Black & White

By SHERI BERTELSON

Who wins when black and white clash? The curse, the treasure, the seal, the serpent, what is the answer to the riddle? Forced up the snake mountain Jilian, and how to use their poison to escape the snake cave, solve the mystery, break the family curse rumors?

• Language: English
• Publisher: SHERI BERTELSON
• Release date: Aug 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088238011

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Chapter 1

Bryan Mcinvale and Anna Marie Garcia first met on a July day in 1997.

Bryan Mcinvale remembers that it was an unusually hot day and that he woke up early with a nosebleed.

But when he arrived at the office, he found that the person sitting opposite him was wearing a pure black suit, covered from head to toe. Meticulous, very serious.

Bryan Mcinvale, who was bunting, was a little blindfolded.

That year, Anna Marie Garcia was 16 and Bryan McInvalee was 15.

Their first meeting, for Bryan Mcinvale, is not exactly a fond memory.

After all, highly respected by his predecessors in the country, as a child prodigy, he struggled for the first time.

In that year, Bryan Mcinvale, full of vigor and splendor, is the best age!

The previous year, he alone, seven games seven victories, the end of the Sino-Japanese Weiqi competition forever.

In May of that year, he just barely defeated Yao Jingcheng and won the title of Tianyuan in the United States, becoming the youngest Tianyuan in history.

In July of that year, he participated in the first U.S.-South Korea Tianyuan Match as an American Tianyuan.

And then, as fate would have it, he met Anna Marie Garcia, the queen of Korea, the man who was destined to take all his glory in the near future.

Anna Marie Garcia is the latest legend of The Three Kingdoms. Thirteen years old as the soft wind fast gun Piao Liheng's inner disciple to fight, fourteen years old is in the Fujitsu Cup international finals to master down the ring.

After that, he swept the Three countries and won 56 games in consecutive international and domestic competitions.

For a moment, the spotlight was on.

Every teenager who learns chess aims to defeat Anna Marie Garcia.

The elderly master of chess, is all trembling, afraid to become the next show zai under the sword ghost.

Finley Dugger was hailed by the chess community as the most likely teenager to become Hideya's opponent because of his brilliant performance the previous year.

He was actually a little defiant.

Bryan Mcinvale is Bryan Mcinvale, why does it have to be a one-man opponent to be valuable?

Anna Marie Garcia. Isn't that great?

He muttered this to his teacher, Ifrain Figueroa. The teacher just looked at him and smiled, and didn't say much. Instead is passing by the Tianyuan Yao Jingcheng heard, sneer a laugh, catch him do not sleep for three days of dead or alive problem. At last, the sight of the board made him want to throw up. This reaction lasted a whole week.

After three days of hell special training, the still elegant Janice Easley stood up from the chess balance.

He pushed his gold-rimmed glasses and, with an ironic smile, said to the white-faced Finley Dugger, It's all very well to have a high heart, but, boy, if that's all you have, you don't deserve to judge Anna Marie Garcia!

At that time, Janice Easley had just been defeated by Anna Marie Garcia in the five chess match of the Toyoo Securities Cup.

In this sweltering July, Bryan Mcinvale made Anna Marie Garcia his opposite number.

It was still early, and he looked carefully at the black man on the other side.

Anna Marie Garcia is an unusually thin teenager, with long fingers, a white neck, a handsome face, a kind of indifference and wisdom, and he sits upright, stern and austere like a Puritan.

With the referee's voice landing, the game officially began.

Anna Marie Garcia grabbed a handful of white berries with his long, slender fingers. Look at Bryan Mcinvale.

Bryan Mcinvale thought about it and put out two spots.

Correct.

Bryan Mcinvale is in charge.

At this time, neither of them thought that in their later long life, such a scene will be repeated again and again.

Waiting for each other next to chess balance, almost became the theme of each other's life.

The match between Tianyuan and Yuan is three games of chess.

For the first time, Bryan Mcinvale made an unusual move to take the next step.

Second time, Anna Marie Garcia returns the favor, taking the city back.

And just like that, the tiebreaker.

Years later Bryan Mcinvale still remembers that game with a cold sweat

Full of blood, can be killed, straight through the black and white, the face.

