[Soul of Chess] What if

September, for the students, is when the painful academic career begins again.But for sai chess fans, it is their carnival month.

Because, since the beginning of this month, many professional chess players have challenged Sai one after another!

The challengers all tried their best, and the fierce battle on the board made people excited just watching it.What is even more amazing is that even against professional chess players, Sai is still winning consecutive games!

sharp!Really worthy of being the "God of Go"!

Seeing Sai's winning streak, the members of the support club couldn't help cheering.They pay close attention to the news on Go.com, for fear of missing any game. The game records and game explanations are also updated in real time on the "God of Go" website, so that compatriots who have not been able to watch the game can also witness Sai's demeanor.

In addition to fans of sai, more and more grandmasters have also begun to pay close attention to the development of the situation.

This Go event, which excited everyone on the Internet, was precisely organized by the Nihon Ki Academy for more than three weeks.

In recent years, Japanese Go has been in a downturn.

Most of the chess players in the master circle are already middle-aged, and they are already a little weak in physical strength and spirit.However, among the younger generation of professional chess players, there has been no new and promising chess players.Therefore, the blood of the Go world has not been updated for quite a long time.

In addition, the number of people who take the professional chess player examination is also decreasing year by year, and fewer and fewer people are willing to learn Go, an ancient chess game.

If this continues, Japanese Go will have to withdraw from the world stage.

The board of directors of the Chess Academy racked their brains to come up with various methods in an effort to change this situation, but all had little effect.And the turning out of sai made them see a turning point.

If this can rejuvenate the Go world that has been stagnant for a long time, even if there is only one ten-thousandth hope, it is worth trying.

Therefore, with the active cooperation of all parties, the event was carried out smoothly.

Of course, the event didn't start out very well.

Although the Chess Academy has issued invitation letters to all professional chess players, not many are willing to participate, and most of the participating players are low-level chess players.

Maybe this has something to do with the dense schedule of the grandmasters, maybe they have their own reserve as a high-ranker, or it's because they think playing chess online is just a pastime, and it's also because of the fact that they don't care about the person on the Internet who doesn't come to the table. The so-called mysterious master scoffed.

In short, no high-rankers expressed this at first.

However, Sai has successfully attracted the attention of the master circle with his own strength.

From Taniguchi, Kamiyama, and Nuda in the second section, to Osato, Izumi, and Kawasaki in the third section, to Mushan, Jiangchuan, Otake, and Ibaraki in the fourth section, and even the fourth section of Saegi under the Morishita Gate and the fourth section of Ashihara under the Taya Gate. In this section, they all lost to sai by a considerable margin.

So far, almost all the existing low-level players in the Go world have played against sai, and they all ended in disastrous defeats.

The publishing department of the Chess Academy has been paying close attention to the progress of the event, and specially opened up a page in "Chess Weekly" to report on the battle between professional chess players and sai.

Seeing all the failures, gradually, some high-level players couldn't sit still.

However, the records of these high-ranking players who participated in the battle were not ideal.

Izawa [-]th dan, Sano [-]th dan, Okajima [-]th dan, etc., despite their best efforts, they still failed to break sai's winning streak.

After the No.1 of the younger generation, Kurata Wudan, also lost to Sai, the master circle finally stopped being indifferent as it was at the beginning.

Starting from Shirakawa Michio [-]th dan, Tsuzuki [-]th dan, Kamimae [-]th dan, Iwasaki [-]th dan, and Jingi [-]th dan also joined the battle one after another. Ninth dan players, such as Ishibashi, Kamaishi, Hagiwara, Serizawa, etc., even more Mr. Hataka, Mr. Nogi, Mr. Shinno, Mr. Okubo, and Mr. Mizunuma, who entered the title challenge for the first time, also challenged Sai.

These people are all actively pursuing the war with the awareness that "you can die at night after hearing the Tao".

Unfortunately--

"shock!The mysterious master went on a crazy winning streak, repeatedly knocking down grandmasters? ! "

"Sai's bloodbathed Go masters have won consecutive battles, who can compete with them? "

"Mysterious online chess players go on a killing spree, 40 wins and 0 losses against Go masters! "

"Record Refresh! Sai has won 50 consecutive victories! "

"60 consecutive defeats!No Go master can defeat Sai! "

……

Compared with the increasingly excited onlookers, watching such reports, the mood of the professional chess players is indescribable.

However, even though they knew that the chances of victory were slim, they still continued to fight, only seeking a battle.

With the success of Sai's achievements, the top chess players from all over the world began to gather on the World Go Network, just to see Sai's demeanor.They lined up, looking forward to getting sai's instructions.

In addition, Sai's true identity has also attracted a lot of attention and speculation, and more and more people want to uncover the "God of Go".

