Chapter 423 I became a substitute?
"Is it him?"
Yu Shao was slightly stunned when he looked at the extremely familiar ID on the computer screen.
He once played a game with Shiau, but the game was only halfway through when for some reason the opponent ran out of time and was declared the loser.
The second time they met was when Shiau played against a chess player with the ID gangxuebuhuixia. In that game, both players displayed chess skills that amazed him. In the end, the contest ended with Shiau winning by a margin.
This is the third time he has seen this ID.
Yu Shao thought about it, then quickly clicked on the viewing interface and entered the spectator perspective.
In this game, Shiau plays black and his opponent Chen plays white.
Yu Shao looked at the chessboard intently and quickly figured out the situation.
As Shiau expected, he had the advantage. The black pieces had already double-teamed the white pieces and seemed to have plans for the big dragon in the middle of the white pieces.
"This Chen...is not weak either."
After Yu Shao looked at a few more moves, a hint of surprise appeared in his eyes.
Shiau was very strong, he had expected that, but the level of this guy named Chen was definitely not that of an ordinary player. If he were placed in the professional Go world, he would probably be at least at the level of a professional ninth dan.
But even so, Chen still looked inferior to Shiau.
Yu Shao could see that although Chen was at a disadvantage, he remained calm, judged the situation, and finally launched a counterattack against Shiau in the lower left corner.
However, Shiau's move was even more brilliant. Instead of making up for the lost pieces, he took an unconventional approach. By skillfully sacrificing pieces and controlling the board, he was able to forcibly eliminate the white chess's external forces!
Although the two sides still have a long battle ahead, judging from the situation, Shiau should be able to win.
At this time, countless netizens' comments were also dense. Netizens from various countries were discussing this chess game in English, and countless barrages flew across the screen.
"Shiau is really too strong. Is it possible that even Chen will be defeated by Shiau?"
"Who the hell is Shiau? He must be a professional chess player, and probably not just any professional chess player."
"It's definitely not just Shiau. Many people also suspect Chen is a professional Go player. We're just not sure who he is. Judging from his ID, he's most likely an Asian Go player."
"I'm afraid another undefeated guy is going to fall to Shiau. Tsk tsk, Shiau is too strong. One undefeated guy after another falls before him. I'm afraid the next one won't be hahah? Who is he?"
"The undefeated killer? Actually, I think he is most likely Yu Shao. Many of his moves are very similar to Yu Shao's."
"Yes, I think it's Yu Shao too. Isn't the Xinhuo War happening today? Not long after the Xinhuo War ended, Shiau came online, so the timing is very consistent."
"Indeed, more importantly, Yu Shao's style of play is very difficult to imitate. Yu Shao's sudden and terrifying understanding, as well as his oppressive and intimidating aggressiveness, are similar to Shiau."
"Could it really be Yu Shao?"
"What else? His understanding of thickness, as well as his techniques like shoulder attack to Wuyou corner and small eye two-space jump to guard corner, should be Yu Shao."
"If Shiau is really Yu Shao, then who did he lose to in the only game he ever played? Isn't that incredible? He even managed to beat Shiau?"
"I don't know. The chess records only contain the latest 100 games. The game Shiau lost should have been 100 games ago."
"! Isn't that even more incredible? Even if he had won the first hundred games, it would have been difficult to encounter strong opponents. With Shiau's chess skills, how could he have lost at that time?"
"I don't know about that. Maybe Shiau met teacher An Hong Shuijing? (Funny)"
“…”
Seeing these comments and comments from netizens, Yu Shao was a little confused.
Shiau could be me?
How come I don’t know about this?
"Am I a substitute?"
Yu Shao frowned slightly, feeling a little puzzled. He had played half a game with Shiau and had also watched the game between Shiau and Gangxuebuhuixia, but he never felt that Shiau had any similarities with himself.
After pondering for a moment, Yu Shao slid the mouse and kept clicking on the previous move, finally bringing the game back to the beginning, and then clicked on the next move and started to look at it.
