"Dean, it is said that the young chess player is going back today." Zhao Zhe's voice sounded. Fang Ze glanced secretly out of the corner of his eye and found that besides Zhao Zhe, the dean of the chess academy was also behind.
However, because the two of them were really concentrating on the conversation, they didn't notice Fang Ze behind the pillar.
"We can still communicate online in the future," the dean said. "Besides, he has already written down a lot of the essence of ancient Go and given it to us. The rest is up to us to understand. We can't let others put everything in our mouths. Well, we still need people to chew the food on hand for me to feed."
"That's true." Zhao Zhe thought for a while and then said, "Then there is another thing."
"whats the matter?"
"Yesterday I played a game of chess with that young chess player. Although I only lost a few moves in the end, I felt that if this young chess player named Jiang Liu'er was completely familiar with modern Go, his strength would be quite terrifying. It’s even possible to beat AlphaGo II.”
"You mean you want to contact the United States and ask Jiang Liu'er to challenge AlphaGo?"
"Yes." Zhao Zhe said, "It was because I didn't challenge AlphaGo in time that I lost to the even more terrifying AlphaGo II. I'm worried that if we wait until we convince Jiang Liu'er to join the modern chess world, he will become famous. If we challenge him again, Alpha Dog may evolve to the third generation, which will be even more terrifying and invincible.”
"So what?" The old dean said calmly.
"What?" Zhao Zhe didn't understand what the old dean meant.
"I mean, so what if you win." The old dean looked directly at Zhao Zhe and said, "Even if Jiang Liu'er has the ability to defeat the second generation of Alpha Dog, so what."
"At least it can prove that humans can defeat AI in the field of Go, so that the players in the chess academy will have the confidence to continue to make progress."
"The most powerful thing about AI is that they can be copied." The old dean did not look like a stubborn old antique at all. He said to Zhao Zhe, "A genius like Jiang Liu'er may be able to reproduce in a hundred years. Only one AI comes out every one thousand years. But once an AI is created, as long as you have money, you can create as many as you want. This time Jiang Liuer defeated AlphaGo II. Wait until the next time humans appear like Jiang Liuer When such a genius exists, Alpha Dog will most likely have evolved to the tenth, twentieth, or thirtieth generation. By then, it may no longer be something that only large scientific research institutions can possess, but everyone will have one."
"Go may just decline." Zhao Zhe predicted pessimistically, "I just want to maintain the last glory of mankind before it declines."
"People create Go and learn Go not to show how powerful humans are, but to challenge their own limits." The dean said in a calm tone, "Just like when people practice martial arts, they don't want to prove that the body is more powerful than the sword. People don’t practice running to prove that they can run faster than a car.”
"The reason why human beings are great is that they can create tools. The reason why there are Alpha dogs and extraordinary skills is because humans have laid enough foundations for Go before these tools appeared. Maybe one day Go will decline. , maybe one day people will only watch AI play chess, but history will never forget that it was humans who created Go and perfected it."
"I know." Zhao Zhe thought of a lot of things in his mind when the dean was talking, but in the end he didn't say them out. He just ended the topic with an understatement of "I know."
"You are still young." The dean patted Zhao Zhe on the shoulder and said, "The blood in your body is still hot, so naturally you can't think like me. But it doesn't matter. It is because of the blood of young people like you that Go can Only by always making progress can we always maintain hope.”
After the dean finished speaking, he and Zhao Zhe walked towards the hall. The two of them never noticed Fang Ze hiding behind the pillar, and Fang Ze didn't say anything hastily.
Human beings are always full of fear of the unknown, but they are always moving towards unknown prospects.
So things like tangled disorder are not unique to Libras and Sagittarius. Human beings themselves are tangled.
Thinking of this, Fang Ze picked up his phone with relief and began to wonder which fast food he should order for lunch.
When the takeaway boy brought the meal over at noon and Fang Ze took it into the lounge, Fujiwara Sawei and Jiang Liuer were only halfway through a game of chess.
In ancient Go, there was no time limit, which meant that players could think for as long as they wanted. Sometimes they could not play in the middle of a game, so they would go back and rest for a few days before coming back to continue playing.
However, Jiang Liuer and Fujiwara Sawei obviously did not have such time to waste. Both of them wanted to end the game within one day, which led to greater physical exertion of the two.
Jiang Liu'er was a little better, after all, he was older, and he still had the foundation of meditating in the temple when he was a child. So this kind of physical exertion is nothing to him, but Shindo Hikaru has begun to sweat on his forehead.
Fang Ze saw that the two people who were playing chess did not notice him, so he used the glowing hands of the God of Cooking to make the two fast food very delicious, and then handed it to the two people so that they could have a good meal for the time being. take a break.
Physical strength has a great impact on chess players. In addition to the large amount of mental work that puts a heavy load on the body, sitting still for a long time is also very tiring.
Of course, some people may not agree with this statement. After all, it is just meditation. Give me a mobile phone and I can sit there until the day you die of old age.
But when you sit quietly in Go, you can't take anything that can be used for entertainment, and you have to maintain your grace. You can't sleep, you can only sit there.
So in the past, if a person could sit still for a very long time, he could really outlast his opponent and win the game.
In the 19th century, there was a neon old chess player named Yanqi Jian.
At that time, there was a Go club in Neon called Fangyuan Club. It once had a glorious history, but because there were no successors, it gradually declined.
Especially when Yan Qi Jian inherited the position of president at the age of fifty-seven, Fangyuan Club had few young chess players joining it due to reputation issues.
In order to make Fangyuan Club glorious again, Yan Qijian decided to challenge Xiu Rong, a famous chess player at the time.
As a fifty-seven-year-old man, Xiurong can surpass Yan Qi in building eight streets in terms of chess skills.
Yan Qijian himself knew this. He had no intention of defeating Xiu Rong head-on, but chose to rely on meditation to endure Xiu Rong to death.
Yan Qijian, like Jiang Liu'er, grew up in a monastery when he was a child, so he was particularly good at sitting. He could stay motionless for up to ten hours.
So Xiurong played the most unforgettable game of chess in his life!
(End of chapter)