Chapter 504 A Divine Pounce
Meanwhile, in the debriefing room.
"The situation is too complicated... The situation was quite stable during the planning stage, I never expected it to become this complicated in the end."
Wu Shuheng stared at the chessboard in utter astonishment, constantly deducing the subsequent changes in his mind, trying to see the situation on the board clearly, but he just couldn't figure out what lay ahead.
Black is in danger, and White is equally unstable. Although Black has weaknesses, White is not solid either. Both have their own strategies, so he cannot even tell which is better for the time being.
The others also stared at the chessboard with some trepidation, equally troubled by the complex and varied changes on the board.
Wu Zhixuan couldn't help but look at Yu Shao and ask, "Yu Shao, who has the advantage now?"
Yu Shao gazed at the chessboard, his mind also calculating the myriad changes on the board, and he couldn't help but frown slightly.
"It's hard to say."
Yu Shao pondered and said, "Black only has this one large group of stones, and it is currently not alive and looks very precarious. As long as this large group of stones dies, White will win, and Black's large group of stones should not be able to live."
"What?!"
Everyone was shocked to hear Yu Shao's words.
Even Xu Zijin couldn't help but show a moved expression, turning her gaze away from the chessboard and looking at Yu Shao.
Wu Zhixuan stared at Yu Shao, speechless, and asked incredulously, "You think this big black group can't survive? Doesn't that mean white has already won? You mean even if this big black group dies, there's still a chance to win?"
They cannot judge the superiority or inferiority because the outcome of the game depends on the life or death of the large black group. This attack and defense is extremely complex and difficult to calculate. If they could calculate that the large black group would definitely die, why would they feel that the superiority or inferiority is "hard to say"?
After all, Black only has this one dragon on the entire board!
There is absolutely no hope of turning the tide now that the dragon is dead.
"No, Black's big group is dead, so there's no way to catch up on the board. But even though this big group is going to die, it shouldn't be completely wiped out."
Yu Shao shook his head and said.
Upon hearing this, the people around looked at each other in bewilderment.
This dragon will die, but not completely?
"What's the meaning?"
Xu Zijin couldn't help but speak, her voice clear and melodious.
Yu Shao thought for a moment, picked up a chess piece, and while arranging the subsequent variations, said, "Here, Black is purely trying to find an eye to make a living group, but it probably won't survive."
"Even if Black uses a strong move here, White has a clever way to connect and deflect the attack with minimal effort. Although the variations are very complex, upon closer analysis, it seems that no path is viable."
"What I've shown here is just one variation. The variations they come up with in actual combat may be different, but they should all lead to the same goal."
Everyone watched Yu Shao set up the chess pieces intently, sometimes puzzled, sometimes thoughtful, and sometimes suddenly enlightened.
After nearly twenty moves, Yu Shao finally stopped, and everyone stared at the chessboard with even more puzzled expressions.
"Isn't the advantage or disadvantage very obvious with this move? The large black group has already been forced to its death by white."
Upon seeing this, a North Korean and South Korean Go player frowned deeply and couldn't help but ask, "Moreover, the large group of stones on this board is clearly dead, and it doesn't seem like there are many other dead stones that can be used to their advantage."
Yu Shao nodded, not denying it, and pointed to the upper center of the chessboard, continuing, "That's true, but actually, none of the three groups of white stones on the outside are completely alive either."
The crowd was somewhat taken aback, staring at the chessboard before nodding subconsciously.
The white stones on the outside were indeed not completely alive.
Wu Zhixuan seemed to be the first to react, her beautiful eyes widening in disbelief as she asked, "Yu Shao, you mean—"
She didn't continue, seemingly finding her own conjecture unbelievable.
"Since none of White's three groups of stones are alive, and White will need to spend a lot of moves to completely kill Black's large group of stones."
Yu Shao continued, "So you could say that all three of White's pieces are trying to escape. In the process of escaping, one of White's pieces might be killed by Black, but that's too far away. We can only see the general outline, not the whole picture."
"If one of these three white stones is killed by black, then the large dragon at the bottom, which was originally dead, will be resurrected."
