The ten-year trace of the soul of chess

After the Obon Festival, everything seems to have returned to the fast pace of the past.

A tight game of chess.Constant review.Back and forth quarrels.

The only thing that changes is——

"Ah?! Not enough phone bills?"

Since the "lost incident", I have been forced to get used to using a certain light on my mobile phone. Recently, due to frequent text messages and phone calls with someone, my mobile phone often shuts down due to arrears.So, after being found out by Liang, he couldn't avoid a lot of scolding.

Although, it's just in the text message of the mobile phone.

——Your mobile phone is in arrears again?

—Uh... But it works now.

——Aren’t you curious why the mobile phone can still be used normally even though it has insufficient credit?

——! ! !Thanks! !

Almost no need to think about it, Taya must have a contemptuous and helpless expression on the other side of the signal at this moment.He just has the ability to choke you speechless with ordinary words.What "the noble son of the chess world" is simply mimicry, mimicry!

Depression is depression, the frequency of going to the Go club is still unabated.

After sitting down for the day, Guang handed a set of chess records to Ta Ya: "Look at this first."

Liang quickly glanced at the chess record, quickly finished reading it, and returned it to Guang.

"How is it? Do you think there is anything special about this set of chess records?" Guang put away the chess records and looked at his opponent expectantly.

"If I have to say something special, it might be that this set of chess records is actually a match between the same player and different players? Moreover, the style of chess doesn't look like a Japanese player."

After Liang finished his point of view, the boy sitting across from him was unbelievably quiet for a while.

After a long time, Guangcai seemed to come back to himself, and muttered to himself: "Impossible...how did you see it?"

——This set of chess records was brought back from He Gu at the weekend.As Ta Ya said, it is a set of chess records in which Chinese nine-dan chess players play against different chess players.The reason why Hikari brought this set of chess records to Taya was what He Gu said during his trip to China at the seminar: Go is not only for the cultivation of personal chess skills, but also for the innermost feelings of a person. Practice.In the end of a protracted battle, what really helps you win is often not your level of chess strength, but whether you can still maintain enough inner peace under your desire to win.

But looking through the set of chess records in his hand repeatedly, Guang still doesn't understand why Taya can figure out the mystery with just a few glances.

Unreasonable (ありえない)...

As if seeing Guang's confusion, Liang patiently analyzed: "Every chess player has his own style of chess. You should be able to feel this too, right?"

"All chess players can be roughly divided into three types: balanced, attacking, and defensive. This makes each player more or less have their own weaknesses. For example: strength-type chess players, good at middle Fighting in the game, once you face a chess player with a solid layout, it is easy to fall into a bitter battle; on the contrary, a chess player who is good at chess and is good at playing steadily will also encounter a chess player who likes to gamble around in the middle game or run around in the middle of the game. Very headache."

"The chess games you gave, although they seem to have different styles of chess, there are still many similarities in the way of handling the middle game. Because the players in the game are different, the two sides may have different styles of chess, so Only then will there be winners and losers on the board..."

Liang's words are like a gentle breeze, making Guang's mind suddenly clear.In the past, when reviewing the chess game with Zuowei or the members of the Morishita Research Association, he often heard words such as "chess style" and "chess way", but he didn't take it to heart. Focusing on the response to each move, I never thought about seriously analyzing the opponent's style of chess and the way of playing chess...

He involuntarily raised his eyes to look at his rival sitting opposite him.

The person in front of him not only knows how to read chess, but his ability to read people can be compared with top chess players...

"What about me? What do you think of my chess style?" A thought suddenly sprouted in my heart, and I said it without paying attention.

"Want to hear the truth?"

Hikaru swallowed nervously, and nodded solemnly.

"When I played chess with you before, I told you that Sai's shadow can be seen in your Go game..." Halfway through speaking, Liang raised his head and glanced at his reaction.

——At the riverside that day, when it was said that Sai had disappeared, the image of Shinto's shoulders trembling slightly still lingers in his mind.

Seeing that Guang's mood didn't fluctuate too much, he continued: "Sai's layout is very solid, and every place he moves may take several times to really show its effect. But it is these moves that The blow to the opponent is often fatal. Occasionally you will have a similar feeling in your chess, but in most cases, the layout is still not thick enough, the chess is relatively reckless, and it is easy to rely on your own intuition, so your chess game Dangerous situations often occur. Fortunately, your orphan healing power[1] is strong, which can help you save yourself from danger...

"Sorry, I ignored it before. When we resume the game, let's add a discussion on chess player's style and chess playing habits."

……

When I came out of the Go clubhouse this day, I just felt dizzy in my head.

Not because of confusion, but because of excitement.

For the first time, he strongly felt that Taya really regarded him as a competitor instead of Sai's shadow.And for the opponents he recognizes, he can really deliver his views 100% without reservation.I am really lucky and blessed to be able to often play chess and review games with such a person who is serious about any aspect of Go.

Yes, when getting along with Taya, I actually feel a little bit of happiness...

On the way back, Guang kept thinking about this problem, so that when he got home, his mother said something, but he just answered a few words casually before going upstairs and returning to the room.It wasn't until early the next morning, when my mother told me to remember to bring the house key and the food in the refrigerator, that I suddenly remembered that my parents would go to a relative's house in Nagasaki for a few days.In the past few days, all food and daily life needs to be taken care of by myself.

At first, Guang didn't feel that there was anything wrong.

On the contrary, without my mother's nagging, I can concentrate more on studying chess records at night.

It happened on the third day after the parents left home.

