Literary Master 1978

Liang Zuo was indignant and told Lin Chaoyang what happened.

The Yanda International Student Building is home to international students from various countries. These international students live in dormitories with two people in one room, and the other roommate is a Chinese student.

That day, when school started, Liu Guangyuan from the Economics Department was playing Go with his classmates in the evening. Fukuda Kazuhiro, a Japanese international student who lived in the same dormitory with him, saw the two playing Go and came over.

After watching for a while, Liu Guangyuan was defeated and lost ten pieces.

If it were a professional Go game, losing ten pieces would be an almost insurmountable gap in strength, but the two players were just amateurs, so the gap in strength was not that big.

But Liu Guangyuan was still ridiculed by Fukuda Kazuhiro, and Liu Guangyuan immediately asked Fukuda Kazuhiro to play with some dissatisfaction.

Then Fukuda Kazuhiro really went up, not only went up, but also won the black piece by eleven and a half pieces with white pieces, which was even bigger than the gap in Liu Guangyuan's victory just now. Liu Guangyuan was speechless.

Originally, it was just a recreational activity among classmates.

But I don’t know if Fukuda Kazuhiro was overwhelmed by victory, and he said with a proud face: "Guangyuan, you Chinese always like to memorize chess records when playing chess, but you can’t learn real Go this way."

Fukuda Kazuhiro’s words are a bit condescending, but they are not unreasonable. Playing chess records is a must for everyone who learns Go, but it is usually something that needs to be done after the Go level reaches a certain level.

There is a bad trend in learning Go in China, that is, playing chess records in the early stage of learning.

The biggest role of playing chess records is to allow chess players to play against predecessors in the air to enhance their chess skills.

Some people have misinterpreted the real purpose of this training method and turned playing chess records into memorizing chess records.

Go has 19 lines, and there is no same game throughout the ages. The magic of Go lies in its endless changes. Just relying on rote memorization without truly understanding the changes of Go, you will only learn stupid and dead chess.

Liu Guangyuan was somewhat dissatisfied with Fukuda Kazuhiro's condescending attitude. He took the initiative to ask Fukuda Kazuhiro to play against him, but it was obvious that the gap between the two sides was too big, and Liu Guangyuan lost again.

During the game, other students were attracted to watch. Fukuda Kazuhiro won two games in a row, which made him feel a little proud. He couldn't help but say a few words, which immediately caused dissatisfaction among the students watching around him.

He just played two games with two bad chess players. He didn't know how high the sky was and how deep the earth was after winning.

Everyone was indignant and wanted to teach this little devil a lesson, but it turned out that no one in the entire international student building seemed to be his opponent.

This made Fukuda Kazuhiro, who was originally somewhat restrained, completely shaken up. He even set up a ring in the dormitory, saying that he welcomed Chinese students to challenge him, which meant that there was no one in China who played Go.

His attitude immediately aroused public anger, and the students decided to teach him a lesson.

But sadly, for three consecutive days, Fukuda Kazuhiro played thirteen games without losing a single one.

Liang Zuo heard about this and went to the International Students Building to teach Fukuda Kazuhiro a lesson. Unexpectedly, he still lost to the opponent with a 2.5 point disadvantage when playing with black.

"That guy is really good. I feel that his level can reach the professional level. Especially at the beginning, he is ridiculously strong. As long as he plays with black, he will win with a big advantage." Liang Zuo said unwillingly.

Professional level?

There is a huge gap between professional and amateur levels in the field of Go. If Fukuda Kazuhiro really has a professional level, it is normal for him to crush all the students of Yanda University.

After listening to Liang Zuo's story, Lin Chaoyang did not feel angry or unwilling. Japan's Go is indeed strong these days, and this is just a dispute between students.

But he was a little curious about the "professional level" Liang Zuo mentioned, "Let's go, I'll go with you to see."

Liang Zuo took Lin Chaoyang to a dormitory on the third floor of the International Students' Dormitory. At this time, the place was full of people. The two squeezed into the crowd and saw the two sides playing and the game that had just begun.

"Which one is Fukuda Kazuhiro?" Lin Chaoyang asked Liang Zuo.

"White."

The game had just begun, and it was still in the layout stage. The black piece started with the star Wuyou corner, and the white piece started with the star Xiaomu. Then the white pieces were divided and the black pieces hung the corners...

