The ten-year trace of the soul of chess

At the end of March, the Honinbo round-robin competition is drawing to a close.

For any professional chess player, being able to enter the Honinbo round-robin tournament itself is already a great honor, but since hearing the number reported by Mitsuko, Hikari is a little greedy.

He desperately wants to win more games.Because even if he goes one step further, he will get more game bonuses.

In the last round of the Honinbo Round Robin, when he captured Shirahoshi, Hikaru went crazy with joy—according to the current round-robin ranking, the victory in the last round confirmed his qualification to participate in the 60th Honinbo Challenge Competition.

And his opponent will be Ogata Seiji [-]th dan celebrity.

For a long time, every step of the way seems to be for this moment.

On the day of the contest for the right to challenge three days later, even if he was just sitting in the Youxuan Room, his hands that were only on his lap trembled unconsciously.But it is definitely not because of tension or fear, but from longing and excitement that has been suppressed for a long time in the depths of my heart.

And in the review room at that time, when Kazuya and Ikaku arrived, Taya Ryo was nowhere to be seen, but among many top chess players headed by Kuwamoto Inbo, Kurata Atsushi, and Awara, he saw Toyayuki who had retired for a long time Yang also ranks among them!Even though he had long since given up on the question of "why is Shinto sacred", Hegu still took some effort to close his jaw that was about to fall.

Not long after, on the originally static TV screen, Ogata Seiji, as a high-ranking player, was the first to hold several white stones.

After guessing first, light and black go first.

As a prelude to Honinbo's hand-gathering challenge, each side in the competition has 5 hours of thinking time.

Before the game, Hikaru deliberately studied Ogata's chess records of major tournaments in the past year, and played the first few moves without thinking.

When Black played the 11th move, Guang fingertips hesitated a little.Facing the deliberate entanglement of the white chess in the lower left corner, black gave up the usual trick of "getting off first" and chose to defend the lower right corner as a response.

As the chess game unfolded, the first flame of war ignited first in the upper right corner.

After nine or ten rounds of confrontation, seeing that the shape of the white chess has begun to take shape, Guang decisively "broke" on the breakpoint of the two white chess pieces, temporarily destroying the close connection between the white chess pieces on the upper right.However, so far, the territorial dispute at the upper right is still unclear.Relying on the advantage of Jie material, Guang has a slight advantage in the control of the upper right.

In the chess game in the morning, the thrilling moment appeared in the 50th move.

The right side is in the middle position, white chess should be broken continuously.Not only Guang in the game room, but also everyone in the review room fell into deep thought.

Although he saw through Ogata's trap at a glance, Toya Yukihiro did not comment on it.He put his hands into his wide sleeves, his eyes tightly locked on the screen, as if he was waiting for the judgment of the light.

In the game room, Guang's gaze gradually became sharper.

Out of the inertia of thinking, the first move he thought of was to seize the flaws of the white chess and take down the one-acre three-point land that the black chess could get in front of him in one fell swoop——Looking at the current situation, this move seems to be the best move. Reasonable is also the most appropriate, but with the unique intuition of chess players, Guang always feels that something is wrong.It all seemed too easy.

Guang couldn't help raising his eyes and glanced at his opponent.

The man in front of him, with long narrow eyes and a sharp chin, looks like a fox. No matter how he looks at it, he doesn't think he will give up the territory he has acquired so kindly...

Hikaru turned to look at the chess game, and in his mind, like a computer, he quickly deduced where Ogata Fox might make his move next.

After several rounds of alternating chess, when White 58 settled, Kuwamoto Inbo's unique dead-wood-like laughter sounded in the examination room.He looked at Taya with half-opened eyes, and said without hesitation: "It seems that this kid's chess strength has far surpassed most of the people here."

Finally escaped the bad luck of being slaughtered by the dragon without any danger, Guang couldn't help sweating secretly.Facts have proved that the fox is indeed a fox, the same breed as Kuwamoto Inbo, and will never become a little white rabbit.

After a short period of relaxation, Hikari's nerves tensed up again.Although barely escaped, the current situation on the board is still unfavorable for black.Seeing that the trap that he had painstakingly planned failed, Ogata also had to find another countermeasure.

After Bai 58, both sides fell into a long test.

What Ogata thought: If the middle-bellied black chess is forcibly broken, Shinto will definitely struggle to the death.The right side of black chess is rich in robbery materials, and it is very likely to be dragged into the battle of robbery at that time.Based on his understanding of Shindo Hikaru over the years, he has excellent concentration.Once the progress of the chess game is lengthened and the variables increase, the situation is likely to lead to the side of the vine.

What Guang thought in his heart: Right now, the shape of black chess is still not thick enough.If you stick to the central position and send the black chess too deep, and the white chess "relies" with one move, the black chess can certainly seize one side's territory, but it may fall behind.This method of killing one thousand enemies and self-defeating eight hundred is a bit too much for the gain.

From then on, both of them temporarily stopped playing, and continued to deepen the chess game in mutual temptation.