And this afternoon, it will be Ogata Kudan, who is under Taya's door, going to challenge.

During the period before the start of the competition, everyone said that if even Mr. Ogata lost to Sai, maybe Kuwahara-sensei, Ichiyanagi-sensei, Zama-sensei, and the four-time champion Toya-sensei, these titles The owners have to fight.

However, at this very moment, our young boy Aguang who is placing chess pieces for Sai, a mysterious master on the Internet, is standing in front of the gate of the Chess Academy, and is about to meet his first severe test, which is the student test.

On the day of the Summer Go Tournament in June, encouraged by Zuo Wei, A Guang decided to take the college entrance examination.

It's just that, although Aguang has already learned some things about the college students from the guests of the chess club, he is at a loss as to how to take the test.

So, on the weekend of the second week, he came to the Chess Academy early in the morning and consulted the staff of the Chess Academy about the specific content of the college student test.

"Oh? You want to know about the college student test? The college student test is held four times a year, in March, June, September and December. However, the registration for the June test has ended. If you If you want to participate, you have to wait until September."

It was a fat, middle-aged man with glasses and a gentle face.

He saw that Aguang came alone and was very polite, so he explained to Aguang gently.

"So, how can I take the test?" Aguang asked the staff in front of him.

"If you want to take the test, you must register first. It is best to have an introducer."

"Introducer?"

"Generally, you need to be recommended by a professional chess player." The staff member saw that Aguang looked a little distressed, so he added, "Of course, if there is really no one, it doesn't matter."

"On the day of the test, you need to bring the application letter, resume, three chess records, registration fee and test fee. The total is 650 yuan. In addition, you must also invite your parents to come with you."

650 yuan? !

God!Ah Guang opened his mouth halfway, and couldn't help exclaiming in his heart.

After carefully recording and checking what the staff said, A Guang expressed his gratitude to the staff.

Before leaving, Ah Guang stopped again: "That...excuse me, where can the chess academy play games like the chess club?"

Ah Guang still heard from the guests that there is a place where you can play chess by yourself in the chess club.But where it is, he doesn't know at all.The person in front of him had a very kind face, so Ah Guang had the cheek to ask him for help.

The staff thought for a while, and then replied: "Ah, you should be talking about the general game room for guests, right? It's on the second floor."

"Thank you!" Ah Guang thanked quickly.

The man smiled: "You're welcome."

Ah Guang waited for a while near the gate of the Chess Academy, and then saw Taya's figure.

After Taya walked in and greeted briefly, he took Taya to the game room on the second floor of the Chess Academy that he had learned from the staff before.

"Can you play a game with me?" Ah Guang looked at Taya with some trepidation.

Although Taya looked a little confused, she agreed to her request.

The result of the game, without a doubt, was that he lost.

Looking at Taya whose eyes were full of doubts, Hikaru tightened his hands on his knees.He looked straight at Taya, and said slowly: "Taya, this is my true strength now."

"What?!" Taya couldn't help exclaiming.

"I know it's hard to understand, maybe one day I will tell you the truth..." Ah Guang lowered his head and said softly, after a while, he smiled self-deprecatingly, and then raised his head again.

"Taya, it may be a bit arrogant for me to say that, you are my goal. I know that I am not your opponent at all now." Aguang looked at Taya and said firmly, "So, I will be the first College students, try to strengthen your own chess strength. I will not appear in front of you until my strength is not enough to compete with you. I just want to tell you these words today."

Taya watched Ah Guang quietly with an unclear expression. It seemed that after a long time, he finally spoke: "...I will not stop and wait for you."

Hearing Taya's answer, Aguang only felt relieved.

"I see."

Ah Guang replied seriously.

Hikaru couldn't afford the registration fee for the entrance examination, so he had to ask Mitsuko's mother for help.

"Simply put, it's the school of Go, right?" Mitsuko's mother asked after listening to Aguang's description.

Ah Guang nodded: "Yeah."

Mitsuko's mother couldn't help but frowned slightly: "However, it costs 650 yuan just to take the exam, which is too expensive. Isn't the Go classroom you went to before? It's closer to home."

"Because there are all masters there, it is very difficult to get in! That Go classroom is a place where uncles and aunts who are not good at all play happily, and there is no way to improve themselves."

After hearing Aguang's explanation, Mitsuko hesitated for a while, but finally agreed: "Anyway, you have never been so enthusiastic about anything before, so it doesn't hurt to listen to you once."

In order not to waste such an expensive registration fee and test fee, in the following time, A Guang followed Zuo Wei more seriously to learn chess skills.

He also learned how to write chess records from Mr. Tsutsui.

Then, finally, the day came.

The author has something to say:

Ah Guang is going to take the student test! (?ω?)

Sai is going to play against Ogata! o(*////▽////*)q

So excited~!