Go: The live broadcast queen launched a gorgeous rebellion against the dog

……ah?

He didn't even know that?!
Upon hearing this, Liu Shixian frowned, a strong sense of absurdity welling up in his heart.

A chess player about to step onto the final stage is completely unaware that he is about to compete for the championship?!

South Korea's strongest Go player scrutinized Lin Ruixin's expression with sharp eyes, trying to find any trace of pretense.

However, the other person's slightly surprised look and bewildered expression seemed so real, completely genuine, as if he were truly immersed in his own world and indifferent to everything around him.

Just as Liu Shixian was somewhat confused, his opponent in the final had a different reaction...

After a brief moment of focusing, Lin Ruixin's previously cloudy and bewildered eyes suddenly lit up!
That wasn't the usual seriousness a chess player displays before a match, but rather an almost frenzied fervor!

"That means... as long as I beat you..."

"So I can go find that little chess idiot then?!"

The seven-time champion of China was filled with undisguised desire in his words, his gaze burning as if he could see through Liu Shixian and see the eternal Zhaojun waiting for the last challenger in the Dongjiang River.

That look, that tone... there was no joy in reaching the WorldSkills finals, and no desire for the championship!
Yes, but only an obsession with finding Rui Zhao again to settle scores... and his twisted, almost pathological, goal!

...Tsk!

This person has completely gone mad!

He finally understood why Lei Qi had so solemnly instructed him—the Lin Ruixin before him was no longer the talented and spirited leader of China he once was!

He had been completely consumed by that twisted hatred and resentment, turning into a chess demon who lived only for revenge!
Looking at Lin Ruixin, whose eyes were filled with fervor and who was only focused on "finding that little lousy chess player," the last bit of relaxation he had felt due to his opponent's potential poor form vanished instantly!

With this in mind, Liu Shixian secretly made up his mind.

He said nothing more, but gave Lin Ruixin one last complicated look before stepping aside to let her go first.

He calmed his breathing and, with increasingly firm and steady steps, followed closely into the final arena!

...

...

[Sorry, Sister An, I've checked 72 points all day, but haven't yet confirmed any as blind spots in the AI's deployment.]

However, we've already discussed it further, and everyone says they'll keep searching until all the locations have been checked!

[Anything that can help Rui Zhao, even just one blind spot!]

...Tsk!

As expected, AI's blind spots are not so easy to find!
At 9 p.m. on the same day, in Ai Jian'an's office in Dongjiang City, Huaxia.

After reading the WeChat message Li Jingzhe had just sent, Ai Jian'an's gaze lingered on the screen for a few seconds. Then she sighed softly, leaned back slightly, and rubbed her throbbing temples.

This result was expected—she knew that the data on "suspected blind spots" was vast, and each one required top players to spend a lot of energy to analyze and repeatedly deduce in order to confirm whether it could really become a weapon against AI, which was comparable to finding a needle in a haystack.

However, when news of the slow progress came, Miss Ai couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

and……

The screening process is also a bit slow...

Ai Jianan muttered another word.

Li Jingzhe mentioned that they checked 72 points in most of the day. This number sounds like a lot, but compared to the thousands of "suspected blind spots" in total, the progress still seems slow.

Lei Qi's earlier prediction was correct—even high-level players, assuming the quality of their analysis, could only thoroughly verify two to three blind spots per day at most. 72 points meant a significant investment of manpower, but the bottleneck in efficiency objectively existed.

Thinking of this, she put down her phone, her gaze falling on the flashing neon lights outside the window, her thoughts wandering.

In fact, if it's just a simple blind spot in the opening, AI has also had blind spots in previous games between human players.

However, those blind spots either don't have a significant enough impact to shake the overall situation, or they are too idealistic, making it difficult to create those specific complex situations with AI in actual games—because AI's moves often aim for the optimal global solution, unlike human players who sometimes choose variations with a slightly lower win rate but a more complex situation for strategic purposes.

These two stringent requirements combined have drastically reduced the number of truly usable blind spots that pose a substantial threat to top-tier AI, making them exponentially more difficult to find!
To be honest, although their star performer Rui Zhao's public response was powerful and sharp, which greatly boosted morale and won widespread public support,

However, at present, although the actual work in all aspects is proceeding in an orderly manner, it is hard to say that there is any substantial good news.

Not only has Li Jingzhe not reported any good news yet, Ai Jianan is also making little progress.

She recalled the video conference she had with the Deepbrain team that afternoon to finalize the competition details. At the start of the meeting, some basic points were quickly established:

The match adopted a best-of-five format, with a time limit of two hours plus three one-minute overtime periods – exactly the same as the classic man-machine battle between OMEGA GO and Choi Sung-seok 9-dan twelve years ago, and the two sides had no major disagreements on this.

Following this, Ai Jianan put forward a crucial technical restriction requirement: the computers used by Deepbrain in the competition must be strictly disconnected from the internet, and their computing power resources must be controlled at a level roughly equivalent to the system used when they faced Choi Sung-seok (approximately four RTX 4090s) – allowing Deepbrain to infinitely pile up computing power resources would obviously be too unfair to Rui Zhao's side.

After a brief internal discussion, the Deepbrain delegation agreed without much hesitation. Mr. Ai was not surprised at all.

Deepbrain naturally understood that simply relying on piling up computing power far exceeding that of the past to fight against Rui Zhao, even if they won, might not be a good thing for the company's image.

This subtly reveals that AI software is slower than humans at improving its chess skills and can only compensate by increasing hardware computing power—which is clearly not what DeepBrain wants to see.