Until the noon break, the situation of black and white chess was still in a stalemate, not very clear.

When he got up and stepped out of the game room, Ogata pushed his glasses, and said to Hikari intentionally or unintentionally: "By the way, Mr. Taya mentioned before that he himself will be present to watch today's chess game.

This was a negligible sentence, but because of a taya in the middle, it fell directly into Guang's heart.

Taya-sensei...is here too?

Specifically to watch your own chess game?

Hikaru didn't know what Ogata's original intention was when he said this, but if it was just to disturb his mind, he might be disappointed.

Guang smiled: "Really? It seems that I have to work harder this afternoon."

When he stepped out of the Youxuan Room, Hegu and Yijiao had just arrived, Guang Wuxin was not interested in fighting, bowed slightly behind him politely, passed by Ogata, and walked towards his friend's place.Not long after, Taya Yukihiro also walked out of the examination room and reunited with Ogata.

After lunch, Guang lost some interest and went back to the lounge early without chatting with his friends.

Sitting in a lounge that was at least four stacks in size, Hikari suddenly missed Taya very much.Want to hear his voice, want to know what he is doing.

On the day when the tiebreaker match schedule was confirmed, when I heard that Ryo had a match at Kansai Kiin at the same time, it must be a lie to say that he was not disappointed.Although the countless previous chess games were played alone, this time the meaning of the chess game is different.

From the moment he knew that he had entered the tiebreaker, Hikaru had been looking forward to the fact that when he won the right to challenge the Honinbo title, his lover and opponent would be by his side to witness together with him—he wanted Taya Be proud of yourself.

However, Hikari couldn't help but feel a little lucky when he heard that Mr. Taya was also here to watch the battle.

After Mrs. Mingzi called that day, Liang just said lightly that his mother asked him to go home once in a while, but Guang vaguely felt that letting Liang go home at the very moment when the magazine "Gen's" was just published, this matter itself was a bit grand. means.Although the people Taya wants to meet are his close parents, to some extent, it is precisely because they are his biological parents that it makes people feel more uneasy.

Guang hesitated for a long time at the dial key, and just sent an innocuous message to Liang.

——I had pork chop rice for lunch today, but the taste was not very friendly.

The text message came back quickly.

——Is it really the pork chop rice itself that tastes bad, or does your mood affect the taste of the rice?My shindo chess player.

Guang clicked on the message, glanced at it, and immediately smiled.But after laughing for a while, I couldn't laugh anymore.

Guangxin said, yes, it is the mood that affects the taste of the rice.Because at such an important time, someone is not there.But he didn't want someone to be overly proud or... worried, so he replied—Yeah, because he'd have to face Mr. Ogata all day.

Liang knew that because of Sai's relationship, Hikari had always had a grudge against Mr. Ogata, so he asked Hikari—are you nervous?

Not waiting for an answer, the next message came one after another.

——If you are nervous, you can imagine Mr. Ogata without glasses.

Guang didn't understand the meaning of Liang's words at first, he looked at the ceiling and imagined.When the panda without dark circles came to mind, Guang couldn't help but couldn't stop laughing.

He almost wondered if the other end of the phone was the unsmiling Ta Yaliang he knew.

The originally depressed mood was completely dispelled in the back and forth text messages.

Continuing the morning chess game, it was Ogata's turn to play chess.

As soon as the two sides started the game in the afternoon, they fell into a melee.

White's 66 is "long", and Black immediately bites White's throat.

Black 71 "pulled", and White quickly responded with a move of "Tiger".

Compared with the performance in the morning, the black chess in the afternoon was played more bravely and freely.

However, Ogata gradually formed a huge net on the chessboard by constantly mobilizing the white chess layout.When Guang tried to use the black piece on the upper left to hold the white piece, and then to open up the territory in the middle and lower part, the white piece on the upper left did not know when, it had already escaped from the restraint of the black piece, and followed it to the middle and lower part like a shadow.

Black 95 is in the lower right small tip position.Almost as soon as Hikari's chess pieces were settled, Taya Xingyang frowned while reviewing the room.

When the chess game reached White 98, Guang suddenly realized that he had played the "tip" hand just now at the wrong timing and position, but it was too late.At this time, the black chess on the lower left, which lacked support, gradually showed signs of fatigue.

At the same time, the contact network established between white chess gradually began to play a role.

As the game progresses, white's lead becomes more and more obvious.

When Bai 110 confirmed the boundary of Bai's territory on the lower left with a move, Taya Xingyang, who was sitting in the review room, pondered for a moment, then slowly got up and left the seat early.

When Ryo arrived in a hurry, he just had a face-to-face meeting with Toya Yukihiro who came out of the elevator.

He stopped immediately and called out respectfully, "Father."

On the first floor of the chess academy, chess fans come in and out from time to time.

Ryo wanted to explain something, but Taya Yukihiro raised his hand to interrupt him: "I'm here today, just to watch the chess game between Shinto and Ogata. I'll talk about the rest when you get home."

