Chess King is a short story by contemporary writer Acheng, which mainly tells the story of Wang Yisheng, an educated youth "chess nerd" during the Cultural Revolution, looking for an opponent to play chess. The author tells the story of a chess king with a brilliant pen. The writer's purpose is not only to "communicate chess with text", but also to "write people with chess", which embodies a special way of dealing with people. Although Wang, the protagonist, was born in poverty all his life and knew that food and clothing were fundamental, he did not pursue material things excessively and developed an indifferent and uncontested temperament. Moreover, he also realized the way of being a man from playing chess, that is, being a man should not win too much, and further realized that people need something to live.

The original text of Chess King

At this moment, a classmate came over, as if looking for someone. He saw me at a glance and said, "Come on, come on, you need one." I knew they were playing cards, so I shook my head. When my classmates came to our place, they were waiting to reach out and pull me. Suddenly they shouted, "Chess nerd, why are you here?" Your sister just gave you a hard time I said I didn't see it. I didn't expect you to sit in this carriage in our school without saying a word. Look, look, it's coming down again "

The bookworm blushed and said grumpily, "You care about heaven and earth, but you care about me playing chess?"? Go ahead, it's your turn. " Then I urged my opponents around me. Then I heard some voices and asked my classmates, "Is he Wang Yisheng?" The classmate opened his eyes and said, "You don't know him? Alas, you have lived in vain. You don't know chess nerd? " I said, "I know that the chess nerd is Wang Yisheng, but I don't know that Wang Yisheng is him." As he spoke, he looked at the thin student carefully. Wang Yisheng reluctantly smiled and only looked at the chessboard.