Chapter 451: The Pressure from Go AI (Seeking Monthly Tickets!)
Time keeps passing.
On the chessboard, black and white pieces continue to fall alternately as time passes.
Han Xiu stared at the chessboard intently. Every time a chess piece fell, he seemed to be able to see the flashes of swords and shadows hidden on it.
"As expected... Black plays very steadily. Even in areas where they can clearly advance, they never enter the game, but instead continuously strengthen their position."
Everything was just as Han Xiu had expected. Li Junhao played this game with extreme stability, not giving the white pieces any chance to take advantage of the situation. He tried his best to avoid making overly drastic changes in order to extend the battle line.
Soon, Yu Shao picked up the chess piece again and dropped it quickly!
clatter!
Eight columns and thirteen rows, jump!
Seeing the chess piece in hand, Li Junhao's eyes became serious. After careful consideration for a moment, he finally picked up the chess piece and placed it on the chessboard!
Seventeen columns and fourteen rows, press!
Yu Shao also made his move immediately afterwards.
Sixteen columns and thirteen rows, long!
Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da…
Soon, both sides made more than ten moves in succession.
Han Xiu, who was watching the battle from the side, frowned more and more.
At this point, both the black and white sides have played well.
Since Black is unwilling to advance further, White will take advantage of the situation and use force to compress Black's potential. This is an open strategy, and White can either accept it or fight back.
Black was mentally prepared for this. Since they were ready for a defensive counterattack, they would stick to it and would not change their strategy because of White's relentless pressure. They would try their best to recover the losses through solid transformation.
At this point, if the game continues like this, the battle line will be stretched out very long, and White will have a slight advantage, but the situation for Black is also acceptable. In the complex and fine chess stage, there is still a chance of winning through entanglement.
However, if it were just this, it would obviously be far from what his friend said, "crushing with overwhelming force".
"Well, down here, everything is going just as I expected!"
Li Junhao obviously thought so too. Looking at the chessboard, he felt an excitement that he couldn't suppress.
"Although I'm a bit short in the middle game, the board is so scattered that I still have a lot of room to fight. I still have many opportunities. If I fail once, I can always have a second chance."
"That way, we won't be wiped out in a single fight. Even if we can't make up the difference in the end, we can still enter the official game and not lose too many points!"
"That's enough!"
Li Junhao quickly picked up the chess piece and placed it on the board again.
Yu Shao's face showed no emotion. He lowered his eyes to look at the chessboard. After pondering for a moment, he finally picked up the chess piece again and put it down gently!
clatter!
With the crisp sound of the chess piece falling, a white piece suddenly landed on the chessboard!
Seven columns and eleven rows, charge!
“Rush…rush down?”
Seeing this move, Li Junhao's hand, which had just reached into the chess box to pick out the chess piece, suddenly stopped, and then his eyes slowly widened.
"rush?!"
Not only Li Junhao, but also the other chess players watching around couldn't help but show a deep disbelief on their faces, looking at the white piece that had just fallen on the chessboard in disbelief!
now!
On the left side of the chessboard, black pieces are densely packed and they are connected to each other from a distance, like a dragnet. However, this white piece is determined and throws itself into the black formation alone!
Even people who don’t know much about Go will find this move visually impactful just by looking at it, and for these Go players, this impact is unparalleled!
Because of this move, not only did it break into the black formation, it also ignored the threat posed by the black chess pieces just now. The white chess piece in the lower left corner instantly became a dead piece!
"How... could it be a rush?!"
Han Xiu stared at the chessboard, completely unable to believe his eyes. "After the charge, Black clearly had a chance to take the initiative in the middle. White could have taken the initiative here, but how dare he do that?!"
"If White can't take advantage of this first move and directly defeat Black, then White will collapse!"
"Unless it's an extremely complex mid- to late-game situation, where every possible change in the board is calculated and the black pieces can be defeated in one fell swoop, then this method is naturally an unparalleled strong opponent, but..."
Han Xiu looked at the chessboard, which was still extremely empty after only fifty moves.
"But, we're only in the middle stage now!"
