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Chapter 441 Are You a Fly? (Missing chapter, will be added tomorrow morning)

Byun Sang-il, who had played a spy move, watched helplessly as he suffered a great loss on the left side. Since he couldn't just swallow his pride, he chose to respond with an attack in order to save face, launching a fierce assault on the two white stones in the upper left corner towards the center.

This proved to be a result of being enraged and embarrassed, which led to a loss of intelligence.

Since Black's own stones were scattered and disorganized in the center, even though Byun Sang-il took the initiative to attack, he did not gain much advantage.

However, the two players managed to fill the empty space from the upper left to the center in just over ten moves, giving Black a slight numerical advantage.

On the contrary, Lin Ruo felt that his advantage was that, well, from a macro perspective, his chess pattern distribution was more aesthetically pleasing.

In chess, a beautifully arranged board is also a form of winning, and generally, a neat and orderly board layout is more likely to result in a win for the side with the more aesthetically pleasing board.

Otherwise, how could Go be called an elegant and sophisticated high-class game?

Byun Sang-il, who is always running around, is probably afraid of getting bogged down in one place. Lin Ruo senses that he's about to unleash his full power again.

Therefore, he only scratched the surface and withdrew just as things were about to reach a climax on both sides, then moved to the right side to invade under the attack of the two white stones.

Lin Ruo launched a counterattack from the second line, but the weak black pieces could not cause any major trouble for the time being.

Byun Sang-il's steps seemed to him like those of a headless fly, but it was alright, even a fly flying around can still find a spot with flesh.

Lin Ruo wouldn't bully anyone if the black pieces made a reasonable move, but if they made a completely unreasonable move, then he would strike hard.

Whatever kind of wild punches or mantis fists you use, you have to go down and leave a lasting impression on your opponent.

Meanwhile, Byun Sang-il, who was like a wandering ghost, arrived at the lower left shoulder in an instant and launched a fierce attack on the sparse white stones there.

This move makes some sense. To put it another way, the black stones on the bottom are stronger, so it can be considered Byun Sang-il's home turf.

No matter how you play in your home field, you'll at least have a slight inherent advantage.

However, Lin Ruo's response was quite skillful, as he directly placed a piece in the large flying corner next to the small eye of the black stone in the lower right corner.

This makes it seem like Black has many ways to respond, but almost every move except the best one is a complete trap.

Byun Sang-il seemed to have figured it out as well, and fell into a deep, inescapable state of contemplation.

He now has several moves to try, such as blocking directly on top of White's head, but White's subsequent extension is undoubtedly a blow.

Because all he could do was continue to block and follow White's moves, when White then played a move, it would not only break his territory in the corner, but also relieve Black's immediate attacking crisis.

It's easy to tell that this step won't work, but what if the second step doesn't follow up with a block, but instead takes a drastic measure to counteract the growth?

After thinking it over, Byun Sang-il concluded that this method was excellent, so excellent that he could be sent off immediately, practically with his coffin already prepared.

White can push forward and then block in the corner. Black can then cut in, and White can use the "stick" move as a first move. After that, White can clamp and jump out. In almost five moves, the situation can develop into a different kind of beautiful collapse.

His black stones will undoubtedly suffer heavy losses in the corner, while white's position will be even stronger after jumping out.

No matter how you look at it, it's a loss. Byun Sang-il has now witnessed Lin Ruo's ability to dig traps. After more than ten minutes of deliberation, he finally made a move that was not the best, but it was definitely the safest option.

That is to block at the 3-3 point, and prioritize placing a piece in advance to prevent losses and protect the corner territory after anticipating potential losses.

White plays a horizontal move, and after Black extends its territory, White plays a horizontal move. Lin Ruo, who has unknowingly regained the initiative, is not in a hurry at all.

Byun Sang-il was only looking for the safest move, but definitely not the best one. As long as he did that, Lin Ruo could gain an advantage.

After these two moves, White has gained a greater advantage. At the very least, Black cannot stop White's transition to the left, which has no reason not to threaten Black's dominant position on the left.

Black plays the backhand.

Knowing he was somewhat out of sorts, Byun Sang-il changed tactics, prioritizing connecting with existing formations, trying to weave the black stones into a single rope to prevent potential harassment from white.

However, it still couldn't stop White's subsequent push, allowing Lin Ruo to gain a significant advantage in the corner.

Black's position on the top was more solid, but this solidity was only relative to Lin Ruo's lack of any action on the top.

White's moves are monotonous, so naturally, no matter how Black plays, as long as they stack up their pieces, it will look very solid.

However, Byun Sang-il soon switched from defense to offense. When White established an advantage in the corner, he immediately regrouped his forces and continued to attack in the lower part of the board.

Watching his opponent's moves, Lin Ruo, without any hesitation, pressed down on the right side, forcefully threatening the point where Black's pieces might break.

