OBS Chapter 1044: Go? A little bit
Chapter 1044: Go? A little bit
Chapter 1044: Go? A little bit
After the beginning of spring, the alley welcomed two happy events. One was that tap water was connected to every household, making water use much more convenient. There was no need to go to the public faucet to fetch water and store it. The large water tank at home could also be removed, which was tiring and took up space.
Another is that the Youth Cultural Palace has added a new department - the Children's Palace. Especially for working parents, it is equivalent to having an extra free extracurricular training class. On Sundays, they can finally have a quiet day.
Since the school was recruiting children from all over the city, and initially only the vocal and dance classes were open for enrollment, the entrance to the Children's Palace was crowded with parents bringing their children to queue up for registration early in the morning.
Song Ying and Huang Ling were no exception, and naturally Qin Hao, Lin Dongzhe and Zhuang Xiaoting also followed behind them.
Zhuang Xiaoting is full of expectations for the Children's Palace, Lin Dongzhe doesn't care, and Qin Hao just wants to be eliminated quickly.
The thought of singing and dancing with a bunch of kids made him lose the energy. If Song Ying hadn't insisted, he would have been sleeping at home.
"Brother Hao, do you want to sign up for vocal music or dance?" Lin Dongzhe asked, pulling Qin Hao's clothes. As Qin Hao's die-hard follower, he would naturally go wherever Qin Hao went.
"It's not certain whether I can be selected. Let's wait and see." Qin Hao said casually.
While the two were talking, Song Ying and Huang Ling had already registered and received their number tags, and the three of them just had to wait for their numbers to be called.
"Mom, where is the toilet? I need to use the toilet."
Song Ying rolled her eyes at Lin Dongzhe and said, "What a lazy donkey that has to work hard to get rid of shit."
"Auntie Song, let me take Lin Dongzhe with me. I just need to relieve myself."
"Okay, then you should go and come back quickly. Once your number is called, it will be considered as a forfeit." Song Ying did not forget to remind him.
"Ah."
Qin Hao took Lin Dongzhe to find a toilet. They walked around groups of parents and children and finally found the toilet inside the Children's Palace.
After going to the toilet, Qin Hao was about to take Lin Dongzhe back the same way, but Lin Dongzhe said he wanted to visit the Children's Palace and wanted to go out from another way.
Qin Hao thought it was a good thing that he missed the call, so he didn't have to rack his brains to fool the teachers at the Children's Palace.
The two of them strolled along the way and unknowingly came to a pavilion. From a distance, they saw a group of teenagers sitting opposite each other with a square plate in front of them.
"Brother Hao, what are they doing there?" Lin Dongzhe asked curiously.
"Go."
"What is Go? Brother Hao, do you know how to play it?"
"I know a little."
Lin Dongzhe tilted his head and thought for a while: "Brother Hao, you always say you only know a little bit about everything, but in fact you are very good at everything. This Go should be the same, right?"
Seeing that Qin Hao remained silent, Lin Dongzhe became even more curious and ran quickly towards the pavilion.
Seeing this, Qin Hao had no choice but to follow him and warned him, "Just watch for a while, don't shout, the most taboo in playing Go is making noise."
"Oh." Lin Dongzhe covered his mouth to indicate that he would not make trouble.
Just as Qin Hao and Lin Dongzhe approached, they were stopped by a middle-aged man.
"Children, are you here to participate in the selection for the Go Junior Class? Where is your teacher?"
Lin Dongzhe's eyes flickered. "Selection for the junior Go class? Doesn't the Children's Palace only recruit students for the vocal music and dance classes?"
The middle-aged man patiently explained: "Vocal music and dance are open to children from all over the city, and there is no threshold. However, there are thresholds for things like Go and mathematics, which require a certain foundation, so each primary school recommends them internally, and then they are strictly selected before they can be admitted."
"This is not fair." Lin Dongzhe said angrily when he heard this.
The middle-aged man was amused: "So, you are very good at playing Go?"
"I don't know how to play." Lin Dongzhe shook his head seriously, and then directly sold out Qin Hao.
"But Haoge can. He's really good at playing Go."
The middle-aged man became interested: "Oh, how amazing is it?"
"Anyway, I'm better than them." Lin Dongzhe glanced at the group of children playing chess, with an attitude as if to say: everyone here is trash.
The middle-aged man looked at Qin Hao suspiciously: "Can you really play Go?"
"I know a little bit." As soon as Qin Hao finished speaking, Lin Dongzhe crossed his arms, raised his chin and said proudly: "Brother Hao said he knows a little bit, which means he is very powerful."
The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, walked into the pavilion, and whispered with an old man in his fifties.
After a long time, the middle-aged man walked up to Qin Hao.
