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Upon hearing this, Chen Anxia nodded in agreement, saying, "There are no chess tables or equipment here, so blindfold chess is the best option right now."
"As for who goes first, let's decide by rock-paper-scissors. Whoever wins gets to play black first."
With that, Chen Anxia looked at the two boys and asked, "If you think it's feasible, then let's begin."
The two boys exchanged a glance, their faces involuntarily revealing shock and horror, and began to whisper among themselves.
"He actually wants to play blindfold chess with us? Really?"
"Blindfold Go is far more difficult than other types of games. Even seasoned professional players rarely manage to complete a full blindfold Go game, right?"
"Yes, the first few dozen moves of blindfold chess are fine, but the situation becomes more and more complex and there are more and more variations as you go on. Even professional players find it hard to remember them, let alone deduce the variations."
"Like the students in our chess academy, I don't recall ever hearing of anyone who can play blindfold chess."
"That monster from the Yamazaki family seems capable, but he possesses super-calculation talent similar to Dosaku's..."
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Blindfold chess, also known as blindfolded chess, refers to chess games played without looking at the board.
Games like shogi, xiangqi, and international chess have dedicated blindfold chess competitions, but Go does not.
Because the Go board has 19 rows and 19 columns, with a total of 361 intersections, the possible variations are almost infinite for humans.
Under such circumstances, it would be extremely difficult for ordinary people to even memorize a complete game record, let alone play blindfold chess.
That's why the two boys reacted that way after Chen Anxia proposed playing blindfold chess.
Finally, after exchanging ideas for a while, the two boys agreed to play blindfold chess with Chen Anxia.
In the minds of the two boys, since Chen Anxia was a game NPC, it was understandable that he could actually play blind chess.
As for themselves, they are still self-aware.
In the player world, they would never agree to play blindfold chess.
However, this is within the game "Hikaru no Go," where players can manifest a virtual Go board that only they can see.
This is equivalent to them carrying a blindfold chess cheat code with them.
While such a victory might be somewhat shameful, to them it was just a game world, a game against NPCs, simply a task to complete...
Most importantly, in their view, Chen Anxia neither knew that they were players nor that they possessed a blind chess cheat.
Therefore, even if a blind chess cheat is used, it's not a big deal.
Of course, that's just what they think.
In fact, Chen Anxia chose to play blind chess with them precisely because he knew this.
Chen Anxia was aware of the difficulty of blindfold chess.
If it weren't for Chen Anxia's unique abilities, he wouldn't have chosen to play blindfold chess.
Actually, it was the players who first proposed a blindfold chess game to Chen Anxia.
It was that blindfold chess game that made Chen Anxia realize that his abilities could be used in blindfold chess.
At the same time, Chen Anxia also deduced a lot of information about the players.
For example, the fact that players have a virtual chessboard that only they can see.
As for the outcome of that blindfold chess game...
The first game of blindfold chess has begun.
The result of the rock-paper-scissors game was that Chen Anxia got the white pieces.
In this game, Chen Anxia was playing against a short-haired boy.
The short-haired boy was already confident in his chess skills, and with the added boost of the blindfold chess cheat, his confidence only grew stronger.
Without the slightest hesitation, after deciding to play black first, the short-haired boy confidently announced, "4 rows, 4 columns, star point!"
As the short-haired boy spoke, on the virtual chessboard that only he could see, a black piece was placed in the lower left corner star position.
What the short-haired boy didn't know was that a virtual chessboard, visible only to him, was unfolding before Chen Anxia's eyes.
Unlike the virtual chessboard used by players, the virtual chessboard in front of Chen Anxia was entirely visualized through his memory and calculation abilities.
Looking at the black stone placed in the lower left corner star position, Chen Anxia did not hesitate and said directly, "Row 16, column 16, star position!"
Upon seeing Chen Anxia's move on the virtual chessboard, the short-haired boy frowned slightly.
Chen Anxia's move directly disrupted the short-haired boy's original plan to play a diagonal star formation.
Right now, the only option for the short-haired boy is the two-star formation.
However, the short-haired boy didn't think much of it. His confidence remained, and even though he wasn't good at starting with two stars, he still confidently played two stars.
The game of chess is gradually unfolding.
While Chen Anxia was playing Go with the short-haired boy, the buzz-cut boy next to him didn't choose to pay attention to the game. Instead, he chose to connect to the player world network to check out news about the inter-school Go league.
Clearly, in the mind of the short-haired boy, Chen Anxia was destined to lose, so there was no need to pay attention to him.
