In the morning, there were actually not many chess players watching the game at the Chinese Chess Institute. Most of them were young people who lived and ate at the institute. Now seeing Li Xiangping use another "weird move", actually "clicking 33" in the 5th move, everyone gathered around Kong Erjie and joked with him.
"Chinese Hero" Hu Yaoyu laughed and said, "Haha, Xiaomei, you should be mentally balanced now, right?"
Kong Erjie picked up the chess record sent back from Korea to check it. He saw the opening of "Er Lian Xing" against "Er Lian Xing". Li Xiangping really "clicked 33" in the 5th move. Kong Erjie couldn't help but laugh:
"Balanced, balanced. By the way, not only am I mentally balanced now, shouldn't I feel honored?"
Gu Dali laughed and said, "Of course, if you can win in this way, then you, Kong Er, should feel honored. I really want to know what Liu Changhe's expression was when he saw this move..."
Like all chess players of this era, Liu Changhe was of course also very surprised when he saw such a move. In the game room far away in South Korea, as Li Xiangping made this move, Liu looked up at Li Xiangping in surprise.
Li Xiangping smiled at him.
Liu Changhe's reaction was of course within Li Xiangping's expectations, because before being baptized by Go AI, no one would play like this. All professional players would think that playing like this was quite unreasonable and the moves were very amateurish.
"...Please don't look at me like that, because after a few moves, there is another more 'amateur' move waiting for you... Well, everyone says that this match between us is a 'showdown between the strongest amateur chess players'. If I don't use some 'amateur' moves, how can I live up to everyone's love..."
After making the "three-three" move, Li Xiangping even had time to think about this, because Liu Jiudan did not make a move right away in the next move, and Li Xiangping certainly understood his opponent's game mentality:
He knew that his opponent stopped at this time, certainly not to consider any Go technical issues, but more to adjust his mood, or to calm his emotions, reminding himself not to be impatient because of such a move.
Liu Jiudan is a top player after all, so it didn't take him long to adjust. Three minutes later, he started to make his moves, "block", "pull", "extend", "extend" - these were the four moves Liu Changhe Jiudan made in the next four rounds, and the variation he chose was the most common variation after the star position was "pointed three three".
It must be pointed out here that Li Xiangping had actually expected Liu Changhe to choose this variation, and the reason was very simple. Although this variation was considered one of the "point three three" patterns, in that era, people believed that playing this way was advantageous for white.
The "advantage" of White is not local but global, because this is a typical "terrain confrontation" pattern, Black obtains the real estate in the corner, and White obtains an external force. Although this change can be seen as "two points" locally, there is another principle in Go, which is "the earlier the external force is formed, the greater its power will be."
Obviously, Black's "clicking 3-3" so early seems to violate this principle, so if this change appears so early in a game, according to everyone's understanding of that era, everyone judges that White has an advantage - since everyone judges that White has an advantage, then it should be reasonable for a great player like Liu Changhe to choose this change.
The game has reached the 12th move, but these 12th moves are not the key. The essence of this change lies in the next move of the black chess piece.
Li Xiangping even thought: Only the move after this was a real "dog move"!
"I hope my opponent won't be too surprised after seeing this move. At the same time, I really hope I can win this game, otherwise this 'dog move' will be wasted..."
While thinking this, Li Xiangping placed the 13th move of the game on the board: "Second Road Climb"!
This is a "dog move" that reflects the AI ​​thinking of later Go! However, Li Xiangping knows that since this move was made by him in this era, it is bound to cause huge controversy.
If you win the game, it's fine, then this move is just controversial, but if you lose? Then in the eyes of others, this move is likely to become a joke.
After making this move, Li Xiangping immediately observed his opponent's reaction, and Liu Changhe's reaction was also very interesting. This time he did not look at Li Xiangping again. Instead, after seeing this move, his body suddenly leaned forward and stared at the chess piece on the chessboard for several minutes, as if he wanted to confirm whether his opponent had placed the chess piece in the wrong place.
At the Chinese Chess Institute, when many young chess players saw this move, their jaws dropped. From Gu Dali to Hu Yaoyu, no one knew how to evaluate this move.
After a long while, Gu Dali finally laughed: "What can I say about this move? Haha, others say that having money means being willful, but after seeing such a move, I can only say: people who are good at chess are also willful! Don't you think so..."
Among all the young chess players, only two people reacted normally. One of them was Kong Erjie, who had experienced this move before. However, he could not explain why:
"...Yes, yes, yes. When , he was climbing up the second lane like this. But he played like this and still easily killed me. What do you think of this..."
Another player who reacted slightly more normally was Chen Yaoyue, Li Xiangping's only junior in the national team:
"I know the meaning of this move because Li Xiangping told me his reasoning."
"Oh?! What did Li Xiangping say?"
Hearing Chen Xiaoqiang say this, everyone surrounded him. Why? Although Li Xiangping is still an amateur chess player, he has already made it to the semi-finals of the world championship, right? As for the chess players of the National Junior Team and the National Youth Team, except for Kong Erjie who has made it to the "Chunlan Cup Semi-finals" once, even Gu Dali has never had such an experience.
In addition to this reason, it can be said that everyone present here today has experienced losing to Li Xiangping, either on the Internet or in training games within the chess academy. In any case, no one can escape the fact that everyone has lost to "Jueyi".
It is precisely because of these two reasons that at this moment, everyone is interested in "what Li Xiangping thinks".
Student Chen Xiaoqiang began to explain the principles of Go. In fact, the principles are not difficult and Chen Yaoyue explained them clearly in just a few words. However, as I said before, there is no such thing as "technical accumulation" in Go. This game has been driven by genius since the day it was born.
For example, today, because Li Xiangping is not a Go AI, he does not have any particularly outstanding record to support himself, so although his moves are "dog moves", what Chen Xiaoqiang said is actually the real Go AI thinking. However, after he finished speaking, no one immediately accepted his ideas, and most of them disagreed.
"What? You said that the reason you added an extra hand was to skip the 'two-way sticking'?"
"Yes, that's what Li Xiangping told me. He said that if you want to play 3-3 so early, you must not play the 'two-way sticking' exchange, because if you do this exchange, then the white pieces are very flexible and the outer position is complete, and the black pieces are obviously at a disadvantage. If you don't do this exchange, the white pieces' outer position will not be that strong. You see, there is still a breakpoint here. Therefore, Li Xiangping believes that if you want to start with 3-3, you must play it like he did in actual combat."
"I understand. You mean that in order to ensure this illusory breakpoint, Li Xiangping would rather climb one more road on the second road than go down this second road to stick? This, this, hehe..."
With this "Haha", everyone ended their technical discussion on this change. Come to think of it, these words just came from Chen Yaoyue's mouth. Not to mention him, even if Li Xiangping was here in person, it would be impossible for everyone present to believe what he said now. Therefore, this technical discussion at the Chinese Chess Institute could not continue.
The only condition for such technical discussions to continue is that Li Xiangping wins the game and continues to win games using this method!
Li Xiangping, who was far away in South Korea, certainly had no idea what was happening at the Chinese Chess Institute. He only knew that after this basic change, a fierce offensive and defensive battle was inevitable.
"Haha, Brother Ding'an, please start your performance."