The artistic rebirth of engineering women

Chapter 11: Learning Chess
Dinner is a simple three dishes and one soup, each dish is not much, just enough for two people.Before this, Yue Wenjing didn't know that there are people who are very entertaining even when eating, and every movement is extremely elegant, coupled with the rule of "no talking when eating, no talking when sleeping", she even has a feeling that she is watching the nobles in ancient times. Dining with the feel of a silent movie.Cen Xi must have an excellent tutor.

After eating, he helped clear the dining table, walked around the yard a few times, and when he came back, Cen Xi led her to the study.There is an Arhat bed near the window, and a Go table is placed on it. "I will teach you how to play chess in the evening. Go has a great influence on people's way of thinking. Although you don't have to be proficient, you must at least know a little bit. Sit down." After finishing speaking, he knelt and sat on one side.

She also learned how he knelt and sat on the other side.In fact, she was very afraid that Cen Xi would give her a lecture on "Life and Go".In the previous life, the phrase "so-and-so is actually the same as life" has become very popular. Playing chess can be associated with life, drinking tea is life, and saying "ah, life...".She doesn't understand, is the perception of "life" so cheap and so readily available?She admits that doing one thing often makes people feel completely irrelevant, but it is not possible to see a stray cat digging through the trash can on the road and make you lament the impermanence of the world, right?

Fortunately he didn't.

"Let's talk about the rules first. Guessing is the way to decide who should move first." Grab a handful of chess pieces from the chess box and place them on the table with one hand. In the end, put one chess piece if there is one left, otherwise put two." Then he opened the lid of another box, implying that she could take the chess pieces from it.

After a little hesitation, he took out a chess piece and placed it on the table.

Remove the hand, move the chess pieces to the side in groups of two, and there is only one left. "You hold the black first. Take the chess box of black pieces." She took it as she said, and he picked up the chess pieces.

"The Go board has nineteen vertical and horizontal lines, and there are 360 ​​points where you can place a piece. Among them, the blackened points are called 'stars', and the most central star position is called 'Tianyuan'. When playing chess, few people come first. One step falls on Tianyuan, because of its high potential but few in number, it often places a chess piece near the rest of the stars. Put a chess piece at the intersection of the lines." After she put it away, he pointed to the chess piece she put down, and said: "It's the same as this chess piece. The four intersections directly adjacent to the chess pieces are its 'Qi'. In particular, the number of 'Qi' of chess pieces on the edge of the board is three, and the number of four corners is two. If the opponent drops a piece at the adjacent position," said, Hold a white piece between the middle finger and middle finger of the right hand, twist it out from the chess box, put the sleeve on the left hand, and drop the hand, "then the qi will be broken. If all the qi of the chess piece is cut off by the opponent, the chess is in a state of no qi. One side takes the piece away as the winning piece." Then, they added several two-color pieces on the board, and then explained while placing the pieces: "'Connect'-connect, 'Break'-separate, 'Long' ——Extend, 'fight and eat'——warning. You may not have any idea now, let me play a few rounds for you to see."

As he said that, his fingers quickly shuttled between the chess box and the chessboard, setting out a simple chess game.

"Count the 'Qi' of the two sons separately." As soon as the words fell, Yue Wenjing counted silently in his heart.After about ten seconds, she spoke her answer.

Cen Xi nodded in satisfaction. "Know how to infer other things from one example, that's right. If the chess pieces of the same color are connected together, they form a whole, and the 'qi' numbers are calculated together. It is worth noting that if the chess pieces on both sides are empty after the chess is placed, the first airless piece should be taken. At this time The position is called 'forbidden point', that is, no matter which color chess piece lands here, it is in a state of no air."

Brushing the chessboard with his hand, he moved the chess pieces to the edge, and started a new game. "These basic terms must be remembered, and I will use them in my explanations in the future. Now let's do the practice of capturing pieces. In the current situation, how can the black pieces capture the white pieces?"

The two of you come and go between each other to complete this exercise.

"Well, it's done well. Now you use white pieces instead. It's still the same board as before, how can you play white pieces to avoid being eaten by black pieces, or even reversed?" This time it was obviously much more difficult than the previous practice, Yue asked Jing The time for thinking has also increased a lot.Fortunately, Cen Xi didn't make things difficult for her. Although it was very difficult to walk a few steps, he managed to save himself from danger.When the last hand was settled, she lifted her winning hand, smiling like crescent moons in her eyes, "Teacher, I won."

"Savvy is very good. Be greedy and not bad, let's stop here today." The two cleaned up the chess board together.Cen Xi suddenly asked, "Is your leg okay?"

"Huh?" Before she could react for a while, her doubts were clearly written on her face.

"Get up and move your legs. I've been kneeling for almost an hour." He got up and walked towards her, reaching out his hand to help her up.

Just now she was concentrating on playing chess and didn't feel anything. Now that she straightened her legs, she couldn't feel her feet at all, and she didn't even feel her feet touching the floor. sore.

During this period of time, she practiced kneeling every time she practiced in the piano hall, and the time was increased from 15 minutes at the beginning to half an hour, but it has never been nearly an hour like today.He helped her to sit on the edge of the couch, brought a small stick, put her feet on it, adjusted the position slightly, then controlled her strength, and gently rubbed her legs and feet.After finally recovering, I heard Cen Xi's voice: "I didn't want you to kneel for so long. If you feel uncomfortable, just change your sitting position. How could you know that you are so honest."

Yue Wenjing almost lost his breath.Teacher, there is no such thing as you!If I can't say that sentence, I have to think about it myself?Silently rolled his eyes, but was bumped into by Cen Xi who happened to raise his head.She smiled awkwardly.

"Okay, don't arrange me there, go back to rest early, and get up early tomorrow." Stand up and put the scorpion back in place.

Somewhat confused about the meaning of his "getting up early", she looked at him suspiciously.

"Tomorrow morning at a quarter past six, I'll wait for you downstairs." Throwing such light words, he turned and left the study.She looked at his back silently, but gritted her teeth in surprise.

But the next day, when she found out why she needed to get up so early, she couldn't laugh or cry.

(End of this chapter)