[Soul of Chess] What if

After being pressed on the seat involuntarily, He Gu had no choice but to put the chess pot beside him, ready to start the game.

"Let the six sons!"

Morishita-sensei who was standing behind added with a malicious smile.

"..."

He Gu suddenly felt that he who was touched by the teacher's words just now was too stupid and naive... 〒^〒

He knew that Mr. Morishita must still be blaming himself in his heart!

In other words, since seeing countless people denouncing him on the "Go God" website, in order to make everyone gradually forget about himself, He Gu decided that it would be better not to let the teacher use his account to play against sai anymore.

After all, the person being condemned is himself... Q_Q

After explaining the matter to Mr. Morishita, although he was a bit reluctant, the teacher finally agreed.

Now it seems that the teacher is really not happy 〒_〒

"Oh?"

Not long after the match at Hetani's table started, the translator standing beside the foreign grandfather said to Mr. Morishita in surprise, "Contestant Li is watching the match against Japan's representative Shimano."

After seeing it, Mr. Morishita sighed: "Japan, China, and South Korea are also not giving in to each other this year."

"That's right!"

Hearing their conversation, He Gu couldn't help but observe the place not far to his left from the corner of his eye.

I saw a person standing on the side of Shimano staring intently at the board.

Li Linxin, the name He Gu knew, because this person was the first to play against Sai, and he was also the first to pay attention to Sai seriously.

In the forum of the "God of Go" website, Li once posted more than 30 prepared game records of sai games, and analyzed in detail sai's layout habits and his style of play in the posts.

It can be said that Li is a person who understands Sai's Go characteristics better.

Now he was watching Shimano's match so seriously.Could it be that he suspects that Shimano is Sai?

The game at that table was quickly over.

"Iresign... (I conceded)" Shimano's opponent—a blond foreigner—had conceded in frustration, and suddenly said hesitantly: "Excuse me...can you play chess online?"

While packing up the chess pieces, Shimano asked calmly, "...Do you want to ask Sai?"

The foreigner asked in surprise: "Could it be...you are Sai?"

Although his voice was not loud, the name "sai" suddenly made the eyes of the people around him shift to this side.

"I'm not, other players asked me about sai this morning." Shimano briefly explained why he knew the name.

"So--"

"I'm not."

Shimano asked curiously, "Who is Sai?"

"My God, you don't even know sai?" The foreigner paused for a moment, and then couldn't help but exclaimed.

Li Linxin, who was watching the game from the sidelines, explained to the slightly confused Shimano: "Sai is a Go master who appeared on the Internet and whose country is marked as JPN. Although I don't know his true face, because he never communicated with others. Talk. However, his strength is extremely high, with my chess strength, I can't match him at all."

"I haven't played against him, because there are too many people who want to play against him, so I can only watch him play against others. However, every time I watch sai's games, I can gain a lot , Unknowingly, my chess strength has improved a lot!" Another contestant came over and said.

A woman also joined their discussion: "I also played chess with Sai! About ten days ago? Sai played a game of guiding chess with me very considerately!"

"I've played against sai too!" Another contestant walked over.

……

More and more people joined the discussion.

Seeing such a scene, the mild-faced staff member hastened to maintain order: "Please be quiet! There are still people playing!"

However, nothing worked.

Ogata walked in and saw such a slightly chaotic scene.

"...What happened?" He walked over and asked a little puzzled.

"Mr. Ogata."

"Teacher Ogata."

Shimano and the staff greeted Ogata.

"Long time no see!" After seeing Ogata, Shimano greeted with a little excitement.

"What? You know Ogata?" Mr. Morishita was a little puzzled.

"Shimano used to attend seminars of celebrities." Ogata briefly explained.

"I'm here to cheer everyone up, Ah Liang will come later." He looked around the venue, "Speaking of which...the venue seems a bit noisy?"

Shimano replied with some distress: "It seems that there is a person on the Internet who claims to be a very powerful expert in our country."

"A master?" Ogata repeated in bewilderment.

Seeing that other people greeted Ogata and gathered around him, they seemed to be more respected.So Li Linxin stepped forward: "I am Li Linxin from China. I played against him before, and I lost to him in the middle game."

