The ten-year trace of the soul of chess

The light did not leave a leeway for itself.

What is left to do?

If they want to leave room, they can refuse Igarashi's interview.

If they wanted to leave room, they could not mention the name of "Fujiwara Sakai".

If they really wanted to leave room, they wouldn't even pierce the tulle.

But if they leave a back road everywhere and look forward and backward everywhere, how can they pursue what they really want without distraction?

The back road will only make them weak and lucky, and they will no longer be able to do everything with all their strength.

But now they don't need "room".

They are prepared to bear all the consequences of their choices and actions, and because of their preparation, when the reading volume of this interview continues to increase, and when doubts against the two of them gradually arise, they can face it calmly.

Just after the latest Celebrity Tournament round-robin match, a reporter asked Liang in public: "I heard that you live with Shinto chess player?"

Any reporter with a bit of professional knowledge would not ask such a personal question in public, but this question is exactly what they want to ask but are afraid to ask.

After the words fell, everyone held their breath and looked at the two parties concerned.

Liang didn't answer right away.

He looked at the light, and then nodded to the other party without losing his grace: "If I remember correctly, you should be Maeda reporter, right?"

Maeda Kosuke was taken aback.

Liang smiled gently, and kindly reminded: "Just after last year's men's and women's mixed doubles match, you interviewed us, do you still have any memories?"

After Liang's reminder, Guang and several reporters who were present at the time seemed to remember something, and looked at Maeda one after another.

Liang still maintained a warm smile, but Maeda was shocked by his cold gaze: "Thank you for your attention to me and Shinto chess player all the time."

He paused for a few seconds, and then looked at the camera lens with serious eyes: "In the world of Go, we have always been together, we are friends and rivals."

——In the world of Go...

Guang secretly pondered this adverbial, just as Liang said, they have always been together.In the professional Go world, they are both enemies and friends; but in real life, they are just a pair of ordinary lovers, no different from ordinary people.

Guang couldn't help turning his face to look at his lover beside him, only to hear him say in a stronger voice: "Thank you for your support for me and Shinto Chess. If you can divert your attention from us personally, We will be even more grateful for our Go, and even the attention to Japanese Go!"

And just like what he said, Liang Zi won the second round of the Celebrity Tournament, and then won the third round of the King's Tournament.

So far, in the 54th title battle of the throne, Taya Ryo's [-]th dan took the lead in ushering in the final game of this title battle with a record of two wins and one loss.

Perhaps because of having enough confidence and capital, Liang played particularly ferociously at the beginning of the morning of the four rounds.Even though he was robbed twice by the throne, the momentum of the fierce attack remained unabated.Compared with black's unhesitating attitude, although Zama Throne is actively fighting, white's is relatively conservative, but he still maintains a calm atmosphere in his conservativeness, calmly dissolving Liang's attacks invisibly several times.

During the offensive and defensive battle between the two, the time came to noon.

Just from the perspective of the disk, the black and white sides are fighting each other, and no one has a clear advantage.

No, to be precise, despite the proper attack and defense, White has gradually shown signs of decline.

In the afternoon, after coming out of the lounge, Zama and Ryo met unexpectedly in the corridor.

None of them spoke.

Zajian's footsteps paused, and he only nodded to Liangwei invisible, and walked quickly to the game room.

In 18, the 54th Throne Challenge, this is the fifth consecutive year that he has participated in the event as the title holder.

if only……

As long as he wins two more rounds, he will receive the permanent title of "Honorary Throne".

If he said that he didn't have the slightest expectation in this chess game, it would be absolutely false.

But at the moment when his eyes met Taya Ryo, Zama felt a "thump" in his heart for no reason, and suddenly had a premonition that his wishful thinking today might be in vain.

In the game room in the afternoon, the air continued to be cramped and depressed from the morning.

It was King Zuo's turn to play chess. To everyone's surprise, Zama's first move in the afternoon took a full 10 minutes!

On the board, White 118, entered.

Liang glanced at the throne calmly, then turned to look at the white piece that fell at the "eleven of 16".

Two 10 minutes.

During these 10 minutes, no one knew what the throne was thinking, or what he was struggling with.

But in this desperate move, Liang clearly felt that Bai's momentum was completely different from that in the morning.

It was the collision of power and power that only those in authority could feel—in this round, Zama had bet on the honor of "the throne of honor" and was determined to fight himself to the death!

Looking up at his opponent again, Liang couldn't help feeling a sense of respect in his heart, but that was all.

