At more than 11 o'clock in the morning, in the on-site viewing room, when the latest chess game was transmitted here, Dean Wang Lunan, who had been paying close attention to the progress of the game, took over the chess game, he first put the actual combat process on the chessboard, squinted his eyes for a while, and then asked Ma Xiaofei, who was sitting next to him:

"Ma Xiao, what do you think of this chess now?"

After listening to Wang Lao's words, reporter Zhang Da surrounded him, reporter Xie and reporter Jia surrounded him, and even "pseudo-chess fans" like reporter Guo pretended to gather around Ma Xiao, wanting to hear what the biggest chess player in the entire viewing room had to say.

Since a game of Go takes a long time, moving for five or six hours, the viewing room is usually deserted during the morning game, and even if someone studies it, the atmosphere will not be very enthusiastic.

However, the situation seems to be slightly different today, except for these reporters who have traveled all the way to Tokyo, they actually have nowhere to go except to watch the game, after all, this is a World Championship fight, or the kind of World Championship fight that starts with a "new type of novice".

So from the perspective of media reporters, the appearance of the "novice new" in the competition is of course worth paying attention to, although now everyone still does not know, how much impact this "newbie new" will have on the game, but it can be regarded as a "big highlight", which is the first big attraction of the game so far. It is precisely for this reason that everyone gathered around Ma Xiaofei to hear what the authoritative experts had to say.

After hearing Wang Lunan's inquiry, Ma Xiaofei didn't answer immediately, he first thought about the chessboard in front of him for a while, just like that, he didn't seem to be enough, and finally took the chess game from Wang Lunan's hand and held it up in detail.

The reporters were accustomed to this, and the reporters waited patiently for Ma Xiao to give his judgment.

Everyone is running the line of Go, so of course most of the reporters here know Ma Xiaofei's characteristic, these years everyone often says "Nie Ma Shuangxiong, Nie Ma Shuangxiong", but Ma Xiao is not as bold and straightforward as Lao Nie.

If Lao Nie is here today, then he definitely doesn't have such a knot, he will definitely give his own judgment at the first time, with his own intuition, as for his judgment is right? Do you want to fix it later? This is not within the scope of Lao Nie's thinking, anyway, he is thick-skinned, and this kind of thing has not only been done once or twice.

Compared with Lao Nie, Ma Xiao is of course another characteristic, talking twists and turns is still a trivial matter, don't let people listen to the clouds, mountains and fog covers, it is already good.

About 5 minutes after Dean Wang's inquiry, Ma Xiaofei finally spoke, he looked up and said to Wang Lunan:

"I think white seems to be okay."

"Oh? Are you sure. ”

Although listening to Ma "white chess is okay", Wang Lunan's expression did not become more relaxed. After all, Wang Lao himself is also an eight-stage master, and before he asks Ma Xiao, of course he has his own judgment. According to Wang Lunan's own judgment, he believes that in the current situation, it should be a slight advantage for black.

In other words, he thinks that in the first leg of today's final between the two sides, it should be Liu Chonghe, who is in charge of black, to score one point first.

The reason why Wang Lunan gave such a judgment in the eighth section was of course not because of his poor level, but because he judged a standard "two-point" formula to be slightly better for black chess in later generations, and there were two main reasons for his judgment.

The first reason is to know that this change was first provoked by Liu Chonghe. How to describe it? This is like the relationship between the "plaintiff" and the "defendant", although in the real legal sense, the status of the two is actually equal, and the plaintiff may not be wrong with the defendant, but in most people's habits, the plaintiff will subconsciously think that the plaintiff is better than the defendant, as if the plaintiff must be more reasonable than the defendant.

And at the beginning of today's game of chess, it seems that Liu Chonghe is the plaintiff, and Li Xiangping has become the defendant.

The second and more important reason is related to the change itself that has occurred today, and it is really easy to give people the illusion that "black chess is advantageous" in today's "Vietnamese Stream".

Even in later generations, it was generally accepted that this was a "two-point" change, and this judgment was also supported by Go AI, but in the professional Go world, there are still many players who prefer to play the black side.

The main reason for this is that after the change is completed, black looks like a huge space. In less than 50 moves, black can take the upper right corner of the board as the center and circle a large empty space of more than 30 meshes from the corner to the edge. What's more, this big empty piece looks very safe, and the black chess shape is very thick, which is commonly known as the "empty long chess and thick" variant.

So now the problem comes, we all know that in Go, there are usually only two criteria for judging the quality of the situation, one is how much is more empty than the real space, and the other is to look at the thickness of the chess.

For no other reason, there's only one key word: potential.

Before explaining this problem, it must be mentioned that although this change is a "thick and empty chess" of black chess, it is not a typical "terrain confrontation" pattern, but a situation of "dividing the river and ruling the river".