At the beginning of this game, Fukuda Kazuhiro's white pieces hung the corners several times, and the black pieces defended tightly. The two sides fought back and forth, and the layout stage was full of vigor and the atmosphere of fierce confrontation was fully demonstrated.

Unfortunately, in the middle stage, the black pieces showed the disadvantage of insufficient chess strength.

"Gold corner, silver edge, grass belly, black pieces are bound to lose this game."

After thirty moves, Lin Chaoyang observed the situation of the chess game and whispered.

If it was a professional competition, Lin Chaoyang would never dare to assert so, but this was just a game between amateur chess players. The white pieces successfully hung the corners at the beginning, constantly eroded, and the chess strength was obviously superior, so there was really no reason not to win.

Liang Zuo looked at the chessboard, "This is just the beginning!"

Lin Chaoyang did not speak, still concentrating on watching the chess.

As he said, the black pieces showed their weakness in the middle stage, and they lost before they could hold on to the end.

"Alas!"

Liang Zuo sighed, and looked at Lin Chaoyang again, "Chaoyang, you have a good eye!"

Lin Chaoyang smiled and said nothing.

Over there, Fukuda Kazuhiro refused to play against another person. He had played three games in a row today, and his physical and mental strength could not keep up. If he played again, it would be easy for others to take advantage of him, so he decisively chose to close the door and suspend the game.

"Everyone is welcome to challenge tomorrow!"

Futian Yiyu finally said something with a smile, which made the audience's teeth itch.

After coming out of the International Students Building, Liang Zuo asked Lin Chaoyang, "Chaoyang, if you play, can you beat Futian?"

Lin Chaoyang was silent. After watching Futian Yiyu's chess, he knew that Futian Yiyu's chess skills were not as exaggerated as Liang Zuo said.

The main reason why Futian Yiyu left such a strong impression on these students was that his layout was very strong. His playing style in the first dozen moves was extremely fierce, and his style was somewhat like Kobayashi Koichi.

In the case of similar chess skills, the player with fierce playing style is undoubtedly at an advantage.

Because in the process of amateur chess players playing, it is actually difficult to consider what will happen after thirty or fifty moves, and the foundation for victory or defeat is often laid in the layout stage.

To be honest, Futian Yiyu is about the level of the sixth-level professional, but because of his strong layout ability, he left a group of students with an impression that he was difficult to shake, and even made Liang Zuo think that he was at a professional level.

Lin Chaoyang's Go level is actually similar to Fukuda Kazuhiro. If we only talk about strength, the two are almost the same.

In terms of layout, Fukuda Kazuhiro is strong, but Lin Chaoyang has played AI chess after all. In terms of layout alone, let alone Fukuda Kazuhiro, even if Kobayashi Koichi comes, he can't be his opponent.

This is not because Lin Chaoyang is so strong, but he is standing on the shoulders of giants.

"My level is very average." Lin Chaoyang said modestly.

Liang Zuo listened to his words and felt a little disappointed. He thought that Lin Chaoyang could see the victory and defeat at the 30th move, and his Go skills must be very high. Unexpectedly, even he didn't dare to say that he could beat Fukuda Kazuhiro.

Liang Zuo couldn't help but sigh, "Alas! I didn't expect that I, a great Yanda, would be humiliated by a little Japanese in Go."

"It's just playing chess. Your badness is your business, and it has nothing to do with the school." Lin Chaoyang said lightly.

His tone broke Liang Zuo's defense again, "Why is it okay? We are Yanda, how can we lose to the Japanese in Go?"

"Then what do you want to do? Play another game with him?"

Lin Chaoyang's question made Liang Zuo speechless. His level was not as good as Futian Kazuhiro, and playing against him again would only be humiliating himself.

"I don't believe that we can't find a better Go player than Futian Kazuhiro in Yanda."

"What if there is someone who plays better than him? Can it cover up the fact that you lost to him?"

Liang Zuo was angry and asked, "Chaoyang, which group are you on?"

Lin Chaoyang did not answer his question, but asked back, "Do you really want to beat him so much?"

Hearing this, Liang Zuo's eyes immediately stared at him, "Can you beat him?"

Lin Chaoyang shook his head, "I can't beat him, but I can let you beat him."

