Oda Nobunaga glared at Yu Qiupei fiercely, while Yu Qiupei looked at him without fear. The two were in a stalemate for a long time, and finally Oda Nobunaga couldn't give in. Now, his personality is not that violent, no
He would do such a perverse thing as destroying his descendants.
"Okay, you can do whatever you want!" Oda Nobunaga snorted coldly and waved his hand, "Get out of here! Don't let me see you!"
Hearing this, Yu Qiuping handed over his hands and prepared to leave the room. At the moment he closed the door, Oda Nobunaga once again said loudly and dissatisfied: "There will be a Go front competition soon, and many good players in the world will do it."
Come. I heard that your kid is good at chess. You can help me win the first place in the imperial competition! Otherwise, your kid will suffer a lot!"
"What?" Yu Qiuping was shocked when he heard this, "My lord, I haven't played chess for a long time."
"What does it matter?" Oda Nobunaga smiled disdainfully, "The final of Go will be played in front of the Emperor. If no one can reach the final in the competition held by our Oda family, or
If you lose in front of His Majesty the Emperor, just wait and see!"
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After being given the death order, Yu Qiuping immediately bought chess pieces and chess boards in a grocery store in Kyoto in a panic, and found all the people around him who knew how to play Go to provide him with training. The first one he found was Takenaka Shigeharu.
"Your Highness, it is of course an honor for me to play chess with His Highness." Takenaka Shigeharu said with a somewhat embarrassed smile, "I'm just sorry to say that I have seen the game of handicap chess between Your Highness and the Second Young Master. Your Highness's chess skills are far beyond recognition.
On top of me. Your Highness is trying to practice chess with me. I’m afraid it’s all in vain.”
The second person he found was Ii Naotora. And Ii Naotora also gave a similar answer to Takenaka Shigeharu.
"To be honest, I have been learning chess for many years, but compared with His Highness, I am like a frog in the well." Ii Naotora said with great envy: "His Highness's layout, combat, calculation, and grasp of life and death and chess patterns.
They have all reached the pinnacle. I have never seen anyone stronger than His Highness. Back then, in the Imagawa family, I was extremely talented in governing the headquarters. I had not made a single defeat in more than ten years, but I was evenly matched by His Highness. This is evident from the strength of Your Highness.
.”
The third person Yu Qiuping found was Imagawa Kaede, but the latter refused more decisively.
"Ping, you are such a deceitful liar. When you started playing chess with me, you deliberately let me win to make me happy." Imagawa Kaede became angry when he thought of this incident. "Later I found out that you are so good. You took me with you."
With the set of formulas and techniques I learned in my previous life, who can beat you? Even Jia Yan can’t beat you, so I don’t want to play with you!”
Several people in his family were unwilling to play with Yu Qiupei, so Yu Qiupei had to find a few partners such as Niwa Nagahide, Mori Katsunari, Ikeda Tsuneki, and Maeda Toshiie. But they didn't play two or three games, and they all couldn't play.
Don't want to anymore.
"This is too strong..." Ikeda Hengxing searched hard on the chessboard, but couldn't find how many live chess pieces he still had. "Hongye, I am considered a top player in the Oda family, and you actually killed me."
No scraps of armor are left."
"You are a top expert, stop bragging." Maeda Toshiie laughed sarcastically, "You didn't even fight Young Master Qijimaru last time, so you still have the nerve to call yourself a top expert?"
"That's not to make the young master happy!" Ikeda Hengxing blushed suddenly and hit Maeda Toshiie hard on the head.
"Your face looked like pig liver at that time. Why didn't I see that you were trying to make the young master happy?" Maeda Toshiie laughed wildly again, making Ikeda Tsuneaki so angry that he wanted to beat him up.
"At Momiji's level, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a national player in the world." After watching the chess for a long time, Mori Katsunari said sincerely. "I'm afraid there is no opponent in the Oda family."
"Yes, with our level, playing chess with Momiji may not be helpful." Niwa Nagahide said with a helpless smile, "Hongye might as well try playing chess with herself, maybe it will be more beneficial?"
