Go: 50-50 split between me and AI

Chapter 2 2. Tears of the Times

Ying Jie guessed right, and he went ahead with the black one.

Under the current Chinese rules, Zhibai has a slightly greater advantage from the perspective of Ai.

However, there are still many chess players who are used to holding white or black, and the winning rate seems to be higher in the state of holding white or black. Of course, most players have a high winning rate when holding white.

For example, the famous world champion has talent but no virtue, and the winning rate of holding white is higher. He even has the title of Bai Jie who has few losses. In a certain year, he almost set a record of undefeated holding white.

That's why later generations will have the meme of the world champion who practiced hard to guess the first, and the former No.1 in China and South Korea before time travel also has interesting stories about whoever holds the white and wins.

However, in the eyes of humans, the opening advantage of 10% winning rate is basically non-existent, and humans can't perceive it at all.

Ying Jie took the black chess piece and put it on the upper right star position without thinking about it. This move shows respect.

Qi Zhenxi hardly thought about it, the star position in the lower right corner.

The two sides each occupied two corners in the first four moves.

In Go, there is a saying that there is a grass belly with golden corners and silver edges. Simply put, Go is a game of enclosure, and the consumption of chess pieces is the least when enclosing the corners, because there are two sides as supports, which saves the most effort.

Looking at the two star points occupied by the opponent's white chess, Ying Jie didn't think at all.

Fifth hand, dot three three.

"Three three?"

Seeing this step, Qi Zhenxi couldn't help but said, "How did your teacher teach you?"

Among the chess theories he knew, for the star position "dot three three", the earlier the game, the worse it would be.

There are 19 vertical and horizontal lines in Go, and 361 intersections, nine of which are marked as points, the middle point is called Tianyuan, and the rest are called star positions.

Usually people who can play chess will play the first step at the star position at the corner, or the small or high eye next to the star position.

Among them, the stars and high eyes are more focused on creating momentum, and their control over the corners is not too strong, while the small eyes have good control over the corners, and correspondingly, their influence on the outside world will be weaker.

The astrology itself is to gain momentum, and point three three basically means helping others to develop momentum.

But from the chess theory of this era, there is nothing wrong with Qi Zhenxi's idea.

However, Ying Jie's chess is not of this world, nor is it the Go of this era.

Ying Jie, male, 24 years old, no, it should be said that he is 14 years old in this life, a traveler whose world is rotten.

In the original world, Ying Jie in 2023 was still a young man who was able to advance to the level of Go. When he was a child, he used to learn Go in the dojo because his father liked Go. Ying Jie, who has been in the dojo for less than two years, went home arguing with his teacher and the boring life day after day.

After that, Ying Jie was like most ordinary children. Although he lost his schoolbag for two years, he quickly picked it up when he was in elementary school. He was admitted to university at the age of 17.

Ying Jie, who was in college, came into contact with Go again by chance and coincidence. Go, which was so boring and painful when he was a child, made Ying Jie addicted to it when he was in college.

Black and white, power and ground, attacking the other and taking care of oneself, abandoning children to fight for the first, abandoning the small to become big, and abandoning in every crisis, Ying Jie is addicted to the incomparably mysterious world of black and white.

Let Ying Jie, who was in college, embark on the road of being a young boy again, but the next four times of setting a road are only endless failures.

Even once, it was infinitely close to victory.

But in the end, I lost the most crucial round, which was obviously a winable round, which led to the absence of a career path.

This is the black and white world, fair, but extremely cruel.

Until one day, Ying Jie accidentally fell asleep while replaying in front of the computer, and traveled to the present world.

Looking at my young self, I thought I was reborn, but although the general structure of the world has not changed, the famous people in the whole world have changed.

For Ying Jie, the biggest change is that in this world, Ai who can break the game of Go has not yet appeared.

For Go, before and after the appearance of Go AI, there are two completely different games.

The most obvious point is in the formula.

The so-called fixed formula is a method in which both parties are at a loss during the layout stage.

It is the answer that countless seniors have been groping for over time.

In the eyes of normal people, this is the correct answer. If you don't write it according to the correct answer, you will be wrong.

Because you come first and then me in Go, there must be a winning solution that humans cannot perceive at the current stage, but it must exist.

As for the fixed pattern, in the opening stage, after countless experiments by the predecessors, the optimal solution for black and white is reached, which is recognized as a relatively proper program, and finally forms a basic chess shape in which the two sides are generally stable and the interests are equal.

Of course, the fixed pattern is not static, just like at the beginning, black first followed by white, and black chess does not need to fit the purpose, and the fixed pattern developed at that time will naturally not adapt to the current rules.

The most typical is RB's show flow.

However, with the development of the times, the previous stereotype that black and white are equal, now appears to be full of loopholes.

Because history is a spiral, no matter what it is, it is constantly developing. Today's people are better than ancient people, and the same is true for Go.

Especially in the AI ​​era of later generations, the emergence of AI has subverted the entire Go theory, especially the set style.

Because it is impossible for Go players to learn the computing power of a computer in the middle game, but in the layout stage, Go players can summarize it into a fixed formula and turn it into nourishment for their own growth.

Therefore, it is basically impossible to have any ancient chess records, and after learning it, you can smash all the contemporary masters.

Unless you can really find the legendary heaven and earth Datong.

Looking at the young man who didn't answer him, Qi Zhenxi couldn't help but shook his head. It might have been true that he had never been to a gymnasium to receive systematic learning as he said.

There may be incomplete cognition of the basic chess theory, and the ability to win may be largely supported by the strong computing power in the middle game.

Talented, but obviously wasted.

The sixth hand, Xiaofei.

Seeing Qi Zhenxi's response, Ying Jie shook his head silently in his heart.

I have been playing chess in this world for a month. Although I have known for a long time that it is impossible for chess players in this world to play correct responses, I still can't help but feel emotional.

Seniors, don't blame young people for not teaching martial arts.

For this era, I am ahead... five, six, seven, eighty or ninety steps.

Even the cupping king in the previous life can only shed the tears of the times under the torrent, let alone you.

Seventh hand, long.

If I remember correctly the winning rate here, White's winning rate has dropped from 62% to about 50%.

Of course, humans cannot feel this kind of fluctuation.

And the opponent will also... slowly die in this imperceptible fluctuation.

(End of this chapter)