"What do you mean?"

"Can you play Go in your dormitory?"

"Yes."

"Let's go."

Lin Chaoyang headed towards Building 32, and Liang Zuo hurriedly caught up with him.

The two went up to the third floor, where all the students of the Chinese Department lived, and everyone knew Lin Chaoyang.

After greeting everyone, Lin Chaoyang asked Liang Zuo to set up the chess pieces.

"Let's play a game!"

Liang Zuo was confused by Lin Chaoyang's operation, but he still obeyed and played chess with him.

Liang Zuo played black first and opened the game with a small eye. Lin Chaoyang saw at a glance that he wanted to imitate Fukuda Kazuhiro's style of play.

Lin Chaoyang played white and laid out the prototype of Shusaku's apex in the first three moves. Shusaku's apex is a classic Go layout technique. This layout technique comes from the Japanese player Honinbo Shusaku, who is famous for his steady style and overall view of the game. Shusaku's apex is his favorite layout.

Like the player who invented this layout technique, Shusaku's combat style is solid and firm, especially when holding black pieces, it can quickly establish an advantage.

But with the emergence of the handicap system in the 20th century, the power of Shusaku's apex in actual combat has been greatly reduced, and it has gradually been eliminated by the mainstream.

Liang Zuo had played the game and understood the playing style of Shusaku Jian. He wondered why Lin Chaoyang dared to use Shusaku Jian when he was the black player first.

In the next few moves, Liang Zuo became more and more confused. There is a saying in Go that the first move to grab the corner is almost a customary rule in the game, but Lin Chaoyang ignored his corner hanging and instead pressed the black pieces close to him.

The white pieces pressed all the way. Although the black pieces occupied the corners, the pieces were all in the low position. After Liang Zuo played ten moves, he felt more and more uneasy, but he still couldn't understand what Lin Chaoyang's playing style was.

As more and more black and white pieces appeared on the board, it seemed that the black pieces were always pressing the white pieces, occupying all the corners, and the white pieces could only shrink in the belly.

At this time, many people were standing in the dormitory to watch. When they saw this, they all shook their heads and felt that Lin Chaoyang's level was a bit low. Except for the first few moves, he was almost suppressed by Liang Zuo in the other moves. The occasional idle moves seemed to be useless.

Until the 30th move, the black and white pieces began to fight hard on the sidelines, and both sides were cautious.

Everyone suddenly felt that Lin Chaoyang's chess seemed to come alive, and not only alive, but also became stronger after being suppressed just now.

Especially the idle pieces he originally seemed to have randomly placed, but Liang Zuo's Qi could not be connected at all, making him more and more uncomfortable.

Seeing that his black pieces had no Qi and were being captured more and more, Liang Zuo was confused and wanted to find a way to break the situation, but he couldn't find a way.

In the end, he held a black piece between his two fingers and swung it left and right on the chessboard for a long time, not knowing where to place it. It seemed that it didn't matter where he placed it.

"Are you going to make a move or not?"

There is a saying in Go that one should think for a long time. In a real competition, one may think about a move for an hour, but this is an amateur game, and Liang Zuo's attitude is not to think for a long time, but to be indecisive, which makes everyone impatient.

The urging of the crowd made Liang Zuo completely lose confidence, and the black piece in his hand fell freely on the chessboard.

He said dejectedly: "I lost!"

So far, the game has only been played to the 87th move.

Everyone was in an uproar. In everyone's opinion, although Liang Zuo seemed to be a little weak in the middle game, he still had a lot of room to maneuver and there was no need to admit defeat.

Liang Zuo looked at the shocked expressions of the crowd and smiled bitterly.

These people were not the parties involved, and they would never understand his despair when facing Lin Chaoyang.

He had such a big advantage in the layout stage, but when he started fighting in the middle game, he found that the advantages he had built up before seemed to disappear.

He couldn't figure it out. He couldn't figure it out.

Liang Zuo looked at Lin Chaoyang with a puzzled look, "How did you do this chess?"

"Want to learn?" Lin Chaoyang asked.

Liang Zuo nodded. If Lin Chaoyang was willing to teach him, he would certainly be willing to learn. He had never heard of this layout and fighting method.

"I'll teach you!" Lin Chaoyang said in a relaxed tone.