Go: 50-50 split between me and AI

"Choi Taek's road to becoming a champion has been a bit bumpy lately."

Ying Jie watched the news broadcast on the TV next to him, picked up a chess piece from the box and placed it on the chessboard. Then he leaned forward on the tatami next to him, shook his head and said something.

The game of chess is basically over here, and there is nothing left to play.

The TV reported that Korea's eight-time champion Choi Taek was eliminated in the first round of the World Championships for the third time this year. Could this be a sign of a delay?
You know, ever since Choi Ze's performance last year, South Korea has been promoting that Choi Ze is about to surpass Ying Jie, but it is conceivable that after experiencing last year's terrifying period of dominance, Choi Ze's dominance this year has begun to crumble.

Of course, the news media reports were all exaggerated, and Ying Jie did not take such reports too seriously.

There is definitely no problem with Cui Ze's hard power. The problem is that everyone's strength has caught up now, and the speed of becoming stronger from weak is definitely faster than becoming stronger from strong.

Especially when facing many opponents who are only slightly weaker than yourself, the possibility of failure is very high.

Although Cui Ze was eliminated in the first round three times, it was mostly because of bad luck. He faced strong Chinese players in the first round, so it was normal for him to lose.

If you think about it, Cui Ze was indeed unlucky. In the first half of his career, he encountered the most difficult opponent, Ying Jie. He kept fighting and failing.

He was supposed to be a rare genius who seemed to rule an era, but he stumbled in the first half and almost had his faith broken.

He has won world runner-up titles one after another and has even been called the Lee Chong Wei of Go.

If I didn't know, I would have thought that Cui Zexiu was practicing the ancient method and was going to defeat the devil.

After Ying Jie's temporary retirement, the Go world ushered in a new era.

Choi Taek has also ushered in his own glorious moment, and even South Korea has announced that Choi Taek's era has arrived.

Last year, he almost replicated Ying Jie's miracle of winning all the world championships throughout the year, and then he could directly start the tenth-dan competition in Korea.

To be honest, according to the rules of the tenth-dan competition, Choi Taek has a high probability of passing in Korea.

Because there are relatively few strong players in South Korea, and Choi Ze is very familiar with most of the strong players, and he is very good at killing familiar players.

The top five chess players in South Korea have basically lost eight or more games to Choi Taek.

If he combines some tricks and everything goes well, Cui Ze may become the second tenth dan in history.

Let’s not talk about the value, the title of Tenth Stage is at least real.

But unfortunately, he lost to Ying Jie's apprentice Nan Ke in the first stage. The lack of one skill became his biggest regret.

It is said that South Korea had prepared everything at home, but unexpectedly encountered a setback in the end.

Cui Ze did feel visibly sad after the game, especially when he saw the championship trophy and Ying Jie went up to present the award. In the photos taken by others, it looked like his lips were bitten off.

If I win, Ying Jie will give the award to me!
It was obviously me who came here first! I was also the first one to know Ying Jie.

However, in the post-match interview, Cui Ze said that although he failed this time, he would not give up. He would continue to work hard next year and surpass this year's results.

Although it sounds very inspiring, the actual result is that Cui Ze's performance in the second year is not ideal...

Although they had a good start at the beginning of the year and quickly made a breakthrough by winning the LP Cup, they were eliminated in the first round of the world championships afterwards.

Choi Taek, who finally managed to turn his reputation around in Korea, was once again attacked by many netizens.

But there was no way, because Cui Ze, who had just avoided the big nail Ying Jie, was now faced with the big steel plate of China's thickness.

After Ying Jie disappeared, everyone suddenly realized that there seemed to be many top masters in China, and eight or ten chess players said that they were only inferior to Ying Jie.

Besides Ying Jie, who am I afraid of? !
However, there are indeed many geniuses in China at this stage. Among the chess players born in the 90s, the oldest was only 2015 years old in , which is at the peak of their careers.

The post-95 generation also made their mark at this time and began to enter the rising period of their careers.

Especially after losing the suppression of a certain big mountain, everyone seems to be even more excited, wishing to burn themselves out completely in these few years.

I’m afraid that if I miss this opportunity, I won’t know how many years I’ll have to wait.

Because everyone knows that Ying Jie is back and the world champion is gone again!

