People in Tokyo, almighty useless people

Europeans call backgammon "gentleman's chess", which is a kind of chess that everyone can play while expressing a gentleman's demeanor.

However, the Japanese regard "backgammon" as "middle-aged and elderly chess", and play backgammon to maintain health and cultivate the mind.

In China, backgammon is also listed as a kind of chess that children like to play, along with fighting beast chess and airplane chess. It is easy to learn and the entry threshold is extremely low.

But backgammon has a very cheating feature, which is very clear to those who have played backgammon on mobile phones or computers, and played against the above man-machine.

Backgammon has a strong feature of "going first will win", that is, whoever plays first basically has a great advantage.

In order to overcome this shortcoming, chess players from various countries have proposed many methods to limit backgammon.

Such as exchanging ideas.That is, one person starts the game, and the other chooses black or white.

There is also the most popular thinking of forbidden hands.In order to balance the gap between the front and back players, chess players are forbidden to win by certain means.

There is also the principle of bubbles. After the backgammon is played, the pieces disappear, and one is eaten by the opponent, and one is made up by oneself.

Of course, the idea of ​​reducing the size of the chessboard and turning backgammon into six is ​​endless.

But backgammon has not yet developed a variant that can completely convince everyone. Most people still think that whoever plays first wins.

Shi Liangping wants to improve his skills this time, not because of some crises before.

Now that he wants to improve his chess skills, he just wants to improve all his skills, so as to avoid the embarrassment of being helpless when he is targeted again in the future.

At the same time, when his skills are perfect, he will go out to play in the school.

"What rules are you going to use? Or the most primitive backgammon, that kind of talk is a bit boring." Marubashi Ichiro saw Qianzuru bring the chessboard and put it on the tea table.

"You go first, don't use any forbidden hands, it's the simplest rule."

"That's too boring. If that's the case, your chances of winning are pretty slim?" Ichiro Maruhashi slightly opened his nightgown, his eyes serious.

"Let me feel the pressure first, maybe I can use it to improve." Shi Liangping smiled, "After I get used to it, let's play Go later."

"Go, Go is indeed more fun. But the amount of calculation in Go is too large, and it has a lot of stamina to play."

"Indeed, Go is probably one of the most difficult games now."

In the past, AlphaGo played the world's strongest Go professional players in Go without any power to fight back, and even the world's strongest did not win a few games under its hands.

But if you think about it in reverse, even the artificial intelligence with such exaggerated computing power today seems to be unable to achieve invincibility in the face of Go. Looking at it in reverse,

Doesn't it explain the difficulty of Go?

"Stop talking, let's start." Shi Liangping stretched out his hand to signal Maruhashi Ichiro to go first.

Maruhashi Ichiro smiled, and unceremoniously placed the white flag in the very center of the chessboard.

Several girls looked at each other,

They felt that Shi Liangping would definitely be tortured terribly by Maruhashi Ichiro,

A long time ago, Yoko Maruhashi wrote such an article called "The Novel of Chess Players".

In the plot, the protagonist, as a chess master, spent 30 years away from work just to play chess, looking for masters all over the country to compete, and finally became the number one folk legend.

The prototype of the protagonist is Maruhashi Ichiro.

But everyone who knows Ichiro Maruhashi knows that,

In fact, the story seems to be correct on the surface, but it is actually far from the big picture.

The real version is this: When Ichiro Maruhashi was young, he liked to drink, smoke, gamble, spend money like running water,

But his wife hates him for being such a prodigal, and has been arguing with him because of this.

Later, Ichiro Maruhashi was so scolded that he couldn't stand it anymore, so he could only get rid of his bad habit of smoking, drinking and gambling to save money for the family.

However, since then, he has been looking for people to play chess with all kinds of idleness, and he likes to gamble, so he has been betting and playing chess with others since the vicinity of the town, sometimes it is a cigarette, and sometimes it is a bottle of old wine.

In this way, Maruhashi Ichiro, who is very talented in smoking, drinking and gambling, also showed the same talent in chess. He relied on playing chess to exchange wine and cigarettes for himself.

He has perfected his chess skills by playing chess and gambling for 30 years.

