Chapter 33: Wave Tricks
Seeing that the other side "accepted the invitation", Li Xiangping cheered up and prepared to deal with this powerful enemy.
Yes, Li Xiangping now believes that this "3304" must be a strong enemy.
Although he is still unable to confirm who this person is, he still agrees with the analysis of the majority of onlookers: that is, this person must be a Korean foreign aid in the Weiqi League.
You have to know that a Korean player who is qualified to appear in the Chinese Weiqi League must be no ordinary person. The Weiqi League has been held for so many years. Has anyone heard of the saying of "parallel foreign aid" in this league? Of course not. There may be parallel foreign aid in other competitive events, but in the world of Go, there has never been such a creature.
"Brother Ding'an, let's do it like yesterday. I'll start, and then you can take over when I can't do it anymore. How about that?"
"Okay, I just wanted to see more of Xiang Ping's skills."
Li Xiangping did not speak, because he was the one who took the initiative to invite, so he had to set the time. Considering that Lao Shi had definitely never played a "countdown" game before, he wanted to set the time longer.
However, Li Xiangping knew that for an online game like this, if the time was set too long, firstly, the other party might not agree, and secondly, it might be seen as showing weakness. So Li Xiangping thought about it and set the time to 10 minutes plus 30 seconds for three countdowns, which was a little slower than the previous three games.
After the opponent agreed, the game officially began. Through the system's automatic guessing, in the first game, "Jueyi" guessed that the black chess piece was black, and Li Xiangping deployed "Two Stars in a Row", and the white chess piece also chose to respond with "Two Stars in a Row".
Originally, in order to take care of Lao Shi's performance, Li Xiangping wanted to play the diagonal star, but there was no way, as the white chess piece occupied the diagonal in the second move, so he could only choose the current opening as a second best option.
Fortunately, in this day and age, the start of "Two Stars" against "Two Stars" is considered common, so others did not notice anything unusual.
When it came to the fifth move, Li Xiangping took some time to think about how to play.
According to his idea, he certainly still wanted to use "dog tricks", but in later generations, facing the current situation, the most recommended move by Go AI was to directly "click three, three", but Li Xiangping was not very interested in this move.
The reason why Li Xiangping was not impressed was certainly not because he thought that move was bad, but mainly because ever since the Go AI recommended that move, it had become popular throughout the Go world, attracting professional players to compete for it, and that "three, three" move could be seen in almost any competition.
How popular is that move? It's so popular that Li Xiangping wants to vomit whenever he sees it. This is one of the reasons why Li Xiangping doesn't want to play this move today.
The second reason was that the move of "point three, three" seemed simple, but the subsequent changes were extremely complicated, and Li Xiangping was completely unable to judge many of them . Considering that he was facing a Korean chess player after all, Li Xiangping thought about it and decided to give up that move and choose a most common opening of this era.
After the match between "Jueyi" and "3304" began, a large number of chess fans quickly poured into the game room. Because the opponent was Korean, and "3304" had just defeated "Long Feihu", the majority of Chinese chess fans naturally cheered for "Jueyi":
“Come on Jueyi…”
"Come on, Jueyi Boss. Today I'm counting on you. What I say today counts. If you can beat this Korean guy today, I'll be with you from now on..."
Some kind-hearted chess fans noticed that Jueyi had only played 40 games on Qingfeng.com and were worried that he was a novice, so they warned him:
"Jueyi, don't waste time playing chess today. I'm telling you, this Korean guy is definitely a master. You should play a serious game with him..."
Unfortunately, before the chess fan could finish his words, Li Xiangping's hand stopped again, because after seeing the move his opponent had just made, he felt the urge to make a "random move".
At this time, the game was less than 20 moves long, and the opponent's move was nothing special. It was one of the more popular variations of the era. It was a variation of the "Yigai" pattern. In the early years, this variation was first made by Korean chess players. Because Korean chess players performed well, this variation became popular in this era. The move that the opponent just made was actually the divergence point of this variation. He just made a "tiger" move.
After seeing this move, Li Xiangping laughed in his heart. Of course, the reason why Li Xiangping laughed was not because there was a problem with the "tiger" move itself, but because the understanding of how to respond to this move in this era was very problematic.
According to the Go theory of this era, if the white chess piece makes the "tiger" move, then the black chess piece does not even need to think about the next step, just "attack and capture" it first.
This "capture" move is even considered to be "the only move", because after the black piece "captures", the four white pieces become the legendary "Ding Si", which is a standard "stupid shape" in Go.
