Chapter 511 A Clash That Exists in Another Worldline!
To Xiaomu, yes, two stars.
The two-star formation goes without saying; it has been a consistently effective strategy for many years, making it easy to gain momentum and launch a battle. However, it is relatively rare to see a small star formation.
Both are small-scale layouts, but the "wrong small-scale layout" is far more popular than the "direct small-scale layout" because the "wrong small-scale layout" is more solid. Although the "direct small-scale layout" is advantageous in terms of direction, it does not provide enough overall coordination and is more difficult to control.
However, no one was surprised to see Su Yiming making a move towards Xiao Mu.
This is a world championship, this is the final. This game, as everyone expected, was supposed to be different from other games!
Su Yiming picked up another chess piece and slowly placed it down.
clatter!
Sixteen columns and six rows, two spaces for corner defense!
"Click!"
As the sound of chess pieces clashing rang out, Yu Shao took a chess piece from the chess box and placed it on the chessboard again!
clatter!
Three columns and five rows, a small flying bird hanging at the corner!
The next moment, Su Yiming picked up another chess piece and placed it with lightning speed!
clatter!
Six columns and four rows, Little Fly!
"It's not that Xiao Fei is outside, it's that Xiao Fei is inside!"
Upon seeing this, the judges and music recorders at the long table couldn't help but hold their breath slightly.
For the small eye, it is no longer the small flying corner without worry, nor the single-entry corner, but the two-space jump corner, or the large jump corner.
This move would have seemed baffling two years ago, but now it's being adopted by more and more top players.
In this move, facing White's small knight's invasion of the upper left corner, the usual response would be to make a small knight's move towards the sideline to find a foothold for White's corner. However, White surprisingly made a small knight's move closer to the center and towards the outside!
This is another move that is completely beyond imagination, unconventional, and hard to understand. If a player from three years ago saw this opening, they would probably laugh for three minutes straight!
But the truth is, this is a contest between two of the best players three years later.
They couldn't help but think—
"If that player from three years ago knew that this was a contest between two of the best players three years later, what would he think?"
My first reaction was disbelief.
Then what?
After confirming that this news is true, I'm afraid...
I was so terrified I cried.
Because he couldn't understand even a single move of the game.
From the initial move to the large jump to defend the corner, and then to the small knight's move on the outside, it can be said that the first seven moves alone are not the same kind of Go as before.
They are now truly feeling... the arrival of a new era in Go.
At this moment, Yu Shao quietly looked at the chessboard, and finally picked up a chess piece again and placed it on the board.
clatter!
Four columns and nine rows, dismantle!
Then Su Yiming made his moves with lightning speed.
Seventeen columns and thirteen rows, a giant flight!
It was still an unusual move. Not to mention three years ago, even now, the main move for approaching the corner of the star point is the small knight's move, but Black chose the large knight's move!
At this point, they were all a little confused, and for the players from three years ago, it was completely incomprehensible; this was no longer the Go they knew!
At this moment, the white piece was placed on the chessboard again, interrupting everyone's thoughts.
Seventeen columns, eleven rows, and one low-lying room!
"Faced with the large knight's move, White still chose a low clamp, just like when facing the small knight's move?!"
Everyone was stunned!
Tap, tap, tap...
Both sides began to place their pieces rapidly.
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Apollo Technologies, New York, USA!
"this……"
A group of researchers glanced at the live chess game on the television screen one moment, and then at the fledgling eagle calculating at full power the next, their faces filled with astonishment!
"How is this possible?!"
"The changes they made, and the changes recommended by the fledgling eagle... are completely different!"
A blond-haired, blue-eyed young man stared intently at the fledgling eagle's computing interface and exclaimed, "Faced with White's side extension, the fledgling eagle's top recommendation is a small knight's move, but Su Yiming played a large knight's move!"
"After Yu Shao played a low clamp, Black countered with a clamp, White jumped up, Black followed with a jump, and then White defended the corner with a small point, but Black surprisingly forced White's lower side with a large knight's move!"
"The variation proposed by the fledgling eagle is that when White plays a small point to defend the corner, Black jumps, and then White splits from above, Black forces the move, and then White extends the move. This is a very reasonable and understandable move!"
"However, although we can hardly understand Su Yiming's strategy of forcing the opponent from below, the winning percentage given by Young Eagle is less than 0.3 percent different from the other two!"
"In other words, this method is actually the right one!"
"Why?!"
Everyone felt an unparalleled sense of dread.
