“燕山夜话”一书的作者邓拓同志,曾在该书中说过一则关于围棋的故事。说的是唐宣宗大中年间,当时的日本王子访问中国,由于日本王子擅长下围棋,来后要求与中国棋手比赛,唐宣宗便指派了“国手”顾师言与之对弈。双方各下了三十三着棋后,不分胜负。于是,顾师言使出一绝招,即所谓“镇神头”的一着棋,使得日本王子长叹一声说:“小国当然不如大国”,只好认输了。 Comrade Deng Tuo, author of Yanshan Night Talk, once said in the book a story about Go. That is, during the middle and the great years of Tang Xuanzong, when the Japanese princes visited China, as the Japanese prince was good at going under the chess and later asked for a match with a Chinese chess player, Tang Xuanzong appointed a chess player to “master”. Thirty-three chess after both sides, regardless of the outcome. So, Gu teacher made a trick, the so-called “God of the town,” a chess, making the Japanese prince said with a sigh: “Of course, smaller countries than big powers,” had to admit defeat.