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They all had similar questions in their minds.
The only answer they could get was from Chen Anxia.
Of course, Chen Anxia is certainly not at the level of a first-class player right now.
There are two reasons why Chen Anxia is able to give guidance to professional 5-dan players.
The first reason is that Chen Anxia can see and understand the players' chess principles.
The second reason is supercomputing capability.
Because Chen Anxia can see and understand the players' strategies, coupled with the enhancement of his supercomputing ability, he can more easily spot weaknesses and use these weaknesses to guide his opponents.
Clearly, Chen Anxia's two reasons were things they could never have imagined.
In the end, the game ended with Chen Anxia winning by one point.
Most players, while puzzled, didn't think much of it.
After all, some things can't be understood just by thinking about them.
The player's challenge continues.
The player who stepped forward to challenge Chen Anxia this time was none other than Takashima Takashi, a disciple of Tengen Dosai who had previously been confirmed to have achieved the professional sixth dan level.
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Chapter 190 The Former Number One: An Xia's Feeling of Powerlessness! (Third Update, Please Subscribe!)
Chen Anxia did not know Takashima Takashi, but many of the players present and those in the live stream knew him.
This is not only because Takashima Takashi was a disciple of Tengen Dosai, but also because Takashima Takashi was a genius like Yamazaki Sanjiro and Toneri Jun when he was young.
After Takashi Takashi appeared, the chat in the live stream started up again.
"I never expected Takashi Takashi to show up."
"Who is Takashi Takashi? Is he famous?"
"The person upstairs must be a newcomer. When Takashima was young, he was the number one, just like Yamazaki Sanjiro."
"Takashi Takashi, who is 20 years old now, is a professional 6-dan player under the tutelage of Michiya Tengen."
"No way, how could a genius Go player like Yamazaki Sanjiro and Toneri Jun only reach the professional sixth dan at the age of 20?"
"The reason why Takashi Takashi is only a professional 6-dan is because he only participated in the professional 6-dan ranking tournament 3 years ago."
"You mean, Takashi Takashi didn't participate in the subsequent professional ranking tournaments during those three years?"
"That's right, that's why Takashi Takashi only has a professional sixth dan."
"Then why doesn't Takashima Takashi participate in the ranking tournament after becoming a professional 6-dan?"
"I'm not entirely sure of the reason, but I've heard it's related to the principles of Go passed down by Tengen Dosai..."
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As discussed by viewers in the live stream, the reason why Takashi Takashi is currently only a professional 6-dan player is because he himself does not participate in the subsequent professional ranking tournaments.
The reason he didn't participate was because Takashi Takashi encountered a bottleneck in his understanding of Go principles.
This theoretical bottleneck in Go stumped Takashi Takashi for three whole years.
Of course, this is not to say that Takashima Takashi lacked Go talent, but rather because of the unique nature of the Go theory passed down by Tengen Dosai.
Tengen Dosai's philosophy of Go emphasizes the importance of accumulating knowledge and experience before making a breakthrough. If one's foundation is insufficient, one cannot advance to the next level.
Takashima Takayuki's exceptional talent at a young age led to a rapid increase in his Go skills and a leap forward in his understanding of Tengen Dosai's Go principles.
This resulted in Takashima's own foundation being unable to keep up with his rapidly growing skill and understanding of the game, leading to a bottleneck in his understanding of the game.
However, the existence of this bottleneck in chess has both advantages and disadvantages.
The bad points are obvious, but the good points...
Tengen Dosai once said that once Takashi Takashi broke through this bottleneck in his Go journey, he would smoothly and rapidly reach the professional 9-dan level, which is the level of a first-class player.
Therefore, over the past three years, Takashima has been accumulating his own Go skills and has not participated in the subsequent professional ranking tournament.
Just recently, Takashi Takashi felt that the bottleneck in his own Go path had begun to loosen.
Takashi Takashi knew that the day when he would finally unleash his accumulated talents was not far off.
The reason why Takashima Takashi chose to challenge Chen Anxia was partly because of the strange behavior of Tengen Doya, which aroused Takashima Takashi's interest in Chen Anxia.
On the other hand, Takashima Takashi had a premonition that playing against Chen Anxia might accelerate his breakthrough in the bottleneck of Go.
Of course, Chen Anxia was unaware of these things.
In Chen Anxia's view, Takashima Takashi should also be a professional Go player, and his Go skills should be similar to those of the players who challenged him before.
The game began under these circumstances.
Based on the result of the coin toss, Chen Anxia will play black and make the first move in this game.
Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Anxia reached out, picked up a black chess piece, slowly raised it above the chessboard, and then brought it down like a thunderbolt.