During the decade from 90 to 99, China seemed to have at least two SRs every year, with the starting strength being at the national championship level, and sometimes even five or six in a year.

This has resulted in the fact that the strength gap between the top 30 people in China's current ranking is not very large, and some can even be said to have the ability to challenge for the world championship.

Especially after the large-scale comprehensive preliminaries were launched, except for the seeded players from Japan and South Korea, it was a blessing for Japan to have one player qualify each time, and South Korea was able to qualify two or three players only because they were randomly assigned to the easy group and had good luck.

Basically every world championship has to face China's strength head-on, and Choi Ze really can't afford to be hurt.

Especially since artificial intelligence has now been directly popularized in every household, the world's Go chess has entered an era of rapid improvement in strength.

This has also further intensified the era of internal competition. With the advent of artificial intelligence, the road ahead is no longer confusing, and there are no secrets that cannot be cracked on the technical level. All that remains is to compete desperately.

Therefore, it is not incomprehensible that Cui Ze was eliminated in the first round three times within a year.

It can only be said that he was unlucky and happened to live in a time when China was at its thickest. There were wolves in front and tigers behind, and there was a high probability that they would accompany him throughout his career.

There is a saying that goes, sometimes no matter how strong you are, it is better to live in a good era.

Just like in badminton, everyone knows who the emperor is, but when there are no heroes, others can still surpass the emperor in honor.

Even if Shenzi was able to recover completely later, it was only because of the benefits of masks, and half of China's thickness began to withdraw from the stage of history.

Lao Pu was rather unlucky. From the beginning of his career, he had to face the complete strength of China and was suppressed from beginning to end.

Of course, this thickness is thick for everyone, including China.

For example, Taisun has said countless times that it is too thick and cannot be rolled out at all. Participating in the world competition is not much easier than winning the national championship.

"What's wrong with him now? When you come out of the mountain, he will be wronged.

What kind of psychological trauma did you leave on him back then? I feel like his skills are distorted every time he faces you."

Nan Ke, who was sitting opposite me, watched Ying Jie make his move, then gestured on the chessboard with his fingers. After pointing a little, I shook my head.

"I won this game! I've won two games in a row!"

Having said that, Nan Ke couldn't help but look up and said something with some pride.

There is probably no one else in China who can beat Ying Jie two games in a row!
Ying Jie couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this: "I let you play two pieces, what's there to be proud of for winning this?

You have a chance to win even if you give the AI ​​two pieces, so don't blame me."

"It's really unpleasant to hear these words coming from you, teacher."

Nan Ke couldn't help but curl his lips when he heard this. He was now a double champion of the world championships, but he was living under the shadow of his master.

There is no way. After Ying Jie and the artificial intelligence Beta Dog played a 5-5 match in the ten-game match, he became a legend.

Especially after artificial intelligence has entered thousands of households, everyone has clearly realized what level Ying Jie, who has the same strength as artificial intelligence, is at.

The human body is on par with the gods.

This is what many professional players say about Ying Jie.

It is really hard for everyone to imagine how Ying Jie defeated this artificial intelligence, especially since he won five times!
You can say it was luck or a bug if you won once, but winning five times can’t be explained by that!

There is no way. Ying Jie’s rookie career was too short. When he first entered the professional field, he basically played in high-end games and went directly to the A-level league.

There was not much communication with the lower-level chess players except Xia Yingying, so everyone could only get a glimpse of Ying Jie's level from his chess records.

But sometimes chess records are not enough to fully understand a person. For example, many people read ancient chess records, and many people even think that the ancient chess masters were not at the professional level.

However, through the consistency of artificial intelligence, we found that the consistency of the mid-game of those surprising wins in the ancient records is not lower than that of the current professional high-level players.

Although technology is indeed constantly improving, the computing power of those people is not to be underestimated.

After artificial intelligence truly entered thousands of households, everyone was clearly defeated by artificial intelligence, and only then did they truly understand to what terrifying level Ying Jie had reached.

If you don't practice cultivation, you will see me like a frog in a well seeing the moon in the sky; if you practice cultivation, you will see me like an ant seeing the blue sky.

Therefore, Ying Jie is now said to be a miraculous person, especially since Ying Jie is still in a missing state, which adds a veil of mystery to him.

