The Way of the Blind Girl Chess Saint

In a room at the New Moon Hotel, an ordinary-looking boy with spiky light yellow hair was looking at his phone alone. The screen showed the standings after the first six rounds of the provincial competition.

Ji Qiuyao, six wins.

Luo Zhuyu, six wins.

Flower Goddess Cherishes, Six Victories.

Ji Yingting, six wins.

Ji Bingyuan, six wins.

Dragon's Sorrow, Five Victories.

An Ruotong, five wins.

Ye Xing, five wins.

Qi Yue, five wins.

Luo Qiu'er, five wins.

Cui Jinhuang, five wins.

Wang Jun, five wins.

Hmm? When he saw the name Wang Jun, Cui Jinlie's pupils contracted slightly. He seemed to have heard this name somewhere before.

However... the emerging geniuses of Crescent Moon Province in recent years are Luo Zhuyu, Hua Shenxi, and An Ruotong, who are at a level that even their own younger sister cannot reach.

Then, the two players from the Ji family who crossed the line will not be able to participate in the local professional assessment in Crescent Moon Province. The chief referees of the provincial competition have already submitted a complaint letter to the Go Association. At most, they will have to return to Full Moon Province after participating in the provincial competition.

"My opponents a month from now should be them," Cui Jinlie said calmly. Although there were dozens of fifth-dan players participating in the professional assessment, most of his competitors were younger players or even the top players in the provincial competition.

Some amateur 5-dan players who are slightly older or even adults are not considered strong. They participate in the professional assessment just to go through the motions with a侥幸心理 (a sense of luck or chance).

The age limit for professional assessment is under 20, and the average age of those taking the exam is around 15.

Cui Jinlie slowly put down his phone, closed his eyes, and recalled his experience from two years ago.

At that time, the new generation of geniuses in Crescent Province had not yet grown up, and it was also the year when the Go field in Crescent Province was at its lowest point. He found it too boring to participate in the professional examination in Crescent Province, so he chose to register for the professional examination in Full Moon Province.

Then... in the first round of the professional exam, he met a girl named Ji Hongying.

After that, he withdrew from the professional assessment, and no one knows what he went through.

This year, because the number of people who registered for the professional exam had already exceeded thirty before the provincial competition ended, the number of people who passed the professional exam in Crescent Province was temporarily increased to an unprecedented six, which is equivalent to the number of people in Full Moon Province and Imperial Moon Province.

"Outsiders say that the younger generation of chess players in Crescent Province are weak, but... it seems that the era of genius expansion has arrived. Even I felt a sense of panic from the huge wave rushing towards me from behind."

When they enter the professional Go world, they will have a devastating impact on the older generation of professional players.

A scorching light flashed between his pupils as Cui Jinlie slowly closed his eyes. However... no matter what happens later, he will still pass this professional assessment with a perfect record and become a professional Go player.

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"Playing chess with you is not bad? Then I'll give it a try, old lady," the girl pouted her pink lips.

pat...

Hua Shenxi blinked her pinkish-blue butterfly pupils, and gently placed a black chess piece into the chessboard with her left hand.

Her slender fingers gripped the edge of the piece perfectly, and she pushed the black piece forward slightly before slowly removing it from the board.

Hmm? Is she left-handed? And the way she holds the chess pieces is so interesting and cute.

Two little hearts suddenly appeared in Ji Yingting's pale purple starry eyes. In her eyes, the cute pink-haired girl with pear-shaped hair and the flower goddess Xi seemed to have turned into a little puppy with its tongue sticking out and its tail wagging.

Slender, jade-like hands emerged from the light green sleeves of her Taoist robe. Ji Yingting gently picked up a white chess piece, and with a soft click...

Outside the eyes.

Chapter 106: Chess Strategy - Nine-Tailed Autumn Water Butterfly

Hmm? Is she left-handed? And the way she holds the chess pieces is so cute.

Two heart-shaped flowers bloomed in Ji Yingting's pale purple starry eyes. In her eyes, the pink-haired girl with pear-shaped hair and the flower goddess Xi seemed to have turned into a little puppy with its tongue sticking out and its tail wagging.

Her pink pear-shaped hair fell to her shoulders, and Hua Shenxi's second hand also landed at position 33.

*Snap*... Ji Yingting withdrew her right hand, which was holding the white chess piece, from the star position.

Two pairs of three-star formations outside the eyes... her chess style is a bit too simplistic.

Ji Yingting slightly raised her green willow-leaf eyebrows, sensing that Hua Shenxi was not in a hurry to make a move. Ji Yingting also took out her slender right hand from the white chess box and placed it on her knee.

Hua Shenxi had a pink, medium-length pear-shaped hairstyle, with pink curls on both sides of her hair curling inwards. She had a large pink bow tied on the top of her head, making her a very cute girl.

However, no matter how cute a girl is, she will always be very focused when playing chess.

Hua Shenxi gently raised her right hand and placed it on the middle position of the two three-three stars.

*Snap*... This time it wasn't the sound of a piece being placed, but the sound of Hua Shenxi tapping a timer. She reached out with some effort with her left hand and tapped it, then simply placed the timer directly to her left.

