The Chu River Is Prosperous

In the summer of 1998, 12-year-old Hu Rongxuan picked up half a rain-stained copy of "Plum Blossom Book" from his grandfather's street chess stall. Falling between the yellowed pages were the bloody notes left by his father Hu Weiguo - using functional formulas to dissect the geometric trajectory of "the horse moves the sun". Next to the change of "the horse breaks the screen and hits the cannon", it is written: "The path of chess is the path of life, no regrets for your moves." This father whom he had never met only left in his life the vague title of "provincial champion chess player" and the curse that his mother repeated every day: "There is no tomorrow for chess idiots." Starting from the chessboard graffiti on the junior high school mathematics test paper, Hu Rongxuan's world split between the Chu River and the Han Dynasty. Mathematics teacher Chen Jianguo discovered that he could deduce layouts using permutations and combinations. Retired coach Zhou Mingyuan tested his chess sense with three blind chess games on a rainy night. The "scientific chess" concept hidden in his father's notes was more like a stone dropped into still water, causing ripples in the traditional chess world. He defeated adult chess players with "Hu's Carousel" in the district competition, and won the provincial youth competition with "Improved Turtle Cannon". However, he saw his father's name on the base of the trophy twenty years ago - the man who his mother called "the man who ruined his life because of chess" once stood at the same peak. In high school, Hu Rongxuan took his father's remnant chess and Zhong Zhen's ancient music to the north. He won hundreds of games in a row in the online chess world with the ID of "Little Ten Consecutive Champions", but lost to the "Jianghu Yeluzi" who was a migrant worker chess player in the amateur chess championship. This defeat led him to enter the time-honored chess hall in Lingnan and touch the secret connection between his father and Zhong Zhen, a chess player in the late Qing Dynasty. It also allowed him to decipher the code of chess records on the eve of the college entrance examination and find the unfinished "Kinematic Model of Chess" - the original father.