"I give up..."

About seven or eight minutes later, in the meeting room of the South Korean Chess Institute in the capital of South Korea.

The first round of the focus battle between Rui Zhao and Liu Shixian has now reached the 226th move. Seeing that he has no chance to turn the tide, the strongest chess player in South Korea could only sigh, stop the clock and admit defeat.

To be honest, Liu Shixian's emotions about this game of chess can be said to be very complicated.

He did not think that this game fully demonstrated his strength - the extremely tough pressure of White in the 46th move at the beginning completely disrupted his plan and led the situation into a completely unfamiliar area.

Yes.

In Liu Shixian's opinion, the key to Rui Zhao's victory over him in this game was not the extremely amazing break in the 92nd move, but the pressure in the 46th move!
According to his thoughts before the game, he played Ni Dao mainly to slow down the overall rhythm of the game and compete with Rui Zhao in pre-game research. Even if he failed to trick Rui Zhao, he could play a large-scale routine first, and it would be more comfortable to face the fast chess Athena under the extra second system.

But he never expected that when the Ni Dao was halfway through its transformation, the current Zhaojun defeated all the others with her strength and made a mistake in a place he thought it was almost impossible to make a mistake! And then...

Then she dragged the chess game into the chaotic battle that she was best at, and won naturally.

The chaotic situation and the fast nature of the game made it inevitable that the game would develop into an all-out offensive and defensive situation. The slight advantage that he had gained at the bottom was totally not worth mentioning!
It was only a matter of time before the situation turned around! There was no point in dwelling on which move went wrong.

Unfortunately, when Liu Shixian realized that there was such a major and subtle omission in his pre-match preparation, it was too late!

He didn't think that he would definitely lose to Rui Zhao if he played the game normally, but it was an obvious fact that the opponent made him shoot himself in the foot.

……Well……

You really can't be careless when dealing with her!
The young master of the Liu family frowned slightly. At this moment, Rui Zhao, who had slowly recovered from the game, also politely responded to him:

"Ah... Thank you for your advice, Liu Jiuduan..."

"Then... let's not waste time and review the situation!"

Liu Shixian asked directly without saying anything:
"You should know that the 46th move is not among the AI's top three choices. Here...

"Did you do it on purpose or accidentally?"

"what……

"I was discovered by you, Liu Jiuduan!"

Seeing that the other party asked directly, Rui Zhao rubbed his hair a little embarrassedly, and answered with his head held high:

“It was intentional!
"I have studied this branch variation, and Xiaofei is definitely the best way to play.

"But facing a skilled chess player like you, Liu Jiudan, I'm really worried that if I just follow the routine, I'll be controlled and killed, so I don't really want to choose.

“Although it may not seem cheap, it will reduce the winning rate by almost 20 points. But chess is ultimately played by people, not to mention that AI sometimes makes mistakes!

"In fact, in my opinion, the white pieces can fight in this situation. I don't think we are at a big disadvantage. In fact, we feel more comfortable in a chaotic battle!"

"……Yeah?"

Liu Shixian raised his eyebrows and nodded slightly, as if he was not surprised by this answer at all, but at this time he still asked another question:
"But haven't you been using the Dragon Slaying Sword much recently?

"Why are you so cruel to me today?"

“…Heart, cruel and ruthless?
"I'm not cruel and ruthless!!"

Faced with the other party's small complaint, the contemporary Zhaojun quickly puffed up her lips to express her objection:

"I have been giving my all to both of you, Liu Jiudan and Lei Qi! It's just that I haven't found the right opportunity to fight against Lei Qi in the last few games.

"You gave me this opportunity this time, Liu Jiuduan, so I naturally can't miss it!

"In recent matches with other people, it seems that it is unnecessary to hit them hard, and it will reduce the opportunity for training! Therefore, I have been deliberately saving my strength and trying to win by judgment and control of the board. I will only go for attacking if it really doesn't work!

"So, I'm not being cruel to you, Liu Jiuduan, but I'm turning trash into treasure for other people!"

"...

"...I understand the principle, but please don't use the phrase 'turning waste into treasure'..."

Liu Shixian, who was obviously a South Korean but had to correct a Chinese idiom, shook his head and sighed:
"Change it to 'depend on the person'... er... it's more appropriate to vary it according to the person...

"Ah! But it doesn't matter!

"Anyway, the Chinese male chess players are probably already having enough headaches looking at you, so this one thing won't make any difference..."

"...Huh? Why do male chess players feel like I'm giving them a headache?!"

Rui Zhao immediately expressed his confusion:
"I, I just criticized their horse racing. That's not too much!

"I even praise Nie Yunyi for his courage and ambition!
"What's more, I helped everyone interrupt your winning streak in the Nongshim Cup, and I also helped everyone prevent you from winning the gold medal at the Asian Games! Otherwise, we might be criticized by chess fans again..."

“But what you just said are the reasons…” “…Huh?”

...

...

"…It doesn't matter if she can beat Liu Shixian in the Nongshim Cup and the Asian Games…

"Rui Zhao can even beat Liu Shixian who is in a second-second situation now?!

"It's already Chinese New Year, why is she still haunting us and torturing us?!!"

At the same time, in Pengze City, Greater Bay Area, at Huang Bonan’s home.

