The 22nd International Mathematical Olympiad has finally come to a successful conclusion, and the six players of the Soviet delegation have won the second highest total score after the United States, so the team championship of this year fell to the host American team.
The competition was not only for the team, but also for the individual, and Grigory won the individual gold medal with the first place in the overall individual score.
After the competition, the organizing committee will no longer be responsible for the accommodation expenses of the delegations, and the delegates of each country need to arrange their own itinerary.
The leader of the delegation planned to take everyone around New York, play for a few days, and then fly home from there.
Arriving in New York, Seryosha noticed that there was a slight problem between the six players, presumably due to Grigory's stubborn refusal to admit that the Americans had proved the four-color conjecture with a computer, so he insisted on abandoning the first question, which eventually led to the defeat of the entire team.
Grigori, who was already somewhat withdrawn, was even more unacceptable to his peers, and the other five members of the delegation began to deliberately ostracize him.
So Seryosha wanted to take Grigory to play alone.
Seryosha greeted the leader, and after receiving permission, Seryosha approached Grigory and asked him where he wanted to go.
"Can you take me to the casino, I want to test the success of my method."
Grigory's words caused Seryosha to squirt out all the Coke that had been in his mouth.
"You can't pick a zoo, a museum, an amusement park, or something like that, why don't you go to that kind of place to gamble."
Seryosha bitterly persuaded Grigory.
"Gambling, no, it's not gambling, I know exactly what I'm going to do, and I promise it's going to be under my control all the time."
Grigory replied.
Seryosha stared into Grigory's eyes, his eyes were pure, without any gambler's gaze, and Seryosha could tell that he was just curious.
"Okay, I'll take you, but you can only stand and watch.
Because casinos won't let a minor play at the table, even if I agree to you, you can't play" Seryosha finally chose to compromise, not because he wanted to go, but because Grigory is a kid who has his own way, and it can be seen from his stubbornness during the game, who knows what he will do if he doesn't agree to his request.
"I had to go myself, because only I could have calculated the correct result in such a short period of time, and I thought maybe we could do something about it, like sticking a beard or something," Grigory suggested expectantly.
"Okay" Seryosha happily agreed, because they were going to take him anyway, so they simply met his request, and he couldn't go if he wanted to go back to the Soviet Union anyway.
So Seryosha left the hotel with Grigory, and he did not tell the leader of their destination.
The two of them went to the department store first, and Seryosha needed to change the outfits of Grigory and himself, and the two of them were not going to the casino in their current outfits.
The two of them changed their outfits inside and out in the store.
By the time Seryosha and Grigory came out of the department store, they had been completely new from head to toe.
The two of them wore black dress-style suits and a pair of sunglasses, looking like they were going to a party.
But it's not enough to just have a good outfit, after all, it's still quite hot to walk on the street in this season, and a really rich person wouldn't do that.
Seryosha simply went to a rental car and rented an extended Cadillac and hired a driver.
Anyway, it didn't cost much for a few days.
After these things were done, Seryosha had one of the most important things left, and that was to get some money.
With the money he had with him to buy clothes and hire a car, Seryosha had no choice but to use his savings in a Swiss bank, which fortunately was New York, which happened to have a branch of a Swiss bank.
However, when Seryosha sat down at the counter of the New York branch of the Swiss Bank, he was told that a day's notice was required for withdrawals.
"Can't you think of a way," Seryosha said angrily, in fact, the bank is not to blame for this, you must know that it is now 1981, and it is almost impossible to make international transfers in one day.
"We're sorry, but we're already the fastest in the industry, so why don't we open a checking account for you," the bank's staff politely suggested.
Helplessly, Seryosha could only nod and agree.
After opening their checking accounts, Seryosha and Grigory left New York in a rented stretch Cadillac not to Las Vegas, but to Atlantic City, another world-famous casino city in New Jersey very close to New York.
When this elongated Cadillac takes them to Atlantic City's largest and most luxurious casino, the Taj Mahal Casino.
The two men who stepped out of the car were amazed by the Americans' generosity.
As the name suggests, the casino is fronted by an Indian-inspired crown building modeled after the Taj Mahal Mausoleum, connected to a 51-storey skyscraper.
The casino is now the largest in the world in terms of both the scale of construction and the cost of construction.
This is definitely a good entertainment place to experience the lights and wine, and get drunk and golden.
Seryosha and Grigory arrived in the afternoon, which was not a good time to try their skills, as the casino was open from 7 p.m. until 7 a.m. the next morning.
Before entering the casino again, Seryosha first spent a few hundred dollars, took Grigory into a barber shop, and fixed the fake beard bought from the department store to Grigory's lips with glue, the fake beard itself cost Seryosha two hundred dollars, but it was really a penny, Grigory with the beard instantly aged ten years, and he couldn't tell that he was a minor.
After that, the two returned to the Taj Mahal casino, where Seryosha exchanged a check for $10,000 in chips.
In this hotel, chips can be equivalent to currency, and all the expenses of Seryosha and Grigory here can be settled with chips.
The two of them walked through the lobby of the casino, which was the least crowded time of the day, many tables were empty, but there were many people who tried their luck again and again for slot machine money.
The two first opened a suite, and then called the room service to send a sumptuous dinner, the two sat on the balcony, while eating food, while waiting for the nightfall, here you can see a lot of bikini beauties by the pool downstairs, Seryosha drank cold champagne, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that this is really a good place to be continued. t1706231537: