[comprehensive] between square inches

After refusing to go to Ueno again, Siming prepared for the Honinbo competition with peace of mind.Honinbo is one of the three major tournaments in the Japanese Go world, and the competition is quite fierce.This competition is a round-robin competition for a total of 2 players, including the four players selected from this year's knockout round plus the losers of last year's final and the 3nd, 4rd, and 8th players of last year's round-robin competition.In the round-robin competition, players after No.5 will be eliminated, and No.1 can compete for the title of this year's Honinbo with the title winner of the previous year through seven rounds.Leaving aside the subsequent round-robin matches, the previous knockout matches alone were extremely competitive.

After the Beidou Cup, the Dashouhe competition was abolished.Currently, if you want to be promoted, you have to rely on the number of wins to get promoted, except for the title and bonus.Therefore, Siming did not want to miss any games.

Because I just entered the stage, it is different from Siming’s imagination of being full of games. As a novice, sometimes I have to be responsible for the recording, timing, and countdown of the competition, so I actually don’t participate in many games. .It was the first time for Siming to participate in a large-scale competition since he won the first stage last winter.

The selection competition is a knockout competition, and if you make a mistake, you will definitely miss the Honinbo competition.However, Siming did not think that he would definitely be able to enter this competition.There are so many high-level chess players, and it is a bit outrageous to be entered into this tournament at the first stage by you.

[I really want to play against Jin Teng's seventh dan! 】The Chiba boy was circling in the air excitedly.

"He entered the round-robin competition the year before last, so he was promoted to the seventh dan all of a sudden. To play against him, at least this time, it's quite far away." Siming hit the Chiba boy unceremoniously.

"Your opponent in the first round was actually Kumata Fukui!" Siming was looking at his opponent when someone patted him on the shoulder.

"Chai Qi."

"Good morning."

"Do you know this Fukui [-]nd Dan?"

"En." Chai Qi nodded, "He was also a student in the academy, and entered the dan a year earlier than me. He is only at the second dan now. His chess speed is relatively fast, but he is not sharp. Ah, the current promotion system, It’s really good for people to say something. If I can make Tianyuan into the round-robin last year, I can be called the seventh-dan.”

"Ah, I heard that you didn't enter the round-robin competition just because you lost to Taya's [-]th dan." Siming, who had no shock at all, nodded lightly. Speaking of which, because of participating in the Ogata Seminar, he I often meet that Taya seventh-dan, and it feels really... As a person with no social experience who has been squatting at home all year round in his previous life, this Taya seventh-dan sometimes really does his own way and is annoying.The people around him, if their nerves are not a little thicker, will probably feel a kind of, um, in the words of the young man from Chiba, it is a feeling of "guilt to commit seppuku".

"..." Chai Qi opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything in the end, which was really shocking, "I'm going to prepare for the game."

"Ah." Slowly nodded.

Fukui Yuta looks very gentle, probably with a personality similar to Hocho Taro.Fukui's rank is not high, and he is only at the second rank at present, and Yijiao, who was in the same class as him before, has also risen to the seventh rank.In Chai Qi's words, he is really a peaceful chess player who doesn't care too much about winning or losing.

"Please give me your advice." After announcing the start, both parties saluted.Siming is in charge this time.This time he did not adopt the show strategy style, but adopted the best chess that is more in line with Chinese thinking.In fact, Siming still doesn't dare to call his current layout strategy the best chess. Although he is currently studying Master Wu Qingyuan's chess and has slightly applied his ideas to his own chess game, his essence I obviously haven't reached it yet.

Fukui's chess is just like him, it looks gentle, smooth, not sharp, and occasionally there are some seemingly innovative moves, but they are not very helpful to the overall situation.Moreover, his chess was very fast. Siming felt that when playing chess with Fukui, his thinking time would be shortened. It was not because the opponent took the rhythm of the game, but he felt that he didn't need to think so long at all.This person, fast chess is simply the best choice for him.But... Siming looked at the chess game for the last time, and he should still have the advantage today.

"Ah, I lost." By the middle of the game, the situation of the two sides was already obvious. White chess controlled the overall situation, and the decline of black chess could not be changed. Fukui readily conceded defeat.

Siming got up and went to fill in the results of the match on the match sheet.

"Chiba, Fukui-san." Not far away, Chai Qi seemed to have finished, waved at the two of them, and then ran over, with him seemed to be Kazuya Yoshitaka from the Morishita Research Association. "Shall we have lunch together?"

