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

Chapter 358 Anti-humanity

"Tsk—Jiang Mobai said he wasn't in good form, but he still managed to hold out against Kuroki until the very last game."

Chu Tianjiao shook his head as he watched the chess game on the TV screen. These two were truly evenly matched; they were always neck and neck.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Yi Zheng, who had defeated his opponent 2-0 in the semifinals to advance to the finals, was also sitting in the research room with the other members of the Chinese team, working on the final game of today's best-of-three semifinal match between Jiang Mobai and Kuroki Teru.

Jiang Mobai's condition was indeed affected. Lies can deceive, but the content of the game cannot. Jiang Mobai was indeed not in good condition, which was visible to the naked eye.

However, Jiang Mobai was a veteran of many battles. After losing the first game, he fought back tenaciously in the second game to reverse the situation against Kuroki Teruto, dragging the match into the decisive third game.

The third game is now in full swing, with both players locked in a fierce and evenly matched battle.

Yun Linglei wasn't surprised by the current scene: "These two have been fighting for so many years, they know each other too well, it won't be easy to defeat each other."

It's a pity that Li Junhe suppressed the peak of both of their early careers; otherwise, they might have become a legendary tale of two unparalleled talents.

Jiang Mobai and Heimu were only about four years younger than Li Junhe. When they first debuted, it was at the peak of Li Junhe's career. They were essentially beaten like children, which made the first half of their careers somewhat lackluster.

Even so, the two still achieved remarkable success during the darkest of times.

Based on their achievements, even hundreds of years from now, their names may still be remembered in the history of Go.

"Judging from the current situation, Jiang Mobai's approach isn't very good. With Hei Mu hitting him like that, it doesn't seem to be working."

The black stones around the center are too thick; it's not easy to enclose the center like this. This is troublesome.

Chu Tianjiao glanced at the chessboard, took out a chess piece and placed it on the board. From his perspective, Jiang Mobai was probably in a rather difficult situation.

His form is indeed not good. For top players, victory or defeat can sometimes be decided in the blink of an eye. Once his form falters, the probability of losing is very high.

Even not getting enough rest the night before can affect the outcome of the game the next day, let alone a problem with overall performance.

"Difficult to handle? Then let's just not do it."

Upon hearing this, Yi Zheng couldn't help but shake his head, his tone carrying a hint of dismissive confidence.

He glanced at the chessboard and didn't feel that Jiang Mobai was at a disadvantage at all. He directly attached a piece to it: "I feel that Jiang Mobai's situation is actually quite good. The subsequent ko fight may be able to kill Heimu. Even if he is a little weak, if a ko is formed, the one next to him will also be a ko, and then he will probably be crushed."

If Jiang Mobai can come up with his own strategy, he should be able to successfully meet him in the finals.

This shouldn't be too difficult, right?
Upon hearing Yi Zheng's words, the people around him couldn't help but be stunned, because what Yi Zheng said was completely outside their comprehension. In their view, the area around the blackwood was extremely thick.

In other words, the surrounding forces are entirely Kuroki's advantage. From a normal person's perspective, it's definitely not advisable to fight Kuroki here. If a fight breaks out, it's very likely to end in a half-baked mess.

Therefore, none of the top players present considered this aspect, since it would be unwise to attack a stronger opponent with a weaker one.

However, Yi Zheng insisted that he could fight Hei Mu here, and in the end, Hei Mu suffered a crushing defeat. Counterintuitive, counterintuitive, counterintuitive!
Although everyone felt that Yi Zheng was very impressive, they still had some doubts about the simple change he mentioned, saying that what he said was too outrageous.

So the group started their discussion there. Yi Zheng was immediately annoyed when he saw the people who were questioning him, and he transformed into Zhuge Liang and started a verbal battle with the group of scholars.

In theoretical research and even debates about different approaches, everyone can argue fiercely and say their own thing, but in Go, winning is winning, losing is losing, and if you die, you die.

After a while, the other members of the Chinese team couldn't help but look at each other in bewilderment.

Because, when everyone was setting up their positions at the beginning, they found that Yi Zheng had completely destroyed them, and the whole game could be declared over immediately.

However, since it was just a trial, the group activated the Time Reversal Technique and tried again, but the result was still not good.

After trying several different approaches, they finally managed to maintain a reasonably acceptable situation, but Yi Zheng still managed to gain a lot of advantages in this area.

"That's a bit outrageous. It's a complete blind spot. Nobody would even think of that."

Yun Linglei couldn't help but shake his head. Let alone in regular competitions, even in private discussions, it would be difficult to think of this as a possible bet.

This is perfectly normal. Even if the computation time were infinite, it would be impossible to use brute force to calculate every single place. This is something that even future artificial intelligence will not be able to do.

The process involves first selecting points that are considered good by everyone, then conducting in-depth calculations on several points, and finally choosing from those points.

After all, normally people would think of attacking the weak with the strong, not attacking the strong with the weak.

Yun Linglei glanced at Yi Zheng sitting opposite him. He was increasingly tempted to pry open Yi Zheng's head and see what was inside. It was too outrageous.

"This is so counterintuitive. Jiang Mobai really didn't manage to produce it."

After glancing at the chessboard on the live stream, Tashi Sangje couldn't help but shake his head. It was actually within their expectations that Jiang Mobai hadn't made a move; if he had, they felt like they would have exploded on the spot.

What have you guys been doing behind the scenes? Evolving in secret without taking us along, huh?

Yi Zheng shook his head as he looked at Jiang Mobai, who had chosen to sacrifice a piece. "If you do this, there's no saving you now. This is really troublesome. I wanted to play a few more games with Senior Brother Jiang."

The outcome is no longer in doubt; it's predictable that his opponent in the final will likely be Teruto Kuroki.

The two have only played one official game in the final of the Agon Cup. However, after the game, Kuroki said that he was affected by some internal preparations, which led to his poor performance in this game.

Essentially, my style is very stable and I'm not afraid of Yi Zheng. I still have the advantage in terms of strength, and I have a high chance of winning next time we meet.

However, Kuroki probably didn't expect that Yi Zheng would quickly win the Chess Saint title and directly face him in the Asian Cup finals.

Yi Zheng's rate of progress is truly astonishing.

(End of this chapter)