Some people even say that in order to fight against artificial intelligence and win the glory of mankind, Ying Jie directly used acupuncture to stimulate the major acupoints throughout his body.

He pushed his spiritual brain to its limit and finally fought against the pinnacle of artificial intelligence.

But from then on, Ying Jie lost all his Go skills and could no longer play the game for the rest of his life.

There are even rumors that Ying Jie can no longer take care of himself, and even when he appears at events he speaks by looking at the prompt board.

Nan Ke couldn't help but shaking his head when he thought of this rumor. He almost got killed by the dragon just now. Should he be banned from playing chess for the rest of his life?
Still unable to take care of yourself?
However, Nan Ke looked at the messy living room and realized that to some extent, he was indeed unable to take care of himself, although his own condition was not much better.

"What's so unpleasant about it? I think it's really impossible to defeat artificial intelligence now.

The probability of winning is estimated to be less than 10%. "

Ying Jie couldn't help but shook his head. The most terrifying thing about artificial intelligence is its speed of progress. It is learning and iterating all the time.

Simply put, artificial intelligence is much stronger now, two years later, than it was two years ago. Although it has not yet reached a qualitative change, it has definitely increased in quantity.

After two years, Ying Jie feels that his level has deteriorated instead of improved. Now, his chances of winning against artificial intelligence are not very high.

This is also the reason why Ying Jie had been eager to beat artificial intelligence before, because it’s just like a child. If you don’t beat him when he is young, he will really have no chance when he grows up.

Similarly, this is also the reason why Go has become more and more competitive, because the fixed patterns that were rarely updated in the past ten years may change several times a year with the continuous evolution of artificial intelligence, and there are new changes every day.

In terms of carrying things, it is indeed a much greater burden than before the era of artificial intelligence.

"Ah……"

Nan Ke couldn't help but twitch his mouth when he heard this. Now everyone is worried about how to defeat artificial intelligence with two pieces. To put it bluntly, playing chess with artificial intelligence with two pieces handicap is already a very torturous thing.

I heard that there is a guy in the national youth team who has been playing against artificial intelligence with two stones, and his winning rate is less than 3 or 4 percent. He has been tortured madly, but he still keeps playing hard.

As for other world champion players, their winning rate when facing artificial intelligence with two pieces is only about 10%. It is already too much for you to think about getting the first move.

"But speaking of which, teacher, have you not rested yet? I always feel..."

Nan Ke glanced at the chessboard, then looked at Ying Jie who was lying directly on the tatami and couldn't help but say something.

From an intuitive perspective of the game, Nan Ke couldn't see any injuries or blockages on Ying Jie.

Every aspect was smooth, including layout, isolation management, operation, and endgame. The pressure on himself was even greater than when he faced Choi Taek, the so-called current number one, in the world championships.

Even so, I still give up two pieces!
No matter how he looked at it, Nan Ke didn't think there was anything wrong with Ying Jie, right? "I'm not well yet. The doctor told me to have a good rest. Why are you guys urging me to come back?

You must rest well once and for all, otherwise if it relapses frequently and you have to rest again, wouldn’t that be bad?”

In fact, it was not only Nan Ke who said this. Since the beginning of this year, Mr. Nie has called Ying Jie at least once a week to ask about his recovery.
Your career only lasts a few short years, so don't waste it.

You are indeed the world's number one Go player now, and no one can threaten your honor in the short term.

But you have to work hard!

Look at badminton next door. You can learn from them and achieve the level of world number one even if the honors are divided by two.

Even Xiao Xiao and a few others were sent over to test how he had recovered, but what they didn't expect was that Xiao Xiao was turned against by them.

Later, Ying Jie simply tried to disappear from the face of the earth. If Nan Ke had not just won a world championship and insisted on celebrating with him, it would have been impossible to find Ying Jie.

And from the perspective of other professional players, everyone also hopes that Ying Jie can have a good rest for a while. Once you come back, the dark ages will continue.

And the most important thing is that Ying Jie's physical condition has only recovered by 98% at most so far. He himself thinks he needs to rest for another year or so.

To be honest, it seems to be more wonderful after I suddenly stopped playing professionally and just played a few games with a few friends occasionally after having some free time.

For example, I rent a homestay in Yunnan now and sleep until I wake up naturally every day. Occasionally, I take on some endorsements or something. My life is not too comfortable.