Centered in the upper right corner of the board, black controls a large chunk of territory, while white centers on the "two stars" at the bottom of the board, preparing to use this area as its sphere of influence.

It is precisely because today's situation is this pattern, and only this pattern is on the chessboard, that there is such a thing as "potential".

"Yes, I don't think the situation with white is bad at the moment." After playing chess again, Ma Xiaofei expressed his opinion to everyone:

"Don't look at the black chess now thick and empty and many, but everyone pay attention, black chess is actually limited to this even, commonly known as "one side", and in other places on the chessboard, black chess does not seem to have any development potential, but white chess, don't look at the white chess everywhere in vain, sure empty and not much, chess is still relatively thin, but the development potential is still very large, everyone pay attention, white chess is now the first move, if white chess now play this, or play this"

Ma Xiaofei placed several reference drawings on the chessboard in a row, and he finally concluded:

"So far, I think white should be okay, it's certainly not an advantage, but if it's lagging behind, then I don't think it's either. The key to today's game of chess, I think the main thing is to see how white manages its own potential, if it manages well and gives full play to its potential, then the white chess situation will definitely be good, but if the management is not good, or the opponent inhibits the potential play, then there will be real pressure on the air. In short, up to now, I think the situation is still two points, not only two points, this chess is actually early, now the key is to look at the afternoon, to see if Xiangping can manage its potential. ”

"Oh? Ma Xiao, do you think this chess is not bad? That's good, that's good."

Although Dean Wang Lunan even said a few "that's good", the worried look on his face did not diminish at all. Let's not mention that Dean Wang's original inherent judgment is still there, and when the level reaches the level of Wang Lunan, it is impossible to easily change his inherent judgment just because of someone else's words, even if this person is Ma Xiaofei.

In addition to this reason, in fact, just the term "business potential" makes it impossible for Dean Wang not to worry about Li Xiangping.

Because of his level, of course he knows the so-called "business potential", which is definitely a difficult technique in Go, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is one of the most difficult techniques in Go.

And the reason why this technique is difficult is mainly because this thing is too virtual and abstract, not as specific as the life and death or the official in Go, and if you want to master this technique, you must have a deep understanding of Go.

In addition to the understanding of chess, if you want to master this technique, you also need a good sense of proportion, because the so-called "business potential" is, to put it bluntly, a question of how to "turn the virtual into reality", that is, how to turn the potential of the virtual flower into a real reality.

So in the midst of this, where should we "turn the virtual into reality"? When does it "turn fiction into reality"? In what way to "turn fiction into reality"? These are very important considerations of a person's Go skills.

These things not only consider a person's Go level, but there are no certain rules, and in many cases, you have to adjust your own response according to your opponent's play at any time, so this is definitely one of the most difficult techniques in Go.

For example, this "Golden Prince Must Defeat Variant", the dignified Korean "Prince" of Go, known as Lao Cao's second Xiaojin, why will he lose when he encounters this change? Li Xiangping personally believes that of course his level in this area is still lacking, not only is he not good at managing his own potential, but he is actually not good at destroying the potential of others, which leads to his defeat in black and black.

In fact, it may be precisely because of this reason that this young and famous chess player has achieved so much in his life, he was taught to be a man by Gu Dali when he was young, and when he finally survived the peak of Gu Dali, he was suppressed by the younger Xiao Pu in China, and the poor "prince" has been a prince for so many years, and he has not waited for the opportunity to officially ascend the throne.

Soon after Ma Xiaofei finished analyzing the situation on the chessboard, the noon sealing time came, and there were less than 50 hands in the morning, which was about to complete this "golden prince must defeat variety". And the key to the victory or defeat of this game of chess, Ma Xiaofei also made it very clear: it mainly depends on how white manages his own potential.

During the lunch break, compared with Dean Wang Lunan's worries, Li Xiangping himself was very satisfied with today's situation and expressed optimism about the prospects of today's finals.

And Li Xiangping's optimism, of course, comes from his trust in his own plug-in, because he knows very well in his heart that this pattern of "business potential" is precisely Lao Shi's strength.

Due to the existence of 'seats' in medieval chess, this leads to most medieval chess players "emphasizing the potential more than the ground", and to be honest, if you want to manage the potential on the chessboard, then this type of chess player is definitely stronger than those who "fish first and then wash the type".

In fact, the progress of today's game of chess did not surprise Li Xiangping, just after 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when Lao Shi fell the 74th move of the whole world.

As soon as Lao Shi's chess move came out, Li Xiangping saw the dawn of victory, and he already felt that victory was in sight at this time.

And Lao Shi's chess move was also praised by the viewing room.

"Haha, good chess! It's really a good move, as soon as Xiangping's chess hand comes out, black should suddenly feel difficult to breathe. ”

Ma Xiaofei Jiudan in the viewing room, he commented on this move.