In fact, like many other vague and unanswered questions, "How much can humans be conceded by the chess gods?" It is also a hot topic in the Go world, and it is also an old topic.

The first to answer this question directly, it should be regarded as a national player in our country---- although this brother is a generation of national players, but in the history of the development of Go, he has acted as a background figure most of the time.

Everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty Go has the so-called "three major factions", and Lin Fuqing was the strongest at that time "Jingshi faction" leader, and later because he lost to Guo Bailing, not only achieved the name of the latter generation of "chess sect", in fact, the history of the "three major factions" in the Ming Dynasty was officially ended.

Mr. Lin Fuqing not only acted as such a big background, but he was actually the first to officially answer the question "How much can human beings be conceded by the chess god?" In short, Mr. Lin Fuqing's approximate meaning is to say: If there is really a chess god in this world, let him have 2 sons and he will have the confidence to win, and it is absolutely impossible to let him have 3 sons.

Well, looking at the problem from a modern point of view, Mr. Lin is obviously a little overbearing, and he overestimates his strength.

But then again, whoever thinks that Lin Dadao is a complete rookie is very wrong. Especially the modern derogatories, these people scoffed at the Ming Dynasty Go, believing that the level of Go at that time was extremely low.

How to describe it? Li Xiangping can only say that such a degraded faction is really ignorant and fearless. In his previous life, Li Xiangping once consulted an old national player he knew, and he hadn't mentioned the Qing Dynasty, so he asked how the level of those national players in the Ming Dynasty was before he was 100 years old?

And the old national player happened to be sitting next to the computer at the time, he easily called up a few games of Lin Fuqing's chess games, and then pointed to a few changes in the chess games and said to Li Xiangping:

You look at the chess played by Lin Fuqing in actual combat, whether it is from the conception, the way of calculation, or the accuracy of the chess, the proper professional level, at least the professional level of our era, anyway, when I was in the lower stage of my career, it was difficult to play this level of chess.

By the way, the old national player who said this, who is slightly older than Li Xiangping's old man Li Yuanhu, has also been selected for the national team and participated in the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament.

In addition to Lin Fuqing's positive answer: "How much can human beings be let by the chess god?" For example, in real history, before the advent of Go AI, the magazine "Go World" once did such a special topic, they made a questionnaire and interviewed 100 Chinese and foreign professional chess players or well-known amateur masters, each of whom asked 30 questions, one of which was to ask this.

Li Xiangping has read the questionnaire, although the answers given by the chess players are varied, but in fact, the conclusions are almost the same, more than eighty percent of the chess players' answers, which are actually similar to Mr. Lin Fuqing's statement, that the gap between humans and chess gods is about 2 to 3 pieces.

It is for this reason that Li Xiangping doubts the credibility of this questionnaire.

Not for anything else, just because there are 2 answers to this question that are too famous in modern times, and these two answers are the "I know six out of 100 Go" mentioned by Yukari Umezawa just now, and "The God of Go has given me no chance to win".

These two statements, the former was said by the old Japanese celebrity Fujisawa Hideyuki, an old god stick, and the latter was said by Zhao Zhixun, one of Japan's "six supers".

It is precisely because of such a "pearl and jade in front" that Li Xiangping estimated that when the 100 chess players answered this question, many of them may not be their true thoughts, they just don't want to be different, so they just follow the crowd and say so.

Of course, there are also high-profile chess players among these 100 chess players, such as Lao Nie, before the advent of "Alpha Dog", he made it clear that the "God of Chess" should not let him 2 pieces.

By the way, Li Xiangping vaguely remembered that there seemed to be another chess player who was more high-profile than Lao Nie, that is, the Korean female chess player Park Ji-eun, and in the face of such a question, her answer was "The chess god can probably only let her take the lead"......

Now that Yukari Umezawa has thrown this question to Li Xiangping, it is completely conceivable that he who has seen the power of Go AI is of course impossible for him to be high-profile, and he behaves more low-key than anyone else. Li Xiangping said in his heart that this is fine, which is also in line with his "modest and cautious" image in today's interview.

So Li Xiangping said: "I know six out of 100 Go, this seems to be Mr. Fujisawa Hideyuki's famous saying, right? ”

Yukari Umezawa: "Yes, yes, what does Li Sang think of this sentence?" ”

Li Xiangping: "I don't think that's right. ”

Yukari Umezawa: "Oh? Wrong? ”

Li Xiangping said with a smile: "Yes, in the eyes of many people, these words should reflect Mr. Xiuxing's modest attitude, humble mind, and the awe of a Go master for Go, but in my opinion, Xiuxing's predecessors are not too modest, but too proud." ”

Yukari Umezawa: "Huh?!" ”

"Yes!" Li Xiangping said categorically: "If Go is really a hundred, then Mr. Xiuxing never knows 6% so much, he knows 1% at most, or even less!" ”

Yukari Umezawa: "Huh?!" This one, this one, hehe......"