"Don't underestimate people who are idle." The protagonist of the story based on Ichiro Maruhashi always said this in "The Chess Player".

Shi Liangping sat across from Maruhashi Ichiro, just treating him as an ordinary person who is less than human and machine.

After all, from the very beginning, Shi Liangping didn't have any sense of reverence for this so-called No. [-] Chess King in town, he just thought it was a little funny.

But when Shi Liangping confronted Ichiro Maruhashi in person,

Only then did he feel the sense of despair that Ke Jie, the world champion of Go, met AlphaGo.

He felt that his thoughts were all seen by the opponent, and the chess he played was completely lost for no reason, and he didn't see clearly how he lost.

Even if he raised a level under strong pressure not long after.

Lianju has reached the excellent standard, and the host's chess skills have reached the excellent level]

The host's current abilities: music performance · excellent level, martial arts · excellent level, chess · excellent level, singing ability · excellent level, reading and learning · excellent level, writing · excellent level, cooking · excellent level, art · average level]

After Shi Liangping tested backgammon and go, he still found that he had no capital to compete with Ichiro Maruhashi.

"Uncle, are you professionally retired? Is this outrageous?" Shi Liangping sat in front of the chessboard, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and asked dryly.

"Can I not be good at chess 30 years ago? If I beat you now, how can I get along?" Ichiro Maruhashi frowned.

"I still want to ask, why did you suddenly become so powerful?"

Chapter 120 Four, what is a genius?

Marubashi Ichiro vaguely felt that something was wrong,

After playing chess for so many years, it was the first time he saw an opponent who could pretend to be so good at himself.

What was even more wrong was that when he played chess, although he felt that Shi Liangping on the opposite side had always been weak, his strength had been growing exponentially.

He rubbed the chess pieces in his hands, and although he had a huge advantage, he showed a serious expression on his face.

Shi Liangping didn't show any joy, he sat opposite the chessboard like a secluded gentleman, with a calm and indifferent face.

But if he could laugh out loud, his current laughter would definitely be more villainous than anime villains.

"Unexpectedly, it turns out that it is possible to learn two kinds of chess at the same time, and through continuous improvement of the two to achieve rapid overall improvement." Shi Liangping said silently in his heart.

From a long time ago, Shi Liangping fell into a very tangled place.

Many skills cannot be improved after reaching the excellent level or the excellent level, and the professional level and peak level behind may be beyond his reach in his entire life.

And if a skill wants to play a huge role, it can only be manifested at the professional level.

If his martial arts is promoted to the professional level, then he is a professional martial arts master. Similarly, he can also become an art master, speech master, writing master, sports master, music master...

And, once promoted to the professional level, he is a master-level figure of the pentagon, with no weaknesses.

So this restriction made him extremely painful.

But now he found a breakthrough opportunity,

That is to learn two types of skills from others at the same time. For example, when learning martial arts, you can learn Sanda and Muay Thai at the same time.

Although each skill has its own level, every small improvement will be fed back to the whole body in an imperceptible way.

Just like now, Shi Liangping enhances his chess skills by learning backgammon, and then improves the level of Go,

And when his backgammon has no room for improvement, he can seek a breakthrough in Go and continue to pull repeatedly. Although the speed of progress cannot be said to be fast, at least he has broken the bottleneck of inability to improve.

He sees an opportunity in every skill he has to break through to the professional level -- hard as it is.

But at least at least, he saw a ray of existence called hope.

Shi Liangping is now in an extremely happy mood,

Even if he was defeated under the fierce offensive of Maruhashi Ichiro, and he couldn't find his teeth after being hanged,

But feeling that his chess skill level is constantly rising, his mood becomes more and more relaxed.

On the opposite side, Maruhashi Ichiro's expression became more and more ugly. He always felt that he was being taught by others, but he didn't think that Shi Liangping's level could be improved instantly through a short on-site teaching.

But the sixth sense always faintly told him that Shi Liangping's great changes in level were related to him.

"You're making rapid progress." Maruhashi Ichiro touched the beard of his chin, his eyes became vigilant.

