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

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Move 59, Black, move the knight!

After taking this step, Teruto Kuroki subconsciously rubbed his eyes.

Sweat-drenched eyes made his vision a little blurry, but it was only his field of vision that was blurred, not his perception.

Because there was only one extra black piece on the board, the entire board seemed completely different from the previous second.

"What happened?"

"What happened?!"

Unlike Kuroki Teruto, who pondered the question in his mind, the people in the research lab shouted it out directly.

Jiang Mobai had lost count of how many times he had jumped up in the past few days. It seemed that Yi Zheng had no intention of letting him sit down in peace, and there was something surprising about him every day.

The expressions of the others were also unpredictable. Changing the chessboard's layout with just one move is extremely rare in the entire Go world, but it has been happening repeatedly in the past few days, to the point that everyone has become somewhat numb to it.

"Wasn't Kuroki Teruto attacking Yi Zheng just now? How come he's suddenly the one being attacked?"

"What the hell!"

"With just this one move, the weaknesses of Kuroki Teruto's two previous two-space jumps were instantly exposed! He should have retreated to defend! Because even if the white group on the right side didn't jump outwards, it wouldn't be a problem for them to live!"

"Stop being hindsight. We all thought we should continue attacking. How could you expect Kuroki Teruto to suddenly switch from an offensive to a defensive strategy during the game?"

The group argued back and forth, but no one thought that Kuroki Teruto had a major problem. After all, no one present could have done better than him.

Human chess players' thinking is coherent. Simply put, your planning has an overall strategy, with each step laying the groundwork for the next, and your future plans will inevitably be influenced by your previous thinking.

Artificial intelligence is far superior to humans in this respect because they do not have habitual thinking. Many artificial intelligences in later generations, such as DS, can help people break habitual thinking in many ways. Because if you ask them to change their speed, they will change immediately and will not be affected by their previous thinking.

The same applies to Go AI. One move it might be killing a large group of stones, but the next second it might completely ignore the large group and go elsewhere to defend.

But humans can't do that, because your mind is born from countless experiences, memories, and choices. How could you be completely unaffected by your original thought process? Otherwise, you wouldn't be a human, but a cyber machine without any emotions.

Kuroki Teruto was stunned by Yi Zheng's move before he realized what was happening. Otherwise, in a game against someone else, no matter who won or lost, no one would have thought that there was such a way to play.

However, all Kuroki Teruto could feel were large beads of sweat rolling down his forehead, even blurring his vision a little, but this did not stop his brain from working at lightning speed.

Kuroki Teruto's mind raced, his reason telling him that he couldn't block it now, otherwise the two white stones below would be cut off.

However, the more Kuroki Teruto thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. According to normal logic, the situation should be fine, but his intuition told him that he seemed to have embarked on a dead end.

"It really feels like playing against another AlphaGo!"

A terrifying thought crept into Kuroki Teruto's mind: he was now facing Yi Zheng with the same feeling he had when he faced AlphaGo back then, and this feeling was getting deeper and deeper in each of the three matches.

Starting from the quarterfinals of this Asian Cup, Yi Zheng's every game has been constantly changing, evolving in a more and more cunning direction!
Yi Zheng's style was originally very similar to AlphaGo, and some people in the industry even called him a mini AlphaGo.

However, in these few games, Yi Zheng's style has deviated more and more from AlphaGo, but what he has shown seems to be more and more like it.

It's a kind of essential similarity... Yi Zheng's style is deviating more and more from AlphaGo on the surface, but his essence is becoming more and more similar, so his strength is getting closer and closer to AlphaGo.

Kuroki Teruto felt like he was about to grab something, but he couldn't quite grasp it.

His years of experience told him that if he could grasp that thing, he could take it a step further and reach a whole new level.

But even though it seems very close, every time I try to grab it, I miss, just like a flower in a mirror or the moon in the water.

"What is that...?"

Even during the match, Kuroki Teruto couldn't help but be stunned, because he knew that this thing seemed to be more important than this match, or even the World Cup championship.

Unfortunately, Kuroki Teruto is not the protagonist, nor does he have any cheat codes or a grandpa. He has no way to break through on the spot, and no matter how hard he tries, he still can't grasp what's in front of him.

Kuroki Teruto can only focus on the match now. Blocking is definitely out of the question, there's no way he can block it in his lifetime. The only way to have a chance is to continue attacking and applying pressure, and have a magical clash.

If Yi Zheng returns to defend now, and Kuroki Teruto goes back to block again, then the formation will be truly complete.

But how could Yi Zheng give Kuroki Teruto that chance? If he was going to attack, he had to see it through to the end!

Move 61, Black, move the knight!

Seeing this, Anjing 3-dan in the live broadcast room couldn't help but swallow hard, because he really felt that Yi Zheng's encirclement was gradually strangling the thick position that Bai Qi thought was impossible to lose.

But if you tell him about the current situation a dozen or twenty steps ago, he will absolutely only say it's impossible, absolutely impossible!
“I don’t understand.”

Anjing felt that her values, which she had developed since elementary school chess, were now being trampled on by Yi Zheng, but she even seemed to be enjoying it a little.

Li Zongrui calmly took a sip of tea: "I couldn't understand it before either, but Yi Zheng said something to me."

A solid, well-established position is one where the stones are alive; this kind of white formation simply has more stones than it actually does.

"That's it..."

Is this human language?
Kuroki Teruto is also in pain now. Originally, it was his attack on Yi Zheng, but as they walked, it turned into Yi Zheng attacking him.

Moreover, after dealing with it for so long, it seems that only the top right corner is truly solid. How many of the ones on the left will survive is still unknown. The Hou Shi, which I had high hopes for, is now even facing the question of whether it can survive at all.

Therefore, Kuroki Teruto is now hoping to form a massive formation and directly take over the upper left and even the middle area, so that he can barely maintain the balance of power between the two sides.

"Sigh, it's still the same old story; the understanding of it is no longer the same."

As Ke Lao watched Kuroki Teruto walk further and further away, he couldn't help but shake his head. What you perceive as a formation is actually just a lone pawn.

The more you do this, the more mistakes you'll make.

In the end, you'll only lose more and more.

(End of this chapter)