Chapter 176 The Unbearable Burden of Humanity

"The first game after my career is over."

After Yu Shao returned home, he went to his room and breathed a sigh of relief.

Only after today's game is over can I be said to have officially entered the world of professional chess players.

Although this is not the first time he has stepped into this world, Yu Shao is also looking forward to it. He wonders how far and how long he can go on this road now that his chess style has completely changed and is completely different from his previous life.

Yu Shao pondered for a moment, then quickly moved out a four-legged chess table, took out the chess pieces, and restored today's chess game hand by hand and placed them on the chessboard.

Looking at the chess game, Yu Shao felt that some of the moves he had made today seemed... a bit excessive even to himself.

"This kind of play is dangerous against low-level players, and it will be even more dangerous if it is used against high-level players."

Yu Shao was very clear about how risky the road he was now embarking on was.

This is not something that can be compensated by experiencing the AI ​​era. On the contrary, it is precisely because of having experienced the AI ​​era that Yu Shao knows more clearly how great the risks of this approach are.

With the change of his chess style, his overall strength will not be as good as in his previous life, but in fact, his winning rate of many chess moves now will be higher than in his previous life, because some of the moves he makes now are often the first choice of AI.

One thing that goes against common sense is that some AI's preferred chess moves, even if they know that this will increase the winning rate, are often not adopted by most professional chess players in the past, and they will even avoid them.

The reason is that those playing methods, those moves, and that kind of thinking are areas that human chess players are unable to master.

Because some of AI's preferred chess moves will overestimate the benefits of attack and underestimate the vitality of chess pieces, and human chess players tend to overestimate the benefits of eating the opponent and underestimate the use of the opponent's dead pieces.

This results in the AI ​​often playing chess excessively, often losing the initiative and sacrificing pieces. That's because the AI ​​can still make the chess piece alive even if it loses the initiative many times.

Or, even if this piece dies, AI can still bring out the value of these dead pieces, making them... dead but not stiff! This is a realm that human chess players can never reach. Human chess players can easily kill a piece that could have been alive, or a piece is dead once it dies, and there is no way to find a way to borrow the dead piece and bring out the value of the dead piece.

Therefore, chess players in the past would rather choose a move with a low winning rate. In this way, although the winning rate of some moves is reduced, the overall winning rate will be greatly increased.

Obviously, a better and stronger move makes it harder to win. It sounds a bit ironic, but it is true...

In fact, it is the same principle as the Tianyuan bet. At first glance, it is a way to make a huge loss, but the AI ​​says that the winning rate is only 6%, which is not much, so it is safe to make the bet.

But when human chess players really play, they still feel that it is better to play those fixed patterns with a winning rate of more than 10% than to play a natural move.

The path Yu Shao is taking now is such a path, which is the most correct but also the most difficult one.

“To pursue the best, one must bear a burden that is unbearable for human beings.”

Yu Shao looked at the chessboard, slowly reached into the chess box, and picked out the white piece.

"If one day, I can fully bear this weight——"

"That's when my chess skills are at their highest level."

The chess piece falls.

Da! However, this time, Yu Shao did not place his chess piece in the same position as Wu Shuheng, but in an incredible and jaw-dropping position.

Eight columns, fifteen rows, five shoulders!

The so-called shoulder charge refers to moving the opponent's chess piece diagonally above the opponent's chess piece, so it is also called a sharp charge.

This method of playing is intended to prevent the opponent from developing towards the center, or as a method of invasion and elimination when it is impossible to break into the opponent's position, or as a method of oppression to block the opponent from developing its own central power.

Previous Go theory believed that one should not allow others to surround the fourth row without any space. Even if one wanted to shoulder attack, one should shoulder attack from the fourth row, eliminating the pieces on the third row. There had never been a shoulder attack from the fifth row, or eliminating the pieces on the fourth row.

Because the three-way route takes land, and the four-way route takes momentum, so the two sides are balanced. But if it is the four-way and the five-way route, the two sides will be unbalanced. Taking land from the four-way route is greater than taking momentum from the five-way route.

But this move gave up surrounding the empty space below and turned to develop the middle part, moving on the grass belly. This is... a move that subverts the Golden Horn and Silver Edge Grass Belly.

Yu Shao looked at this chess move with a nostalgic look in his eyes, as if he saw the events of his previous life in a trance.

This was the first move he made in his previous life. At that time, there was not even Go AI. When he made the five-way shoulder attack, he was only sixteen years old, almost the same age as he is in this life.

After he made this move and eventually won the game, his opponent at the time, an old ninth-dan player, said to him, "It won't be long before you become famous in the chess world."

This is indeed the case.

Later, Go AI emerged, and this five-road shoulder charge not only received the approval of AI, but also gave rise to various complex variations, becoming one of the common moves.

Therefore, this five-road shoulder charge was later hailed as a move that traveled through time, because it should not have appeared before the birth of AI, but it appeared ahead of time.

"Unfortunately, that's all I can do."

Yu Shao took a deep breath, put away the complicated thoughts in his mind, and put the chess piece back into the chess box.

"There are a hundred ways to play chess, but I only know ten. I still have a long way to go..."

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The national team qualifiers are not held every day. There are a few days between each qualifier. There are three days left until the next qualifier, and the Yingjiao Cup qualifiers will not start for another week.

