After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

Chapter 346 345. Digging roots
The root that Zhao Chikun pursued was naturally not the so-called two-eye live chess piece. No matter what kind of chess piece it was, he had to mark out two eyes.

Theoretically speaking, the two eyes are of course the strongest root. After all, with two eyes you can never die, unless you kill yourself. You can be called truly immortal.

But if every chess piece must be formed into a shape that looks like it will come to life immediately, then the efficiency would be too low.

If you maintain this mindset, your efficiency will not even be able to maintain a professional level, let alone become the world's top-notch.

That can no longer be described as a pipe dream. If you keep this weird idea, you won't even be able to defeat Eagle.

Therefore, Zhao Chikun has his own set of criteria for judging the roots of Go.

Now, in his opinion, the big dragon in the lower right corner has already taken root, so he is not worried at all that Zhan Lang can threaten his big dragon.

Because in his opinion, the chess with roots is indestructible! Zhan Lang's threat to his lower right corner is not worth mentioning unless he can move continuously.

Now that he has roots here, Zhao Chikun will plant the seeds in other places in Zhanlang!

Facing Zhao Chikun who forced his way in, Zhan Lang naturally did not hesitate at all and counterattacked directly.

Zhao Chikun, who had broken in from this side, naturally had a series of continuous thoughts in his mind. Without any hesitation, he immediately went up and when Zhan Lang was trying to attack, he directly and forcefully cut off the attack.

After seeing Zhao Chikun's series of actions, Zhan Lang seemed to understand why Fang Yuan and the others had evaluated Zhao Chikun in such an extreme way.

Bro, you seem to be taking it a bit extreme.

Although I know you are good at surviving in the cracks and bursting out from other people's control.

But my place is so small, how dare you come in? I will definitely crush you to death.
Zhao Chikun's series of actions could be said to be too cruel, and it even felt a bit like bullying.

No, even if it was bullying, it wouldn't be so excessive. Zhan Lang would usually do this when he bullied his three apprentices. But Zhao Chikun dared to show off such a cool move in a duel of the same level.

I have to say that he is both courageous and confident, and probably has been successful before, so he dares to go further.

After all, if the other party succeeds in bullying you like this, it would be hard to accept it in your heart.

It's like you are a rich second-generation and you spend a lot of money on a female anchor, but she ignores you and then you turn around and give your love to a yellow-haired anchor. Who can stand this?

But how could Zhan Lang let Zhao Chikun control him? He immediately saw the strongest response and forced to eat after the fight.

In this situation, Zhan Lang directly counterattacked and Zhao Chikun was unable to move.

Since you have chosen to go too far, you must be able to bear the consequences of going too far.

Seeing the result in front of him, Zhao Chikun frowned slightly, because he had thought that the infiltration would bring some gains, but now he has trapped himself.

However, this result was basically within his expectations.

Since he would make such an extreme move, it is impossible that Zhao Chikun did not think about the consequences.

After all, if you walk by the river often, you will get your feet wet. There will always be winners, but it is impossible for you to win all the time.

In other words, Zhao Chikun has experienced more extreme backlash from more extreme moves more than once or twice.

So the battle-hardened Zhao Chikun immediately adjusted his mood, stared at the entire board and began to think about the next direction of his move.

After carefully looking at the entire arrangement, Zhao Chikun couldn't help but touch his afro-like hairstyle.

It’s a bit difficult now!

How should I put it? My overall situation doesn't seem to be very good right now, and I'm lacking this thing in many areas.

Now Zhan Lang still has the means to pull out the pieces on the left, plus the upper right was hit by Zhan Lang before, causing the black pieces on the table to be in certain life-and-death risk.

It’s not easy to get off. It’s not easy to get off.

Even Zhao Chikun, an expert in life and death, felt a headache when faced with so many problems.

Looking at Zhao Chikun, who was sitting opposite him and started tapping his head with his hands and even making noises, Zhan Lang didn't feel surprised. He just moved his butt back in the chair to a more comfortable position.

To some extent, Zhan Lang and Zhao Chikun are more relaxed when playing chess, because most Japanese players are too rigid during the game.

Although sitting cross-legged on a chair may seem very impolite in China, it is a daily behavior for them.

So during the game, Zhan Lang saw that the other party was sitting upright and he was reluctant to move, as he couldn't let go of his face.