They could understand the variations of the game presented by the fledgling eagle, but they couldn't understand the game between two humans!
Ironically, the fledgling eagle gave this change extremely high praise!
Although the fledgling eagle sees this change as less favorable than its own change graph, with a win rate difference of 0.28%, the fledgling eagle is, after all, a computer. It has no emotions, only cold win rates, and it will only choose the optimal solution!
Just like a fledgling eagle prefers star point layouts, placing the first move at the small eye point is considered a lower win rate by the fledgling eagle, so the fledgling eagle will not place the small eye point. But does that mean that the small eye point is wrong?
No!
They tried having the fledgling eagle place a small target as its first move, and then play against it. The fledgling eagle that placed a small target as its first move won against the fledgling eagle that placed a star target as its first move!
Therefore, a move with a win rate difference of less than 0.3 percent can even be considered a natural move.
But they couldn't understand this technique!
Even more outrageous is that, even with the current board position, the fledglings provided a diagram of the next dozen or so moves, which they couldn't understand at all, given their skill level!
This only proves one thing: the effects of these current moves in the struggle between good and evil will become apparent in the extremely distant future. If we can't see that far ahead, we won't even understand them!
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"The town was stopped at the fifteenth column..."
Su Yiming gazed at the white pieces in the fifteenth column and ninth row of the chessboard in front of him, his eyes clear as if sparkling with stars.
"Just as I predicted..."
Su Yiming looked at the chessboard and seemed to feel an extremely strong sense of oppression emanating from it.
Whether more than a hundred years ago or more than a hundred years later, he had never felt this almost suffocating sense of oppression from any other person!
It may seem like just a preliminary battle, not as intense as the mid-game skirmishes, but perhaps the preliminary battle is the most brutal. For a chess player, the preliminary battle determines how to act in the future.
It is a battle without the sight of swords or spears, yet it is an invisible struggle that will determine the future of life and death!
Every move White makes now is pushing Black towards a certain defeat. He couldn't perceive this before, which led to repeated setbacks in his opening moves, but now he can finally vaguely sense it!
"If it were the old him, he definitely wouldn't have chosen to launch a fierce counterattack by jumping directly when I was flying high. But now he chose to jump, and when I was flying high below, he simply pressed down on all four sides..."
"Then Baiqi Town was established here, thus silently resolving my idea of stirring up trouble below."
Although the situation did not develop in the direction he expected from the beginning, and the direction he had planned was cut off from the start, it only made Su Yiming's fighting spirit even higher!
That's exactly how it should be!
The goal is to feel an unprecedented sense of difficulty, and to have all plans seen through and broken!
This is what it means—
Match!
This is—
Yu Shao!
Otherwise, why would he have gritted his teeth and crawled out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood from the losers' bracket to get here!
"So, what should Black do next?"
"Locally speaking, if I directly move these two black stones, then white will continue to press. If I then push, white will have the means to push and then cut!"
"But even so, Black has a counter-move. After connecting, White cuts, Black plays, White plays, Black captures White's dead stones, and it seems like Black has gained an advantage... But White has a tesuji (tactical move) in the local area!"
"Black extends its stones, and White crosses over. Although Black can connect, White... also has a brilliant move to cross over on the second line!"
Countless intricate and astonishing changes appeared before Su Yiming's eyes.
"As a result, the overall situation for Black is not completely stable, while the White stones in the lower left and left areas are actually strengthened!"
"If White can gain territory on the left side through an attack, then Black will be under a lot of pressure!"
"Therefore, at this moment, we should not rush to move the two black stones on the left. The key point for the rise and fall of the market is not on the left, but on the right!"
Su Yiming picked up a chess piece from the chess box, placed it down quickly, and his eyes were cold!
clatter!
Three columns and sixteen rows, bang!
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Phoenix Cup World Championship venue, post-match analysis room.
"Black piece... pong—"
Zheng Qin stared at the television screen, speechless, his mind blank, and exclaimed, "It hit a star position!"
The others around them stared at the chessboard in disbelief, as if they were experiencing tinnitus, their ears ringing!
Time seemed to stand still at this moment!
The chess piece falling onto the television screen was visually striking, almost mesmerizing.
Touching is considered an overly aggressive tactic and is rarely used even in the mid-game of a fierce battle. If you rashly touch the opponent's piece, the opponent will lose a move, but won't you lose one as well?
For example, if a piece is in the center and there are no pieces on any of its four sides, then it has four liberties (up, down, left, and right). When all four liberties are exhausted, the piece is dead.
