Go Legend

  Chapter 76 Layout Special Training

   After the "Lianzhong" and Hongqiao Wolong negotiated properly, on New Year's Day in 2001, Li Xiangping put his main energy on the "First Online Go League".

Speaking of now, Li Xiangping is actually not worried about not playing chess. After all, this time he represented the Chinese team and entered the quarter-finals of the "Samsung Cup" alone, so at least before he was eliminated in this competition, even if he was only an amateur chess player. , Li Xiangping can also justifiably go to the Chinese Chess Academy for training, without asking anyone, and no one will gossip.

But even if the training conditions have improved, in order to prepare for the war, for the only chance in Li Xiangping's view this time, and to upgrade his "plug-in", Li Xiangping decided to focus on this netizen in the next stage of training. organized league.

  There is no other reason, because at this stage, he really wants Shi Daqisheng to touch the label of an era of Chinese Go.”

  Because Li Xiangping believes that maybe only these two people can improve the layout level of their own plug-ins.

  It is important to mention that it is not surprising that Li Xiangping had such an idea.

   After all, Li Xiangping comes from later generations, he is someone who has seen Go AI.

  Since the advent of Go AI, Li Xiangping has seen too many human players playing against Go AI, and humans often have no chance after fifty or sixty moves. To be honest, the chess games in which the Go AI of later generations "placed victory" against human players left a deep impression on Li Xiangping. This also led Li Xiangping to believe that the biggest gap between human chess players and Go AI may be reflected in the sequence board of a game of chess.

   A professional chess player in later generations once said: The boundaries of Go AI are based on global operations, while the boundaries of humans are only based on local operations.

Some points in the layout of Go AI feel good, because it is based on the results of global judgment. If this is used to measure the level of human players, then the Go AI played by humans is basically "throwing stones" in the eyes of Go AI. Ah, so don't force a comparison between humans and machines, because that might not be fair to humans.

   What would you say? For the above statement, Li Xiangping still basically agrees. Since the advent of Go AI, it can be considered that the development of human Go for thousands of years is actually still at a relatively low level, and the concentrated expression of this "primary" may be in the sequence of a game of Go, in the layout stage of Go. .

   It is for this reason that Li Xiangping now pays unprecedented attention to the sequencer technique in Go.

   And even if it doesn't go so far, Li Xiangping analyzes his current situation and analyzes where his "plug-ins" can be upgraded. He still believes that the most urgent task now is to improve Lao Shi's layout level as soon as possible.

   In the just-concluded two-set "Samsung Cup" game, when Lao Shi faced Lao Cao, he seemed to be able to win easily, but when facing Kato, he fell into a hard fight and needed to rely on a mistake by others to make a lucky reversal.

Why is this so? This is of course not because Kato's level is higher than Lao Cao. In fact, nowadays, in terms of competitive status or comprehensive level, Lao Cao should be said to be one level higher than Kato.

Lao Cao is currently at his peak, and is the second enemy of Chinese Go except Li Canghao, but Mr. Kato has long been absent from the peak. To use the "jargon" in the domestic chess world, he is now playing "Happy Go" stage.

   The reason why this happens is of course because of the chess path problem, or the problem of chess thinking in a specific game. In the match between Lao Shi and Lao Cao, it may be because Lao Cao was too cautious, or it could be said that he chose the wrong strategy during the game. He did not pursue too much in the layout stage, and looked forward to winning the next game with the most stable move. "Amateur chess player".

   And the consequence of this is that he did not gain any advantage in the layout stage, so he was forced to fight the old man, but if he only competed with the ancient chess master in the middle game

However, it is different from Kato's game. Although Mr. Kato is no longer at the peak, he has started to play "Happy Go", but it is precisely because he is playing "Happy Questions" that it makes him more open in the game. He at least Not like Lao Cao who wants to win and is afraid of losing.

  Li Xiangping believes that it is precisely because of Kato's "letting go" that he can have a long-term advantage in the game with Shi Daqisheng.

Therefore, it can be said that through this game of chess, Lao Shi's weakness has been exposed: that is, under the modern rules of Go, a chess player like Lao Shi, even if he is an ancient chess master, but the layout of Go is considered His short board, in the sequence of a game of chess, has a big gap with the modern super-class chess players.

   What makes Li Xiangping feel gratified is that it is not only him who has this idea now, his "plug-in" who has his own ideas seems to be aware of this problem now.

   It's interesting to say that although Lao Shi has always behaved quite modestly, Li Xiangping knows that his plug-in is actually quite character.

