PREMISE
1
Games such as Go, Gomoku, Chess, Othello, and Shogi are classified as zero-sum, all-inclusive, two-player games where a player’s well-timed decisions, rather than coincidence or luck, determine the outcome.
2
Shogi, as a game, is incomplete.
PRODIGIES
There is a word known as “prodigies.”
It refers to children blessed by a higher power.
Children born with talent far exceeding that of the average person.
Better than most adults in their respective fields before they know the difference between right and left, they are adept and clever. Many people expect them to keep growing far beyond anyone’s reach when they become adults themselves.
However, most prodigies–––gradually become people with age.
There are many reasons.
Some simply mature faster than their peers. Others let their talent go to their heads and stop trying. The late bloomers catch up to them. Others still start families and become normal adults–––.
Also, the amount of talent they possess is irrelevant so long as they are human beings made of flesh and blood. Ability fades with age …… And new talent will take their place.
Thirty years ago …
A prodigy appeared in the Shogi world.
That boy learned how to play at the age of seven and became Elementary Meijin at the age of eleven.
A member of the Sub League by twelve, he became only the third junior high school professional player in history when he was fifteen.
He claimed his first title at nineteen and possessed all seven titles at once by the age of twenty-five.
And now …
That prodigy, currently in his mid-forties, is on the brink of accomplishing something that’s never been done before: achieving 100 combined seasons as a titleholder.
Showing no signs of age.
No lapses in ability.
The prodigy ascended to a level as yet unseen faster than anyone else. He amassed more experience than any of his contemporaries and maintained his position at the top by converting that experience into strength.
Most prodigies become normal people as they mature.
In that case.
What happens to the chosen few …… who don’t?
They–––become gods themselves.
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