"Xing Xiaomu versus Erlianxing, then Black hits 33, making a change from Lianchang, taking the lead to Xiaomu, then hanging it high in the second space..."
Yu Shao kept clicking on the next move, watching each move made by both sides, and gradually, a hint of surprise appeared on his face.
In many areas, his ideas were not different from Shiau's, but on some key decisions, Shiau made almost the same judgment as him.
Regarding the judgment of thickness, the choice of terrain, and the order of precedence...
Soon, Yu Shao finished watching the first half of the game and saw the latest results of both sides.
After seeing this, Yu Shao finally understood why netizens speculated that this Shiau might be himself, although he and Shiau had no connection except that they had played against each other for half a game.
"Rather than saying he's like me, it's better to say..."
"He's not like me, he's just like a chess player who has also experienced the AI era."
Yu Shao thought about it and stopped paying attention to the game whose outcome was already decided. He slid the mouse, clicked the right button, opened Shiau's historical record, and began to check Shiau's historical chess records.
One article.
Two articles.
Three articles.
Yu Shao read very quickly. After finishing Shiau's last ten games, he jumped to the records of Shiau's last thirty games and started flipping through them again.
After watching a few games from the first thirty, Yu Shao jumped to Shiau's first sixty games, read a few records, and finally slid directly to Shiau to view the furthest game in the records.
Not long after, Yu Shao finished watching the game from beginning to end.
"In this game, his AI-era Go playing methods are still very immature. Although he plays this way, he can't make good use of it."
"However, he continued to grow at an astonishing speed in each game."
Yu Shao frowned more and more, and slid the mouse again, clicking on the second to last game in Shiau's historical record. After reading it, he immediately clicked on the third to last game.
"In the past few games, he's been making some strange moves. This is clearly not the level he played against gangxuebuhuixia. These moves are like he doesn't even know how to play chess."
Yu Shao stared at the chess records on the computer screen, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter. "However, relying on his calculations and attacking power, he still managed to win these games even though his opponent was not weak."
"It's like... completely forgetting all the old ways of playing Go and starting over again."
"If you look at it from this perspective, those strange moves are completely understandable."
"Until this latest game, his performance was surprisingly similar to that of players who had experienced the AI era."
Although the world chess world has undergone many changes over the past year or so, some AI-era moves have now become very common.
However, even though so many AI-era playing methods have swept the chess world, there is still no chess player who can make Yu Shao feel like a chess player who has truly experienced the AI era.
Including Su Yiming!
Although Su Yiming has a deep understanding of Go in the post-AI era, in Yu Shao's opinion, there is still a gap between Su Yiming and the players who have truly experienced the AI era.
However, Su Yiming's amazing fighting power under the complicated board situation, his brilliant and imaginative moves, and his grand vision of fighting in the sky in the middle of the board even surpassed all the chess players Yu Shao had seen in his previous life!
Therefore, even though there is still a gap between Su Yiming and the chess players who have truly experienced the AI era, I am afraid that most of the chess players who have truly experienced the AI era are no match for Su Yiming!
However, in Yu Shao's opinion, Su Yiming has only stepped half a foot into the door of Go in the post-AI era and is still just a player in the pre-AI era.
After all, there is no Go AI in this world. No one can learn through Go AI and can only think and speculate repeatedly through chess records.
And this Shiau has really become very much like a chess player who has experienced the AI era. In terms of understanding of Go in the AI era, he even surpasses Su Yiming!
You know, Su Yiming had played more than one game of chess with him face to face.
And this Shiau had only played half a game of chess with him online. In other words, Shiau only relied on himself.
Although, if you look closely at Shiau's chess records, you can still see the difference between Shiau and chess players who have experienced the AI era. There are still gaps in subtle details, but the gap is definitely not that big.
"Shiau, who... is he?"
Yu Shao stared at the chess game on the computer screen without saying a word.
After a long time, a pop-up window appeared on the computer screen.
【Chen bets in the middle of the game.】
This game of chess is over.
Although Chen was not an ordinary chess player, he was still defeated in the middle game by Shiau without any chance of fighting back and had to resign.