He was forced to walk difficult, palms cold sweat, but the opponent seemed to be always slow.

That game, he worked hard, forced out beyond the strength of the magic stroke.

Even Janice Easley was surprised.

But still can't escape the end of the dragon being slaughtered...

The opponent is so indifferent indifferent step by step carefully to his advantage bit by bit nibbled into nothing.

Bryan Mcinvale's sharp attacks hit cotton and bounced back quietly.

He darts around, but he can't break the scent of Anna Marie Garcia.

Bryan Mcinvale watched himself get harder and harder every step of the way, not without hate, but above the hate, but not:

Anna Marie Garcia is not a weak player, but just not a weak player.

There are no tricks, no cunning. Just solid, just patient.

However, I, including my predecessors before me, lost in this simple and unpretentious sight.

Dusk, point eyes

Bryan Mcinvale lost one and a half.

Bryan Mcinvale saluted with a straight face and then stood up, trying to look gracious.

A loss is a loss. Come back next time! It's not fun to be embarrassed.

He silently gave himself encouragement, suddenly, the foot of a numb eye to see people will fall...

Bryan Mcinvale was crying bad when he realized that his partner was falling faster than he was.

They looked at each other in surprise, then burst out laughing at the same time!

The first meeting, the end in the sunset in the laughter. At that time, they did not expect to have so many encounters in the future.

Janice Easley sat in the chess room next door, watching it all through closed circuit.

He played with the folding fan in his hand, his face smiled: It is a good victory and defeat, how about it?

The last question is for the person behind you.

Ifrain Figueroa is a young man with a stern face approaching the tail of youth, just a round older than Janice Easley. He sat silently in the sunset, like a statue, and finally spoke: Xiao Chang tried his best...

Easley's face suddenly cold, he hum, stood up, without greeting Ifrain Figueroa, swagger out.

At the entrance of the office, he stopped, leaned against the door frame, and said to Bryan Mcinvale with a sneer, When you hesitate, when you are soft on the enemy, you are really a good teacher!

Bryan Mcinvale bowed his head obediently. Mr. Yao...

Janice Easley wanted to say something, but suddenly snort, threw a chess book, and hit Bryan Mcinvale's shoulder: Tonight, I want to play all the music here, tomorrow morning at six to play against me! Five minutes late, you go to old Lin there to get the ruler!"

Chapter 2

The hot summer passed quickly in the endless game of music.

At the end of the summer, Bryan Mcinvale had his first younger brother.

Bryan Mcinvale is a strange presence in chess.

When he was eight years old, he was taken to the National Chess Academy in Beijing from his hometown in Chongqing by his teacher Ifrain Figueroa Jiudan, but it was not until he was fourteen that he officially entered the national establishment. For several years before that, his teacher Ifrain Figueroa had been responsible for all his expenses and instruction.

Therefore, he is not so much a newcomer cultivated by the Chess Academy as an inner disciple of Ifrain Figueroa. Ifrain Figueroa of Bryan Mcinvale is both a teacher and a father.

And in the whole chess academy, such treatment of the person, he is the only one.

After all, not everyone is qualified to be a disciple of Chess Master. Even a chess player no longer at his best.

Because of this, Bryan Mcinvale often seems a little lonely in the chess room. The students who played in the youth team from childhood, although not to bully him, estrangement is certain.

Fortunately, he is optimistic by nature and is satisfied when he has a chess game, so he is not particularly sad.

Although he did not care about everything, but when he knew that he would have a brother, he was so excited that he did not sleep well for one night!

The next day, he saw alex ventura.

It was a fat, white little guy, held in Janice Easley's arms, with an unhappy expression on his face. Looks like a grumpy little guy.

Bryan Mcinvale's eyes light up with excitement. Despite his fear of Janice Easley, he rushes forward to hug the little girl.

Janice Easley raised her eyebrows and didn't say anything. The little one in my arms reacted first.

He stared blankly at Bryan Mcinvale for a moment, his big eyes flashing. Then he turned his head and gave him the back of his head.

Bryan Mcinvale's outstretched hand was left hanging in the air, not to be embarrassed.

