Due to the impact of the previous "SARS", this makes the schedule of this "celebrity battle" very tight, 7 days and 5 sets, and the challenger will be decided within a week, only between the 2nd and 3rd rounds, and between the 4th and 5th rounds There are rest days.

To tell the truth, such a dense schedule is a great test of physical strength, although in later generations, due to the influence of Korean Go, such a schedule seems to have become the norm, but don't forget, most of the games in later generations are 2 hours at most 2 and a half hours, but the current game is 3 hours of slow chess per side, so in comparison, of course, this kind of game is much more tiring now, and it is obviously unfavorable to the "old comrades".

"Teacher Cao, I agreed."

Li Xiangping's opponent in the first round encountered an old comrade, who was one of China's "Five Tiger Generals" in the era of the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, commonly known as the "Cao" in "Nie Ma Cao Liu Jiang", and the Shencheng chess player Cao Dayuan Jiudan.

Cao Dayuan is a very early nine-dan chess player in China, if you really want to count it, he should be the fifth nine-dan chess player in New China, and the promotion of nine dan time is only ranked after Chen, Wu, and later Nie and Ma in ancient times.

For Cao Jiuduan, because his achievements are not particularly outstanding, Li Xiangping does not remember what championships he has won, but it is an anecdote of his year that left Li Xiangping deeply impressed.

One year, Cao Jiuduan went to participate in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, and he forgot which session Li Xiangping had, and he didn't remember who his opponent was, in short, it was none other than one of the Japanese Yamashiro Hiroshi, Kobayashi Jue, and Kataoka Satoshi.

Li Xiangping only remembered that the tournament was held in Yangcheng, and in that era, professional chess players were still allowed to smoke in the arena, and Cao Jiuduan also smoked, so before going on the field, he specially asked the staff to prepare a box of cigarettes for him, and specified the brand "Double Happiness".

Well, Cao Jiuduan's request is certainly not excessive, because even in that era, "Double Happiness" was not a high-end cigarette, this brand was very common, and there were several kinds, not only Shencheng has "Double Happiness", Yangcheng also produces a kind of "Nanyang Double Happiness".

However, it was such a coincidence, when the staff went to help Cao Jiuduan buy cigarettes, not only did he not find "Shencheng Double Happiness", but even "Nanyang Double Happiness" had just been sold out.

Seeing that the time for the game was approaching, the staff felt that they could not delay Cao Jiuduan to play chess, after all, this ring match was a major event that attracted the attention of the people of the whole country, so in a hurry, the staff member took a box of "three five" for Cao Jiuduan.

didn't want to wait for Cao Jiuduan to see this box of "three five", his face suddenly changed greatly, and even became restless because of it, and Cao Jiuduan lost that game of chess in the end.

Not because of anything else, but because before Cao Jiuduan came on the field, the Chinese team temporarily fell behind 3-4-----

This is the reason why Cao Jiuduan has to name "Double Happiness", everyone think about it, how good this brand is, not only festive and auspicious, but also to ask for a mouth, indicating that the score will be 4 to 4.

However, this staff member wanted to take out a pack of "three five" at that time.......

Of course, this anecdote can't explain other problems, and Li Xiangping believes that it confirms two things:

First, in that era, the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament was indeed the most influential Go event, everyone saw that even a box of cigarettes could be made into a joke by people at that time, and people of Li Xiangping's age knew it.

Second, as a kind of brain game, most professional chess players are very "superstitious", at least "psychological suggestion", which is common in the professional chess world and will have a great impact on the game.

Of course, when it comes to today's Cao Jiuduan, of course he will no longer have such a big obsession with winning or losing, in the face of Li Xiangping's sentence "conced", the honest Cao Jiuduan smiled gently:

"What did Xiangping say, where am I qualified to accept you, hehe, don't say it's now, even if it's of course the pinnacle of me, then you have to accept it, Xiangping, I've read your serialized articles on "Heaven and Earth" carefully, and suddenly it's clear, some questions that I haven't understood for decades, I feel that after reading your article, I suddenly became enlightened. ”

Li Xiangping smiled modestly, it has now entered October, so his "I want to go down like this" series has been serialized in the magazine for several issues. For Cao Jiuduan to be interested in this series of articles, Li Xiangping is not surprised at all.

After all, back then, Cao Jiuduan was famous in the chess world for his clear chess theory, which is also a particularly "reasonable" chess game, and his own "I want to play like this" series is actually based on revealing the inner chess theory of "dog moves", in this case, Cao Jiuduan will of course be very interested in this kind of article.