However, the subsequent negotiations stalled, and a heated debate broke out between the two sides.

Ai Jianan put forward two important demands: he hoped that this human-machine competition could be like the human-machine war twelve years ago, with all five games played regardless of the outcome, and that the Chinese rules would continue to be used.

The intention behind these two demands is actually very clear: in her view, the possibility of Rui Zhao winning three games in a best-of-five series and defeating Deepbrain's AI head-on is extremely slim.

However, as long as you can win a game, or even just have a clear advantage at one point in the game, it is enough to prove that AI is not invincible, and it will give your side a huge space for manipulating public opinion!
Therefore, ensuring that all five games are completed is naturally more advantageous for one's side.

The reason for adopting the Chinese rules is that, under these rules, the player with the white pieces has a certain initial winning percentage advantage. This is undoubtedly an advantageous factor for the player who only wants to win one game.

But Deepbrain is clearly not stupid; both of these demands were met with strong opposition!
The opposing side insisted that "the match would end as soon as one side wins three games, and no further games would be played."

Although the opposing side's reason was that "the outcome is already decided and continuing the game is meaningless," their intention to defeat Rui Zhao as soon as possible and end their passive position in public opinion was obvious.

At the same time, Deepbrain insisted on adopting the "AI competition rules"—that is, the Chinese rules that added the "half a piece after white takes the game" clause to ensure that both sides are as fair as possible in terms of rules, and the purpose is naturally to not give Rui Zhao any chance to win against AI!
This may seem like a minor difference, but Ai Jian'an, who has a deep understanding of Go AI, knows that once an AI falls behind in winning percentage, its moves tend to be more aggressive, making it easier to expose weaknesses, which could potentially lead to its defeat. Therefore, this clearly demonstrates DeepBrain's cautious approach.

The two sides are locked in a fierce battle on these two points, neither willing to back down, but the disagreements don't stop there!
The two sides were locked in a heated argument over the match time.

Ai Jianan naturally hoped to postpone the competition date as much as possible to buy more valuable time for Li Jingzhe's screening work, so she proposed a relatively late date.

DeepBrain, on the other hand, couldn't wait for the tournament to start in a week!
They even made concessions, agreeing to hold the match in Dongjiang City, China, just to finalize the date and bring the match forward. This clearly demonstrates Deepbrain's determination to end the battle as quickly as possible.

After today's video conference was temporarily adjourned due to significant disagreements, Ai Jianan quickly received news that Deepbrain's core negotiation team had purchased the fastest flight to Dongjiang, China, and was preparing to come in person to finalize all the details!
This decisive and even somewhat aggressive attitude made Ai Jianan feel an immense pressure coming her way.

Her strategy of prolonging the online negotiations to buy time seems to be no longer working.

It seems... Xiao Zhao Miao really hit the opponent's weak spot this time!
The other side is clearly getting anxious!

Ai Jianan secretly praised her own star performer.

Deepbrain's eagerness to finish the match as soon as possible, even going so far as to fly in personally to exert pressure, precisely demonstrates that Rui Zhao's counterattack hit their sore spot. They are eager to save face and quell the storm of public opinion with a victory on the chessboard.

But despite her praise, Ai Jianan knew very well that in the current stalemate in negotiations, it was difficult for her to appear too mild-mannered and stubborn.

Aside from the timing of the competition, the opposing side's insistence on "the match ending after one side wins three games" and "using AI competition rules" are both very reasonable demands!
In competitive sports, it is common for a best-of-five series to end when one side wins the first three sets – the exception was when OMEGA GO won the first three sets and still managed to play the last two sets against Choi Sung-seok.

And it goes without saying that AI match rules with a closer win rate between black and white are adopted: pursuing relatively fair initial match conditions is only natural!

If we stubbornly cling to these two points and try to use them as leverage to buy time, then once the other party releases the details of the communication, it will give the public the impression that we are deliberately setting up obstacles and are cowardly—which will undoubtedly damage the positive image and public opinion advantage that Rui Zhao has worked so hard to build.

Estimate the best possible outcome...

In other words, we're using these two issues as bargaining chips to get the other party to extend the deadline by at least another month!

Such a big undertaking requires a month of preparation; that's a reasonable explanation to the public, and it shouldn't be seen as cowardice...

Thinking of this, Ai Jianan sighed softly as she quickly considered negotiation strategies in her mind, feeling a sense of unease about everything going wrong.

Technological breakthroughs seem a long way off, progress at the negotiating table is slow, and time pressure hangs like a sword of Damocles...

However, it's not all bad news right now; there are also two good things.

Her gaze swept across the desktop laptop, where the social media homepage showed that the number of followers of "Go Xiao Zhao" had increased significantly compared to the previous two days.

Despite the fact that North America clearly mobilized a large number of online trolls to confuse the public after she published her manifesto against DeepBrain, the Athena of the chess world's act of confronting a human technology giant head-on has undoubtedly gained her a lot of fans!
With just a little promotion, Ai Jianan's fan base skyrocketed at an absurd speed, gaining nearly ten million fans across the entire internet in just one day!

Although Ai Jianan felt this wouldn't have any real effect, since it was Rui Zhao's request, gaining more followers was naturally something to be happy about.

And the second thing...

Ai Jianan took out her phone and glanced at the latest battle report from the Yiguo APP.

In the first game of the Sanshuang Cup final, which concluded this afternoon, Liu Shixian, playing white, defeated Lin Ruixin by one and a half points, securing the first win in the best-of-three series! (End of Chapter)