After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

Chapter 86 86. Three Three
"haven't seen you for a long time."

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Fang Yuan looked at the people on the field and went over to say hello. The two top-notch ones who came this time were both older among the top-notch ones, and both were about ten years older than Fang Yuan.

Although they are approaching 40 years old, both of them are still on the forefront of Go. They both still hold the highest honor "title" in Japanese Go. A few years ago, Japanese Go was called the Bamboo Grove Era of the two of them.

The surname of one of them, Lin Xiaofeng, is not the Japanese Go Lin family, but a Chinese Go player living in Japan. He was born in mainland China and later moved to Taiwan with his parents. When he was ten years old, he met his teacher and went to Japan to study Go until now.

Among Japan's six top-notch Go players, five of them were taught by the same teacher, who is also the one who has many Japanese Go students all over the world.

Katsuya Takenouchi is the eldest brother among them and is considered the leader of Japanese Go.

Among the six top-notch ones, only Lin Xiaofeng is an exception. He is not from the same school as the other five, so there is still a sense of confrontation.

"Hahaha, what do you think? I was right, right? In the end, these two kids will make it to the finals? Are you guys ready to place your bets? I'm still waiting for your money to help me pay off my debts."

As soon as Fang Yuan sat down, he saw Fujii Hideaki fanning himself and chatting with a few ninth-dan players nearby with a smile.

But the other 9-dan players nearby were clearly confident and not worried at all: "We don't think Kashima Torajiro will lose, Fujii Hideaki 9-dan, you should think about your bet. It seems that if you don't win a few more games this year, you won't be able to repay your debt.

But you can rest assured that we won't push you as hard as a debt collection company. You can just delay for a while, and we won't push you so hard."

Hearing this, Fujii Hideaki's face was obviously not very happy. After all, there was a period of time when he was really having a hard time because of the debt collection company.

The other party's words had a hint of exposing one's shortcomings.

"Well, it's just a bet. What's the point of arguing? The prize money for both parties combined is only a title fight prize."

Katsuya Takenouchi looked at the group of people who were about to start a quarrel and acted as a peacemaker.

After all, not only are there outsiders from the Guanxi Chess Academy present, but there are also people from foreign chess academies. What would it look like if people from your own family started quarreling?
Katsu Takenouchi also understood the nature of the bet between Fujii Hideaki and others. After all, judging from their golden generation, the next generation was indeed lacking in talent and was far behind them.

Even Torajiro Kashima, who was hyped by the media as the reincarnation of Shusaku, was, in Takenouchi Katsuya's opinion, only barely keeping up with the achievements of the previous generation's golden age.

But he was the only one, the others...

Katsuya Takenouchi could only say that it was hard to put it into words.

Katsu Takenouchi now occasionally works as a part-time coach, but he still feels tired when he sees his students playing chess.

After all, the children who can be trained by me are already the youngest and the best among the professional players, but there are still many problems in chess.

If I have to say something, after all, these children are still young and their shortcomings can be understood.

But Katsuya Takenouchi himself considers himself to be of above-average talent, but his achievements at the same age far exceed those of children of the same age.

Therefore, Katsuya Takenouchi can naturally understand some of Fujii Hideaki's anxieties, just like China's golden generation decades later also lamented the lack of successors to the next generation. However, the reason why China is not anxious is because Japan and South Korea are even facing the risk of generational discontinuity and have started to compete with each other.

However, Katsuya Takenouchi did not think that the other party's so-called raising of wolves was a good behavior.

Not to mention that Katsuya Takenouchi has not paid attention to whether there are any next-generation chess players worth looking forward to in China and South Korea. After all, he believes that in an environment like that in China and South Korea, geniuses will not be able to perform well.

Only in Japan is there room for genius to flourish.

As for Zhan Lang, Takenouchi Katsuya didn't pay much attention to him. He just felt that Fujii Hideaki exaggerated the other party's talent.

"The game begins." "China's Zhan Lang plays black."

"First hand, small eye."

"White's second move is the star position."

The staff in charge of setting up the chess pieces listened to the sound coming from the headphones and started to set up the chess pieces on the display chessboard in the viewing room.

"Black's third move, point 33."

After hearing this, the staff member was about to put it on, but stopped halfway.

Then he asked the other party uncertainly: "Please repeat the third hand and report it to me after confirmation."

In Go, it is not uncommon for a player to not occupy a corner first at the beginning of the game, but instead directly attack the opponent's corner.

But the staff, who are also professional chess players, had never heard of the game being played directly with 3-3 at the beginning.

It can even be said that this method is a bit horrifying.

Therefore, he immediately checked with the person who was notating the music on the other side to prevent the unprofessional person from making a mistake. It would be embarrassing if he just put out a wrong score that was obviously wrong at a glance.

However, after hearing the other side's affirmative verification, the staff could only bite the bullet and place the chess piece on the 33 position on the chessboard amid the astonished expressions of many people in the audience.

"Opening point three three?"

There were many professional players present who had not seen the chess record of Zhan Lang’s game and they all looked at each other in bewilderment when they saw this move.

After all, this move is not a good one in the eyes of normal people. It can even be said to be stinky and disgusting.

It's totally against the principles of chess.

Based on past experience, the earlier you “click 33”, the greater the loss.

The position of 33 is very magical. Not to mention the starting point of 33, the position of 33 at the beginning has been controversial for a long time.

In the early Edo period (16th century) of Japan, Honinbo Dosaku called "San San" the "ghost gate" and a forbidden move. If you make a forbidden move, you will be expelled from the sect. Therefore, everyone was afraid and dared not make it.

Until the beginning of this century, two of Japan's six top-notch masters were in a frenzy of researching new layouts and playing methods. The new layout concept that emphasized the center and speed made the two-star, high-eye, and even Tianyuan playing methods appear frequently in their game matches.

Because the two of them were already very strong at that time, although they frequently used these moves in the game, they were still able to defeat their opponents.

Even in the challenge to Honinbo, he made the first move of the game, which was forbidden by the opponent's rules, and it surprised his opponent.

And fifty years later, there were two more talented young men, and the position of San San was again occupied.

Although the positions of the pieces are the same, the meanings are different, and the people sitting in the game positions have already had their minds turned upside down.

Now, as a person of authority, the two young disciples back then once again denied this method of doing things.

History seems to have returned to the past again.

(End of this chapter)