Soul of Chess: Buy the chessboard from Shi Guangjia at the beginning of the game

Chapter 46 No.40 Where is your way in the sixth game
Nie Xuanfeng took out a chessboard that looked old at first glance, and handed it to Tian Minze, "This is the chessboard of Huang Longshi, the chess master of the Qing Dynasty. I heard that you like ancient chess, so let's use it as an apprenticeship ceremony!"

The moment Tian Min received the chessboard, the system gave a prompt, "Get a chessboard full of valuable experience of a master chess player, absorb energy, and get 80 points."

"Thank you teacher", this time Tian Min said it sincerely, his eyes glowing.

Seeing that Nie Xuanfeng was a little upset, he thought to himself, "You're a bit of a money fanatic."

Tian Min can be regarded as Nie Xuanfeng's first true internal disciple.

The so-called internal disciples come from the Japanese and Korean chess circles, and there are often two conditions. The first is to be a young chess player with an undetermined level, and the second is to live in the teacher's home.

If you are a professional chess player who has already established a certain level, most of them already have their own way of playing. Apprenticeship is just to learn skills, not an inner disciple.

In the past, Nie Xuanfeng had three types of students.

The first is the students of the whirlwind dojo, and then the famous amateur chess players in other industries as nominal disciples, neither of these two types can be regarded as real students.

Finally, there are chess players that Nie Xuanfeng, who is relatively close to him, really taught, but they all became professional chess players before they became apprentices, and they never lived in Nie Xuanfeng's house, so they did not meet the standards of inner disciples.

In this time and space, in the Go world of China, Japan and South Korea, internal disciples are still prevalent, and this kind of master-student inheritance is also in line with the laws of Go.

For example, Lin Li, as a national player with the title of five consecutive champions, in order to accept Hong He as his apprentice in the future, he will first call his family to inspect for a year, and play Go after doing farm work.Finally, before Honghe Dingduan, he formally apprenticed to the teacher and accepted him as an inner disciple.

Not to mention the Korean chess world, Li Shifo and Gao Yongxia were both disciples. The older generation of heavenly king Li Shifo is Cao Yanzi's disciple, and the new generation leader Gao Yongxia is Cui Binggui's disciple.

In the Japanese chess world, there are still a lot of masters under the Kigumon gate, which is still a gold-lettered signboard.In particular, the Japanese chess world, which is somewhat declining now, has once again rebuilt the Kigu Dojo to train young talents.

Tian Min paid homage to his teacher and received gifts from others, so he had no choice but to carry his luggage and live in Nie Xuanfeng's house.

According to the usual practice, as long as the inner disciple becomes a real professional chess player, he will move away, so for Tian Minze, it is more of a symbolic meaning now, and he will only stay for a few weeks at most.

Early the next morning, Nie Xuanfeng asked Tian Minze to get up at 6:30. After breakfast, he went to a nearby sports park for an hour of running to breathe fresh air, which was also a way to wake up his brain.

The two started their first class.

Nie Xuanfeng's study room is very large, with two calligraphy and paintings of famous people hanging on the wall, Tian Minze's artistic skills are average, and he doesn't see anything famous.

Nie Xuanfeng was not in a hurry, and slowly brewed a cup of tea and handed it to Tian Minze, who took a sip, and the fragrance of the tea overflowed, "Teacher's tea is better than the ones I've had in the past!"

"This is a Mingqian Longjing tea given by a friend. When you set up a stage, you can take some to the arena to drink. I heard that you like coffee, so it's better to drink less of that kind of thing," Nie Xuanfeng said casually.

Tian Min didn't know whether to laugh or cry, Nie Xuanfeng knew him well enough, he even knew about coffee.

After a cup of tea, Nie Xuanfeng said solemnly, "Do you know the style of a chess player? Zhao Bingfeng is good at defense, and his ability to rule alone is unparalleled in the world; Yu Xiaoyang is much more comprehensive. He is nicknamed "Demon Sword". The wind is weird and changeable, and it is inadvertently shocking; from the perspective of Japanese and Korean chess players, everyone has their own style."

"So," Nie Xuanfeng asked, "Minze, have you ever thought about what kind of chess player you want to be? Where is your path?"

Tian Min was a little hesitant. He had never thought about this question before, so he asked, "Teacher, what is your path?"

Nie Xuanfeng laughed, "When I was young, the most important thing was the layout, so I think the first 50 moves of Go are the most important. When I was in my heyday, I found that the Japanese players' thinking and the rigor of the set style made me despair, so I strengthened the study of the set style and organized it. Collective research system. When I was middle-aged, Korean chess players rose, and I discovered the importance of computing power.”

Tian Min asked, "So?"

"So," Nie Xuanfeng thought for a moment and replied, "I seem to have gone the wrong way. The formulas and calculations are overbearing. Go is becoming more and more mechanical, and I have lost my freedom. If I choose again, I should still study the feeling of Go. "

Tian Min was also lost in thought.

In the AI ​​era, where is the way out for Go?

In the deterministic part of Go, do humans have a chance to defeat AI? It is difficult to think about it, but what about the uncertain part of Go, is AI still so good at it?
What AI is good at is local optimum, which is probability!
And what humans are better at is uncertainty, the feeling of Go!

AI has a judgment of winning percentage for each step, but is this judgment true?Does everything count on Go?

At this moment, Tian Min seemed to be a little enlightened. If he could really go far on the road of uncertainty in Go, and dig out the invisible and unclear things in Go, would he have a better chance of winning?

Under the Korean wave, Chinese and Japanese Go seems to have been led astray. Doing hundreds of life-and-death questions has become a shortcut for first-class masters. Chess players prefer to make set formulas and use computing power to judge the direction of Go.

But do life-and-death problems and improving computing power create real masters?

Go is like the universe, and what is more important in the universe is balance.

At this moment, Tian Minze's eyes were full of light and longing for the future.

"Teacher, please teach me the feeling of Go. The way I want to go is to use Go with uncertainty to defeat the Go with certainty. Use Go with a more balanced sense to defeat the Go with extreme profit."

Nie Xuanfeng nodded. At this moment, the two people's goals are the same. Nie Xuanfeng also wants to know whether pursuing another extreme can make a stronger chess player.

"This is an unknown road, but I will help you go down it," Nie Xuanfeng said.

……

Tian Min lived a very regular life. In the first two days, Nie Xuanfeng neither played score nor played chess with Tian Min, but started to learn some mysterious chess theory.

From ancient Chinese chess to Japanese Go, various chess theories and stories emerge in endlessly.

"If you want to have this sense of balance, you must first have some understanding of the small world of the chessboard." Nie Xuanfeng saw that Tian Min was a little absent-minded, and taught him a lesson.

Tian Min cheered up quickly. He had said some big things that day, but now he was listening to Nie Xuanfeng, and he was really desperate.

Nie Xuanfeng also seemed to see Tian Minze's psychological state, took out the chess pieces and set up a chess game, and asked, "How do you think the next move should be?"

Tian Min sized it up, this chess game seemed familiar.

(End of this chapter)