1978 Synthetic Writers

Chapter 460 "Half a Step Ahead of Heaven!"

"Black chess piece, eleventh column, fourteenth row."

"How is this possible?"

As the game progressed, all the Chinese Go national team members who were watching the game stood up.

"How can we take this step?"

Ma Xiaochun looked incredulous. "Black has such a big advantage, why doesn't it shape the right side first?"

"It's impossible that he can play this chess game."

Qian Yuping also looked incredulous. "Even an amateur can tell that we shouldn't go here. What's wrong with Nie Weiping?"

"At this moment, we should stay calm! The advantages we have built up with great difficulty are all ruined by this step!"

"This game of chess is over."

The national team leader Hua Yigang murmured with a livid face: "Kobayashi Koichi has such a strong mid- and back-end game skill that it is impossible for him to give Nie Weiping any chance."

In the audience seat, Jiang Xian explained the current situation to Zhu Lin:
"Black's move seemed as powerful as an ox, but in fact it was a mistake, giving away all the advantages. This move almost caused him to collapse."

"Just one move, but the consequences are so serious?" Zhu Lin said in disbelief. She had just felt very happy, thinking that Nie Weiping was always in an advantageous position and had great hope of winning.

"One wrong move and the whole game is lost."

Jiang Xian said faintly: "Haven't you heard of the phrase 'one wrong move'? The game of Go is like this. One wrong move leads to all the wrong moves. Such a big mistake is enough to overturn the situation."

"Oh, is there still no way to get past Kobayashi Koichi?" Jiang Guoqing covered his face with a sad look.

Their generation grew up with hatred towards Japan. Of course, they could not accept the result of Kobayashi Koichi sweeping the Chinese Go field, and they could not accept losing to the other side in such a humiliating way.

Jiang Guoqing was relatively calm.

At this moment, the venue filled with chess fans was dead silent. Everywhere you looked, you could see people sighing and beating their chests. Those who were more emotionally sensitive had already started wiping away their tears.

"How could this be?"

Ogizaki Observatory, Japan.

The scene of the 13th game of the China-Japan Go Challenge.

Until lunch, Nie Weiping's situation was still good, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

At lunch time, the organizer has a special restaurant to provide meals for the chess players.

However, Nie Weiping had communicated with the organizers in advance that he only needed to eat some fruits such as watermelon and banana, and asked them to deliver these fruits to his room.

Therefore, Nie Weiping did not appear in the restaurant, but soaked in the hot spring in the hotel room, eating some fruits and closing his eyes to rest.

He recalled the entire chess game in his mind, constantly simulating the tactics that Kobayashi Koichi would implement after long consideration.

As the only chess player left on the Chinese team, Nie Weiping is undoubtedly under tremendous pressure at the moment.

Before the match, he told Hao Keqiang: "I have some confidence in Kobayashi, but if I want to beat Kato again, I'm afraid I won't have enough energy."

Hao Keqiang comforted him and said, "If we beat Xiao Lin, we will have successfully completed the mission. This was the original goal!"

This is indeed the case. From the perspective of the national team: calling up Kobayashi Koichi is basically completing the mission; defeating Kobayashi Koichi is successfully completing the mission; defeating Kato Masao is a big victory; defeating Fujisawa Hideyuki is an extra-big victory!
But it is not easy to win against these three top Japanese Go players in a row.

Nie Weiping's health was not good to begin with, and beating Kobayashi Koichi was already his limit in his opinion.

Judging from the situation this morning, today's game did not disappoint the thousands of variations simulated by him and his teammates in the national team. He now has a great chance of defeating Kobayashi Koichi.

Soon, he and Kobayashi Koichi returned to the game room.

The referee removed the large cover on the chessboard and announced that the game would be restarted.

Kobayashi Hikaru holds the white piece in one hand.

"Move 94, White chess piece, th column, th row, pull."

This step made Nie Weiping break out in a cold sweat.

His 93rd move, the hanging move, could have given him an advantage. However, if Kobayashi Koichi could have followed his lead, he would have gained nothing and would have continued to expand Nie Weiping's advantage.

And if the white pieces attack forcefully, his black pieces will be able to counterattack, so that the white pieces still cannot attack the black pieces. Instead, the white pieces in this area will be weak and he will be unable to escape.

By then, Nie Weiping would seize the upper position and the situation would become clear.

Unexpectedly, after a long consideration, Kobayashi Koichi made a move that Nie Weiping had never thought of. He ignored his attack and made a surprise attack.

This move turned the tables, using offense as defense, which put a lot of pressure on Nie Weiping.

He had no choice but to deal with it hastily.

Hey.

"Move 95, Black, Dafei, continue attacking."

"Move 96, White, self-repair, defense."

"Move 97, Black, hold on, ensure your own connections, and continue to threaten White."

"Move 98, White chess, point, destroy the black chess shape."

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Hey.

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Hey.

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The two sides kept placing their pieces alternately, and the frequent sounds of the pieces being placed echoed in the quiet game room. Every piece that landed on the chessboard seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.

