Chapter 44 Bottleneck
After more than a week of crazy training online, Jueyi's total record has reached an astonishing 95 wins and 0 losses. At this time, this account has once again become the focus of the entire network.
Because someone has checked and found that since the establishment of Qingfeng.com, no one has achieved 100 consecutive wins. After all, online chess is different from real-life games. If you want to achieve a long winning streak online, you must not only have enough strength, but also be prepared for disconnection and cheating at any time. Therefore, although there are not many experts who like to surf the Internet these days, it is not that easy to achieve 100 consecutive wins.
And now, "Jueyi" has unknowingly approached this goal, which makes the majority of spectators extremely excited.
Especially after a post by a guy called "Arrogant Lone Wolf" appeared on the Qingfeng website forum, saying "'Jueyi' is on a crazy winning streak , who's going to give him anal sex?", the matter became more popular again.
Jueyi’s already high popularity has now become even greater, and every time he fights with others, there are crowds of spectators.
However, Li Xiangping himself did not feel anything about all this. After all, he had been traveling through time for more than a month, and the pleasure of playing the pig and eating the tiger with the plug-in at the beginning had long been diluted. Moreover, he was playing chess now mainly to prepare for the Samsung Cup preliminaries in half a month.
Therefore, in a sense, Li Xiangping hopes that the current "Jueyi" can lose a few games. After all, Go is like this. If you want to find out your problems and shortcomings, they can only be concentrated when you lose the game. If you win all the way like now, it makes Li Xiangping unclear about the effect of such training.
"The main reason is that there aren't many experts online these days..."
Li Xiangping sighed in his heart. He knew that this was the main reason why "Jueyi" had been able to win for so long. Although Li Xiangping would try to pick opponents who looked stronger every time he played chess, to be honest, they were only "strong in appearance".
Because on the Go website, the "9D" group actually has the biggest disparity, with everyone from top professionals to top 5 amateurs all crowded together. Therefore, with so few , Jueyi's opponents these days are basically amateur masters and second-tier professionals, and it hasn't even encountered a few first-tier professionals. So, of course, training like this makes Li Xiangping feel uneasy.
"Brother Ding'an, how do you feel about playing a small-eye game of Go?"
Li Xiangping had no other choice. He himself could not see any effect, so he could only ask the great chess master Shi what he felt.
"Well, Ding'an has made some progress these days. Putting aside the specific techniques, I feel that the winning strategy of small-eye Go is very different from the one I played back then."
"oh?"
Hearing what Lao Shi said, Li Xiangping became very interested, because in view of the complexity of Go, the medieval Go of "seat chess" is indeed completely different from the Japanese Go centered around "small-eye Go".
Japanese Go emphasizes reducing the complexity of Go as much as possible during the layout phase, achieving a balance by using thick pieces to counter thick pieces, and the two sides are in a stalemate, which is relatively a static balance. However, ancient Chinese Go emphasizes making the situation as complicated as possible during the layout phase, achieving a balance by using isolated pieces to counter isolated pieces, and a single move can affect the entire body, which is relatively a dynamic balance.
These two ideas are not only found in Go, but also in any field where there is competition or confrontation. Li Xiangping has no prejudice against these two ideas. He believes that there is no difference between the two ideas, and the choice of which one is entirely up to the participants. However, since Lao Shi mentioned this topic, he still wants to hear what the ancient chess masters think of these two winning ideas.
"Brother Ding'an, which of these two winning strategies do you think is better?"
"this……"
"Brother Ding'an, don't be so shy. Just speak frankly when I ask you to."
"Well, Xiang Ping, forgive me for being frank. After trying this method for a few days, I still think it is not worth it. It is not the right way to win. Ding An even thinks that simple small-eye Go deviates from the essence of the game."
Li Xiangping was stunned. He didn't expect that after he had given Lao Shi "special training" for more than a week with good intentions, he would actually receive such a statement from him. If it was Li Xiangping in his previous life before 2015, he would definitely refute such a statement. However, after seeing the Go AI, Li Xiangping did not dare to refute it casually.
Because leaving aside the specific technical techniques, we must admit that the winning strategy of Go AI is indeed more similar to that of medieval Go, both of which are a kind of "dynamic Go" that operates at high speed.
The reason for this situation may be that there is a tradition of worshipping Yi in Chinese history, especially the literati of all dynasties. They all like to use the Yin-Yang thinking in the Book of Changes to explain the world. This subconscious thinking is eventually reflected in chess. Chess players like to find a way to win by fighting or defending in a situation with rich changes and frequent transformations.
In short, this is a choice based on their view of Go. The choice is based on emotion, but the result is also rational. Compared with Confucianism, everyone knows that the influence of the Book of Changes on Japan is much smaller. It may be for this reason that the "small-eye Go" developed in Japan has taken a different path.
However, although he did not dare to refute Lao Shi's words, considering the purpose of this training, Li Xiangping still pretended to be sullen:
"Brother Ding'an, I know you are proficient in Yi-shu, so don't discuss these mysterious metaphysical questions with me. Let me ask you, you were almost defeated by someone using this method a few days ago, so this small-eye Go must have its merits, right?"
"Of course. If we talk about the advantage of this small-eye Go, it is that it can easily lead to fine-tuning the game. Ding'an is ashamed of himself in this regard. However, my friend Xiangping, let me tell you that this is not the right way to play Go. If you continue to practice along this path, it is, it is..."
"But what is it?"
"But he will be like Senior Lan Yu, who, although he has reached the pinnacle of this path, is still no match for Yuan Zhao, and will never be able to be ranked among the 'great masters' in his lifetime."
Li Xiangping was once again unable to speak because of what Old Shi said. Again, if he was in his previous life before 2015, he would definitely sneer at this. You have to know that when he first learned Go, the status of the "endgame" technique was greatly improved due to the sudden appearance of Lee Canghao from South Korea. After him, the entire Go world has unprecedentedly attached importance to the endgame technique. There are even young players who clamor that now is the "second half of the game decides the victory era". The layout is not important at all, just play it casually.
It must be admitted that Li Xiangping also agreed with this view at the time. But after the birth of Go AI, especially in the 60 test games between the second-generation "Master" and humans, there were quite a few games that were simply "lost in the layout". After 60 moves, many young human players had no chance.
Thinking about the performance of Go AI, the example just mentioned by Lao Shi, and even thinking about South Korean Lee Chang-ho himself, he had a nemesis called "Choi Zhe-hao" even at his peak.
So faced with Lao Shi’s words, Li Xiangping certainly didn’t know how to refute.
"Oh! I'm so confused. What should I do now..."
Li Xiangping suddenly discovered that this special training seemed to have reached a bottleneck.
