Night Hacker

   Chapter 180 Chess Players and Pieces

   In the audience chatting and laughing, this golf cup went from start to finish.

   Elizabeth ultimately failed to win the championship, but she won the second place and also had a million prize money.

   She hasn't played golf for a long time. Although her super strength has improved her skills, her skills have declined.

   only got one million, which also made her pay more attention to the bet with Sid-Reiko.

  Eden Golf Course also has club building facilities in addition to giant lawns, forests and lakesides.

  After the game, Elizabeth went to the club's locker room, changed out of her sportswear, put on an orange trench coat and flared pants, and took Judy and the others to a pavilion by the lake where they had agreed.

  The lines of the wooden pavilion are also simple, and the waiters in black formal suits are waiting by the side with drinks.

At this time, the gazebo was already full of laughter. Sid's group arrived one step earlier. In addition to the mind-reading man, there were several young people who heard the news and came to watch the battle. Although they were not overdrive, they were all blood eaters. There are no defective products on De's side.

   "Liz!" Seeing Elizabeth coming, Sid shouted again, "The game just now was very exciting."

  Elizabeth saw that on a stone platform in the middle of the pavilion, a beautifully shaped electronic chessboard had been placed. The 64-square chessboard had clear boundaries. The black and white chess pieces had not been placed, but were placed beside the chessboard.

   "Let's play chess first." She said that a game of chess can be played for hours.

   "That's good." Sid nodded with a smile and said to everyone around him, "Liz used to be a chess master."

  Anyone who is familiar with that circle knows that Elizabeth Sterling is not only a speeder, she has basically mastered everything since elementary school. She has shown great potential in ballet, chess, riding, golf and other games.

   She's the kind of genius overdrive who does everything well.

   "What was it before, it is now." Some of Sid's sisters said with a smile.

"I'm afraid she'll forget." Sid sat down on the stone platform, holding a half-full red wine glass in his left hand and a black soldier's chess in his right hand, and placed it on the chessboard, "I play black chess. "

   In chess, the white piece moves first, so there is a first mover advantage, while the black piece often starts to defend and falls into a passive position.

   "Yes." Elizabeth did not push back, she sat down on the other side of the stone platform, put the sword treasure on the platform, and raised her hand to pick up the white chess piece.

   She is not here to compete, but to win money.

  Sid has always been a tough opponent on the board, so she accepts any advantage she has.

  Judy, Ayako, and Mei all stood behind Elizabeth and watched, but none of them knew chess.

  Judy has heard of some of them, but she has never learned, practiced or played.

  Ayako and Xiaomei didn't even know the basic rules before, and they could move whatever chess they had, or Elizabeth just mentioned it to them on the way, and they had some concepts, but they still didn't know anything about the various footwork.

   This kind of game that only rich people can play leisurely, does not appear in the streets and villages at all.

   A game of chess can take hours to decide the winner at any time. It’s scary to think about it, it’s enough to play many times.

   At this time, they looked at the 64 squares, from A-H horizontally, from 1-8 vertically, and the arrangement was 8 squares each.

   Both sides are placing six kinds of pieces on the board:

  King, Queen, Castle (car), Bishop (elephant), Knight (horse), Soldier

   One king and one queen, two chariots, two elephants, two horses, and eight soldiers.

   They had almost forgotten what they had just learned on the road. They almost only remembered which side of the king had nowhere to go and was eaten, and which side lost.

  The blue-green lake color reflects the small pavilion crowded with people, and there are waterfowl swimming leisurely making loud calls.

   Both Sid and Elizabeth had their pieces set.

   "Do you want a time limit?" Sid asked, leaving Elizabeth to decide.

   "Just play the normal slow chess." Elizabeth replied, even though she wanted to go back to the House of Red Rain quickly, she did not play fast chess with the opponent.

   She knew that Blood Eater's brain computing power is very high, and Sid is a three-programmer, and his extraordinary level is higher than her.

  The so-called slow chess, the first 40 moves are limited to 100 minutes, if there is no point in the victory or defeat, there will be additions later.

   "Then go slow." Sid had no objection and took a sip of red wine.

   Now, they set their respective chess clocks to 100 minutes, which is all their playing time for the first 40 moves.