The 19 intersections formed by the 361 parallel lines on the wooden chessboard are gradually filled with black and white chess stones.

In the game of Go, white pieces represent Yang and black pieces represent Yin. Nie Weiping and Kobayashi Koichi play against each other, taking turns placing their pieces, and it is like a battle between Yin and Yang.

In this battle, sometimes Yang grows and Yin disappears, and sometimes Yin prevails and Yang weakens. The two chess players fight with swords and sabers, and every move is only to pursue the balance of Yin and Yang.

Soon, after more than a dozen moves, it was Nie Wei's turn to play parallel chess.

Kobayashi Koichi wanted to separate his two black pieces. He silently thought about the countermeasures and pondered for a long time, but he just couldn't come up with a good move.

Just as he was about to reach into the chess box and take the chess piece out.

"Om."

Nie Weiping felt a black screen before his eyes.

In recent years, Nie Wei often felt his brain go numb and his thinking slow in the middle of a match, and thus lost many games that he should have won.

Later he went to the hospital for a check-up and found that it was caused by brain hypoxia.

He was born with an atrial septal defect, so the deoxygenated blood returning to the heart would mix with fresh blood and flow throughout the body.

After testing by the national team, Nie Weiping found that once the game reached the tense moment in the second half, the heart rate of other people was basically the same as usual, while his heart rate was 170 beats per minute.

In order not to affect his chess game, the doctor recommended that he take oxygen during major competitions.

Therefore, Nie Weiping brought a health oxygen cylinder with him to participate in this chess competition.

At this moment, Nie Weiping felt his head go numb and realized that his body had reached its limit and he needed oxygen.

"I need oxygen." He raised his head and signaled to the referee.

Before the competition, the Chinese side had communicated with the Japanese Chess Institute, hoping to allow Nie Weiping to receive oxygen during the game.

The Japanese Chess Association was not as stupid as the Korean Chess Association and accepted China's request very generously.

Therefore, as soon as Nie Weiping signaled, the referee allowed him to breathe oxygen.

As the oxygen inhalation time was limited, Nie Weiping hurriedly stood up and took the oxygen cylinder from Hao Keqiang.

But his mind was filled with the chess game just now, and for a moment he forgot all the methods he had learned to open the bottle.

"Why can't it be opened?"

"How does this work?"

He and Hao Keqiang studied for a long time but failed to open the oxygen cylinder. Seeing that the time was about to expire, Nie Weiping had to give up breathing oxygen and sat back in front of the chessboard in panic.

"Black, move 115, th column, th row, turn."

Hiss.

When Kobayashi Mitsuo saw this move, he looked up in disbelief and glanced at Nie Weiping.

Nie Weiping did not realize that something was wrong with him. When he saw Hao Keqiang waving at him, he hurried over.

It turned out that it was the accompanying reporter, Zhang Jiasheng from New Sports magazine, who came to the rescue and opened the oxygen cylinder.

Nie Weiping, who had been in great pain for a long time, took a few puffs as if he had found a life-saving straw, and suddenly felt much clearer.

After he finished breathing the oxygen, he sat back in front of the chessboard and looked at the chess move he had just made. His head seemed to be hit by something.

boom!
"How could this be?!" In his panic just now, Nie Weiping didn't even realize that he had made such a useless move.

The advantage that we had worked so hard to gain in the first half of the game just disappeared like that!
Nie Weiping sat in his seat in a daze.

What is this?
If he were to play that move now, he would have many ways to make the move, all of which would be much better than this useless one.

Can be biased.

But that was exactly where he had just made his move!
Nie Weiping felt extremely upset.

He wanted to curse.

I want to use the dirtiest words to curse people.

He has done so much for today's game.

He studied the chess game so hard.

Sometimes, while I was eating, I would suddenly think of a move, so I would quickly swallow the food and run back to the dormitory to study it.

Sometimes, I would suddenly remember something at night and immediately get up and act pretentiously.

Even Chen Zude, who had been away from the arena for many years due to cancer, came to help him prepare for the competition and often studied the chess game with him. The two of them would sit by the chessboard for hours, practicing each other's moves.

Such a long effort.

The struggle of so many people.

Just for the most difficult times and the darkest lows of Chinese Go.

Win once!
Just want to win once!

Is this chess game going to be ruined just because of my congenital physical defect?
Nie Weiping was unwilling to accept this.

He felt extremely unwilling.

Qian Yuping and Liu Xiaoguang of the national team all ruined their chances for various reasons.

And now, he is going to give up the situation because of such a vicious move?
Do we really want to lose to foreigners in such an humiliating way?

Losing the game of Go, which was created by the Chinese thousands of years ago?

Nie Weiping stared at the chessboard in a daze.

Why are there always factors that hinder victory in the game of chess?
Is it true that China has no luck in chess?

His heart was agitated and his thoughts were wandering, and he even recalled a novel he had read yesterday.

That happened last night.

