03 Precipitation

If you want to be successful, you have to live every day differently than most people.

These are the words that Xixi's Go teacher said to all her students before the start of school.

This teacher is not highly educated, only the first Chinese, but she has something to praise beyond her academic qualifications.

And that thing is hard work!

She is more diligent than a chess nerd, and she is also the most diligent teacher in the Huajia Chess Club.

Someone once commented on her, saying that she was an "oil seller" in reality.

And this evaluation, in fact, is not an exaggeration at all.

Because only this Go teacher who has just started Chinese, relying only on a few old-fashioned chess games given by his father without a cover and rotten streets, it took a full ten years to become one of the hundreds of professional Go players in China.

Her teaching style is also very simple and rude.

That's practice, practice, practice.

Just like yourself!

But times are changing, and traditional game practice is no match for computer practice.

Even the most famous Go triple crown champion in China has commented on the current professional chess world.

He said that whether it is chess or Go, the fastest way to improve your chess skills is to play against artificial intelligence.

But if you want to play against artificial intelligence, you must have a computer, and even if you don't have a computer, you must have a smartphone with good performance.

Not only does Xixi not have a smartphone, she also doesn't have a computer, and her "oil seller" teacher is also "nothing" like her, they seem to be people with old ideas in the old era, and they are incompatible with this new era.

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Yang Zheng has a computer on his desk, but Yang Zheng doesn't use it often, because he teaches beginners, and chess theory is more important than chess, and now this computer is also used by Xixi.

Xixi is a well-behaved child, even more well-behaved than Dongdong, but being well-behaved also makes her character weaker, every time she uses the computer on Yang Zheng's desk, she will blush slightly, for fear of breaking Yang Zheng's computer.

Wang Fugui. Peng Fei and Lao Ma both like this shy little girl, every time they see her blushing, they will tease her a few words, and when they see her little face even redder, they will secretly smirk.

Yang Zheng looked at the three adults who were too childish, and he had no choice but to ask Xixi to ignore them.

He could see that these three people were all kind, and he could also see that these three people actually had a lot of expectations for the "shy ghost" Xixi in their mouths.

Yang Zheng will also occasionally glance at Xixi when he is using the computer.

As the saying goes, interlacing is like separating mountains, and Yang Zheng only knows a rough idea of Go, not proficient, he looked at the black and white chess pieces, and felt dizzy.

But he can also see that Xixi, a little girl, still has a certain talent.

In just one week, he went from "Go novice" to "amateur eighth dan" on professional software, and he was only one kick away from being able to reach the "first professional dan".

But software is always software, and the above rank can only represent the level of the majority of netizens, not authoritative.

But Yang Zheng also saw the horror of artificial intelligence for the first time from this software.

It was the qualifying match at the beginning of Xi Xi's career, with a total of five games, and Dongdong came to the so-called "key game" with two wins and two losses.

And in this key game, she was not matched with a real person, but with an artificial intelligence at the beginning of her career.

In this specialized software, artificial intelligence will only appear around the beginning of the user's career.

Their computing power level also follows the rank.

And the artificial intelligence at the beginning of the career is only the weakest artificial intelligence, but this weakest is the eye-opening for Xi Xi and Yang Zheng.

This weakest artificial intelligence has taken an unusual path from the beginning, which is undoubtedly good news for Xixi, who has been in contact with Go for a long time.

At the beginning of the game, Xixi occupied all the favorable board terrain, and she was very clever in blocking the back path of the artificial intelligence and not giving him any chance.

But in the middle game, the situation gradually became confusing.

I saw that the white son held by the artificial intelligence used an unexpected algorithm in the middle game, and Xi Xi, who had the advantage in the previous game, was evenly divided, and the white son had the momentum to outperform the black in the number of hands in the next few hands.

Xixi, on the other hand, disagreed, because there is an old saying in chess and Go, which says that you can see the final outcome with how many moves you have in front.

Obviously, there are so many disadvantages in front of artificial intelligence, and it is undoubtedly a fantasy to turn the tables.

But unexpectedly, when it came time to settle, Xixi was one and a half behind the artificial intelligence.

This kind of ending is unacceptable for Xixi, because she doesn't know where she is losing.

This is also the real scary thing about AI, which makes all challengers lose in confusion.

The most famous Go player in China once described artificial intelligence as such, saying that playing chess with artificial intelligence is like playing chess with "gods".

For only God will win without leaving a trace.

Although it was only a short viewing, the power of artificial intelligence also made Yang Zheng have a rare trace of desire in his heart.

When he returned home, he opened the daily chess meeting for a long time and played a game of chess with artificial intelligence.

In that game of chess, he played with a learning attitude.

to study the algorithm of artificial intelligence, but every day chess sees, it is still an entertainment-oriented software, and the difficulty of artificial intelligence and the algorithm are not high.

He couldn't learn anything at all.

He only vaguely felt that artificial intelligence was more willing than human chess players.

The average chess master, or someone who has been in contact with chess for a long time, will understand the value of a big boy like "Che Ma Cannon" and a kid like "pawn".

When playing the game, everyone's habitual thinking is to abandon the kid, and they are unwilling to take the initiative to send the eldest son.

Unless the loss of this big piece can bring a higher value.

But artificial intelligence, as if not too much about the chess strength of the older boy, every move he makes is for the final game as a foreshadowing.

Perhaps, this is the real scary thing about artificial intelligence.

Its long-term nature can never be calculated.

However, most of the existing chess software, with the exception of a few extremely professional ones that are exclusively for professional players, is only a junior AI or endgame master.

He couldn't get a glimpse of the other virtues of artificial intelligence other than visionary.

He also seems to finally understand why professional chess people are so hostile to artificial intelligence these days.

It's just that at this time, Yang Zheng had a few more questions in his heart.

One of the questions is whether playing against artificial intelligence can really improve the chess power of professional chess players.

Long-term is not something that can only be mastered by fighting, and must be accumulated over time.

There is also the precipitation of the years.

What are the advantages of artificial intelligence?

Yang Zheng decided to ask Peng Fei tomorrow.