The day of the competition came quickly, and on the second day, the quarterfinals of the 4th "Chunlan Cup" officially began, and 8 chess players fought against each other, starting a new round of competition in the world chess arena.

Because it is still the quarterfinals, there is no separate game room this time, and the four games are all placed in the newly renovated game hall of a local hotel.

The game started at 10 o'clock in the morning, and before half past 10 o'clock, Team Leader Hua appeared in the competition hall, and Xu Ying Wuduan came with him-----

Although there was no live TV broadcast in the quarterfinals, the local chess fans were very enthusiastic, and the two "gold partners" who talked about chess had to give a presentation in the other hall of the hotel in the afternoon, and the time was from 2 p.m., so they came early to do their homework.

After coming to the competition site, Team Leader Hua first came to Li Xiangping's side----

In the afternoon, he needs to explain two games of chess, so in today's 4 games, the first game of the Korean Da Li vs. the Japanese Lao Zhao Japan-Korea war does not need to be considered, and the remaining 3 games have Chinese chess players to participate, with Li Xiangping's current record, with his current popularity, with his attention and popularity, Hua Leader knows that this game of chess must be taught, so he first slipped here.

Because it was the scene of the game, Team Leader Hua tiptoed closer, he first looked at the position where the two people were sitting, and saw Li Xiangping sitting in the traditional sense of "lower hand", and knew that it was Li Xiangping who guessed the black chess today.

Before looking at the chessboard, Team Leader Hua first swept over the faces of the two players, only to find that their expressions were very different:

Wang Licheng Jiuduan looked relaxed, while Li Xiangping looked sad and embarrassed.

This surprised Team Leader Hua, you must know that it has only been more than half an hour now, what happened on the chessboard in such a short time?

So he hurriedly lowered his head and looked at the chessboard, and at this glance, Team Leader Hua was happy, and instantly understood why the two had such different expressions.

Imitation chess!

So far, about 20 chess moves, Wang Licheng Jiuduan actually played imitation chess with Li Xiangping.

Team Leader Hua watched here for less than two minutes, and then he started to wander around the arena again, and moved on to watch other games.

Indeed, for a professional player like him, there is really nothing to look at imitating chess, and all the highlights are after White begins to change moves------

Team Leader Hua observed the expressions of the two and looked at Li Xiangping's current speed of falling, he estimated that it was still too early for the white chess move, so he was not ready to stay where he was.

Not only that, but in fact, for the professional chess players of Hua Ling's generation, they not only think that imitation chess is not interesting, but also have a very low opinion of this kind of play-----

Of course, this is all influenced by the traditional Japanese idea of Go, in which imitation of Go has always been discouraged, and this style of play is not advisable.

Not only did they not want to see it, but they also heard that there were statistics, which means that the Japanese had counted imitation chess in all professional tournaments, and found that the winning rate of the imitation side was significantly low-----

It is for this reason that this style of play was not welcomed and was not promoted in an era when traditional Japanese Go thought was dominant.

After leaving Li Xiangping's table, Team Leader Hua went to Ma Xiaofei again, Ma Xiao's opponent today is Lao Cao, this is a contest between two veterans from China and South Korea. Team Leader Hua glanced at it and found that this game of chess seemed to be playing more slowly, although Li Xiangping was imitating chess, but he had also played more than 20 moves, and this game has only a dozen moves so far.

Team Leader Hua walked around again, this time he went to Chang Hao's platform, Comrade Xiao Chang's opponent today is Liu Chonghe, Team Leader Hua observed, the process of this station is a little faster, but it doesn't seem to be anything to look forward to.

A very common opening routine, so simple that even K-level players can use the ordinary formula, in a word, this is the most common and common opening style of this era.

After watching Da Li and Lao Zhao's game, Team Leader Hua and Xu Ying finally left the competition hall, because they finally realized that it seemed a bit early to do their homework now.

Since they are all ordinary starts, Li Xiangping's imitation chess game seems to have become the most topical, so after returning to the real live viewing room next door, the two chatted about this topic.

Xu Ying Wuduan was the first to speak: "Hehe, it's interesting today, Wang Licheng actually used imitation chess, Mr. Hua, what do you guess he thinks?" ”

"Hehe, I'm not Wang Jiuduan, how do I know what he thinks," Team Leader Hua said first, and then smiled:

"Speculating from the psychology of the game, I can only say that this is a sign of weakness, or simply say, Wang Jiuduan is afraid of our Xiangping."