Ji Yingting stared at the chessboard for a while, then placed a white chess piece in her right hand at the small corner, instantly restoring the shape of the upper right corner to a worry-free corner.

"Worry-free corner" is a common term for a corner defense method in Go. It refers to a method of defending the corner of the Go board by first placing a small point (小目) and then placing a point (外) outside the small point (目) on the second move. This method is generally considered to be a more secure way to defend the corner.

[PS: Wang Jun once failed to recreate Ji Yingting's carefree horn because he didn't know how to use the "eye-out" technique.]

pat...

Hmm? When Hua Shenxi placed her fourth move, Ji Yingting suddenly frowned. What did she mean by this? Was she trying to enclose an empty space?

Hua Shenxi slowly withdrew her left hand from the chessboard, and she smiled gently at Ji Yingting.

The phenomenon of mutual encirclement is quite common in games among Go beginners. It means that both sides ignore each other's layout and only focus on encircling their own territory.

While there are many examples of this in professional matches, and some professional players do like to set up their own strategies, Hua Shenxi's approach of surrounding an empty area is a bit too blatant.

After a moment of contemplation, Ji Yingting placed her white piece with a thud, making a large knight's move to defend the corner.

………………

A stunningly beautiful girl with long, fiery red hair, who was patrolling nearby, paused slightly. "Hmm, older sister?"

Her opponent is that girl named Hua Shenxi, right? I'll take a look.

Ji Hongying, rubbing her long, fiery red hair, stood behind Ji Yingting from a distance.

But... um? Ji Hongying suddenly froze. What were those two doing? Her eyes widened in surprise as she looked at the chessboard.

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Thud... Hua Shenxi's left hand landed perfectly on the chessboard.

"It's another expansion. Since you want to encircle me... then I'll play along." Ji Yingting raised her right hand, which was holding a white chess piece.

Ji Yingting blinked her pale purple starry eyes, then closed them slightly. A beam of azure light, like a falling meteor, wrapped around her fingertips and slammed heavily into the chessboard. Boom!

The comet struck, and the chessboard trembled violently a few times.

The dividing line between the black and white pieces touched, and at the same time, two pink and blue butterflies appeared in the eyes of the Flower Goddess Xi, and her whole body was covered with pink petals.

A wisp of smoke drifted by, and a gigantic creature with nine enormous legs appeared on the starry chessboard—it was a fox… no.

To be precise, it was a butterfly with nine tails!

Nine enormous tails spun wildly, and a nine-tailed creature, sharp as a drill, emerged from the smoke, with two pink crystal butterfly wings growing from its back.

Nine incredibly beautiful tails, like beams of blue light scattered behind it, instantly enveloped the entire chessboard.

"call"

Above the Flower Goddess Xi, an enormous nine-tailed butterfly revealed its face. It was the face of a creature that Ji Yingting had never heard of before, resembling both a butterfly and a fox.

The creature's pink wings blotted out the sky, and its two enormous pink butterfly wings gradually turned aquamarine. Nine huge, soft, blue ice tails were filled with violent, icy blue light, and in an instant, they swirled towards Ji Yingting.

【Chess Strategy - Nine-Tailed Autumn Water Butterfly】

Hua Shenxi slowly spoke, saying that each of this creature's tails was larger than its body.

Boom! The black chess piece in Hua Shenxi's hand slammed heavily onto the chessboard, and nine light blue fox tails, like drills, enveloped Ji Yingting's head.

Just as the nine light blue fox tails were about to strike Ji Yingting, two green paws suddenly blocked them.

call……

A huge, bluish-green creature slowly rose from above the starry chessboard. It was a giant cat with pale purple starry eyes and its entire body covered in bluish-green fur.

Ji Yingting slowly opened her pale green moonlight eyes, and her right hand slammed into the chessboard with a thud. Ji Yingting and Hua Shenxi were completely facing off against each other in an empty space.

【Chess Position·Forgive Cat】

With a body as large as a nine-tailed butterfly, this bluish-green cat stood on Ji Yingting's head, its two long, slender bluish-green claws forcefully holding up her several large tails.

Boom, boom, boom, boom.

The enormous, turquoise cat held the other's large tail with both paws and began to slowly rotate.

Boom, boom, boom, boom.

The turquoise cat spun faster and faster, her turquoise paws embracing the fox's tail as she spun around in circles, becoming an illusion.

Boom!!

However, just as the cat was about to throw her off the starry chessboard, the strange-looking creature suddenly spread out a pair of butterfly wings that were completely dyed ice blue, and its huge body stopped in mid-air.

Boom! A gust of wind howled, and under the impact of the white, shockwave, the nine huge ice-blue tails and the giant paws of the turquoise cat collided again, as if they were wrestling and pushing each other.

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P.S.: I was a bit out of it and had no inspiration while writing... I was in the US, got up at 4:30 AM to write this, and it took me over three hours to finally finish this chapter.

The second update will probably be much later... I was hoping to get up early this morning and finish two chapters in three hours, then add another one.

I have to hurry to class now... I can only write the second chapter when I get back this afternoon.

Chapter 107: Chess Strategy - Spear Dance Reincarnation

Boom! A huge beam of light shot across the sky, grazing past Ji Qiuyao, and a strand of her withered yellow hair fell from one side of her cheek.