However, if you really play such a long game, you will have to sit for at least three hours, and that includes the break at noon.

Otherwise, if you don't rest, this kind of game can theoretically last up to seven or eight hours. Sitting all the time is a great harm to the body.

Zhan Lang really didn't have such an iron ingot, so he had to get up and take a walk whenever he had nothing to do.

After playing chess, Zhan Lang finally understood to some extent the necessity of patrolling the field.

It's not just about walking around to empty your head that has formed fixed thinking, allowing yourself to generate more new ideas, but it's also a kind of freedom for your butt and legs. After all, sometimes your legs will go numb after doing it for three hours.

Of course, not all Japanese chess players are so well-behaved. Japanese chess players of this era still have strong individuality.

If it becomes powerful enough and there are no unified constraints on it, it can sometimes indeed catalyze the emergence of people with all kinds of personalities.

The current Japanese Go world can indeed be described as a place where a hundred flowers bloom, and everyone is seeking their own unique path forward.

Because once you reach the top-notch level, your predecessors and peers can only serve as references. The road ahead is shrouded in fog, and you have to rely on your own exploration to find the way forward.

Therefore, everyone should move forward in their own style and actively believe that their own style is correct.

Zhao Chikun was one of the more unique ones. He did not sit so straight during the game, so Zhan Lang, as his opponent, naturally did not feel as restrained as the others.

As one of the six top-notch Japanese Go players, Zhao Chikun’s first impression on Zhan Lang was not Go, but his unique appearance.

How to say it, although many Japanese chess players now have distinct personalities, among so many unique styles, Zhao Chikun's style still stands out immediately.

Zhao Chikun, who is just in his early thirties this year, doesn't know whether his hair is naturally curly or deliberately permed, forming a very unique hairstyle.

And it always feels as if he has never taken care of his hair. His hairstyle looks particularly wild, messy and ostentatious, which makes him look very individual at first glance.

If it is put in the future, people will definitely think it is Shamatte. If it starts to become older and white and gray, the Shamatte style will definitely be heavier.

Zhan Lang had clearly seen some photos before coming to Japan. When Zhao Chikun was young, he was a young man with a 3:7 split and very straight hair. He looked like a good boy, but now his hairstyle looks very wild.

I don't know if it was a genetic mutation or something else happened.

Especially when Zhao Chikun felt unhappy during a game, he often liked to hit his head, and it made a loud banging sound, which often made his originally wild hairstyle even more messy and wild.

Zhao Chikun didn't care about the way Zhan Lang stared at his hairstyle. In his opinion, his hairstyle was normal.

Zhao Chikun doesn't care even though his hair would be criticized by the barber as looking like that of a street sleeper if he didn't go to a barber shop where he often gets his hair cut.

Even if the other party dared to change his hairstyle without permission, Zhao Chikun would really get angry.

But now is not the time to talk about this. Zhao Chikun must focus all his attention on the chessboard.

For Zhao Chikun, he was taken to study in Japan by his uncle when he was six years old, and for most people, it is difficult to have one or two memorable experiences before the age of six.

Zhao Chikun has been learning Go in a foreign country since he was a child. In such a production environment, even now he can't speak Korean fluently.

Japan is not a very tolerant nation, and as a Korean, Zhao Chikun was inevitably subjected to some exclusionary behavior.

The only thing he could identify with in Japan was Go. To him, Go was as important as life.

Just like many people have said, Zhao Chikun is always playing chess with his life, and I am really afraid that he will get so excited that he will spit out blood during the game.

But precisely because of his desperate playing style, Zhao Chikun was able to turn the tables time and again even when he was in desperate situations.

Even when his opponent won three games in a row in a seven-game match, he was able to force the victory in the end because he really tried his best.

The current situation is no exception.

After thinking for a long time, Zhao Chikun clicked on the top and then went directly to the corner. While gaining solid ground, he stabilized his black chess piece in the upper left corner and let it take root.

However, Zhan Lang had already set his sights on his roots.

It's time to dig!

The big dragon in your lower right corner!
Take off first!

Move 96, White chess piece, stand!

Zhan Lang directly struck another blow at Zhao Chikun's towering dragon at the lower right. Don't you think your roots are indestructible?

Then let me get to the bottom of it!

As long as it is not an iron chess piece with two eyes, as long as it can make a few consecutive moves, it will definitely kill the opponent.

