Chapter 2208: Seven Star Party

Hongyu nodded in disapproval. In previous competitions, Lao Bai asked to try the next round first, and this time he was not surprised at all.
"No problem! Follow the rules!" Hong Yu said with a smile.
Then, he stretched out his hand and wiped it in the air, and on the huge smooth chessboard, sixteen huge red chess pieces suddenly appeared on the side of Hongyu, but the characters on them were all black.
These chess pieces are crystal clear, each with the size of a grinding disc. When the chess pieces appeared, Xia Ruofei felt that his Nascent Soul almost came out directly. The breath of the chess piece alone was enough to make the Nascent Soul cheer.
If Baili Wuya was here, he would definitely drop his jaw.
Because these 16 pieces are all made of Soul Jade Essence, and the quality of Soul Jade Essence is extremely high, just a piece of chess pieces is more than what Luoxing Pavilion has consumed in the past few thousand years. There are even more soul jade essences.
Hongyu smiled and said to Lao Bai, "It's your turn!"
Lao Bai didn't speak, he also waved his hand in the air, and sixteen green chess pieces appeared on the chessboard on Xia Ruofei's side. Of course, the words on the chess pieces were red.
When these sixteen chess pieces appeared, Xia Ruofei suddenly felt that the rich breath of life began to diffuse in the cave, and his body began to absorb the breath of life spontaneously.
Just the breath of life escaping, has already made Xia Ruofei feel that his body is constantly strengthening.
Muscles get tighter, meridians get tougher, and even bones start to strengthen…
These sixteen chess pieces are made from the most precious and core tree core of Longya cypress. In the past eight competitions, Lao Bai has lost almost the same number of tree cores. As a result, Hongyu's strength has grown a lot, while he has been weakened a lot. If he still loses this time, it will be difficult for Lao Bai to support the next five hundred years. I am afraid that before the next batch of monks from Lingxu comes in, Longyabai will be swallowed up by the red jade.
Hongyu glanced at the sixteen pieces on the opposite side greedily, and then smiled at Xia Ruofei and made a gesture of invitation, saying, "Red chess goes first, come on!"
Xia Ruofei looked at the old cypress not far away.
Lao Bai nodded slightly and said, "You are already familiar with the rules of chess. You must not touch the chess pieces during the competition. You must use mental power to drive. Let's start!"
In the environment of this cave, the spiritual power of the monks will be suppressed to a certain extent.
Therefore, if the mental power is not strong enough, even driving the pieces will be very difficult.
The reason why Lao Bai chose Xia Ruofei, in addition to relying on the first feeling, there is another very important reason, that is, Xia Ruofei's spiritual realm is very high.
The highest cultivation level of the monks who entered the ruins was in the late Nascent Soul, so their spiritual realm was generally not too high.
Xia Ruofei's spiritual power broke through the Holy Spirit realm early. If it is just a comparison of spiritual power, he is definitely the leader of this group of monks who entered the ruins.
Lao Bai chose Xia Ruofei for this reason.
After all, the mental power is strong enough, at least when driving the pieces, it will not be affected. If the mental power level is relatively low, and it takes effort to drive the pieces, how can we concentrate on thinking about the chess game? What's more, if something goes wrong when driving the chess pieces, and the chess pieces are not placed where they want, it will be tantamount to directly disarming and surrendering.
No regrets, Hongyu would not be sympathetic in such a crucial chess game.
Xia Ruofei nodded and tried to release his mental power to touch the chess piece, and then he probably had a bottom line.
Of course, he is only able to move the pieces normally, as for the chess skills... let alone!
Xia Ruofei thought about it for a while, and used a law-abiding start, and his mental strength wrapped the gun on the right and moved to the middle, and he was the first gun!
Hongyu has always been smiling, and he didn't see any movement from him. On the opposite chessboard, the horse rose straight up, which was also a fairly decent defense.
Then the two of you went down to the ground.
