The time came to September 2000, and unconsciously, Li Xiangping had been in the capital for nearly half a month.

"It's boring!"

That afternoon, staying in Li Yuanhu's mansion, Li Xiangping pretended to sigh.

In Li Xiangping's previous life, he didn't actually come to the capital at this time, but had been attending middle school in his hometown of Ganyuan Province. I thought that after the re-examination in the hospital this time, I should go back to school, but I didn't expect that it had been more than 10 days since the school started, and my old man didn't have the slightest intention of letting him go back.

Up to now, of course, Li Xiangping also understands the meaning of his old man's stay, because just two days ago, the old man asked himself euphemistically: Would you like to continue to take the road of professional Go, if you want, then simply stay in the capital this year to find a dojo to learn chess, and prepare to hit the next year's fixed stage again.

And Li Yuanhu also told him that due to the excellent performance of "Jueyi", his chess has attracted the attention of Lao Nie, and through the matchmaking of Lao Cai and others, Lao Nie even intends to accept him as an inner disciple------

I must admit that this is a great temptation! Who is Old Nie? One of the "Three Flats in Beijing", this year is as famous as the future "586". If he can become his inner disciple, it not only means that he can mix well in the Go world, but even if he doesn't play chess in the future, it will be of great benefit to engage in other industries.

And everyone in the Go world knows that Lao Nie never accepts non-professional chess players as internal disciples, because he has long said in advance: a person who completes the leap from an amateur chess player to a professional chess player still belongs to the category of basic skills of Go, and this kind of thing is the same as anyone who learns, and his strength lies in the overall situation of Go and his understanding of Go, so if he wants to be a disciple, it is best to be a young chess player who has a professional level of four or five dan or above, and has great potential, so that he can learn from him.

And now, he is willing to make an exception for Li Xiangping, which is of course a good thing that others can't ask for.

However, despite the huge temptation, after Li Xiangping struggled all day, he still told his old man the truth: he is not ready to take the road of professional Go in his life.

Li Xiangping's entanglement is of course very understandable, after all, he has been playing chess since elementary school, although he is not a chess addict like the national youth team "Brother Niu", but he still has feelings for Go. In addition, when he crossed this time, the "plug-in" he brought with him was actually an ancient chess saint, which made Li Xiangping think about it too much: Is it his own crossing, which is destined to let him play Go?

It was these two reasons that made Li Xiangping correct for a whole day.

Compared with the entanglement, the reason for Li Xiangping's refusal is very simple: of course, this is because of the Go AI of later generations.

Having seen the power of Go AI and knowing how terrifying it is, Li Xiangping certainly feels that being a professional chess player is actually not very interesting.

Because in Li Xiangping's view, it is almost impossible for humans to defeat Go AI.

Although at the time of Li Xiangping's crossing, the Go AI did not seem to be perfect, and the third-generation dog "Alpha Yuan", which represents the highest level of Go AI, still lost 19 games to the second-generation dog "Master" in 200 test games, but so what? The "second generation of dogs" can already easily beat humans, and the third generation of dogs ----

Although it has not been formally tested, Li Xiangping believes that it may not be enough for humans to put 2 seeds in front of it, and maybe only 3 seeds are good to win.

Li Xiangping has officially studied Go, of course he knows that chess is difficult, and it is not easy for ordinary people to reach the top level of amateurism like him, let alone reach the top level of the profession.

But the problem now is that even if you have reached a very high level in your life, for example, you have reached the highest level of human beings, and in the end you find that there are rows of foreign dogs waiting for you in front of you, and you still have to put 2 or 3 children in front of these machines.

So such a thing, of course, is boring when you think about it.

Li Xiangping thinks that he is not a fool like Don Quixote, he has no interest in challenging such things as big windmills, and it is for this reason that he is not ready to take the path of professional Go.

But the interesting thing is that although he expressed to his old man that he didn't want to be a professional chess player, he expressed it a little vaguely. And his ambiguity is certainly not because of anything else, mainly because he has no reason.