Therefore, the boy with the buzz cut did not notice the changes in the expression on the short-haired boy's face as the game progressed.
While Chen Anxia was playing blind chess, many other contestants from different schools arrived at the private Haiwang Middle School.
Naturally, Chen Anxia and his two companions, who were playing blindfold chess in front of the competition-related matters, immediately caught their attention.
A storm is coming...
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The game between Chen Anxia and the short-haired boy continues.
Around them, apart from the boy with the buzz cut, the number of people remaining had unknowingly increased from one to four.
All four of them are players.
Originally, these four players just wanted to look at the standee behind Chen Anxia to see where the competition venue was.
However, when the four players got closer, they noticed something was wrong and their faces showed surprise.
As fellow gamers, they weren't surprised that the short-haired boy could play blindfold chess.
But Chen Anxia is not a player.
Moreover, Chen Anxia looks like she's in elementary school.
'Is it possible that a primary school student can play chess blindfolded? Is this part of the game's design?'
These players all had similar questions in their minds.
Because in the eyes of the players, Chen Anxia is a game NPC.
So even though Chen Anxia could play blindfold chess, it only surprised and astonished the players, who didn't think much of it.
In this situation, if it were just a blindfold chess game, it would obviously not be enough to keep them there for a long time.
After all, each of them has a series of tasks related to the inter-school Go league.
Not to mention that there is less than an hour left before the official start of the inter-school Go league.
The real reason they stayed was that they had all been given the opportunity to challenge Chen Anxia.
They didn't want to give up this opportunity, so they planned to arrange a time and place to play against Chen Anxia after this blindfold chess game ended.
Time passed quietly, and the game between Chen Anxia and the short-haired boy had entered the middle stage.
At this moment, the short-haired boy's expression had become serious.
Once the game enters the middle stage, the overall situation of the game becomes clear.
Through the virtual chessboard visible only to himself, the short-haired boy saw the current situation clearly and realized that he was at a disadvantage.
This fact was somewhat difficult for the short-haired boy to accept.
It should be noted that the short-haired boy was a student of the Go Academy, and his Go skills had long since reached the level of stepping into the path of Go and beginning to condense his own Go aura.
However, despite such skill, he was at a disadvantage when facing Chen Anxia, a game NPC who looked like a primary school student.
Could it be that Chen Anxia's chess skills surpass his own?
This thought involuntarily surfaced in the short-haired boy's mind, causing his confidence to begin to waver.
Taking a deep breath, the short-haired boy tried to clear his mind of distractions, murmuring to himself, 'The current situation in the game is just the beginning; if I play well from here on out, I can completely reverse the situation...'
Thinking it over, the short-haired boy's gaze sharpened, and he said firmly, "7 rows and 13 columns!"
The moment the short-haired boy spoke, a black piece appeared on the virtual chessboard visualized by Chen Anxia, at the 7th row and 13th column.
The instant the black piece appeared, Chen Anxia saw more than a dozen dark beams of light rise from the chessboard.
These dim beams of light are the lights of weakness, that is, the weaknesses in the short-haired boy's chess game.
By this time, Chen Anxia had already figured out the short-haired boy's chess skills.
In Chen Anxia's opinion, the short-haired boy's chess skills were weaker than those of Fukui Yuta.
Faced with this level of chess skill, Chen Anxia naturally couldn't use his full strength.
Through playing against players over the past few days, Chen Anxia has come to the conclusion that the completeness of a player's chess reasoning that he can perceive is related to the player's performance during the game.
The better and more brilliantly a player performs in a game, the more complete the chess principles they demonstrate to Chen Anxia.
This means that if Chen Anxia wants to effectively exploit players, he needs to make them perform as well and excitingly as possible.
Therefore, playing the instructional game is the best choice at present.
Through instructional games, Chen Anxia can guide players step by step, enabling them to perform as well and brilliantly as possible.
Moreover, Chen Anxia himself can also better grasp the principles of the game by guiding the players through the weaknesses they reveal and the methods they use to fill those weaknesses.
As for being discovered...
It doesn't really matter if they've been discovered, but the key point is that the players who were giving instructions to Chen Anxia were completely unaware that Chen Anxia was giving instructions, and thought that Chen Anxia's chess skills were only slightly better than their own.
Among these players, there are even those whose skill level surpasses that of Yuta Fukui.
The reason they didn't discover it was because Chen Anxia had acquired an ability by playing against Nakata Kaoru and extracting his chess principles.