Go: I’m 50-50 against the AI

Chapter 2 2. Tears of the times

Ying Jie guessed correctly and Black went first.

Under the current Chinese rules, Zhibai has a slightly greater advantage from the perspective of Ai.

However, there are still many chess players who are accustomed to playing white or black. The winning rate seems to be higher when playing white or black. Of course, the vast majority of chess players have a higher winning rate when playing white.

For example, the famous world champion has talent but no virtue, and his winning rate is higher. He even has the title of less loser to Bai Jie. In a certain year, he almost set an undefeated record for Bai Jie.

That’s why later generations will have jokes about world champions practicing hard to guess the first. Before time travel, there was an interesting story about the former number one player in China and South Korea whoever picked the white will win.

However, from the perspective of humans, an opening advantage as small as a 10% winning rate is basically non-existent and cannot be perceived by humans at all.

Ying Jie took the black chess piece and placed it on the star position on his upper right without thinking. This move showed respect.

Qi Zhenxi almost didn't think about the star position in the lower left corner.

In the first four moves, each side occupied two corners.

In Go, there is a saying that the golden horn is silver-edged and the belly is grass. Simply put, Go is an enclosure game. Enclosing the empty space in the corner consumes the least amount of chess pieces because it has two sides as support, which is the most labor-saving.

Looking at the two star points occupied by the opponent's white chess, Ying Jie didn't think at all.

The fifth move, point three three.

"One o'clock three-three?"

Seeing this step, Qi Zhenxi couldn't help but said: "How did your teacher teach you?"

In the chess theory he knew, when it comes to star position "point three three", the sooner you play, the more you lose.

Go has 19 vertical and horizontal lines and 361 intersections. Nine of them are marked as points, the middle point is called Tianyuan, and the rest are called star positions.

Usually, people who know how to play chess will first place the star in the corner, or the small or high eye next to the star.

Among them, the star position and the high eye are more focused on building momentum, and the control of the corners is not too strong, while the small eye has good control of the corners, and accordingly, the influence on the outside world will be weaker.

The star position itself is to take advantage of the situation, and point 33 is basically to help others develop the situation.

But judging from the chess theory of this era, there is nothing wrong with Qi Zhenxi's idea.

However, Ying Jie's chess is not the Go of this world, nor is it the Go of this era.

Ying Jie, male, 24 years old, no, in this life, he should be said to be 14 years old, a time traveler whose whole world is bad.

In the original world, Ying Jie in 2023 was still a young man who was good at Go. When he was a child, he studied at a Go dojo because his father liked Go. However, Ying Jie did not like playing chess when he was young, especially if he was so strict that he could really play. Ying Jie, who had been in the dojo for less than two years due to his teacher and boring life day after day, returned home without a trace.

Then Ying Jie was like most ordinary children. Although he lost his schoolbag for two years, he quickly picked it up when he was in elementary school and was admitted to college when he was 17 years old.

Ying Jie, who was in college, came into contact with Go again by chance. Go, which was originally boring and painful when he was a child, made Ying Jie addicted to it in college.

Black and white, power and ground, attack the enemy and care for yourself, abandon your son to fight for the first, abandon the small to become the big, abandon when in danger, the incomparable mysterious black and white world makes Ying Jie indulge in it.

This allowed Ying Jie, who was in college, to embark on the road of becoming a teenager again, but the next four times he set a certain level only led to endless failures.

Even if it was once, it was infinitely close to victory.

But losing in the end was the most critical and obviously winnable round, which resulted in the loss of a career path.

This is the black and white world, fair but extremely cruel.

Until one day, Ying Jie accidentally fell asleep while reviewing a game in front of the computer and traveled to the current world.

Looking at my younger self, I originally thought I was reborn, but although the general structure of the world has not changed, the famous figures in the entire world have changed.

For Ying Jie, the biggest change is that in this world, AI that can defeat Go has not yet appeared.

For Go, before the appearance of Go AI and after its appearance, they were two completely different games.

The most obvious point is in the formula.

The so-called fixed formula is a method in which neither party loses during the layout stage.

This is the answer that countless seniors have been trying to figure out over time.

In the eyes of normal people, this is the correct answer. If you don't write it according to the correct answer, you will be wrong.

Because in Go, you come first and I come first, there must be a winning solution that humans cannot perceive at this stage, but it must exist.

As for the fixed formula, in the opening stage, after countless experiments by the seniors, the best solution for the black and white sides was reached by making moves on the corners. It was recognized as a relatively appropriate formula, and finally formed a basic chess shape in which both sides were generally stable and had equal interests.

Of course, the formula is not static. Just like at the beginning, black came first and white came last. Black did not need to follow the purpose. The formula developed at that time would naturally not adapt to the current rules.

The most typical one is RB's show strategy.

And with the development of the times, the previous stereotype that black and white were equal, now seems to be full of loopholes.

Because history is an upward spiral, no matter what it is, it is constantly developing. Today's people are better than the ancients, and the same is true for Go.

Especially in the later AI era, the emergence of AI has subverted the entire Go theory, especially the set patterns.

Because it is impossible for Go players to learn the computing power of a computer in the middle game, but in the layout stage, Go players can summarize it into fixed formulas and turn them into nourishment for their own growth.

Therefore, it is basically impossible to have any ancient chess records, and after learning them, you can defeat all contemporary masters.

Unless you can really find the legendary unity of heaven and earth.

Looking at the young man who didn't answer him, Qi Zhenxi couldn't help but shook his head. It seemed that it was true that he had never been to a gym to receive systematic learning as he said.

Basic chess theory may have incomplete cognition, and the victory may be largely due to the strong computing power in the middle game.

It's called Bo Laotou for short.

Talented, but clearly wasted.

The sixth move is Xiao Fei.

Ying Jie saw Qi Zhenxi's response and silently shook his head in his heart.

I have been playing chess in this world for a month. Although I have long known that chess players in this world cannot make correct responses, I still can't help but sigh.

Old-timers, don’t blame young people for not respecting martial ethics.

I am probably five, six, seven, eighty or ninety steps ahead of this era.

Even the cupping king in his previous life could only shed tears of the times under the torrent, let alone you.

The seventh hand is long.

If I remember correctly the winning rate here, White's winning rate has dropped from 62% to about 50%.

Of course, humans cannot feel this kind of fluctuation.

And the opponent will also die slowly in this insensible fluctuation.