"First of all, Shang'er, you have to remember." Yu Qiuping gently poked Yu Qiu Shang's forehead with his index finger and middle finger, "It's a good thing to remember the formula, but when the opponent takes the lead, don't be rigid.
In a fixed form."
"I'm sorry, dad. I know I was wrong." Yu Qiu Shang lowered his head in great annoyance.
"Don't say that, Shang'er." Yu Qiuping comforted him with a smile, "You are quite similar to your father in this aspect. When your father first learned chess when he was a child, he also liked to memorize fixed formulas.
After finishing the set, I feel uncomfortable all over my body.”
"However, you are already defensive in your tactics. If you are constrained by the fixed pattern, you will suffer a big loss in terms of layout." Yu Qiuping rubbed Yu Qiu Shang's hair and reminded with a smile.
"My child doesn't understand very well, please let me know." Yu Qiu Shang asked very sincerely, not understanding what Yu Qiuping meant.
"Well, to put it simply, isn't Go a game about who can occupy the bigger territory?" Yu Qiuping laughed, put away the chess pieces on the board, and took out a few more chess pieces to play with.
"When both sides start the game, they will always try their best to place their chess pieces in the open corners and side roads in order to achieve early occupation of these areas. And the side with less possessions, in order to win, has to break into other areas.
Use one party’s control area to make short work of it.”
"Shang'er, I found that you don't like to attack, and you prefer to defend. So, what you have to do is to spread out a large formation in the early stage and occupy more than two-thirds of the corners on the chessboard to force the opponent
Get into your zone - and use your defensive skills to attack him."
"But dad," Yu Qiu Shang raised his head in confusion, then lowered his head and cast doubtful eyes on the chessboard: "If you spread out such a large formation, the chess pieces will be very scattered. When the opponent comes in,
I definitely can’t kill you when I’m on defense.”
Yu Qiuping looked at Yu Qiu Shang's confused look, laughed, scratched his hair, and said, "Well, what I just said was a bit confusing. I'll tell it from the beginning now. Please listen carefully."
"Whether it's playing chess or fighting, the purpose of defense is not to defend itself, but to win." Yu Qiuping slowly said: "If a defense cannot bring benefits to yourself, then the defense will be a failure.
of!"
"When playing chess, Shang'er, the reason why you want to defend is not to defend itself, but to win the game." Yu Qiuping pointed to the chessboard and said: "Even if you use all your pieces,
, the small place with 100 targets was kept airtight, so that the opponent could not break in. However, Youer got 261 targets, and you still lost!"
"The same goes for playing chess, and the same goes for fighting." Yu Qiuping turned around and looked at the large plain outside the castle tower. "If the Saito family comes over, Dad will definitely lead his troops to defend, right? If Dad
If we only pursue the success of the defense and not the victory of the Yuqiu family, my father can abandon all the territories and shrink all of Tokiwabei's army to the small rock village south of Kuroda Castle. Our Tokiwabei 600 soldiers are enough to defeat that
Xiaoyan Village is tightly guarded, and the defense must have been successful. But in that case, not only will the Yuqiu family's territory be lost, but Kurotian City will also fall into the hands of the enemy. Even if I defended Xiaoyan Village, the Yuqiu family would still lose.
.”
"So, what dad must do is to station troops at several key locations along Kuroda Castle and the Kiso River to coordinate with each other, prevent the Saito family from invading our territory, and minimize the Yuqiu family's losses. Although, this This kind of defense may not be as safe as hiding in Xiaoyanzhai before, but only this kind of defense can bring victory to the Yuqiu family!"
"So you have to do the same when playing chess. Although you can spend a lot of effort to guard one side airtight. But just defending one side cannot bring victory. You have to take risks and spread out. We have a larger formation and wait for the enemy to attack. Only in this way can we win."
After hearing Yu Qiuping's explanation, Yu Qiu Shang suddenly understood and nodded.
"Remember, defense is not for defense itself, but for victory." Yu Qiuping gently scratched Yu Qiu Shang's nose, "So, if Youer doesn't want to finish the set with you, he will take off his clothes and go first. When setting up, you must also keep up! Develop a larger situation so that your defense has a chance to succeed."
"Okay, Dad, I remember." Yu Qiu Shang obviously listened to Yu Qiuping's words and clenched his fist vigorously.
"Shang'er is awesome, he is indeed my son."
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"Then there's you, You'er!" Yu Qiuping looked at Yu Qiuyou who was elated because he won the chess game with some dissatisfaction, "Your problem is more serious than your brother's."
"Ah? Why!" Yu Qiuyou looked at Yu Qiuping in surprise, "Didn't Youer win?"
"You win, you win, that's because your brother was too conservative." Yu Qiuping frowned and whispered: "Tell me the truth, did you memorize the formula that I usually ask you to memorize well? Just now You made a lot of wrong moves!"
