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

Chapter 200 Breaking Defense
"hiss--"

Meanwhile, in the other live broadcast room, Jiang Mobai looked at the situation on the chessboard, took a breath of the cool air from the air conditioner, circled the chessboard once, and then looked at it again.

Then he took another deep breath.

"What's wrong, Jiang Jiuduan?"

Watching Jiang Mobai suddenly stand up from his seat and start circling the chessboard, An Jing, a third-dan player, also felt a little confused.

Why does this guy keep having these seizures? Can he stop sucking in cold air? It's getting too hot if he keeps doing that.

"What the hell? Why do I suddenly feel like I'm going to die? When did this happen?"

Jiang Mobai looked at the chessboard, which had less than fifty moves left, and couldn't help but scratch his head: "AlphaGo has been playing at a high level all game, suppressing Li Junhe in a dominant manner."

Even if Lee Jun-hyuk attacks from below now, it will be very difficult for him to play, but so far I haven't felt that Lee Jun-hyuk has played any bad moves, it's all very normal... This situation is progressing... It's unbelievable.

But looking at the overall picture now, it seems like Li Junhe is in a difficult situation. I don't know when it turned out like this. I didn't feel anything was wrong just now.

All I can say is that AlphaGo is a whole level ahead of us in terms of strategic coordination and understanding of the game. Isn't this a case of overwhelming superiority?

Jiang Mobai couldn't help but shake his head. Apart from this explanation, there was no other way to explain why Li Junhe's situation was already unfavorable in less than fifty moves, even though he hadn't made any mistakes.

It's outrageous, really outrageous!

Even though Jiang Mobai had already played against AlphaGo before, he probably wouldn't have believed it if he had been told about this situation before.

After all, his previous estimate was that Li Junhe could at least hold out until 100 moves, but now the situation is? 40 moves?

This...isn't this right?
“The territory on both sides of Black's pieces is now too large. Even if Li Junhe surrounds one side, he can't accept it.”

Li Junhe attacked from below, and the right side also needed to be considered; he was completely pinned down.

Before this game, Li Junhe probably never imagined he would be controlled so tightly, especially right at the start.

Jiang Mobai did feel a chill run down his spine; the number one player in the control style died because the enemy controlled him tightly from the very beginning of the game...

Suddenly, I had a feeling of dark humor.

"AlphaGo chose to continue pressing. Its thinking was very smooth and clear, and it could even be said that it was teaching us how to play chess."

You could say that, up to this point, he has thoroughly educated us using a method we can completely understand…

As the player, Li Junhe felt far more pressure than Jiang Mobai, who was providing commentary outside. So far, all of AlphaGo's first moves have been firmly controlled.

But if things continue like this, it's simply not going to work; it will be a slow death.

Li Junhe was certain that if he didn't struggle, his opponent wouldn't go all out, and would slowly gain the upper hand until he died a slow death.

But no, it absolutely cannot be like this!
How could Lee Jun-hyuk accept such a slow and inevitable end to the first game?

In that case, what's the point of challenging AlphaGo?

So, facing the continued pressure from AlphaGo, Lee Jun-hyuk forcibly chose to break away and attack from the right side.

Because if AlphaGo continues to try and gain ground on the left side, although it can capture the entire left side, the external influence it creates will be extremely terrifying. If it then pushes the right side down, even if an ordinary professional takes over, they can easily empty the right side with just a few simple moves.

"It's a bit of a stretch to take it off like this."

Seeing that the forty-fourth move directly clicked on Li Junhe on the right, Yi Zheng, sitting in front of the other computer, couldn't help but shake his head. Li Junhe was now reluctantly accepting the task, since theoretically he should still click on the left side, but he simply gave up.

If Coach Ke were to make a decisive move now, the value of that move would far exceed that of an ordinary match.

However, Li Junhe had no other choice. It was just a mistake in the upper right corner, a mistake that most people probably haven't even noticed yet, but now the whole situation is completely ruined.

Although Li Junhe's entry looked very difficult, if he didn't make an entry and let Ke Laocheng go empty-handed, this game would be over immediately.

Old Ke was having such a good time, he was practically eating hotpot and singing songs when he killed Li Junhe.

Damn it, does that mean Old Ke usually holds back when he plays against me?
"The gap is indeed too big..."

Yi Zheng had to admit that Coach Ke was not exaggerating. The world's top players are probably still a long way from Coach Ke.

If the first move by Master Ke was already so terrifying, then what level of terror must the top-tier AI, which Master Ke mentioned and whose AI moves have evolved to the point where even a two-stone handicap is still difficult to defeat, have reached?

Yi Zhengzhen felt he couldn't imagine it; he couldn't possibly comprehend what kind of realm this was until he met it in person.

It has completely transcended the realm of human Go players; it has probably truly entered the realm of the God of Go.
Or is it that even such artificial intelligence still hasn't crossed the line into the realm of the Go god?
"Life is finite, but knowledge is infinite..."

Yi Zheng really felt a bit scared. What level of skill could someone have reached that level?

Humans are so insignificant...

Jiang Mobai, who had just finished playing, couldn't help but shake his head: "Li Junhe's first move was too forced, but there's nothing he can do. Now he's thinking about how to disrupt AlphaGo's pace and prevent him from continuing to play so comfortably."

However, his pace is also problematic now. After invading, he played too heavily. It might be better to jump now. Black doesn't need to connect; he can just hang over from below, which would be more flexible.

In actual combat, it's a bit too rigid. AlphaGo's little fly at the bottom directly controlled his eye position, which was too uncomfortable!
Li Junhe walked out from the middle with a cane, but the eye shape was not very rich. The jump below AlphaGo restricted the white stone that had been invaded earlier from making eyes. Now that it has been discovered, it is also difficult for the white stone below to live.

The two groups of white stones on the right and below seem quite close, but they can't connect. They've entered what we often call a textbook example of a tangled and attacking situation.

Look at AlphaGo's move in the center, it has the flavor of cutting off. The reason why the entanglement attack is so powerful is that every move it makes seems to be attacking two groups of your stones, so its piece efficiency must be the highest.

His move attacks both the right and the bottom, making one piece count as two. How can you fight back against him?

It feels like we're amateurs playing chess against a professional... It's tricky. Even if Lee Jun-hyuk wanted to flip the table, he'd find it's welded shut and impossible to lift.

Jiang Mobai felt uncomfortable just looking at it, and Li Junhe, who was playing chess right now, probably wanted to slap himself.

Li Junhe was indeed like that. Seeing the current situation, he didn't know how things had turned out this way. How could someone so beautiful and fresh suddenly become so unattractive?

Sitting in front of the computer, Lee Jun-hyuk couldn't help but grab his hair, glance at the computer, and then look to the side, appearing somewhat helpless.

Finally, he shook his head again, glanced at the computer screen, and then couldn't help but slap himself in the face twice.

Many of the official staff of the Silla Ki-won were stunned by this scene, because Lee Jun-hyuk was usually taciturn and even had no expression during the game, always wearing a stern face.

It always seems to be an unyielding pillar, neither arrogant in victory nor discouraged in defeat, and unmoved for eternity.

This was the first time anyone had seen Li Junhe, a 9-dan professional, lose his composure like this. Not only was his expression completely agitated, but he also lost his composure during a live broadcast.

The defenses have been breached; they've truly been breached.

(End of this chapter)