  When it is the turn of one player to hold the chess piece, the chess clock starts to move. There is no time limit for thinking. When the chess piece is settled, the player presses the pause button of the chess clock, and the other side starts to count down.

   If either side has run out of time and hasn’t made enough steps, it counts as a loser.

  Before the start, Elizabeth quietly took a deep breath. If there is a chance to win, try to get it in the first 40 moves.

   Because over time, people with higher computing power will have better spirits, which will be difficult for her.

  Elizabeth was about to devote herself to the electronic chessboard. The lines of the 64 chess pieces were like the grid lines of a matrix, and the shapes of the 32 pieces on both sides suddenly changed a bit...

   "Is this chessboard a strange thing?" She suddenly realized something and asked.

"That's right." Sid nodded. "It can amplify our spiritual feelings and improve the immersion in playing chess. I use it now when I play chess." Chessboard up.

   Elizabeth thought about it for a while, this would obviously increase the consumption of spirit and improve Sid's advantage.

   Her odds of winning are falling again... This is already like a trap...

   But, five million, five million, how many children's winter clothes can that be changed?

   Before a game of chess has been played, everyone has a chance to win.

   "Then let's play chess."

   In the eyes of everyone, Elizabeth raised her hand to pick up the soldiers in column D, pushed them forward two squares, and then pressed the stop clock.

   Start the game first, then give up pawns on the rear wing.

   This is one of the oldest and most classic closed openings, in which White tries to exchange pawns from his rear wing for pawns in the center of Black to complete **** of the center of the board.

   "Liz, when did you start to like to use the rear wing to give up pawns? I remember that you used to start the game with the Great Emperor. Don't be too conservative when playing chess with me, ordinary footwork is useless to me."

  Sid's tone was not provocative or sarcastic, but rather like teaching earnestly, like it was a battle between teachers and students.

   Almost without hesitation, Sid moved the knight in column G to the F6 square, the back **** started, and Gu Tianzhu defended.

   His own clock started to run again, Elizabeth did not answer, and pushed the soldiers in column C forward two spaces.

   At the same time, Judy and the others were watching carefully, but they couldn't understand the situation on the chessboard at all.

  As the two sides came and went, the wealthy children around watching the game laughed and cheered from time to time, but it almost happened when Sid was playing chess.

  The mental illusion caused by the strange object chessboard is getting bigger and bigger, and each of them can see it. This space is like a spiritual network, and lights, shadows and illusions are emerging.

   Those chess pieces really seem to have turned into huge castles, majestic knights, soldiers with swords...

  Those who watch chess feel a sudden increase in mental stress, and those who play chess are ten times more stressed.

  After the first 15 moves, Elizabeth was already nervous, her forehead was slightly swollen, and her brain was over-speeding, but she vaguely felt that the chess game was not good, and her footwork seemed to be completely understood by Sid.

   Every time she takes her next move, Sid seems to be able to calculate all the changes.

   She thought for longer and longer, but Sid was still able to handle it with ease, and her backhand gradually took control of the situation.

  This is not just because she hasn't played chess for a long time, but also because her computing power is not enough, and her strategy is not good...

   Against a chess player of the level of Sid, the normal footwork is really useless, you have to use the new footwork to disrupt the opponent's rhythm...

   Elizabeth was a little unaware of the passing of time, and fell deeply into thinking about the chessboard, but in the next 10 moves, there was still no improvement.

   Her chess pieces are getting fewer and fewer, and the chess clock time is getting less and less.

   A grid of lines stretched out from the chessboard, cutting the whole world to flutter, and her head swelled even more.

   "Liz, these chess pieces are different programs." Sid said earnestly again, watching the lakeside scenery out of the corner of his eyes, "Only those who can use different programs at the same time can control the chessboard."

As soon as the    voice fell, Sid made another move, and the knight suddenly approached Elizabeth's king, "General."

   Everyone around was amazed and praised, "This move is too strong." "Sid, you have never been so good at chess."

  Judy's face was expressionless, Ayako and Xiaomei frowned, the beautiful lake view and lawn lost their taste, did you lose...