As the familiar sound of Alliance Leader Bian's defense breaking came from the microphone again, the calm-looking dragon-slaying expert raised his eyebrows slightly, but ultimately sighed helplessly without saying a word.

The rest of the group fell into silence as well, a very familiar silence.

A deep feeling of powerlessness enveloped the entire fermented bean curd group. It seemed that everyone had sensed that something was clearly wrong, but everyone didn't know how to deal with it.

Since the end of the Weiqi League and the main members of the encirclement network went home for the New Year, the tradition of watching the game together via live broadcast has been retained to prevent many members of the encirclement network from being unprepared during the New Year and becoming increasingly unable to stop Queen Zhaotian from abusing her power in the Chinese chess world.

However, after watching the first match today, many fermented bean curd fans discovered:

This matter seemed to have nothing to do with their personal will, but instead further undermined the already low morale within the encirclement!

Faced with the invitation from Ni Dao, who is recognized as the best person in the world, Rui Zhao not only accepted the challenge decisively, but also showed great confidence!

She took the initiative to play the "Sword in the Middle" variation that reduced her chance of winning, and finally defeated the current No. 92 player who was competing for the best in history with extremely difficult moves. The whole process seemed quite easy and carefree, and it was so exciting that "the close ones were happy and the enemies were afraid"! So just after the game ended, the leader of the alliance, Bian, once again raised a soul-searching question in the group:

"…Hey, guys! Say something!

“You know, anyone with a discerning eye can tell that this World’s Strongest Chess Player Competition was tailor-made by South Korea for Liu Shixian to be crowned the best in history. It is impossible for Liu Shixian not to take it seriously!

"As a result, even under such circumstances, he still couldn't kill Rui Zhao! Isn't this Queen Zhao invincible from now on?!
"How can we target this in the future?!"

"LeLe, calm down, calm down!"

Seeing that the person in charge was once again pushed to the brink of losing control of his emotions, Old Long Bo, who also felt the pressure, finally spoke up:

"After all, there were some unexpected factors in this game. It was obvious that Liu Shixian did not notice that Rui Zhao had sacrificed his winning rate in this Ni Dao branch and brought the situation into a big chaos. As a result, he failed miserably. This can be regarded as a case of being too clever and not fully representing the strength of both sides.

"What's more, although Liu Shixian is good at adding seconds, the problem is that Rui Zhao's fast chess Athena can't be weak in adding seconds!

"She might even be better at adding seconds than Liu Shixian..."

"Oh, Uncle Long, we understand what you said..."

At this moment, Li Zhaokai couldn't help but speak out:

“But the problem is, you can’t tell these to outsiders!
"I just took a look at various forums and communities in China. Seven out of ten posts are praising Queen Zhao, two are complaining about us not working hard enough, and the remaining one is even taking the opportunity to punch us - the key is that we don't have anything to say!

"After all, except for Xiao Lei, the rest of us in the country really have no way to deal with Rui Zhao! And even Xiao Lei's record in the past year is not superior to Rui Zhao's overall record!

"Rui Zhaoguang just won against Liu Shixian and got off to a good start, and it's already such a good start. I don't dare to imagine what will happen if he continues to win like this!

"I've been sitting at the kids' table when I went home this year. I'm a little worried that if this continues, I'll have to move a low plastic stool to the corner to eat..."

"Who says it's not?"

Seeing that others shared the same pain, Alliance Leader Bian immediately spoke up:
"This year, in order to avoid being laughed at by our old neighbors, my family endured the humiliation and left the new winter house unoccupied after airing it out for half a year, and changed the location of the New Year celebrations from Qionghai to Zhejiang and Hangzhou... That's fine!

“But the key lies in the future!

"Now we still have Xiao Lei who can carry Queen Zhaotian, and we finally suppressed the leadership dispute that was about to emerge.

"If Rui Zhao wins the 'No. 1 chess tournament in history', the World's Strongest Chess Player Tournament, then some people will probably mention 'Two Saints Reigning' again!

"Then maybe Xiao Lei will still be able to save some dignity, but what will we do when we are beaten by Rui Zhao so many times that we have no power to fight back?

"My family just bought a winter house in Qionghai two years ago. You can't just sell it without letting me spend the New Year there, right?!"

"Don't worry, don't worry!
"It's normal for Liu Shixian, a chess player who is on the decline, to be unable to keep up with the youngsters!"

The Royal Advisor hurriedly calmed down the great leader Bian, and then tried to appease him:
"… Another more optimistic thing is that Liu Shixian was gradually failing, but Xiao Lei came back to support him!

"Although the last three slow chess games ended in a 1-2 draw, at least he is on a three-game winning streak against Rui Zhao. Judging from the content of the game, he is stronger than Rui Zhao!
"We must believe that the true new generation leader of our Chinese chess world will definitely be able to stop Rui Zhao from winning the championship..."

"Uncle Long, forget it!"

Before the emperor's think tank could speak, Kuai Liang's blunt voice interrupted him over the microphone:
"Lei Qi doesn't seem to be used to the extra-second system - now it's already the endgame, and he's playing very tensely with Xu Xianren!
"I was worried that he would lose to the provincial team in the first game and become the target of criticism from chess fans and netizens!" (End of this chapter)

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