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

"Very...admirable?"

Kobayashi Yahiko was stunned for a moment, then seemed to realize something, and immediately lowered his head to continue reading the commentary:
[*Historic ruling: From "gender innateness theory" to scientific evidence*]

[When the South Korean delegation filed a complaint because Chinese chess player Rui Zhao won two gold medals in the men's Go event at the Asian Games, the outside world did not expect the Olympic Council of Asia to respond with such a subversive conclusion. ]

[Based on Rui Zhao's epic 72 consecutive victories over top male chess players in the past year, including five victories over the leaders of China and South Korea and the top two in the world, Liu Shixian and Lei Qi. ]

[The committee rarely cited a statistical model, pointing out that "from a statistical perspective, Rui Zhao's winning streak is extremely difficult to explain as an 'accident'." On the premise of confirming that Rui Zhao's own record is valid, it further determined that "women are likely to have a significant advantage in the field of fast chess", so Rui Zhao and other female chess players were deprived of the qualification to continue to participate in the men's event in the next session. ]

[However, although this ban seems to be a restriction and blow to Rui Zhao, it is actually a great honor that means far more than two gold medals in men's events - including from her latest interview response, she herself thinks so.]

[This conclusion breaks the traditional sports world's inherent perception that "men are never inherently disadvantaged in competitive sports." This event has a greater significance for the world than Go itself.]

[From Wu Qingyuan to Cui Minghao, from Lin Ruixin to Liu Shixian - like many competitive sports, the Go world has always been dominated by male players. 】

【However, the Olympic Council of Asia abandoned empiricism this time and instead used quantitative indicators such as Rui Zhao's amazing winning streak as the core evidence. This scientific spirit reminds people of the reform of the Dongying Chess Institute in 1925 to abolish the monopoly of aristocratic families and implement the rank system. Both of them reshaped the industry ecology through institutional innovation. 】

[What is even more commendable is that the committee withstood the question of "generalization of political correctness" and clearly pointed out that "the arbitration result is based on the fact that Rui Zhao won an amazing winning streak." ]

[Traditional feminism focuses on gender discrimination in the field of social labor, but the Rui Zhao incident has expanded the battlefield to the deep waters of intellectual competition.]

【As a "war without muscle memory", Go should be the purest mental arena, but female players have long faced stereotypes such as "lack of overall perspective" and "lack of endurance in long games."】

[Rui Zhao's winning streak proves that in the field of fast chess, which focuses on error control ability, women may have unique advantages at the neurobiological level.]

【*The revelation of “two dark clouds”: Can the cognitive paradigm reconstructed by “outliers” eliminate cultural prejudice? *】

[Although the Olympic Council of Asia's ruling won praise from progressives, doubts still remain.]

[Opponents cited the fact that male players have monopolized all world championships in the history of Go, and believed that Rui Zhao was just an "outlier" in statistics and was not representative.]

[But looking back at history, similar doubts appeared when Wu Qingyuan swept the Japanese Go world ("Chinese people cannot be proficient in Go"), and also accompanied the rise of Moon Baoxuan and Choi Myung-ho ("South Korean Go lacks cultural depth"). ]

[The progress of civilization often begins with tolerance of "outliers". The "individual case theory" repeatedly emphasized by skeptics just exposes the logical fragility of the traditional theory of gender innateness.]

[When men dominate 99.9% of competitive sports, this phenomenon is attributed to "physiological necessity"; but when a Rui Zhao breaks the rule, he must be questioned as "statistical contingency."]

[Behind this double standard is actually the cognitive inertia of taking the existing order as the truth. Just like Lord Kelvin's overconfidence in classical physics in 1900 - at that time he declared that the edifice of physics had been completed, with only "two dark clouds" (blackbody radiation and ether drift) left to be resolved. ]

[History ultimately proves that it was these two abnormal dark clouds that gave rise to the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, completely reconstructing humanity’s understanding of the universe.]

[Rui Zhao's 72-game winning streak (and still going) is to the Go world what the Michelson-Morley experiment is to classical physics.]

[When the male chess players were unable to end this miraculous winning streak for a long time, the traditional explanation system fell into a dilemma similar to the "Ether Theory": either admit that there are major loopholes in the existing gender talent theory, or belittle her existence as "72 consecutive sixes when God threw the dice." ]

[But the beginning of all paradigm shifts in the history of science begins with the courage to refuse to use chance to eliminate outliers. The ridicule encountered by Japanese physicists when they proposed the meson theory and the thousands of failures experienced by Chinese biologists before discovering artemisinin all confirm the historical law that "subversive truths are often disguised as statistical noise." ]

Conclusion

[On the Go board, the game between black and white has never stopped; and the cognitive revolution about intelligence and gender may have just begun. ]

[The decision of the Olympic Council of Asia is more of a challenge to the limitations of human cognition than a compliment to a chess player.]

