May 3, 1987, Tokyo, Japan, Nippon Chess Academy.

In a small Japanese room, several men in kimono were looking at the young man in front of them with serious expressions.

Without exception, this group of people are the mainstays of today's Japanese chess world. Among them are Kataoka Satoshi, who participated in the first and second arena tournaments, and Takemiya Masaki, who only participated in the second arena tournament.

But more of them are chess players who are about to participate in the third tournament, such as Goro Miyazawa, Norio Kudo, Shuzo Ohira, Hiroshi Yamashiro and Masao Kato. Kazuhiro Fukuda is inevitably nervous as he is watched by several top players in the Japanese chess world.

But I still forced myself to calm down.

On the wall behind him, there was a blackboard with several photos pasted on it. The most obvious one was that of a man marked in red handwriting. "This is Lin Chaoyang, the famous Chinese

Novelist, also the author of "The Chess Master"."

Obviously, the red handwriting was marked by Fukuda Kazuhiro. He studied at Yan University and naturally knew Lin Chaoyang, who was already famous at that time. "Futian, do you think this Lin Sang is very good at chess? How good is he?"

The man sitting on the right side of the door asked.

Fukuda Kazuhiro hesitated for a few seconds, "Mr. Takemiya, I'm really sorry. I have never played against him, so I can't give you an accurate answer."

"However, when I was studying abroad in Yanjing, I also participated in an arena competition and achieved 13 consecutive victories. Later, I was defeated by a Chinese student. I heard that that person was under the guidance of Lin Sang."

Takemiya Masaki frowned and looked at Fukuda Kazuhiro, "You are just an amateur. It's not surprising that someone defeated you under his guidance." When Fukuda Kazuhiro heard this, he didn't feel the slightest anger at being looked down upon. Instead, he looked horrified.

He lowered his head and bowed: "I'm so sorry!"

Masao Kato, who was sitting at the top, said: "Okay, don't talk nonsense. What I want to know is, is there any evidence to prove that this person is the military advisor behind the Chinese team?"

Hearing this, Fukuda Kazuhiro looked embarrassed and said hesitantly: "Mr. Kato, I just heard a rumor before, but I don't know whether it is true or not." When Kato Masao heard this, his eyes condensed and his face was not angry.

Wei, "What rumors?"

"It is rumored that when Lin Sang was at Yan University, Nie Xuanfeng would visit him from time to time to ask for advice on chess skills." As soon as these words came out, everyone present suddenly looked solemn.

Kato Masao pondered for a long time and exhaled: "It seems that Lin Sang is indeed the 'Mr. Kong Ming' behind the Chinese team. No wonder he can be seen on the scene in every crucial competition of the arena."

In the past two days, the Japanese Go team has been studying strategies against the Chinese team. Yesterday, they had learned about the existence of "Go Master" and made targeted arrangements. But just yesterday evening, the Japanese Go team who had participated in two consecutive arena games

Kataoka Satoshi suddenly said that there is a stranger in the Chinese team who always appears in every key game.

And he was very sure that the person was not a chess player, coach or accompanying official of the Chinese team.

The situation of his reaction immediately attracted the attention of the Japanese team. Everyone immediately found the man's photo to identify him, only to find that many people had seen that man, but no one knew the other person's identity.

This immediately made the Japanese team nervous, and they called over Fukuda Kazuhiro, who had previously studied "The Master of Chess" and had studied in China. This led to the scene just now.

It was a very strange situation for a novelist to appear at the highest-level Go competition between the two countries. Now after analyzing all the situations, everyone finally understood that this person must be the strategic think tank behind the Chinese team.

Everyone felt the pressure and remained silent. Kato Masao frowned and sighed: "What we have to face is not only the increasingly powerful Chinese team, but also Mr. Kong Ming behind them!"

Kataoka Satoshi said: "We lost the previous two games because we were unprepared. Now that we know the existence of Mr. Kong Ming, it will be easier to handle." Takemiya Masaki raised questions, "Easy to handle? What should we do? Should we do it?

Can your chess skills improve by leaps and bounds?"

