"General." Liu Ru confidently pushed the chess piece in his hand to the bottom line.
But this time she used a white queen.
This was also the chess Su Ziye taught her to play after returning as promised.
Although the rules of chess are very different from the chess rules that Su Ziye taught before, the internal calculation logic is still the same, so Liu Ru got started quickly and almost killed Su Ziye in the first game.
Different from the previous chess, the most powerful chess piece is the queen beside the king. She is almost invincible on the battlefield, but the king she protects seems a little weak.
Su Ziye's king had no way to escape, so he could only pull his own knights to rescue him, but it was still of no use. Liu Ru's queen was invincible and directly stepped forward to kill the escorting knights. However, Su Ziye also won the victory. Taking a breather, he blocked his bishop in front of the king again.
But even so, Su Ziye still lost a lot of strength, and the winner and loser were immediately clear on the battlefield.
"You lost." Liu Ru declared while looking at Su Ziye.
Su Ziye lowered his head and smiled: "So I will teach you two special rules in chess."
"The first one is called promotion."
"When the pawn reaches the bottom line, it will get a chance to be promoted. He can become any piece except the king and the pawn."
Saying this, Su Ziye picked up his pawn, pushed it into the bottom line, and then looked up at Liu Ru: "I will transform my pawn into a chariot."
"Why not the queen?" Liu Ru asked curiously.
As introduced before, the queen is the strongest chess piece in chess. It can move horizontally, vertically, or even fly diagonally at will. One queen is enough to control most of the chessboard.
"You will know next." Su Ziye looked at the other party and said with a smile.
Su Ziye's pawns turned into chariots at the bottom line, but the entire battlefield was still in danger. Liu Ru didn't have a good general's skills for a while, but Su Ziye was already a trapped beast still fighting.
So the girl moved her queen and prepared for the next fierce attack.
Su Ziye looked at the other party, then continued to smile: "Then I will teach you the second special rule of chess."
"It's called King's Cart Castling."
"The king's car is castling?" Liu Ru didn't understand this term.
“In a chess game, both sides have one and only one chance to move their king and rook at the same time. The specific move is to move the king two spaces to one side of the rook, and at the same time move their rook past the king and place it on the space adjacent to the king. On the grid." Su Ziye said this and moved the king's car in his hand according to the method he said before.
Liu Ru looked at the chessboard again, and her expression suddenly changed.
Originally, the king could only move one space, so he was like a prey in a spider's web, unable to escape Liu Ru's grasp no matter what, but this time the king moved directly two spaces and reached a safe position in an instant, and with this At the same time, this chariot also galloped from thousands of miles away. Not only did it successfully defend the royal family, it could even direct its troops directly at the enemy king① in the next step.
The situation was completely reversed at this moment.
Liu Ru was stunned for a moment.
She tried to mobilize her troops again to strangle the opponent, but Su Ziye only used a few hands to force Liu Ru to surrender.
"Why didn't you tell me these rules before?" Liu Ru was a little dissatisfied.
The boy's face was still pale, because it was only an hour before they came back.
Originally, Liu Ru wanted Su Ziye to take a good rest, but Su Ziye insisted on playing this game of chess with her.
"Don't you think these two rules are interesting?" Su Ziye looked at Liu Ru and smiled calmly.
Liu Ru was stunned for a moment.
Yes, she originally thought that she was just the most useless pawn. The value of her life was to charge forward with her head down and rush to the last bottom line. She lost all use value and became an abandoned child.
But the chess Su Ziye taught her today had such a brand-new rule.
The pawn that reaches the bottom line is not only useless, but can choose to be promoted and become the most powerful chess piece in the game.
As for the second rule of changing the king's car, in fact, before that, Su Ziye had been confusing the relationship between him and Liu Ru, thus confusing a lot of people, and even said that he knew that Xingxi was coming to assassinate him tonight. At that time, Liu Ru was still Xingxi's top assassination target, not Su Ziye as the real master.
"It's very interesting." Liu Ru nodded and admitted.
"Then what do you want to be?" Su Ziye looked at the other person and continued to ask.
The young man's dark eyes were like a deep pool with no bottom.
"Me?" Liu Ru didn't know what to say for a while.
"You are a pawn that has reached the bottom line. According to the rules of chess, you have lost all value, but according to the rules of chess, this is your new beginning." Su Ziye smiled and said: "So, now What do you want to become?"
What is the change? Liu Ru fell into deep thought for a moment.
According to the rules of chess, after a pawn reaches the bottom line, he can choose to become a queen, bishop, knight, or chariot.
Su Ziye had previously turned his pawns into chariots to castle the king's chariot, but if Liu Ru had to choose, of course the queen would be the strongest.
The girl thought for a while, then looked at Su Ziye: "I want to become a bishop."
"Bishop?" Su Ziye laughed amusedly: "Why, I originally thought you would become a knight or a queen."
The queen is of course the most powerful chess piece, but only the knight has a different logic of moves than the queen, and can sometimes achieve a surprising victory.
The functions of the bishop and chariot are completely covered by the queen, which can be said to be a very redundant option.
"Because the bishop is also the prime minister." Liu Ru looked at the other party: "I want to be someone who can help you by your side."
Not your queen.
Liu Ru said silently in his heart.
"Okay." Su Ziye nodded and said, "This is an upgrade that can only be done once in a lifetime, and I will remember it."
"Then next." The young man looked at the other person: "Do you want to hear me tell a story?"
"Story?" Liu Ru didn't react for a while.
"A story about everything." Su Ziye smiled: "About everything you see now."
Saying this, Su Ziye did not wait for Liu Ru's answer, and began to speak on his own: "The origin of the story begins with the birth of the St Empire."
①: Castling of the king's rook is much more complicated in the specific chess rules. Not only does the king and the rook not be allowed to move before this, but it also includes the latest sixth rule that only allows the king's rook in the same row to be castled. , this is used to limit the upgrading of the car to castling, but since this is a novel, I will ignore this rule. In addition, being able to play a chess game in which the situation can be reversed by changing the position of the pawn and then castling the king's rook can only be due to the huge gap in chess strength between the two sides, so this game itself is Su Ziye's guiding chess.
