Go Legend

   Chapter 53 The Anecdote of Yi Lin

After the lottery ceremony, Li Xiangping had been laughing, but when people asked him why he was laughing, he pretended not to say anything. When he was preparing for the second day's game with Lao Shi at night, he was even aware of his cheating. He is different:

   "Xiangping little friend, but why are you happy?"

   "Haha it's nothing, but after I drew tomorrow's opponent, it reminded me of two anecdotes about Lin Yi, so I always wanted to laugh."

   "An anecdote about Yi Lin? How can little friend Xiangping have time to think about an anecdote about Yi Lin? You need to know that tomorrow's game is coming."

"Brother Ding'an, don't worry, I think of two anecdotes about playing Lin, one of which is related to this opponent tomorrow, I even think that as long as I hear his story, I can have a general understanding of his style of chess. Do you want to listen to Brother Ding'an?"

   "Oh?" From Lao Shi's tone, it was obvious that he was dubious, but he still said:

   "Then let's talk about it."

  Li Xiangping smiled slightly: "Before I talk about these two anecdotes about Yi Lin, I would like to ask Brother Ding'an a question first."

   "But what other questions do you need to ask me? Tell me."

   "Let me ask you, when Brother Ding'an usually plays chess, can he accurately judge the final result in more than 70 moves?"

   "This" Daqisheng Shi hesitated for a moment:

   "At the time of more than 70 moves, Ding'an may be able to roughly see who is good and which is bad, but to accurately judge the final result, Ding'an has no such ability."

  Li Xiangping continued to laugh, laughing even more happily: "Brother Ding'an needs to know that there are mountains beyond the mountains, you can't do it, but someone once claimed to be able to do it."

   "Ah! There is really such a wonderful person, Ding'an is so fascinated, is this person the junior Wu Quan you once said?"

Li Xiangping couldn't help laughing: "This time, it's not your Wu Quan junior, but a chess player from the East, whose name is Zhanghe, and his age seems to be slightly younger than brother Ding'an. . . . Speaking of which, this person's status in the Eastern Ying chess world is somewhat similar to that of Brother Ding'an, who was once called the "Later Sage" by the Eastern Ying Chess community to distinguish him from their "former saint" Taoist strategy."

   I heard that he is still a person of the same age as himself, and Shi Daqi is interested, and tomorrow's opponent doesn't want to study it for the time being: "Can you show me the chess played by this person?"

   "Let me find it."

This search really took Li Xiangping a lot of time. It's not that he didn't find Zhanghe's chess manual, but it's just a historical chess player. Li Xiangping wanted to find his masterpiece. In terms of "Wu Zhanghe", his first masterpiece is of course the plate of "Zhang He San Wonderful Hands", especially one of the masterful moves, which is even called "unparalleled mastery of ancient and modern". And his second masterpiece is actually the so-called "more than 70 hands to know the end".

   It's a pity that Li Xiangping couldn't find these two games, so he took the next step and found "Let 2 Zijufan" by Zhang and VS Shinomiya Mizo to show to Lao Shi.

   Lao Shi is of course knowledgeable. After he had finished watching the 10 games, he said to Li Xiangping:

   "Little friend Xiangping is here to tease me. This person can know the end with more than 70 hands? Ding'an doesn't believe it."

  Li Xiangping smiled and said, "I don't believe it either, but someone in Dongying once said so, deceiving ignorant people. By the way, Brother Ding'an has seen these ten games. What do you think of this person's level?"

   This time, Lao Shi didn't answer directly: "Little friend Xiangping doesn't know, these 10 rounds are 2 sub-games. If you only look at 2 sub-games, it is not easy to judge your skill level."

   "Oh? If you can't see how to start, let's say start. What do you think is the level of Shinomiya Yizang?"

Lao Shi also did not answer directly: "Hehe, I think this person's chess style is quite similar to that of brother Zhaolin, his chess skills should be similar to that of brother Zhaolin, but in terms of chess skills, this person is more similar to brother Zhaolin. But it is quite inferior.”

   "Brother Zhaolin? Could it be that what Brother Ding'an said was that another good friend of yours, Yangzhou salt merchant Hu Tietou?"

   "Yes, it is this person."

   "Do you still think that the chess player of the Si Gong Mi Zang is inferior to Hu Tietou?"

   "Exactly, if Brother Zhaolin and this person are the first to score ten times, I will definitely bet on Brother Zhaolin to win."

  Li Xiangping smiled, and he stopped asking. Shinomiya Yizou was a famous amateur chess player in ancient Japan, and he later won the "exemption certificate" of three dan, and he and Zhanghe played this handicap with 2 children and ten chess, and finally Zhanghe 5 wins, 4 losses, 1 sum and barely wins. .

As for our Hu Tietou, he was rated as "second-hand" in medieval chess, but he was considered "second-hand". However, in the face of Fan Xiping, another giant of the same era, "Hu Tietou" is basically a win.

   Li Xiangping's mouth smiled and that's what he meant. He didn't expect Shi Daqisheng to be a boring person.

  Zhang and Rang 2 Zi and Si Gong Mi Zang are on a par, and he let 2 Zi hang Hu Tietou easily, but he now says that this Si Gong Mi Zang is definitely not Hu Tietou's opponent. What does this mean? His implication is of course that the Japanese "Hou Sheng" Zhanghe is not the opponent of his great chess master.

