At 10 o'clock in the morning on March 1, 2017, the second season of the high-profile man-machine war officially began. Li Xiaoqiang www.biquge.info walked into the game room and shook hands with Dr. Huang.

Although it was a game against a machine, in order to take care of the game habits of human chess players, Dr. Huang replaced "masetr" on the chessboard, just like when Xiao Li played against Alpha Dog.

It's a specially renovated game room, and because the game is so much in the spotlight, the whole room is full of cameras, and the game will be broadcast live to the world. Therefore, in this Shiban chess, everyone can not only see the final chess game, but also see Li Xiaoqiang's expression, movements, and see any details in the game room.

The two said hello, and Dr. Huang first made a joke with Li Xiaoqiang, using his identity as a Go fan: "Being able to face Xiaoqiang face to face in the next game is a dream I have had since I was a child." ”

After joking, Dr. Huang said: "Since it's a game with a machine, then we don't have to guess first, Xiaoqiang, you see, you play black and white in the first game of chess?" ”

The ten-game chess system, the problem of black and white really doesn't matter, Dr. Huang handed over the choice to Li Xiaoqiang, which is a respect for Li Xiaoqiang. Since this is the case, Li Xiaoqiang was not polite, he smiled and said to Dr. Huang:

"Okay, then I'll play black in the first game."

This is a common thing, and few people pay attention to such details. However, in the viewing room next door, the members of Li Xiaoqiang's think tank, that is, Nie Whirlwind, Gu Dali, Ke Jie, Li Shifo, Masaki Takemiya, Park Tianzi and Iyama Yuta, these core members, when they saw Li Xiaoqiang choose black chess without thinking, these people showed a knowing smile.

"It seems that Xiaoqiang is going to use that trick today." Lao Nie whispered to Gu Dali beside him.

There were a lot of people in the viewing room today, a lot. In addition to Lao Nie, there are many chess players and reporters crowded here. Since the game had just started at this time, everyone was focused on the game room, and no one heard Lao Nie's words, and no one even paid attention to them at this time.

However, reporter Zhang Da paid attention, and he also heard Lao Nie's words. Because after sending Li Xiaoqiang into the game room, Li Xiaoqiang's sentence "there is a surprise" has been circling in the mind of reporter Zhang Da.

Reporter Zhang Da walked up: "Elder Nie, what you just said... What trick did Xiaoqiang prepare? ”

Lao Nie sold Guanzi at this time, not only him, but also Gu Dali, Ke Jie and others also sold Guanzi together: "Let's watch the chess first, after watching the opening, we will know whether the moves we prepared can be used." ”

The big screen hanging on the wall showed the scene of the game room next door, and everyone saw that Li Xiaoqiang had already begun to fall. After just watching it for a while, reporter Zhang Da quickly noticed something unusual, not only him, but everyone found that today's start was unusual.

Fast! Today, Li Xiaoqiang's falling speed is too fast.

The game started at 10 a.m., and now it is still a little short of 10:30, and more than 40 moves have been dropped on the board, an average of less than a minute move.

Such a speed of falling is indifferent for the "masetr". In fact, for a machine, 3 hours or 2 hours really doesn't make much difference, and the main reason for setting up such a game time is to take care of human chess players.

"Xiaoqiang, what do you mean?" Many people have such questions in their minds, including reporter Zhang Da.

If it's a game between people and people, Li Xiaoqiang's approach can also be explained by things like "Qi Combination" and "Spelling Momentum", but what he is facing today is a machine... If you "fight for momentum" with the machine, isn't that flattering to the blind?

The only plausible explanation; This is Li Xiaoqiang's preparedness! Not only did he figure out what he was going to do, he even expected "Masetr" to do the same!

But is it possible?

Reporter Zhang Da once again paid attention to the expressions of Lao Nie and the others, and he once again saw the "knowing smiles" on the faces of Lao Nie and the others, as if all this was expected by them.

"It looks like I can really see a big drama today."

When reporter Zhang Da heard Ke Jie say this, reporter Zhang Da couldn't hold back anymore, he leaned in:

"Ke Xiaodevil, what kind of drama did you just say you could see?"

"Seeing the information transfer difficulties of deep convolutional networks."

"Huh? What did you say? How don't I understand? ”

"Hahahaha..." Ke Jie smiled like a child at this moment, in fact, he was a big boy at this time: "Don't talk about you, I don't understand." ”

Reporter Zhang Da had no choice, he had to turn his attention to Gu Dali for help, at this time Gu Dali had already gone to Huaqing University to study, Zhang Da reporter felt that Gu Dali might be more reliable.

"It's a strategy that we came up with in the preparation process, you know, 'masetr' is so good, we know too little about it, it's the only strategy we can think of that can be implemented, I didn't expect it, the boss used it in the first game. Gu Dali said to reporter Zhang Da straight to the point.

"Xiaoqiang was prepared before the game, I know, but how can he play so fast? Could it be that the response of the "masetr" is also what you expected? ”

"You're really right, you must know that machines are different from humans after all, human chess players are full of too much arbitrariness when playing chess, especially in the layout stage, there are too many ways to choose from them, even those who like to adapt to the ever-changing type of chess, you can't guess how he will choose today. But the machine is different, its fall is based on a kind of optimal analysis, it thinks this is the best way to play, then when the next game faces the same situation, it will most likely not change its own play. Especially at today's start, reporter Zhang Da, you see, are you familiar with today's start? ”

Reporter Zhang Da only looked back at the process of this game of chess at this time.

