Just like when the Japanese chess players visited the Tang Dynasty, the first three rounds of chess played by the chess players of the Tang Dynasty in the chess academy became an honorable battle that touched the nerves of the whole people.
Although this is not the final showdown, everyone has their own worries.
Although this Tang Dynasty chess player was extremely arrogant and young, and Master Kira had decades of Go skills, people generally believed that Master Kira would not be a match for the Tang chess player.
After all, this is a chess player who single-handedly defeated four Japanese chess players.
Even if he lost a game of chess, it was due to his own reasons and major mistakes.
To be precise, this chess player was the one who swept the Japanese chess players group that visited Datang.
The people who can be selected to join the Japanese chess team are at the pinnacle of Japanese chess, and their strength is only a hair's breadth away from the top masters.
If Master Kira wants to defeat the Tang Dynasty chess player, he can only hope that the opponent will make another major mistake in the game.
In a peak match, you have to rely on the opponent's mistakes, which in itself weakens your own momentum.
Now, it seems that we can only place our hope on the chess master who has not made a move for many years.
The name of the chess master has been praised in Japan for many years. It is said that this chess master has not lost a single game since the Immortal Game. He is the first Go master in Japan for thousands of years, and his chess skills can reach the gods.
Even Bai Song, who was hiding in the villa, had heard of the legend about the chess master.
Bai Song was also a little curious, wondering what kind of chess power this Japanese chess master had?
While the outside world was abuzz with debate about this three-game chess game, Bai Song had been studying Go in his garden with all his heart.
Bai Song knew very well that his weakness lay in the battle after the layout.
Without the natural advantages of modern formulas, entering the mid-game battle is a time of calculation and true strength.
Bai Song's weakness is the middle game, calculation, and life and death. This is a problem for amateur chess players. This is not a problem that can be compensated for by fixed formulas. All chess players have to experience the accumulation of tens of millions of games to develop a sense of chess.
Bai Song had less experience in chess games and would appear slow and make omissions in complex situations.
In this third round of chess, the opponent will definitely not give in quickly because of the huge disadvantage in the layout stage. Even if they have to hold on, they will play to the end.
So Bai Song will soon expose his disadvantages.
There is no way to make up for the disadvantages except a lot of training.
During this period, Mu Zhi and Xiao Kui became Bai Song's personal sparring partners.
As they got to know Bai Song more and more deeply, the two sparring partners gradually discovered Bai Song's huge shortcomings.
In terms of layout and middle game, Bai and Song are simply two different people.
In the layout stage, Bai Song was the invincible God of War. No one in the world could gain an advantage in Bai Song's layout.
In the mid-game battle, Bai Song is a complete novice, at least not a professional chess player. He will quickly lose the advantage accumulated in the early stage in a short period of time.
In the Guanzi stage, Bai Song can find some feeling again. Although it is not as invincible as in the layout stage, it is not as stretched as in the middle game.
It is easy to explain that the strength of the Guanzi stage is ahead of the current chess player, because the changes in Guanzi are not that big, but more about the sequence of choices.
In modern Go books, as long as you memorize the above formulas and use them, you can be ahead of the current players.
In the first two days, after Mu Zhi and Xiao Kui played a complete game of chess with Bai Song, they both gave up hope in the third round of chess and felt that it would be difficult for Bai Song to win against Yuan Jiliang.
As long as Minamoto Kira stabilizes the disadvantage of the layout, there will be many opportunities to reverse the disadvantage in the middle game.
But two days later, the two sparring partners discovered that the situation had changed unknowingly, from a collapse in the middle game to a smooth transition. Both sparring partners found that their wins against Bai Song were getting smaller and smaller each time, and they had gone from losing hundreds to hundreds.
From losing dozens of meshes to losing more than ten meshes...
On the fifth day, both sparring partners found that they could only win within ten points of Bai Song.
At first, both Mu Zhi and Xiao Kui thought it was because they were not serious.
In the subsequent chess game, both sparring partners became serious and did not relax at all.
The result was unexpected. His old apprentice Mu Zhi lost the first game even though he was 100% serious. He only lost half an eye, but he still lost.
After Mu Zhi lost the first game, he never won another game against Bai Song.
Winning or losing from half a goal quickly expanded to more than ten goals, and even the mid-game battle almost lost its advantage.
Only Xiaokui could definitely beat Bai Song by one or two eyes, and only by one or two eyes.
Because Xiaokui is young and has better calculation skills than her grandfather, her chess skills are naturally not comparable to her grandfather's.
Seven days passed in a blink of an eye. Bai Song couldn't remember how many games he had played. Mu Zhi was no longer Bai Song's opponent.
Although Bai Song in his previous life was just an amateur chess player, he had completed the basic training of Go and had his own understanding of the game.
What Bai Song was unfamiliar with was his own sense of chess. Through continuous games, it was not difficult to find his sense of chess.
There is no doubt about Bai Song's learning ability, otherwise he would not have reached a level in medicine that his peers could not achieve.
After seven days of training, Bai Song not only regained his sense of Go, but even improved his chess skills.
There is already a sea of people inside and outside the Kyoto City Chess Academy, and everyone is looking forward to today's peak showdown.
The Chess Academy has gathered all the big names inside and outside Kyoto, and its level of attention has even surpassed that of the Tang Dynasty.
However, Bai Song did not go out for a long time. The agreed time was noon, and there was still an hour left for the chess game to start.
In the Bieyuan, everyone except Bai Song seemed very nervous. After all, it was a matter related to the honor of the Tang Dynasty.
Only Bai Song was relaxed and at ease. During these seven days of training, although the gap between him and Xiao Kui continued to shrink, Bai Song never defeated Xiao Kui in a single round.
When he was about to participate in the peak game, Bai Song called Xiaokui: "Do you want to play another game?"
"Now?" Xiaokui was stunned.
Bai Song nodded.
"But it's going to be the third round of chess soon, and it's already getting late."
"It doesn't matter, this time is enough for our next round."
"this……"
"I haven't beaten you yet, so I don't believe I can't beat you."
Bai Song didn't give Xiaokui time, he had already sat down at the chessboard and took the first step.
An hour before going to the chess court, Bai Song played another game with Xiaokui.
In this game of chess, Bai Song was in excellent condition, and it was the best game he had ever played in these days.
But he still lost this game. It was the game with the smallest gap between him and Xiaokui, and he only lost half an eye.
Xiaokui felt a little emotional: "You are making progress every day. It's really terrible. I only lost half an eye in this round. I'm afraid I won't be able to beat you in the next round. It's a pity... If I give you one more day, maybe