Go Legend

  Chapter 50 "Chinese Flow" New Interpretation

"Brother Ding'an, we will encounter this opponent tomorrow, but he is also considered to be a powerful player in the Korean chess world. His strength, um, his strength should be the same as the "Lei Meng Zhuan Zhu" and "Lei Meng Nie Zheng" we encountered before. "It's a level. This person may be slightly inferior to those two, but the difference is very small."

   After it was clear that the opponent on the second day was Cui Mingxun, Li Xiangping began to prepare for the battle. And his "preparation" is of course very different from other people's. The first thing he needs to do, of course, is to quickly report the situation to his "plug-in". So after dinner, the first thing Li Xiangping did when he returned to the room was to quickly communicate with Lao Shi and tell him some information he knew about his opponent.

"Oh."

   Feeling that Shi Daqisheng seemed to be a little absent-minded, Li Xiangping was not happy, he said with emphasis:

"Brother Ding'an, although our opponent's strength tomorrow is not top-notch, he is at his personal peak. He has been in great shape recently. Not long ago, he just defeated our first player in China, Chang Hao, and entered another world competition final. , but this needs attention.”

   "Oh, what are the characteristics of this person's chess style?"

"This"

   Faced with the question of Lao Shi, Li Xiangping was a bit unable to answer. To say that although this Cui Mingxun is famous in this era, it is only limited to this era. Some chess fans with less experience in later generations may not know that there is such a top player in Korean Go in this era.

Because although he was trumpeted by the Koreans as the head of the "Four Little Kings", but in hindsight, not only did they fail to join the "Four Little Kings" class, but their historical status may not be comparable to that of them. A little "calf trio".

  Then Li Xiangping can't tell the truth about the chess style of such a chess player.

  Since he couldn't say how ugly he was, Li Xiangping rolled his eyes and came up with a solution:

   "Brother Ding'an, I think otherwise, I'll wait to find out a few chess scores of this person, and you can see for yourself what kind of chess style he is."

   "So good."

   Now that you have made up your mind, it is of course to take action immediately. Cui Mingxun's chess records are easy to find. After all, he is still active at this time. If you find any "Korean Go Yearbook", you will definitely have his chess, but this chess tool

   "What are you looking for, Li Xiangping?"

"Well, I want to find a chessboard to play chess." Li Xiangping responded casually to Chen Yaoyue, who lived in the same room as him, and glared at him: "Little Leopard, you are really not polite at all, if you want to call the boss, at least Let Brother Xiangping know."

   "Oh, you want to play chess, I have it here."

Hearing that Li Xiangping wanted to play chess, Chen Yaoyue's eyes lit up. As he said this, he took out a pair of chess sets from his luggage as if he were doing a trick. �

   "Do you want to study any new changes? Can you show me?"

   Looking at 11-year-old Chen Yaoyue's clear and transparent eyes, Li Xiangping couldn't help laughing and crying:

   "I just want to show off tomorrow's opponent's chess. There are so many new changes, just watch it if you want."

  Chen Yaoyue felt bored after only staying by Li Xiangping's side for a while, because he found that this guy seemed to have a quirk when he played chess. He obviously didn't make a sound, but his mouth seemed to be in the same position all the time. Chen Yaoyue had never seen anyone play chess like this, so he watched it for a while:

   "Boss, study it slowly, I'll go to the other room to have a look."

"go Go."

   After Chen Yaoyue left, and after watching Cui Mingxun's 5 games, three wins and two losses, Li Xiangping asked Lao Shi:

   "Brother Ding'an, how do you feel after watching it?"

   "Well, this person's chess style is just as Xiaoyou Xiangping said. He can't see any weaknesses, nor can he find obvious strengths."

"Oh?"

  Li Xiangping wanted to ask: Do you think you have the confidence to win this person, Lao Shi? But thinking that the game is going to be played tomorrow, if he asks this question, he is suspected of adding pressure to him, so Li Xiangping changed the topic:

"Well, brother Ding'an, since I have a preliminary impression of this person's chess path, should we study tomorrow's opening? For example, if we guess black tomorrow, should I first announce the one that Brother Ding'an is most familiar with? "Diagonal star"?"