Zhan Lang has already started waving his dragon-slaying shovel and started to dig deep into Zhao Chikun's dragon.

In fact, it's not just the big dragon in the lower right corner, but Zhan Lang in the upper left corner still has the means to block it.

Although the tail of the big dragon in the upper left corner of Zhao Chikun can also be kept alive in this way.

However, once a part of the torso is separated, it is very likely to be directly cut off and attacked by entanglement. This is something that Zhao Chikun finds difficult to accept.

Although Zhao Chikun is very capable of managing orphans, it does not mean that he has nothing to do and makes trouble for himself.

It’s not possible that just because you can cure loneliness, there will be endless loneliness that can be cured.

But there is no way, Zhan Lang's chess pieces are now extremely heavy, and these heavy flavors are usually difficult to feel, and are just potential that is waiting to be unleashed.

But once the battle begins, the thickness will greatly affect the outcome of the battle, and all the flavors will be transformed into the power for a bloody massacre of the dragon.

Looking at the cold light flashing from the white chess pieces around him, Zhao Chikun knew that Zhan Lang was about to raise his butcher knife against him.

Zhao Chikun began to realize that the whole game was now falling into the opponent's rhythm.

This is a very dangerous behavior, because once you get into other people's rhythm, you may end up in a situation where you can't perform at all.

No, if this continues I’m really going to die!

We have to start moving!

Move 105, Black, click!
The purpose of Zhao Chikun's move was very simple, he just hoped that Zhan Lang could stick to him.

Because theoretically speaking, if Zhan Lang doesn't stick, once he is cut off by Zhao Chikun, the black chess pieces above will gain a lot of points. If one gains while the other loses, Zhan Lang will naturally suffer a lot.

But if Zhan Lang really stuck to him as Zhao Chikun expected, it might seem that he did not suffer any loss, but Zhao Chikun would immediately start his counterattack.

Zhao Chikun had even fully thought out the steps for his counterattack.

First force your head forward in the center, then continue. If everything goes well, Zhan Lang will have an extra burden in the middle.

Although the situation is still not particularly good even according to Zhao Chikun's most ideal picture, at least there is hope of counterattack here.

But Zhan Lang no longer cared at this time.

Suffer?

It's good to suffer a loss! It's a blessing to suffer a loss!
But I don’t know who suffered the biggest loss.

I have said before that no matter how hard the roots are, just dig a few more times and they will be fine.

So I only have one goal now!
Kill the dragon!

Keep dancing with the shovel!
Move 106, White, click!
The two moves before and now directly threatened Zhao Chikun's big dragon's breakpoint and his survival position. These two moves were a thorough root-digging shovel. Zhao Chikun deeply believed that the root of his confidence had inevitably cracked and was about to be pulled out. Zhao Chikun naturally could not ignore it.

Therefore, Zhao Chikun had to defend, otherwise once his roots were dug out, the dragon would be completely killed.

It would be too embarrassing to be killed by the opponent without any gains! Or it could be said to be an unbearable pain!
But when Zhao Chikun made up for it, Zhan Lang directly made a thick long move in the center, which not only supported the two pieces in the upper middle, but also further threatened Zhao Chikun's communication defects below.

Faced with Zhan Lang's naked threat, Zhao Chikun had no choice but to continue connecting.

Zhan Lang naturally didn't hesitate at all. He flew directly outside and completely covered Zhao Chikun's dragon in his encirclement.

Zhao Chikun could tell his current situation at a glance. The big dragon was already surrounded by Zhan Lang’s army.

The biggest problem now is life or death. If I survive, everything will be fine and there is still hope for the future.

Once killed in battle.

Even if it is only local necrosis, it is definitely a loss that one cannot afford.

So there is no way out in this area.

If you don’t succeed, you will succeed!
After thinking for nearly half an hour, Zhao Chikun organized his thoughts and finally started to make his move.

Dragon slayer, huh?

Then let me see how powerful your dragon-slaying skills are!

As someone who is known as an expert in blasting, I am still the best at dealing with orphans!

Zhao Chikun narrowed his eyes slightly, put his full attention into it, and activated his strongest mode of dealing with the isolated enemy.

A few top-notch people came over and turned off the lights, and their eyes couldn't help but narrowed.

The big one is coming.

Zhao Chikun's blasting skills in your territory.

