"That's right. Richard looked at the clown and asked meaningfully, "Mr. Clown, are you going to invite me to stay and watch your circus show again?" Yesterday, I watched it in the village, and unless your show today is different from yesterday's, it is not a pleasant experience to watch the same show twice repeatedly. ”

"Then you're going to be disappointed, I'm afraid I really can't invite you again. The clown said, apologetically, "Today's performance is the same as yesterday, after all, a new show can't be made just by thinking about it, we all use the same show to constantly perform back and forth in an area, and when everyone has seen it, we will change to another place, this is our way of survival." ”

"Then again. The clown spoke up again, "I can't invite you to watch the show again, but I can invite you to play a little game with me for a while." ”

"Little game? now?"

"Yes, now. The Joker nodded, sure.

"What kind of game is that?" asked Richard, squinting at the Joker. At this time, he knew very well in his heart that refusal was absolutely impossible to refuse, although the clown seemed to mention it casually, but he did not guess wrong, this was the highlight of the clown's preparation.

Today, he encountered many hidden hunter traps along the way, several times he almost broke his horse, and a few times he encountered wild beast attacks, all of which were made by the clown, or the man behind the clown.

The purpose of doing this is to get him to show up in the town at the right time, meet the circus, and then let the clown take the opportunity to do something, just like the clown tried to persuade him yesterday.

Yesterday's persuasion and teaching, he forcibly fought back with philosophical knowledge, and I don't know what it will be today.

What could it be?" Richard thought curiously.

The next moment the clown replied, "Oh, that's it!"

As he spoke, the clown took out a chessboard and two boxes of chess pieces from his bosom like a trick.

Placing the chessboard on the ground, the clown crouches down, takes out the black and white pieces from the two boxes, and quickly places them on the wooden board.

Richard saw that many of the chess pieces were carved with animals, including lions, tigers, cheetahs, elephants, zebras, bison, antelopes, monkeys, chimpanzees......

There are also chess pieces carved with characters of different identities, and there are many types: kings, ministers, knights, soldiers, farmers......

The chessboard is the most ordinary checkered board, with numerous squares, and the clown keeps placing chess pieces in the squares, and in a short time it fills the canvas. The clown then took out the last two clown-like pieces, one black and one white, from the box and placed them in the middle of the two ends of the board.

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 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 lectured on the rules: "First of all, it's the clown piece, which is the most important piece in the game. The clown piece starts out by walking diagonally three squares, like this. Then, he had three lives, and every time he died, the way he walked changed, which were......

Outside of the clown, there are human pawns. The king of humans is the most powerful pawn, but it should be noted that he cannot directly capture the enemy's pawns, and must make sure that he has the rest of his human pawns next to him in order to attack and capture the pawns. And the chess pieces around you are different, the attack power is also different, and the chess pieces that can be captured are also different. For example, if there is a minister in this position, then it can kill the enemy farmer in this position......

Then there is the animal card, which can be used to attack any piece of the enemy, whether it can be successful or not, you need to calculate the attack power. In addition, it is necessary to ensure a balance between the number of animal pieces and the number of human pieces, that is, the animal pieces must not exceed the human pieces too much, otherwise it will cause a tide of beasts. And even if the number of human chess pieces is superior, it is not possible to let all the animal chess pieces gather together, which will cause a tide of small beasts......

The safest way to deal with animal pieces is to separate each animal piece, for example, a lion and a monkey should be separated. If you are together, the lion will eat the monkey directly, and then for the next twelve rounds, there will be no more because he is full......"

After a long time, the rules of the clown were finally finished, and if the rest of the people were to directly slap the chessboard on the clown's mask, and then ask: "This is what you said about a little more chess pieces, and the rules are a little more complicated?!"

The number of chess pieces and the complexity of the rules are indescribable!

After Rao heard it to Richard once, he only used a special way of memorizing to forcibly memorize the rules, barely knowing how to move the chess pieces.

Rubbing his eyebrows and trying to digest the rules, Richard looked at the clown and asked, "Mr. Clown, are you really going to play this game with me?"

"yes, how do you feel?"

"It's a bit tedious, but it's also a bit fun. ”

"It's interesting. "Clown clapping," because of my game, I consider a lot of real-life rules, which will give people an immersive experience. How's it going, it's not dark yet, come and play with me. ”

"If I refuse, Mr. Clown will be very sad, right?" asked Richard.

"It's not sad. The clown shook his head, "But I'm going to be disappointed, this game of mine, after all, is a bit different, and in my opinion, only smart people can play it." And smart people, after all, are very rare, it is not easy to meet you one, yesterday your conversation with me left a deep impression on me, if you don't play, then maybe I can't find a second person to play with me for a long, long time. ”

"Alright then, I'll play with Mr. Joker. Richard crouched down, looked at the clown, and asked, "So which of us takes the first step?"

"No, I'll just go first. The clown said.

"Huh?"

The clown explained: "The rules of clown chess are that whoever is in the west moves first, and I am in the west right now. Of course, you can also swap places with me, do you want to do so?"

Richard blinked as he watched the Joker, the current situation involved a very delicate psychological game: until more information was known, he could not determine which one would be more advantageous. Although it seems that the Joker wants to choose the first move, what if the Joker does it on purpose?

After a while, Richard didn't get up to change his position, but made a gesture of invitation: "In that case, then Mr. Clown will start taking the first step." ”

"Good. The Joker nodded, and unceremoniously began to move the pieces, and Richard followed.