   "This is random, but Xiaoyou Xiangping, after my recent thinking, Ding'an thinks that according to the current Go rules, it is better not to play the "diagonal star"."

   "Oh, why is that?"

   "Ding'an now has something to gain, but he doesn't know whether it's right or wrong. Ding'an thinks that if he plays this kind of chess, the first move is not good for the corner."

  Li Xiangping listened for a while: "Haha, this is what the heroes see the same way, does brother Ding'an think so too?"

It is true that if you play Tiemu chess, the diagonal layout may be unfavorable, but as Lao Shi said, although Li Xiangping also thinks so, it is only his personal opinion. He does not know whether his opinion is right or wrong. .

   But it doesn't matter. Anyway, tomorrow's chess is played by me and Lao Shi together. Since both of them feel that it is inappropriate, then we don't use this method.

   "If the "Diagonal Star" is not used, what would Brother Dingan himself recommend?"

   "Well, if we can play black first tomorrow, Ding'an has been very happy with this opening recently."

   When Lao Shi said his thoughts, Li Xiangping was happy again:

   "Hehe "Chinese style"? Brother Ding'an actually wanted to start with "Chinese style", but why?"

   "Well, this method can be offensive and defensive at the beginning, and the situation is balanced. It really won me the Chinese golden mean and "Chinese style"? But the little friend Xiangping said, this opening is called "Chinese style"?"

   "Ran also"

At this time, Li Xiangping can only put the origin of the name "Chinese flow" aside from the old Shi Keke. This layout was created by Chen Chaoyue, an older generation national player in China. When a Chinese Go delegation visited Japan in the 1960s , since Chinese players almost uniformly adopt this opening, this layout is called "Chinese flow" by the Japanese Go community.

The story of    is widely circulated in the Go world, and even chess fans with a little experience know about it, so after Li Xiangping finished speaking, he didn’t take it seriously.

   "Brother Xing Ding'an, since you like Chinese style, then go with Chinese style. This is the law of black. Let's discuss now if we are white"

   "Little friend Xiangping, does the Chen Guoshou you mentioned have any research on medieval chess?"

Um? Li Xiangping was a little surprised to hear Lao Shi's question. Among modern chess players, Lao Chen is of course an expert in ancient chess, but when he was telling the story just now, he didn't say this to Lao Shi:

   "Chen Guoshou does have a deep understanding of ancient chess. By the way, he still respects you very much, but how did Brother Ding'an know about it?"

   "How difficult it is, just look at the 3rd move of this "Chinese style" opening."

  Li Xiangping was stunned for a moment. Just looking at the 3rd move of the Chinese style of chess, he knew that Lao Chen definitely knew the ancient chess? What is the logic?

   But after thinking about it, Li Xiangping quickly figured out the key, and after he figured it out, he laughed:

   "Haha, of course, this layout really has a lot to do with medieval chess, and it's not bad for it to be called "Chinese style""

   What did Li Xiangping figure out? As you can see, the first two steps of the "Chinese flow" are the "star position" and the "small eyes".

   And the stone on the edge of the third move of "Chinese flow", this move is also very famous, this is the famous "nine-three-point shot" in medieval chess.

   And the reason why this move is so famous, so famous that it even became an iconic move in medieval chess, is precisely related to this plug-in in his body.

As we all know, due to the "zoon system" in medieval chess, the first 4 moves are actually fixed, and even to the 5th move, since the chess players of that era did not "point three and three", they were basically "three and three". Six, three hanging corners", so it can be said that the 5th move is also fixed.

The    divergence point starts from the 6th move.

   Where is the best place to play the 6th move? Shi Daqisheng has something to say, and he strongly recommends this move "nine three-pointers".

   And his theory is: "Let the enemy have no large blocks and three places to be demolished, and the layout is the most mellow"!

   This is because of his words, coupled with his high level and strength, so from Fan Shi onwards, the "nine-three-point shot" has established the same status as "official move" in medieval chess.

   Now that I think about it, when Lao Chen created the "Chinese style" layout, he must have been influenced by Lao Shi, right?

   "Oh that's fine, Ding'an brother, we'll use this method tomorrow, let's have a good meeting with that Goryeo chess player."

   The second day is coming soon, so what will happen to the game of "Jingyi" and Cui Mingxun?

   (end of this chapter)