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

Chapter 201 Putting Down Pride [Bonus Chapter for Every 3500 Words]

Wow! Five roads! It feels huge!

Anjing, a 3-dan player, couldn't help but exclaim in surprise as she watched the black stones emerge directly from the fifth line and capture the white stones below.

This is way too big; most people simply can't handle it. It fills the space completely in one go.

Jiang Mobai shook his head and sighed from the side: "This is the benefit gained from the entanglement attack. Now AlphaGo has taken over this. If we just click around, we will find a very cruel fact."

Li Junhe had been constantly trying to profit from the market, repeating the same pattern over and over again, as if he was afraid of not having enough real opportunities. But now, we realize that Li Junhe's efforts are not enough.

AlphaGo's transformation of its thick shape into solid ground significantly outperformed the direct attack on solid ground. It's incredibly powerful.

Honestly, I feel like I'm completely stuck. I... I feel like I have no chance of winning. How am I supposed to play? To be honest, if I were on the field, I would just concede and walk away.

This game was simply unplayable; every subsequent move was torture for Lee Jun-hyuk.

Jiang Mobai was almost on the verge of losing his composure. He had to understand that even now, this was only seventy moves!
Normally, by move 70, the game should just be entering the middle stage. In most games, let alone gaining an advantage at this point, both sides might not even have engaged in any in-depth exchanges if they are slow to react.

But in reality, this game seems to be beyond saving at forty moves.

Moreover, Li Junhe's time limit was almost exhausted, while AlphaGo only used about ten minutes, which was practically equivalent to not using any time at all.

Jiang Mobai felt a sharp pain in his heart just watching this game. How could they possibly play? There was no way to play!

"Damn it, I can't even place a bet! Seriously, I'm seriously considering just placing a bet now. I can't place a bet now."

Jiang Mobai couldn't help but curse and utter the most cowardly words in the harshest tone.

An Jing, a 3-dan player, was also a little surprised to hear this. It was the first time he had ever heard a top player say that he wanted to play against AlphaGo with a handicap.

After all, top Go players are all incredibly proud, each one of them with their noses in the air. A documentary about Go was filmed at that time, and a top Go player said in an interview that even if there really is a God of Go, it would be absolutely impossible for him to give me a two-stone handicap.

Many top Go players believe they have reached the pinnacle of Go, that the way of Go is vast, and that they know at least seventy or eighty percent of it.

But the reality has poured cold water on everyone, and after being doused with cold water, most people are the ones who run away from reality.

Jiang Mobai is now saying he's considering playing a handicap game against AlphaGo? What does that mean? Is AlphaGo really the god of Go?

"Are you really going to let us go first?"

Anjing, a 3-dan player, still finds it hard to believe that these top players can really put aside their pride and admit defeat to another player.

"It's hard to say. Maybe if the situation is right later, we can try playing a slow game for a few days and see what happens. We can make some 'hangs' in the middle and discuss and research things. Otherwise, I can't think of a way to win."

Jiang Mobai was clearly joking. Playing chess like this is practically the same as cheating. If you were to play like this against AlphaGo, you would only be more embarrassed.

This topic seems a bit too heavy right now, and Anjing 3-dan felt that this was not a topic she could discuss, so she decisively returned to the chessboard: "Looking at it now, it seems that Li Junhe can no longer turn the game around. He has no chance at all." "It's difficult. Now Li Junhe can only hope to entangle and attack the four black stones in the middle in the middle game, but in reality, he still has to hope that AlphaGo will make a mistake."

"Because look at his mother, the entire bottom edge is occupied by black stones. How can he play like that? He can just capture all the white stones from the fifth line. That one group of territory alone is more territory than the rest of the board."

Quietly, he needed to take another look and make a judgment: "It does seem to be much larger than the whole picture. The gap does seem quite large now."

"It's not that there is, but right now Li Junhe can only see if he can make use of something, but it's too much of a stretch."

Moreover, he's out of time now, it's the countdown, and his opponent has 47 minutes left. There's really no way to play, I can't play.

You see, right now, on the right side, there's no time to start playing the game.

Once Black deals with the central area, there's nowhere left for Black to play.

See, it's so simple now. AlphaGo just flew up and finished you off.

Everyone, please stop watching. This round is already over. Bai is losing point by point; what can he do to compete with the others?

There's no way to put it into words, AlphaGo's performance is just too high! It's the kind of performance you can't even describe, you know? It's like riding a high-speed train; even if we're on the highway and the accelerator is floored, the person behind us still can't catch up.

Not to mention, we weren't even driving a race car, but a beat-up secondhand Santana.

There's no need to continue. Let's take a break and watch the next round. We can think about what to have for supper tonight.

Seeing Jiang Mobai immediately start swearing, An Jingsan was a little embarrassed. He didn't expect Jiang Mobai to break down so easily, clearly his whole state was off.

One can imagine what Lee Jun-hyuk's state of mind would be like on set.

Seeing that Jiang Mobai had completely lost the will to continue, Anjing could only add, "Then let's have Jiang Jiudan summarize the highlights of this game."

"Actually, it's just the layout stage. AlphaGo's layout, aside from those wild ideas, is far superior to ours in terms of overall combination and arrangement."

Let me put it this way: the gap between us and him in terms of opening moves is like the gap between us and the older generation of chess players in the last century, or even greater!

AlphaGo's understanding of patterns and their combinations is incredibly advanced. Individually, each pattern seems simple, with only minor modifications, but when put together, they flow so smoothly—it's practically a work of art.

Jiang Mobai even felt a little more and more excited as he spoke, and his hand involuntarily started waving: "He always chooses to build a strong position, and then opens up his two flanks and waits for you to come in. Once you come in, you're walking into a trap, because you want to break through on both sides. In the end, AlphaGo breaks through on both sides, then the two sides entangle and attack, and that's the end."

It was a very standard match, and Lee Jun-hyuk died in a textbook way, there was nothing else to play.

"It's over. Li Junhe really should consider other things; otherwise, playing three rounds like this is pointless."

(End of this chapter)