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Time is like a rushing river, and half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

In the past six months, Yang Zheng finally resigned from the original company, and worked wholeheartedly with those partners to develop a new chess software.

Fortunately, this time he not only did not get unloaded and killed, but also got the shares he promised before.

The new software, which has been financed twice, has naturally become a new opponent for chess every day.

Two software on the same track have started a new round of money-burning marketing, but Yang Zheng is not very proficient in it, and he has not participated in it.

It's just that he listened to the advertising department chatting with colleagues in the marketing department, and heard that both companies spent hundreds of millions of yuan on marketing.

Hearing such a shocking figure, Yang Zheng was not as "unseen in the world" as before, he knew that this was a necessary expenditure for the company.

But he would occasionally look out the window at the people who were running around every day for life, and his heart was a little depressed.

The two companies also entered the stage of competing for resources after burning advertising fees for two months.

Brother Dachang and the other two partners are very sensitive to the four words of plundering resources.

They know that chess software is naturally essential to retain users, play methods, and user experience, but more importantly, the core live broadcast business of the software must have a "chess master" who can control the factory.

At this time, Yang Zheng's role was finally experienced.

He was asked by the three partners to start his first live stream on the software.

Although he hasn't been seen in public for almost a year, and the Internet is a place where updates are extremely frequent, not many people can remember his past now.

But under the company's high-intensity publicity, he awakened people's dusty memories of Yang Zheng.

For the sake of a gimmick, the opponent he was assigned to the first battle turned out to be a chess robot again.

Since Yang Zheng won the chess robot of that big company, that big company quickly seized the market opportunity with the so-called "generosity" and a new challenge with rich prizes.

Coupled with a large amount of resource inclination, it has also become the first in the industry in just half a year.

At the same time, in the past six months, countless chess masters have launched new challenges to chess robots, and they also fantasize that they can defeat artificial intelligence and become rich overnight.

But without exception, they all lost to the chess bot.

This also allowed the big company to reap traffic and gimmicks, and at the same time, it also high-profile adjusted the initial bonus of 100,000 to 1 million.

And when they heard that Yang Zheng was going to challenge their own chess robot again, they also recalled their fears back then.

Although in the past six months, they have upgraded the artificial intelligence in the chess robot once. But in the face of Yang Zheng, who had shadowed them twice, they inexplicably felt that they were likely to capsize in the gutter again.

They also upgraded the program overnight in an attempt to make it more difficult, perhaps because they hadn't upgraded the program for three months, and this forced upgrade also caused many bugs in their chess robot.

Especially in the first few gears, the difficulty has plummeted.

Soon it was the day of Yang Zheng's live broadcast, although they had confidence in the current artificial intelligence, but the uneasiness in their hearts also made them stay in Yang Zheng's live broadcast room.

When Yang Zheng started broadcasting, they were stunned.

Because the protagonist of today's live broadcast room is not Yang Zheng, but a little girl who looks like she is only in her early teens.

This little girl is not ordinary, she plays chess with a chess robot, and except for the last difficulty, the rest of the difficulties are won in more than three different ways.

Although the little girl did not appear in the live broadcast room, it was released in the form of video recording.

But her eyes, her way of playing chess, and her disabled but resolute appearance silently touched many chess friends.

Of course, the video of her victory also made many chess players question the chess strength of the little girl in the video.

Although there are indeed many young geniuses now, take the young genius in the chess academy some time ago, for example, he defeated a first-class chess player at a young age, although he finally lost to the old chess master, but his potential is obvious to all, and even many media think that this teenager may become the most dazzling new star in China in the future.

But they also don't think that the little girl in the live broadcast room has the same potential as the chess genius.

After all, the young genius of the chess academy has a lot of resources, and the girl who appeared in Yang Zheng's live broadcast room seems to know that her family conditions are not good and she has not received advanced professional training.

In addition, Yang Zheng said that she had only been learning chess for half a year, and everyone felt that this little girl's chess strength did not reach the level they imagined.

But most chess players are kind, they did not condemn directly in the live broadcast room, but euphemistically expressed their doubts in their hearts.

Yang Zheng looked at the euphemistic barrage in the live broadcast room, he smiled, did not explain too much, but asked the audience in the live broadcast room.

He asked them what was most important in chess. Is it computing power? Zili? Chess power? Memory? Or the ability to adapt on the spot?

Most people answer with computing power, and they are not wrong in answering, because artificial intelligence is crushing human chess players with extraordinary computing power.

Looking at the almost one-sided answer in the barrage, Yang Zheng began to analyze the little girl's chess games.

Slowly, with Yang Zheng's analysis and explanation, everyone in the live broadcast room began to fall silent.

First, because they found that the little girl was better than the chess robot not only by computing power, but also by force and on-the-spot adaptability.

The second is that they also realized through these games that playing with masters cannot directly improve their chess strength, but more about thinking after the game.

After going back and forth, the live broadcast room seems to realize that it is actually easier to improve one's existing strength by talking about chess than watching chess.

With Yang Zheng's in-depth explanation, many chess players who are not high in chess also feel that as long as they find the right method, they can also defeat the chess robot.

While Yang Zheng was talking about chess, Pengfei was also silently challenging the newly upgraded chess robot.

In the past six months, Pengfei's chess strength has also improved a lot, and it has stabilized in a super-first-line position. However, in the past six months, Pengfei has also realized the changes in this world.

It seems that with the strong insertion of Tiantian Chess, the vast majority of professional chess players are not pursuing further chess strength as before.

Instead, in pursuit of traffic and exposure, many professional chess players would rather give up small and medium-sized professional competitions and devote more time to live broadcasts.

Just like their own before, they always feel that the "lifespan" of professional chess players is too short, and they want to earn a wealth that others can't spend in a lifetime in these years.

However, time will tell.

In this world, only hard work will never betray a professional chess player like them.