   "User, I'm sorry." Jianbao said in an electronically synthesized voice, "No chess mode found."

   This strange electronic sword made Sid and the others shine, and they all laughed and said it was interesting.

  The trend of the chess game is obvious, but the check does not mean that the game is over.

   Elizabeth moved the king away silently, her heart sank, her forehead sweating slightly from overthinking.

   Can't just lose like this, five million, not just five million, in short, can't lose...

   However, she was already in a situation where she was too tired to deal with it. She could take care of one end, but not the other. Sid kept attacking, and she could only keep defending, and the white pieces were still decreasing.

   And she had already noticed a bad situation, but couldn't draw a **** to deal with it.

   just watched one of Sid's soldiers reach the bottom of her chessboard and run rampant. According to the rules, this soldier can be "promoted".

That is, from a soldier who can only move straight forward, one or two squares at a time, the chess player can arbitrarily become one of the queens, rooks, elephants, and horses, and is not restricted by the existing pieces on the chessboard. .

   In chess, the queen can be said to be the strongest chess piece, except that she can't overstep the piece, she can move horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, so most of the promotions are promotions to queens.

   In the current situation, if Sid has two queens, she can't have the slightest chance.

   "Liz, your chess skills have dropped." Sid shook his head and smiled, but took a bishop next to him to replace it.

   Elizabeth was stunned, and the people around who knew chess were also surprised that the bishop had the lowest percentage of promotion options.

   Sid is obviously letting Elizabeth, let the other party go first, and let him go.

   But this also shows that Sid is already winning, thinking that even if he plays like this, he can win.

   Sure enough, after playing a few more rounds, Elizabeth still couldn't turn the situation around. The promotion wasn't completely random, it just made her die slowly, and her chess pieces were still decreasing.

   Now, even Judy, who doesn't know how to play chess, can see that Miss Sterling is not a match for Sid Reiko.

  A decent chess player will take the initiative to admit defeat in this irreversible situation before he has nowhere to go.

   But Elizabeth looked silently at the board and did not surrender.

   Everyone saw that she was still going down, and she was still struggling, and she continued to struggle...

   Sid was not in a hurry to checkmate her, as if playing with her, eating white pieces one by one.

   It was also at this time that Judy realized that Sid-Reich's possible scheming was also a conspiracy.

  Sid-Raykow beat Miss Sterling in this way, risking trauma to the opponent.

The chessboard is also a battlefield. This game of chess can bring some thoughts and mood changes to Miss Sterling, just like implanting some kind of tone-changing material into the personality, even the exorcist can't get rid of the huge ocean of personality. .

   And the promotion of extraordinary programs requires personal understanding and perfection.

  For a hero, it is terrible to be powerless in such a full-scale battle.

   Success is easy to accept, but not everyone can accept this kind of failure.

   Judy remembered Vic Sterling, maybe he meant it this time, but it was done by Sid Reiko.

   Or maybe that's what Sid-Rekow meant, she wanted Miss Stirling to be afraid of her.

   At this time, Sid made another move of knight chess, and the king of Elizabeth finally had nowhere to go.

   "Checkmate." Sid looked at Elizabeth's fixed blue eyes.

   At this time, there were not many white chess pieces left on the chessboard, and everyone could easily see that this was indeed a checkmate.

  Look at the time again, it took less than 60 minutes, which is very fast.

   Elizabeth's face was slightly stretched, looking at the chessboard where the defeat was decided, her red hair drooping slightly.

   She lost, was checkmate, irretrievably.

   She tried her best for this chess game, but this chess game seemed to be doomed from the first step.

   "Liz, play more chess when you have time." Sid smiled and said, "We are born to play chess."

   Elizabeth was silent for a long time, then suddenly called out "Sister Sid" neatly, took the sword treasure, got up and said, "I still have something to do, so I won't play with you."

   She ignored what Sid-Lekkow said, turned and walked outside the gazebo, to leave here.

  Judy followed, and in the pavilion at the back, the chatter and laughter continued, talking about tonight's party.

  Because Elizabeth didn't speak, the group remained silent. They went all the way to the parking lot and returned to the commercial car. The car started and slowly drove out of this huge golf course.