It is completely possible to imagine Li Xiangping's current situation, without saying that he is a traverser, he is a 13-year-old teenager who rushes to the stage, and he is only one game away from entering the stage in this year's promotion competition, and then he is making trouble on the Internet, defeating several professional masters one after another, so his father is enthusiastic to make all kinds of relationships, help him create various conditions, and prepare for him to continue along this road.

But the boy suddenly told his father that he was not going to take this path, so what reason should the child use?

No matter what reason other people will use, anyway, Li Xiangping himself thinks that this reason is actually very difficult to find. And when he told his old man at the time, he actually didn't find any reason, since there was no reason, of course it could only be vague.

It was precisely because of Li Xiangping's ambiguity at that time that he was bored now.

The reason is very simple, although he himself can't say the reason, but it does not prevent others from being able to make up the reason.

For example, Li Yuanhu, an old man in his family, got inspiration from that bullshit "evasive self-compulsive fainting disorder", he thinks that Li Xiangping still has a shadow on this year's stage failure, at least he hasn't turned a corner until now, so he said that he doesn't want to continue learning chess----

It must be mentioned that this is not Li Xiangping's speculation, but the night before yesterday, Li Xiangping overheard his old man talking to his grandparents, and Li Yuanhu said this to the two old people.

And after he finished saying this, of course Li Xiangping could only be bored for a while, his hometown didn't have to go back, and he didn't have to go to school for the time being, according to the meaning of the elders in the family, he could only stay in the capital and "recuperate" for a period of time.

"Xiangping Xiaoyou, since you are bored, why don't you play chess online?"

"Alas, Brother Ding'an, it's actually not interesting to play chess online every day."

Hearing Lao Shi talking to himself, Li Xiang said in his heart that the main thing is that you are not capable, and you are not the kind of invincible plug-in like others, if you are an invincible plug-in, I definitely don't have to worry about it, I will definitely run happily to be Lao Nie's inner disciple.

It's a pity that you're not, although you have the quality of a "chess saint", but in modern times, you are at most a first-class master for the time being, and I estimate that you have a very small chance of winning against the super-first-class.

Even if the two of us join forces, we may be able to reach the top level of human beings after cultivating for a period of time, and we can win a few human world championships or something, but judging from the current situation, I really don't see the possibility of us challenging the machine, which is why I don't want to take this path.

Although it is said that "it is not interesting to play chess every day", but now it is really boring, after hearing Lao Shi speak, Li Xiangping still turned on the computer.

When he turned on the computer and saw the live broadcast of the game on the website, Li Xiangping remembered that today was the first game of the "LG Cup" final.

"Hehe, Brother Ding'an, let's not play chess today, let's take a look at the final of the World Series, you need to know that these two lost to us some time ago."

"Hehe, okay, then Xiangping Xiaoyou thinks who can win this competition between the two of them?"

Li Xiangping laughed: "What do you need me to think, you need to know that I am from 18 years later, this final is won by a Chinese chess player, the result of the five games is 3 to 1, now I look back on it full of tears, Yu Jiuduan won the championship after 5 years for my Chinese chess players, and it is only the third." ”

"Oh."

This time, the "LG Cup" finals are all in a row, so in the next week or so, Li Xiangping is mainly paying attention to this game.

After watching the first 2 sets, Li Xiangping didn't think there was anything wrong, because the two sides played 1-1, which is the same as in real history.

But in the third game, Li Xiangping was dumbfounded, because in this game of chess, Liu Chonghe won.

And in the 4th game, Li Xiangping was not dumbfounded, he was completely dumbfounded. Because this game of chess is not only won by Liu Chonghe, but he also sacrificed a "Yigai" variant in the game----- Lao Shi used it on him some time ago, but Liu Chonghe seems to have undergone new research, and he made certain corrections.

"This ...... What's going on......"

After watching the game, Li Xiangping was stunned.