Chapter 508 We created God!

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"it's over!"

Ōno Toramaru stared at the computer screen and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"Truly, an unprecedented and unparalleled game!"

Ohno Toramaru's heart was filled with turmoil, and he recalled scene after scene of this World Championship, from round after round of single-elimination tournaments to double-elimination tournaments, from the winners' bracket championship to the losers' bracket championship!

Game after game of chess, battle after battle!

Long and intense, cruel and moving!

now!

The winners of both the winners' bracket and the losers' bracket have been decided!

He took a deep breath and began writing. This article was not only a summary of today's game, but also a warm-up for the World Championship finals that would begin tomorrow!

"This game started with a steady defense, but in the end it plunged into a breathtaking and awe-inspiring deadly situation that shocked everyone and made all the chess players in the world bow down!"

"Looking back now, I never imagined that the pincer attack in the opening stage would actually kick off the ultimate showdown between the most powerful chess players!"

"In the first half of the game, both sides displayed brilliant moves and ingenious strategies, each worthy of in-depth discussion and explanation, but this is far beyond my capabilities!"

"Let the professional players discuss each move, each strategy, and each move!"

"From move 88, Black's only super dragon is dead, and White's dragon has been split into three. With the three dragons entangled, Black's dragon is struggling to survive and is in a dead end!"

"But with just one move, Black miraculously survived a dead end. White captured the stone, and Black then captured it again. White was now in a situation where it couldn't connect, and Black immediately connected with the outside!"

"With a stunning pounce, the dead dragon came back to life, and not only that, but the disadvantage was turned into a great victory!"

"The game has reached its climax!"

"The game should have ended here, but unexpectedly, this move was just the prelude to the real climax. In a desperate situation, White unleashed astonishing calculation and spirit, fiercely attacking with terrifying calculation!"

"The two sides engaged in fierce fighting, constantly clashing. White, in the heat of battle, suddenly made a move that seemed to come out of nowhere, while Black attempted to gather its dead stones in White's territory... It was clearly reaching its climax!"

"In the end, White's long-planned move, the 'clamp,' became the decisive move that determined the outcome of the entire game. Seeing this, Black also risked everything, determined to fight White to the death!"

"In the end, White won!"

"I can't help but wonder, if Black had changed its strategy and instead stubbornly persisted in its desperate attempt to survive, and instead met White in the middle of the board, would the outcome of the game have been different?"

"I have no idea."

"I can't help but wonder, what would have been the outcome of the game if White hadn't laid that trap beforehand?"

"I still don't know."

Ōno Toramaru exhaled a breath of stale air, then continued writing:

"Let's leave the details of the game to the professional players. As amateur players and non-professional Go enthusiasts, all we can do is appreciate it!"

"As a Japanese Go journalist, I naturally felt regretful to see Araki-sensei lose, but there was also a sense of joy mixed in with that regret!"

"This game of chess has already created too many miracles."

"Miracles are always accompanied by regrets."

"Miracles can only happen by placing oneself in the impossible. Araki-sensei himself created a miracle within the impossible, and made the miracle itself impossible. Even though he ultimately lost—"

"It was worth it!"

Ono Toramaru rubbed his temples, glanced at the computer screen, and couldn't help but think of the game of Go between Yu Shao and Araki two days ago. After hesitating for a moment, he finally picked up his pen again:

"I was astonished to discover that the world of chess has undergone tremendous changes in the past two years. These changes are vast and silent, and all chess players have undergone a complete transformation in their playing style, thinking, and even understanding!"

"If you showed the current game to a player from three years ago, they would probably be speechless with astonishment, right?"

"It can be said that we are now in a new era for Go—"

"This is also the first world championship in the new era of Go!"

"This World Championship has been incredibly exciting and fiercely competitive, completely exceeding my expectations from the very beginning!"

"Players like Kimura Go, Han Si, and Kong Zi, who are qualified to win the championship, have all fallen in the single-elimination tournament this year. Even though the new generation player Higashiyama Kaoru has encountered strong opponents all the way, he has made it to the double-elimination tournament!"