"Myself and myself
…Do you want to play?" Yu Qiuping muttered with some hesitation. Many good Go players rely on surprise and unpreparedness. But if you are playing against yourself, wouldn't you be able to clearly predict the opponent's next move?
However, there was no other good way at the moment. Yu Qiuping had no choice but to lock himself in a small room and practice hard in seclusion for three days, hoping to regain his previous level.
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On December 23, the chess competition was held as scheduled on several lawns outside the palace. It was said to be a competition in front of the emperor, but the emperor actually only came out to inspect once every morning and afternoon, and only the finals were watched in full.
In order to make the competition grand, Oda Nobunaga not only sent invitations to famous chess players, but also all samurai from the Oda family and the Oda family's allies were allowed to participate. If he can reach the finals, he will have a good reputation.
What an opportunity - this is something that many samurai would never dare to think about, so they all participated enthusiastically, and the total number of participants reached an unprecedented number of more than a thousand.
The competition adopts the form of a knockout round. The loser will leave automatically and the winner will wait for the next round. Every morning and afternoon, two rounds of competition are held. A large number of chessboards and tatami mats are spread out on the grass outside the palace.
It looks quite spectacular from a high place. This year's winter is relatively warm, otherwise the competition would not be held outdoors.
When he sat down in front of the chessboard, Yu Qiuping still felt a little uneasy. His opponent seemed to be a samurai from the Isshiki family, and he came with several of his companions. Listening to their chat, it seemed that this person in front of Yu Qiuping
He is still the strongest among them and is also a famous chess player in Tango.
However, as soon as he got up, Yu Qiuping realized that the praise given to him by his subordinates and colleagues might not be a compliment. This Tango boss had already begun to lose his temper before he had played thirty moves with Yu Qiuping. In the end,
At the sixty-fifth move, he surrendered with a sad face. After only sixty-five moves, he had already been killed by Yu Qiuping for two pieces.
Immediately after the second round, Yu Qiuping quickly eliminated his opponent before the middle game started. This was the case in the third and fourth rounds. On the first day of the game, no one could compete with Yu Qiuping until the end of the middle game.
, they all surrendered. At the beginning, they were already suppressed by Yu Qiuping's set style and overall view. Every time Yu Qiuping took the lead, they were led around in embarrassment, and the rhythm was completely controlled by Yu Qiuping.
. And when Yu Qiuping finds a chance to fight, he will take action decisively, relying on his super actuarial ability to calculate all the changes, as long as the action never fails. Basically, with the end of the first battle, his opponent
It was already hopeless.
In the second day's competition, Yu Qiuping defeated all his opponents without encountering any resistance. In his opinion, the strength of the opponents he encountered was not even as good as before.
The opponents you encounter in the second stage are strong.
By noon on the second day of the game, the reputation of Yu Qiuping, who was wearing a red leaf shawl, had already spread among the chess players and the audience in Kyoto. Some people called him the "Red Leaf Chess Saint", while others called him "Yu Qiu Ping".
"Mid-game". So in the afternoon game, when the two players found out that they had drawn Yuqiu Hongye, they felt like they were in mourning. They resisted for a few times and then gave up.
Entering the third day of the competition, there are only 8 players left. The density of the competition has also been reduced to one game in the morning and one in the afternoon. The two winners will enter tomorrow's finals. On this day, Yu Qiuping
Finally encountering decent resistance - but it was just resistance, he still entered the finals without any suspense.
Only now did Yu Qiuping finally realize how important the formulas, actuarial calculations and layouts he brought from his previous life were. He was just an amateur fifth-dan level, and in his time he could catch a lot of them, but back in ancient times,
He already had few opponents. He originally thought that the Japanese Go masters were about the same level as Imagawa Yoshimoto back then, so he thought he was not that strong. But now it seems that Imagawa Yoshimoto is actually ridiculously strong.