His words left Kataoka Satoshi speechless. After a moment, Kataoka Satoshi said again: "You don't have to give him a visa, so he won't be able to come to the game." "Baga!" Kato took the lead.

Masao scolded angrily and looked at Kataoka Satoshi with eyes filled with contempt.

"You are deceiving yourself. Doesn't it mean that he can't give advice to the Chinese team if he is not at the game?"

Kataoka Satoshi said dissatisfied: "What else can we do?"

No one answered his question, and everyone in the room fell silent.

Kato Masao also frowned and pondered for a long time. Finally he said: "In addition to reading "Celebrity", I think we should also make "The Master of Chess" a must-read for the Go team."

Everyone understood that Kato Masao's proposal was more of a helpless move. "How do we read a Chinese novel?" Takemiya Masaki asked.

Someone looked at Kazuhiro Fukuda who was standing there.

Kazuhiro Fukuda said weakly: "I'm really sorry, my Chinese level is not good enough to translate Lin Sang's works. But I know that Kawade Shobo has introduced Lin Sang's works in the past two years.

I think I can contact their translators to provide help.

His words were recognized by Kato Masao. Kato Masao asked everyone present with his eyes, but no one said anything.

He then said: "Since you all have no objections, I will send someone to contact Kawade Shofu and ask them to provide us with a Japanese version of "The Master of Chess" as soon as possible." As of now, we can only live and die.

The horse is healed.

Everyone bowed their heads and said in unison: "Hai!"

Kato Masao said to Goro Miyazawa sternly: "Miyazawa-kun, tomorrow is the day when you play against the Chinese team. You must read "Celebrity" carefully and cheer up. We in Japanese Go can no longer withstand failure!"

Goro Miyazawa immediately felt an invisible pressure on his shoulders and bowed solemnly. "In order to win, I will study "Celebrity" seriously!"

Masao Kato nodded happily.

The next day, the second game of the 3rd China-Japan Go Tournament was held as scheduled at the Nippon Go Academy. After this match, the tournament will be moved to China, but that will have to wait a month.

The second game was between Yang Hui of the Chinese team and Goro Miyazawa of the Japanese team.

When they met before the game, Yang Hui saw that Goro Miyazawa's eyes were red. He obviously didn't get much rest last night, but his spirit gave people a sense of excitement. The game between the two reached 227 moves, and Goro Miyazawa

Winning the mid-game.

After losing the game, Yang Hui was very calm because women's Go skills have always been inferior to men's. It was normal for her to lose, and it would be strange not to lose.

But what puzzled her was that after the victory, Miyazawa Goro and the Japanese team were obviously only in the second round of the arena match, but their joy and celebration seemed to be even happier than the final match.

Yang Hui looked in the direction of the Japanese team and asked several teammates with a strange expression, "What are they celebrating?"

Nie Weiping also looked at the Japanese team and replied: "I don't know. Maybe it's because I just experienced a disastrous defeat a few days ago, so I'm happy to win today." Then he said to Lin Chaoyang: "Chaoyang, I found out that they have won today.

It seems like I'm always staring at you."

"Really? I didn't pay attention." Lin Chaoyang didn't pay attention and asked: "Is it time to go back to China the day after tomorrow?" Lin Chaoyang came to Japan at the invitation of the Chinese Go team, so naturally he had to go back to China with them.

After today's game, the Japanese side also arranged a tour itinerary for the Chinese team. They will have to stay in Japan for a day before the team will return to China the day after tomorrow. "Yes, I heard that the domestic celebration banquet has been prepared. Lao Nie this time

You’re going to be in the limelight again!” Yang Hui teased with a smile on his face.

"It's as if you don't want to be in the limelight. Victory belongs to everyone!" Nie Weiping replied with a smile. The next day, Lin Chaoyang spent a day in Tokyo with the Chinese team, and then boarded the plane back home.

After arriving at Yanjing Airport, the Chinese Go team was immediately surrounded by enthusiastic reporters and greeted them like heroes. The Capital Airport was filled with flowers and applause.

Nie Weiping held a bouquet presented by the staff of the Sports Bureau and first accepted interviews from many media on behalf of the Chinese team. Then a reporter discovered Lin Chaoyang who was mixed in the crowd.