"Of course, although these three groups of white stones are not alive, they look very lively. It would be very, very difficult for black to kill them. But looking at the arrangement of black's pieces, I feel that black has a chance."
Yu Shao paused for a moment, then continued, "If the large black group of stones comes back to life, then black will have the advantage."
The entire room fell silent.
Everyone just stared at each other, and no one spoke.
In their view, Yu Shao was telling a horror story, because even he himself admitted that he couldn't fully foresee the subsequent changes.
That's for sure. If the market really turned out like that, it would have gone through so many moves by now. If someone could calculate all the changes in the external environment right now, it would be like seeing the final outcome as soon as the initial setup was completed. That's simply impossible!
Even so, Yu Shao gave his answer that "Black might kill a group of White stones in this process," or rather, a direction, which is quite frightening.
No one knows if Yu Shao is right or wrong, because no one can see that far, let alone give a general direction.
But precisely because of this, no one can refute that Yu Shao's words are wrong.
In other words, Yu Shao's hypothesis has the potential to be true, but this hypothesis should not be proposed now. It should be proposed many, many moves later, when the large black group has been forced to its death and the black and white groups on the outside are engaged in fierce fighting.
The direction Yu Shao is pointing out now can be described as a castle in the air, which is irrefutable, yet can be easily refuted by any reason.
For example, some people think that Black will be forced to its death, and the three white groups on the outside will indeed escape, or even all three white groups will die. But they feel that even so, Black's big dragon cannot be resurrected.
This is also undeniable, because the hypothesis itself is a castle in the air, just like Yu Shao's case. The game hasn't progressed that far, so there's no way to prove it.
Or to put it more simply, after Yu Shao presented an already vague future, he actually gave a distant direction within that vague future, which is simply incomprehensible!
After all, Go is a game of change, where one move affects the whole game. Although a good overall view can indeed help one to know the world is about to fall from a single leaf, this has already gone beyond the scope of knowing the world is about to fall!
If anyone else had said that, they probably would have already started to retort, but since it was Yu Shao who said it, the whole room fell into an eerie silence.
Many people suddenly remembered the game of chess between Yu Shao and Araki Nobuyo just the day before yesterday.
In that game, the fifty-odd moves that shocked the world are still praised to this day and continue to spark discussions and debates online. Those fifty-odd moves made all the world's most famous games pale in comparison.
Why was Yu Shao able to foresee the impending doom of the world more than fifty moves in advance during a complex mid-game battle?
Even now, everyone still finds it incredible; it's beyond human capability, but perhaps—
"Yu Shao didn't foresee the calamity of the world, but rather saw it?"
This is certainly beyond the reach of human capability, but it is at least a bit more reasonable than predicting a catastrophe!
In an instant, a storm of emotions surged through everyone's hearts.
Some people couldn't help but steal glances at Yu Shao, who had turned his gaze back to the television screen, and suddenly felt a deep-seated fear of this eighteen-year-old youth.
On the television screen, black and white pieces continued to alternately fall onto the board.
However, the pieces that Yu Shao had previously arranged for subsequent variations on the chessboard in the review room were never removed.
Although the variation presented by Yu Shao was not the only solution, both sides in this game surprisingly and tacitly followed the variation presented by Yu Shao!
Black attacks twice, White retreats, Black captures two stones, White attacks, Black connects, White jumps, and then Black continues to invade White's stones... But even though Black keeps capturing stones, there is never enough eye space.
As the board moved closer and closer to the pattern Yu Shao had laid out, some people couldn't help but swallow hard, enveloped in a strange sense of tension.
At this moment, Araki suddenly fell into deep thought.
Finally, after about five minutes, under everyone's watchful eyes, a black piece was slowly placed on the chessboard.
clatter.
With a crisp sound, the black stone landed in the white opponent's jaws—
Six columns and fifteen rows, pounce!
Immediately, everyone in the debriefing room was stunned, and subconsciously looked at the chessboard in front of Yu Shao, comparing it with the position of the black pieces on the TV screen.