   The car was heading towards the south of the Eden Lake District, and the sunset in the evening made this place another beauty.

   Elizabeth looked at the receding natural scenery outside the car window, and was still thinking about the game of chess just now.

   That "checkmate", she always thought that Sid was intriguing, and seemed to have other meanings.

"Miss Sterling, with all due respect." Judy, who was beside the car, said suddenly, "You shouldn't think about that game of chess anymore, just put it down, Miss Leikuo may just want you to fall into it, which is very important for you. Extraordinary promotion will be very disadvantageous.”

  Ayako is an assassin and Xiaomei is a runner. They didn't know much about Judy, the exorcist, so they didn't say anything.

   "I'm fine." Elizabeth smiled, "We brought back one million today, how can I be sad."

   She also sensed Sid's possible intentions, but in her heart, she really couldn't put it down all at once.

   Sophia used to say that she was really lucky, and she knew that she was really like that. In the past two months, since the arrival of the master, she has been doing everything smoothly, until today, this game of chess...

   is just the path of a hero, it is never smooth sailing, there will be difficulties, there will be difficulties.

   Just lose a game of chess! Didn't lose a dime.

   However, the more Elizabeth thought about it, the more she felt that she should not start the game with a **** on the rear wing. No one on the chessboard should give up.

   The more she thought about it, the more she felt like an arrow. She wanted to see the smiles of those street rat children who were well fed and put on new clothes.

   That would sweep away the gloom in her heart. In comparison, she was nothing if she lost a game of chess.

  When the commercial car drove out of the Eden Lake area, passed the Acropolis mountainous area and the central area, and returned to Kabukicho, it was already night. The colorful neon lights of the streets drove away the stars in the night sky, and the noisy Shouhui Street was full of people.

   At this moment, a thunderous security message came out from the car walkie-talkie:

   "Miss Sterling, the House of Red Rain... is on fire."

With a    humming sound, Elizabeth's slightly swollen head felt like she was hit hard, and she couldn't hear her own response.

  Save people! Fight the fire! She seemed to shout like that, and Judy and the others in the car all had tense expressions on their faces.

   Elizabeth calmed herself, but she was still anxious.

  The commercial vehicle speeded up as much as possible, and before it got close to the big warehouse, it saw a billowing thick smoke billowing into the night sky, a mixed sound of exclamations, and the people in the wrestling gang warehouse were helping to put out the fire.

  Under the organization of the owner of the extremely evil sea, they and the staff of the Red Rain Home first connected the fire hydrants in this area with their own fire hoses, and they are spraying water to fight the fire.

   If we had to wait for the firemen from the fire department to come, nothing would be left.

   The fire was mainly in the warehouse where many newly purchased winter clothes were piled up. The fire was so raging that it was difficult to extinguish. All the clothes inside were on fire, and the cute graffiti on the walls were also scorched.

  The fire is also spreading to the surrounding warehouses. Because every inch of land in Kabukicho is expensive, and there are not many gaps between the buildings, several warehouses of the Red Rain House are on fire, and the short-circuited and burning wires have contributed to the fire.

   The teaching Seth screen was burnt and collapsed.

   Outside the fire, many people were watching, including the children who escaped.

   Those immature faces blackened by the thick smoke are all at a loss.

   Elizabeth jumped out of the car in a hurry, rushed over, shouted loudly, rushed towards the children, and kept rubbing their shoulders to see if they were okay.

   Whether this is a fire or arson is not the current focus.

   She anxiously asked the people around her, are there any children in several warehouses? This is the good fortune of this night's misfortune. Since the material warehouse was the first to catch fire, with the help of the agency staff, everyone ran out.

   "Sister Liz, is there still a meal here tomorrow..."

   "Can we still teach literacy in class?"

   "Are there any new clothes pie..."

   The children were a little shrewd and dazed, and asked.

   Elizabeth put her arms around a little girl of four or five years old who was crying, and looked at the material warehouse that was still burning there. A sign marked "Home of Red Rain" in large colorful characters also fell into the sea of ​​​​fire.

   Her lips trembled slightly.

   Her heart was also on fire.

   In order to adjust the time, the first update tomorrow will be at 12:00 noon!

   (end of this chapter)