In October 2016, this year's "Weijia" was nearing its end, and a match held at the China Chess Academy attracted particular attention. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Teacher Li is amazing." After losing the game, Ke Jie said sweating profusely.

"Hehe, it looks like I can still play chess." Li Xiaoqiang responded with a smile.

Since the "World Chess Saint" was taken away by Ke Jie, the number of official matches of Li Xiaoqiang has further decreased sharply. It's not that there is no chance to play, in fact, if Li Xiaoqiang wants to play chess, he has a lot of chances. It's just that most of the current tournaments are open tournaments, and Li Xiaoqiang is really reluctant to start from the qualifiers with young people, so he learns from South Korea's Cao Yanzi, and basically doesn't participate in these competitions unless he is a wild card or a special invite.

In this way, there are not many opportunities for Li Xiaoqiang to practice, in addition to online games, the most suitable is the "Weijia" competition. But even in the "Siege Armor" game, Li Xiaoqiang did not have many opportunities to play.

The Ganyuan team has dominated the "Weijia" field for many years, even if it is Chen Xiaoqiang, Zhou Xiaoyang and other disciples have long been poached by other teams, but it is too talented to stand up to Li Xiaoqiang's subordinates. For excellent chess players, the "Wai Jia" arena is a very important training place, so in peacetime, Li Xiaoqiang will not grab the opportunity to play with his disciples. If it weren't for the fact that the opponent was Ke Xiaodevil today, Li Xiaoqiang probably wouldn't be interested in playing.

After the chess was played, everyone began to review, after all, this is not an important game, it is said to be a review, in fact, it is similar to small talk, in addition to Li Xiaoqiang and Ke Jie, there are also bystanders Gu Dali and Chen Xiaoqiang and others involved. And the most talked about is not the game of chess that has just been played, by this time, "everyone war" seems to have nothing to look forward to, and what everyone is most concerned about is still the topic of "man-machine war".

It has been nearly a year since the advent of the alpha dog, and although its core algorithm is still Google's trade secret, the basic principle has long been announced, so at this time, all kinds of big dogs and small dogs, foreign dogs and earth dogs are flooding the network, and professional chess players are also fighting with them for a long time.

"By the way, I didn't finish the game of chess yesterday, what did you end up playing with it?" Gu Dali suddenly asked Ke Jie.

"Won, to say that this earth dog is still very powerful, properly encircled the level of the main general, but it feels worse than the alpha dog. These dogs are all evolutionary, I really don't know what the evolved alpha dog will look like. ”

Hearing Ke Jie say this, all the professional chess players present were silent. Due to the existence of various large and small dogs, everyone is no longer unfamiliar with artificial intelligence, at least not as unfamiliar as Xiao Li was when he fought against Alpha Dog. At present, the level of various foreign dogs and local dogs is uneven, and professional chess players also have wins and losses against them, and what really makes professional chess players feel is not their level, but their growth rate.

Unlike human cultivation, these artificial intelligences are progressing at a speed that is almost visible to the naked eye.

"What has evolved become? I guess it's going to evolve like this. ”

Hearing Gu Dali's joke, everyone present laughed, since Li Xiaoqiang expressed his attitude, everyone often made this kind of joke with him.

"I really want to see what the boss and Alpha Dog II will become... At the end, Gu Dali added another sentence of emotion.

At this time, it is no secret that Li Xiaoqiang will play against Alpha Dog II, at least it is no secret in the Go circle, but everyone does not know the time of the game, because everyone has heard that before the official competition, Google will conduct a round of testing of Alpha Dog II on the Internet.

"By the way, I ran into a guy on the Internet yesterday, and I don't know if it's a new dog released by Google."

"Oh?"

Chen Xiaoqiang's words attracted everyone's attention. During this time, in addition to frequently fighting with dogs of all sizes, we also have a hobby of "finding dogs".

There are so many professional chess players in the whole world, and even fewer have reached the first-class level, and there are even fewer professional chess players who are first-class and like to play chess online. If there is such a chess player online, at least it can't be hidden from the eyes of insiders, and everyone knows each other.

Now Chen Xiaoqiang said that a suspected dog appeared...

"What's the situation?" Ke Jie was the first to ask.

"After playing two sets with him, it feels completely unstoppable."

Chen Xiaoqiang's words have attracted everyone's attention, and the victory or defeat in the online game is secondary, but with Chen Xiaoqiang's level, he can feel "completely unstoppable"...

