This skill seems to have existed since the day people learned to play chess, and they usually followed the game of Go to open the market.
Whether it is Galaxy City or other cities, there is this custom, that is, once two players with equal chess skills are encountered playing chess, public places such as inns will start to hold chess gambling, and the money will be calculated according to the odds.
People may just take out a small amount of money for fun, which is harmless, but some people regard this thing as real gambling, and there are not a few who have lost everything.
This chess and chess transaction was considered fair at first, but later it turned into a battle between businessmen.
The person opening the game spends some money to bribe the players, and the outcome depends on their thoughts. But what does this thought rely on?
That is the odds. For example, if Party A's chess player is stronger, more people will buy it, but Party B's chess player is weaker, so there will definitely be fewer people buying it. At this time, the middleman will come out and use some tricks.
, let the chess players of Party A deliberately lose to the players of Party B, thereby making those who gamble lose everything, but they themselves make a lot of money.
No one knows exactly when this trend became popular.
But after Luo Xihe reached the top of the chess world, this trend began to slowly weaken. Although there is still a term for gambling, after all, this thing is a form of folk entertainment. If people really want to have fun,
It's not a bad idea to spend three to five taels of silver to play with, so the court didn't
The method is to completely eliminate the business of gambling and chess. Let the inns continue to open, but compared to before, these inns are all under the control of the Galaxy Chess Sect, and no merchants outside the Galaxy Chess Sect are allowed to open. This protects those who
Chess players also protect those who love chess.
This is also a clear stipulation of the imperial court. Since there is no way to completely cancel chess gambling, let this matter be under the control of the imperial court. This can protect the interests of many people, and the imperial court will also control the amount of chess gambling.
control.
Luo Xihe hated chess gambling so much that he once opened the door of the Xinghe Chess Sect to welcome chess gamblers from all over the world.
It is said that the odds at that time were one to one thousand.
Simply terrifying.
Take out one tael of silver, and if you win, you can win a thousand taels of silver from Luo Xihe. If you lose, swear that this person will not gamble at chess. If the Xinghe Chess Sect finds out, he will be put in prison.
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The old man in front of Chen Banliang was one of them back then. In fact, the number of chess players captured at that time ranged from 1,000 to 800, but most of them ended up becoming the chess slaves of the disciples of the Galaxy Chess Sect.
What does chess slave mean?
It's nothing more than practicing chess with the disciples of the Xinghe Chess Sect every day.
However, this old man was famous for his eccentric temper, and no disciples were willing to choose him. Therefore, after so many years, the old man was still locked up in this prison, and it seemed that he would never get ahead in this life.
Chen Banliang had long heard that the Xinghe Chess Sect had chess slaves, but he never expected that the so-called chess slaves were just those who lost to Luo Xihe.
Luo Xihe is determined to restore peace to chess players in the world.
Of course, he did it. Since the Xinghe Chess Sect grew, the trend of gambling in Daliang has obviously decreased a lot. At least it will not appear. Businessmen are over-controlled. Chess players can't play chess openly, and people can't gamble openly.
The sale of chess.
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Chen Banliang chatted with the old man for a few words, and then he knew the old man's identity. He couldn't help but feel pity for the old man. If he had known today, why would he still play chess in the first place.
When the old man heard this, he disapproved and curled his lips and said, "I am different from those people. They come here for money, but I am different."
"If you don't do it for money, what do you do for it?" Chen Banliang's face was full of disdain.
"I really don't have the money, but I came here for Luo Xihe." The old man replied calmly.
Chen Banliang was stunned for a moment when he heard this. He took a step forward and asked curiously: "You said you came here for Luo Xihe's hand?"
"Yes!" The old man nodded.
When Chen Banliang heard this, he was silent for a moment, and then he started laughing, holding his stomach, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world.
When the old man saw Chen Banliang smiling so unscrupulously, he shouted with some embarrassment: "Why are you laughing? What's so funny?"
"You said that you, being imprisoned here for so many years, still can't forget your bragging skills. You still want to win Luo Xihe's hand. What do you think?" Chen Banliang covered his head.
He laughed with his belly full and his tone was full of ridicule. He didn't take the old man seriously at all. He just thought that the old man was just bragging when he had no time to talk.
"You...why are you laughing?" The old man felt a little embarrassed and asked Chen Banliang in a loud voice.
"No...it's nothing...I'm not laughing at anything!" Chen Banliang replied, probably tired of laughing, holding his stomach and waving his hands.
"Don't you believe that I can cross the Luoxi River?" The old man curled his lips and saw through Chen Banliang's thoughts.
"Senior, please stop making trouble. Who is Luo Xihe? Even a three-year-old child in Daliang knows that there is only one person in the world who can beat Luo Xihe. That person is Du Lechi, the chess saint of the previous dynasty. The rest are
No one can compare with Luo Xihe
, you said that you were so brazen that you wanted to win Luo Xihe's hand, have you thought clearly, okay, I won't tell you anymore, please let me rest for a while, it really made me laugh to death." Chen
Banliang sat on the ground while talking.
The old man looked at Chen Banliang and was silent for a moment, then whispered: "What you said does make some sense. Du Lechi plays chess very strangely. If I meet him, I may have no chance of winning, but facing Luo Xihe,
If I hadn't been careless back then, we would have won half the battle!"
"Why are you still bragging?" Chen Banliang shouted helplessly.
"The rules we set back then were to win two out of three games. Luo Xihe won the first game, I won the second game, and I lost the third game because I was careless..." the old man continued.
Chen Banliang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then stood up, looked at the old man and shouted, "What did you just say?"
"What?" The old man was stunned for a moment.
"You said you won the second game?" Chen Banliang shouted excitedly.
"Yeah, what happened if I won?" The old man seemed a little uncomfortable seeing Chen Banliang so excited.
"Are you really not bragging? Didn't Luo Xihe claim to not lose for ten years? How could you beat him?" Chen Banliang had heard Luo Xihe's story for a long time and knew it by heart. He has always regarded it as his idol.
"Fart, he hasn't lost in ten years, so how did I win? If you can get out, ask Luo Xihe if he knows a man named Yang Tianyuan?"
Chen Banliang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, with a bit of excitement in his eyes.