Siming thought for a while and nodded in agreement.At present, he doesn't know many people in the professional world, except Awara and others who often go to the Taya Research Association, and Matsuzaka and Zhongshan in the same period. His friends are pitifully few.

"Chiba, I heard you are still in high school?"

"En." Siming nodded, "Where are Hegu-san and Fukui-san?"

"Just call me Afu." Fukui smiled shyly, and ordered some burgers and drinks with Hegu, and they sat in the corner with their plates.

"You really have energy. I decided not to go to high school as soon as I was admitted to the vocational school." He Gu took a big bite of the hamburger, "I'm starving to death, and today I met a difficult opponent, ah, it seems to be with you The same period, called, what is it called?"

"Zhongshan?" Siming raised his eyebrows. Before the game, he seemed to have glimpsed Zhongshan, as if he was indeed sitting opposite He Gu.

"Ah, that's him." Kazuya swallowed a mouthful of hamburger and nodded, "However, I'm not afraid of you, our Morishita Research Association will defeat your Taya Research Association one day."

"Hey, we are participating in the Ogata Seminar."

"Oh, it's the same, it's the same, Mr. Ogata is also under Taya's sect. From my follow-up Fuji, you are all under Taya's sect. He also regards you as a strong opponent." He Gu waved He waved his hand, "By the way, did you really finish that round with a fever?"

Hey, you are enough.I don't know if this matter is taboo for the two people in front of me.Siming and Chai Qi looked at each other and decided not to answer He Gu's question.

"Hegu." Fukui pulled Hegu who was talking excitedly. Seeing Siming and Chai Qi eating together, the other party seemed to realize something.

"Hehe, that... Speaking of which, do you often play against Taya's seventh dan?"

I don't know why, but many people seem to be very interested in Taya Seven Dan.

According to what He Gu said, that person, Taya, always looks high and tall, like a nobleman. He is obviously about the same age as them, but he can always walk ahead of them. As an example, the teacher often asks them to come and talk to Taya Compared with Ya, how could he not be curious.

Well, this is a typical child from other people's family.Young Siming, in fact, is also a child of someone else's family who is hated by others.

"Look at that classmate of your son's. While participating in professional competitions, he can also directly enter the advanced department. Your son only dares to run back to public high school in despair. Just like you, he is a useless..."

"Bang" the glass wine bottle was broken into pieces in the corner.Shigeoka Shinichi frowned, tore off a corner of the tissue again and stuffed it in his ear.Ever since my father lost his job, my mother went out every three days, hooked up with some people, and often came back drunk like today.The house is in disarray, and my father never takes care of it, alas...

I looked up at the graduation photo, that boy with curved eyebrows, Chiba, I will catch up with you one day.

Siming's Honinbo competition ended in the hands of the child from another family in He Taniguchi.It was the first time he met Taya Seventh Dan in an official competition, and sure enough, it was very stressful.

Because he had a certain awareness before the competition, Siming was not very discouraged by such a result.Moreover, because of the trials, he accumulated 30 victories, and finally took off his first-dan hat and became a second-dan chess player.

"Oh, the little guy hasn't made it to the round-robin yet." Kuwahara Ren leaned back on the recliner, the setting sun shone in through the paper door in the courtyard, and the old man's face looked golden.Holding the newspaper brought back in the morning in his hand, he said with a hint of regret in his tone, "It seems that the old man will guard Honinbo for several years."

"I'm back." A young woman with slightly curly hair walked in at the door, wearing bright makeup and wearing an off-white suit, holding a satchel in one hand and a plastic bag in the other. "Dad, the customer sent some small pastries. Would you like to try them?"

"I want something sweet." Kuwahara put down the newspaper and sat up from the recliner.He took the pastry box from his daughter.

"Who was Dad talking about just now?" Kuwahara Ayami took off her coat, hung it on the hanger, and took out her mobile phone from her bag and put it on a side cabinet.Putting on home clothes, he bent down to help his father gather up all the scattered newspapers.

"The last time I played chess, I beat my little guy."

"That's right." Ayami turned around in surprise, still holding the newspaper she had just packed up in her hand, "Can you beat Dad by one eye?"

"Yes, the newspaper in your hand has an introduction to him." Kuwahara Jin nodded, pointing to the newspaper in Ayami's hand and said.

"Chiba Koichi?" Ayami looked down at the newspaper in her hand, and slowly found the new report, "Is it this child?"

"Yeah." Kuang Yuanren nodded with a smile, "He is a very promising kid. The old man had a great time playing that game of chess." The old man looked up at the sunset in the sky, as if he was missing something.