nyslfriends Chapter 59 Windmill Tactics
Chapter 59 Windmill Tactics
As the game progressed, Alexei's brow furrowed more and more deeply.
On the surface, Su Hao seemed to have lost his edge and was only passively defending.
But Alexei's supposedly devastating attacks were always neutralized by some inexplicable resistance just as they reached the last millimeter of the core.
They clearly held an absolute advantage, and they had meticulously calculated every step of the final move...
Alexei felt as if he had punched into soft mud in the deep sea, each attack sinking him into the mire.
Every step forward comes at a great cost, ultimately yielding only meager results.
However, despite the somewhat strange situation, Alexei glanced at the board and remained confident that he would win!
From his perspective, Su Hao's rear flank was completely exposed to deadly fire, while his own army had formed an impeccable, perfect formation.
Let's end it here!
The moment to end the game has arrived!
A fierce glint flashed in Alexei's eyes. He grabbed the Queen and shoved her forward with an air of supreme authority!
Qh5.
The moment he loosened his grip.
Snapped!
A crisp, clear sound as the piece is placed.
Su Hao's knight, like a venomous snake that had been lurking in the dark for a long time, suddenly bit down on position d4 at an extremely tricky angle!
"Um?"
Alexei's lips hadn't even had a chance to curve upwards before they froze instantly.
In order to launch the final offensive, he deployed his strongest firepower, "Queen".
The moment the queen was transferred from the core area, his once impenetrable defenses protecting the king...
A tiny crack appeared, so tiny that it would be impossible to detect unless one was actually in it!
Alexei, feeling confident of victory, abandoned further calculations beyond the next 10 steps. This extremely minor oversight ultimately led to utter disaster!
Alexei's brows furrowed into a tight knot.
His pupils dilated violently, and the computing power deep within his brain was instantly squeezed to its limit, beginning to frantically reverse-engineer and calculate!
One second. Two seconds.
Then, the world he saw collapsed!
His face turned ashen instantly.
He finally understood!
There was absolutely no desperate struggle from a dead end!
There was absolutely no brain short circuit caused by high pressure!
Every act of feigning weakness is a preparation for building a web!
The seemingly passive, even incredibly foolish, moves Su Hao made before...
All of this was to cover up the astonishing disguise of the "Big Windmill" killing formation at this specific juncture!
Just because of a moment of carelessness in trying to achieve something great, the dominoes collapsed, and disaster struck!
Su Hao's knight stared coldly at the white queen, but the queen was like a wooden doll that had been acupunctured, not daring to move an inch.
Because all around it, the bishops and castles of the Black faction have woven a net that is deadly to the White faction's king, and every thread of it exudes a deadly threat!
The knight at the center of the storm was like the Grim Reaper dancing on a grinding wheel of flesh, leaving nothing but desolation in his wake!
"General."
Snapped.
Alexei's castle is gone.
"General."
Snapped.
The bishop is gone too.
In the end, even the queen, who symbolized absolute power, was kicked off the chessboard.
Su Hao, like a slow and methodical executioner, ruthlessly slaughtered all of Alexei's key pieces.
"This...monster...just how many steps forward did he calculate? 15 steps?!"
Hans, who was watching from the sidelines, was clutching his hair tightly, his face filled with disbelief.
"No... definitely more than that. Much more than that number of steps..."
The Hungarian champion's lips were trembling uncontrollably as he looked at the dark-haired boy sitting there quietly, his eyes seeming to look at an incomprehensible monster.
"Do you think Alexei is a pushover? You think he can be fooled by such a common windmill trick?"
Su Hao had calculated at least 20 steps ahead!
Moreover... he also superimposed psychological game theory into the extremely high-dimensional computing power confrontation!
That kid deliberately exposed an absolutely fatal flaw, forcefully drawing out Alexei's greed!
If it were me... forget about mobilizing the Queen, I might even have given away my underwear!
At this moment, the final loop of the decisive strike is complete!
Su Hao's fingers pinched the knight one last time and then dropped it.
It produced an extremely crisp sound, but to Alexei it sounded like the tolling of a death knell.
"Checkmate"
Su Hao's voice wasn't loud, but it resonated like a great bell in the deathly silent hall.
There is no escape from this inescapable net.
There's no way to go to heaven, and no way to go to hell!
King Alexei's escape routes were completely blocked by Su Hao's pieces, leaving him no room even for suicide.
Alexei stared blankly at the chessboard.
Large beads of cold sweat rolled down his pale forehead and landed on the edge of the wooden chessboard.
A full half minute passed before he slowly raised his head and looked at the calm boy opposite him.
His lips twitched violently twice, finally forming a bitter smile that was uglier than crying, yet tinged with a sense of relief.
I resign.
It's unclear when exactly, but the entire hall has become densely packed with elite students from various countries who rushed there after hearing the news.
They formed a dense circle, holding their breath as they frantically reviewed and discussed the events.
When Alexei uttered the words of surrender, the entire hall seemed to be set ablaze!
"Waaaaaahh ...
"Holy crap! That kid won! He really won!"
"Damn! That's absolutely the craziest windmill tactic in the history of chess!"
Pan Xun, who had been cowering in the corner, suddenly jumped out like a monkey that had reverted to its ancestral form, waving his hands wildly in the air and shouting madly.
Amidst the deafening cheers that nearly lifted the roof off the house, Su Hao's consciousness slowly detached from that pure mathematical universe and returned to reality.
He reached out and, with an almost obsessive-compulsive tendency, smoothed out the slightly crooked edge of the chessboard, bit by bit, until it was perfectly parallel to the edge of the table.
Whew, that feels good.
"You're a complete monster! You totally fooled me!"
Alexei stood up and, across the chessboard, solemnly extended his right hand.
"A truly brilliant game of chess."
Su Hao raised his head, revealing an extremely bright smile, and gripped that hand tightly.
This is not just polite talk.
The world of chess was indeed more profound and mysterious than he had imagined.
In the middle of the game, Alexei clearly didn't see through the trap, but he instinctively avoided the dangerous situation thanks to the intuition of a top player.
This caused Su Hao's mental simulation model to fail several times, leaving him in a state of chaos for a while.
"By the way, can I borrow your marker?"
Upon hearing Su Hao's sudden request, Alexei paused for a moment, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes, but he still handed it over.
Su Hao pulled off the pen cap, grabbed the chessboard, flipped it over, and wrote a line of words on the back in a flamboyant style:
Alexei, the best chess player I've ever met! — Su Hao