Go: 50-50 split between me and AI

Chapter 74. The Great Injustice

"Why are you so unhappy? Didn't you say that when you were in the dojo, didn't you always meet everyone, the strong are always strong?"

Before the start of the game, Ying Jie laughed and joked when he saw Cuckoo Yun with a Sima face on the opposite side.

Buguyun's fat face was all together, he held back for a long time, and said: "Brother Jie, why don't we go to the nearby Lingyin Temple to draw a lottery after the game?

I can't always be like this, if I am lucky enough to become a professional player, if I participate in professional competitions in the future and meet you in the first round forever, then why should I play chess?
Is it possible to travel around every day?So I'm no longer a joke? "

Ying Jie shook his head: "This kind of coincidence is only a few times, how could it happen every time."

It can only be said that it was quite a coincidence that Cuckoo Yun met himself in the first round of the two major competitions.

But fortunately, the fixed-stage match is not a single elimination, but a round-robin match. As long as you win three of the first five matches, you can advance to this match.

But even so, there are only two opportunities to fail, and in Cuckoo Yun's view, it is a waste of one.

The two of them hadn't chatted a few words before the staff and referees finished their rounds. After confirming the contestants and time, a familiar voice sounded from the horn on the competition field.

"National Go fixed stage competition, qualifiers, the first round, the official start!"

"This game adopts the rules of Chinese Go, black pieces are posted with 3 and 3/4 pieces, and the reserved time for both sides is one hour, with three 30-second countdowns."

"All contestants, please guess first!"

"The game officially begins."

Hearing the familiar voice, Ying Jie's thoughts seemed to fly back to 2022. If he hadn't traveled through time and was reborn, if he did it again, he might not have the chance to appear in this arena again.

I may go to the public examination, or go to a company to find a job, Go will become my hobby, and occasionally I may take advantage of other time to participate in some amateur competitions.

Perhaps it is possible to infuse one's dreams into the next generation after having a child, hoping that he can fulfill his dreams.

But, it's different now...

Ying Jie picked up a chess piece and put it on the board, but Bu Guyun let go of his fingers, and two chess pieces fell down.

Ying Jie guessed wrong, and acted after the white.

After seeing this result, Cuckoo Yun felt even worse.

Although Ying Jie has never lost in their impression so far, it can also be felt in the game that Ying Jie is better at using white chess.

This is also the characteristic of many Go players. The Chinese Go rules directly jump from five-and-a-half to seven-and-a-half. However, after several years of implementation of this rule, many professional players have found that the advantage of white chess seems a bit too great.

Players who obviously hold the white chess feel that they play better. It is even more exaggerated to say that players of the same chess strength play exactly the same, and whoever holds the white chess will win.

So seeing Ying Jie who guessed the white chess piece, Cuckoo Yun's already hopeless hope became even more bleak.

After a little thought, Cuckoo Yun chose the star-free corner to start, while Ying Jie chose the same layout below, but the direction of the corner is a little different.

As a classic chess shape, "Worry-free corner" has a long history. In the AI ​​era, it has to be said that it has been robbed of the limelight by the big jump defense corner. Most people will not choose this defense style in many cases.

However, the chess game of Go pays attention to the specific analysis of a specific problem. Talking about the corner without worry, and some chess players who have been eliminated in the layout are just infinitely magnifying a one-sided point of view.

In many cases, you think that some layouts that have been eliminated will still become the best choice, even the first choice of AI, and in the layout stage, in some specific configurations and occasions, the worry-free corner may also become the first choice.

Although it is a bit contradictory, no matter when, the sentence of specific analysis of specific issues will never go wrong.

Cuckoo Yun is Xiaofei at the top, while Ying Jie is Xiaofei at the bottom right.

Cuckoo Yun felt a little strange, except that the direction of the corner of worry-free was different, Gege's layout today was strangely like a mirror image of himself.

But Cuckoo didn't think much about it. If Ying Jie needed to copy his layout, Cuckoo immediately felt that he had the confidence to go to the World Series.

Think a little bit about Cuckoo Yun's choice of connecting pieces on the top to make a big appearance. This is also the experience of Cuckoo Yun and Ying Jie's many games.

Whenever I have weak moves and breakpoints, I will definitely be caught by Ying Jie keenly and severely punished.

But Ying Jie did not choose to be the same as Cuckoo Yun, but directly attacked the worry-free corner of Cuckoo Yun in the upper left corner.

The tenth move, white chess, shoulder charge!
Here it comes, looking at Ying Jie's signature move, Cuckoo Yun knew it was a familiar smell again.

At this time, a referee passed by the side of the match between the two, and stopped immediately when he saw the shoulder-to-shoulder dismount.

This move is not unheard of, on the contrary, many Go lovers have seen this move.

It was mentioned by Wu Qingyuan in "21st Century Go" in his later years, and he himself has always believed that this is the best way to deal with the corner of no worries.

However, the change map mentioned by Wu Qingyuan in the book is not recognized by the chess world, because it is indeed a loss.

He gave a correct answer for the first step, but no way to give the correct process.

Therefore, for shoulder punching, everyone will naturally deny the correct answer after seeing the wrong process.

It wasn't until the AI ​​era that artificial intelligence found out the real way of shoulder punching, proving that this move, like touching, is indeed one of the effective ways to deal with the worry-free corner.

Cuckoo thought about it for a while. Although this method has been seen by Ying Jie before, it has not been discussed in detail. In actual combat, you still need to consider the countermeasures yourself.

After a little thought, Cuckoo Yun still chose to stick to it.

Although Cuckoo Yun thinks that he can climb one, but the response of climbing is equivalent to his own big fly to defend the corner. Ying Jie's white chess leaned forward.

And if he chooses to climb one, Cuckoo Yun always feels that Ying Jie will be very alert when he meets him again. He can't find a good point to fight back, so it's better to stick to it.

He can't take any losses against Yingjie, but after taking the first bite, he has to hold his nose and continue to eat.

Seeing Cuckoo Yun's move, Ying Jie nodded, besides taking off first, posting is indeed one of the best moves.

But Ying Jie directly chose to jump to the middle abdomen. It seems that other people have never seen this before, but it has long been a common move for Ying Jie.

Seeing Ying Jie's response, Buguyun thought for a while and decided to enter from below, separating the white chess pieces on both sides, weakening the power of the white chess pieces below.

After the two sides simply forced the second, Ying Jie came to the upper right corner again, and made a shoulder attack on Cuckoo Yun's Xiaofei defending the corner.

Seeing this move, the referee next to him frowned.

I can barely understand the shoulder rush just now.

But didn't the shoulder rushing Xiaofei defend the corner obviously help the opponent to better strengthen himself?
Can this kid really play chess?

(End of this chapter)