The name is imitation chess. The so-called imitation chess of Go is that one side follows the other side in playing chess at symmetrical places on the board, and finally forms a completely symmetrical chess game with black and white sides. This is commonly known as imitation chess. Also known as "Dongpo Chess".
The origin of "Dongpo Chess" is this: Su Shi, also known as Zizhan, also known as Dongpo Jushi, was extremely smart. Not only was he a great writer, he was also good at all kinds of poems, songs, and poems, and his calligraphy was ranked among the four great masters at that time. However, he was not good at chess. Su Shi's youngest son Su Guo loved to play chess and was very good at it. Su Shi would lose to Su Guo no matter what. Once, Su Shi played chess with his son. Su Shi played Tianyuan first, and then followed his son's diagonal move and moved to the opposite side. After dozens of moves, it turned out to be a fine chess piece. Su Guo was surprised and asked, "What kind of chess is this?" Su Shi smiled and said, "This is Dongpo chess."
In the Japanese Go competition, the third An imitation chess game was played by Showa chess master Wu Qingyuan and Go tycoon Kitani Minoru. At that time, since the stick-to-eye system had not yet been implemented, Wu Qingyuan played Tianyuan as soon as he came up with black, and then Mu Gushi played white, and Wu Qingyuan played black in symmetry.
This is the first time in Japan that "imitation chess" is used in a game. Therefore, Kitani Minoru took exams frequently and could not think of any good way to deal with it. When the game was closed at noon on the first day, Minoru Kitani muttered to the referee that if he continued to imitate like this, the game would be unplayable. But the referee was embarrassed and said that imitating chess did not violate the rules and the referee had no right to interfere with the opponent's play.
As a result, Wu Qingyuan imitated 63 moves in the game and began to change. Afterwards, the imitating chess was opposed by all Japanese chess players, who believed that imitating chess was a way of playing that lacked art and disrespected the opponent. . Since then, no chess player has ever walked through imitation chess with black in hand.
After the Go system was implemented, the late famous Japanese player Tomosai Fujisawa was the first person to imitate the game by playing white chess with his opponent. He often plays the white chess piece and learns the black chess piece for twenty or thirty moves in the game, causing his opponents a headache.
When a reporter interviewed Fujisawa Tomosai, he bluntly said that many chess players believed that imitation chess lacked art and creativity. However, Fujisawa Tomosai immediately retorted that he was completely wrong in playing imitation chess. Judgment of the opponent's move. Once he feels that the opponent's move is not good, he will immediately stop imitating it. Therefore, Fujisawa believes that imitating chess is not imitating for the sake of imitating
(The above is an introduction. I personally think there is nothing wrong with playing imitating chess. As long as you understand whether the opponent's chess is good or bad, imitation is also necessary. Certain technical skills)