It's also a very strange thing to say, before the "Alpha Dog" was born, everyone always thought that even if the machine could surpass humans in the future, the strength of the machine should still be on the specific calculation road, and in the relatively virtual field of "chess theory", then human beings should still have a certain advantage.

However, when the dogs really appeared, everyone found that it was not the case at all, and the gap between man and machine in terms of specific road calculation was not large, but the layout, chess theory, these relatively virtual places in Go, Go AI threw off a few streets of humans, and the gap between man and machine was mainly concentrated in this place------

It must be noted that Li Xiangping's words are really not nonsense, everyone knows that in later generations, the Go national teams of China, Japan and South Korea are equipped with Go AI as a tool, and dogs are used to train and learn, but the national players of the three countries have found that as long as it involves specific calculations, especially if there is such a "pair of kills", then the dog's performance is often unreliable-----

And not only is there a dog that is unreliable, not only the "mastery" used by the Chinese national team is unreliable, the "lira" used by the Koreans is also unreliable, the Chinese "star array" is unreliable, and the dogs used by the Japanese are also unreliable.

The players of the three countries have found that once this situation occurs, the dog often makes mistakes, but the human chess player is more able to find the optimal solution for the whole situation.

Isn't this a bit of an anomaly? Seems hard to understand?

Well, although Li Xiangping is not a computer expert, he thinks this matter is not difficult to understand. Everyone knows that once there is a kill in Go, especially the kind of relatively large kill, it is of course a more extreme situation, the so-called one step king, one step death, the winning rate of one side is more than 99 percent, and the winning rate of the losing side may be only a few tenths of a percent.

That's right, it is precisely because of this violent shaking of the winning rate, which is the main reason for inducing dogs to make mistakes, after all, all dogs, that is an algorithm based on the winning rate, ordinary winning rate fluctuations, of course, are not difficult for dogs, such as from 30% to 70%, which is normal for dogs.

However, the previous step is still more than 50 percent, and the next step is either 99.00 percent or 0.0 percent?

It is precisely because of this extreme choice that dogs often make mistakes.

Undoubtedly, this should be a weakness of dogs.

At least before Li Xiangping's crossing, there was still a weakness in Go AI.

However, such a weakness does not exist for human beings.

And this kind of thing is also very common in Go, and it is by no means a rare thing, if you are intentionally guided, 5 out of 10 games can play "kill".

To put it in his heart, Li Xiangping dared to promise Lao Shi to challenge the dog in the future, which is actually one of the sources of his confidence, or that sentence, as long as the dog still has weaknesses, then humans should still have a chance.

Of course, Li Xiangping knows in his heart that if he really wants to challenge the dog, this alone is certainly not enough, in addition to this extreme probability situation, in terms of other ordinary probabilities, he can't be pulled down by the dog too much.

But fortunately, it is now more than ten years before the birth of the "Alpha Dog"? In Li Xiangping's view, he is now studying the internal chess theory of "dog moves", which is actually studying those ordinary probability problems.

Li Xiangping is ready to spend more than a decade solving this problem-----

Don't seek to surpass the dog, but don't be pulled down by the dog too big a gap, if you can do this, then Li Xiangping thinks that he and Lao Shi work together, then maybe they can have the power to fight with the dog.

Of course, this is a secret buried in Li Xiangping's heart, a secret that he can't share with anyone except Lao Shi, so in the face of Cao Jiuduan's enthusiasm, Li Xiangping can only smile hypocritically, and then say some clichés such as "You're polite" and "I'm free to ask you for advice", and then he will expose this topic.

The focus at the moment, of course, is the ongoing "celebrity war".

After defeating Cao Dayuan in the first round, in the second round, Li Xiangping once again encountered a local chess player ranked 50 miles away, and in this game of chess, Li Xiangping still did not encounter any decent resistance, and he easily advanced to the third round.

In the 3rd round, Li Xiangping finally encountered a hard stubble, and in everyone's opinion, this game of chess is still very interesting.

Not because of anything else, because the name of this opponent is Luo Xihe.

It's the same name as Chang Hao.,And the test IQ is as high as 169 "Luo Shen Pig".

He has quick thinking, quick reactions, and often plays chess like lightning, but unfortunately after Li Xiangping was born, his title as the first rapid chess master of the national team seems to have been snatched away.

The current "celebrity" is Ma Xiaofei, and Luo Xihe's classmate is precisely Ma Xiaofei's disciple.

It's just that in Li Xiangping's opinion, these are not important, the most important thing is that not long ago, classmate Piggy just cut himself, so today he wants to take revenge.

"Haha, it's a little pig, it's a little pig, and Li Xiangping has finally encountered a little test......"

After the results of the match came out, not only Li Xiangping himself, but also many reporters finally got a little excited.