The fallen self really wants to continue to fall for a while.

"That's all I'm saying. It's a good thing for you to take a rest for a while."

Nan Ke spread his hands when he heard this. He only had two world championships left. If his teacher gave up now, even if he won both of these world championships, he would probably only have one 250mL, one-liter bottle of four championships in his life.

"Teacher, let's play another game."

Upon hearing this, Ying Jie turned over on the tatami and turned his back to Nan Ke: "No more, I've already played two games today, I'm exhausted."

Looking at the teacher who was in a bad state, Nan Ke said helplessly: "Didn't you say that I was your last disciple? Have you ever seen a last disciple who couldn't even play five games with his teacher in a year?

Gao Yongxia accepted a last disciple two years ago. That disciple was the real last disciple and lived and ate at his teacher's home.

Gao Yongxia made a study plan for him and tutored him throughout the whole process, unlike you who is so irresponsible."

"Alas, there is nothing much to say about chess now. You can use artificial intelligence to explain it much better than I can."

Ying Jie was totally unmoved when hearing this, and his main focus was just to give up.

"I'm not asking you to tell me. I'm just going to play two games with you and let me know the difference between me and you."

After Ying Jie is the end of human Go. Nan Ke wants to know how far he is from the limit of human beings.

In other words, Nan Ke was a little overconfident in Zi Zi's game after winning the two games just now, and he wanted to challenge a more difficult, old-fashioned method.

Give way first.

"Let go first?"

Hearing this, Ying Jie, who was lying on the tatami, did not turn around. He just turned his head, and when he found that he could only see the ceiling, he turned back.

"Forget it. If you give me two pieces, you should have a 20% to 30% chance of winning. If you give me two pieces, you won't win at all. It's totally meaningless.

Now turn around and open my computer. The password is my birthday. You can log in directly to Beta Dog and play the next game with him.

Isn't it the same if you give in to the artificial intelligence first? You will be killed anyway, so it doesn't matter who kills you.

The teacher is kind-hearted. He only plays the WeGame version of games and doesn’t even drink tomato juice. "

As a participant in the man-machine war, Ying Jie directly obtained one of Beta Dog's login accounts.

Similarly, two or three top Chinese professionals who had participated in the Beta Dog internal testing also obtained accounts, which can be regarded as a benefit for their contribution to the internal testing.

Others who did not catch up with the good times, or who were not strong enough to be selected for the internal test at the time, could only use Beta Dog for training in the national team.

Although artificial intelligence has now entered thousands of households, most of the artificial intelligence powered by current computer configurations can easily defeat top professionals, but there is still a big gap between them and Beta Dog.

After all, the amount of data that Beta Dog has now is a huge expense. President Pei signed a contract with the national team to give this to the national team for training, which is, to some extent, already a charity.

Because the signing fee given by the national team is not enough to cover the cost.

But when Nan Ke heard this, he shook his head stubbornly. He had just won two games in a row, which proved that he had passed the level of Ying Jie giving him two pieces. Now he had to give Ying Jie the first move.

I must have the courage to keep moving forward to the limits of human beings! Only in this way can I become the first person in the next decade after 00!
"Why do you have to seek abuse?"

Ying Jie looked at the chessboard that had been put away and said helplessly.

Nan Ke laughed when he heard this: "People should have the courage to challenge themselves!"

As he spoke, Nan Ke quickly placed the pieces on the chessboard.

Looking at Nan Ke with star-like small eyes, Ying Jie scratched his hair and placed it at the two positions of San San Xiao Mu.

"Aren't you going to give me some three-three?"

Nan Ke looked at the layout on the chessboard and moved his butt.

Since Ying Jie made the move "Dian San San", the world chess community went from denial to forced acceptance to full embrace. Especially after the emergence of artificial intelligence, this move has been strongly recognized by artificial intelligence.

Everyone is constantly exploring new changes to the point 33 strategy with the assistance of artificial intelligence, especially Ying Jie's flying knives when he attacked Gao Yongxia three times. In the past two years, it has been played out in many ways thanks to everyone's continuous research.

Therefore, now basically eight or nine out of ten professional games are played with point three three. Many veteran players in the Go world are furious and say that this is not Go.

Since we can’t order three threes, we can only hang the corners.