Xu Ying smiled: "I'm afraid, of course I know he's afraid, and now, in today's chess world, who is not afraid of our Xiangping, but Mr. Hua, what does this have to do with imitating chess?" ”

"Beware of those new types of novices emerging in Xiangping," Team Leader Hua continued to smile after a pause:

"Xu Ying, you also know, now some people call Xiangping the arsenal of the Go world, a large arsenal, he is full of hidden weapons, you never know when his next flying knife will be issued, and one of the benefits of imitating chess is to prevent this situation to a very large extent."

Xu Ying thinks that this is indeed the truth, using the method of imitating chess, it can indeed prevent some flying knives in the prelude stage to a certain extent, especially some flying knives with specific tesuji properties.

For example, in the 3rd game of the "LG Cup" finals not long ago, the "big avalanche" dog move that came out of Li Xiangping's screen, this is a typical local tesuji type flying knife, so it is completely conceivable that if this kind of flying knife is placed in today's pattern, it will definitely not have any power. It is impossible for Li Xiangping to waste such a great resource in this kind of imitation chess.

Thinking of this, Xu Ying smiled; "Hehe, I guess Xiangping definitely didn't expect the opponent to use this trick today, presumably he must be having a headache now."

"A headache, a headache, it must be a headache, and anyone who encounters someone else using this trick will definitely have a headache for a while."

"Hehehe."

Xu Ying immediately laughed after hearing Team Leader Hua say this, and when she smiled, Team Leader Hua immediately laughed too. However, although the two of them expected Li Xiangping's "headache", at this moment, they did not look worried about Li Xiangping.

The reason is very simple, or because of the concept problem of this era, everyone does not want to see this kind of method, and thinks that this method is not enough.

And the reason why everyone thinks this is actually only one reason: everyone thinks that this kind of method of following behind other people's butts has lost its own ideology, and since it has no ideology, it has actually lost its initiative.

In Go, of course, it goes without saying how important "initiative" is.

It is precisely for this reason that the imitation of chess has been criticized in this era.

The thoughts of everyone in the viewing room are one thing, but in the competition hall, Li Xiangping's own thoughts are of course another.

Li Xiangping has a headache now, and his headache is much more serious than Team Leader Hua expected.

You must know that he is a traverser, so as someone who has seen Go AI, of course he will not have any prejudice against imitation chess------

Needless to say, in real history, there are many dogs who have a lot of headaches about imitating chess.

For example, the real "mastery" in real history, etc., Li Xiangping has personally seen the precedent of human chess players using imitation chess to deal with them, when the imitation reaches a certain stage, they are "annoyed and angry" and admit defeat on the spot.

Is this one of those simple bugs?

Well, Li Xiangping thought it was true at first. Later, when he thought about it, he felt that the problem might not be so simple.

After all, the vast majority of dogs in later generations actually implement a probability-based algorithm.

That is to say, almost all dogs, it falls according to the winning rate, and it thinks that where the winning rate is the highest, it will fall where it is.

A fact: although dogs have different levels, any dog will definitely think that he is right when playing chess------

In other words, every move they made was what they thought was the best chance of winning at that time.

If you take this into account, it probably explains that dogs are prone to crashes when they encounter imitation chess-----

Since the dogs think that they are all right, then once the opponent uses imitation chess, so in the dog's "thinking", it will definitely be, no, it should be said that "too" to think that the opponent is right.

Considering that black chess is to stick to the goal, at this time it doesn't really matter how many eyes to paste, even if black chess only needs to stick one eye, then in the dog's own judgment, it will think that the winning rate of black chess is less than 50%.

For a long time, you think your win rate is below 50%-----

Of course, many chess friends have seen this, and in this case, dogs like to mess around, so it's not surprising that you will have a "sudden death".

"I have a headache, how should I play this chess today......"

In the game room, Li Xiangping fell into deep thought.

After all, today's opponent is not a dog, but a human chess player, so after seeing the opponent's special move today, of course, he has to think about how to deal with it early.

Because Li Xiangping believes that Wang Licheng's ninth section is like this today, it shouldn't be some kind of "inspiration" on the spot, right? He must have figured out that if he guessed white in this game, he would use imitation chess to deal with himself.

"What the hell does the opponent want to do.....

In the more than 40 minutes since the start of the game, Wang Licheng has imitated more than 30 chess moves in the ninth section, and looking at this trend, he doesn't seem to have stopped yet.

Then at this time, Li Xiangping finally really stopped, and he decided to think about his opponent's intentions.

Of course, Li Xiangping has also considered the previous statement of Team Leader Hua now, but at this time, he thinks that the problem is not so simple, and the opponent Wang Licheng Jiuduan will never have only this meaning.

Gradually, looking at the completely symmetrical pattern on the chessboard, Li Xiangping realized that he had guessed the opponent's intentions.