Liang stood where he was, watching his father's back fade out of sight.Although he vaguely guessed the result, he still couldn't wait for the elevator to return to the first floor, so he ran directly from the stairs to the fifth floor where Youxuanjian was located.

At 16:23 in the afternoon, the game ended.

After more than six hours of fierce fighting, Ogata finally won the bet and won the right to challenge the 60th Honinbo Title Match.

Because it was only one step away from the place where the soul lingers, and it is even more embarrassing when you can't reach it with all your strength.

When Hikaru and Ogata were interviewed by several Go magazines together, they barely maintained the demeanor that a Go player should have.

But when he walked out of the Youxuan Room, as soon as he saw Taya who had just run to the fourth and a half floors, the sourness that Hikaru tried his best to suppress immediately surged up.He has also lost many chess games in the past. Before that, he had a black history of losing consecutively without fighting, but never once, like

It made him feel so ashamed now.Not only because of the loss itself, but also because it was a lost game under the watchful eyes of Taya Yukihiro.

Gathering all her strength on the two feet that supported her, Hikaru walked towards Taya step by step.Everything around him seemed to disappear, and he could only see this figure waiting for him on the half floor.

When he stepped on the ground, he saw a trace of panic across the bright and elegant face.

He almost slipped and rubbed down to the half floor, and when he fell into Liang's arms, his bare feet were painful, but he insisted on not making a sound.

Losing chess is enough to be embarrassing, if people find out that he sprained his feet because of his lust for beauty, he will basically lose face in the Japanese Go world.

Liang held Guang nervously: "Can I still go?"

Guang tried to touch the ground with his right foot, and immediately grinned his teeth in pain, and said tremblingly, "Taya, you, help me."

Liang hugged Guang distressedly.Out of selfishness, he was also a little grateful for this sprain, which allowed him to touch his beloved in full view.

He hugged Guang with one hand, and put Guang's arm on his shoulder with the other: "Let me help you take the elevator."

Just looking at the people standing on the stairs on the fifth floor who witnessed the accident, I felt my ankle hurt even more: "Well, Taya, please help me to the fourth floor first. It's easier to go downstairs than to go upstairs."

Fifth floor stairway.

Yi Jiao, who had witnessed the episode just now, was about to follow along to help, but was stopped by He Gu: "Why are you going to join in the fun?"

Yi Jiao, an outsider, looked at his friend in puzzlement: "Don't you need to go over and help?"

He Gu twitched the corners of his mouth as if suffering from a toothache, and thought to himself, what can I do to help?Do you make a kilowatt light bulb?

Recently, whenever Taya was mentioned, his liver hurt.I don't know where he provoked that guy. I met him in a chess match a while ago, and Ta Ya was like a Shura possessing him. Seeing every move, he almost killed all his black chess pieces.At the end of the chess game that day, he almost couldn't resist sending a message to Shindo, what happened to your guy? !I just want to play chess quietly. If your city gate is on fire, can you not harm the fish in the pond! !

Although he has self-knowledge, even if Taya is not crazy, he will not be able to defeat Taya...

Suffering from daring to speak out, he and Gu Gan laughed a few times, in order to prevent his friend from following in his footsteps, he continued to persuade his friend: "Leave it to Taya. With Taya by his side, Shinto will be fine."

Mr. Haohao Yijiao is obviously still a little worried, but after Hegu's earnest efforts, he finally gave up.

At the beginning, I only used one foot to exert my strength, and I was still a little uncertain about the center of gravity. After walking a few steps, I finally found some feeling.

After confirming that the people upstairs could not see them and there was no one around, Guang hugged Liang and kissed Liang, fearing that the world would be chaotic.

Then, before the lover opened his mouth to educate him, he snatched up and said, "Taya, can you help me go to the bathroom?"

Liang did not doubt that there was him, and walked cautiously to the nearest restroom with Guang.

Holding Guang into the bathroom cubicle, Liang was about to go out when Guang pulled him back.

The moment the door closed behind him, Hikari wrapped around Ryo anxiously and licked his lips.

Liang suddenly opened his eyes wide, and was afraid that Guang would not be able to stand steadily, so he could only support him nervously, allowing Guang to grope himself up and down like a hooligan in the small space.

"Taya, I miss you so much!"

After finishing speaking with a suppressed voice, Hikari hugged Ryo's neck tightly.

Strange to say, in the past, Taya had a chess match in other places, and often when he didn't see each other for several days, he would miss him, but it was not as deep as this time.Obviously just saw it this morning.

Guangyuan thought that Taya would not be home until six or seven o'clock at the earliest tonight, so when he saw Taya just now, he had mixed feelings, but he wanted to throw himself into his arms, ruthlessly. The urge to hold him tight and kiss him.

Guang kissed Liang again, finally let him go, and voluntarily tidied up his somewhat messy clothes: "Let's go out."

Liang hugged Guang's waist without moving: "Guang, your foot should go to the hospital to have a look."

I was seventy percent full after just eating, and I was in a good mood at this time.

He licked his lips satiated, then smiled and said, "Okay, listen to you."

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