It was past 4 p.m., and the game had already gone through more than 100 moves, which meant it had entered the middle and late stages of the game.
At this time, as the "closest bystander", Li Xiangping, who has a quasi-professional level, judged the situation himself. He judged that the advantage of black chess is obvious, and the advantage of about 10 points on the board should be difficult to shake.
Li Xiangping was happy when he felt victory was in sight. He started to communicate with his cheater:
"Haha, Brother Ding'an, I remember you once said: If you shrink your belly twice, you will become even smaller; if you live along the edge of the field, you will also lose. In this game today, the second half of the sentence is dispensable, but it explains the first half very well."
"My dear Xiang Ping, please don't say too much. You should know that the game is not over yet and the opponent is still putting up a strong resistance. Don't disturb me."
"Okay, I won't bother you anymore, haha..."
After saying this, Li Xiangping quickly shut up. While patiently waiting for the result of the game, he happily reviewed the previous progress.
In Li Xiangping's opinion, the reason why Old Shi has been able to gain such a clear advantage in this game is entirely because he has brought out his strengths again. In other words, "because this game is in the orbit that the chess master Shi is good at, this is why he has gained the advantage so far."
So how did this game fall into the "track of Shi's expertise"? Li Xiangping believes that this is of course related to the fifth move, "point three three".
It must be mentioned in particular that although the move of 3-3 so early is a "dog move", it can hardly be called a "good move", let alone a "brilliant move". At best, it is just a normal move.
It's just a normal move that was not recognized by humans before, but was later discovered by Go AI.
The reason why Li Xiangping said this is that even after you point to 3-3 in the 5th move, no matter what changes are made, it is difficult for Black to have an advantage - this can actually be seen from the games between "dogs" and "dogs" in later generations. This change appears repeatedly and in large numbers. What does this indicate?
This of course means that regardless of whether it is the black player's move or the white player's move, the Go AI will agree with it. Therefore, such a move can only be called a "dog pattern" and not a "dog move".
This is actually the case with today's game. Although Lao Shi used a "dog trick" at the beginning of the game, when this change came to an end, the black side actually had no advantage.
However, there are two advantages to making this change. The first advantage is that although this "dog pattern" is objectively worth two points, the opponent will certainly not think so. Influenced by the Go concept of that era, Li Xiangping can be sure that Liu Changhe, the 9th dan, will definitely think that he has an advantage subconsciously for quite a long time.
And everyone knows that this subconscious sense of advantage, or in other words, if there is a deviation in the judgment of the situation during the game , it is often very fatal in a game of this level.
The second and more important benefit is that after the fifth move of the opening, the outcome of the game is actually determined to a large extent.
This is especially true in this era. The chess players of this era are not like those in later generations. If you point at me with a "three-three", I will point at you with a "three-three".
Chess players of this era do not have the habit of clicking 3-3 so early. In this case, when black chooses this opening, a relatively extreme pattern can easily form on the board: a typical "terrain confrontation" pattern in which black takes territory and white takes advantage.
Any chess fan with a bit of experience knows that once this typical "terrain confrontation" pattern is formed, it is difficult to play a floor-laying kung fu chess. This is the game of Go. All the battles that take place on the board are actually due to an unbalanced situation. The more unbalanced the situation is, the more intense the battle will be.
And fighting is exactly what the great chess master Shi is good at! This is exactly why Black has been able to gain a clear advantage in this game so far.
In Li Xiangping's opinion, even though this game lasted more than 100 moves, except for the "point three three" variation at the beginning, all the subsequent moves of the two players had only one theme, or only one contradiction .
That is, the white pieces must find a way to exert the power of their own strength, while the black pieces, naturally, must find a way to suppress the opponent's strength.
In fact, with Li Xiangping's level, he did not see which specific move Liu Changhe made wrong. However, after 100 moves, when the attack and defense in the middle of the board was basically over, Li Xiangping still had the ability to judge the situation. He believed that the black chess operation was a great success.
In today's game, his "plug-in" showed extremely high combat skills. Facing the "world's number one attacker" in the current chess world, Lao Shi showed an offensive and defensive ability that was not inferior to his opponent. No! It should not be said to be "not inferior to", at least in today's game, Li Xiangping believed that the attack and killing skills shown by Lao Shi should be better.
Facing all kinds of tactics of his opponent, Lao Shi seemed to be able to advance and retreat freely and with ease. By the end of the middle game, when all the weak pieces of Black had been well dealt with, the White pieces immediately fell into the dilemma of insufficient real territory.
At 4:30 pm, when the game was over 130 moves in total, under normal circumstances, this should be considered the endgame stage of the game. At this time, not only Li Xiangping, but almost all professional chess players who were watching the game believed that the black chess had a very obvious advantage.
A group of young people led by Gu Dali and Kong Erjie from the Chinese Chess Institute were still paying attention to this game. After everyone collectively assessed the situation, Gu Dali was amazed:
"Tsk tsk, I don't understand it . I don't see where White made a mistake, but how did Black gain the advantage? And it's such a big advantage. A good chess player is a good chess player. When he comes back, I will ask him how he got this advantage. Anyway, I really don't see it."
"Yes, yes," Kong Er agreed with Gu Dali's statement, "In the past, people said that Li Xiangping's chess was difficult to understand. Now, I would say that Li Xiangping's chess is actually more difficult to understand. Li Xiangping always makes slow moves to win, while Li Xiangping always makes vulgar moves, even some moves that we consider bad, but he still wins. Moreover, he is not like Li Xiangping who always wins by half a point. He always wins by a big margin. He is even more amazing than Li Xiangping."
Hearing Kong Er say this, many young chess players present laughed. Since they mentioned Li, "Brother Niu" Qiu Jun said:
"Oh, Li's first game is over. Xu didn't seem to want to continue the fight. He gave up after less than 90 moves. Li is now leading 1-0. In this game, if Black plays here..."
At this point, "Brother Niu" placed a black piece on the chessboard. This move was actually the result of everyone's research. This move might not be the best one, nor was it the largest piece on the board. However, it was the safest move for the black piece. With this move, the black piece was completely stabilized, and the advantage of about 10 points on the board was unshakable, so everyone's unanimous opinion was that this should be the move.
"...If Black plays here now, I think Liu will stand up soon, and Li Xiangping will be 1-0 ahead. He may even face Li in the final."
Everyone nodded and agreed with what "Brother Niu" said.
However, at this moment, the latest chess record came.
"Huh?!"
The one who spoke was Hu Yaoyu, because he was the first person to pick up the latest chess record.
"what's the situation?"
"Move this? Black actually moves this? What does this move mean..."
Hu Yaoyu raised his head and said to everyone:
"The situation seems to have changed. Li Xiangping didn't make the only move we thought."
"oh?!"