Chapter 739

Over the weekend, it rained in Tokyo.

Pedestrians on both sides of the street hurried along with umbrellas, while outside a chess hall, several black cars stopped.

"Teacher He Xi, be careful of the water on the roadside..."

As soon as the car stopped, some people who had been waiting at the gate of the chess hall helped to open the door, and then held up umbrellas for the guests coming out. These are generally old guests, but there is a rather young figure in the middle Meng Huo.

Around the street, a young girl immediately recognized him and exclaimed, "Teacher He Xi!"

As soon as her voice rang, other people also noticed the situation here. Some people asked who He Xi was curiously, but more people cried out in surprise, and then there were a series of mobile phone photos.

Meng Huo smiles at the girl who screams at the leader, but he doesn't say anything. He turns around and walks into the chess hall with other people.

"Teacher He Xi, it's really teacher He Xi! He laughed at me. It must be the luckiest day of my life

"It's incredible that I saw teacher He Xi for the first time. How could he come here?"

"Chess hall, it must be for go... Go in and have a look!"

Some young people were very excited. When they saw Meng Huo enter the chess hall, they also wanted to go in. However, they were stopped at the door by some staff of the chess hall. They said apologetically, "I'm sorry, we don't pick up new guests during teacher He Xi's visit."

The chess hall is normally open today, but the power of He Xi can't be underestimated. During his visit, the manager of the chess hall asked that no one be allowed to enter.

Meng Huo is visiting the chess hall, which is the second thing after he returned to Tokyo. After Ninghai finished dealing with "clannad", he turned around and came to Tokyo, but the animation of "mobile soldier up to 00" went better than he expected, and Meng Huo didn't ask for overtime.

He was invited by the Go Association, and he also wanted to see what the world's chess hall looked like, so he agreed.

But Meng Huo didn't expect the formation to be so big. He looked back at the passers-by blocked outside the door and frowned, "is that ok? What I want to see is the ordinary chess hall. What do you do when you stop the guests... "

He wanted to make the comics closer to reality, so this time he came to an ordinary chess hall to see the real atmosphere of go.

"It doesn't matter. That's what the chess house looks like." The manager of the chess Hall said with a smile: "usually, there are not many people coming to play every day. Regular customers can recognize it. If they are regular customers, they will be released outside the door."

"Is that what your chess house looks like?"

Meng Huo was surprised. The area of this chess hall seems to be very large, about four or five hundred square meters, and there are a lot of chess tables. But there are only twenty people playing chess, and they are all old men.

"Isn't it because it's raining today?" Meng Huo frowned. The number was too small.

"No, it doesn't matter whether it rains or not." The store manager sighed that there is no big difference between the chess halls in China and here. The guests are basically old people, and there are very few young guests. This also symbolizes the declining situation of Chinese go.

However, it can't be said that the number of young players studying go has disappeared. In fact, the number of young players is still within the bearing range of the go circle. However, these players often play in the Chess Academy where they study chess, on the computer, or at the home of other players, and do not come to the chess hall.

The "chess house" here refers to the place where ordinary people play chess, such as Internet cafes and coffee shops. Such a bleak situation also means that go is too far away from ordinary people and no one comes to play.

"In that case, why build such a big chess hall?"

Meng Huo frowned slightly. When he was preparing for "the spirit of chess", he investigated the chess house. The average area of the chess house was relatively large, but with such poor performance, it was meaningless to maintain such a large chess house except to pay money.

"Teacher He Xi doesn't know something. There are historical reasons." The store manager didn't answer, but a professional chess player accompanied by Meng huolai said: "in the past, the Go Association also had the idea of carrying out a thorough reform, launching league matches and related industries, so as to make the art of go shine again. It was then that the chess hall appeared - before that, there was no folk chess hall in Huaxia."

This chess player explained the reason to Meng Huo. In the past period of great change, the Go Association was full of confidence and made demands on the chess halls. Almost all the chess halls were prepared according to professional standards. However, due to some changes, their plan failed, but the requirements for the chess house remained.

Although Huaxia's chess halls are open to the public, in fact, no ordinary people do this business. All the chess halls are the industry of the Go Association, similar to the official chain stores, and the poor performance has not been banned."... you have money."

Meng Huo looks strange.

"It's not that we have money..."