   So speaking of this, Li Xiangping is of course embarrassed to continue to ask questions.

   But what Li Xiangping did not expect was that he was not going to continue to ask, but Lao Shi took the initiative to talk to him:

   "Xiangping little friend, I think that although Dongying's "Housheng" is good at chess, it may not be better than Ding'an, but why does the Dongying chess world weave a lie of "more than 70 hands know the end"?"

  Li Xiangping smiled and said, "Brother Ding'an, this question is a good idea. This is because of their "Royal Chess City" system back then."

   "The "Royal Chess City" system?"

   "That's right, it's precisely because of the "Royal Chess City", I even think that nowadays Dongying chess players are accustomed to laying the floor and playing chess mostly with wind and drizzle, which has a lot to do with the "Royal Chess City" system."

   In the next period of time, Li Xiangping naturally asked old Shi Kope what "Yuqi City" was. This is actually nothing to say. Most chess fans know that this is nothing more than an "official game" in ancient Japan.

At that time, there were four great masters in the Japanese chess world, namely "Boninfang", "Inoue", "Yaisui" and "Lin", which were similar to the four major schools in the Go world. In order to appease these four schools, the Japanese government at that time organized a competition. This competition is called the "Royal Chess City" competition, and through this competition, these four sects compete for Japan's "chess place".

Many people in later generations believe that this "Royal Chess City" is very important to the development of Japanese Go. It is precisely because Japan has this government-run competition very early that it promotes the regularization and specialization of Japanese Go and makes Japanese Go. The level has made a qualitative leap.

However, Li Xiangping thinks that this evaluation may be a bit exaggerated. Regularization and specialization should be recognized, but an official competition can greatly improve the level. .

Li Xiangping even believes that this "Royal Chess City" is likely to hinder the healthy development of Japanese Go. From the perspective of later generations, the reason why "Japanese Style" has such great limitations is that there are many problems in " It was cultivated in the era of "Yuqi City".

   What would you say? To make an inappropriate analogy, just like the martial arts in our country, since the official competition, the "martial arts" has become "dance", and Japan's "Royal Chess City" actually has the same problem.

   This is really not Li Xiangping's nonsense. You must know that there were quite a few fake chess games in Japan's "Royal Chess City" competition. Especially the first game of the "Yuqi City" game every year, because this game is attended by "leaders" and has a very strong exhibition nature. According to the Japanese concept at that time, if the first game can be a draw , that is the best result. It is precisely for this reason that the first game of the "Royal Chess City" every year was almost always a fake game, which is an open secret in the Japanese Go world.

   And Li Xiangping believes that it is the Japanese habit of pursuing and chess that develops the problem that later generations of "Japanese style" like "laying the floor".

We all know that if you want to fake a game of Go and play a draw, it is definitely not easy to do it like the medieval chess. This method is very difficult to fake. The best way is to lay the floor, and Because there are leaders staring at it, then this chess can't be played too ugly, what should I do?

Then, of course, you can only show off your little tricks in the second half, show off a few small hand tendons at the stage of high officials or even small officials, and then pretend to "just" play a draw, so that those who are not aware of it will feel that Unpredictable.

  Li Xiangping told the story of "Yuqi City", and Lao Shi laughed when he heard:

   "Haha, I get it, I guess this "more than 70 hands know the end" is really the habit of Dongying people to make things mysterious, right?"

  Li Xiangping listened to the music for a while, but don't say it, Lao Shi's phrase "habitually tricking mysteries" is really on point.

   "Xiangping little friend, this is an anecdote you said about Yi Lin, then we will be the opponent tomorrow"

  Li Xiangping smiled slightly: "Brother Ding'an, don't worry, the anecdote of our opponent tomorrow is similar to the story just now."

"Oh?"

  Li Xiangping began to tell Lao Shi the story of Jin Chenglong's seven paragraphs. The story is even simpler, that is, the Jin Qidan later became a "famous mouth" in the Korean Go world, a TV celebrity, and he made a breakthrough in another field.

   Later, a reporter went to interview him and asked him why he gave up the pursuit of chess and instead focused his energy on doing TV explanations. The Jin Qidan said something that seemed to be self-aware:

   "Because I know my talent, I know that even if I spend my whole life, I can't reach the height of Li Canghao's 9th dan, so I have no choice but to find a way to create my own world in other fields."

  Tsk tsk, when Li Xiangping first saw this interview, he thought that this Jin Qidan was really a sensible person, very self-aware, and very clear about his life plan.

   But then the reporter asked again: "Then how big the gap between you and Li Canghao's 9th dan do you think? Can Li Canghao let you go first?"

  Jin Qidan was furious: "How can there be such a big gap? Although I admit that I will never catch up with him, the gap between me and him is only 2 chess at most."

   "2-eye chess?"

Jin Qidan said with certainty: "Yes, Li Canghao's 9dan is at most the difference between 2-mu chess, you are not a professional chess player, so you don't know how big the 2-mu chess gap is, just like what you said just now Let's go first, this is probably the difference between the chess **** and Li Jiuduan."

   "Haha, did this person really say that?"

  Li Xiangping smiled slightly: "Of course, Brother Ding'an, after hearing this person's story, I think you should know how to play this game of chess tomorrow."

   "It does have a bottom."

   (end of this chapter)