Peng Shusheng, a native of Lanzhou, Gansu, was born in 1874, the word Mingqing, the milk name is Jia Shuzi, why is it called this milk name? Because 1874 was the year of Qing Tongzhi Jia shu. Peng Qisheng has been particularly intelligent since he was a child, and his understanding is particularly strong, and as long as he learns anything, he will use it freely in a very short period of time. Although he has only attended a private school for two or three years (the ancient private school is a modern enlightenment elementary school), he has a superiority in terms of knowledge, and he is a thick and honest person, and rarely causes trouble. Peng Qisheng once learned the skills of chefs, cooking, tailoring and other skills for a living, and he had a strong ability to accept it, and it didn't take long for him to operate alone. He also played arithmetic skillfully, and because he wrote a very beautiful little calligraphy, he also served in the court police station.
In the late Qing Dynasty, chess was very popular in Lanzhou, Gansu, and it is said that Peng's father was also a chess fan and often played against people. It was in such an environment that Peng learned small chess. At that time, in the streets and alleys of Lanzhou, there were often people playing chess and gambling in taverns and teahouses, and Peng often squeezed into the crowd to watch people play chess and learn notation. Over time, the level naturally rose a lot, and the small chess players of the same age as him were slowly defeated by him one by one, and there were almost no opponents in the Lanzhou children's chess world. Peng Shusheng was almost sixteen or seventeen years old, and found ancient chess books such as Suitable For Love, Tangerine Secret, Plum Blossom Change, etc., and he also specialized in studying various killing routines in these ancient scores for several months, which made him broaden his horizons, open his mind, and gradually soar. When he was in his early 20s, he looked for a first-class master in Lanzhou to play, and these first-class masters actually played the sub-chess to let the first chess, so that Peng often took advantage of the flat, and since then Peng's level has ranked among the first-class masters. People call him Gagao Qi, along with Xiao Chen, another famous chess player in Liangzhou, Gansu. As long as it is a lottery Xiao Chen can make other people's children, Peng can also make it, but Peng is very modest, thinking that Chen has rich practical experience, walking out of the shadows, and his chess strength is higher than his own one or two first. Around the 1930s of the Republic of China, the two finally had the opportunity to compete with each other, and the two sides were inseparable from each other, the level was equal, and they rode in the Lanzhou chess world. All the masters in Gansu were defeated in the hands of Peng, dominating the side, and Peng most admired the Liangzhou master Xiao Chen, who believed that Xiao Chen's chess achievements were at the highest level in the country.
In 1931, with the encouragement of his friends, Peng Shusheng embarked on the road to break into the Beijing chess world, at this time Peng was 58 years old, and he wanted to go to Beijing to meet all kinds of masters as the first master of the Great Northwest. After more than a month of travel, after arriving in Beijing, he lived in the Gansu Guild Hall of XuanwuMen Jiaozi Hutong, because the Gansu Guild Hall was free for his fellow villagers, and the next day he went to the overpass to walk around, watch people play chess, and watch the battle to understand the level of the Chess Circle in Beijing. Every time someone else plays the key, Peng will always interject, this chess can not go like this, go a lot of waste chess and so on. They all think that Peng is a master, after being introduced by others to go to the Eryouxuan Tea House to play, some of the chess players in the tea house who played chess were defeated in Peng's hands, and after a few days Peng was in the Shui Narcissus Chess Club, there was a sign in front of the door that read, "The Northern Chess King That Jianting Hand Talks About Waiting for Teaching", he went into the tea house to ask for a game with that Jianting, so he and Peng launched a peak duel between the Northwest Chess King and the Northeast Chess King. In the first round, Peng attacked and killed quickly, taking the lead all the way like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, and the downwind was bitterly braced, until the endgame finally lost. In the second game, that changed the layout and tactics, the opening few rounds to take the initiative to launch an attack, the first to seize people, to the middle of the game to try to abandon the son to attack and kill, how Nai Peng in the endgame kung fu is profound, let you blow the waves, I stand still, very cleverly to defuse the other side's attack, take the opportunity to counterattack a blow, and finally that was gradually entangled, the general trend has gone to lose another round. Reluctantly, he went back to study Peng's chess path, and a few days later, he was ready to fight peng again, and the local celebrity Xu Kuoting hung a lottery to help him, and the two changed to the quiet house of the Stone Hutong Tea House to play against each other. The two sides fought for another 11 rounds, and Peng Shusheng won with an overwhelming advantage of a large score, making Na Jianting finally convinced.
Peng Shusheng fought against various masters in Beijing in Beijing, such as Xu Cihai in the northeast, Zhao Wenxuan, and Qian Mengwu in Tianjin, all of whom were defeated by Peng. At that time, the Beijing chess world was rumored to be a good story, and the northwest masters swept through the Beijing chess world. Peng Shusheng is also good at letting go of backgammon, letting Hou Yushan take a horse, letting Zhang Dekui shoot a shot and winning two games in a row. It can be seen that Pengzhong's endgame kung fu is profound, and the Beijing chess circles have praised it as a great master of the northwest and a well-deserved chess saint.