In short, Maruhashi Ichiro, who felt something was wrong, didn't want to continue teaching now. Although he liked Shi Liangping quite a lot, chess skills were his bottom line.

Unless it's his own family, he can't teach deep things.

Taught the apprentice, but starved the master to death.He didn't want to be that poor existence.

Shi Liangping also couldn't help sighing, he felt that after a while, his chess skills might break through the excellent level,

Unexpectedly, Maruhashi Ichiro had reservations at this time, which made him a little melancholy.

A few girls watched the two play chess with relish, and suddenly looked up in confusion.

They don't know why Maruhashi Ichiro said such a strange tone of words, isn't the two of them exchanging chess skills with each other?

Why did he still show the strange expression of the Infernal Affairs showdown.

But Maruhashi also knows chess very well, and she soon knew what happened.

"Father must have taught her well." Yoko Maruhashi watched the game quietly from the sidelines. "Father, Ryohei is my very good friend. It's okay to teach more things."

Maruhashi is very familiar with both Ishi Lianghei and Maruhashi Ichiro, and she probably knew what they were thinking when she observed their expressions.

As her father's good daughter, Yoko Maruhashi naturally took the side of Shi Liangping.

When Marubashi Ichiro heard his dearest daughter say such a sentence, he fell silent.

As a good-for-nothing father, he never had a chance for his daughter to make a request. Now seeing Ye Zi say these words...

He has played chess to the extreme all his life, and this skill naturally makes him proud.

If someone asked him to teach him what was at the bottom of the box, he would definitely scold him bloody.

But if it is the daughter's request, there is nothing to say.

Ye Zi is the pride of the Maruhashi family, and even more so, if it is what his daughter Ye Zi said, then there is nothing to hesitate!

"Then continue." Maruhashi Ichiro shook his head, reached out and took out a white chess piece from the chess box, with a more dignified expression.

"Next, you will face a more serious me, and I will no longer hold back."

Sitting opposite Shi Liangping felt the strong desire to attack for a moment.

Maruhashi Ichiro seems to have been hiding his chess style in his previous chess games, that is, he doesn't like to attack or defend.

But at this moment, Shi Liangping was very aware of Maruhashi Ichiro's chess style,

He's an ultra-violent attacker who excels at opening and crushing situations.This style can be seen in any game.

If he was playing chess at this moment, then Ichiro Maruhashi would probably be a tyrant who would yell "Kill" every two moves.

Shi Liangping was sweating profusely, his chess skills improved more rapidly, but he was crushed more and more miserably.

Maruhashi Ichiro didn't hold back at all. From the moment when the first piece had the upper hand, he began to bombard wildly, killing gods when he met gods, and killing Buddhas when he met Buddhas.

Speaking of this feeling, it is like playing billiards when the opponent scores three goals with one kick-off, directly leading the huge advantage.

Shi Liangping bit his lip, holding the chess piece as if looking for a breakthrough,

But at a glance, it seems that every breakthrough that can be seen is a trap set by the other party.

This gave him a thrilling feeling of confrontation with the super artificial intelligence Alpha Dog. It was a kind of despair of being crushed by computing power, and also a pain of being torn apart by experience.

He was a little lost in such a terrifying offensive, as if he could never find a chance to stand up again.

Shi Liangping was stuck for a moment, the way to improve his chess skills was blocked, and he was somewhat unable to see through the opponent's thoughts.

The opponent's level suddenly soared to the point where he couldn't figure it out, it was really scary!

But at this moment, Maruhashi Ichiro gently talked about his thoughts along the way, and he told Shi Liangping all his thoughts along the way.

Shi Liangping raised his head, extremely surprised.

This is revealing all his trump cards!

Shi Liangping suddenly became enlightened under Maruhashi Ichiro's explanation, and he instantly understood all the other party's thoughts along the way.

All kinds of things appeared like this, and all kinds of doubts dissipated.

Many wrong ideas are now gone, and everything is on the right track.

And at this moment, Shi Liangping's demeanor changed completely. When he held the chess piece, his eyes became clear, without any impurities.

His understanding of Go has reached its peak, and the black chess piece in his hand has a particularly warm luster.