After being defeated by Qingmei, I became a top player

Chen Shuren felt that Yuzhou was not much different from Qingzhou, except for his hobbies.

On the second day after arriving in Yuzhou, Chen Shuren got up early in the morning and went out for a walk.

As soon as we arrived at the park, we saw people playing chess in groups of three or five everywhere.

If Chen Shuren didn't know the situation in Yuzhou, he would have thought it was a small street stall that gave ten yuan if you won and five yuan if you lost.

Out of curiosity, Chen Shuren also went to take a look.

Most of the uncles play Go, and a small number play chess. From this we can see that Yuzhou is more inclined towards Go.

However, Chen Shuren can only understand chess. If Gobang is considered Go, then Chen Shuren is proficient in it.

After looking for a while, Chen Shuren continued walking because he couldn't understand it.

"The air in Yuzhou is pretty good, much better than in Jizhou."

Compared with the reinforced concrete in Jizhou, there is much more green here in Yuzhou.

There is a natural river running through a small park, which can only be seen in specific projects in Jizhou.

breathe~breath~
After taking a few deep breaths, Chen Shuren was about to walk back when he suddenly heard a voice.

"Hey, boy, what's up?"

Chen Shuren turned his head and saw an old man sitting next to a small stone table, looking at him.

"Master, you called me?"

"Yes, is there anything? Can you play a couple of games?"

The old man pointed at the black and white chessboard on the stone table and asked with a smile.

Chen Shuren smiled awkwardly: "Uncle, I don't know how to get off."

The old man was obviously stunned when he heard this.

will not?

Shouldn’t playing Go be a compulsory course for people in Yuzhou since childhood?
Even if you have been a scoundrel since childhood, it is impossible to say that you don't know how to play.

The old man thought that Chen Shuren was making up an excuse because he didn't want to make any progress, and he immediately became unhappy.

"You are such a dishonest boy. If you don't want to play, then forget it. But why did you come up with such a lame excuse?"

When Chen Shuren saw that the old man looked unhappy, he immediately knew that he had misunderstood.

"Uncle, I'm not kidding you, I just came from another state."

"what?"

The old man was dumbfounded.

This early in the morning, his old rival got up late and hasn't arrived yet.

I wanted to just pick someone to play with, but I ended up picking someone from another state who doesn't know how to play Go. My luck was really bad.

"Oh, I see. I misunderstood. Sorry."

The old man nodded.

"fine."

Chen Shuren smiled, turned around and prepared to leave.

"Hey, young man, are you okay? If not, I'll teach you how to play chess!"

Chen Shuren didn't expect the old man to be so persistent and insist on holding him, who didn't know how to play Go, accountable.

I was about to refuse, but then I thought about it and realized that the purpose of "Run Together" was to promote the culture of each state.

Chess is the cultural symbol of Yuzhou. If you know how to play chess, maybe you can add some Go elements to the subsequent planning, which will be acceptable to the management of Yuzhou.

It's impossible to come to Yuzhou to shoot "Let's Run Together". All you'll end up doing is running around and visiting tourist attractions. The publicity effect will be too poor.

So Chen Shuren turned around and walked towards the old man.

"Uncle, please don't find me annoying."

Seeing Chen Shuren agree, Li Shuheng's face lit up with joy.

"No, no, it's good enough that you can accompany me."

Little did people know that Li Shuheng’s favorite thing was to teach people how to play chess.

Otherwise, no one would know about his amateur eighth-dan strength.

After Chen Shuren sat down, Li Shuheng thought about it and decided that he should first give him some basic knowledge about Go. Otherwise, this kid wouldn't understand what level my amateur eighth dan is, so wouldn't that be like talking to a cow?

"Boy, let me tell you about the Go rankings in Yuzhou."

When Chen Shuren heard this, he also said that he would like to listen.

"In Yuzhou, the level of Go is amateur and professional. Professional Go players have nine levels, with the first level being the lowest and the ninth level being the highest."

"Amateur players are divided into different levels, from level 25 to level 1, from first dan to eighth dan, and the level from weak to strong is roughly like this."

Chen Shuren nodded and asked curiously, "Aren't there any amateur 9th dan players?"

"No, this is to distinguish it from professionals and to give respect to professional chess players. Otherwise, if you, an amateur, sound like you are at the same level as professionals, wouldn't the professionals lose face?"

Li Shuheng explained with a smile.

Chen Shuren nodded. If you think this way, you can understand it.

There are nine levels of professional chess players, which means that the upper limit of professional chess players is higher than that of amateurs.

If you are really strong, you can take part in professional competitions.

"How does amateur 8th dan compare to professional 8th dan?"

Chen Shuren asked.

Li Shuheng coughed dryly.