Yu Shao took a deep breath, slid the mouse, and invited Shiau to a battle.
Shiau did not log off, but just hesitated to agree.
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North Korea and South Korea, inside the Pyongyang Chess Institute.
"The day before yesterday, Park Chan-jun, 9th dan, told me that he was beaten to death while playing online chess."
A young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes smiled and waved a folding fan in his hand. He stood behind An Hongshi, looking at the computer screen and said with a smile: "I laughed at him at the time, and he told me that his opponent would definitely be Yu Shao."
"I thought it was a complete excuse, and then I challenged Shiau yesterday."
The young man snapped his folding fan shut and said, "I wasn't paying attention, and Shiau slaughtered me!"
"I only had one thought at the time: damn, there's no escape! The guy opposite is really Yu Shao. Who else could it be except him? I'll be angry with anyone who says he's not Yu Shao!"
The young man had a funny expression on his face and continued, "I never expected that right after the match, Mr. An Hongshi would call me and review the match with me."
"I was wondering, I don't have a real-name account for online chess? But after a while, I realized that Shiau is you, Mr. An Hongshi!"
The young man tapped the back of his head with his folding fan, shook his head and said, "That's not surprising, that's not surprising!"
An Hongshi looked at the numerous match invitations that kept popping up on the computer screen and said with a smile, "Halfway through the game, I realized my opponent would definitely be you."
"Then you are really merciless."
The young man sighed and said with a look of resentment, "I lost so miserably."
Hearing this, An Hongshi couldn't help but smile and said, "If I were to show mercy, I'm afraid you wouldn't show mercy."
"But why did you suddenly want to play chess online?"
The young man asked curiously, "I remember you were very resistant to playing chess online before, weren't you?"
"I was so bored when I was hospitalized, so I thought about playing chess online. I found that I could play chess with players from all over the world while staying at home, which was also very interesting."
An Hongshi smiled and said, "Unfortunately, the nurse found out and confiscated my notebook, so I haven't downloaded it for a long time."
"oh?"
The young man was stunned for a moment and asked, "So after you were discharged from the hospital, you have been playing online chess?"
"Not really. After I was discharged from the hospital, I only played occasionally. Compared to online chess, I still prefer the feeling of holding the chess pieces."
An Hongshi pondered for a moment, shook his head and said.
"Then what causes you to play online chess every now and then?" the young man couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Because, I met an opponent online before and played a rare good game with him."
An Hongshi replied with a smile.
"A good game?"
Hearing this, the young man was stunned.
The word "good game" carries a lot of weight when spoken by An Hongshi. A chess game that even An Hongshi considers to be a rare and good game is probably a famous game that will be passed down to future generations.
"Well, I met a very strong opponent."
An Hongshi smiled faintly and said, "It was because of that game that my thoughts changed."
"He's not any chess player I've ever played against. Absolutely not. If he were, I would have recognized him when he played chess with me, just like I recognized you yesterday."
"It doesn't matter who the opponent is, it doesn't matter if the opponent is across from me or not, it doesn't matter even if it's online, I just want to play against a strong opponent like that."
"It's been a long, long time since I encountered such an opponent."
"It's amazing that he could play a game like that online. That's why I've been looking forward to playing against him again."
Hearing this, the young man was completely stunned. After a long while, he asked in disbelief, "Teacher An Hongshi, did you lose that game of chess?"
"No, I won."
An Hongshi shook his head and said.
The young man couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this, and said with a smile: "That means I won, you——"
"But, I almost lost."
An Hongshi interrupted the young man and said, "The difference between victory and defeat is only half a point. I won't know whether I have won or lost until the game is completely over."
Half an eye?
Can you tell the winner only after the game is completely over?
The young man's eyes widened, and he said in disbelief, "So strong?!"
An Hongshi nodded and said, "So, during this period of time, I have been constantly honing my chess skills, eager to fight him again one day."
"Although I don't know his name or where he's from, I'm sure he's been improving his chess skills, waiting for our next match, right?"
(End of this chapter)
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