"Ahh It turns out that this is the change... Reporter Zhang Da shouted.

So far, humans have been able to see the 61 games of "masetr", and in these 61 games, many of the moves of "masetr" subvert everyone's common sense and give people a great impact. But if you want to say that the most subversive and the most impactful are the following 3 plates: one is the "Six Sons along the Edge" plate, the other is the "Big Avalanche Novice", and the other is the redefinition of the "Demon Knife Formula".

Compared with these 3 sets, things like "Dao Ce's combination punch" have not brought such a big shock.

And today's game, Li Xiaoqiang and "masetr" practiced a "demon knife style" as soon as they came up, and it is no wonder that reporter Zhang Da was impressed, and he screamed as soon as he saw it.

It must be noted that this Demon Knife variant is different from the "Big Avalanche Novice" from "Masetr". This demon knife variant has been tried by humans for a long time, but everyone judged that this change was a clear advantage for black, and this variation could not even be called a "fixed formula" at all, so it gradually became rare.

However, in the previous test move, "masetr" chose this change, and it won this move. That's the disruption that "masetr" brings.

"What? Do you have a new understanding of this changing judgment? ”

This "demon knife variant" is not complicated, many processes are even "one way", and the focus is on the judgment after this change, so reporter Zhang Da asked like this.

"This question, I think it's better to ask Mr. Takemiya to answer you." Gu Dali smiled and pushed Mr. Masaki Takemiya to the forefront.

"Until now, I also thought that this change was a clear advantage for black, and if it were me, I would never have chosen the "masetr" move. ”

Reporter Zhang Da was not surprised by Mr. Takemiya's answer. This "demon knife variant" is a typical "terrain confrontation."

"In the formula, white has gained great practical benefits, and black has a strong external momentum, so a chess player like Mr. Takemiya, of course, he likes the black chess play.

After first expressing his attitude, Mr. Takemiya further added: "Of course, this is just my personal opinion, after all, it is a "masetr" who chooses to play like this, what are the gains and losses in this? Actually, no one can say clearly. In my personal opinion, if you only look at this part, then I think there is no doubt that black is advantageous, but the complexity of Go lies in the fact that any judgment must take into account the global configuration, and perhaps in the view of "masetr", under today's global configuration, white can play like this. ”

"What about Xiaoqiang? How does Xiaoqiang judge himself... ”

Reporter Zhang Da didn't finish the question, because he found that his question was complete nonsense. If Li Xiaoqiang disagrees with Mr. Takemiya's opinion, or if his judgment is not close to Mr. Takemiya, then how could he choose such an opening in such an important first game?

"When we were conducting collective research, the Boss's judgment was still relatively close to that of Mr. Takemiya... Gu Dali explained to reporter Zhang Da: "... But at that time, the boss also put forward this opinion, he thinks that for this change, judgment is not the most important, since no one can say the gains and losses, then there is no need to entangle in this place, more importantly... ”

"What's more important?"

"What's more important is the use of the momentum! How to make good use of this strong momentum is the focus of our research some time ago. Reporter Zhang Da, let me tell you, how to use this thick momentum is the big move we are preparing today. ”

"Ultimate! What ultimate? Can you elaborate a little bit more? ”

Gu Dali smiled, and at this time he pushed Ke Jie to the front desk again:

"This solution was conceived by Ke Jie, you better listen to him explain it to you."

Reporter Zhang Da set his eyes on Ke Jie.

"The big move is the difficulty of information transmission in deep convolutional networks." Ke Jie said this with a hippie smile again.

Seeing that reporter Zhang Da was about to go crazy, Ke Xiaodevil was a little more serious;

"Reporter Zhang Da, do you know "Jueyi" and "Lilong"? ”

Reporter Zhang Da nodded, these are two "earth dogs" active on the Internet, although they are two names, but some people say that these are actually the same program. The level of this "earth dog" is extremely high, although there is still a certain gap with the "masetr", but it has reached the super-first-class level of human beings, and it has won more and lost less when playing against first-class human chess players.

"We still lost a lot against Maestro, but we still won a lot of it. And we summarize the winning moves of human chess players and find an interesting pattern. ”

"What pattern?"

"In the wins of human chess players, they basically win by slaying dragons, and what is more interesting is that it is not the small dragons that are slaughtered, but some super dragons. Later, a computer-savvy chess player posted on the Internet, thinking that this was probably a problem that artificial intelligence had not yet solved. Local calculations have been accurate, but for the kind of big killing game that swept the whole world, artificial intelligence still has something to calculate. ”

"That's what you said earlier ... Is that mess or something? ”

"That's right! You now know what our ultimate is, right? ”

Linked to the previous "use of thick potential", and then linked to what Ke Jie said about the weakness of artificial intelligence. Reporter Zhang Da no longer understands that it is for so many years in vain.

"Slay the dragon! Are you saying that in the first game today, Xiaoqiang will prepare Chiguoguo's dragon slaying! This... This... ”

"Correct."

"But "masetr" ... ”

"I know that "maestro" is better than "maestro", and the weakness of "maestro" may not exist, but why don't you try it? Not to mention that this is the only concrete method we can come up with. ”

"But..."

When reporter Zhang Da still wanted to speak, his words were interrupted by Ke Jie:

"Okay, needless to say, now it's up to Mr. Li's performance, you see... Ke Jie pointed to the big screen hanging on the wall:

"Look, the thousand-mile chase has begun!"