Although all the top-notch people here have defeated Zhao Chikun before, without exception, they have all experienced being bullied by Zhao Chikun and know that disgusting feeling well.

Naturally, everyone also hopes that Zhan Lang can taste that disgusting feeling. After all, he is one of the top players in Japan, and he has to taste this feeling.

However, the situation was a little different this time. Zhan Lang was forcibly trying to snatch the chess piece from the good wife, and Zhao Chikun was forced to do so. He could only exert his full strength to save his chess piece.

Now, it depends on who has more charm!
Move 115, Black, dig!

Zhan Lang couldn't help but shook his head when he saw this move. Zhao Chikun's intention to counterattack was very strong, and it was also the strongest move locally.

But the situation has reached this point now, and it is beyond your ability to save it.

Zhao Chikun's original intention was to continue to dig at the bottom, but because Zhan Lang had too many pieces around him, Zhao Chikun's murderous aura was not even half as strong. Even if he had a lot of fun rolling the bag, it would not help the situation at all.

Therefore, Zhao Chikun had no way to use force directly, and could only try to escape from the side first. Zhan Lang directly stuck to Zhao Chikun to block his way out.

Zhao Chikun also kept struggling beside him, but Zhan Lang responded calmly. It seemed that everything Zhao Chikun did was useless for the survival of his dragon.

Zhao Chikun realized this and stopped struggling, and started to move his dragon outside.

As long as you escape the encirclement and get the advice on the left, you can still survive.

Looking at Zhao Chikun who was about to escape, Zhan Lang couldn't help but touch his chin.

Now Zhan Lang also faces a choice, one is to continue pursuing the victory, the other is to withdraw his troops.

Of course, withdrawing the troops did not mean letting Zhao Chikun go directly, but asking Zhao Chikun to hand over half of a dragon as a life-saving payment, so that the other remaining soldiers would flee in panic.

Theoretically speaking, with the money Zhao Chikun gave him, Zhan Lang had basically won the game.

But Zhan Lang also saw a more ruthless way.

Just cut it off!
Once this move is cut off, it will directly threaten the black pieces above, and also prepare for the breakthrough below.

If Zhao Chikun wanted to communicate with the upper part, his thickness would also continue to increase at the lower part.

Zhao Chikun will face the risk of three pieces being attacked by himself, and the risk factor can be said to have risen to the limit.

Of course, not only Zhao Chikun's risk will increase, Zhan Lang's risk will also increase.

Because of the threat to three pieces at the same time, there will be more and more uncertain factors, and once a problem occurs, it will bring opportunities to Zhao Chikun.

This also adds risks to yourself for no reason.

Zhan Lang is no longer a mediocre person, so he is naturally aware of the dangers of such complex changes.

After careful consideration, Zhan Lang couldn't help but shook his head. He had to remember someone's lesson and not waste it.

Move 126, White, sharp!

Zhan Lang chose to let Zhao Chikun hand over half of his life as money. As long as you hand it over obediently, you can still escape with half a dragon.

But how could Zhao Chikun sell his own dragon so easily?

If it was valuable, Chao Yiliu would definitely not feel bad about selling his own dragon, but now Zhan Lang was blatantly robbing him. If this half of the dragon was handed over, Zhao Chikun's situation on the entire chessboard would be completely insufficient.

So, Zhao Chikun set the last trap for Zhan Lang here.

Move 129, Black chess, charge on the second route!

Zhao Chikun's intention with this move was to hope that Zhan Lang could block Lian Hui. If he could trick him, even if Zhan Lang really ate his tail, he could still swallow half of the dragon in the lower left corner.

If you convert it this way, not only will you not lose money, you will even make a huge profit by laying the foundation for victory.

But since Zhan Lang had already planned to withdraw his troops, it was impossible for him not to see through Zhao Chikun's low-level conspiracy, so he directly and decisively took advantage of Zhao Chikun's tail.

Seeing that his conspiracy had failed, Zhao Chikun hit his head with his fists more frequently.

Zhao Chikun finally had some ideas about the big dragons in the lower left and upper left corners. After all, with the current ranking gap, there is no chance of winning if you don’t kill Zhan Lang’s big dragon.

But although it seems that Zhan Lang’s dragon is not alive, it is just as Zhao Chikun said.

These are dragons with roots, how could they be killed?