Lin Chaoyang rarely appears in the media. The public is not familiar with his appearance, but reporters who cover cultural and sports news are familiar with his face. "Hello, Comrade Chaoyang, I am Yang Lang, a reporter from China Youth Daily. Can I interview you?"

Would you like a moment?"

A middle-aged reporter caught Lin Chaoyang.

Lin Chaoyang smiled and waved his hand, "Just interview the athletes. I have nothing to interview." Yang Lang asked unwillingly, "It seems that you also went to Japan for this competition?"

Lin Chaoyang waved his hand and kept silent. The more he acted like this, the more curious Yang Lang became.

Yang Lang was very dissatisfied. He knew that Lin Chaoyang was the organizer of the Xunweizhai Cultural Salon.

This couldn't help but remind him of the past two years when he went to Xiaoliubukou Alley to dig up news about salons, but every time he suffered from being shut down. You really don't treat journalists as cadres!

Complaints are complaints, and Yang Lang could only watch helplessly as Lin Chaoyang left the Capital Airport on a bus with the Chinese team.

That night, the news of the Chinese Go team's glorious return from Japan appeared on the "News Network", and Lin Chaoyang's figure flashed across the screen. The day after arriving in Beijing, the Chinese Go team held a press conference

meeting.

By May 8, Lin Chaoyang was invited to attend a celebration banquet held at the People's Hall.

There was still some time before the celebration banquet started, and Nie Weiping was called to play bridge, and by the way, he also hooked up with Lin Chaoyang.

Nie Weiping started playing bridge with his leaders in 1984. He had played bridge a lot and became familiar with his leaders, so he was qualified to bring Lin Chaoyang into the chess and card room. When he saw Lin Chaoyang, his leaders recognized him.

"Isn't this our writer Xiaolin!"

"Hello, leader!" Lin Chaoyang greeted politely.

"I came just in time to play cards together. I heard from Xiao Nie that he is now suffering from 'Lin Chaoyang Dependence Syndrome' and can't compete without you." The leader asked them to sit down and started joking.

Lin Chaoyang said with a smile: "When I am not around, the comrades in the Go team still win, obviously it has nothing to do with me. It is my honor to be here to witness them win glory for the country."

The leader burst into laughter with a hearty smile, "As expected of a writer, he can talk. I have a new poker player today, come on, let's deal the cards." Lin Chaoyang can play bridge, but his level is very poor, so he was assigned to follow.

I led a group, played a few games, and lost miserably, which made the leader complain. "The novel is so good, Xiao Nie said that you are also good at Go, why is your level of playing cards so poor?"

"Leader, it's not that my level is poor, but that my opponent's level is too strong." Lin Chaoyang excused himself.

"It doesn't matter if your playing skills are poor, but if your branding is even worse, then you just know how to shirk responsibility." Lin Chaoyang:...

The card skills were determined by Yukou, and the quality of the cards was different. Lin Chaoyang estimated that he would have little chance to play bridge with the leader in the future. After a few people played for a while, the celebration banquet was about to begin. Lin Chaoyang and Nie Weiping followed the leader to the banquet hall.

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Nearly twenty tables were set up for today’s celebration banquet, and most of the guests were officials and figures from the domestic cultural and sports circles.

When some people saw Lin Chaoyang walking with the leader, they couldn't help showing expressions of surprise on their faces and couldn't help but whisper. The celebration banquet was nothing special. The cooking skills of Haili's chef were indeed better than those in restaurants outside, but that was all.

When the banquet was over and they were about to leave the sea, Shi Fangyu from the film bureau ran over to say hello to Lin Chaoyang. In casual conversation, he mentioned that the film bureau had just arranged the re-screening of "The Chess" two days ago.

"The movie "The King of Chess" has almost become a treasure of China Film and Television. Every year after the competition, it has to be taken out and played. It is very popular. Comrade Chaoyang deserves the most credit!"

"I don't have any merit. It's the comrades on the Go team who strive for success. I'm just taking advantage of them."

The two chatted and laughed for a while and then left.
To be continued...