Things are different now!
Then everyone looked at the television screen again, and they were all stunned, completely unable to understand what was happening.
flutter?
Was this move a mistake?
But upon closer inspection, everyone's expression changed drastically!
Even Yu Shao was staring blankly at the TV screen at this moment!
Six columns and fifteen rows!
flutter!
On the chessboard, this black piece shines brightly, like the only star shining in the vast night sky!
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Inside the competition venue.
Su Yiming stared at the black piece that had just been placed on the chessboard, and was also stunned at first, then his pupils suddenly contracted.
"flutter?"
The surrounding onlookers were completely stunned.
Did I download the wrong thing?
This was everyone's first reaction, because it was a position where a piece was unlikely to be placed.
Time ticked by.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
Ten seconds later, everyone was suddenly horrified as a strong chill shot from their tailbone straight to the top of their head!
"This is……"
Everyone stared intently at the chessboard, their minds seemingly captivated by the single piece on it. Their faces gradually flushed red, and their minds raced as if a thousand brilliant ideas were flashing through their heads!
Although this move is so exquisite that it defies description, it is not a move that is difficult for people to understand. Once this move is made, everyone can quickly react and feel the endless subtlety!
This move involves six columns and fifteen rows!
flutter!
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Marseille, France.
"That's brilliant..."
A blond man in his thirties was staring blankly at the television screen.
"The next move by White is to capture, and then Black captures again. White is now in a situation where it can't connect, and Black can immediately connect with the outside..."
The so-called "unrecoverable capture" is a state in which a piece is captured and cannot be reconnected in time. It is an extremely ingenious capture technique!
"Why doesn't White capture the stones?"
He quickly rejected the idea!
"No! That won't work either!"
He suddenly shouted, "White continues to turn, trying to restore the previous board position, then Black connects with a block, White captures, Black captures two White stones first, and then Black—"
"Black can easily make a living group!"
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Inside an apartment in Gangneung.
He Yu stared blankly at the computer screen, the cigarette butt falling from his fingers onto the keyboard, but he was completely unaware.
He opened his mouth slightly, but couldn't utter a single word for a long time.
After a long while, he finally spoke, but his voice was inexplicably hoarse: "Is this a deity?"
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The debriefing session is in progress.
Yu Shao stared blankly at the TV screen, watching this unexpected move.
Because this position is the tiger's mouth, under normal circumstances, unless one is in dire need of liberties, in order to save calculations and focus their energy on more noteworthy areas, no player would usually consider this position.
But unexpectedly, in this game of chess, under these circumstances, the tiger's mouth, which is usually not considered, turned out to be an unprecedentedly amazing point!
This scene seemed familiar to Yu Shao.
In the past, Go AI had indeed swept the Go world, and it was almost a consensus that human beings could not defeat AI.
but--
Even Go AI is not infallible. In some games, human players have made moves that even the AI couldn't calculate or understand, far surpassing the AI's ability to predict!
Although such examples are extremely rare, they did occur more than once or twice in my past life.
Moreover, such examples not only appeared in games after the emergence of Go AI, but also in the matches between predecessors and in the game records before the emergence of Go AI!
For example, after the emergence of Go AI in the previous life, someone used Go AI to review a world championship final before the AI era. In one of the moves, Black lost more than ten percent of his winning percentage, turning an advantage into a disadvantage.
However, with the AI making the first choice for White, Black's winning percentage suddenly skyrocketed, and Black ultimately won the game.
It was precisely because of these examples that human Go players felt that Go AI was not invincible, and that in some aspects, humans were also superior to Go AI—but later, no one mentioned this anymore.
Humans might be able to surpass Go AI in a single move, but if we broaden our perspective to the entire game, surpassing Go AI in just one move is utterly useless.
He may have seen another way in this game, a way that most people cannot see or even understand. His way was also correct, but it was correct in a very convoluted and risky way. Araki played a better move.
This kind of game was generally called by humans in previous lives—
Yu Shao stared at the television screen, looking at the black piece, and murmured, "A divine save."
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