Although a collision is an attack, if a piece collidees alone without the cooperation of other pieces, it will also be injured by the collision itself!
Therefore, for professional chess players, seeing this scene is extremely shocking, and even completely incomprehensible!
Although they were mentally prepared for the game to turn out differently than expected, they did not show much emotion even after seeing so many unexpected moves.
But what they were seeing now was completely beyond their comprehension!
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Why?!
When Yu Shao directly touched Xiao Mu, it was already astonishing; touching the star position here is even more extraordinary!
"can't read!"
Le Haoqiang shook his head in shock, looked down at the chessboard in front of him, and said incredulously, "They're not going to move here, are they? They're going to move the two black pieces at the bottom!"
"That won't work, will it? If White jumps directly, White will press down, and Black will probably have to play a block. But after White pushes, Black can only play another block, and White's next cut will be quite severe!"
Beside Le Haoqiang, a South Korean Go player took a deep breath, suppressing the tremor in his heart. Looking at the Go board, he calmly pondered for a moment, then shook his head, denying Le Haoqiang's statement.
"No, no, no!"
Le Haoqiang immediately shook his head and said confidently, "It is indeed troublesome for White to cut here, but Black has a counter-move! Black can connect, and White will inevitably cut next. Black plays, White plays a move, and Black can capture White's dead stones!"
Upon hearing this, the North Korean player paused, looked at the chessboard again, frowned, and followed Le Haoqiang's line of thought to lay out the subsequent variations. His expression changed slightly.
Black jumps, White presses down, Black blocks, White pushes, Black can only block again, White cuts again, then Black can connect, White must cut, Black plays, White plays, White plays, Black plays... captures?!
It seems like it really works!
"Do you think Su Yiming didn't see that?" Xu Zijing suddenly asked.
Upon hearing this, Le Haoqiang's lips parted slightly, but he ultimately did not utter a single word.
right.
Although the changes here are somewhat complex and hard to imagine, if he can see them, then the probability that Su Yiming cannot see them... is not nonexistent, but it is very small!
"Suppose Su Yiming saw it, but he didn't do it."
Wu Zhixuan suddenly asked, "Then... why is that?"
Upon hearing this question, everyone present fell silent.
Yes, assuming Su Yiming also noticed these changes, why didn't he do the same?
Why did Su Yiming inexplicably break free in the end and bump into the left star position?!
I don't understand!
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Meanwhile, at the Apollo Technology Company on the other side, a group of researchers were so shocked by the change diagram provided by the fledgling eagle that they almost jumped up!
"Oh my god!"
"They actually managed to pull this off!"
"Incredible!"
Their hearts were filled with profound shock as they looked at the detailed diagram of changes provided by the fledgling eagle.
If the fledgling eagle hadn't provided such a detailed diagram of the changes, they would have been completely baffled by this star position collision!
The truth is, before Su Yiming made his move, the fledgling eagles had already made the move of "pong". At that time, they were completely stunned and could not understand this move at all.
Fortunately, the fledgling eagle also provided a variation diagram for another line of movement, namely the variation where Black jumps—
If Black moves directly, then White presses down, Black then pushes back, White rushes, Black pushes back, and White cuts again!
White's cut looks severe, but Black has another clever move. Black can connect first, then White cuts, Black plays, White stands, and Black captures White's dead stones!
This variation seems to have benefited Black, but in fact, White actually has an amazing tesuji (tactical move) in this local area!
Faced with White's clamp, Black could only extend, and White crossed over. Then Black cleverly connected, and it seemed that Black had the upper hand again. However, White... also had a brilliant move hidden on the second line!
This series of exchanges was brilliant and dazzling, leaving the audience stunned. In the end, looking at the overall situation, the black stones were not completely stable, while the white stones in the lower left and left sides were actually strengthened!
Therefore, only by seeing this can we realize that the left side is now a strategically vital area. If we can understand this, then the clash of star positions becomes completely understandable!
They never expected Su Yiming to pull such a move. They were even preparing to celebrate, overwhelmed by the young eagle's astonishing, superhuman talent, but then—
Su Yiming actually downloaded it!
Three columns and sixteen rows, bang!
With this move, the variation where Black would jump out to attack was impossible, and the brilliant exchange was destined to remain unknown, but they were well aware of it.
Although that series of exchanges did not take place on the chessboard, it certainly did happen!
Where no one can see!
In another parallel world line!
Otherwise, there would have been no chance to make this move!
This is strategy!
(End of this chapter)
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