The "enlightenment" in Go Wudeli is a phrase I particularly like.
Chinese know that "chess is like life", the reason why there are these four words circulating, is because the ancients have long found that every move that the opponent falls is a choice made after thinking about it after facing multiple possibilities, and all choices need to be based on their own judgment. Objectively speaking, the correct rate at which a chess player makes a choice is the most important basis for distinguishing his level.
Life is very long, but the key choices are only a few times, and the right and wrong choices determine the direction and results of life.
There are many players in a game, but the key to determining the outcome of the game often appears in an instant, when if you make the wrong choice, the goddess of victory will naturally leave you.
A long life is similar to a game of Go.
No matter how powerful the chess player, in the game, there will be times when they are entangled in the face of choices, and in the process of each choice and judgment, it is actually a torture of their own hearts.
A good chess player will definitely ask himself why I chose this way and what I have learned from each choice and judgment. Only after such a process, he will continue to improve in reflection!
There was once a professional chess player who encountered an opponent who timed out because of a clock counting problem during the game, but instead of asking the referee to declare himself victorious (according to the rules, he had the right to do so), he generously agreed to continue the game, and although he lost the game in the end, he said very frankly, this is my attitude towards Go. I hope that I can rely on strength to defeat my opponent with dignity, rather than relying on my opponent's unnecessary mistakes.
This was his choice, and from this choice he also realized his true nature in that instant.
He may not be a winner (i.e., a chess player who sees victory and defeat as something beyond everything), but he will certainly be an open-minded person. This is also his understanding of his own soul.
It is not an exaggeration to say that every game of chess is a condensation of life, a chess player, if you start to learn Go from a young age, the process of growing up slowly, that is, the process of his gradual maturity!
If a child cultivates Go from a young age, then when he grows up, he will definitely have a deeper understanding of life, and when faced with many things, he will be more able to achieve the realm of "suddenly coming without being alarmed, adding without anger without cause". And this kind of realm, as a father, is something I especially want my children to have.
I am a professional chess player who has been practicing for more than 30 years, and I deeply understand and believe that the cultivation of Go, after the baptism of years, can make people have the ability to "epiphany".
Letting children learn Go is also to give him a spiritual friend.