Afterwards, black first "pulls" and then "turns" to recruit his own moves. Although it seems that there is no actual pressure on white, after a rough calculation, black has occupied 70 meshes from the bottom to the middle, plus the left part. about.

hateful!

Zama subconsciously raised the folding fan to his mouth, and after a while of gnashing his teeth, he slowly put the folding fan on his leg.

What am I upset about?Zama asked himself.

Are you afraid of losing?Afraid of losing to this brat?

Zama suddenly felt that he was extremely ridiculous.

Perhaps the past few years have been so smooth that he almost forgot that the greatest joy of playing chess is not winning the game, but the process of playing chess.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

After the mood calmed down, hold the son again, and re-shot at "Nine of 2", "stab"!

This is another trick to win or lose.

With this move, and White's subsequent "drawing" of 132, the lower part of White successfully survived.

However, the black chess piece at "2 of 144" suddenly clicked in from the right, and White 6 quickly responded with a "group". Nearly [-] items reversed!

The competition in the future will become more intense.

Xu Shi felt that the white chess situation was unfavorable, so Zama played several winners and losers in a row. Relying on most of the white chess's advantage in the lower left, he won a small victory in the chaotic battle.

However, at this time, black's winning situation, black 159 "broke" with one hand, inserted/inserted fiercely into the white camp on the lower left, and directly forcibly split white into two, even if white made waves in the center afterwards, black won Unshakable...

No one is born blessed by God.

If there is so-called "luck", it is all a gift from the past self to the present self.

When the outcome was decided, Liang heaved a long sigh of relief, like a person who has traveled a long distance and finally unloaded a small burden, and he was not as excited as he expected.

After the game, even in the face of congratulations from the media, Liang always maintained the most appropriate words, calmly accepted interviews from various reporters, and calmly completed the post-match review of the entire chess game.

It wasn't until I returned to the apartment, the moment I opened the door, that I saw Guang's expression that was more excited than myself, and heard him say "Congratulations, Throne Taya" to myself, the joy of running the half marathon returned belatedly. It is fragrant and intoxicating, like fine wine filling the chest.

He Ta Yaliang finally won the first chess title in his professional Go career by virtue of his own strength.

From now on, when people mention Taya Ryo again, the first thing that comes to mind will no longer be "Taya Yukihiro's son", but "Taya Throne"!

But here alone, there is no time for hesitation, let alone timidity.

Mr. Kuwahara's words were like an invisible whip, whipping him behind Hikari all the time.

After several rounds of hard work, Guang finally defeated Yiliu Chess Master as a dark horse, and ushered in the first challenge qualification in his career-the right to challenge the ten-level title!

Facing Ogata Seiji again, I was nervous and uneasy.

But if he felt cowardly because of this, then it would not be Hikari Shinto.

From March to April, Hikaru and Ogata Seiji played four games in total.

In the four chess games, Ogata Seiji finally won the title of "Ten Dan" with a total score of three wins and one loss, and continued his three consecutive titles of "Ten Dan".

Judging from the results, the light did lose.

But it was also in these four chess games that Hikaru grabbed Shirahoshi from Ogata Seiji for the first time, achieving a breakthrough of zero winning rate against Ogata Seiji.

Since the solid hard shell has cracks, breaking it is only a matter of time.

Heisei 18, April.

When all the competitions were progressing in an orderly manner, the Nihon Ki Academy also successfully completed the re-election of the chairman of the Board of Directors.

Former Japanese Go nine-dan Go player Kato Koichi, with his strong support, was elected as the new chairman of the Nippon Go Academy without any suspense.Ogata Seiji also offered advice to Kato Koichi many times during his election campaign, and later successfully took a seat in the council when the council was reorganized.

As the first fire of the new official's appointment, Kato Koichi took the lead in establishing the Japanese Go Youth Growth Fund at the beginning of his tenure.The fund aims to vigorously promote and popularize the basic knowledge of Go, especially among young children.Last year, Toya and his team went to the Kyushu area to carry out campus Go promotion activities, which was actually a preliminary test of the idea.

Therefore, in the early days of the fund's establishment, the Go Institute assigned a number of high-level chess players to start a year-long campus Go promotion activity with Tokyo as the first stop.

For Liang and Guang, the Go promotion activities arranged by the Chess Academy are like an intermission in a game, allowing them to temporarily escape from the busy game and take a break.

