I really don’t want to play Go!

Chapter 23: Tiemu and Shen Yi

the next day.

As soon as Yu Shao arrived at the classroom, he found that there was something wrong with Zhou De. He was grinning the whole time.

"Old Zhou, are you having epilepsy?" Yu Shao asked.

"Can you say something nice?"

Zhou De rolled his eyes, then said with a grin: "Let me tell you, after yesterday's fight, I am now a noble platinum boy again."

Yu Shao was shocked: "Is it true?"

This team that lost points will actually gain points one day?
"We kept winning when you weren't here yesterday."

Zhou De said proudly: "From this, it can be seen that it was you who was cheated before. If it weren't for you, I would have rushed to diamond in a minute."

"Where do you get the money to find someone to play with you?" Yu Shao asked.

"What do you mean? I didn't find it. I got points based on my actual strength."

Yu Shao stared at Zhou De closely, his face full of distrust.

Seeing Yu Shao's expression, Zhou De got angry and said, "Old Yu, you don't believe me when I say I can learn Go, and you still don't believe me when I say I've reached platinum. How much do you despise your brothers? You can't stand seeing your brothers doing well, right?"

“I didn’t say I didn’t believe it.”

Yu Shao took out his English textbook and said, "Didn't I tell you yesterday that I believe you can play Go?"

"Is that what you look like in faith?!"

"Isn't it?"

"Yeah!"

Yu Shao originally wanted to nod seriously, but when he thought of the muscular Zhou De sitting upright playing Go, he wanted to laugh, and he couldn't hold it back and burst out laughing.

"You wait for me!"

Zhou De felt insulted. He had indeed been planning to give up reading the book "38 Lectures on Introduction to Go" that was giving him a headache. But at this moment, he suddenly became ruthless and pulled the book out of the desk.

"When I learn how to play Go, I will defeat you and make you call me daddy!" Zhou De said viciously while flipping through the book.

"Is this true, brother? Are you making such a big deal?"

Yu Shao pretended to be worried and advised: "Good brother, I have never denied your intelligence, but seriously, do you want to consider setting a small goal and earning 100 million first?"

"Just wait and see, you have no idea how valuable Jiangling Shen Yi is." Zhou De snorted coldly.

"Shen Yi?"

Yu Shao was stunned for a moment and asked, "Who is that?"

"You don't know Shen Yi?"

Yu Shao's question also confused Zhou De. Zhou De widened his eyes and said in shock: "Old Yu, I almost believed that you can play Go. You really don't care about your life for the conduct points!"

"I can play."

Yu Shao was a little puzzled: "Why, if you can play Go, you have to know him?"

"Of course, that's the chess master, brother!"

Zhou De raised the book "38 Lectures on Go" in his hand and said, "Even though I just started learning Go, I know Shen Yi. Let me ask you, do you know the handicap?"

"Isn't this nonsense?"

Yu Shao nodded with a strange look on his face and said, "Of course I know."

"You know the title, but you don't know Shen Yi? That's impossible!"

Zhou De was a little unconvinced and asked, "Then what do you think the sticker is?"

"In Go, because the black pieces play first, they have a certain advantage. Therefore, in order to be fair, at the end of the game, the black pieces need to give the white pieces a certain number of points, so it is called a tie point, also called a tie piece." Yu Shao said: "For example, if the tie point is 7.5 points, then at the end of the game, if the white pieces have 50 points, the black pieces need to have at least 58 points to win."

After saying this, Yu Shao was suddenly stunned.

By the way, what is the handicap in this world?

Yu Shao really had no idea about this question. In both games between him and Zheng Qin, he played according to the handicap of 7.5 points. After all, according to the Go rules of his previous life, the handicap was 7.5 points.

This number of points is determined to be the most fair after countless experts have practiced it in practice.

"You actually know that?"

Zhou De was a little confused: "Then you shouldn't know Shen Yi, right? After all, the book says that the rule of handicap was created because of Shen Yi!"

"Oh?"

Yu Shao frowned slightly and asked, "What do you mean?"

"The book says that more than a hundred years ago, there was no rule of handicap in Go, and Shen Yi was a Go player born in that era."

Zhou De thought for a moment and said, "He learned chess when he was young and was obsessed with it his whole life. After he mastered it, he dominated the chess world."

"When Shen Yi was young, he lost chess games, but later, when he was 23 years old and his chess skills were perfect, he never lost a game again, whether he was playing with black or white."

"Then, he felt lonely, the loneliness of having no opponent, so in order to find a defeat, he proposed a handicap system, saying that black pieces had an advantage at the beginning, so he would handicap 4.5 points."

At this point, Zhou De shook his head and said, "Dugu Qiubai, tut tut, this guy is so good at pretending."

Yu Shao listened quietly without interrupting.

Zhou De paused and continued, "Then Shen Yi invited famous players from all over the world to play Go with the rule of handicap points. He said that he would play with black pieces, and if anyone could beat him with white pieces, he would give away all his wealth."

"Once this news came out, it caused a sensation around the world. Countless Go masters, either for fame or for profit, were invited to play against Shen Yi. But do you know what the result was?"

Zhou De suddenly approached Yu Shao and asked mysteriously.

Yu Shao looked at Zhou De speechlessly. The answer was almost written on his face, and he still wanted to be a riddle teller?

However, in order to cooperate with Zhou De, Yu Shao pretended not to have guessed and asked, "Why, he didn't lose?"

"Yes, I didn't lose, not a single game!"

Zhou De said excitedly: "Shen Yi was under pressure of 4.5 points, but he didn't lose a single game!"

"Later, Shen Yi said that 4.5 points was too little and that the black pieces still had the upper hand, so he proposed a rule of 7.5 points. The winner would still get all his wealth."

"At that time, those famous Go players were not playing against him for fame or fortune. They were angry and felt that Shen Yi looked down on them. After all, with a handicap of 7.5 points, they were sure to win."

"But the result left everyone speechless. Even though the handicap was 7.5 points, no one in the chess world at that time could beat Shen Yi!"

Speaking of this, Zhou De couldn't help but feel a little excited.

"Then, Shen Yi proposed the rule of ten and a half points, which attracted countless masters to challenge him. But without exception, these masters all returned empty-handed in the end."

"It wasn't until another famous Go player Fang Xin emerged that he finally beat Shen Yi."

"Well... it's not quite accurate to say that I won."

Zhou De said with some emotion, "Because the game was not over yet, just when Fang Xin was about to win, he... resigned and admitted defeat."

Hearing this, Yu Shao couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

"Old Yu, do you want to know why he surrendered?" Zhou De asked, looking at Yu Shao with some boasting.

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