Promoting Nineteen-Line Go

Inside the Premium Coffee Gu specialty store.

Long Xuan still had no idea that he had inadvertently escaped a crisis. He was leisurely playing Go with the Chess Insect, and both sides were fully absorbed in the game.

The Chess Insect looked remarkably like a Go stone and was tiny in size. It sat at the edge of the table without seeming to make any movement, yet the stones in the Go bowl would rise into the air and drift down onto the board.

Within the quiet little shop, the crisp patter of Go stones landing on the board rang out from time to time.

That day, the Coffee Gu and coffee in the store had once again been swept clean by the frenzied crowds. Long Xuan could only close early in helplessness and play Go with this Chess Insect.

The Chess Insect loved playing Go. To refine it into a Board-Game Gu, there was another mandatory step: he had to play Go with it every day until he nurtured it into a master of the game.

The Go Long Xuan was playing with the Chess Insect followed the rules from his previous life, and the board was the nineteen-line board with the greatest number of intersections.

The Chess Insect was extremely interested in these novel rules of Go, its enthusiasm surpassing its former love for the game. It became addicted at once and clung to Long Xuan every day, demanding to play against him.

Unfortunately, the nineteen-line board had appeared in this world for the first time, so the Chess Insect was completely unfamiliar with it. Long Xuan, meanwhile, was an old hand steeped in the game. No matter how gifted the Chess Insect was at Go, how could it possibly be his match?

Every game, Long Xuan slaughtered