This time, Liangguang was arranged to go to an elementary school in Katsushika District to promote Go.

Due to arriving earlier, after confirming the event venue with the staff, Liang Heguang casually visited the campus.

At that time, it was the time for club activities, and the laughter and chatter of the students kept coming from the playground and the teaching building.

As soon as he approached a teaching building, Guang heard a childish voice from behind: "Teacher Shinto!"

As soon as Guang turned around, he saw a little boy in school uniform running towards him excitedly.

Maybe he was running too fast, and when he stopped in front of Guang, he almost couldn't stop the car, so Guang bent down and gave him a hand, before barely stopping him.

"Shinto-sensei, do you remember me? I finally see you again!"

As soon as the little boy stopped, he talked like a cannonball.

Just thinking about it, I can't remember where I saw such a child.

Seeing the end, the little boy introduced himself very thoughtfully: "It's me! Takuya Nakajima! I played against you once in a charity chess tournament before!"

When the little boy said this, Guang finally remembered that it was the boy who kept saying he wanted to join him.

Didn't expect to meet again here!

"Sensei Shinto, my chess strength has improved a lot! Can I trouble you to play chess with me again in a while?" Takuya is only waist-high, and he needs to raise his head when speaking. Even so, it still can't stop him from being too eloquent enthusiasm.

Just seeing how hard he was speaking, he bent down and tried to look at him as much as possible: "No problem! We are here, hoping that more children will join in, understand Go, and like Go."

"Yeah! I like Go the most!" Takuya nodded vigorously, "When I grow up, I want to become a professional chess player!"

While talking, a young boy passing by said very disdainfully: "A bunch of idiots!"

Light was taken aback, and turned around abruptly.

As soon as the little boy took a few steps, Guang grabbed his shoulders.

He tried to break free from the shackles of the light, but he couldn't hold back the light, so he was turned 180 degrees by the light and turned around.

"What are you doing?" After standing still, the little boy opened Guang's hand very rudely.

Guang also realized that he was impulsive just now, so he asked him as friendly as possible: "What did you just say?"

The bear kid sneered: "I said! Japanese Go has long since failed, who still plays this kind of thing? What is it if you are not a fool?"

Before he finished speaking, Guang's face darkened.

Liangsheng was afraid of light and cared like a child, so he quickly reached out to give him a hand.

Guang straightened up, glanced at him, calmly removed his hand clasped on his arm, then squatted down patiently, and looked at the bear child: "Can you tell me, what is your name?"

"What do you want to do?" The bear stared at Hikari vigilantly, probably knowing that the matter was endless, so he had to bear the humiliation and said, "Matsuyama. My name is Matsuyama Daisuke."

"Well, then Matsuyama-kun," Guang looked at him, "do you usually have any hobbies?"

The bear child hesitated for a moment, but said, "When I grow up, I want to enter Jiaziyuan!"

"Oh, Koshien..." Hikaru pondered, looked at his jersey, and asked with a smile, "Why is that? Is baseball very popular?"

"I……"

"May I ask Matsuyama-kun again, have you ever played Go?"

Matsuyama stopped talking.

Guang hooked the corners of his lips: "I haven't done it, have I?"

"Since you haven't even played Go, why do you feel that Japanese Go is no longer good?" Guang looked at Matsuyama with a smile on his face, but his tone gradually became aggressive, "If it's just because baseball is very popular and many people play it, you If you just want to play baseball, what if it doesn’t catch on? Will you still like it?”

Matsuyama bit his lower lip and stopped looking into Hikari's eyes.

Guang adjusted his breathing, and asked again: "Mr. Songshan, do you know the meaning of each thing's existence?"

The bear child looked at him noncommittally, as if looking at a psychopath.

Guang smiled nonchalantly, and then pointed to Liang beside him: "I know him only because I was exposed to Go." After speaking, he seemed to think of something, "Oh, you definitely don't know him. But it doesn't matter. , as long as I know you."

Liang looked at the light in astonishment.

Guang smiled at him, turned to Songshan, and continued the topic just now: "But if there is no such thing as Go in this world, I may not see him. Well, it may be difficult for you to understand, then Let's put it another way. Matsuyama-kun, do you have anything you really like?"

The bear boy said very excitedly: "Kamen Rider!"

"Well, that's it." Guang nodded, "But I don't like Kamen Rider. If there is no Kamen Rider in this world, it will not affect me at all, but it will be different for you."