While thinking, Nan Ke directly hung on Ying Jie's small eye. Ying Jie did not have too many changes or tricks in the opening, and only used the simplest changes.

After all, now that we have artificial intelligence, unless there is a conflict and you are not preparing to come up with some new moves, or you want to lead the situation to a situation that others are not aware of and deliberately make some wrong moves, otherwise if everyone really plays step by step, it will be difficult to create a big gap within fifty moves.

Ying Jie can no longer deceive people by just cheating them like he did before.

But Ying Jie felt that the simple and unpretentious way of playing was the same, since he would win in the end anyway.

On the contrary, Ying Jie used the simplest hardness, while Nan Ke did not follow the normal pattern, and his steps were bigger than each other.

Not only did he not simply tear down others, but he directly forced his way up, and then he slightly tore down the middle from behind, and it was a super big tear down, directly tearing down four.

Theoretically speaking, no matter who is here, they should be able to figure out a way to play chess.

Nan Ke pursues efficiency very strongly, as if he is the one who needs to give way first.

There was no way. Even if he was just sitting opposite his teacher Ying Jie, Nan Ke felt an inexplicable sense of extreme pressure.

If he really played chess step by step, Nan Ke estimated that his advantage of going first would be slowly eroded by Ying Jie without him noticing, and he might even end up owing his opponent money in the endgame.

Therefore, even at the beginning of the game, you must tighten everything up at the first moment and play the game with the highest efficiency. Otherwise, it may really be like what your teacher said, there is no hope at all.

Looking at Nan Ke who pursued ultimate efficiency, Ying Jie felt that he had to improve his efficiency as well.

Young people really don't know how to respect the elderly and love the young. Why are they in such a hurry?

Looking at the chess pieces his master was moving on the fifth row, Nan Ke couldn't help scratching his hair.

Originally, Nan Ke thought that after studying artificial intelligence for such a long time, he believed that many of Ying Jie's chess moves that were previously incomprehensible now had no secrets with the assistance of artificial intelligence.

But when the game really started, Ying Jie felt that Nan Ke still couldn't guess his intentions.

Too ethereal!

It's just like a fairy from the sky.

Can I get any benefits if I just follow the lead and behave myself?
Can't you use some human tactics?
Seeing Nan Ke showing a bitter face after only 20 or 30 moves, Ying Jie couldn't help shaking his head. It was you who insisted on seeking torture. It's none of my business.

As for how to analyze my intentions, that is your own problem.

After careful consideration, Nan Ke decided to come out first and was not in a hurry to get to the actual place.

"It's okay, not stupid, but there's no need to be so anxious to get out."

Ying Jie muttered silently after taking a look at Nan Ke who came out directly.

It is better to set up a position in the lower left corner now, so that you can further search the lower left corner later, and at the same time prevent the black space from being attacked later.

It would be the same if Nan Ke tried to escape while he was attacking.

Anyway, the three black spots had no base and could only run outside.

town!
However, Nan Ke had no intention of going to the lower left corner to form his stance. He was already thinking about fighting with Ying Jie here.

If this chess record is posted outside, it is estimated that many people will talk about it. After all, the two people always move in the high position on the right side. There are not even two chess pieces on the third line, and they run directly to the fifth line.

The higher the chess piece is placed, the greater the distance to the bottom and the emptier it becomes, the more like a rootless duckweed, and the harder it is to grasp.

Black chess, jump point!
After making this move, Nan Ke couldn't help but smile. Although he had suffered a lot of losses at the hands of his teacher on the right, this move was very good.

This move directly changed the chess shape of my teacher. If my teacher wanted to make contact, he could only play single official.

In this way, no matter what, you will get a bargain and feel comfortable.

This is a small step for me, but a big step for human Go!

But seeing this step, Ying Jie couldn't help but shook his head. What kind of mistake was this?

Is this a chess game played by humans?
Are world champions at this level now?

PS: An update for Ape's Day, but I think everyone is busy trying to starve Tiger Vanguard to death today, so not many people will read it.

I will finish updating the extra chapter of this book in the next few days, and then finish writing another book, and then think about what to write next.

Regarding tomorrow's game, I can only say that Shen Zi has a 90% chance of winning. It is obvious that he is well prepared. You bully will attack, right? Then I will leave you no place to attack.

It’s blue, 90% of it is seven crowns.

(End of this chapter)