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

Chapter 460: Comparison

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Li Zongrui stared at the opening moves of the black pieces on the chessboard, and the image of Yi Zheng involuntarily surfaced in his mind. The opening moves of the AI ​​Fine Art in this game were simply like a bootleg... to put it nicely, it was imitating Yi Zheng.

As a loyal viewer who followed all five games of the man-machine Go match, Li Zongrui believes he has a certain understanding of FineArt's playing style: it generally leans towards the aggressive style of modern top professional Go players, emphasizing calculation and confrontation. However, this game revealed a different atmosphere from the very first move, clearly closer to the unique style of Yi Zheng.

In fact, Li Zongrui's intuition was correct. The AI ​​research team adjusted the data weights before the match, deliberately increasing the proportion of Yi Zheng's game records in the training samples. The purpose was to test the extent to which the AI ​​could adapt and transform when influenced by a specific playing style.

Of course, the real reason was to see if other game records were, in some way, worthless...

Li Zongrui was unaware of this. After a moment's thought, he chose to hook at the corner, and Jueyi followed suit without hesitation, hooking at the corner as well.

Faced with this situation, Li Zongrui made almost no thought and immediately played a four-space split, a move derived from the Yi Zheng chess manual, which is a common move among professional players today.

As Yi Zheng ascended to the world number one spot, more and more people began to study and research his game records, including many top professional players. Although they could not study all of his games, they often borrowed some of the moves he used in certain parts.

After all, the overall approach and style of top-tier professions have become fixed and are difficult to change, but some good methods in specific areas can still be learned from.

Li Zongrui is different. He has been studying AlphaGo and Yi Zheng's game records like crazy for a long time. Compared with some traditional game theories, he prefers the game records of these two people. He even publicly declared that the game records of Yi Zheng and AlphaGo seem to come from the future.

To some extent, Lee Zongrui's words were not wrong; the moves made by artificial intelligence did indeed come from future chess records.

For this reason, Li Zongrui can be said to be the top player who learns AI techniques the fastest. His rating has also soared, ranking second only to Yi Zheng and Ethan among young professional players. His rating has reached twelfth in the world rankings.

However, when he saw that Jueyi responded with the exact same move, Li Zongrui felt no fluctuation in his heart, but instead felt a surge of fighting spirit.

I've mastered Yi Zheng's moves just as well, so let's see who's more proficient!

Watching the two players go back and forth on the chessboard, Miao Jun couldn't help but scratch his face: "This game feels like two A-Zhengs are playing chess."

It's quite abstract.

"Who said that? Zong Rui clearly doesn't understand it thoroughly enough, or rather, the human thinking time is just too short in this kind of ultra-fast chess, which is why he has already made a mistake."

Yi Zheng looked at the two white stones below Li Zongrui that were now under attack as the artificial intelligence jumped out and couldn't help but say something.

Blitz chess is practically a chaotic, hilarious battle of wits and strategy for humans!
Even in official competitions, many players can experience a cycle of winning percentage dropping from 100 to 0, from 0 to 100, from 100 to 0, and from 0 to 100 multiple times in the final moments, as if they are afraid that something will happen if they bring the trophy home.

However, for artificial intelligence, blitz chess does not have a significant impact because its calculation speed is extremely fast; ten seconds is enough for it to think for ten minutes or even an hour that would take a human.

Of course, artificial intelligence can also make blind spots and errors in short-term calculations. For example, humans have made excellent decisions that artificial intelligence could not see in a short time, and this has happened several times in top professions.

After its emergence, it is usually referred to as a divine move that surpasses artificial intelligence, which also proves that the calculation of artificial intelligence does not cover everything, or at least it is not omnipotent.

On the other side of the chessboard, Li Zongrui's forehead was now slightly beaded with sweat. Although he had anticipated the strength of the artificial intelligence beforehand, he found that the pressure from its opponent far exceeded his expectations after actually playing against it. This all-around suppression reminded him of the helplessness he felt when facing Li Junhe at his peak a few years ago. However, compared to the pressure from Yi Zheng before, it seemed to be less...

Yi Zheng was like a god residing in the sky, high above and untouchable.

Artificial intelligence is like a bottomless abyss lurking in the earth, possessing darkness that can devour everything.

The outcome of the five-game match between the human and the machine is already quite clear, but without the previous games, Lee Zongrui probably wouldn't have been able to make an accurate judgment.

Ultimately, it wasn't important to him, because he couldn't beat any of them...

Yi Zheng easily defeated such an opponent in five games. Just how terrifying has Yi Zheng reached now?
There is no consensus on just how powerful Yi Zheng is right now; all that is known is that he is outrageously strong.

When you're facing him and you can't handle him in a hundred moves, and you'll self-destruct in fifty, you can no longer accurately assess his strength.

All I know is that no one can beat him; he's undoubtedly the top-tier (T0) character of the game. In any case, nobody can beat him.

But at this point, when you realize that even the defeated opponents he trampled underfoot are no match for you, you will understand that the gap between you has become so huge.

This is the method of comparison. The world's number one power needs an invincible number two, but the number two is powerless in the face of the world's number one.

Just like how the fourth hero of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was completely powerless against Yuwen Chengdu, Yuwen Chengdu seemed to be invincible, but Li Yuanba defeated him with just three hammer blows.

This will show you just how big the difference is between the fourth and the first.

"What ruthless tactics! But they were also perfectly timed. If I were to react, they might naturally cut me in two, leaving me to be surrounded and attacked one by one."

However, if the central government retreats, it will suffer heavy losses. The advantage gained from abandoning a pawn will have little room for development and may even be completely compressed.

The power of artificial intelligence has been greatly underestimated. It's not that artificial intelligence is weak, it's that it's easily demonstrated; its strength has already exceeded our understanding..."

Looking at the situation on the chessboard, Li Zongrui couldn't help but shake his head. Although it was only one game, he had already felt the power of artificial intelligence.

Without Yi Zheng, this artificial intelligence would probably be the world's number one.

Thankfully, there's Yizheng...

Thinking of this, Li Zongrui couldn't help but sigh.

A few years ago, when he faced Ethan, he only won one out of five games. Lee Zongrui did not feel discouraged, nor did he think that his opponent was invincible. He believed that he could definitely defeat his opponent and win the Olympic gold medal.

However, Yi Zheng's sudden emergence was truly despair-inducing.

(End of this chapter)