Life Is Like The Go Game; The Start Is The End.
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Sir Bi shut his eyes and spoke slowly, "I was confident that I could win then, but I didn't dare act so brazenly, so I answered, 'What about best of seven games?'"
"The person sitting opposite me said with a laugh, 'You are the Go Saint of this generation, unparalleled in Tianxuan for years; naturally, you would have your unique skills. However, I have immersed myself in this art for more or less a millennium… The outcome isn't fixed in stone – let us do best of nine games. There isn't much going on anyway – we can afford to waste some time."
"I agreed with a nod, and even planned to win four games out of the nine, so that my opponent could win one game to save face."
"What I didn't think of, however, was not only did each game take an unusually long time, it became consecutively longer as we played through our nine games. The first game took an entire day and I won with half a point of territory."