya Ryo Kyudan can successfully defend the title of the throne", it was crowded with more than a dozen reporters early in the morning.

Morning chess game.

Continuing the order of chess execution in the previous stage of the series, Taya Ryo, the celebrity on the throne, is black, and Zama Jiudan is white.

Perhaps this game of chess is already the "Battle of Tianwang Mountain", and the two sides of the game have been particularly cautious since the stage of layout.

When Black 27 "Xiao Fei" intends to take the ground first, White 28 did not rashly expand the left position, but chose to "destroy" one move. The black and white sides are always in a very delicate balance, until White 30 is in "14 Sixteen" made a shoulder charge, and the chess game suddenly became fierce.

Facing the invitation to fight between the seats, Black 33 decisively cuts off the white chess on the right with a move of "point", and White is not to be outdone. Disrupt the rhythm of Black's attack.

As expected of an old thief in Zama.

If it's not pleasing to you, it's where you want to go.

In the game room, watching the chess game on the broadcast screen, Guang only felt a little fire in his heart.

And across the screen, black seems to be irritated by white's move. Black 39's "nine of 17" move "clamps" and points directly at the three white pieces on the [-]th road, and keeps on its upper left, Continuous winding attack below.

In the game room, there are a total of 2 cameras.

One is installed directly above the chessboard, and you can clearly see the position of each hand of the two players; the other is set up beside the players, so that you can easily see the subtle body movements and facial expressions of the two players. expression changes.

Up to the 47th move of the game, when Black 47 "Shoulder Charge" continued to attack and hit White, a broadcast screen in the review room clearly captured the movement of Zama's body suddenly leaning forward.

Haha, starting to panic!Guang smiled lightly, and felt that his whole body was also boiling with passion following the chess game.

——At this time, on the board, black has gradually taken the initiative.

The next chess game.

After nearly 68 moves of dormancy, the upper and middle white chess finally managed to keep the eye position, and Zama finally chose not to bear it any longer. After Bai [-]'s "touch" move, he directly blew the horn of enlistment.

Although it was already the final battle for the throne, since the introduction of Bai 68, the speed of the two players' moves suddenly accelerated.

White 70 "touch", black 71 "glue", white 72 "tiger", black 73 "beat and eat"...

On the board, an extremely complicated defense battle soon formed.

In the review room, the originally somewhat silent air gradually sounded with discussions one after another.

When Bai 78 made a move of "jump", an uproar broke out in the examination room.

As soon as Bai's chess was settled, He Gu shouted: "Why? It's the first move for White to 'clip' all the way to the left. Isn't Master Zama's move like this giving Black a way out?!"

Hearing this, Kuwahara Jin on the side showed an unpredictable smile on his face, but he didn't answer immediately, but threw the question to the light: "Kid Shindo, what do you think of this move?"

Guang was silent for a moment facing the chess board, and then tried to answer: "White 78'clip' is certainly the first move, but if black loses the lead at this time, black will be dead, so black will definitely not follow white's intention. Come on. As for the 'jump' move..." He thought for a while, and then said, "White may have thought about it. If White clicks a move at the 'one of 2' position, and Black makes a move, both sides have great It is possible to form a 'thousand-year calamity' in the lower left corner. In this way, both sides will have scruples, so they have to postpone the calamity contest in the lower left corner, and this time difference is just for white to make up for it on its own. Chance."

In just a few words, it was like enlightenment.

While waking up all the chess players present, it also sounded the alarm in everyone's heart - the chess strength of Mitsu Shinto's [-]th dan may have been on par with Kuwamoto Inbo and Ogata's [-]th dan.

When the situation became more and more tense, near 11 o'clock, a loud and clear "grunt" sound suddenly sounded in the examination room.

In today's battle, the review room arranged by the organizer is not big, and it only needs to guess the direction a little to know the source of the sound.

Guang could feel a faint smile coming from around him, although there was no malice, his face was still burning red.

In order to prevent his disappointing stomach from embarrassing him again, Guang quickly took out a pack of digestive biscuits from his schoolbag.

Just as he was about to tear off the wrapping paper, Lu Yuan, who was sitting across from him, suddenly yelled, "Ah! This biscuit——"

"Biscuits?" Pausing his hands, he looked at the biscuits, then at Lu Yuan, "What's wrong with the biscuits?"

"Not really..." Lu Yuan tilted his head slightly, as if thinking deeply, his brows were all frowned, "I just feel like I've seen this biscuit somewhere before."

