Chapter 316: Slaughtering the Great Dragon, Evenly Matched!

【The sixth game, the curtain rises again!】

【You hold the black pieces, taking the first step, and the white pieces follow onto the board.】

【Su Yun is fully focused this time, eyes not shifting, staring tightly at the square inch of the chessboard.】

【The two play chess like flying; the woman's layout is more steady, and killing moves emerge frequently.】

【In an instant, the chess game has entered the middle game, and the wind and clouds are changing!】

【The woman reaches into the chess jar, takes out a white piece, rubs it lightly with her fingertips, her expression somewhat hesitant.】

【Su Yun looks up, feeling slightly surprised in his heart; it is an evenly matched game.】

【The woman has a slight advantage, the outcome is hard to predict!】

【At this moment, after the middle game, a change is coming.】

【The woman no longer hesitates, the white piece is placed decisively, and the crisp sound is heard throughout the room.】

【Su Yun reaches for the teacup beside him, but it is already empty. A clever servant hurriedly comes forward to add water, accidentally knocking over the tea lid; Su Yun is quick-eyed and fast-handed, catching the teapot.】

【His eyes are sharp, signaling the servant to step back and not disturb the quiet of the chess game.】

【Su Yun pours the water himself, fearing that the slightest sound will disturb the thoughts of the two.】

【From the moment Chen Jiuyan placed the piece, the situation became intense, and the white pieces launched an attack to cut down the black dragon.】

【Su Yun knows this well; this is the original chess style of the Princess of Kangle, with fierce offense and vigorous killing.】

【Chen Jiuyan is particularly good at "Dragon Slaughtering Technique."】

【In the way of Go, black and white are distinct; seven chess pieces connected are called a small dragon; ten or more chess pieces connected are a great dragon.】

【Once the great dragon is slaughtered, it is like the vital point being controlled; this game is like a building about to collapse, difficult to save.】

【"Slaughtering the Great Dragon" is the most spectacular and fascinating chess path in Go, often leading the viewers to cheer in unison.】

【From the fortieth move, Xie Guan focused on the lower board layout, forming a great dragon, tightly entangling the white pieces, making it difficult for them to escape.】

【His goal is clear, intending to completely suppress the white pieces through the advantage of the middle game, making them unable to move.】

【Xie Xuan watches on the side, also fascinated; mainly because the two played this game extremely brilliantly.】

【He frowns; those who are just starting to play chess are most afraid of fighting against others, which will mess up their pace; the more they study chess manuals, the more they begin to form their own style.】

【Xie Xuan's chess style pays more attention to immediate benefits, first seeking actual territory, playing steadily; this style of chaotic opening battle is just restraining him.】

【Go is like two armies facing each other, fighting for territory; finally, see whose territory is vast, and that one is the final winner.】

【The chess pieces are like soldiers fighting, continuously being sent to the chessboard to fight for that square inch of land. When the chess pieces of both sides meet, it is a fierce battle, and eating pieces happens from time to time, just like the casualties of soldiers on the battlefield, which is hard to avoid.】

【When there is no empty space left on the chessboard, the chess game ends.】

【Finally, by counting the chess pieces, determine whose territory is larger and decide victory or defeat.】

【And this thrilling process of victory and defeat is exactly what makes Go heart-wrenching.】

【The chessboard has nineteen vertical and horizontal lines, weaving three hundred and sixty-one intersection points, with infinite changes between them, difficult to count.】

【Throughout the ages, there has never been a game that is exactly the same, truly "no same game throughout the ages."】

【Both sides place pieces like flying; Xie Xuan suddenly feels that your chess style has changed drastically, from the previous steady layout and focus on actual territory to fierce offense, no longer sticking to "fixed patterns."】

【The chess game suddenly changes!】

【Black and white pieces no longer guard their own territory but stick to each other and fight, attacking with offense.】

【Su Yun's gaze condenses, whispering: "It's going to be a battle!"】

【"Battle," a Go term, means a key move that may directly affect victory or defeat, forcing the opponent to respond.】

【The woman holds the white piece tightly, hesitates for a moment, and then places it decisively.】

【Su Yun sighs in his heart: "Not good!"】

【This move is like pulling one hair and moving the whole body; subsequent white pieces respond one after another, forming a fierce interception momentum against the white pieces on the lower board of the chessboard.】

【The white pieces slaughter the dragon!】

【Xie Guan is in danger!】

【Xie Xuan on the side has a smile on his face, seemingly having determined that you will lose this game again.】

【The ten-game six-win agreement, you have already lost four games; if you lose one more, you will have no chance of winning.】

【But you are not panicked, just placing pieces slowly.】

【The woman's beautiful eyebrows are tightly furrowed; when she places the second piece, she is slightly hesitant.】

【After dozens of fierce exchanges!】

【Su Yun accidentally knocks over the tea lid while reaching for tea, making a "buzzing" iron collision sound, attracting the woman to look over.】

【He hurriedly picks up the tea lid in embarrassment.】

【This accidental act is because the chess game has reversed again, making his heart shake.】

【Originally, Chen Jiuyan intended to slaughter the dragon, but she did not expect to fall into the "trap" carefully laid by Xie Guan, being tightly entangled by the great dragon on the lower board.】