"Didn't Dad just say that you can't stick to the fixed formulas?" Yu Qiuyou retorted dissatisfiedly: "My brother has been making fixed formulas, isn't he unable to do mine? Then why do you still have to memorize the fixed formulas?"
"Is that the reason why you don't memorize it?" Yu Qiuping laughed evilly and slapped Yu Qiuyou's butt twice, "I think you're just having fun and you're lazy and don't memorize it, okay?"
"Um..." Yu Qiuyou's face turned red when his thoughts were seen through, and he pouted and whispered: "But you can still win without following the rules anyway!"
"You'er, you should be more down-to-earth and don't be too arrogant. Don't be impatient just because you have achieved something." Yu Qiuping sighed and advised earnestly: "You are playing chess now entirely based on your sense of chess. It is true. , your talent is very good, but without polishing your talent, it will always remain at the level of talent. Only by solidly mastering the basic skills can you achieve great things in the future."
"The formulas that seem useless to you are actually the hard work of countless predecessors. This is the crystallization of their lifelong wisdom from generation to generation. Memorizing them is not only so that you can use it when playing chess. It is also The important thing is to cultivate your feeling for Go. It is said that all changes are inseparable from the basic principles. Countless chess game changes actually come from these simple formulas."
"I know, I know." Yu Qiuyou still pouted and responded reluctantly. It could be seen that he didn't hear it at all.
"Sigh..." Yu Qiuping sighed softly, "It seems like you kid, if you don't suffer some hardships, you don't know how important basic skills are."
"Well, let me play a game with you." Yu Qiuping straightened his clothes and knelt down on one side of the chessboard, "In handicap chess, if you win, you won't have to memorize all the formulas in the future, love.
You can play whatever you want. If you lose, you must study hard for me and don't be lazy."
"Really!" Yu Qiuyou raised his head excitedly and quickly moved to the opposite side of Yu Qiuping eager to try.
"Hongye better not underestimate the enemy." Takenaka Shigeharu couldn't help but remind him: "The second master is extremely talented, don't underestimate him."
"It's okay, I just want to make this kid suffer." Yu Qiuping chuckled.
"Then father, do you want me to be the ninth son?" Yu Qiuyou raised his head and tentatively asked Yu Qiuping.
"No." Yu Qiu shook his head calmly.
"The Seventh Son?" Yu Qiuyou looked at Yu Qiuping tentatively again. The latter waved his hand and rejected his request.
"What kind of concession is that? You'er will definitely not be able to defeat dad!" Yu Qiuyou protested dissatisfied, "Even Mrs. Jing Yi asked me to beat my nine sons, and they all said that dad is even more powerful than Mrs. Jing Yi!
"
Yu Qiuping didn't say anything, but casually took out a handful of chess pieces from the chess box and handed them to Yu Qiuyou. As soon as he loosened his grip, the chess pieces fell down with a clatter, about twenty of them.
Yu Qiuping glanced at the small pile of chess pieces, raised his eyebrows, and then looked at Yu Qiuyou.
"You'er, that's all I'll let you." Yu Qiuping said with a smile.
When the people around him saw this, they took a breath of cold air. They had never seen so many pieces given away in the long time they had been playing Go.
"This..." Yu Qiuyou was stunned for a moment, "Then dad...where did Youer put them?"
"You can put it whatever you want."
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Less than half an hour later, Yu Qiuyou was already sweating profusely and his face was red. He had almost filled the entire chessboard airtightly at the beginning, but at this moment, he had been killed to pieces by Yu Qiuping. His father was almost unreasonable.
No matter how much he breaks in and plays haphazardly, Yu Qiuyou always dies in the end. After searching the entire chessboard, only three corners and five small edges of Yu Qiuyou's living chess piece are left.
"So strong." Takenaka Shigeharu, who was sitting next to him, sighed sincerely. "Hongye's talent is comparable to that of a national player. I thought that after studying hard for more than ten years, I could be considered a master. After watching Hongye's game today,
Only then did I realize that I was just a frog in the well."
"Back then, in the Imagawa Territory, it was widely rumored that His Highness Momiji could play chess with the Jibu Hall to a draw." Naotora Ii couldn't help but sigh: "When I saw him today, he really lived up to his reputation."
Yu Qiuping slowly put down the chess piece in his hand, bent down, and looked at Yu Qiuyou who was extremely aggrieved.
"Silly boy, study hard." Yu Qiuping gently put his hand on his shoulder, "You must know that there are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the world. The reason why dad is strong is not because of his sense of chess. Dad has been playing chess since he was a child.
Just try to memorize the set formulas. The set formulas in the chess book I gave you, dad can memorize them exactly one by one. Before every move, he will carefully calculate all the subsequent changes."
"Be practical, there is no shortcut to success in the world."