What's the point of piling up chess pieces? Ultimately, the number isn't too large, leading to many loopholes, or breakpoints, which Lin Ruo can exploit with ease.

Black plays a move to reinforce the board, and White then moves again.

Byun Sang-il, who is usually quite thoughtful, was much calmer this time. He did not respond to White's aggressive push, because if he did push and White connected with his pieces, it would be a losing proposition.

The white stones in the lower right corner will be completely silent from now on. For him, life will be like sleeping with one eye open and the other closed, as it will be impossible to defend against them. Therefore, after much deliberation, Byun Sang-il chose to invade the upper area when the white stones made their move, determined to create an opportunity in the center so as not to waste the potential of the black stones that had previously invaded the three-space extension.

If the two black stones that have been driven in find a connection point, the pressure they generate will certainly be immense.

Next move.

The seventy-eighth move, the sharp point.

Lin Ruo showed no intention of avoiding battle; if the other side wanted to fight, then so be it.

He really enjoys fighting like this because only in a fight will he be unable to defend himself, which means there are more opportunities to use underhanded tactics.

Black makes another move to make a knight's move, and White makes a small knight's move, which is another strong and oppressive move.

This successfully made Byun Sang-il want to back down; he didn't want to play with Lin Ruo anymore, not because he was genuinely afraid.

After careful consideration, the best offensive move is to push and cut, but even this method cannot cut off White's pieces, because White can resolve the crisis simply by making a clear move.

White still has too much territory on the left side, and it's not something that can be easily blocked or coerced into a forceful attack.

Just like running on the grassland, maintaining the same speed in an endless field of vision, you chase after him, but once he starts moving first, there's simply no room to catch up.

This forced Byun Sang-il to restrain himself and make a move to encircle and block key areas while ensuring he could threaten and counterattack White at any time.

Lin Ruo skillfully used her turn to block the two black stones on the top.

The term "two-piece head" refers to a situation in which two pieces from each side are closely adjacent and mutually restrain each other. Whoever adds pressure first will undoubtedly restrict the opponent's action space and potential space.

When Black moves out, White blocks again, and Lin Ruo takes the opportunity to significantly neutralize the effect of one of the Black stones in the two-stone group.

This is his transformation; once he doesn't act, he always succeeds.

Without comparison, there is no harm. Even Byun Sang-il himself could not help but realize that Lin Ruo's transformation was a long-planned and precise strike.

His transitions, however, tend to be aimless and haphazard; at least so far, his transitions have been mostly ineffective or lack any real impact.

So much so that it seems like they all have the initiative, but the result is often that Lin Ruo easily resolves the situation, or the move has little effect at all.

Lin Ruo found it troublesome to resolve the situation, so she simply let it go.

There was even an error in the order of moves on the left-side central perimeter, which resulted in White dominating almost the entire area.

Having made considerable preparations before the match, Byun Sang-il realized that he had been too focused on exploiting his opponent's weaknesses, resulting in a completely disorganized and ineffective performance.

Lacking a distinctive style and failing to exert even the slightest pressure on White in the game, such an approach is undoubtedly a failure.

Lin Ruo hadn't even fully freed his hands after the failure, and he was already making all sorts of mistakes with a very high error rate.

Next, Black plays a tiger's mouth, White plays an extension, and Black plays a knuckleball, which leads White to extend further.

With his mind clearing up a bit, Byun Sang-il finally made a decent move, decisively pressing the white stones at the bottom.

Because the White stones were not effectively reinforced in the lower right corner earlier, this move on the bottom perimeter seems to be both a way to help escape and a threat to the already weak White stones on the left side.

This is a fairly obvious example of killing two birds with one stone.

Lin Ruo's task was naturally to prevent the black pieces from being taken out, so he blocked the way from the outside.

Then Byun Sang-il seized an opportunity in the area where the white stones were clustered at the bottom, making a quick and decisive move that made it obvious to everyone that this was a strategy he had been planning for a long time.

As for what this strategy is, it is that Byun Sang-il is waiting for White to come and fill in the corner.

Once a situation arises where a move needs to be made to fill the gap, his black stones can then take advantage of the situation where white's outer stones are relatively tight in liberties and have a cutting point after they have crawled out.

After crossing the border, it's clear that the white stones in the corner need to be brought to life.

Black can extend its stones towards the center at this point, and by taking advantage of the slight advantage of the only point it has in the upper left corner, it can create a situation where the dragon enters the sea.

With more space to maneuver and more diverse offensive tactics available to Black, the game becomes much more dynamic.

Byun Sang-il did not believe that White could continue to pressure him in this way. Instead, he believed that White would only turn around and launch a large-scale attack on White with ruthless force through the influence of the upper and lower left sides.

However, all of this depends on the premise that White will actually come to the corner area to reinforce the stones as he wishes to prevent problems from arising.

But Lin Ruo, whose mind was full of Deep Blue points, wasn't looking at any game of chess.

Why should I get it? It's unnecessary.

(End of this chapter)