"I initially thought it was because they hadn't been playing well this year, but after reviewing their game records again, I wondered... is it possible that they haven't fully adapted to this new era of Go?"

"A new era has arrived, a world of survival of the fittest, where the strong prey on the weak. The landscape of Go is undergoing a major reshuffle! Once all players are fully adapted to this new era, I believe the Go world will flourish to an unimaginable degree!"

"In the single-elimination tournament, the match between An Hongshi and Kong Zi was thrilling, the match between Zhuang Weisheng and Honinbo Shingo was exciting, and the match between An De 9-dan and Zhang Dongchen, the Go Saint, was equally eye-opening!"

"But all of that is gone—!"

"They've all fallen; now only two remain!"

"The day before yesterday, I witnessed Yu Shao's astonishing fifty-plus moves in the winners' bracket final. Today, I saw Su Yiming win the match with amazing talent, inhuman calculation, and flawless strategy. Both are truly remarkable feats!"

"finally--"

"It's time to put an end to everything!"

"Let's look forward to tomorrow's World Championship finals!"

...

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On the other side.

Apollo Technologies, New York, USA.

Inside the research room, a large group of researchers stared intently at the desktop computer screen, where a laptop was displaying the chess game between Su Yiming and Araki.

"So, has the fledgling eagle analyzed this game yet?"

A man with thick, round-framed glasses and messy blond hair pushed open the door, strode into the research room, and asked, "What does Young Eagle think of this game?"

“Burns, according to Young Eagle’s calculations, Su Yiming’s overall situation is not bad, but there are some problems with moves sixteen and forty-eight, which have significantly reduced his winning percentage. However, in the middle game, Young Eagle has almost always made his first or second choice, but—”

A bald programmer paused, then continued, "The 142nd move, Su Yiming's 'clamp,' was clearly problematic, dropping his win rate by 38.8%."

"Yeah?"

The man named Burns frowned deeply, somewhat unwilling, and said, "So, the fledgling still has a problem?"

Recently, significant progress has been made in the research and development of the Chu Ying (Young Eagle) system, with the computational problems and memory bank issues that had been troubling them being resolved.

Although they had the idea of ​​neural networks, the fledglings would delve into calculations in places where they obviously didn't need to, resulting in a huge waste of computing power. Moreover, the fledglings would continue to make the same mistakes they had made before.

After inputting countless past chess records into the young eagles, the young eagles inherited the errors in the records and would delve deeper into the mistakes and omissions, which is why the young eagles have always performed poorly.

However, after finally overcoming these two difficulties, the fledgling eagle's performance was so astonishing that even those who had developed the fledgling eagle were horrified!

The fledgling eagle seems to have truly learned to think. Once it makes a mistake in a game, it will not make the same mistake again. The fledgling eagle has deeply considered and calculated the variations, and it will inherit the amount of thinking when it encounters a similar board position.

in short……

Young eagles seem to possess "experience" and "intuition" that only humans can have!

At first, the fledgling eagle was no match for the amateur players, but after just one day, he was able to play on par with most of them. The next day, the amateur players were no match for the fledgling eagle at all.

They immediately invited a professional fourth-dan Go player to play against Chu Ying. Chu Ying initially struggled a lot, but after just three days, the two were evenly matched!

The fledgling eagles are learning like crazy, constantly absorbing knowledge from their own games against humans and from the recorded past chess records of humans, growing stronger at a speed beyond their imagination!

This is a forbidden zone for humans.

They even felt fear, as if they had discovered a monster. The rules of chess between the fledgling eagle and the human chess player included several moves that required long deliberation, giving them the illusion that the fledgling eagle was "feeling whether this move is good or not"!

In other words, the fledgling eagle did not calculate extensively to determine whether the move was good or bad. Instead, it relied on its intuition to sense whether the move was reasonable for the overall game. Once it was reasonable, it would then conduct more in-depth calculations!

And this feeling of "whether it is reasonable" will be stored in the fledgling eagle's memory bank!

That's terrifying!

Computers can have a strategic vision, but this vision is often based on the premise that all changes have been calculated—in a sense, this is not a strategic vision, but merely finding the answer!

