During the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a female chess player in the northern state of Liao called Miaoguan, who was appointed as a chess girl by the court. She set up a chess shop to teach her disciples, many of whom were sons of princes. As a teacher, Miaoguan was naturally reserved and unsmiling, and she was so masculine that no one dared to climb up to her. At that time, there was a poor family from Caizhou Zhou Guoneng, a young man who loved to play chess since childhood, and was instructed by an old Taoist, was unrivaled in the country. He traveled to Bianliang and gained great fame, and then went to Liao to look for someone to compete with him. When he came to the chess shop of Miao Guan, he saw a beautiful woman instructing people to play chess. When he saw Miaoguan, he could not help but feel his soul flying out of the sky, but he realized that although Miaoguan's chess was good, there was still something he could not do. He watched from the sidelines for a few days, but could not help himself, so he gave a few pointers on the side. Although Miao Guan had to admit that the points Guo Neng pointed out were also divine, but he was very uncomfortable, and called two students to blast Guo Neng away. Unexpectedly, this Guo Neng intentionally rented a house near the chess shop, hung out a signboard with the following inscription: "Ru Nan Xiao Taoist hand talk, to spare the world's highest hand a first." (Zhou Guoneng called himself a small Taoist, here "hand talk" in the "Shiyi Xinyi" "Wang Zhonglang to sit in silence with the game of Go, Zhi Gong to talk about the game of Go as a hand talk" allusion) Miaoguan was very angry, and thought that maybe the moves he pointed out were just a coincidence, and really want to play a formal game, that guy He thought that maybe the moves he had taught him were just a fluke. So she wanted to compete with Kuno Neng. In order to be cautious, she sent her top disciple Zhang Sheng to test Guoneng's skills, but Zhang Sheng was defeated when Guoneng let him have three pieces first. Miaoguan had to face up to the match with Guo Neng, but knew that she could not beat him. So she asked someone to secretly promise Guoneng some money, hoping that Guoneng would let her win in the game. Unexpectedly, Kuninen wants to marry her as a condition. Miaoguan pretended to agree, and after winning the match, she paid Kuninen in gold, leaving Kuninen with no choice.

Then Guo Neng was invited by the princes and nobles of Liao to play chess, and when they commented on their game, Guo Neng said angrily, "This woman's game is inferior, and she has earned her name in vain. He told the princes that he had lost the game because of this and that. The princes invited Miaoguan to play again, and Guo Neng bet five taels of gold that Miaoguan had paid, but Miaoguan did not bring any money with her, so she had to accept Guo Neng's offer to take her as his wife as a bet. As a result, Guo Neng won two rounds in a row and finally married Miao Guan after the ruling of the governor of Youzhou. After the marriage, the two of them became very close, and after Guo Neng's instruction, Miaoguan's chess skill also improved, and finally the two of them became real rivals.