Xia Ruofei doesn't know what Hongyu's chess style is, so he is more cautious, but after the opening stage, his shortcomings in chess skills are reflected. Although his current brain capacity is enough for him to think a lot of moves, playing chess not only It only needs to be powerful in calculation, otherwise the opponent's Hongyu Yuanshen is so powerful, the calculation must be even more powerful. In fact, playing chess is still a test of creativity. Facts have proved that Xia Ruofei is indeed very good at the creativity of chess.
Into the middle game, Xia Ruofei began to gradually lose the wind.
Hongyu's chess style also shows a sharp side. When it comes to countering, he doesn't hesitate, and it's a decisive move. And every time after redeeming the coins, Xia Ruofei found that his situation was even more unfavorable.
The two played less than an hour, the red jade vault called the general, Xia Ruofei looked at the chessboard and found that a dead chess had been formed.
He helplessly showed a wry smile and said, "I lost..."
Hongyu laughed and said, "You should have just learned it today! It's pretty good to be able to get down to this level! It seems that Lao Bai has taught quite well..."
The old cypress on the side looked very bad. Although he was already mentally prepared, he still didn't expect Xia Ruofei to lose so simply. After the whole game of chess was stalemate for a while except for the opening stage, it was basically Hongyu who took the initiative.
It can't be said that Xia Ruofei doesn't work hard, but this is the gap in chess skills.
The level of Hongyu's performance will be higher than when he played against Lao Bai, which was not beyond Lao Bai's expectations.
As for Xia Ruofei, Lao Bai could see that he had done his best, and it was precisely because of this that he felt even more desperate.
Hongyu said with a smile: "Old Bai, I have also tried chess. Can we start the official competition now?"
Old Bai frowned slightly, and he also knew that delaying time was useless at all. He sighed in his heart: Maybe it's God who wants to kill me!
He nodded sullenly and said, "Let's start!"
"Okay!" Hong Yu replied happily.
Then he waved his hand, and the pieces on the chessboard flew up one after another, and then each fell to the corresponding position.
Old Bai glanced at the chessboard and couldn't help frowning: "Hongyu, what do you mean?"
Xia Ruofei's eyes also fell on the chessboard, and found that Hongyu did not play the chess according to the normal chess opening, only fourteen chess pieces were left on the chessboard, and the rest of the chess pieces were stacked aside.
The fourteen pieces are seven for each of red and black.
The black side has four pawns, one rook, one elephant, and one general; the red side has three pawns, two rooks, one gun, and one handsome.
Three of Black's pawns have been pushed into the Red's old camp, trapping the Red Commander in the center. Two of the Red's pawns have also pushed into Black's old camp, and the other Red Rook is in line with his own Commander.
The more Xia Ruofei looked at this chess game, the more familiar he became.
At this time, Hongyu said with a smile: "I decided to officially compete today, so I will use this endgame. Lao Bai, this seems to be my power, right?"
The two sides had agreed that the chess game for the competition was chosen by Hongyu, and the way of the competition was also decided by him.
Therefore, Hongyu chose chess this time. As long as he followed the rules of chess, he chose such an endgame, which was completely in line with the rules.
Although Lao Bai just learned chess today, his chess skills are much higher than Xia Ruofei's, so he can naturally see the danger of this endgame.
It can be said that if it is a normal game, even if Xia Ruofei's level is a little worse, he can at least persist for half an hour to an hour. And if you use this endgame to play the game, if you deal with it a little bit improperly, you may lose two or three moves completely.
Although the final result may not make any difference, Lao Bai is still very unwilling. After all, Xia Ruofei's chess skills are poor, and it is even more difficult to deal with this kind of endgame, and since Hongyu chose this endgame, he must have studied it for a lot of time, and Xia Ruofei just started learning chess today, at least in Lao Bai's opinion. He must have never seen this endgame before. As soon as he came up, he faced such a dangerous endgame in the official competition, and the result can be imagined.
However, as Hongyu said, the rules were agreed upon by the two of them. Hongyu did not break the rules, and Lao Bai had no way to object.
Lao Bai couldn't help looking at Xia Ruofei...
At this time, Xia Ruofei frowned slightly. This endgame gave him a strong sense of familiarity. He felt that he must have encountered it before.
