Chapter 134

The flight from Leningrad to Washington slowly landed at the Washington International Airport in Baltimore. The staff of the Organizing Committee of the 22nd International Mathematical Olympiad had already arranged a bus for the Moscow delegation to pick them up from the airport to the hotel in the dark. Grigori and Xie liaosha were almost playing cards all the way. When they got off the plane, they could be regarded as talking friends. At least Xie liaosha thought so.

After arriving at the hotel, it was late at night and the room had already been allocated. After taking a bath, Xie liaosha was wearing a bathrobe and leaning on the bed to watch TV. Just at this time, there was a knock outside the door. Xie liaosha quickly opened the door to check, but found that it was Gregory. Xie liaosha was a little strange, so he asked, "is there anything wrong at this late hour?"

"I've come up with a way to improve the 21 point winning rate. Don't you dare to be interested?" Gregory stood outside with his luggage and said excitedly.

In fact, Xie liaosha is more interested in sleeping now, but it's not Xie liaosha's style to refuse a friend he just met. Anyway, his room is a double room with an empty bed. It was not a problem to let Gregory in, so he waved his head and made way for Gregory to come in.

Before waiting for Grigori to stand, Xie liaosha pressed his shoulder and asked him to sit on the bed. He said ahead of time, "go to bed first, but there will be a match tomorrow." I thought this guy would object, but he agreed. Xie liaosha lay on his bed, turned off the TV, turned off the light, and soon entered a half asleep state.

"Xie liaosha, do you think there will be a bonus if you win this competition?" A sudden question from Grigori once again pulled seryosha back from his sleep.

"What's the matter? Are you short of money?" Xie liaosha asked.

"I want to buy a violin for my sister and a sweater for my mother. By the way, I want to buy a better calculator for my father. " One by one, Gregory calculated the gifts he had brought to his family, only forgetting his own.

"It doesn't matter. I can lend it to you and give it back to me when you have money!" Xie liaosha replied casually.

"In fact, my 21 point card counting method is very simple, just need to..."

"Snore Snore

As soon as Gregory was about to go on talking, there was a sound of snoring from xieliaosha. Gregory had to give up.

The next morning, Grigory has been urging him with his eyes since he got up. They all say that women need to do the most things in the morning. In fact, there are many men. Grigory has been anxiously waiting for him since he left the bed, washed, took the tuba, and then went to the hotel restaurant for breakfast. It was not until they came back from the restaurant that sherius listened patiently to Gregory explain his theory.

"My method is to mark 2-7 as + 1, 8-9 as 0, and 10, J, Q, K and a as - 1. After addition and subtraction, we can calculate which side the unused cards will go. The sum is then divided by the number of pairs of the remaining cards. The result is what I call the true number. By referring to the real number to adjust the bet and decision-making, we can achieve the effect of weakening the advantage of the banker Gregory said confidently.

"The game is coming in the afternoon. Don't you need to prepare for it? Instead, let me play blackjack with you?" Xie liaosha asked uneasily. This investigation was originally the goodwill released by Leningrad university to Xie liaosha. Originally, there was no specific work assigned to Xie liaosha. In fact, it can be regarded as a public tour. He did not want to influence the Soviet delegation's achievements because of his own relations.

"It doesn't matter. Help me to test it. I want to see if my theory works or not." Gregory's face urged excitedly. So he played blackjack with Gregory in the room to verify the winning rate of Gregory's theory in actual combat. This is a boring thing, but Gregory is very happy. For the sake of fairness, Gregory allows shario Sha to record the cards that have appeared. Because Gregory's memory is so strong that he has his own cheating device.

"It seems that this method is not very effective. It can only provide a 3% success rate." Two people have been verified hundreds of games, Gregory also made some small changes to his method, finally said disheartened.

"But I hardly beat you on the plane yesterday?" Xieliaosha encouraged Grigori. As soon as he finished, there was a knock on the door. The leader called out at the door, "Xie liaosha, it's time for us to start!"

"Bad!" Xie liaosha and Gregory have been playing for too long. Now they can't help thinking about patterns like J, Q, K and A. moreover, their brains are extremely tired. It's like playing mahjong all night. He estimated that Gregory's mind must be a paste now. How can he compete! You know, although the International Olympic mathematics competition is a competition for middle school students, it is a competition for mathematical talents from all countries. Moreover, this competition is held in the United States. Whenever it can compete with the Americans, the Soviet athletes will be highly expected, which has created a lot of pressure.

"Are you ok now? Wash your face and wake up Xie liaosha couldn't help blaming himself. He didn't help much. Now, he played with the main players for most of the day. If the leader knew, he had to kill him.

"It's OK. Let's come back and play again!" Gregory pushed open the door and went out. When he came outside, everyone had already got on the bus, only the two of them were left. Xie liaosha got on the bus with an apologetic face, found a seat at random and sat down. The car started soon.

The competition place of the 22nd International Olympic mathematics competition is located in a spacious gymnasium on the campus of University of Washington. It is more like an exam than a competition. The contestants will be arranged on the designated seats for the test. The test paper consists of six questions, with 7 points for each question and a full score of 42 points. Each participant must finish all the questions in 4-5 hours. In order to take care of the Russian team from afar, the competition time was specially changed to the afternoon. Competition a total of two days, today is the first preliminaries, through the preliminaries of the team can be as quiet as tomorrow's rematch.

After entering the competition field, Gregory separated from seryosha, who sat in the audience with the deputy leader of the delegation, a mathematics professor from Leningrad University. Under the stage are full of mathematics professors from various universities in the United States. If outstanding players emerge in the competition, they may be attracted by these mathematics masters. Xie liaosha can't help but sweat for Gregory. If he delays Gregory's future, he is really guilty.