[When society dares to use data to break down prejudice and replace assumptions with evidence, Rui Zhao's 72 consecutive wins will no longer be just a number on the chess record, but a milestone in the history of gender equality.]

[Those conservatives who regard her as an "outlier" may not yet realize that this shadow is shrouding the final twilight of the old order; and the new horizon it breeds will eventually illuminate the world with greater wisdom.]

……

"this……

"Politico clearly stands on the side of the Olympic Council of Asia!"

Xiao Lin narrowed his eyes and pondered for a while, then looked at his deputy thoughtfully:
"Did this incident cause a big stir in Europe and America?"

"Who said it wasn't!

"After all, this conclusion is both sensitive and eye-catching." Sato Tadao immediately explained for his chairman:

“The issue of gender equality has always been a focus of debate in Europe and the United States.

“In the past, there have been many slogans in many fields like ‘women are just as talented as men,’ but those slogans were often based on political correctness and had no explosive factual basis.

"Europeans and Americans have long been tired of such sloganeering - supporters have limited enthusiasm, and opponents are too lazy to object, with an attitude of 'whatever you say is right, it's right'. Even though Rui Zhao's previous gold medals in two men's events caused quite a stir, it was just a temporary sensation.

“But this time, the official arbitration conclusion that ‘women are likely to be more talented than men in competitive sports’ is too shocking even for Europeans and Americans!

"Now media and netizens from all over the world are arguing over this matter!

"Liberals have spared no effort in promoting this matter and using it to undermine conservatives.

"The conservatives immediately responded, but they, who have always believed that 'political correctness is just a gimmick and cannot stand up to absolute facts', were a little embarrassed this time - the longest winning streak at least three times that of men and which has not yet ended, is indeed too outrageous from a statistical point of view!

"But the conservatives would never give up! Therefore, the two groups of media and netizens on the Internet have repeatedly argued about the rationality and value of Rui Zhao's results. Celebrities have come out to take sides, and even started to frantically learn about the rules and competition system of Go in order to find evidence in their favor!

"I heard that in just half a day, a group of people already knew about Gao Yang's second stage!"

"……Yeah?!

"No wonder Political Scientist wants to give our Go the title of 'the pinnacle of human intelligence'. It really has other intentions!"

Hearing that a certain "urban legend in the chess world" has become well-known in Europe and the United States, Kobayashi Yahiko couldn't help but smile bitterly:

"I really didn't expect that we have been promoting Go for so long but it hasn't made much progress in Europe and America, but now it has caused such a big stir.

"Although I have always hated the madness of South Koreans, in a sense, this report by South Korea is actually a good thing!"

"In a sense, yes..."

Sato Tadao also looked a bit amused:
“It’s just a pity… Uesaka won’t be able to participate in the men’s competition at the next Asian Games!

"She has been making great progress recently, and we all thought that she might start taking on the responsibility in the next term, but then something like this happened..."

"I can't participate in the men's competition, but I can still participate in the unlimited competition."

"Unlimited?"

Sato Tadao was a little stunned for a moment, and Kobayashi Yahiko raised the official letter in his hand that was just faxed from China yesterday:
"China is a big country! When we lose face, we will never swallow our anger.

"Chairman Shang sent us and Huaxia Taihai an official letter last night, intending to use the reason of 'promoting the overall level of women's Go to be closer to the top' to jointly apply for the change of the two men's Go events in the next Kata Asian Games to unrestricted events. The purpose is self-evident.

“And from what Shang Chaotian said, China also takes this matter very seriously.

"As long as we help to stand by the scene, it will basically be successful."

"what?!"

Hearing this, Sato was stunned for a while, and finally reacted and asked:

“Uh…isn’t this a bit of a slap in the face of the Olympic Council of Asia?
"After all, if we do this, it's just a change of name!"

"will not."

Kobayashi Yahiko smiled and said:

"For those in the Olympic Council of Asia who pushed for such an arbitration result, the arbitration conclusion itself is far more important than the actual impact on the competition system, so they will naturally not go against China to the end.

"I even think that in order to appease China, the Olympic Council of Asia will do its best to meet China's subsequent demands."

Hearing the chairman's words, Sato Tadao was stunned again, and then asked hesitantly:
"You mean, the arbitration result this time...

"Did someone in the Olympic Council of Asia deliberately push this?!" (End of this chapter)