When Zhan Lang made his 146th move and was on the second road, Zhao Chikun carefully calculated the life and death issues, shook his head and resigned.

It really can't be killed.

If he killed him by force, Zhan Lang might even jump out, which would threaten the lives of several of his important pieces.

A crushing defeat.

Zhao Chikun gasped with messy hair and red face, and his emotions seemed to be very unstable.

Zhan Lang couldn't help swallowing his saliva when he saw Zhao Chikun standing opposite him, who seemed a little excited, because it felt like the other party was suppressing his anger and not letting it explode.

After taking a few deep breaths, Zhao Chikun said to Zhan Lang, "Let's review the game."

If I don’t review it, I’m really afraid that I will run to the street and beat someone up.

Losing a game of chess has always been an unbearable pain for Zhao Chikun, so in order to avoid this pain, he would fight for victory even at the cost of his life.

But sometimes, some things cannot be obtained by working hard.

People often complain about the review of Go games because for the loser, sometimes the loss of a major competition will cause great shame to themselves, so according to the mood of normal people, many people want to leave the shameful place as soon as possible.

Therefore, the initiative in reviewing the game of Go lies with the loser. If the loser needs to review the game, he will do so. If not, he will not review the game.

However, generally speaking, most players will review the game unless they know how they lost the game due to carelessness.

Why did you lose and how to win again, these are all things that can only be learned through reviewing the game.

But for Zhao Chikun, reviewing the situation has other meanings.

During the review process, Zhao Chikun's pain of losing the game will gradually subside.

Because whenever Zhao Chikun lost a game of chess, he would want to get mad at himself and vent his anger, but if he reviewed the game, his anger would be suppressed a lot.

If he rushed into the street right after losing, Zhao Chikun felt that he might grab someone and beat him up, and then be taken directly to the police station.

Through reviewing the game, Zhao Chikun indeed found that he and Zhan Lang had learned a lot, especially that the other party had discovered blind spots that he had not noticed at all.

For example, he missed the cheap opportunity to take the initiative on the left side, but the opponent seized the opportunity and started to dig into his big dragon in the lower right corner.

Even Zhan Lang's ideas when reviewing the market were more wild and imaginative. Although the market rose in three stages after reviewing the market, the level Zhan Lang showed during the review did make people feel a little daunting.

There is no way. I won’t turn on the artificial intelligence during the Zhanlang game, but I will definitely turn it on when reviewing the game.

Because once you turn on artificial intelligence, you can intuitively see whether each step of your development is right or wrong, and whether there are any different choices.

Although the answer given by artificial intelligence may not be the correct answer, it is the "correct answer" for humans.

"Wait a moment, wait a moment, I can't keep up."

Zhan Lang's Japanese was obviously halting and unfluent, and his speed was extremely slow, but the amount of information contained in it still made Zhao Chikun feel a little unable to keep up.

It’s so difficult!

Zhao Chikun couldn't help but look up at Zhan Lang, and suddenly he felt as if he didn't understand his opponent's chess.

This was the first time in his life that he had such a feeling, but it was terrifying.

How is it possible that there is no way to understand chess?
And it happened to a young chess player who was just in his early twenties.

Zhao Chikun couldn't help but shook his head. In his opinion, the peak period of a chess player should be between 30 and 40 years old. Zhan Lang, who was just in his early twenties, was definitely far from reaching his peak.

As long as you keep learning, you will continue to improve.

How terrifying will this become when they reach their thirties or forties?
hiss--

No!

Zhao Chikun suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of crisis.

We must find a way to beat him in the next two years, otherwise we may not be able to win any game at all.

Although Zhao Chikun felt that his idea was ridiculous, when he looked at what Zhan Lang displayed, he felt it was extremely real.

Zhao Chikun even felt that something indescribable was whispering in his ears.

The end of Japanese Go has come.

PS: As far as I expected, Lao Ke's strength has not declined. To put it bluntly, he has always been able to challenge for the world championship.

The biggest problem now is actually his mentality. He has been losing key games since last year and has lost all confidence.

This was already the best chance to regain confidence and advance to the finals. Once recovered, double-digit world championships would not be a big problem.

But he still lost to himself. He lost to himself.

In fact, we can already draw a conclusion here. Lao Ke, who has lost his desire to win, has lost the ability to win in key games and it is impossible for him to win his ninth world championship.

(End of this chapter)