I thought that Lu Yuan would make some amazing remarks, but I didn't expect to say such a sentence without beginning and end. The corners of his mouth twitched lightly, and he calmly tore open the package, then ignored him, and focused his eyes again while replenishing energy. to the chess game.

On the board, after black "broke" 97, black pressed on step by step, intending to break the eye position of white directly below.

On the broadcast screen, Zama's mentality seemed to be about to explode.

I saw that he began to subconsciously bite the unlucky folding fan in his hand. At the same time, his body that was already leaning forward leaned forward even more, and his arched back was like a heavy hill.

It is expected that Zhunzama will save the 116th move of White until the follow-up game in the afternoon. In the review room, Mr. Kuwahara actually counted the current situation of the black and white sides on the board with great interest: "Black left bottom 5, 15 on the upper left, 15 on the upper right, 5 in the center..."

Guang didn't make a sound, but he couldn't help but mentally calculate together: "5 in the middle, 10 at the bottom, add up to 50; White's left side is 30, top is 5, bottom is 5, right side is 5, the total is 45."

When it came to the lunch break, black still took the lead for the time being.

Enter lunch break.

In the examination room, the chess players who came to watch the battle moved their seats one after another, got up and left.

Awara stood up and stretched, then warmly greeted Hikari, Kazuya, and Ochi to go out for dinner together.The three of them wanted to refuse decisively, but the kindness was hard to refuse, so they had no choice but to resign themselves to having lunch with Awara and Ogata.

In the restaurant, while waiting for the food to be served, Guang's cell phone rang.

Just click on the message, and you will see a selfie homework photo of Liang posing with scissorhands and taking a photo with his lunch.

To be honest, the smile was a little stiff, and the photo was still a little out of focus, but Guang still couldn't help zooming in on the photo, and kept pointing to the dimple on the corner of Liang's lips with his index finger as if possessed.

When I was staring at the photo, a voice suddenly rang in my ear: "Shinto-kun, what are you looking at? Are you smiling so happily?"

Guang was startled, and instinctively put the phone screen towards his chest, and when he looked up again, everyone including He Gu looked at him with caring eyes.

——Did I smile so obviously?Guang asked He Gu silently.

He Gu didn't have much expression on his face, he just silently covered his eyes with his right hand.

Light:"……"

It was so easy to wait for the meal, and when everyone was devouring it, Lu Yuan swallowed the food in his mouth as if thinking of something, and said in surprise: "Ah, I remembered!"

The bald scalp was numb, and he asked stiffly: "What did you think of?"

"I remembered where I saw this kind of biscuits before!" Lu Yuan said firmly, "Before, when I participated in an event with Xiao Liang, I saw Xiao Liang take it out of the bag! I I was so hungry at the time, and he was so stingy and refused to give me food!" Lu Yuan became more and more chilled as he spoke, and after comparing the biscuit packages he had seen twice in his mind, he nodded vigorously as if confirming, "No You can be wrong! The biscuits that Xiao Liang ate that day are exactly the same as the biscuits you ate today!"

At the dining table, Lu Yuan, who had no eyesight, was still talking there alone, completely oblivious to the very subtle expression changes that had taken place on the faces of the people around him—the hand holding the spoon paused for a moment, and then he buried his head in his eyes. He ate sharply; Kazuya bit his lip, but still couldn't help lowering his head and laughing; Ochi's serious face all the year round became more and more pale at this moment; Ogata Seiji gently pushed his glasses, slightly abruptly Cough a few times.

The air was suddenly quiet.

A few minutes later, Seiji Ogata interrupted calmly: "It's getting late, let's finish eating quickly and go back early."

After an hour's lunch break, the battle continued in the afternoon.

White 116 "pull", black 117 consecutive pulls, the two sides come and go, and the melee in the lower right corner is constantly escalating.

Going to White's 126 "jump", it was beyond everyone's expectations in the review room. In the case of White's unfavorable situation, Zama actually chose to "put it to death and live later", and followed the thinking of black to clear the bottom right corner. The white piece directly gave up!

That is to say, after White abandons the corner, on the board, the two sides of black and white form a switch - Black gains more than 50 points of interest in the lower right corner, and after White "charges" at 138, White also gains a considerable momentum in the middle , the white pieces above and below are ingeniously connected together.

The leading advantage black had maintained all the way, unexpectedly...disappeared without knowing it!