【Xie Guan's lower board is now booming, unstoppable.】

【After the woman places a few pieces, she sighs lightly: "This game is lost, you can stand up."】

【Xie Xuan is shocked to hear this; did Chen Jiuyan lose again?】

【"This game is lost, you can stand up," is also slang in Go, meaning "the chess game is hopeless, you can admit defeat."】

【Xie Xuan stares at the chessboard, but feels that the woman still seems to have a place to place pieces; admitting defeat so easily is truly unwilling.】

【The woman claps her hands and asks suspiciously: "How did you see through it?"】

【You pick up a black piece gently, place it from composure, and say slowly: "If you want to truly slaughter the dragon, you shouldn't drag it until now."】

【"Young Master Yan, you want to keep the white pieces alive on the lower board, right."】

【With one of your black pieces cleverly clipped between the white pieces, Xie Xuan finally realizes that the woman had already laid a back hand in secret.】

【Chen Jiuyan does not let the servants come to tidy up the chessboard again; her two slender hands pick the scattered white pieces back into the jar.】

【"Again."】

【"It's really interesting; I thought this dragon-slaughtering game could win against you."】

【The woman is also not angry, her tone is even a bit excited, and she adjusts her drooping-foot cap.】

【"Next, I'm going to be serious!"】

【Su Yun also knows that this princess has not shown her true ability; he just remembered that game, before Chen Jiuyan played against his father, she won against his father with a similar fixed pattern.】

【According to her father, this is the "fixed pattern" she created herself at the age of seven.】

【Fixed pattern refers to the layout stage of Go, where both sides compete in the corner, following a certain order of moves, forming a basic chess shape.】

【Feigning dragon slaughter, actually hiding dragon scales.】

【This style was named by Chen Jiuyan as "There is a technique for slaughtering dragons, and flood dragons are born."】

【Su Yun recalls this game, sighing in his heart; he was just confused by that "Dragon Slaughtering Technique," and if he had played it himself, he would probably have been defeated.】

【The seven-year-old Chen Jiuyan, I'm afraid her chess skill already exceeded his.】

【Sure enough, as his father said, his grandfather occupied too much luck in the black and white path, exhausting the luck of the Su family for several generations, not to mention the Su family, even the chess world of the world.】

【The Su family line seems to not even have a spring chess player who can stand out in the chess world.】

【Xie Xuan just feels incredible; he vaguely feels that your chess skill seems to have grown in the five games, and the first game was still raw, making it difficult to parry in front of Chen Jiuyan.】

【Until now, there is actually a far-reaching layout.】

【Xie Xuan shakes his head again!】

【How is this possible; a few games of chess, and one can really improve so fast.】

【The people in the world who study chess and cry blood, playing chess and falling lamp flowers on the windowsill, didn't they become a joke.】

【The seventh game begins!】

【Outside the window, a light breeze blows over the small courtyard.】

【Inside the house, a group of servants are also attracted by the emotions and atmosphere of their masters, involuntarily looking at the chessboard, their eyes full of concern for victory or defeat.】

【Fortunately, the two of you are not like those old generations who have been immersed in the chess path for many years, where every move requires long contemplation; often a game of chess can be played until dawn. You place pieces extremely fast, almost dizzying.】

【Su Yun stares at the chessboard, trying to guess the subsequent changes, but the two of you have already placed several pieces in succession.】

【He is surprised to find that this time Chen Jiuyan's chess style has changed again, becoming simple and unadorned, focusing on actual territory, no longer fighting fiercely like the opening, but instead placing "dispensable" idle pieces everywhere.】

【Xie Xuan rubs his slightly swollen forehead; he just tried to think according to Chen Jiuyan's chess path and has already been hurt.】

【Playing chess is extremely hurtful to the mind; chess-recruiting attendants are all white-haired in middle age.】

【Xie Xuan is good at this kind of chess game, knowing that the power of this kind of chess often lies in the endgame. At first, he could barely keep up with Chen Jiuyan's chess path, but as the game deepened, Chen Jiuyan's few moves were both "tight" and "leaky," seemingly full of loopholes, but she could cleverly make up for them after a few moves, which made him marvel.】

【"Truly a wonderful move!"】

【Xie Xuan cannot help but sigh in a low voice, with a strange color in his eyes. It was only eighty moves, and he had already seen seven or eight wonderful moves, each of which was breathtaking.】

【In this game, Chen Jiuyan truly revealed her unfathomable chess skill.】

【Xie Xuan is sure that you will lose.】

【There is excitement in his eyes, because the chess style he dreams of is exactly like this.】

【The opening focuses on actual territory, is good at layout, and defeats the opponent with "crushing" power after the middle game.】

【The opponent often "drinks hatred and loses" in the end, discovering the back hand you laid and marveling.】

【Xie Xuan wins chess every time, which is "very satisfying."】

【Of course, some people complain that it is flashy and has no substance, because it is easy to lose the whole game if you are not careful in the early stage.】

【The woman seems to have mastered this kind of chess style, and it is already airtight.】