Janice Easley laughed and went into the house with the fat boy in her arms.

Bryan Mcinvale touched his nose, stood in the courtyard for a while, hesitated, and finally rubbed his way inside. He wanted a playmate so badly, even if it was a grumpy little fat guy.

Chubby was standing in the middle of the room, rolling his eyes up at him like a hostile pig.

Bryan Mcinvale was silent. He had never realized how unpopular he was.

Janice Easley came out of the back room, saw the two silently facing each other, had a good laugh, so she grabbed Bryan Mcinvale and introduced them to each other.

Qing Yu, this is the woodfaced man's apprentice, Bryan Mcinvale, 15 years old. Well, technically your brother. In chess, Easley shrugs. In two years, you can probably afford to be your brother.

He turned to Bryan Mcinvale and nodded. alex ventura, 12 years old, my apprentice.

Bryan Mcinvale continued to say nothing, and then quietly crawled out.

Is his own stupid, evil apprentice, naturally is also evil. He expected to have a playmate with whom he could play music and mock each other...

Unexpectedly again think of a few months ago to overcome their youth. Maybe he'd be a great friend, huh? 'he thought.

Unfortunately, it is a Korean, he shook his head regretfully.

With a sigh, he roused himself and turned out the chess pieces to study.

Unlike his master chess demon Janice Easley, alex ventura is a pretty nonexistent person from appearance to chess skill.

alex ventura rarely goes to the game room, and when he does, few people want to play chess with him. He was very small, twelve years old, looked only ten years old, and did not like to talk, so he was particularly disliked.

In the game room, Bryan Mcinvale often saw that the game was in full motion around the game, but alex ventura was sitting alone at the edge of the board. At times like this, he would get tired of watching, walk over, and accompany him to a game.

The first time he played against alex ventura, Bryan Mcinvale was taken aback and suddenly understood why the eccentric Janice Easley had accepted the student.

alex ventura's path calculation is so fast and so accurate that it's almost miraculous!

Often, as soon as Bryan Mcinvale drops off, alex ventura snaps after him. In a game of chess, alex ventura took less than half as long as Bryan Mcinvale. And his style of play, quite sly, is very different from Bryan Mcinvale himself.

Worthy of being a demon knife disciple, he thought so, after two years, I am afraid that I will really become a fierce enemy.

But alex ventura seems to prefer reading books to playing chess.

The library of the Chess Institute has a rich collection, not only chess, astronomical and geographical novels, miscellany, everything. After alex ventura had played as many games as Janice Easley wanted, he would run to the library alone. Find a corner, grab a big book and eat it.

He was originally grown white fat, so it looked more and more like a small ball of meat, especially cute.

So someone went to play with him, touched his head and said, alex ventura, what book are you reading?

Once or twice, alex ventura would pull his hand away from his head and say, Don't touch my head!

In this way, others love to tease him more and more, and he will be angry. He doesn't answer. He just fights.

Everyone's bigger than him. How can he win? Got a black eye, of course.

Bryan Mcinvale hit me in a group fight!

Bryan Mcinvale was shocked to see seven or eight children about his age barricading alex ventura in the back of the library. He had thought that the child was merely estranged, but he had not thought that it had come to this!

With a little guilt, he shouted, Don't do it! and rushed forward!

There were a lot of people on the other side, and Bryan Mcinvale himself was very thin, and this fight was especially hard to pull, and it was a lot of cold punches. Maybe someone who's usually upset with him is getting revenge, right? Bryan Mcinvale smiled wryly inside.

After a hard fight, and at the cost of countless footprints, Bryan Mcinvale finally got alex ventura behind him.

He angrily looked at the several big men in front of him and angrily scolded: The big bully the small! And you're not ashamed! So many people bullying a little child!"

The head of the person, is the king of chess, usually very and Bryan Mcinvale do not plate, listen to him say so, immediately jumped up: Bryan Mcinvale, you mind your own business! That boy doesn't know the rules, the brother should teach him!"

Before Bryan Mcinvale could answer, alex ventura hid behind Bryan Mcinvale, sticking his head out and sneering,