"In fact, if we really compare amateur chess players with professional chess players, there is still a gap. After all, they are specialized in this field. We can't compare our hobbies with their professions, right?"

Seeing Chen Shuren nod, Li Shuheng continued, "So an amateur 8th dan is roughly the same level as a professional 3rd or 4th dan."

"Of course, this is just a normal situation. There are people who are extremely talented but do not want to become professional chess players. Their amateur 8th dan may be at the level of professional 5th dan, 6th dan, or even 7th dan."

"There were people like this in Yuzhou. At that time..."

Li Shuheng seemed to be interested and talked a lot to Chen Shuren, but before he finished, his chess friend arrived.

"Uh……"

Li Shuheng's voice suddenly stopped. He looked at his chess friend Zhang Zhongyi, then at Chen Shuren, and suddenly his face was filled with embarrassment.

"Old Zhang, wait a moment. I'll teach this young man to play two games, and then we'll continue."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Zhongyi looked at Chen Shuren in surprise and sat down next to him.

"Well, then I have to keep an eye on you and not let you mislead the students."

Li Shuheng was unhappy with Zhang Zhongyi’s words.

"How did I mislead the students? My son is a fifth-dan professional and my grandson is a second-dan professional. Aren't they all taught by me?"

Seeing Li Shuheng staring, Zhang Zhongyi smiled and replied, "Ah, yes, yes, you teach me quickly."

When Li Shuheng heard this, he wanted to smash the black chess piece in his hand onto Zhang Zhongyi's face.

With a lot of anger, Li Shuheng began to teach Chen Shuren how to play chess.

Fortunately, although Chen Shuren didn't know how to play, he had a good understanding and quickly mastered some basic knowledge, which made Li Shuheng enjoy the pleasure of teaching people.

After playing for an hour, Chen Shuren smiled as he looked at the skill [Beginner's Guide to Go] that appeared on the panel.

"Uncle, I think it's getting late. You can go with this uncle. I have to go back."

Li Shuheng originally wanted to teach a few more moves, but after hearing what Chen Shuren said, he said with some regret:
"That's fine, but if you have time, I'll be here every morning. By the way, there's also a Yuzhou Go platform online. If you have nothing to do, you can check it out."

"Got it. Thank you, sir."

After Chen Shuren finished speaking, he nodded to Zhang Zhongyi beside him, then turned and left.

After Chen Shuren left, Zhang Zhongyi sat in Chen Shuren's seat.

"Who is that young man? Where is he from?"

"We just met by chance. He said he was from another state. I guess he'll be gone in a few days."

Li Shuheng said.

"Oh? From another state, then Old Li, you have contributed a lot to the popularization of Go in Yuzhou, hahaha."

Zhang Zhongyi laughed.

"True, but that kid has a very high level of comprehension. If he had started learning since he was young, he might have become a professional first or second dan chess player now. What a pity."

"That's enough. No matter how good your comprehension is, if you don't have anyone to teach you how to play Go in this out-of-state environment, your growth will be limited."

Li Shuheng thought about it and felt that it made sense.

You can't become a professional nine-dan Go player just by studying on your own. Even the current artificial intelligence chess master in Yuzhou has been able to defeat all opponents in Yuzhou based on the big data of chess games in Yuzhou over the years.

Thinking of the artificial intelligence chess master, Li Shuheng sighed.

"I don't know what people are thinking nowadays. They insist on creating an artificial intelligence chess player. Can a person's brain compare to a machine? Isn't this discouraging the enthusiasm of Yuzhou people to learn chess?"

Zhang Zhongyi tends to agree with Li Shuheng's point of view on this matter.

"Who said it wasn't true? It is said that since the emergence of the artificial intelligence chess master, there have been fewer children learning Go in the past two years. Some people even say that learning to play Go is not as good as learning computers..."

"Hey!"

Li Shuheng sighed.

"But I heard that Ke Bai Jiudan is going to challenge the AI ​​chess master again soon."

"Oh? You have perseverance."

Li Shuheng nodded.

Ke Bai, 9th dan, is the strongest chess player in Yuzhou. Two years ago, the artificial intelligence chess master was just born and defeated all professional chess players below 9th dan. It was Ke Bai who made the move and defeated the artificial intelligence.

But who would have thought that just one year later, when Ke Bai played against the artificial intelligence chess player again, he was no match for him.

At that time, Ke Bai had just won the first place in the Yuzhou Professional Chess Player Competition and became recognized as the most powerful ninth-dan.

But this person played three games against the artificial intelligence chess player and lost all three games.

It was at that time that the artificial intelligence chess player was renamed the artificial intelligence chess master!

Since then, Ke Bai has challenged the artificial intelligence chess master once a month.