【Su Yun also sees that there is no way to break the game, and the endgame will definitely lose.】

【However, you do not sit and wait for death; the black pieces fall slowly, approaching the middle abdomen, and begin to press step by step, straight-line dragon slaughtering.】

【The woman laughs lightly; she is best at this kind of duel, so naturally she is not afraid.】

【The white pieces fall, responding freely, as if everything is under control.】

【Su Yun looks at the chess game, his palms sweating a bit; you change your chess path, and it seems you have the heart to slaughter the great dragon.】

【But these white pieces have the advantage of the opening, and it is obvious that they have begun to have a "high-spirited" trend, and there are places to generate "Qi" everywhere.】

【Wanting to slaughter the dragon, I'm afraid it is difficult.】

【After a few more moves, the situation on the chessboard suddenly becomes subtle.】

【The woman is suddenly stunned, her gaze tightly locked on the layout on the chessboard, as if seeing something incredible.】

【You smile lightly, and the black pieces fall again, like a clear breeze blowing away the fog on the chessboard, revealing the "waves" inside.】

【The woman cannot help but shout angrily: "You are learning my chess!"】

【Su Yun, following your last move, suddenly realizes that it turns out that this game of chess is surprisingly similar to the previous one, just that both sides have swapped identities.】

【You used the "There is a technique for slaughtering dragons, and flood dragons are born!" fixed pattern that Chen Jiuyan once used.】

【Using her own way to treat her own body, catching the woman off guard.】

【You play a dozen more moves, and a "Qi-strong great dragon" of ten connected pieces has already been formed in the middle abdomen.】

【Chen Jiuyan only discovered this change at this time, but it was too late; "the dragon has coiled around the mountain," and there is no possibility of shaking it.】

【She, who was still confident just now, is now defeated like a mountain, unable to turn the tide.】

【You smile lightly: "Soldiers never tire of deceit!"】

【Chen Jiuyan bites her silver teeth; she has always played against those uncles and brothers, saying "soldiers never tire of deceit," and then appreciating their long sighs.】

【However, today, she suffered retribution, and this sentence was actually used on her.】

【"Again!"】

【Su Yun looks at the Princess of Kangle whose face is not very good-looking, and cannot help but feel a bit of joy in his heart.】

【He has always been unable to lift his head in front of her on the chessboard, crying and crying, and not daring to complain to his grandfather.】

【Unexpectedly, he can still meet someone who can cure her on the chessboard today.】

【Xie Xuan's face finally has an unbelievable look; the step-by-step camp just now, which was almost impeccable, was overturned like this.】

【The woman watches you pick up the black pieces unhurriedly, and simply helps you throw the black pieces into the jar.】

【"This time I won't be careless."】

【The eighth game begins!】

【You have no objection, holding the pieces and playing.】

【The woman changes her chess style again, opening the layout extremely fast, accumulating small advantages through exchanging pieces, and slowly magnifying the advantages.】

【Not blindly attacking, choosing to strike after the enemy, dismantling the opponent's moves, and accumulating and moving after waiting for mistakes.】

【Su Yun looks at Chen Jiuyan changing a style almost every game, and cannot help but feel admiration. You know, familiarizing and mastering multiple chess paths is not a day's work, requiring taking the best from others and melting a hundred schools of thought.】

【This princess has not left chess since childhood; besides being heaven-sent, it is inseparable from her efforts.】

【Su Yun looks at you placing pieces again, and his expression becomes increasingly strange.】

【Your chess style has also changed, becoming simple and unadorned, focusing on the struggle for actual territory; every chess piece placed seems to have deep meaning, making it difficult to figure out.】

【This is not Chen Jiuyan's chess path from the previous game!】

【Xie Xuan on the side is even more unbelievable; you can actually play this kind of chess; this is his favorite chess style, focusing on the construction of the middle abdomen and large patterns, the chess style is gorgeous, and the power is in the endgame.】

【"This..."】

【After a few dozen moves.】

【Xie Xuan picks up the cold tea and drinks it in one gulp; he doesn't notice the bitterness of the tea.】

【How is this possible; your chess seems to be more "unconstrained" than the woman in the previous game, and like "antelope hanging horns."】

【Interlocking, the exquisite parts have a "sweet aftertaste."】

【How can this be something you, a concubine-born son, can play?】

【This game reached the middle game, evenly matched, hard to distinguish between high and low.】

【The woman has to change; the white pieces stick and entangle to destroy the black pieces' chess path, but in the end, they didn't break free.】

【A few dozen more moves.】

【Approaching the endgame, you have a great advantage.】

【The woman no longer places pieces, her eyes tightly watching you, questioning:】

【"Did you deliberately hide your clumsiness at the beginning."】

【You shake your head, just saying: "Just humbly asking for advice, and received careful guidance from Young Master Yan."】

【The woman looks at your calm and composed appearance, her face blue and white, and she is angry.】

【So far, eight games have been played, with victory and defeat each half, evenly matched.】

【The woman takes a deep breath.】

【"Continue!"】

【Su Yun is somewhat unbelievable; Xie Guan lost all four games at the beginning, but now he has won four games in a row.】

(End of Chapter) CHAPTER 317