Once the Yingjiao Cup qualifiers begin, coupled with the national team qualifiers, it will be extremely busy, with matches perhaps three or four days a week.

Of course, this is not a bad thing, but a good thing. After all, the game is not played in vain. You can get the match fee whether you win or lose. It’s just that you win more and lose less.

As for the promotion tournament, according to Jiang Xiahua, although one can be promoted faster by participating in the promotion tournament, there are still not many people participating because there is no match fee, and most chess players only participate in various competitions.

The chess academy knows this, so after the ranking tournament every year, they will recommend beginner chess players to participate in the promotion tournament as usual. Otherwise, if they don't say a few words, the promotion tournament will really not be held.

After resting at home for two days, Yu Shao received an email from the Southern Chess Institute, which stated Yu Shao’s opponent in the national team qualifying match tomorrow.

Because the qualifiers adopt a round-robin system, even if there is no draw, there is no unfairness, and opponents are all randomly matched by the system.

Yu Shao’s opponent in tomorrow’s national team qualifying match is named Wang Yao, and his rank is beginner.

However, what Yu Shao did not expect was that in the email sent by the Southern Chess Institute, in addition to the match schedule for tomorrow's national players' match, there were also arrangements for notating scores.

"Fifteen days later, the first game of the five-game Go Saint Challenge will be held in the southern region, and I will be the scorekeeper?"

Yu Shao looked at the content of the email and frowned slightly.

It is normal for low-level chess players to be selected as scorekeepers by the chess academy, especially beginner chess players.

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However, in most cases, chess academies prefer to choose female chess players as scorekeepers, especially the more beautiful the female chess players are, the more likely they are to be selected as scorekeepers.

For example, Wu Zhixuan, as far as Yu Shao knows, often serves as the scorekeeper in various competitions. Therefore, it is not uncommon for male chess players to be selected as scorekeepers, but they are relatively rare.

Of course, being a music notist is not free work, there is definitely a salary, and it can even be quite a lot. After all, although music notation is easier than playing chess, it is also quite tiring, and a game of chess can sometimes take a whole day.

"No wonder Zhang Dongchen, a chess player from the Western Division, came to the Southern Division."

Yu Shao suddenly understood why he had met Zhang Dongchen at the Southern Chess Academy the day before yesterday.

Some title matches are decided by three games, some are decided by five games, and the Gosei title match is a five-game match, with three wins out of five.

It is not mandatory to be a scorekeeper. If a chess player does not want to be a scorekeeper or has other things to do, he or she can of course refuse and the chess academy will choose someone else.

Yu Shao thought about it and didn't intend to refuse. After all, he was going to be the scorekeeper for the title match. There was no competition that day anyway, so it would be nice to go and take a look.

"But who is qualified to challenge?"

Yu Shao pondered for a moment, closed the email, opened the search engine, and started searching the Internet. He soon found a lot of information related to the Go Saint War. It was obvious that the Go Saint War was quite popular on the Internet.

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【National player Jiang Changdong defeated Li Congyou 7th dan and obtained the qualification to challenge this year's Gosei War. Li Congyou 7th dan fell in the last leg again. This is the closest Li Congyou 7th dan has ever been to the title this year! 】

[Who will win the title of Go Saint this year? Jiang Changdong is a national player with great momentum. Can Zhang Dongchen defend the title of Go Saint again? ]

[National player Jiang Changdong has obtained the qualification to challenge for the Go Master title. Will he win both the National Player and Go Master titles? 】

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"Jiang Changdong is a national player?"

Yu Shao was a little surprised when he saw these posts on the Internet.

Since he participated in the national team competition, he was naturally familiar with the name Jiang Changdong. After all, Jiang Changdong was the current holder of the national team title, but Yu Shao had never seen him before.

Jiang Changdong is a chess player of the same generation as Zhuang Weisheng and they are of similar age. It is said that the two have been competing against each other since they were young. Although they have won and lost against each other, Zhuang Weisheng is generally better.

Of course, only most people think so. It is said that Jiang Changdong himself does not agree with this statement, because there was indeed a year when Jiang Changdong won more and lost less against Zhuang Weisheng.

That year, Jiang Changdong lost several games to Zhuang Weisheng in the Tenth Dan Challenge Tournament.

It was after that year that the saying "eternal ten sections" began to circulate on the Internet.

"If he becomes a music notator, then among the current title holders, the only one I haven't seen is Zhu Huaian, the chess master title holder."

Yu Shao had also heard of Zhu Huaian. He knew that he was a chess player from the Central Chess Academy, who was promoted to professional chess player at the age of sixteen and just turned twenty-one this year. Because of this, Zhu Huaian's rank was not high, only the seventh dan.

So when Zhu Huaian defeated all the opponents and unexpectedly won the title of chess master, it caused a huge sensation on the Internet. During that period, Yu Shao could see it several times when he was watching short videos.

As for how long Zhu Huaian can hold this title, that is unknown. Except for the tenth-level title which remains unshakable, the holders of other major titles change almost every one or two years.

"However, among the seven titles now, there are only two young players, and the others are all over 30 years old. It seems that there is really a lack of successors."

Yu Shao couldn't help but frown, feeling a little strange for a moment.

"But there are demons like Su Yiming in this world. How could this happen?"

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