"Who says it's not true? But I think it would be better for Ke Bai to challenge him once a year. After all, the more he plays against the AI ​​chess master, the more it understands Ke Bai."

"Hey, there's nothing we can do about it."

As they talked, they began the game.

……

After returning to the hotel, Chen Shuren talked with Tang Yingcheng about Yuzhou Go and wanted to add Go elements to the planning.

Unexpectedly, Tang Yingcheng knew something about this.

"There are two popular Go directions in Yuzhou now, one is artificial intelligence and the other is traditional Go players."

"If you want to plan this, I think you should choose a direction and see whether to support artificial intelligence or traditional chess players."

Chen Shuren was stunned.

"artificial intelligence?"

"right……"

Tang Yingcheng told Chen Shuren some things about the Go industry in Yuzhou.

After hearing this, Chen Shuren also fell into deep thought.

Logically speaking, as an emerging industry, artificial intelligence is certainly hot, and it will definitely receive a lot of attention if it is included in "Let's Run Together: Yuzhou Chapter".

But Chen Shuren felt that compared to those cold machines, people were warmer.

For example, the old man I met in the park this morning.

If it were a machine, Chen Shuren would definitely not be invited.

"Okay, I see. Let me learn more about it first."

Chen Shuren said so.

After returning to his room, he turned on the computer and entered the Yuzhou Go platform that the old man told him.

"Hmm...are all those who just entered amateur level 25?"

Chen Shuren was curious and clicked match.

A whole morning passed, and it was not until Tang Yingcheng came to call Chen Shuren to eat that Chen Shuren finally took his eyes off the computer screen.

Then look at your own rank.

Amateur level 22, ten games, seven wins and three losses.

Chen Shuren was somewhat dissatisfied.

After lunch, Chen Shuren quietly upgraded from [Go·Beginner's Level] to [Go·Mastery]...

Another afternoon passed.

Chen Shuren's rank went from amateur level 22 to amateur level 15, with a record of ten wins and no losses.

Seeing this record, Chen Shuren nodded with satisfaction, then closed the Go platform page and opened the typing interface.

Originally, Chen Shuren was planning to code "Journey to the West" today, but once he started playing Go, he couldn't stop.

Fortunately, I didn't lose a single game in the afternoon, otherwise Chen Shuren might have to go to [Go Mastery] tonight.

In one night, Chen Shuren wrote twenty chapters.

After thinking about it, he sent it directly to Chen Shuangxue.

"Journey to the West" can be divided into volumes according to the plot, so there is no need to write it all at once.

……

In Qingzhou, when Chen Shuangxue was about to go to bed, she received a message from Chen Shuren.

I looked at the time, it was eleven o'clock.

"Just watch it for an hour and continue tomorrow."

Chen Shuangxue thought so.

Then, when Chen Shuangxue put down the computer and looked out the window again, the sky was already turning white.

After a moment of silence, Chen Shuangxue washed up and went to the company.

"Mengmeng, call Qingyu over."

"Ok!"

Li Mengmeng looked at Chen Shuangxue strangely. It seemed that Sister Xue was not in a good mood today?
"Editor-in-Chief, you're looking for me?"

Qingyu walked in and asked.

He had been in Wan Gu for two days and had signed two books for Wan Gu through his previous resources. However, compared to an editor who would sign at least ten books a day, two books was too few.

Even though Chen Shuangxue said there was no rush, Qingyu still felt a little anxious.

"Well, the manuscript of the book I told you to follow last time has been sent over. Take a look at it today and correct the typos... It's a little difficult, so take your time."

"okay……"

Qingyu sighed inwardly.

Just correcting typos?

Sure enough, even if you have been here for eternity, you still have to start from the beginning.

Back at his workstation, Qingyu opened the email from Chen Shuangxue in the internal mailbox.

"Journey to the West? Isn't it a story about a monkey? Is it written from the monkey's perspective?"

Qingyu didn't understand what was going on, so he clicked on the email without an author's name and started reading it.

"Chapter 1: The spiritual roots nurture the source of life, and the mind and nature are cultivated to give birth to the great way"

Looking at this title, Qingyu felt much better. At least it was a fantasy novel, not realistic.

So he continued reading.

"The poem says:

"In the chaos before the heaven and earth were divided, it was so vast and unseen that no one could see it."

"Since Pangu broke through the chaos of the universe, the world has been clear and turbid."

"All living things look to the Supreme Benevolence, and all things are created for the good."

"If you want to know the power of creation, you must read Journey to the West."

"Well, it's a bit level..."

Qingyu's back straightened a little.

When he looked down again, sweat began to break out on his forehead.

Chen Shuangxue's words, "It's a bit difficult, take your time," echoed in his head.

"How is this a bit difficult?"

...(End of chapter)