Seeing this, Takashima Takashi did not hesitate and immediately placed his white piece on the board.
Snapped!
Snapped!
Snapped!
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The game proceeded smoothly with each move of the pieces.
After both sides had made about twenty moves, Chen Anxia's brows furrowed slightly.
Looking at the unusual chess principles displayed by Takashima Takashi, Chen Anxia knew that the chess principles Takashima Takashi was using were the same as the chess principles he was using at this moment.
Furthermore, through the predictive capabilities of supercomputing, Chen Anxia experienced what it meant to be invincible.
Indeed, Takashima Takashi's moves were so solid that even Chen Anxia, who had mastered the principles of Tengen Dosai's moves and even possessed super-calculation abilities, could not find any flaws.
An indescribable sense of oppression descended upon Chen Anxia at this moment, making his body gradually feel heavier.
Chen Anxia knew that if the game continued like this, he would be the one to lose in the end.
Because Black's opening handicap of five and a half points was completely within the impenetrable defenses built by Takashima, Chen Anxia had no chance to eliminate it.
As for reversing the situation, that goes without saying.
Chen Anxia's only advantage over Takashi Takashi is that his overall perspective is slightly better, but it is only slightly better.
Chen Anxia could sense that Takashima Takashi's strategic vision was stronger than that of Yamazaki Sanjiro, with whom he had previously played, as well as those professional Go players.
Under such circumstances, it would be completely impossible for Chen Anxia to reverse the disadvantage by relying on his overall strategic vision.
This was the first time today that Chen Anxia felt the game was so difficult.
Unbeknownst to him, Chen Anxia entered a deep period of contemplation, beginning to think of a way to break the deadlock.
Chen Anxia knew that the Go principles of Tengen Dosai, enhanced by supercomputing capabilities, would not be of much use to Takashima Takashi.
Firstly, because supercomputing capabilities appear so pale and powerless in the face of the impenetrable fortress built by Takashi Takashi.
Secondly, it is because Takashima Takashi's understanding of Tengen Dosai's principles of Go is stronger than that of Chen Anxia.
The game is not yet in its middle stages, and the situation is not yet clear.
Apart from top-tier players, other players were somewhat puzzled as to why Chen Anxia would enter a long period of contemplation at this time.
In their view, Chen Anxia and Takashima Takashi's moves are equally solid, and so far they have not made any mediocre or bad moves.
Top-tier players, including Tengen Dosai, Go Seigen, Yamazaki Honinbo, and Miki Soji, are aware of Chen Anxia's current predicament and are eagerly anticipating how he will break the deadlock.
Time passed gradually.
During the time Chen Anxia was deep in thought, the atmosphere at the scene was very heavy and oppressive.
After an unknown amount of time, Chen Anxia finally reached out, picked up a chess piece, and slammed it heavily onto the chessboard under everyone's watchful eyes.
In that instant, everyone seemed to see a black fish swooping down, or a dim, eerie star falling from the sky.
Snapped!
With a crisp, clear sound of a piece being placed, everyone could see Chen Anxia's move.
It was precisely because they saw it clearly that everyone's faces showed astonishment.
Because Chen Anxia's move was an illogical one that no one could understand.
Even top-tier players couldn't immediately grasp the mystery behind this seemingly illogical move.
However, everyone knew that Chen Anxia had changed his strategy again.
And this time, the new strategy is... the Dosaku school!?
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Chapter 191 Bizarre and Ambiguous Daoist Strategies! (First Update, Please Subscribe!)
In the world of players, because of the Yamazaki Honinbo lineage, almost every experienced player knows that Muryo-go is a symbol of the Dosaku style.
Therefore, after seeing Chen Anxia's unreasonable move, both the players present and those watching via the live stream subconsciously believed that Chen Anxia was employing the Dao Ce style.
It's normal for them to think that way, after all, Chen Anxia also knows the Daoist strategy.
Players below the first tier, even professional players, wouldn't know why Chen Anxia suddenly changed his chess principles, or why he used the Dao Ce style here.
Besides the top-tier players, there was one other person who noticed something amiss: Takashi Takashi, who was playing against Chen Anxia.
Takashima's skill and vision cannot be compared with those of top-tier players.
However, Takashima Takashi was able to sense something unusual in Chen Anxia's moves.
In Takashima's eyes, although Chen Anxia's moves were also impeccably stable, the pressure he put on him was very limited.
Takashi Takashi knew perfectly well what this meant.
Of course, this does not mean that Chen Anxia's understanding of Tengen Dosai's principles of Go is completely incapable of threatening Takashima Takashi; it's just that Chen Anxia was playing black and moving first in this game.