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December 26, Go
The imperial competition was held in the chess room specially built by Oda Nobunaga. The two players sat on both sides of the chess board, while the Emperor Masachimachi sat on the side and watched the chess. In the magnificent chess room, there were also many people sitting
The big names who came to watch the game include Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Asai Nagamasa, Matsunagahide and many other famous figures, as well as Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Hosokawa Fujitaka and other shogunate dignitaries as well as the emperor's courtiers.
Outside the four doors of the chess room, there are four huge chessboards hanging high, with a large number of black and white chess nails prepared on both sides. There will be special clerks who rush back and forth between the chess room and the chessboards outside to record the final results.
The chess game was written down and placed on the big chessboard outside for everyone to watch. The imperial competition is a grand ceremony that only happens once in a century. There are so many famous people and the palace ministers participating in it, which makes it hard for people who love fun to refuse. Come and watch.
The people playing the chess game include people from all walks of life in Kyoto and even Kinki. The chess room is crowded with people. Kinki has not been so lively for many years.
Before the game started, Emperor Masachikachi appeared in front of the fair and announced that he would change his name to "Motogame" next year. The emperor's appearance attracted a tsunami of cheers from the outside of the chessboard. This event attracted so much attention
The grand chess game is destined to go down in history as the famous "Yonglu Imperial Competition" in later generations.
Since it is the final, the pace will naturally not be as fast as the previous games, and Yu Qiuping also showed full spirit. However, this will not have any impact on the overall situation. Opposite Yu Qiuping is a famous Go player from Yamato.
.However, after facing off against Yu Qiuping, he seemed to be unable to do anything he could with ease before. Yu Qiuping could feel that this was the strongest opponent he had encountered since this competition, but it was only at the level of amateur third or fourth level.
If he gave him two pieces, it would be a 50-50 draw. But since it was an equal match, there was no suspense. When the chess player was sweating profusely, Yu Qiuping still had time to pay attention to the expression on the face of Emperor Masachikamachi.
Expressions and conversations between Oda Nobunaga, Asai Nagamasa and others.
During the moves on the field, the hearts of the people outside the field were also affected. Every time the clerk hurried out, there would be bursts of cheers from the people watching the game outside. Starting from the twenty-fifth move, Yu Qiuping had already
He took the initiative on the court. Every time Yu Qiuping made a move, the player opposite him was forced to fall into a long test. While Yu Qiuping was thinking about it, he calculated the next change in advance, so that every time his opponent
As soon as it falls, Yu Qiuping's response will follow immediately - the clerk doesn't even have to make two trips.
It went on like this until the middle of the game. As white's dragon was successfully strangled, the Yamato flag player holding white had no choice but to surrender. Throughout the game, he was unable to capture even one of Yu Qiuping's pieces.
No, not a single abandoned child. Such a strong control and huge disparity in strength actually happened in the finals of the Imperial Competition, which shows how powerful Yu Qiuping is.
After Emperor Masachimachi saw the overall situation, he admired Amakihei's chess skills and said: "This boy is a celebrity in the world!" - The title of "celebrity" in Japanese Go was born because of this, and Amakihei also became the Japanese Go player.
The first chess player in the world to win the title of celebrity. In later generations, celebrity means the highest power in the Go world. In later generations, a portrait of Yu Qiuping will always be hung in Go classes in China and Japan.
Show respect for this first-generation celebrity.
Later, the emperor personally climbed up to the pavilion outside the chess room and announced to all the people who came to watch the game that the winner was Ame Akihira, Ame Qiuhei from the Oda family, Ame Qiuhei's "celebrity", and the title of "Celebrity" was spread throughout the world.
Among the crowd watching the game, a little novice monk who was just ten years old was riding on the head of his senior brother, looking enviously at Yu Qiuping who was enjoying the cheers of the crowd. Every move Yu Qiuping made in the game just now made him feel like
Crazy like drunk.
"Brother, one day, I will also become a 'celebrity'! Become as great a chess player as His Highness Hongye!"
"Okay Rihai, stop making trouble. I took you out to watch chess secretly today, and the abbot will definitely scold you again. Let's sweep the floor together in the evening." The senior brother glanced at the little novice with some annoyance, and on his head
Knocked hard.
Chapter completed!