Nie Weiping was alone in the room, and he found the 1985th issue of People's Literature in 9 given to him by Jiang Xian from his luggage.

Just open the first few pages and you can see the novel written by Jiang Xian at the headline of the entire magazine.

Its name: "Heaven Bureau"

In Xizhuang, there lived a chess fanatic named "Hundun".

Hun Dun is confused about everything except Go.

This Hun Dun was probably the reincarnation of Li Kui from Liangshan. He was big and strong, with a face as black as charcoal.

His chess style is just like his appearance, extremely fierce and powerful, with deadly moves at every step.

Because of their love for chess, Hundun and a primary school teacher from Guantun village became chess friends who appreciated each other.

On the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month of that year, Hun Dun took a pig's head and went to Guantun to compete with his teacher in chess and share the pig's head meat.

It was snowing heavily at the time, and the stubborn Hun Dun braved the snow to move forward, but ended up falling into the famous "Valley of Confusion" which was impossible to get out of.

Due to the strong wind and snow and the extreme cold, Hun Dun could only rely on the black stone to keep warm and gradually fell into a dream.

In his dream, he came to a hut.

There was a man inside the bed in the thatched cottage who actually took the initiative to invite Hun Dun to play chess.

Hun Dun naturally became interested and started fighting with the owner of the house.

Although the voice of the person in the bed was soft, it had a bit of fairy air. His chess skills were superb and he always took the initiative on the chessboard.

Just when Hun Dun was in danger, the lame private school teacher who taught him Go and had passed away walked into the room.

Hun Dun was concentrating on the chessboard. He had no time to think about why his teacher had come back to life. He shouted:
"Teacher, teacher, help me!"

The lame man limped to the chessboard and bent over to watch the chess pieces.

The people in the tent just sneered.

Hun Dun was furious: I must win this game of chess!
The lame man seemed to know that his opponent was not an ordinary person. He waved his hand and a few more people came in from outside the door.

Wearing a feather fan and a blue scarf, he is an imposing and majestic Go master of the Qing Dynasty: the graceful Master Fan Xiping and the almighty Shi Xiangxia.

Following the two of them, another person came in, the national player of the Ming Dynasty, Guo Bailing.

Liu Zhongfu, the Go master of the Song Dynasty, and the Old Mother of Mount Li staggered in. A thousand years ago, the two of them fought a great battle at the foot of Mount Li, and the outcome was decided in just thirty-six moves.

There were people coming one after another.

Until Yi Qiu from the Spring and Autumn Period entered the room.

In an instant, all the Go heroes in Chinese history gathered in the house!
Hun Dun sat at the table, no longer guessing how these heroes would return to the human world, but only staring at the hand extended by the person in the account.

That hand was as white as jade, transcendent and absolute, with a circle of sacred halo surrounding it.

It seems to be inhabited by humans, ghosts, and gods.

Irresistible and unsurpassable.

If it wants Hun Dun to lose, Hun Dun will lose.

This is God’s will and also God’s destiny.

But the chaotic hot blood rushed to his forehead, and the masculine energy forced his black hair to stand up.

He wants to win.

No matter who is in the account, he just wants to win.

With the help of heroes from all walks of life, Hun Dun's chess skills are unprecedented in history. He fights with the people in the account again. On the chessboard, there are flashes of swords and shadows, blood and flesh flying, smoke rising in all directions, and chariots being destroyed and horses neighing.

There were loud explosions and rumbling thunder in the sky.

Just at dawn, Hun Dun had run out of materials for the robbery, and there happened to be one more person in the tent, Hun Dun.

Without the materials for the disaster, Hun Dun would obviously face failure.

The masters looked at the chessboard anxiously, but could not find any more material for Hun Dun's attack.

It was a good game of chess, but it ended up being lost because of one threat.

Everyone at the table sighed and groaned, all lamenting the loss of half a piece.

Hun Dun shed tears and knelt on the ground for a long time with great courage and determination.

"Well, let's go!"

A few days later, people from Xizhuang found Hun Dun, who had been missing for many days, in the "Valley of Confusion".

The valley was inlaid with black rocks and white snow, which looked like a natural chess game. Hun Dun was kneeling in the lower right corner. He was already frozen stiff, but he held his head high towards the sky, still showing his stubbornness and pride.

Chaos is dead.

Everyone was curious, why did Hun Dun die kneeling here?

There was a lot of discussion.

When the teacher in Guantun learned that Hun Dun was dead, he was also confused and staggered around in search of something.

Finally, I circled around the black rocks a few times and climbed to a high place to overlook the valley.

Seeing this, the teachers in Guantun were shocked both physically and mentally and stood there in solemn silence for a long time.

The crowd climbed the mountain and asked the teacher, "What is Hun Dun doing?"

The teacher replied: "Play chess."

"With whom?"

"sky!"

"Who's winning?"

The teacher looked at it carefully.

Hun Dun knelt at the lower right corner of the chessboard and became the one who decided the outcome.

"Chaos wins."

“Half a step ahead of heaven!
(End of this chapter)