The Way of the Blind Girl Chess Saint

"I...I give up," the little girl with short black hair said, feeling wronged.

Chapter 343: Lost

"The group draw for the Three Lives Cup has been released, right after the city-level competition."

A girl wearing a light blue Taoist robe and with long, beige hair opened the official website of the Three Lives Cup.

The team consisting of Ji Yingting, An Ruotong, and Zhu Huangfu is called "You are all younger sisters".

Ji Yingting and An Ruotong both went to serve as judges for the city competition, leaving her alone in the room assigned to her by the dojo.

With his orange eyes slightly narrowed, Zhu Huangfu directly located their team's assigned group.

The Sansheng Cup has a total of 48 professional teams, divided into 8 groups, with 6 teams in each group for the group stage.

After five rounds of matches, the top two teams in terms of points will advance.

Group 7 -

【You are all younger sisters】, 【Qingchayuan】, 【The cake is so delicious】, 【Ji Family Team 2】, 【Nightmare Chess Academy】.

Those who play slow chess are all trash.

……

……

"Things are getting bad."

Zhu Huangfu put down his phone, holding his breath, and fell into deep thought.

Upon first seeing Qingchayuan, her breath hitched slightly, and then... there was also the line, "Those who play slow chess are all trash."

Although judging from the name, this is just a comedy team.

However, all professional chess players on the moon know that there is only one possibility for a chess team to have such a name.

That was a mad, unconventional family, the Xiao family of Tianyuan, in the Imperial Moon Province...

“However, it’s much better than facing the Luo family in the group stage…” Zhu Huangfu muttered to himself.

The Xiao family excels at ultra-fast chess, where moves take only one second.

Online Go games typically have a 10-second fast game, but what exactly is a one-second fast game?

This refers to a chess player having to simultaneously place a piece and tap the timer within one second.

This is something that is simply impossible for a normal chess player.

One-second blitz chess means that the thinking time is infinitely close to 0, but you should know that a normal person may take more than 2 seconds to even place a piece, let alone hit a timer.

A professional chess player once said something like this...

If you think that the Xiao family chess players can only play fast chess... but when you actually face a Xiao family chess player, the moment you sit down opposite her... it's just a fleeting instant.

When someone thinks in a moment that transcends human limits, your time seems to sink into a quagmire, completely frozen.

Watching your opponent make a move and hit the timer... you'll feel an indescribable fear emanating from the very core of your being.

Speed ​​is the key.

Speed ​​is everything.

[Those who play slow chess are all trash] The team leader is [Professional 6-dan Xiao Qiyu].

"Xiao Qiyu, the Thunder Emperor...?"

In addition, there is also the [Qingchayuan] team, which is also the team they need to pay the most attention to.

Team Captain: [Professional Rank 5 - Marquis Shui Qing]

Then there's the captain of the Ji Clan's second team: Ji Fuyou, a professional fourth-dan player.

The remaining cakes are delicious, and neither Nightmare Chess Academy can be considered a very strong team.

A team doesn't win just because it has one very strong player...

Just like the battle between Ji Yingting and Shang Gongying in the professional exam, mental and physical strength are the most crucial factors.

.................

"referee!"

Just as An Ruotong was sitting on the stage playing on her phone, a little girl suddenly raised her arm with a sob in her voice.

"Hmm, what's wrong?"

With a flick of her long black hair, An Ruotong jumped off the chair and walked up to the little girl.

Although the two were about the same age, her long black hair was several times longer than the little girl's, reaching down to her hips.

Because most girls in this age group are still students, they are not allowed to have such long hair.

Of course, An Ruotong has become a professional Go player and has a job.

Although she was only 12 years old, she had no problem with makeup and dressing up; her blood-red eyes were covered with light eyeshadow.

"He dropped a piece!"

The little girl with black hair cried out, while the boy sitting opposite her was already blushing.

"My piece fell backwards! She's just refusing to admit defeat."

The boy, holding a black chess piece, retorted somewhat angrily.

Her red eyes glanced briefly at the chessboard... The boy had a significant advantage in the game, but if a piece was discarded, the girl, playing white, could kill the group of black pieces in two moves.

"Drop a piece" refers to a chess player accidentally dropping a piece into a position they didn't originally intend to place during a game.

In amateur competitions, players are generally not allowed to take back their moves, but this is almost never the case in professional competitions.

This situation is easily caused because many children in this age group cannot sit still and like to play with the chess pieces while thinking.

"Did the chess piece fall down backwards? On the back?" An Ruotong pondered for a moment, then frowned and asked.

"Um...yes."

The little girl, who was crying, hesitated for a moment and then said softly.

"Then let's continue playing chess. You were about to lose anyway, weren't you? Stop crying."

An Ruotong's commanding tone was impossible to ignore, her blood-red eyes fixed on the little girl's.

……

"Yes... I'll keep playing," the little girl said, her voice trembling with tears.

The weak should never crave victory... An Ruotong closed her eyes, tossed her long black hair, and turned her head.

"That's not bad, even an ant has self-respect."

Only strength can determine everything.

Only the strong can dominate everything.

She believes that to win, one must become strong, not rely on such ambiguous fouls to determine one's fate.

You can win one game, but you can't win nine...

Before An Ruotong became a professional Go player, she wouldn't have accepted a game like this even if it had been given to her.

Even if we start a new game... it's not allowed.

"Professional novice, is his name An Ruotong? He's so cool!"

The boy remembered the name on An Ruotong's name tag and stared at her long black hair as he spoke.

..........

The first day of the city competition came to a successful close, and the players gradually prepared to go to the cafeteria for lunch.

Since it wasn't a large-scale provincial competition, the players used very little time per game, with both sides having a combined time of only one hour.

Three games are played each day, for a total of nine games, and the games are completed in three days.

"How's it going with Sakuraba-nee? By the way, what's the situation with the advanced group?" An Ruotong asked casually as they walked together.

"It's alright, quite a few people won all three games on the first day."

With her long, light green Hime-style hair combed up, Ji Yingting shook her head and thought for a moment before speaking.

"but……"

"Ok?"

"There's a player in the high-ranking group named Cui Jinhuang...he's very strong."

Ji Yingting narrowed her pale purple eyes into slits and said seriously.

Very strong?

An Ruotong was slightly stunned; it was the first time she had ever heard those two words from Ji Yingting's mouth.

Chapter 344: Ji Xingquan, the Star-Eyed Chess Saint

"There's a player in the high-ranking group named Cui Jinhuang...he's very strong."

Ji Yingting narrowed her pale purple eyes into slits and said seriously.

Very strong?

An Ruotong was slightly stunned; it was the first time she had ever heard those two words from Ji Yingting's mouth.

Very strong, but how strong? And An Ruotong felt that she had vaguely heard the name Cui Jinhuang somewhere before.

"Cui Jinhuang...wait, you're not talking about that amateur fourth-dan player from Mingyue City, are you? Cui Jinlie's sister?"

"Yes, it was that girl who participated in the provincial competition with us," Ji Yingting recalled, adding that she had even scolded her.

After becoming a professional Go player, she was able to spectate other people's games [as mentioned many times before].