However, changes continued.

Although White's disadvantage was reversed by boldly abandoning the corner, the upper right white has no way to retreat, and it must make up for the loss in the lower right corner by gaining from the upper part.

In the upper right corner, the black piece seized the opportunity to connect the two pieces of black pieces on the upper right and lower right in one fell swoop, making up for itself.

After that, the black and white sides launched a fierce competition in the middle hinterland.

White 152 "Chong", Black 153 "Long", White 154 "Connect", Black 155 "Tie", waiting to go to Black 171, the central black chess is working smoothly.

At this point in the chess game, all the main fields have been implemented, and the whole chess game has entered the final stage.

Seeing that on the board, black gradually lost its advantage, Guang felt as if he had been hit by someone, his mind suddenly buzzed, and he couldn't react.

Still in a daze, he listened to Lu Yuan, sitting opposite him, analyze the score: "At present, although black is at a slight disadvantage, once the two black chesses below black 181 run out, neither the lower nor the middle white chesses can survive. , So, the next chess game is the key. Shindo-kun, what do you think?"

It was Lu Yuan's last sentence, and Kankan pulled Huiguang's thoughts in a trance.

He forcibly settled down, and carefully read the chess records so far, and then replied in the voice of Lu Yuan: "Indeed, at this stage, there are many changes that are beneficial to white, for example, white chess in '6-8 ', or at the position of 'Nine of 5', directly fight against black, but at the same time, pay attention to the change of black's chess shape in the middle of the left, if black chooses to pull in the 'seven of [-]' , White will be very passive."

In the review room, although Lu Yuan was speaking to Lu Yuan, the other chess players were also listening.

The current chess game, just as Guang said, no matter for black or white, any change of a move may affect the final result of the whole game, so neither player has yet to relax, and every move in the future In chess, there is no room for error in the order of placement.

however--

Looking at the overall situation, it is still a white chess situation...

In the game room, Liang stared at the chessboard, only to feel a layer of cold sweat on his back, and his heartbeat hit his eardrums and temples heavily like a drum.

But after a while, a self-deprecating smile slowly appeared on his lips.

Too restless, Taya Ryo.

The chess game is not over yet, what are you panicking about?

In this instant, the confusion that once aroused in Liangyan's eyes was swept away.

At this time, in the final round of the throne battle, the total time for the black pieces is 2 hours and 05 minutes, and the total time for the white pieces is 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Focusing on the chessboard again, after thinking for about 10 minutes, Liang let out a long sigh of relief, then held the chess with his right hand, and sent Black 201 directly to the "eight of ten" position.

Another round of black counterattack...began!

In the review room, the voice of discussion that was originally floating in the sky like a mist, seemed to be intimidated by the momentum of the black chess, and fell down again.

Just when all the voices were about to die down, Kuang Yuanren suddenly said: "Black chess is dead."

Before he finished speaking, Guang's gaze swept over, and he gave Kuwahara Ren a hard look.

But the old man didn't realize it, he still leaned firmly in the seat, watching the chess game on the screen that had already been won and lost.

Some reasons, not understand.

Some things are not invisible.

But people are always used to deceiving themselves to close their eyes and cover their ears with their hands, as if by doing so, they can postpone the moment when the ending comes.

As soon as Kuwahara's words came out, chess players in the review room immediately followed suit, and some chess players even started to pack up the chessboard and prepare to leave.

This chess game is full of transitions and variables from the middle game to the final game. It is considered a famous game among hundreds of chess records throughout the year.

It's a pity that throughout the ages, in every chess game, only the winner can be the king.

Afterwards, Guang forced himself to stay in the examination room for a few minutes, and then he couldn't hold back anymore, and rushed out of the room before the two parties could complete the count.

Ren Kuwahara glanced at the door quietly, and when he retracted his gaze, he said ambiguously as if sighing: "It's still too tender."

In the game room.

Looking silently at the tidied chessboard, Liang's hands on his knees were silently clenched.

——On the board, there are 177 black pieces and 171 white pieces.

In addition to sticking meshes, white chesses have more than half meshes than black chesses.

However, it is this half-eye difference, but it means... a failure.

The dream of defending the title is broken.

A month ago, the moment of claiming the title of celebrity was so unreal, but the moment of knowing lost the title of throne is so clear, like a sudden heavy rain pouring down on a winter night.

"Losing" is far more unforgettable than "gaining".