"By the way." Richard looked at the clown and asked meaningfully, "Mr. clown, are you going to invite me to stay and watch your circus' wonderful performance this time? Yesterday, I saw it in the village , unless your program today is different from yesterday’s program, watching the same program twice is not a pleasant experience.”
"Then you will be disappointed, I'm afraid I really can't invite you again." The clown said, apologetically, "Today's performance will be the same as yesterday. After all, a new show cannot be made just by thinking about it. Yes, we keep performing the same program back and forth in one area, and when everyone has watched it, we move to another place. This is our way of survival."
"Having said that," the clown said again, "Although I can't invite you to watch the show again, I can invite you to play a little game with me for fun."
"Little game? Now?"
"Yes, now." The clown nodded, confirming.
"What kind of little game is that?" Richard asked, squinting at the clown. At this time, he knew very well that rejection could never be refused. Although the clown seemed to mention it casually, he was not wrong. This was the highlight of the clown's preparation.
Today he encountered many hidden hunter traps along the way, nearly broke his horses several times, and was attacked by wild beasts several times. All of them should have been caused by the clown, or the mastermind behind the clown.
The purpose of doing this is to let him appear in this town at the right time, meet with the circus, and then let the clown take the opportunity to do something, just like the clown tried to persuade and teach him yesterday.
Yesterday's persuasion and teaching were forcefully countered by him with his philosophical knowledge. I don't know what today's will be like.
What could it be? Richard thought curiously.
The next moment the clown answered: "Well, this is it!"
As he spoke, the clown took out a chessboard and two boxes of chess pieces from his arms like a magic trick.
Putting the chessboard on the ground, the clown squatted down, took out the black and white chess pieces from the two boxes, and quickly placed them on the wooden board.
Richard saw that many chess pieces were carved with animals of many types: lions, tigers, cheetahs, elephants, zebras, bison, antelopes, monkeys, chimpanzees...
There are also some chess pieces carved with characters of different identities, and there are many types: kings, ministers, knights, soldiers, farmers...
The chessboard is the most ordinary square chessboard with many squares. The clown keeps placing chess pieces in the squares, and soon it is filled with large pieces. Then the clown took out the last two clown-looking chess pieces, one black and one white, from the box and placed them in the middle grid at both ends of the chessboard.
Looking up, the clown looked at Richard and said slowly: "Let me introduce, what you are seeing now is something called clown chess. This is my invention. You can think of it as a beast-fighting chess played by children. , but there are a little more chess pieces and the rules are a little more complicated.”
After a pause, the clown explained the rules: "First of all, there is the clown chess piece, which is the most important chess piece in the game. The clown chess piece initially walks three squares diagonally, like this. Then, he has three lives. , every time you die, your walking style will change, respectively...
Besides the clowns, there are the human pawns. The king among humans is the most powerful chess piece, but it should be noted that he cannot directly capture the enemy's chess pieces. He must ensure that there are other human chess pieces of his own side nearby in order to attack and capture the chess pieces. Different chess pieces around you have different attack powers, and the chess pieces that can be captured are also different. For example, if there is a minister at this position, then it can kill the enemy's farmer at this position...
Then there is the animal card, which can be used to attack any enemy chess piece. Whether it can succeed depends on calculating the attack power. In addition, the balance between the number of animal chess pieces and the number of human chess pieces must be ensured, that is to say, the animal chess pieces cannot exceed the human chess pieces too much, otherwise it will cause a beast tide. Even if the number of human chess pieces is advantageous, we cannot allow all the animal chess pieces to gather together, which will trigger a wave of small beasts...
The safest way to treat animal chess pieces is to separate each animal chess piece. For example, lions and monkeys should be separated into different subjects. If they are together, the lion will eat the monkey directly, and then for the next twelve rounds, he will not be able to eat anything else because he is full... "
After a long time, the clown's rules were finally finished. The rest of the people might have slapped the chessboard directly on the clown's mask, and then asked: "Is this what you said there are a little more chess pieces and the rules are a little more complicated?!"
There are more chess pieces and more complicated rules than just a little bit, it’s simply indescribable!
Even after hearing it once, Richard just used a special memory method to forcefully memorize the rules and barely knew how to move the chess pieces.
Rubbing his brows and trying to digest the rules, Richard looked at the clown and asked, "Mr. clown, are you really prepared to play this game with me?"
"Yeah, how do you feel?"
“It’s a little tedious, but it’s also a little fun.”
"It's fun." The clown clapped his hands, "Because my game takes into account many real-life rules and will give people an immersive experience. How about it, it's not dark yet, come and play with me."
"If I refuse, Mr. Clown will be very sad, right?" Richard asked.
"It's not that sad." The clown shook his head, "But he will definitely be disappointed. This game of mine is a bit different after all. In my opinion, only smart people can play it. And smart people, after all, are very rare. It’s not easy for you. The conversation you had with me yesterday left a deep impression on me. If you don’t play, I may not be able to find anyone else to play with me for a long, long time.”
"Okay then, I'll just play with Mr. Clown." Richard squatted down, looked at the clown and asked, "Then who of us will take the first step? Toss a copper coin and decide?"
"No, I just need to leave first," the clown said.
"Um?"
The clown explained: "The rule of clown chess is that whoever is in the west moves first, and I am in the west now. Of course, you can also change positions with me. Do you want to change?"
Richard looked at the clown and blinked. The current situation involved a very subtle psychological game: before he could learn more information, he could not determine which one had greater advantages, whether to go first or to go last. Although it seems like the Joker wants to take the initiative now, what if the Joker did it on purpose
After a while, Richard did not get up and change positions, but made a gesture of invitation and said: "In that case, Mr. Clown, let's take the first step."
"Okay." The clown nodded and began to move the chess pieces without any politeness. Richard followed suit.