He also knew about Li's strength. Hearing this, Ogata was a little surprised: "Isn't that person a professional chess player?"

"Shouldn't be. Sai appears often, doesn't pick opponents, do professional chess players have so much free time?"

Ogata pushed his glasses lightly: "sai? Is this the name he uses on the Internet?"

"Yes."

Li asked a little puzzled: "Why do you all look like you haven't heard of sai? Don't you all play chess on the Internet?"

"Yes, after all, it only appeared in the past two years. So there are very few professional chess players playing chess on it."

Then, Ogata asked Li Linxin curiously: "Is that sai strong?"

This is an ordinary question.

However, since Sai's country is marked as JPN, those of them who came to participate in the International Amateur Go Cup, in addition to striving for honor for their own country, also had the idea of ​​obtaining information about Sai.

Unexpectedly, the people here don't even know the existence of sai? !

While unbelievable, there is also a little disappointment and incomprehension.So that ordinary question, in the eyes of Sai's followers, is like questioning Sai's strength.

"Sai has played more than 2 games online since it appeared in February this year, and won every game in the middle of the game." Li answered Ogata's question with a serious expression.

"I'm a Korean representative, and my surname is Kim. Although I haven't played against sai, my friend has played against sai." A contestant with rimless glasses added, "My friend is not an amateur chess player. It was Yu Qidan, a professional chess player from Korea. Of course, he also lost to Sai."

Seeing Ogata's serious expression, the contestant added: "He also said that Sai is definitely the top chess player in Japan."

What he said caused some uproar among those who didn't know Sai, especially Ogata and the others.

You know, the current top chess player in Japan is the four-time champion Toya Mingren.

Unexpectedly, Korean grandmasters gave Sai such a high evaluation!

That is, they think that sai is on par with the "closest to miraculous" Taya celebrity? !

If this person is really that powerful, why would they know nothing about it?

However, what these people said was so convincing that it didn't seem like they were lying at all...

At this moment, Taya walked into the venue.

"what happened?"

He frowned slightly, and asked puzzledly.

"A Liang." Ogata called his name.

"The atmosphere of the venue...is weird..." Taya looked around and walked towards Ogata.

"Ah Liang, do you have a computer? Have you ever played chess online?"

"I played against professional chess players in Kansai." Taya looked at Ogata in confusion, "What's wrong?"

"I heard that there is a very powerful master on the Internet. It seems to be an amateur chess player... Even Korean professional chess players have lost to him."

Taya's expression became even more confused: "A master on the Internet?"

"His name is Sai." Ogata said slowly.

"sai..."

Frank, who had been watching from the sidelines, finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"Is there a computer here that can access the Internet?" He looked at the time, and then grabbed a young staff member next to him and asked.

Luckily the staff member understood him: "Uh... yes. There are laptops in the staff lounge."

"Hurry up and bring it here." Frank urged.

"Oh, okay!" The staff member immediately ran towards the inside of the venue.

After a while, he came back with a laptop in his arms.

"Really, this is the number I got with great difficulty. I originally wanted to play another game with Sai after the game..." He sighed regretfully while operating on the keyboard with both hands.

After a while, the page of World Weiqi.com appeared.

After he clicked on the list, the action stopped.

When Frank made this series of actions, everyone's discussions stopped.

Those who often play chess on the Internet will understand his intentions after seeing him click on the game list.

Although Ogata and the others were a little confused, they didn't ask blindly, but waited quietly.

When the time at the bottom of the screen changes to 10:00, you can see the name "sai" appear on the list.

Sai quickly agreed to Frank's request to play chess.

But the strange thing is that Frank didn't start the game, but turned to Ogata.

"I think if you play against Sai yourself, you should be able to understand his chess strength better." He looked at Ogata and said.

After a moment of silence, Ogata turned his gaze to Taya: "Ah Liang."

"Is it up to me?" Taya's eyes widened slightly in surprise.

"Well. I hope you can see his chess strength." Ogata exhaled slowly, "He should not be an ordinary chess player, so you have to be careful."

"I understand."

Taya answered seriously, and then sat down on the seat in front of the screen.

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Finally no more Calvin... Everyone has been waiting for a long time. ^_^