The professional chess player's expression is also very complex. He doesn't know much, but there is a big consortium behind the Chinese go industry, which is the consensus of many people. If it had not been for that consortium, the Go Association would have been broken.

The failure of the previous great change was also due to the accident of the consortium. However, despite this, their financial support for go has not decreased - the large number of go clubs in the Go Association have been able to survive because of their solid foundation.

However, this is actually an immoral thing, and chess players will not mention it more. If the Go Association had no selfishness, it would have taken the initiative to change its requirements, reducing the scale and standard of the chess hall.

At the moment, Meng Huo is a little disappointed. During this period, the media has been chasing "the spirit of chess", and the players also respect him. He thought that its role had been revealed, but now, this cartoon still has a long way to go.

The guests in the chess hall are the best evaluation criteria. If there are no more guests playing chess here, the spirit of chess can not be said to have played a role. The spirit of chess in his last life has promoted the go industry in several countries, and Meng Huo feels that it is a failure.

"Is there a charge for playing chess here?" Meng Huo asked.

"Yes, but it's cheap." The player nodded: "ten dollars an hour."

Meng Huo was silly: "ten yuan? You're making fun of me? It's cheap! "

All of a sudden, he felt funny. The shelf of the Go Association is too big. It costs 10 yuan per hour. If go is a popular activity, it's a good thing. But now go is half dead. Who is willing to pay ten yuan for it?

Especially for young people, an ordinary Internet bar costs only four or five yuan an hour. You tell him that go hall costs ten yuan an hour. Can the attraction of the two be compared? Besides, there are so many places to play in the world that the pricing of chess houses is just desperate. No wonder they can't develop.

Although Meng Huo doesn't often go out to play, he knows that in the first and second tier cities, or even the third and fourth tier cities in China, people can basically find suitable places for whatever they want to play. The social life of this world is much richer than that of his last life, which can be seen from the prosperity of the network.

Huaxia's network is no worse than the previous life, but the degree of Internet users' obsession is far away. The reason is that there are abundant resources in the real society, and many entertainment is quite cheap, so people don't need to rely on the Internet to pass the time.

"Is there a chess hall now?" "How much is the chess hall?" Meng Huo asked

"Chess hall?" "Chess player frowned:" the number of chess hall is not much, but the price is more expensive than us, about 20 yuan an hour

Meng Huo is dumb. He forgets that chess is different from go. In fact, he has also investigated chess. The popularity of chess is high. The objects of chess hall are some powerful chess masters, not very common people. Ordinary people can play chess everywhere.

"Forget it, don't say chess, what about other chess and cards?"

Meng Huo continued.

"Teacher He Xi, we go is the cheapest." Chess player seems to understand his meaning, frown: "mahjong shop also want 20 yuan."

"OK, I get it..." Meng Huo had no choice but to say that there are few chess and card games in Huaxia that have such things as "chess hall", and some of them are all popular types. Only when they are popular can they have shops for ordinary people to play.

Go is an exception. It has no need to set up a "chess hall" for ordinary people, because no one will come to play. But they still built it, and after it was built, they spent a lot of money to maintain it. This is really in line with the old saying that money is capricious.

Meng Huo's view on the Go Association is a little different. The association looks weak, but it's rich and powerful, and it's weird.

"Teacher He Xi, do you think the price is too high?" Looking at Meng Huo's speech, the store manager asked cautiously, "what price do you think is better?"

"Three pieces, can only be less than this, can't be more..." Meng Huo was a little disappointed, said: "I don't believe that ten pieces can let others come in, if you really want to develop go, this price is your biggest obstacle, anyway can't make money, why don't you let go?"

Meng Huo didn't care about the price of go hall, but since he painted go, he didn't want to see it go on like this.

The price of the chess house is too expensive, which is enough to affect the effect of the spirit of chess. No wonder there are no new guests. Even if someone is interested in reading comics and comes to the chess house to ask for ten yuan an hour, they should turn around and leave.

There are not many people who can play go. The chess hall should be a place for ordinary people to learn chess. Its price should be lower than other activities, even lower than Internet cafes. Let alone ten yuan, even three yuan. Meng Huo thinks it's too much. He even thinks it's best to be free, but it seems unrealistic.However, Meng Huo didn't notice that the other players who accompanied him showed approval