A few days ago, I saw a photo of a friend playing military chess in the circle of friends, lamenting that today, when the Internet game is so developed, there are still people who adhere to the traditional chess game of military chess, which is also very gratifying. In addition to sighing, I pulled my mind back to the high school years when cultural activities were relatively scarce more than twenty years ago and the unforgettable past about military chess...
A very clear memory is that during the winter vacation of 1993, I had a pair of my own military chess pieces (that fashion did not have the concept of "Shikoku military chess", that is, the traditional two-person battle), plastic, the back is black, but the color of the word is two: dark red and light green. I was so impressed with this game of chess not only because it was the first game of chess I had in my life (I didn't know chess and didn't have checkers at the time), but also because it gave me an early understanding of science.
(Military chess of the year)
In the summer of 1995, one of my classmates came to my house, and there was really nothing to play at that time, so he took out the military chess and began to play Ming chess (that is, the kind of flip- and chess- But I suspected that he knew and deliberately asked me, so after a few times I specifically told him a mistake, and the result was that the brother did not hesitate to take his "division commander" and eat his "regimental commander" (it seems that there is a precedent for this move: the Kuomintang Central Army often kills the local army in this way). I looked at his moves in amazement and realized that he really couldn't tell the color of the chess. At that time, I had a doubt in my mind, and it was not until I went to the first year of junior high school that I understood that this was a manifestation of red-green blindness.
In 2000, when I went to high school, it was a fully enclosed military management, all the students lived on the school, and we were the first students of the school, and we were the only one grade on the campus. The teacher staffing is not yet perfect, there are no music and art teachers, and the regular mass sports activities of the whole grade are tug-of-war. Under the influence of this teaching atmosphere, everyone's cultural activities are very scarce, at that time, the Internet has just emerged, it has not yet been popularized, and our campus is nearly 4 kilometers away from the main city, which is simply a rare place for self-cultivation and single-minded learning!
Since mass sports activities are difficult to carry out, the cultural activities in the dormitories are more colorful. Playing cards, playing chess, wrenching wrists, practicing pull-ups with the luggage rack of the dormitory, in short, is relatively rich. The most popular of these is the Shikoku military chess.
It was in the winter of 2000 that I was first exposed to Shikoku military chess. My dorm roommate Xiao Qiao bought a pair of Shikoku military chess, which immediately triggered the whole dormitory to participate in the war. Because I have not been in contact with the military chess of the four countries before, I still use the routine and playing method of the two countries' military chess, basically "one-on-one" "gentleman-style" playing method. After a few rounds, I still think it is quite interesting, and it does not reflect the difference between "four countries" and "two countries". In the evening, on the other side of the dormitory, I heard that our dormitory bought a vice-military chess game, and two people came to participate in the battle with great interest, and as soon as they fought, they felt completely different: these two cooperated vividly, one side explored the chess, and the other side "bombed" waiting for the opportunity to act, and we lost one after another. Only this time did I truly understand the connotation of the four-nation military chess: the emphasis is on cooperation and coordinated combat! This realization is just like the War of Self-Defense between China and Vietnam and the war of Iraq in which the multinational forces led by the United States beat up Iraq, the former is still a traditional jungle war, position warfare, and guerrilla warfare, and the latter has begun the coordinated operation and information warfare of the three armed forces of the navy, army and air force.
(Shikoku military chess, which was once popular on the Internet)
Later, after going down a lot, I learned that the two on the opposite door were the "gods of war" of our entire second floor, and they often went up to the third floor to challenge. The momentum of the four countries military chess swept our school is "one, two or three floors, whether you recognize it or not, as long as which dormitory starts the war, it is all pushing the door to watch the battle (and the teachers proposed by our school "pushing the door to listen to the class" system is simply the same), often 4 people play chess, except for 1 referee, next to a dozen "high counselors", turn your head to see, there may be one or two that you know, and the rest of the class may not necessarily know. What's more, a dormitory began to play chess on Sunday morning, the more people gathered, down to the evening, when the students of this dormitory came back from outside, pushed open the dormitory door to see, a group of chess players in their dormitories, even did not know anyone, seriously doubted whether they had gone to the wrong dormitory."
School rules stipulate: every night at 11:00 pm, the evening self-study, 11:30 on time to turn off the lights. At that time, in order to play chess, I thought of all the ways I could think of, and some dormitories blackened the glass on the door with ink, so that even if the light was turned on, the light did not seem to shine outside, the idea and the original intention were good, but the second year of physics learned the "diffraction effect of light", and the inspection of the building used to fight against the dormitory tube was still not in place, because the light could still be exposed in the door gap. Later, when the housekeeper finished checking the room and left, he switched to candle lighting to continue, and this method was tried and tested. Just one night after the housekeeper checked the room, a brother went to the bathroom and forgot to close the door, a group of people were fighting in a good mood, suddenly a head was stretched out next to it, a flashlight was played, pointing to the chessboard "go this, go this", a brother did not look up impatiently and said "you know what, don't be stingy", listening to the voice some familiar and can't remember who it is, suddenly looked up: Su Guan! Looking at the proud smile of the housekeeper, the chess players were suddenly discouraged..., the housekeeper is an old man in his 50s, usually looks very serious, today it seems to have changed a person "finish this plate, the candles are confiscated, not for example"! The good guy has not yet poked the class teacher, and he is quite grateful to this housekeeper, because our dormitory director has the same name as his son, so he opened a net.
In the second year of high school, the dormitory was changed, but the traditional style of playing shikoku military chess was still very popular on campus. Not only can the people who participate in the battle be different classes, but even a mutilated four-country military chess can be matched by chess of similar colors. Sometimes it is true that the relevant piece cannot be found, only an unrelated piece can be replaced, but it is necessary to mark it and let the referee know what the sub represents. One Saturday night, the dormitory unanimously decided to fight all night, the result was 3:00 a.m., the referee really couldn't stay up, climbed up to sleep, pulled a new referee from the opposite door to continue to referee, the result of a whole night, all the old Wang Lao Li Win, lao Ma Lao Zhang has not won since changing the referee, grabbed the referee and said that the referee cheated, but in the middle of the night there was no way to ask the referee, so only it will be useful. The next morning, the referee stared at a pair of boiling red eyes and said, "You tmd down for one night, Lao Tzu did not get down as a referee, I was still wrong, Is it not, Lao Tzu will not do it again"! On the third day, the old Li of the dormitory showed off to the girls at the same table in the class, saying that the reason why he won one night was that "he lacked a 'company commander' in that pair of military chess, and found a 'division commander' of the same color in other dormitories to replace, and the result was that the referee did not give an account, so one night, Old Li took three 'division commanders' and the whole old horse and old Zhang with the opposite family, which has no reason to win." Later, this matter reached the ears of our dormitory, and everyone unanimously decided to ban Old Li for one month, as punishment for the "military chess hooligans", and awarded the referee of the door the title of "most dedicated referee" in the class.
Military chess can also exercise thinking, such as one night: Old Li and Lao Wang agreed, we both bloody, each of our respective families, Old Ma Lao Zhang is not allowed to insert a knife behind his back. As a result, Old Li Lao Wang each played a bloody chess game. Even when taking the first two steps, even the referee does not need it. Old Li took the first chess piece and confidently ate "My commander, what are you"?
Lao Wang "I Bomb"!
Old Li Liang opened the military flag: "You are fierce enough"!
Old Li picked up his second son and ate "My military commander, what are you?"?
Lao Wang: "I'm still a bomb"!
Old Li suddenly lost his temper...
This is thinking, strategic thinking!
Or the old king is superior!
Han Ning, a "post-80s" people's policeman who loves literature!