Think about it, the old man is a generation of chess masters, so a person like this, no matter how modest and courteous he behaves, he must be a proud and arrogant person in his bones, and this kind of person is in the field that he is good at, or It is in one's own professional field, it is certainly not easy to convince people, this should be regarded as human nature. Not only in the field of Go, but in other fields as well.

   However, the situation is different now, completely different.

  Li Xiangping has been with Lao Shi Zhaoxi for so long. He found that after a game of chess with Mr. Kato, um, Shi Daqi is still as gentle as jade, and he still looks like a modest gentleman in front of Li Xiangping. However, Li Xiangping knew that Lao Shi used to be falsely modest, but now he is really humble.

Li Xiangping is of course happy to see this change in his plug-in. Although he didn't say it clearly, improving Lao Shi's layout level under the modern Go rules as soon as possible is a consensus that Li Xiangping and his plug-in have reached, or they have already tacit understanding formed.

   However, although there is a tacit understanding and a consensus has been formed, what should we do? What can be done to achieve this goal? Li Xiangping didn't have a bottom line. After all, after seeing the power of Go AI, Li Xiangping knows how difficult the layout of Go is, and wants to quickly improve the layout level in a short time. Li Xiangping thinks this is an almost impossible task.

   At the very least, if you just go to the Chinese Chess Academy for training, you shouldn't be able to upgrade your "plug-in".

You must know that according to the current world chess environment, due to the existence of Li Canghao, because he is the number one player in the chess world today, and because of his technical characteristics, this leads to the second half of the game of Go in the world chess world today. Unprecedented attention, professional chess players pay more attention to the second half of the game and despise the first half of the game.

   How serious is this trend? It was so serious that some young chess players even shouted: Now is the so-called "second half of the decisive era", the layout of Go is not important at all, and you can play it casually in the pre-game stage.

  I must tell the truth, when Li Xiangping was still in the dan dan in his previous life, he actually agreed with this view. However, after seeing the power of Go AI, he naturally subverted such a view of Go.

   Now Li Xiangping believes that the sequence of Go is not unimportant, but too important, and its importance may even surpass the mid-to-back skills of Go. A chess player with good mid-to-late game skills may be able to become an excellent "winner", but only with super-strong sequencer skills can he become a true Go "master".

To be honest, it is precisely because of Li Xiangping's current view of Go, he believes that after Li Canghao, there will be no real Go masters for human players, and all those young players in later generations can only be called "" Master of Victory".

For example, Li Xiangping is now going to the chess academy for training, and of course there is no shortage of opponents, not to mention young chess players such as Gu Dali and Kong Erjie, even the "Seven Little Dragons" who are currently on the front line, he is now looking for whoever he wants to play. Who is off, and people are also willing to accompany them.

   It's just that Li Xiangping believes that letting Lao Shi play chess with these people will not help Lao Shi much. Except for letting Lao Shi maintain his sense of chess and maintain his proficiency in chess, he will not have any substantial improvement. Because today's young chess players are only keen on routines and middle and back games, and to put it bluntly, if they are only practicing middle and back games, they still don't know who is helping whom.

  On New Year's Day in 2001, the first "Internet Go League" was launched on Lianzhong.com. In the first round, there was a hedge between two big clubs. The old strong team "Lianzhong Beggar Gang" VS the Internet upstart "Lianzhong Liangshan".

At the chairman's seat, Li Xiangping put on the vest of "beggar gang * boy in white clothes" and quietly waited for the arrival of his opponent. When he saw "Liang Shan * Da Dao Guan Sheng" sitting in front of him, Li Xiangping was happy, He said to his plug-in:

"Brother Ding'an, you have to play well today. You have to know that this opponent today is the "K of Hearts" in my mind in the chess world. This person's chess is very characteristic. Jia, the strength of preface kung fu has always been recognized by the chess world, and at its peak, it was once known as "the top 50 hands are invincible in the world", so if you play against him, it must be helpful to you."

   After a while, well, this time it wasn't because of a business trip.

   Explain: First, last month, Qishulong was in poor health and was hospitalized for a few days.

Second, because the book was opened in a hurry, and the setting of this book, the starting point of the protagonist is a bit too high. If the protagonist adds Lao Shi, it is a bit similar to starting from a first-class chess player. It must be admitted that because of this Setting, which adds a lot of difficulty to the writing of this book, because Uncle Qi is only an amateur chess player, and he cannot be called the top in the amateur chess world. Therefore, Uncle Qi feels a little powerless to write such a practice upgrade.

   So after being discharged from the hospital, Seventh Uncle did not rush to code, but took some time to polish the outline and prepare some writing materials.

   Okay, not much more to explain, in short, how to say, this book also asks for your support.

   (end of this chapter)