Now, the fledgling eagle seems to have gained a true sense of the big picture, even though it cannot foresee all the changes!

Five days ago, they invited a 9-dan Go player to play against the fledgling eagle. This was the first time the fledgling eagle had played against a 9-dan player since its evolution, but the result was—

The fledgling eagle won.

We won on our first try!

The young eagle made a mistake midway through the game, which gave the ninth-dan player a significant advantage. However, the young eagle managed to catch up in the middle and later stages and ultimately won the game!

Two days ago, the fledgling eagle had already utterly defeated that ninth-dan Go player, leaving him completely disoriented.

That's why they're using the fledgling eagle today to review and analyze the game between Su Yiming and Araki.

That 9-dan player is only a mid-to-lower 9-dan in the American Go world, and cannot be compared with the world's top 9-dan players. To see whether the Young Eagles project has been successful, we still need to review the performances of top players like An Hongshi and Zhuang Weisheng.

He had high expectations for this post-game analysis, but the young eagle regarded Su Yiming's winning move, "clamp," as a bad move, which disappointed him a bit.

"No, no, no, Burns, you don't know much about Go, you only know code."

The bald man shook his head, took a deep breath, his face flushed as if he couldn't control himself, and said, "This move was indeed a bad one, but it became a good one because Araki made the wrong move later!"

Upon hearing this, Burns was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes widened little by little.

"That's right, Burns, do you know what this means?!"

The bald man took a deep breath and swallowed: "If Su Yiming makes this trap, and it's Young Eagle who makes the move, then Young Eagle... it will win!"

Upon hearing this, Burns nearly jumped up, his face flushed red, and he couldn't help but ask, "Really? You're serious?! Don't lie to me!"

Su Yiming's current achievements speak for themselves; he is widely recognized as one of the world's top Go players, far surpassing the 9-dan player they invited a few days ago.

"Of course it's true!"

The bald man nodded: "However, we can't be too happy yet. The fledgling eagle does have some shortcomings."

"How so?"

Burns took a deep breath, composed himself, and asked calmly.

"For example, even in some overly simple scenarios, the fledgling eagle will still waste meaningless computing power to think."

The bald man stroked his chin and explained, "Then there's Araki's pounce; the fledgling eagle didn't anticipate it at all."

"And what's really strange is that, according to the winning percentage given by the fledgling eagle, in that board position, even if Black doesn't make a poaching move, he still has a considerable advantage."

“Based on the variation diagram provided by Chuying, we played many moves, but we still felt that White had the advantage. We couldn’t understand why Chuying thought Black had the advantage.”

"After all, our skill level is too low. Perhaps we need to wait until after the World Championships to let Ander 9-dan take a look."

"And Black's move of poking was completely outside the range of the fledgling eagle's calculations, or rather, the fledgling eagle overlooked that move."

The bald man thought for a moment and continued, "This is difficult to improve because once the fledgling eagle has a strategic vision and a feel for the game, it won't consider poking at this position. Generally speaking, even humans wouldn't make that move."

Upon hearing this, Burns frowned deeply and asked, "So, the fledgling eagle has quite a big problem?"

No, no, no.

The bald man shook his head, swallowed hard, and became even more agitated: "Burns, the fledgling is a computer! It's not human! It was only recently updated!"

"It can't see this pounce this time, but it will next time! That's what makes it so terrifying!"

"Moreover, the game records we input for Chuying are the game records of all professional players on the chess record website. This data is huge. As of now, Chuying has only read 16% of it!"

“Burns!”

"Do you know what it means when the fledgling eagle has finished reading all the game records?"

"This means that the fledgling eagle is the sum of all the chess players, and it doesn't even have the weaknesses of each player, only their strongest aspects!"

"Even more so, given enough time to learn and practice on its own, it can become completely free from the constraints of human thought! It can surpass all human abilities! It might even find the answer to the game of Go!"

"It will not be a fledgling eagle! It will be a majestic eagle!"

"It stands tall in the sky of Go—"

"God!"

“Burns, I’m a little scared…”

"We created God!"

(End of this chapter)