Therefore, according to the Go theory of that era, when you encounter this kind of method of putting your opponent into a "stupid position", you absolutely cannot miss it.
However, Li Xiangping from later generations now knows that this theory is wrong. According to the analysis of Go AI in later generations, that "capture" move was not only not "the only move", it was even a bad move.
Because it is very satisfying to "capture", but what happens after that? White's chess pieces are in a "stupid shape", but Black's chess shape is even worse, because that "capture" step has caused two breakpoints, and no matter where White's chess pieces are broken, the problem is quite serious. So it is not an exaggeration to call this chess shape "cracked".
In Go, a "cracked shape" is obviously worse than a "stupid shape", which is why the Go AI believes that the "capture" move is not a good one.
So how should Black respond to White's "tiger" move? Li Xiangping took action. He operated the mouse and calmly chose a "stand" move.
After making this move, Li Xiangping pretended to say to Lao Shi:
"Brother Ding'an, what do you think of my move? This should be the best response to this situation, right?"
"Yes, Xiang Ping, please don't tease me. This move is of course a normal variation of the 'Yigai' move. With Xiang Ping's skill in chess, how could he not know this?"
Li Xiangping was delighted when he heard this, but he also felt emotional at the same time. He knew that Lao Shi would definitely say this, because "Yigai" was a variation derived from the star position, and therefore it was considered a type of "star pattern", which was a very old pattern in medieval chess.
For example, Guo Bailing, the Go master of the Ming Dynasty, loved to use "Yigai" throughout his life, so much so that Xu Xingyou commented on him in "Jianshantang Go Book" like this; Guo Bailing used "Yigai" as his Great Wall throughout his life, and he would not accept it if "Yigai" was added to it...
In medieval chess , the move Li Xiangping just made, "Xia Li", was the positive change of the situation.
This coincides exactly with the move recommended by the Go AI!
This is why Li Xiangping felt emotional.
Especially when he saw that he had made this move, the entire game room was once again as lively as a boiling pot, and the crowd of spectators once again discussed:
"What...what kind of chess piece is this? Could it be that the black chess piece slipped due to mouse movement..."
"Ha, this unique skill is interesting. I just advised him not to waste time, but I didn't expect that he would start wasting time so early..."
Faced with such discussions, Li Xiangping felt even more emotional.
At the same time, in the terminal hall of the distant Shancheng Airport, when "Mumu" saw this move, he smiled and said to Liu Changhe:
"How's your brother? I've seen this guy play chess. The moves he made are quite interesting, right?"
Liu Changhe did not laugh, because he was one of the few Korean chess players who had studied medieval chess.
"Mumu, you may not know that this move is not a novice move, but a very old way of playing chess in the Middle Ages. I have read the chess records of ancient Chinese chess players, and they all seem to play in this way. Hehe, since this person plays in this way today, let's practice this variation with him..."
While Liu Changhe was saying this, Jinling, Li Xiangping was also saying something similar to Lao Shi:
"Alright, Brother Ding'an, since you have played the move 'Yigai', which is exactly what you are good at, then you can practice with this Korean chess player."
"OK."
So what was the result of their training?
The first game ended very quickly. At around 3:40 pm, when "3304" pressed the surrender button, the entire game room cheered loudly:
"Haha, Master Jueyi is so awesome..."
"Now I finally understand, this extraordinary chess player must be extravagant..."
"The above person has revealed the truth. I have watched all the chess games played by Jueyi Boss. Whenever he made a foolish move, he would win beautifully. On the contrary, there were a few games where he won with little effort without any foolish moves..."
“So I have to go wild…”
"Haha, yes, you must revel in it, and revel in it in a reasonable and correct way. I sincerely hope that Master Jueyi will continue to revel to the end..."
At Shancheng Airport, Liu Changhe, who had just pressed the surrender button, blushed slightly. There was no regret on his face after losing the game. Instead, he seemed a little excited. After all, for a professional chess player of his level, it was just a game of online chess, and he didn't take the victory or defeat too seriously.
Liu Changhe quickly sent another game request to "Jueyi", and Li Xiangping naturally had no reason to refuse his opponent's request.
So soon, the second game between "Jueyi" and "3304" began.
Just as the second game between the two of them started, "Mumu's" phone rang. "Mumu" smiled when he saw the caller ID. It turned out to be a call from his Chinese Go teammate Gu Dali.
"What's the matter, Dali?"
"Mumu, I want to ask you, do you know who the Korean chess player named '3304' is? Yes, that's the Korean chess player who is playing chess on Qingfeng.com now..."
