Go: Is the portable old man the nine-time champion?

Chapter 61: Starting Tianyuan
"Yi Zheng, hello, hello."

Looking at the fat man Yi Zheng with a kind face opposite him, he nodded.

As today's opponent, Yi Zheng had already seen the other party's name on the public match list yesterday.

Niu Ziteng.

How should I put it? Although it was a bit embarrassing, Yi Zheng immediately thought of a strange pun.

"Hahaha, I know what you're thinking. It makes sense."

Niu Ziteng looked at Yi Zheng, who was silent after glancing at his name tag, and said with a smile, he had heard the related homophonic pun countless times and had long been accustomed to it.

“It’s amazing that you’ve made it this far, but the most important thing for you in this kind of competition is to gain experience.

Relax and keep a positive attitude. After all, the upcoming dan tournaments are your main goal, and amateur competitions are just a passing moment in your life."

When Yi Zheng heard Niu Ziteng comforting him, he didn't know what to say. The other party seemed very confident?
The implicit meaning of his words revealed that the other party was about to eliminate Yi Zheng, and he started to comfort his opponent in advance.

Yi Zheng actually attaches great importance to collecting information about his opponents. As the saying goes, knowing yourself and your enemy will ensure victory in a hundred battles. Moreover, these amateur giants can also find basic information on the Internet.

Not to mention, Yi Zheng and Xiong Chong have hidden energy behind this information.

So Yi Zheng also felt a little strange, as Niu Ziteng and Wang Teng and the others seemed to have similar strengths.

Both Wang Teng and the others lost, so why does it seem like Niu Ziteng thinks he can definitely beat me?
"The third round of the 45th Huangshan Cup National Amateur Go Tournament has officially begun. Please guess the first move."

Listening to the referee's voice, Niu Ziteng grabbed a handful of chess pieces and said with a smile, "Young man, the waters of amateur competitions are very deep, you can't grasp it."

Although Yi Zheng felt that the other riddler looked very derpy, he still picked up a chess piece and placed it on the chessboard.

Niu Ziteng put down the chess piece in his hand and counted them two by two, finding there were exactly ten pieces. Yi Zheng, who played white, moved next.

Seeing this result, Niu Ziteng put the chess piece on the chessboard without any hesitation.

But this first-hand position is a position that no one can imagine.

After Niu Ziteng placed his piece, he quickly raised his head and was about to take a look at Yi Zheng's surprised and helpless expression, but he found that the other party's attention was not on the chessboard, but his eyes were glancing to the side.

Niu Ziteng followed Yi Zheng's gaze and found that Yi Zheng was staring at the previous champion Che Da who was playing chess next to him.

You were thinking about another man while playing chess with me?

Seeing this, Niu Ziteng immediately became anxious. No! He and you are not in the same half of the district, okay!
You haven't even made it to the finals yet, so why are you already paying attention to your opponent?! My move was so unexpected, and you didn't even react at all?!
Niu Ziteng immediately got angry and said, "I want you to know that it is a mistake to only practice the last question without paying attention to the previous multiple-choice questions!"

In fact, Yi Zheng was not looking at Che Da, but at Mr. Ke who was standing next to Che Da and no one else could see him.

The reason why I watched Mr. Ke was also because of Niu Ziteng’s first step.

Yi Zheng didn't know what to say. Mr. Ke had actually guessed correctly, predicting the question in advance. There were actually people who played chess this way. Yi Zheng had an inexplicable feeling like his teacher had predicted the correct question in the mock exam before the exam. Aren't you walking into my trap?
Even Yi Zheng couldn't help but reveal a sense of pity when looking at Niu Ziteng. After this game, Niu Ziteng will probably be in pain.

Looking at the black spot that fell in the center, Yi Zheng couldn't help but sigh.

Luozi Tianyuan.

An extremely bizarre move.

But Mr. Ke gave this move a nice name, "Harmony of Heaven and Earth".

When he was speaking, Mr. Ke sang in a strange tone, what harmony~
There are 361 intersections on the chessboard, nine of which are marked as black dots. The ones on the sides of the chessboard are called star positions, and the one in the middle has a special name.

The name "Tianyuan" symbolizes the "North Star" set off by the stars, and it can also symbolize the most dazzling star among the stars.

Located in the center of the Go board, it is the only position on the entire board that has no mirror image, the only unique point.

It is said that when a king changes his surname and receives the mandate, he must be cautious in his beginnings, change the calendar, change his attire, trace his origin to the heavenly origin, and follow the will of the heaven.

Later on, "Tianyuan" was also used to refer to the "king" in a certain field. In Japan, "Tianyuan" is also one of the famous seven major chess competitions. It is also a Go title in the central China region. It is a rare competition among China, Japan and South Korea.

Theoretically, the geometric center property of Tianyuan makes this point equidistant from the four sides of the chessboard, and it has global radiation potential in the layout stage. However, compared with the star position, Tianyuan has greater strategic depth but a weaker foundation.

To put it simply, the Tianyuan move at the beginning is terrible!
The so-called golden horns, silver edges and grass belly, Tianyuan's move is directly a thatched hut among thatched huts. It seems very cool, but it is equivalent to giving up half the advantage.

Simply put, if someone of the same skill level makes this move at the beginning, it almost means that the opponent will not be able to win the game without making a big mistake.

From ancient times to the present, it’s not that no one has studied the Tianyuan opening, from amateurs to masters to artificial intelligence, but the final results are unexpectedly consistent.

Starting with Tianyuan is a bad move!
The first master who liked Tengen was Shunkai Shibukawa of the Yasui family during the Kanbun era. He combined astronomy with Go, and believed that playing Tengen with the first move was like occupying the center of the universe, being able to look down on the world and respond to all directions. He declared that he would be undefeated if he played Tengen first, otherwise he would never play Tengen in his life. He also wanted to sacrifice his opponent in the Go game of the Go that year. Unfortunately, his opponent was the genius Honinbo Dosaku, and the result can be imagined.

Even in the so-called artificial intelligence era of Mr. Ke and others, using artificial intelligence to start the Tianyuan step seems to have only reduced the winning rate by about five to seven points, which theoretically has little impact on the winning rate.

But in fact, it is a move that is bound to fail. If two dogs are fighting and you dare to start with Tianyuan, you will definitely be bitten to death by the other dog.

In official human competitions, anyone who has the courage to make this move must be certain of defeat. Otherwise, it is basically impossible to understand why they would do so.

Unless there are some Tianyuan battles, the two sides of the game agree to place the pieces in a cross shape to pay tribute to the game.

Of course, there is one exception, that is, your chess pieces will glow.

As long as you add special effects, it will be a good move no matter where you place it!
But unfortunately, there was obviously no special effect after Niu Ziteng made his move, so this possibility can be ruled out.

Then there is only one possibility left, imitation chess.

That is the method that Mr. Ke used to predict the questions and win the prize, which he once used to defeat artificial intelligence.

(End of this chapter)