The so-called sacrifice of pieces to attack means sacrificing pieces in exchange for offensive momentum. At this moment, by sacrificing pieces, White has the upper hand, but the board is too empty. Even if he wants to attack, he has no place to start and no direction!
Unless someone can really calculate all the changes here, then he can find the direction.
But……
This is absolutely beyond human ability!
With only over fifty moves made in the entire game, it is impossible for anyone to calculate all the changes that will follow!
Even for Yu Shao, it is totally impossible!
Han Xiu couldn't understand it at all. Not only Han Xiu, but also Li Junhao who was sitting opposite Yu Shao felt the same way.
After a long time, Li Junhao finally came to his senses, took a deep breath, and a hint of ruthlessness appeared in his eyes. He finally took out the chess piece and made a move quickly!
clatter!
Eight columns and ten rows, broken!
The black chess piece finally stopped backing down and made a move, but the move was a powerful move that threatened the life or death of the white chess piece!
Because White's move, with its unreasonable attitude, attempts to forcibly cut off Black's chess pieces, has exceeded Black's scope of concession. If Black gives in, he will collapse instantly!
No matter what, Black must punish White immediately, which can be said to be a must-do move!
Seeing Li Junhao make his move, Yu Shao also picked up the chess piece and dropped it quickly!
clatter!
clatter!
clatter!
A war started by the white chess piece spread across the entire board in an instant at lightning speed!
No one could have imagined that the chess game, which had been calm just a moment ago, would become so intense that it was astonishing in the blink of an eye. The entire black chess force was mobilized to cut off the white chess's retreat!
Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da…
The chess pieces began to fall alternately again.
However, the more they read on, the more confused everyone became.
They originally thought that Yu Shao dared to play like this, and perhaps after sacrificing a piece, he really found a direction to attack, but... he didn't.
If White plays like this, the dead piece seems to be dead and meaningless. Black has already gained an absolute advantage, and all White can do next is to fight back stubbornly.
Ten moves, twenty moves, thirty moves...
Finally, after more than 40 moves, the expressions on the faces of the people around him gradually changed. Han Xiu stared blankly at the development of the game, his expression full of disbelief!
Li Junhao's forehead was covered with countless beads of sweat without him knowing when.
"The clash in the center is almost complete. The tip of the black piece is the base move, but the white piece is unstoppable and drives into the upper part. The black piece's shape has a loophole! After more than forty moves..."
Han Xiu looked at the lower right corner of the chessboard in shock, where the white piece had been discarded forty moves ago.
"Sacrificed, we finally formed an offensive!"
If we look back at the entire chess game now, that one move of "charge" connected the entire board. Through careful transformation and utilization of the initiative, after more than forty moves, this amazing sacrifice and attack was finally accomplished!
"But, is this... possible?"
Han Xiu stared at the chessboard in a daze.
"It's probably just that the difference in chess skills is too big, so Yu Shao made use of the dead pieces in his subsequent moves..."
Someone beside Han Xiu whispered, "Of course... even so, it's extremely exaggerated."
No matter what, they couldn't believe that Yu Shao had already calculated the current situation of the board more than forty moves ago. If this was true, then there would be no need to bet on the World Championship.
Yu Shao must be the champion and it is impossible for him to lose a game of chess.
The final result of that "charge" move could be an accident, but it could not have been calculated in advance. It was absolutely impossible that Yu Shao had intentionally launched the charge forty moves ago!
Because that is definitely not something a human can do.
No, not even God can do that!
At that time, the board was not so complicated that there were only a few options left. On the contrary, although the board was scattered, it was not complicated. In other words, for each move, White had at least ten options for placement.
In these ten moves, after White chooses one, there may be ten more choices to make, and ten more after that, like the branches of a tree, endless. If someone could calculate all the subsequent changes at that time...
It is almost equivalent to exhaustively enumerating all the variations of Go.
There are more variations in Go than the total number of observable atoms in the universe. It is impossible for anyone to calculate them all.
Even if someone could really do this and make this move, this move should never appear in obscurity in this game!
However, even if Yu Shao had realized the subtle changes in the board during his subsequent moves, allowing the dead piece to become a sacrifice, ultimately launching an offensive, it would have been beyond imagination...