Hikaru paused: "If you don't see Masked Rider again, Matsuyama-kun, you should be very sad, right? Can you understand?"

"I... I don't want to understand!"

After being forced to listen to a lot of misty words, the brat was already dizzy.

After finally seizing the opportunity, Songshan pulled his eyelids down with his right hand, made a grimace at the light, and then ran away.

"Shin, Shinto-sensei..." Takuya, who had been listening by the side from the beginning, murmured, but didn't know how to continue.

Hikaru bent down and touched his head: "I'm fine." He tried his best to smile at Takuya, "As long as we work hard and let more people recognize Go, more and more people will like Go yes, right?"

"Yeah!" Takuya's eyes lit up, and then he nodded vigorously.

With Songshan's appearance, the Go promotional activities that day, although they were mentally prepared, were worse than expected.

The activity is divided into two parts, the first part is a lecture on Go knowledge, and the second part is the chess game.

I don't know how many students came to the lecture voluntarily, and how many were forced to do so. Not long after the lecture started, the primary school students in the audience began to yawn again and again.

Guang seldom went to school to promote Go. It was the first time he saw so many students stumbling around, and he felt frustrated. He wanted to give up several times, but Liang took over and continued.

However, in the whole promotional activity, what made Guang feel most sad was not the elementary school students' indifference to Go, nor was it Matsuyama's rude words, but what he said was indeed an indisputable fact.

With the current status of Japanese Go, even the holders of the seven major titles are still hard-pressed to compete with China and South Korea in international Go competitions.

Although I have long heard that Japanese Go is not as good as before, even as early as the Beidou Cup, I felt it deeply.

But in the end it is the physique of forgetfulness.

Unexpectedly, when facing the bear boy, he couldn't help but take his child's words seriously, a wave of anger rose up, and he almost got into a fight with him.

On the way back that night, I just sat in the car and didn't say a word.

After returning home, they took out the game console that had accumulated dust for a long time, and started fighting against the TV screen.

Liang sat beside him and wanted to say something, but without looking at him, he just raised his hand and handed him the other handle: "Let's play together."

Clear light temper.

In the early days, if there was fire in Guang's heart, he would vent it immediately, but now the light will only be held in his heart. Most of the time, he will calm down by himself in a short time. If he is really angry, he will pass the game. Ways to vent your unhappiness.

Just like today.

Liang sighed inaudibly, knowing that it is impossible to have a good conversation without winning.

Before starting, he carefully observed the game Guang was playing, and after figuring out the rules and operation methods of the game, he set a time limit of 10 minutes for himself.

When the words "GAME OVER" appeared on the screen, I glanced at the wall clock on the wall. It was faster than expected, and it took less than 10 minutes.

After the game was over, he stared blankly at the TV screen for a while, then got up and walked to the room.

Liang called him from behind.

Guang took a few more steps forward, finally stood still, and asked angrily, "What are you doing?"

Looking at Guang's back, Liang said with a good temper: "You sit here first, let's have a good chat, okay?"

"I'm fine, nothing to talk about."

"Then take it as a chat with me, okay?"

Liang's oblique "I need you" hit Zhongguang's weakness, he struggled for a moment, then walked back to the sofa, and sat down beside Liang: "Okay, you can talk now."

Liang nodded lightly, and then said: "Today, the words of that child named Songshan made you very uncomfortable, didn't you?"

Guang stared at him, as if to say "knowingly ask".

Liang smiled, and hugged Guang Guang's shoulders encouragingly: "Don't think so much. If even you have doubts about what you have done, how can you convince others?"

"I didn't waver." Guang said sullenly.

Liang flicked the tip of Guang's nose lightly, and said with a smile: "When you are confused, just keep going. In this world, there is never a road in vain. You have to believe that every step you take will lead you To the best end."

Hearing Liang's words, a strong thought suddenly sprouted in Guang's heart.

It's just that the time is not yet ripe, so I swallowed the words first.

After pondering for a while, Guangcai commented on Liang's speech as follows: "This chicken soup has too many artificial ingredients!"

But when he got up and walked towards the room again, his steps became lighter.

Yes.

I want to give all people who love Go a future they can look forward to.

I want them to answer loudly when they are asked, I like Go!

This is the desire in his heart that he desperately wants to realize.

Although their current strength is extremely weak, they can at least try to become that small spark that promotes the general trend before a single spark can start a prairie fire.

The author has something to say:

Generally speaking, the time for each title battle is roughly fixed every year.