"Auntie, it's okay."
Ta Yaliang shook his little head. It didn't matter if he didn't communicate while playing Go. In similar international competitions, chess players from China, Japan and South Korea basically couldn't communicate without any barriers when playing chess.
"By the way, Auntie, I would like to ask, what is his approximate chess skill?"
Du Wenhui smiled slightly, looking quite proud.
"Amateur 5th Dan."
Amateur 5th Dan?
Ta Yaliang turned his head and glanced at Li Jie, thinking to himself.
Very powerful ah.
However, should I give up my son?
Ta Yaliang thought for a while and thought that maybe it would be better to guess first. After all, there are strong and weak amateur fifth-dan chess players. If they are strong in professional fifth-dan, they will not be inferior even to professional first-dan players.
Of course, there are not many chess players like this, but without really understanding the opponent, Tayaliang does not dare to be too confident. What if he loses with a handicap?
Ta Yaliang thinks this way not because he cares about winning or losing, but because he doesn't want to leave an 'arrogant' impression to strangers he meets for the first time.
"Okay, Auntie, I understand." Ta Yaliang smiled sweetly, opened the chess box, and said, "Then let him and I guess the first game."
As we all know, Go has two kinds of chess pieces, black and white. Generally speaking, the side that plays first will have a certain advantage in the layout.
Therefore, when there is not much difference in chess strength, guessing first becomes a relatively fair way to start.
Guess first, as the name suggests, is a guessing method to determine who of the two sides will move first. The higher-ranking party takes out a number of white stones from the chess box and puts them into the palm of their hand, and then the lower-ranking player shows one (representing an odd number) or two (representing an even number). Black, the one who guesses correctly will go first with black.
Since ancient times, Chinese Go has always been played by white first. However, since the Qing Dynasty, the level of Chinese Go has dropped sharply. The latecomers of Country R have come on top. However, unlike the Chinese who have played white first, Country R has played black first.
After that, the rule that black moves first has continued to this day.
Li Jie saw Ta Yaliang opening the chess box and grabbing a handful of chess pieces. Although he wanted to give up the pieces, he gave up after thinking about it carefully.
Let’s play a guided chess game in this game.
(Guide chess, that is, chess that has the meaning of instructing and guiding young chess players,)
Afterwards, Li Jie randomly took out a black stone from the chess box and placed it on the chessboard.
Upon seeing this, Ta Yaliang opened his palms, and two white stones were lying brightly in his palms.
Guess the result first, Ta Yaliang holds black and Li Jie holds white.
Although there are some advantages to playing black first, according to the current Go rules in country R, black moves first and needs five and a half pieces, which means that in the final calculation, black must deduct five and a half pieces.
With this stipulation, the advantage of those who rule first is undoubtedly reduced a lot, but even so, those who rule black still have a slight advantage.
(Later, in 2001, the R National Chess Academy collected official battle data within five years and found that black's winning rate was 51.86%. Later, the five-and-a-half-mesh rule was changed to six-and-a-half mesh.)
The two sides exchanged the chess boxes, and Tayaliang lowered his head slightly.
"Please give me some advice!"
Li Jie nodded slightly and replied in Japanese as if he were doing as the Romans do.
"Please give me more advice."
Du Wenhui was obviously stunned when she heard Li Jie's smooth Guandong accent. If she remembered correctly, she had never taught her nephew this sentence at all.
Is it possible to learn and sell now?
However, this is too orthodox, right?
Is it possible that in addition to being a Go genius, my nephew is also a language genius?
After thinking about it, Du Wenhui could only think of this reason. Otherwise, even if she tried hard, she wouldn't be able to think of it. The reason why Li Jie knew the Guandong accent was entirely because he learned it to fight the Japanese.
Ta Yaliang reached out and picked up a white piece from the chess box, and it landed on the chessboard with a snap.
Sixteen-four, star position.
The Go board is square with nineteen parallel lines horizontally and vertically, forming 361 intersections. Nine of the intersections are represented by large black dots to facilitate positioning. These nine black dots are called 'star positions'.
Among them, the star position in the center is also called Tianyuan.
There is a saying in Go called "Golden Corner, Silver Edge, Grass Belly", which means that the efficiency of chess pieces will be different depending on the position they are placed in. The corners are the most surrounded, which is the most efficient, and the sides are second, and the midbelly is less easy to surround. .
Therefore, most games in Go start from the corner, and then slowly spread to the midfield area.
After years of exploration, the start of Go has been relatively fixed, and Li Jie didn't want to make a weird move like Tianyuan, so he placed the chess piece in the star position below.
Not long after, a little boy with yellowish hair walked into the Go clubhouse carrying a schoolbag.
The vitality girl showed a gentle smile when she saw the little boy with his head poking around and his face full of curiosity.
"Welcome, kid, are you here to play chess too?"
"ah?"
The little boy was obviously startled and nodded.
"Yes, big sister."
Seeing that the little boy was frightened by her, the vitality girl said embarrassedly.
"Sorry, I just scared you."
"No, no, it's my own fault."
The little boy waved his hands repeatedly, and then complained crazily in his heart.
'Zuowei! It's all your fault! If you hadn't yelled just now, why would I have been so frightened? '
From a perspective that ordinary people cannot see, a handsome man wearing a black hat and a white hunting coat is clasping his hands and looking at the little boy with an apologetic look on his face.
'Xiaoguang, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I really didn't mean it, I was just so excited to see so many people playing chess! '
Seeing the man's actions, the little boy waved his hand very generously and responded from the bottom of his heart.
'It's okay, it's okay, I have forgiven you, but remember to remind me next time. '
The man in white was like a child when he heard this, jumping up and down excitedly.
'Haha, really, Xiaoguang? '
The little boy nodded and smiled.
'Um! Um! real! However, in the future National History Department, you must help me with all your strength! '
'Hi! '
Looking at the strange child in front of her, the vitality girl stretched out her hand and waved it in front of the little boy's eyes.
"Kid? Kid?"
"Ah, oh." The little boy came back to his senses immediately after hearing this, bowed slightly and said, "I'm sorry, big sister, I was a little distracted just now."
The vitality girl smiled softly, shook her head and said, "It doesn't matter, are you here to play chess?"
"Uh-huh!"
The little boy nodded wildly.
The vitality girl took out the script again and said with a smile.
"Then, please register your name and chess skills here."
"Chess power?"
Hearing this word, the little boy was a little confused. He had never been exposed to Go, so he didn't know much about what the term "chess power" represented.
However, the little boy then thought about it. Zuo Wei said that he was the best chess player in the world. He should be very strong, right?
After thinking about this, the little boy replied honestly.
"Although I have never played chess with anyone, I think I should be very strong."
"..."
Facing the extremely 'confident' little boy, the vitality girl was a little stunned.
At this moment, the man in white standing next to the little boy stretched out his folding fan and pointed to the corner, shouting excitedly.
'Xiaguang, Xiaoguang, look over there, there are two children about your age playing chess. Let's go and have a look! '
