Go: Is the portable old man the nine-time champion?

Chapter 113 The First Person to Eat Crabs
"Yijie Zongheng" is a program on a TV channel specially set up for live broadcast of competitions. Because it is a real-time broadcast without advance research, it requires extremely high professional Go skills from the host.

Naturally, professional hosts do not have the ability to explain the games, because they do not have the ability to understand the games of professional players, even though one of the hard requirements for recruiting hosts on the Xuanping channel is amateur 3rd dan.

Even in the era of artificial intelligence, professional commentators may not be able to commentate well on the games of world champions.

As soon as I saw the winning rate, I said it was a sure thing, but as soon as I moved the dragon, I died.

So for programs like this, the TV station will specially invite some free professional players to give explanations, but more often they are retired professionals who are no longer active.

Because most active professional players are very busy with competitions and have no time to participate in such programs, and the fees are also very high, so the cost-effectiveness is relatively low.

Although the retired old man's skills have declined, his vision is still there. He may not be good at playing chess, but he can brag.

Most of the time, a man and a woman will be arranged to explain the game. It can be said to be a convention, just like the funny and supporting roles in crosstalk.

It's mainly to cater to the audience, because if there are two male professions, it might become a pure change of the two professions.

An Jing, a 3rd dan player, glanced at the screen above the program: "The first round's featured match is between Xuanyuduo, a 6th dan player, and Yizheng, a 1st dan player.

Most people should be familiar with Xuanyunduo, a 6th-dan player. He plays for the Pili Go team and is a member of the World Go League A. He has won the Rookie of the Year title twice and has made outstanding performances in various competitions.

Yi Zheng Chudan is a new Chudan player who became a professional this year. He is also the only new Chudan player in recent decades who became a professional player through a national amateur competition. After being promoted to the professional level, he led the team to win the Qinglong Cup Newcomer Competition for China.

In the recent World Go League B, he secured two consecutive victories for his team, Metropolitan Bank. In the first round against Namba Heavy Industries, he defeated a professional 9th-dan player with his 1st-dan rank, securing the crucial victory point for the team.

Hearing this, Luo Cheng, the 7th dan standing nearby, was stunned for a moment: "A 1st dan defeated a 9th dan?"

Although Luo Cheng still paid attention to Go competitions after retiring, he focused more on several major competitions.

The B-level league is not very popular, and there are 64 games in a round, so it is impossible for everyone to pay attention to them all.

Even in the A-League, there are a huge number of matches, and everyone's attention will be focused on the key matches.

Although Yi Zheng, a 1st dan player, defeated a 9th dan player, which seemed like a very shocking news, not many people paid attention to it because the traffic of the match was too small.

Luo Cheng: "Professional 9th ​​dan from Japan and South Korea? That's not easy either."

Although the professional 9th ​​dan players in Japan and South Korea are very weak, especially those from Silla, they can no longer be described as ordinary water, they are simply pure water.

But being able to make it to the ninth rank definitely doesn't mean you're a low-rank professional, especially in the second-tier league. Want to keep playing if your win rate isn't high enough? Bookmark this voluntary withdrawal.

"We can see that both sides made moves very quickly. Xu, playing black, chose a wrong small eye to start the game, then chose to hang the opponent's small eye in the corner. When Yi Zheng, playing first dan, hung the corner, Xu, playing first dan, chose a pointed top and then a flying move. After Yi Zheng, playing first dan, broke three and two, he chose a flying move to suppress.

This kind of opening doesn't seem very common. I haven't seen it in recent professional competitions. Is this a secret weapon I've developed myself?

In professional competitions, the same layout is often popular, and many people will play the same layout for a period of time, but today's opening is unfamiliar to everyone.

But Yi Zheng remembered it very clearly.

In other words, this layout was made by him personally.

"This is the layout of one of the games when Mr. Ke was playing chess with someone online." Although Yi Zheng didn't feel any nutritious interest in someone's game of fish-frying, being able to memorize the chess moves he had seen was considered a basic skill.

So Yi Zheng could tell at a glance that the layout chosen by Xuanyuduo was the one that Mr. Ke came up with when he was playing against others online. The one on the left was exactly the same, except that the configuration on the side was a little different.

The disturbance caused by Mr. Ke in the online game was actually quite big. After all, he was a mysterious online chess god who defeated all the professionals online.

Everyone is certain that even a martial artist who started from the lowest level in the market cannot reach such a high realm. Although Alphago's chess seems unorthodox, it is definitely the result of years of hard training by a professional chess player.

However, after many people made inquiries from various sources, including asking some current high-level and retired professional players, the answer they got was "I am not."

This has given "Alphago" a layer of mystery, and some people have even made it into an urban legend, saying that AlphaGo is the online Go ghost formed by everyone playing Go on the Internet for so long.

But more people believe that this is the training account shared by all members of the Chinese Go national team, and some of the strange moves on it are new moves discussed by the Chinese national team and used for experiments.

However, despite this, not many people have learned AlphaGo's strange moves.

Because I can't understand it.

When a professional player learns something and dares to use it in a game, he must know the whys and hows of it, or at least have formed a complete theory.

The fact that Yi Zheng's choice of three-three was accepted by so many young men who were striving for a rank was also because Yi Zheng could justify himself and give everyone an acceptable explanation.

It is impossible to use it in actual combat without understanding anything. The risk is too high.

So Yi Zheng had never seen any professional players learning from "AlphaGo" before, Xuanyuduo was the first one.

Among professional players, he is the first to try something new.

Yi Zheng looked up at Xuanyunduo who was sitting opposite him. Xuanyunduo seemed to feel his gaze and also looked up with an innocent smile.

However, Mr. Ke’s layout was also made after countless studies. Every step was based on overall considerations, rather than simply choosing a fixed pattern.

If it is just a rough imitation of the appearance, it will be of no use.

The sixteenth move, White chess, tie.

Seeing this step, Old Man Ke leaned to the side and said, "Are you pursuing higher efficiency? There's nothing wrong with disassembling and clamping. It's more stable."

This guy Xiao Yi treats his opponent as an upper hand and fights with the attitude of attacking from below."

Yi Zheng had only been in the professional world for less than half a year, so he was in awe of these professionals who were the same age as him but had been struggling in these worlds for many years.

After all, the other person has studied for so much longer than himself, so he must have his strengths. Yi Zheng himself has wasted so many years, so he must be a little worse than him.

but……

"Your estimate may not be correct."

(End of this chapter)