"What's your name? Which school are you from? I'll find someone to play a game with you to see your basics. If your foundation is good, I'll make an exception and recruit you into our junior Go class."
"His name is Qin Hao, and he's in Class 3, Grade 1 of the Affiliated Primary School." Lin Dongzhe answered impatiently.
Qin Hao thought, as long as it wasn't a vocal music class or a dance class, he could just play Go, at least it would be quiet.
"Wang Yang, come here for a moment."
The middle-aged man brought Qin Hao to a table and then called over a boy of about twelve or thirteen years old.
"Play a round with him."
"Okay, Teacher Liu."
Wang Yang looked at Qin Hao for a few seconds, then reached out and grabbed a handful of white pieces from the chess box.
Lin Dongzhe was confused, and Teacher Liu beside him was also tireless in teaching him, explaining: "This is called grabbing and guessing. The player with a higher rank grabs a handful of white pieces, and the player with a lower rank guesses whether the number of pieces in his hand is odd or even. If you guess an odd number, you take a black piece and put it on the board. If you guess an even number, you take two. If you guess correctly, you play black first, and if you guess wrong, you play white second."
"Brother Hao, he must be odd."
Wang Yang glared at Lin Dongzhe in dissatisfaction, and Teacher Liu made a gesture to silence him: "A true gentleman watches a game of chess without saying a word. When two sides are playing chess, others cannot speak, as it will interfere with their thinking."
Only then did Lin Dongzhe calm down.
Qin Hao picked up a black piece and placed it on the chessboard.
Wang Yang put down all the white pieces in his hand, and the result was an even number.
"Then Wang Yang will play black first."
Wang Yang picked up a black piece and placed it neatly on the star position in the upper right corner.
Lin Dongzhe looked at Wang Yang's movements and inexplicably felt a sense of beauty.
Qin Hao followed suit: click three three.
Teacher Liu nodded slightly when he saw this. Judging from the way Qin Hao held the chess pieces and the positions he placed them, he should have at least some basic knowledge of Go.
Soon, the two sides fought for more than thirty moves, and the expression on Wang Yang's face changed from disdain at the beginning to surprise, astonishment, and now to solemnity.
Teacher Liu also looked at Qin Hao with some surprise. Others didn't know Wang Yang's strength, but he knew it very well. Wang Yang's chess skills were among the best in the Go junior class. There were only a few people in the whole class who could play with Wang Yang for more than thirty moves and still be so tense.
Moreover, Qin Hao looks only about ten years old. Go is a sport that requires a lot of talent. The younger the age, the better the talent shown and the greater the potential for the future.
Just when Qin Hao and Wang Yang had played about a hundred hands, the surrounding children had basically finished their games and gathered around to watch. Even the old man who had been sitting in the pavilion leisurely drinking tea came over.
The old man first bent over and glanced casually, but soon he said "Huh".
Just as Teacher Liu was looking at the old man in surprise, Wang Yang suddenly grabbed a handful of black pieces and placed them on the chessboard.
Lin Dongzhe immediately shouted, "He's cheating by placing so many chess pieces at once."
The children watching burst into laughter.
The old man rubbed Lin Dongzhe's head and explained with a smile: "He just gave up and admitted defeat, not cheating."
Lin Dongzhe laughed loudly upon hearing this: "Yeah, Brother Hao won. I said Brother Hao is really good."
If you don’t know, you might think he won.
Wang Yang clenched his fists and gritted his teeth as he said to Qin Hao: "I was careless just now. Let's play another round."
Qin Hao shook his head: "I have to go back. Aunt Song must be waiting anxiously now."
Having said that, Qin Hao pulled the reluctant Lin Dongzhe and prepared to leave.
Teacher Liu quickly stopped Qin Hao and said, "Qin Hao, right? Welcome to join our Go Junior Class."
At this moment, Song Ying's loud voice came from behind: "Lin Dongzhe, you naughty monkey are running around again. The selection will be your turn soon. Come back with me to participate in the selection."
Seeing that the situation was not good, Lin Dongzhe quickly pushed Qin Hao out as a shield: "Mom, I'm not running around, I'm playing Go with Brother Hao here."
"Go? Haozi can also play Go?" Song Ying blinked.
Teacher Liu walked up to Song Ying with a big smile on her face and said, "Hello, are you Qin Hao's mother? I'm the teacher of the Go Junior Class at the Children's Palace. My name is Liu Hong. Your son is very talented in Go..."
Before Teacher Liu could finish her words, Song Ying pointed at Lin Dongzhe with embarrassment on her face: "Teacher Liu, this is my son, Haozi is the child of my friend."
This made Teacher Liu embarrassed as well.