Li Junhao gritted his teeth and fell into deep thought.
On the opposite side, Yu Shao was looking at the chessboard, quietly waiting for Li Junhao to make his move.
Indeed, he could not calculate all the changes in the whole game, nor could he calculate all the remaining changes in more than fifty moves, even if he did not start from the first move.
This move of "charge" is indeed not something that a human can do, and he is no exception.
However, this "charge" move was indeed a deliberate move made by him more than forty moves in advance. It was not a move where he realized the change in the board situation halfway through and turned the dead piece into a discarded piece, which ultimately led to the result -
This is just the move that the AI made in the previous life under a similar board situation. It knew it could be played this way, so it was able to make this move!
Unlike Dot Three Three and Point Top... this is not a fixed pattern or routine, nor is it even a Go understanding, but an AI move that changes with the situation.
This is something the AI has already calculated. Under similar board conditions, there are similar ideas and methods of play. However, after a slight change in the board conditions, this idea and method will no longer be feasible!
Therefore, this way of playing cannot be learned. Only by playing face-to-face with AI and continuously fighting with AI in large numbers can you find it in the game and make the right move!
If you don't play a lot of games against AI, then no one will find this move.
This is also his greatest advantage.
Because this way of playing is destined to be played by no one except him.
Many people believe that the power of AI lies in its new understanding and cognition of Go, and in its subversion and innovation of old patterns. This was a huge impact on human Go players before the emergence of AI.
Actually, it is not.
The power of AI, at its core, still lies in its profound calculations!
Understanding can be learned, patterns can be learned, and innovation can also be learned. The reason why AI can overturn countless old patterns and have a new understanding of Go is that it is fundamentally based on cold calculations!
For example, in various situations, AI plays moves that cannot be learned by the system, and humans can never learn them. They can only be defeated again and again, and then learn knowledge that belongs only to this game from the defeat.
This is why human players can never defeat Go AI!
When he encountered a similar situation before, even if he knew that he could play this way, he would often not do it, because although this method was valid, one wrong move could lead to the loss of the whole game, and it left him no way out.
However, after the national team match, he had changed his mind and no longer left room for himself at any time. This was reflected on the chessboard, where he showed more ruthlessness, or cruelty, than before!
This is the gap called "era".
This is the oppressive feeling called "despair" that comes from Go AI!
He had personally felt this suffocating sense of oppression countless times before, and obtained the answers, or rather, the chess sense, at the cost of blood!
"Su Yiming, I won't lose."
Yu Shao looked at the chessboard, his eyes like swords: "I'm waiting for you!"
Time passes by every second.
Finally, after a long time, Li Junhao's expression turned pale. He gritted his teeth and finally took out the chess piece from the chess box and put it down with difficulty.
Although the game is over, but being in the world competition, he still wants to try his best and fight hard!
After more than ten moves.
Li Junhao's face was pale and his body was trembling slightly.
He wanted to pick up the chess piece and drop it, but he felt that no matter what he did, he was powerless to reverse the situation.
"No...how is that possible?"
“How could it be…”
He gritted his teeth, stared at the chessboard, and racked his brains to find a way for the black piece to survive.
"The chessboard is still so empty, there must be a way!"
Time ticks by.
Everyone around looked at Li Junhao with mixed feelings.
They also realized that the outcome of this game was already decided. No matter how Li Junhao played, he was just fighting desperately and struggling. No matter what, the black chess pieces had no chance of turning the situation around.
Generally speaking, under this situation, most chess players would have resigned and admitted defeat gracefully.
However, seeing that Lee Junhao was reluctant to give up and wanted to continue playing, as chess players themselves, they couldn't bear to blame him because they felt the same way.
This is the world championship, the stage that all chess players dream of. The moment you resign, it is tantamount to killing your own dream with your own hands!
After a moment, Lee Junho finally reached into the chess box again, as if trying to pick out a chess piece.
However, Li Junhao did not take out the chess piece in the end. Instead, he lowered his head and said weakly: "I..."
"Lost."
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(End of this chapter)
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