When Guang returned home after the game and was about to get the key to open the door as usual, he searched the entire schoolbag but couldn't find the house key anywhere.

A coolness immediately appeared on Guang's back.No matter how he recalled, he couldn't remember if he took the key when he went out today...

a bolt from the blue!

In an instant, countless thoughts flooded into Guang's mind.

Go to grandpa's house?No no no.

Go to a hotel?Not enough money.

Go to Hegu's house?You may have!

Guang immediately took out his mobile phone to call his relatives and friends, but the cold water of reality poured down mercilessly again.Damn He Gu, he didn't answer the phone...

After hesitating again and again, Guang seemed to be grasping at straws, and resorted to the last "trick".

Ten minutes later, Guang walked out of the subway station, recalling in his mind the route that Taya had just described on the phone, when he saw a familiar figure appear in his sight.

"Taya!" Hikaru stepped forward to meet him.

"Are you just... were you trying to find your way?"

There is an obvious smile in the words.seen?

"Could it be...you came to pick me up on purpose?"

Liang didn't answer, but said lightly when turning around: "Let's go."

Taya's home, Hikari once visited with Shasha when he was preparing for the Hokuto Cup.The impression left by that experience on Guang can only be described by the words "very hard to find".

But this time, I walked with Taya again, only to find that, as he said, it is very close to the station, and it belongs to the golden area for quietness in the midst of hustle and bustle.

Arrive at Taya House.

Guang said "Excuse me" in front of the He-style sliding door, and followed Liang into the room.

Liang placed Guang in the guest room, and after the two of them washed up, they went back to their respective rooms to rest.

midnight.

Liang woke up from the dream and realized that he was restless, so he put on his coat and walked to the outer corridor.

Is it because Shinto is at home, so I can't calm down?

Sitting on the verandah, listening to the sound of bamboo clapping stones in the courtyard, many scenes of entering vines quietly appeared in Liang's mind.Laughing, surprised, contented, and fighting with oneself.If it wasn't for the fact that his parents weren't here this time, I'm afraid he wouldn't have come over either...

Thinking of this, Liang unconsciously called out the other party's name: "Shinto..."

"Huh? What's the matter?" Hearing Guang's voice behind him, Liang's back was slightly taken aback.

In fact, at first, the light did not intend to get up.

It was just that I was so hungry that I had no choice but to get up, trying to grope for some water in the kitchen.

When passing by the living room, I don't know whether it was attracted by the moonlight falling on the verandah, or by someone under the shadow of the moon, and the light walked past unconsciously.That's when I heard Taya calling my name.

Under the moonlight, Taya's dark green hair had an incredible luster.After being dazed for a long time, Guang sat down beside Liang.

"Can't sleep?"

Liang turned his face to the side, and saw Shinto rubbing his eyes and looking at himself: "Well, maybe."

"What is 'maybe'? If you can't sleep, let's play blindfold chess! I play black first! Four of 16, star!"

"Eh? Then I'll be...four of four, star."

Without hesitation: "Seventeen out of sixteen, Xiaomu."

"Three of 15."

"Sixteen of seventeen."

……

Maybe it was because of Ye, without the sharpness of the chess games in the past, Hikari felt that Taya's voice was unexpectedly soft.

The whole board was about to unfold, but the cries of the stomach were sold out in a very timely manner.

"So, are you hungry?" Liang smiled softly after hearing this.

"Also...it's okay..." Guang replied hesitantly.

"Is it okay to eat ramen? Although it's just for instant food."

"it is good!"

Once again, Hikari's frank answer made Ryo's eyes curl up involuntarily.

After cooking the ramen, he was devouring it when he found that Taya was just sitting opposite him looking at him, and Hikari felt awkward for a moment.

"It's okay, I'm not hungry."

"Oh." Replied muffledly, feeling Taya's gaze on him, and kept eating with his head down, as if he was about to bury his head in the bowl.

After eating, the kitchen was cleaned up, and the two returned to their rooms, it was already after midnight.

Just when Guang was about to fall asleep, there was a knock on the door.

Opening the door, seeing that it was Taya, Guang couldn't help but widen his eyes slightly: "Taya?"

"It's nothing." Liang smiled lightly, and Guang vaguely felt that his breath was a little uneven, "I just want to say, Shinto, happy birthday."

——Shinto, happy birthday.

--Happy birthday.

So, did Taya come here specially to say this to herself?

In the ears, there seemed to be the sound of fireworks blooming in mid-air.

Looking at the boy with an extremely serious expression in front of him, Guang was speechless for a while.

After a few seconds of reaction, he finally broke into a smile: "Thank you!"

——I almost forgot my own birthday, but Taya actually remembered it...

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Note:

[1] Solitary strength: refers to the skillful use of the opponent's chess-shaped defects and weak links, and the ability to properly and efficiently handle one's own lonely chess, so as to turn the crisis into safety (Baidu entry for annotation).

Xiongyan Xiongyu:

When I wrote about Guang's birthday, I suddenly discovered that Wuli Guangbao is a Virgo.Hearing Liang congratulate himself on her happy birthday so earnestly, I wonder if Baby Light's heart beats a little faster?laugh~

Because of the coherence of the context, I will stop here today, and I will add a little more tomorrow.

I found that compared to the text, I prefer to write bearish words~ After all, the greatest joy of writing is actually to see the audience and adults interacting with me and discussing the plot.So after reading the article, please don't be stingy to leave a message~~ Everyone's messages and comments are the motivation to support a certain bear to continue writing!