"Aunt Song is my guardian." Qin Hao's words eased everyone's embarrassment.
Song Ying listened to a lot of things Teacher Liu said, which was a bit confusing. She was completely clueless about Go until Teacher Liu said that if Qin Hao performed well, he would have the opportunity to represent Suzhou in the National Children's Go Competition.
"Teacher Liu, I'll leave Haozi in your care."
"Ms. Song, please rest assured. I will do my best to raise this child."
After Song Ying took Qin Hao and Lin Dongzhe away, Teacher Liu realized that the old man was still staring at the chessboard.
After letting the rest of the children move freely, Teacher Liu sat down opposite the old man.
"Mr. Zhang, is there anything wrong with this game of chess?"
The old man shook his head: "No problem, on the contrary it was a beautiful rain."
Teacher Liu nodded and said, "Yes, I just heard from Ms. Song that this child is not even ten years old. It is not easy for him to have such chess skills. We can say that we have found a treasure this time."
Before he could finish his words, the old man knocked Teacher Liu on the head.
"Hey, Mr. Zhang, what are you doing?"
The old man snorted: "Take a closer look at this chess game."
Teacher Liu stared at the chessboard for a while, then suddenly widened his eyes and pointed at the white chess piece in an incredulous tone.
"You can see it now, the kid was just giving us a tutorial. His chess skills are far more than that."
Teacher Liu looked as if he had seen a ghost: "Mr. Zhang, could it be a coincidence? This is too unbelievable. Wang Yang's chess skills are already rare among his peers. Playing his guidance chess... doesn't that mean that this kid's chess skills are almost close to those of professional chess players?"
"People can lie, but chess can't. Look at these moves. Wang Yang's black pieces have obvious flaws, but the white pieces didn't try to kill his dragon, but kept fighting him. If it was just one flaw that was missed, it would be understandable, but they ignored several flaws in a row. Doesn't that explain the problem?"
Teacher Liu fell silent for a long time, and then the old man suddenly laughed.
"That child's name is Qin Hao, right?"
"Ah."
"I remember the National Children's Go Tournament will be held in two months, right?"
"Mr. Zhang, do you mean to let him..."
"Wait until he comes to class, then arrange for Wu Yue and the others to play a few games with this kid and see how things go."
After the old man finished speaking, he returned to the pavilion with his hands behind his back, sipping tea while muttering to himself: "Interesting, interesting."
……
On the other hand, Lin Dongzhe finally caught up with the dance class selection, but Qin Hao gave up directly. Song Ying thought that since Qin Hao had already entered the Go class, it didn't matter whether he entered the dance class or not, so she didn't care.
Zhuang Xiaoting had just been selected for the vocal class, her little face was full of excitement. Huang Ling was also very happy. Which parent doesn't want their child to be multi-talented?
After about half an hour, Lin Dongzhe finally came out and brought good news: he was selected by the dance class.
In the alley for cotton mill workers.
Huang Ling and Song Ying were in high spirits and told everyone that their three children were selected by the Children's Palace.
In particular, Song Ying said loudly, "Haozi was selected by the Go class. This Go class is incredible. They don't even recruit students from outside."
Although most of the neighbors don’t know what Go is.
After returning to the courtyard, Zhuang Chaoying was somewhat surprised and confirmed again and again: "Is it the kind of Go that has a rectangular chessboard, where one person plays the black pieces and the other plays the white pieces?"
"Yes, Teacher Zhuang, you also know Go?" Song Ying asked curiously.
Zhuang Chaoying shook his head: "I don't know Go, but I heard that Go requires a very high IQ, and most children can't learn it."
"That's right, our Haozi is very smart." Song Ying smiled so hard that her eyebrows were almost narrowed. She had long treated Qin Hao as a relative, and praising Qin Hao was no different from praising Lin Dongzhe. Of course, Lin Dongzhe was praised only a few times, and was often scolded.
In the afternoon, when Lin Wufeng got off work, the family sat down to eat, and Song Ying did not forget to share the good news with her husband.
Lin Dongzhe said with an exaggerated expression: "Dad, you don't know how powerful Brother Hao is. The opponent is several years older than him, but he surrendered before the game was even over. Looking at his expression, I almost cried."
"Really? That's so awesome!" Lin Wufeng was also very supportive.
After dinner, Song Ying thought for a moment and said, "Why don't we buy Haozi a set of Go? That way he can play at home."
"Auntie Song, that's not necessary. Go requires two people to play. I can just go to the Children's Palace. I have to do my homework in the evening, so I don't have much time to play chess." Qin Hao quickly dissuaded her.
Song Ying thought about it and said, "Yes, studying is more important. Studying is more important."