For a while, the atmosphere of the interview seemed a little awkward, but Li Xiangping was very calm, and at this moment, he recalled the old god who was kind to Chinese Go, and the old gentleman was now in his last years, and he was fighting stubbornly against his third cancer.

However, in real history, when the old gentleman visited China for the last time, he revised his view that "Go knows six out of 100", and he told Chinese reporters that Go is broad and profound, and in his current opinion, where can he understand 6% as much, at most 1% or even less.

It was precisely because of this "past" that Li Xiangping was very calm, and he said to Umezawa with a smile;

"Aunt Umezawa doesn't believe it? If you don't believe me, you can ask the gentleman himself afterwards, and I'm sure the seniors of Xiuxing will agree with me. ”

Umezawa Yukari also smiled: "Hehe, I'll go to Mr. for verification afterwards, okay, let's not talk about the verification in advance, let's talk about Li Sang, then Li Sang thinks, if there really is a chess god, then what kind of chess should you and the chess god be." ”

Li Xiangping shrugged: "I personally have no opinion, because on this issue, I agree with another senior in the Go world. ”

Yukari Umezawa: "Oh, which senior? ”

Li Xiangping: "Mr. Wu, of course Mr. Wu Qingyuan. ”

Yukari Umezawa: "Huh? Has Mr. Wu Qingyuan also expressed his opinion? What did he say? ”

Seeing Mei Ze's confused expression for a year, Li Xiangping was still stunned at first, but he soon woke up and seemed to be going to go, because in real history, Mr. Wu should have said this a few years later, that is, after his "21st Century New Ways of Playing Go" was published.

But at this time, even Li Xiangping had to say it, Li Xiangping sighed in his heart while repeating Mr. Wu's statement, Boss Wu is Boss Wu after all, even if it is this kind of question that has no standard answer at all, his statement seems to be the closest to the truth:

"Mr. Wu said this: If there is really a chess god in this world, then his old man is likely to not be able to hold the first 50 moves in front of the chess god."

"Huh?!"

Umezawa was surprised again, but at this time, Li Xiangping remembered the wreak havoc of Go AI in later generations, just the 'second generation dog', which has already allowed human chess players to only hold up to the first fifty or sixty moves, and Li Xiangping believes that the 'second generation dog' is not a chess god, even if it is a "third-generation dog", there should still be a certain distance from the highest level of Go. Therefore, Mr. Wu's statement is, of course, relatively close to the truth.

"Yes, that's what Mr. Wu said, and I personally agree with Mr. Wu's statement, so I say that I personally have no personal opinion."

"Huh."

Seeing that Mei Ze had the meaning of praising himself for being "modest", Li Xiangping didn't let her continue, he made a joke with Mei Ze at this time;

"Aunt Umezawa doesn't believe it? But it doesn't matter, you're still so young, I'm sure it won't be long before you'll believe it. ”

"Hehe, okay, I also hope that in my lifetime, I can see the day when the chess god is born."

Time passed quickly, and when the two finished chatting about the topic, the time for the interview came, and at 11 o'clock in the morning, the interview ended with Umezawa's words, "I wish you good results in tomorrow's race."

And after the interview, Umezawa also gave Li Xiangping a gift, the gift was nothing else, it was a complete set of "Light Chess" CDs.

After the interview, the next thing was of course the evening draw, although Li Xiangping was exempted from the World Championship, but he was not the seed of this competition, so he still had to participate in the first round.

In fact, among the five Chinese chess players, only Chang Hao had a bye in the first round.

In the evening draw, Li Xiangping's luck was not bad, he drew Taipei chess player Peng Jinghua, compared to Yu Bin VS Ishida Yoshio, Gu Dali VS Liang Zaihao, Kong Erjie VS Kobayashi Jue, Li Xiangping's signing is ideal.

In fact, there is nothing to say about the first round of the game, on the day of the first round of the game, just after 4:30 in the afternoon, Peng Wuduan conceded defeat in the middle of the game, and Lao Shi almost won the opponent bloodlessly.

The key is that in the second round, the eight first-round players and the eight seeded players met, and Li Xiangping was still the first to go up to draw lots.

And after his opponent was determined, the whole audience was in a commotion.

This is what the so-called narrow road of the enemy means, because Li Xiangping's opponent in this round is Li Canghao.