"What's your name?" Gu Dali immediately asked.

"A guy called the arrogant lone wolf, I'm strange in this place, if it's really Alpha Dog II, it should be an English name, is it a new earth dog...

"Do you have a computer? Pull up the game and take a look... ”

Just when everyone was busy "looking for a dog", Li Xiaoqiang sat motionless next to him, and at the same time he was angry and funny. This "arrogant lone wolf" is actually the vest that Li Xiaoqiang has just registered. In order to prepare for the war, in order to maintain his state, Li Xiaoqiang naturally could not be idle, there were not many chess games in the official game, and Li Xiaoqiang also chose the main training place on the Internet.

But now, he was mistaken by his own disciple for Alpha Dog II...

Time continued to move forward bit by bit, and when the time came to the end of 2016, a master named "Masetr" appeared on the Internet, and the real "Alpha Dog II" finally appeared.

"masetr" translates to Chinese name "master". "The Master" was low-key when it first appeared, but it quickly made waves on the Internet.

10 wins, 15 wins, 20 wins...

Everyone was surprised by the performance of the "master", and everyone was shocked by the strength shown by the "master". Just when everyone was guessing whether the "master" was "Alpha Dog II", Google also came forward to confirm:

"Masetr", which is setting off a winning streak on the Internet, is indeed an improved version of Alpha Dog.

The performance of the "masetr" continues, and the shock of the chess fans continues. No! Not only chess fans, but also all professional chess players, and even the whole society were impressed by the performance of the "masetr".

Ke Jie, the world's first person in the rating, has lost 4 in a row. South Korea's No. 1 master, Park Tianzi, lost 6 in a row. Li Xiaoqiang's disciples went up one after another to challenge, but they were like cannon fodder, let alone defeating "masetr", and many chess games didn't even have a decent chance at all.

“。。。 Such a "master", is it still something that humans can defeat... ”

“。。。 It turns out that what Li Xiaoqiang said some time ago, it was like a joke... ”

Just when this kind of rhetoric was flooding the Internet, Google announced to the outside world that a total of 60 games of chess would be played in this "masetr" test.

"What about Li Xiaoqiangren? Why didn't Li Xiaoqiang go up and play this test chess... ”

"In my estimation, there is no need for the second season of the man-machine war in the future, anyway, Li Xiaoqiang will definitely lose...

Of course, Li Xiaoqiang also has supporters, but even if he is a supporter of Li Xiaoqiang, not many people are optimistic about Li Xiaoqiang, and more people just want to see Li Xiaoqiang and "Masetr" fight.

Li Xiaoqiang looked at all this coldly.

"Masetr's" crazy winning streak continued, and when "Masetr" defeated Nie Whirlwind, it had accumulated a winning streak of more than 40 sets. In the game of "masetr" vs Nie Whirlwind, Lao Nie enjoys different treatment from others, everyone else is a 20-second or 30-second move rapid, while Lao Nie plays a minute-by-minute move.

On the night of Lao Nie's loss to "Masetr", Li Xiaoqiang knocked on the door of Lao Nie's house...

The "masetr" test was finally coming to an end, and when the final game prescribed by Google was underway, the "masetr" VS Gu Dali game was underway, and some old chess fans who watched the game suddenly made a commotion:

"Wicked gentleman! The Evil Gentleman is online! ”

There are many new chess fans who ask, "Who is the evil gentleman?" ”

"Stupid, the evil gentleman is Li Xiaoqiang, this is the account that has accompanied Li Xiaoqiang for many years...

When the match between "Masetr" and Gu Dali drew to a close, on the far other side of the Pacific Ocean:

"OK, this test is close to perfect, I think the next game should be meaningless... Hey, how did the traffic to this website suddenly increase so much? ”

"It is said that because of this account, it is said that this person is Li Xiaoqiang."

"Oh? Since it's Li Xiaoqiang, let's make an exception to add a plate to him. ”

After watching Gu Dali's game, Li Xiaoqiang's computer screen received an invitation to the game:

"Masetr asks you to play a game with no reservation time, 60 seconds of a move, would you like to accept it?"

Li Xiaoqiang smiled, this is Lao Nie's treatment.

Li Xiaoqiang did not hesitate to click "OK".

The 61st game, the evil gentleman VS master, officially began.