The Great Dao Leads to Heaven
Chapter 137

A Fine Hand at the Abacus

1,455 words5 min read0 views6h ago
Next

This question is very difficult to answer.

Others don't even understand.

Tong Yan knows, Jing Jiu must understand.

Knowing that Jing Jiu was going to challenge himself on Plum Gathering, he went to read the game records of Four Seas Banquet.

He would not give this kind of attention to other challengers, even those famous National Go Master.

What he attaches importance to is that Jing Jiu is a disciple of the Green Mountain Sect.

Green Mountain disciples has never liked music, chess, calligraphy and painting, which is very different from the Zhongzhou Sect, but those who occasionally dabble in this field will show amazing talents, such as the current Qingrong Peak Master Nan Wang.

The more important reason is that Jing Jiu is Disciple of a Disciple of True Person Jingyang.

After reading the chess records on Four Seas Banquet, Tong Yan did not pay attention to Jing Jiu, but instead felt a lot of displeasure.

Just like how Xiang Wanshu felt back then.

They had never seen such an ugly person playing chess.

If the Way of Go has schools, then there have been two schools since ancient times.

Those who play chess like Jing Jiu are classified as Hard-Fought School, blindly calculating all kinds of gains and losses.

Tong Yan completely cannot accept this method of playing chess that has no aesthetic value and relies on brute force to win.

True Person Jingyang's Disciple of a Disciple, how could this be possible?

Tong Yan asked Jing Jiu if he could understand his chess, just to tell him that this is not how chess is played.

Can you predict my every response? Can you predict my next move every time?

Jing Jiu did not answer Tong Yan's question.

This seems to prove Tong Yan's idea.

"I just said these people don't deserve to play chess here, but you do too."

Tong Yan stood up, looked at him and said, "Because you are not playing chess, you are making an abacus."

While speaking, he looked down at Jing Jiu, his eyebrows appeared lighter, and his eyes were higher than the top of his head, which was even more unbearable.

What's more, the sentence itself is extremely mean.

The crowd was a little restless.

Above the Way of Go, Tong Yan is qualified to comment on anyone.

The moment before, he easily defeated the current number one National Go Master Scholar Guo in the middle game.

But his evaluation of Jing Jiu was really too sharp. You must know that the other party is Green Mountain disciples.

"Some time ago, when you broke off Guo Nanshan's sword, you used calculation, just like your chess-playing style."

Tong Yan said, "I want to tell you today that calculations will never come true Great Dao."

Zhao Layue Listening on the other side of the street, I realized why this person spoke so rudely.

It turns out to be the same reason why Luo Huainan spoke in Plum Garden.

Guo Nanshan traveled abroad all year round and made friends with countless heroes. Even Zhongzhou Sect's geniuses wanted to fight for him.

You must know that the relationship between the Zhongzhou Sect and Green Mountain Sect is far from close.

This has nothing to do with his Green Mountain Sect Chief Disciple identity. It is naturally because of his extraordinary magnanimity and behavior.

"The abacus is infinitely more complicated than playing chess."

Jing Jiu stood up, looked at Tong Yan and said, "I think there is no difference between playing chess and Mahjong. They are both Game, but they require some calculations."

There was an uproar, and many people were very angry, thinking how can these two things be compared? Even the stall owners who were pushed to the distance were not Qi Ingestion, thinking how they could be related to gambling stuff like Mahjong. Although people like them also make money from gambling, they are doing elegant things, and they can't even be counted as cheating!

Tong Yan sneered and said, "You can exhaust all changes with your own Computational Power? Don't you even understand the infinity of Great Dao?"

Jing Jiu said, "Universe is infinite, so naturally it cannot be calculated completely, but Go Board is only thirty-eight lines and three hundred and sixty-one points, so why can't it be calculated completely?"

Tong Yan said, "You can't even figure out my next step, so why bother talking about it?"

Jing Jiu said, "No one can calculate every move of the opponent, because the opponent may not know it himself."

Tong Yan naturally does not agree with this statement.

Just like this game of chess, no matter where Scholar Guo lands, he has prepared several excellent responses.

How could I not know how to make my next move?

Jing Jiu tapped Go Board with his fingertips, then picked up a Black Go Stone and placed it somewhere on Go Board.

"You have your way, I have mine, each goes his own way. If you insist on proving me wrong, Plum Gathering will let me do it after you win."

After saying this, he put away Bamboo Chair, turned around, walked to the other side of the street, and left with Zhao Layue.

Tong Yan withdrew his gaze and looked at Go Board.

The eyes of many onlookers also fell at the same time.

Then there were discussions and chuckles.

The place where the Black Go Stone fell actually blocked a large area of his chess piece.

"Isn't this nonsense?"

After all, Four Seas Banquet Chess Battle is number one. No one thinks that Jing Jiu can't play chess.

Then there are only two possible explanations for Jing Jiu's behavior.

He killed a large area of his own chess pieces, and Tong Yan's response was naturally different from what he had thought in advance, which proved what he just said.

--No one can fully calculate the opponent's response, including himself.

But what's the point of such a proof?

To admit defeat this way and leave without losing face?

People thought this response was quite witty, so they smiled kindly.

Tong Yan did not smile and looked at Go Board silently.

Scholar Guo didn't smile either, and looked at Go Board thoughtfully.

He had played the previous game of chess, so he naturally understood it very thoroughly and profoundly.

What they were looking at was not the black Chess Piece, but another Go Board.

Before Jing Jiu left, he tapped Go Board with his fingers, right here.

I don't know how much time passed, but Scholar Guo said with emotion, "It's amazing."

Tong Yan said expressionlessly, "It's pretty good."

Zhao Layue can't play chess, but she also knows that Jing Jiu's move was suicide.

It was true suicide, not jumping off Cliff. There would be no miracles happening, no sudden change of circumstances. Black Stones turned defeat into victory because it had new space.

Most of that kind of strange situation is recorded in stories and will rarely happen in the real world, not to mention that his opponent is the strongest the Way of Go in the world.

So what is the deep meaning of Jing Jiu doing this?

Jing Jiu said, "He definitely didn't expect that I would go like this, so he definitely didn't expect what his next step would be."

Zhao Layue thought that Little Child was just out of anger, and sighed, "Is this interesting?"

Jing Jiu said, "I just want to tell him that you can never completely judge your opponent's thoughts by just relying on imagination and intuition. After all, you still need to calculate all possibilities."

Zhao Layue thought about Tong Yan's previous words and asked, "Can you really account for all the changes in Go Board?"

Jing Jiu said, "Not all calculations need to have results. Sometimes we just need some numbers to help choose the direction of chess, but it is of course the best thing if we can calculate everything clearly. The chess book you bought me talked about momentum, beauty, shape, and space. Many people also believe this, but it is just because they can't calculate clearly."

Zhao Layue thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's true, but it sounds a little uncomfortable and cold."

Jing Jiu looked at Night Sky and said, "Because we are humans who are good at using beautiful words and definitions to comfort ourselves, and the world is like this."

(I won't list those beautiful words and definitions one by one.)

End of Chapter
Prev
NovelSummaries
Next

Explore the wiki

Comments