Go: Is the portable old man the nine-time champion?

Chapter 328 Closing the Market
"Ah Zheng is still too agile!"

Miao Jun looked at Yi Zheng's fifty-second move and couldn't help but sigh: "His previous move, the flying move, was intended to suppress Jiang Mobai's black stones on the right side, while also extending his own white stones in the middle towards the center. But facing Jiang Mobai, as expected, he launched a counterattack."

Jiang Mobai's style of play is incredibly aggressive in every sense of the word. Personally, I like to call this style "forceful demolition."

Miao Jun couldn't help but rub his head. His words were full of personal emotions and grudges. When Miao Jun participated in the Asian Cup before, he encountered Jiang Mobai, who completely overwhelmed him with a series of punches.

Miao Jun's once proudly impregnable fortress was directly reduced to scrap metal, and Jiang Mobai seemed to be saying this as he dismantled it.

However, when Jiang Mobai encountered Yi Zheng's unpredictable style, he seemed to be completely overwhelmed.

It's like a swift horse encountering Tai Chi; it's completely neutralized by minimal effort.

"Yi Zheng's move is full of the essence of Tai Chi, using minimal force to deflect a great weight. Now, with this sharp move on the left as reinforcement, Jiang Mobai continues to charge forward with brute force. Yi Zheng only needs to calmly retreat, and the game will still be a very complete shape. It's very beautiful!"

Jiang Mobai stared at the chessboard, put his hands directly under his buttocks, and craned his neck to look at the chessboard.

He also realized that the situation was indeed not good, and he did not expect to be hit by a flying knife in the first round!
And most importantly, this was clearly not something Yi Zheng had prepared on purpose; he had fallen into the pit himself and then waved to others, saying, "Hurry up and bury me."

Jiang Mobai hadn't expected any new developments in this localized study; he could only say that his research was indeed inferior to Yi Zheng's.

Jiang Mobai calmed down, took a deep breath, and carefully stared at the chessboard to assess the current situation.

"The situation is now basically even, and my advantage of going first has been eliminated. It's like I've wasted three and three-quarters of a point in komi."

Jiang Mobai felt a huge headache coming on. A difference of seven and a half points was already a lot for a top player. It was only because the board was still relatively large and many areas were not yet settled that the difference was significant. If the difference remained at this level in the middle game, around the hundredth move, unless it was an extremely chaotic battle, there would be virtually no chance of a comeback.

"We have to find a way to break through! We can't just sit and wait to die when things get tough!"

Jiang Mobai still chose the most aggressive approach, directly pulling the ball out to put maximum pressure on Yi Zheng.

But Yi Zheng felt that he couldn't feel it at all.

You didn't even hit me.

Yi Zheng watched as Jiang Mobai threw a right hook, then slowly flew to the left, directly pulling the two remaining small black balls on the right into his encirclement.

We're truly surrounded!
Jiang Mobai couldn't help but gasp as he looked at the shape of the white pieces on the chessboard.

I was truly taken aback!

Because several air conditioners were cooling down the square, even though it was still summer, the perceived temperature was only around 20 degrees Celsius. Yi Zheng even felt a bit cold wearing short sleeves and got up to pull out an air-conditioned blanket to cover himself.

Jiang Mobai had no interest in making any other moves at the moment; he was just staring intently at the chessboard.

Now Yi Zheng has formed an invincible formation on the left. Basically, with just one more move, he can completely surround the upper left and even the middle of the left!
Jiang Mobai currently has no chance of countering Yi Zheng's plan, because Yi Zheng can easily cover the gap with one hand, while Jiang Mobai still has two hands to cover on the right. Both sides could potentially succeed in eliminating the isolated enemy.

"Shouldn't it be me forming a powerful force to hunt down Yi Zheng, while Yi Zheng struggles to survive in the cracks, and the outcome is decided by whether he lives or dies?"

Jiang Mobai felt that he should have been the one violently hunting down Yi Zheng, but now the tables had turned and he was being hunted down by Yi Zheng. And now he was even about to infiltrate the Zhigu Sect! This was a complete rebellion against the Heavenly Gang! It was utterly a rebellion against the Heavenly Gang!

Although Jiang Mobai really wanted to complain in his heart about when he had to live in such a precarious situation, his body still honestly picked up the chess piece and placed it in the upper right corner.

Move 55, Black, move!

Seeing this move, Ke Lao, who was wailing and howling with his supporters outside the venue, stroked his chin: "No Go player can escape the Iron Mountain Lean, so Go is a giant ikun! Chicken You are so beautiful! Oh baby!"

Yi Zheng had no idea that Ke Lao was generating electricity outside like a rave, and even if he did, he wouldn't care, since no one could see him anyway.

Seeing Jiang Mobai approach directly, Yi Zheng also fell into thought.

The Iron Mountain Lean is quite powerful, especially in breaking through the air.

If Yi Zheng were to simply retreat now, Jiang Mobai would immediately launch a massive attack from the center, causing chaos and upheaval in the air.

Seeing that he was surrounded by his own reinforcements, Yi Zheng naturally knew that he had to take the most aggressive approach.

But the question is, what trade-offs should one make after taking a hard line?

Should we insist on annihilating Jiang Mobai, or should we let him live?

There are several strategies for letting him live, such as forcing him to live in the corner, and then Yi Zheng himself can surround the center, which is also an advantage for Yi Zheng.

However, Yi Zheng clearly didn't want Jiang Mobai to simply live in the corner, as that would put too little pressure on him.

In the first game, we must play with momentum.

Just as Yi Zheng was about to make his move, a staff member came over and reminded him that it was lunchtime.

Yi Zheng, an 8-dan player, can also think first. After he finishes thinking, he writes his next move on a piece of paper. The paper will be sealed along with the board. The seal will be removed after lunch. Once Yi Zheng has thought of his move, he will announce it and then make his move.

This is a standard closing procedure that takes fairness into account in all aspects.

It won't give one side more time, nor will it let the opponent know in advance that a piece can be calculated during the rest period.

Of course, there are also some games that are suspended but not stopped. Simply put, the game is paused after noon and then resumed in the afternoon after the break.

However, this kind of game-ending can also lead to other issues. For example, some players will deliberately play a tricky move before the game ends to make their opponent think, thereby affecting the opponent's rest time.

However, there has never been a time when a player's thinking time was about to run out, and they were suddenly given unlimited thinking time for some reason.

This goes beyond just being shameless. Have you ever seen a marathon runner stop to rest during the final sprint? Wasn't all the energy I saved for the final sprint wasted?

After hearing this, Yi Zheng wrote it down on a piece of paper without hesitation and handed it to the work group. Then the two of them sat down at the table next to each other and started eating.

(End of this chapter)