Scenes from the past flashed through his mind quickly, and a memory gradually became clear...
In the barracks of the Lone Wolf Commando, Lin Hu pulled Xia Ruofei and said with great interest: "Ruofei! I took a leave of absence today and saw a very interesting endgame at a chess booth. I'll show it and let's take a look!"
During that time, everyone's training tasks were not very heavy, and they still had a lot of spare time. In addition to playing poker, they played chess the most, so although Xia Ruofei's level was not high, he was quite addicted, and he immediately came to hear it. interested.
So Lin Hu took out the chess piece from the drawer, picked out fourteen pieces, and said, "There are seven pieces each for red and black in this endgame, so it has a nice name, it's called the Seven Star Party. , is said to be a very famous endgame in the arena, known as one of the top ten games!"
Lin Hu put the pieces up one by one, and the distribution of the pieces on the chessboard coincided with the distribution of the pieces on the huge chessboard in front of Xia Ruofei now...
Seven Star Party! Xia Ruofei finally remembered the name of this chess game.
No wonder he thought this endgame looked so familiar, because he and Lin Hu had been studying this endgame for a long time at the beginning, but later everyone had more and more heavy training tasks and less time to play chess. Research further, and as time goes by, this memory naturally becomes weaker and weaker.
Fortunately, after Xia Ruofei practiced, not only has his memory improved a lot, but also many of the previously vague memories, as long as he recalls a little, he can still recall a lot.
In fact, many things people think they have forgotten, but they are actually just hidden in a certain corner of the brain, and can still be recalled under certain conditions.
Cultivating spiritual power is naturally beneficial for awakening dusty memories.
Xia Ruofei slowly recalled how he and Lin Hu studied this chess game. Of course, he couldn't remember all the details of the research on the endgame, but he could remember the general situation.
However, because he remembered a lot of content, his face became even more ugly.
Because this chess game is too dangerous, and there are many changes in the later stage, some folk masters of chess often accidentally break the halberd and sink into the sand.
The endgame of the Seven Star Party is very famous. Many ancient chess records are included, and it is regarded as one of the top ten famous games. Some chess records list this endgame as the first of the four famous games. Even the first Huaxia Chess International Invitational Tournament was named "" Seven Star Cup", which shows the great reputation of this endgame.
With such a famous endgame, there are naturally many people who study it. After deduction by many chess masters, the best result for the red side in this endgame is to fight for a draw. Of course, this is under the condition that Black responds properly and does not make mistakes in every move. If Black makes a careless move, the situation will be reversed immediately, and Red will also have a chance to win quickly.
The endgame of the Seven Star Party also often appears in street chess stalls.
The chess games that can be favored by the chess booths all have an obvious feature, that is, no matter the red side or the black side, it seems that they may be able to checkmate the opponent by one or two moves. In this way, people who do not believe in evil can continue to be attracted to challenge, and the stall owners can make a lot of money.
At the same time, this type of chess game also has another feature, that is, there are many traps, and it seems that victory is about to be won, but in fact there is a hidden murderous intention. Unless you study this endgame like a stall owner and study the trend thoroughly, otherwise Often unknowingly fall into the trap, confused and lost.
These two characteristics of the Seven Star Party are very obvious, and the trap is still hidden deep.
Xia Ruofei and Lin Hu were also hobbies at the beginning, so they found a chess manual and studied it for a period of time. It is far from being a thorough research, and it is impossible for him to recall the details of each move now, so for Today's test still doesn't work.
Maybe he could handle the first few steps stably by relying on memory, but after the sudden increase of changes, the test is still chess skills, and there is very little room for error in this kind of endgame.
Therefore, Xia Ruofei's face became more ugly.
If it was a normal game, he might still have an extremely slim chance to win, but if it was an endgame, especially the endgame of this Seven Star Party, he might not even have the slightest chance to win.
Lao Bai was looking at Xia Ruofei, and Hong Yu also looked at Xia Ruofei with a smile.
Just when Xia Ruofei felt that he might really want Barbie Q this time, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, thinking of a past event...