After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

On the morning of April 30, 1987, the battle between the main players of the second China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament was about to begin.

Ten minutes before the game, Zhan Lang and Takenouchi Katsuya had already entered the game room. Before they came in, the game room was already crowded with reporters from all walks of life.

After both parties sat down, their ears were instantly surrounded by the sound of cameras clicking, accompanied by the flash of lights from the cameras.

It can be said that noise pollution and light pollution directly filled this small game room. Because the attention to this game was so high, basically all major Japanese newspapers had reporters coming.

Reporters will generally leave about fifteen minutes after the game begins. Although there are always a large number of idle people in the competition room, which may affect the players' pre-match performance, as a commercial sport, these are inevitable.

If this can be affected, then this mentality is indeed not suitable for being a professional player.

These normal operations are actually understandable, but the security work at some of the subsequent competition sites was extremely lax. Someone walked in from the door and walked around the competition room and came out without anyone noticing or caring. It can only be said that it was too outrageous.

This is called the World Series?

Zhan Lang glanced at the clock on the wall and saw that the game was about to start in about a minute.

Zhan Lang and Takenouchi Katsuya opened the chess boxes in front of them at the same time, but Takenouchi Katsuya seemed to be stunned when he saw the black pieces in front of him, and then turned to Fujii Hideaki, the chief referee, and asked: "Am I playing black today?"

Upon hearing this, not only the chief referee Fujii Hideaki, but everyone in the entire game room was surprised.

Because both sides play black and white in a ring match, the order is decided before the match. It is not decided by guessing at the time of the match, so everyone knows their order before the match starts.

Takenouchi Katsuya didn't even know whether he was black or white, so how did he prepare before that? Or did he not prepare at all?
Even Fujii Hideaki couldn't help but wonder if he had remembered it wrong when he heard this. After all, he always felt that Takenouchi Katsuya would not make such a low-level mistake.

But Fujii Hideaki took a look at the record book and said with certainty: "Yes, you are the black chess piece!"

After hearing this, Katsuya Takenouchi nodded as if he suddenly realized something, picked up a chess piece, and prepared to make his move as soon as the referee announced the start of the game.

After this little episode, Fujii Hideaki confirmed that both sides had no problems. He glanced at the clock on the wall and saw that the original game time had exceeded, so he immediately announced the start of the game.

Katsuya Takenouchi did not hesitate at all and made a small move in the upper right corner.

In this game, both sides chose the wrong small eye and the opening towards the small eye, without any star position.

So what is certain is that point three three will definitely not appear in this game.

Just ten minutes into the game, the chief referee Fujii Hideaki cleared all outsiders out of the arena to ensure a fair and quiet competition environment.

After going out, many media reporters found a corner to squat and prepare to write reports.

After all, you can directly send out a report on the start of the game now, and then send out a report on the end of the game after the game is over.

But when Hao Qiang left, his face was still full of confusion. He couldn't help but ask Fang Yuan who was following him: "In such an important competition, Takenouchi Katsuya didn't even know whether he was playing black or white?"

This is no longer a technical issue, it's common sense, right?

When Zhan Lang was the only one left on the Chinese team, all the remaining players on the Japanese side should have known whether they would be black or white if they went on the court. How could this situation happen?

Just like Zhan Lang had been preparing the layout for the white game after the game ended the day before yesterday, everyone also gave him some chess records of Katsuya Takenouchi losing with black, hoping that he could find some weaknesses of the opponent.

According to this kind of advance information, it can be said that this is basically a must for the competition. Fang Yuan really couldn't figure it out. After all, it's impossible for Takenouchi Katsuya to really make such a low-level mistake.

But after thinking about it carefully, Fang Yuan couldn't help rubbing his hands: "Maybe it's a psychological warfare."

"Psychological warfare?"

Hao Qiang was stunned when he heard this. He knew that there was such a thing as psychological warfare in Go. In fact, it was to mislead the opponent and create a kind of psychological deception on the opponent.

For example, the men's individual champion of the Asian Games once said that he was at a disadvantage but after his opponent made a mistake, he would continue to pretend to be very distressed, inducing the opponent to think that he had not made a mistake, so that the opponent could be careless and he could make a better comeback.

Even if you know that there is a brilliant move somewhere else on the chessboard, you still keep your eyes on other places, inducing your opponent to look in your direction, making him think that the key point is next to your line of sight.

Even some of the threats made before the game to deliberately suppress the opponent's momentum, including saying that some people have never won a championship in a competition, and direct psychological hints can be said to be psychological warfare.

But is there anything about Katsuya Takenouchi's behavior that could mislead others?
"After the defeat of Takemiya Shohei, Takenouchi Katsuya has told the media more than once that he will do his utmost to defend the dignity of Japanese Go.

So he couldn't possibly not know that he was playing black in this game. If he didn't make this little preparation, what dignity would he have to maintain? Zhan Lang would have easily thrown it into the trash can."

"So the reason why he asked this question knowing the answer is nothing more than deliberately trying to show that he doesn't care who goes first or second. He didn't even prepare for the game, and showed his superiority to his opponent before the game."

Fang Yuan couldn't help but touch his chin when he thought of this.

If the opponent has a worse mentality, he may think that the opponent does not take the game seriously, underestimates him, or feel panic or anger.

Those with a better mentality may think that the other party is not prepared and simply take it lightly.

No matter what, it will make it impossible for the other person to remain calm.

It's not a good idea to think this way either way. Katsuya Takenouchi has dug a pretty deep hole!

As expected of an old veteran, he has plenty of experience in every aspect.

Hao Qiang couldn't help but get a little nervous when he heard this: "Will Zhan Lang be affected?"

Fang Yuan was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then he seemed to think of something and couldn't help laughing.

"This trick works on other people, but it probably won't work on Zhan Lang."

"what?"

Hao Qiang was stunned when he heard this. You just said it was so terrifying, how come it has no effect on Zhan Lang now?
Fang Yuan heard this and said with a smug smile: "It can't be helped. Zhan Lang's Japanese level is so poor that he won't understand unless I speak slowly.

Katsuya Takenouchi's words were quite bendy. It was so noisy just now that it was hard to say whether Zhan Lang could hear clearly what he said.

It would be even more difficult to hear clearly and understand the hidden meaning of Katsuya Takenouchi's words.

Therefore, Takenouchi Katsuya's psychological warfare against Zhan Lang is just a joke to the deaf. After all, he played too much with the Japanese and forgot that the opponent was a foreigner. "

(End of this chapter)