Chapter 8: 2 Qi Shortage
Chapter 8: Two Steps Away
It was drizzling in Dongjiang City at the end of April.
At 7:30 pm, street lights illuminated the wet asphalt road, pedestrians hurried by, umbrellas swaying gently. The air was filled with moisture and a slight chill, and as night fell, the city was quiet and hazy in the rain.
In such weather, the Muhu Go Dojo located in the suburbs of the city is naturally very quiet, with only the crisp sound of chess pieces dropping coming from the game room from time to time.
This……
Is this the level of Go that one has only learned by himself for two and a half years? !
When the game reached the 30th move, Lei Jingming began to feel something was wrong.
If the layout of the first ten moves without many mistakes can be played by ordinary Go enthusiasts in this era of AI...
That "clamping" just now is quite interesting.
This "clamping" move seems to be just a forced response, attacking the white chess pieces in the lower left corner, but it is actually responding to a change in the upper right corner ten steps away!
When faced with this "clamp", you cannot simply connect it, otherwise you will not be satisfied with the changes in the upper right corner.
Lei Jingming thought for a while, and took a cautious step, taking both sides into consideration, but his palms were already sweating.
This move is a small matter, but the problem behind it is the big issue.
This Rui Zhao is not just a hobbyist!
She is totally capable of reaching the next level! Even...
Maybe her level now has reached professional level!
After realizing this, Lei Jingming quickly understood why Liao Xiang was playing chess with the little girl while saying he was in trouble...
It turns out that this seemingly harmless little girl is actually a nuisance to me!
At this moment, Lei Jingming couldn't help but glance at Rui Guoquan next to him, and suddenly felt like he was being cheated by an immortal... No, he was being tricked!
Mr. Rui, do you call your daughter "not having much exposure to Go"?
Even my son didn’t have this level when he learned chess for two and a half years!
Now we are in a difficult situation!
Although he has a genuine love for Go and has long insisted on participating in various competitions and keeping up with the pace of research, it is not an exaggeration to say that his Go skills have declined.
But the 47-year-old Lei Jingming's strength level has long passed his peak, and now he is basically at the ordinary seventh level.
It may seem that the seventh dan is only two ranks lower than the ninth dan, but insiders know how huge the gap is.
Not to mention that some people get the ninth dan title just because their scores are just enough to get the ninth dan title, while some people get the ninth dan title because the highest rank is only the ninth dan title.
So now when Lei Jingming plays chess with low-rank professionals, it’s barely ok to give him the first move, but he gives him two pieces…
Well, just take a shower and go to bed.
He was on pins and needles at this moment, and Rui Zhao made another brilliant move and continued to work on the upper right corner.
broken! It’s broken, it’s broken!
Although this move can still be countered, Lei Jingming knows:
If I continue like this, I’m afraid I won’t even have a decent reputation for my later years!
He suddenly had the urge to get up and stop talking, but when he thought about the promise he had just made with Rui Guoquan, he had to bite the bullet and continue.
He, Lei Jiuduan, has always been a respectable man with dignity!
As the saying goes, losing one's integrity is a minor matter, but losing one's face is a major matter! You have to find a way to win this game of chess even if it costs you your teeth!
But Lei Jingming also knew that if he continued to play the game so steadily, it would not work: he would not be able to recover the two pieces he had given at the beginning of the game under normal circumstances.
This is no longer an ordinary little girl, we must use a heavy punch!
In the 33rd move, Lei Jingming decisively chose to give up the first move and moved his piece to the upper right corner.
This move not only eliminates the variation of the captured piece, but also can split the outer forces of the black piece into two sides in the next step!
This is forcing Rui Zhao to make a choice.
If she took care of the upper right corner, he could counterattack and connect the white pieces in the lower left corner, and the black pieces would lose the initiative, which he could accept. He would continue to use this method of forcing and giving up, speeding up the pursuit and constantly eroding Rui Zhao's advantage of giving up pieces.
And if Rui Zhao directly eats the tail of the white chess piece in the lower left corner, although he suffers greater damage on the ground, he gets the opportunity to attack two isolated white chess pieces in the upper right corner, which is not unacceptable to Lei Jingming.
After all, in terms of absolute strength, he still has the upper hand. Once Rui Zhao is forced into a major mistake and he kills a big dragon, then he still has a chance of winning this game! Little girl...what would you choose?
After making this move, Lei Jingming looked up at his young opponent, wanting to see what expression she would have.
But Rui Zhao remained graceful and elegant, with no slight change in his focused expression.
Tch... How come you act like a brat like me at such a young age!
Lei Jingming complained in his heart, but saw Rui Zhao take action quickly.
She placed the piece in the lower left corner, cutting off the tail of the white piece and adding a large piece of real space.
Good, the little girl is brave!
But I've been waiting for you to take this step!
Lei Jingming decisively split the black chess piece in the upper right corner without much thought.
Then let me take a good look at how much you weigh!
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Time passed minute by minute, and evening gradually turned into night.
"Xiao Liao!"
At nine o'clock in the evening, after a burst of hurried footsteps, a middle-aged man of medium height and bangs rushed into the analysis room of the Muhu Dojo.
"Teacher! Why are you here? Didn't you just arrive in Dongjiang tonight?"
At this time, Jiang Lu had already gone home from get off work, and Liao Xiang was the only one left in the analysis room of the Muhu Dojo. He was quite surprised to see Yu Qingguang suddenly coming.
"So I came here directly after I arrived!" Yu Qingguang frowned and found a seat next to Liao Xiang and sat down: "Why did you turn off your phone when I called you just now? And you didn't reply to WeChat?"
"Ah?" Liao was stunned for a moment, then he understood: "Ah, I just played chess in the chess room, and after I came out, I was in a hurry to watch Teacher Lei's game, so I forgot to turn the sound back on..."
"So what's going on now?" Yu Qingguang didn't bother to dwell on the details and went straight to the point: "Did Mr. Rui's kid cause trouble?"
Liao Xiang nodded with a wry smile, and then briefly told his teacher what happened today.
"What? I beat you after only two and a half years of self-study?!" Yu Qingguang stood up immediately after hearing this.
Although he had guessed before, it might be that Rui Guoquan's daughter was stronger than he had imagined, so she caused chaos in her own dojo.
But this little girl had only taught herself Go for two and a half years, which was completely beyond Yu Qingguang's imagination.
After two and a half years of self-study, he beat Liao Xiang, a professional second-level player...
Is this a human being?
Lao Lei's son, or Lao Shang in the past, weren't they such evildoers? !
Liao Xiang nodded and continued, "I roughly estimated that the girl might be at the level of a third dan. I originally wanted to let Mr. Lei beat her first, to give Mr. Rui a way out and an explanation, and then discuss in detail whether Rui Zhao should go professional later...
"But I didn't know that Mr. Lei didn't even give me a chance to explain. He scolded me and then gave me a handicap of two pieces before charging forward..."
"Fuck, why is this idiot still so reckless... I even doubt whether his son with expressionless face is his biological son!" Yu Qingguang cursed and then asked, "So what's the situation now?"
Liao Xiang raised his chin towards the display screen and said helplessly: "Look, it should be over soon."
Yu Qingguang looked at it, and after his eyes moved up and down for a while, he understood:
"Tsk, White, you're two points behind..."
Thanks to [Man in the Void] and [God of Malzahar Gurana] for their recommendations~
(End of this chapter)