Chess Soul: Buy the Shijia chessboard at the beginning

Tian Min raised the huge Ying's Cup trophy and smiled as if he couldn't lift it.

The chairman of the Ying's Go Foundation responded with a smile, "You have to be sure. Apart from you, no one in the world's chess world is worthy of this championship."

This championship is what Tian Minze values ​​the most and covets the most, because he only lacks such an honor in his championship honor book.

It only took Tian Minze two years to achieve the goal that Gao Yongxia had not accomplished in 8 years, the World Series Grand Slam.

Last year's Samsung Cup plus the world's strongest competition, this year's LG Cup, Chunfeng Cup and Yingshi Cup, Tian Minze has five world championships plus the "Lotus Mountain Cup" World Go Mixed Doubles, and he is truly a collector of world championship trophies. .

Gao Yongha only lacks one Yingshi Cup. He was eliminated in the semi-finals of the last Yingshi Cup. The championship was won by his teammate Cui Zhehan. The Korean media all exclaimed with upset. This time he lost completely to Tian Minze. It is estimated that four years later he will no longer be so competitive. The regret of Ying's Cup will always remain.

The lack of a Yingshi Cup does not affect Gao Yongxia's status as the most successful chess player after Cui Ze. With 14 world championship trophies shining brightly, he is still the goal pursued by future generations.

Currently, only the older generation chess player Cui Ze 9th Dan has achieved the Grand Slam honor, so the pinnacle of human Go history is still Cui Ze 9th Dan.

Today, with the addition of Tian Minze, the world chess world has added another Grand Slam player. However, the number of world champions is still far behind that of his predecessors, but he has taken a solid step towards catching up with his predecessors.

After the Yingshi Cup ended, Gao Yongxia's human-machine chess battle was officially announced, and the world's attention focused on it for a while.

Google's management announced that it will officially launch the company's latest research success in December this year. Artificial intelligence AlphaGo will compete in five chess matches with human chess player Gao Yongxia.

The Go human-machine battle really attracted public attention due to an article in the British "Nature" magazine on January 2016, 1. This article revealed that Go artificial intelligence (AI) defeated professional Go players in a fair game for the first time.

So now the announcement of the war between man and machine has been warmed up for a year and has attracted much attention.

Originally, this plan was supposed to start in March this year, but a reporter at the scene immediately asked why it had been delayed.

Dr. Huang stood up and replied, "This year we found that the AI ​​did not have a deep enough understanding of many of the newly developed moves by Tian Minze, but we have supplemented Tian Minze's nine-dan chess record. Now the AI ​​has deepened its understanding of Go novices. With the new understanding, we are more sure.”

Seeing Dr. Huang's explanation, Tian Minze and Yu Lijun, who were far away in Pengcheng, were shocked. They looked at each other and couldn't help laughing, "I didn't expect that I was the cause of Alpha Dog's delay." Tian Min Ze sighed.

"Min Ze", Yu Lijun looked at him with admiration, "even the AI ​​needs to learn your chess game. Although the human-machine battle is not played by you, it is still honorable."

Tian Min looked at the TV and shook his head, "Gao Yongxia may not be able to defeat his opponent. I will probably play soon."

Yu Lijun came over with coffee and handed it to Tian Minze, "You have so little confidence in Gao Yongxia, he is a king-level chess player."

"It's not that I don't have confidence in Gao Yongxia," Tian Min said frankly, "it's that Gao Yongxia doesn't have confidence in himself."

Looking at Yu Lijun's questioning eyes, Tian Min explained, "Because Gao Yongxia formed a luxurious war preparation research team, but this just shows that he has no confidence. When he was young, Gao Yongxia could not listen to anyone's words."

Tian Min saw a familiar figure appear on the TV, and Wang Rui was also reporting on the scene, "Go is regarded as the most varied and complex chess game. To defeat top human players with computers requires a high degree of artificial intelligence." level of intelligence, so this battle is regarded as a key battle to determine whether robots will surpass humans and rule the world in the future."

Tian Min smiled and looked at Yu Lijun, "Isn't this the lyrics you wrote for Wang Rui?"

Yu Lijun patted him and shook his head, "It has nothing to do with me."

Soon the introduction of Alpha Dog was completed, boasting the feeling of being unparalleled in the world, and invited another protagonist, Gao Yongxia.

"The pinnacle figure in the Korean Go world, who was once the king of the world Go world, was dethroned by the Chinese genius Tian Minze in 2015. Tian Minze is now the world's number one, but before Tian Minze, Gao Yongxia ruled Many years in the Go world!”

In fact, except for insiders like Tian Minze, other Go circles and even the melon-eating public believe that Gao Yongxia will win the game effortlessly.

After all, many people have played chess with Go software, and professional chess players can make 10 pieces of the software more than enough.

Although AlphaGo once won the European championship, in front of players like Tian Minze and Gao Yongxia, the European championship was at least two stones away, and they were not players of the same level.

Therefore, the audience's assumption about such a game before the game was that Gao Yongxia could defeat the AI.

However, some professional chess players have also raised concerns. After all, in the major "man-machine battles" in history, international chess and Chinese chess have been completely defeated, and only Go is still struggling!

1997年，美国IBM公司的“深蓝”超级计算机以2胜1负3平战胜了当时世界排名第一的国际象棋大师卡斯帕罗夫。“深蓝”的运算能力当时在全球超级计算机中居第259位，每秒可运算2亿步。

In 2006, in the first Chinese chess human-machine battle of the "Inspur Cup", five Chinese chess grandmasters were ultimately defeated by the supercomputer Inspur Tissot.

So when it came time for Go to be captured, many people were hesitant and at a loss, and they couldn't believe it.

But everyone involved in this incident was very satisfied.

Both artificial intelligence and Go have achieved the desired results at this moment.

Go has always been in a tepid state. Although those who love it regard it as their destiny, for most people, the entry barrier to this sport is too high.

Go successfully emerged from the circle in this incident, and its popularity soared.

The same is true for artificial intelligence. Under the overwhelming publicity, people know the progress that artificial intelligence has made in recent years. Many professional terms, such as "deep learning", can be easily understood by ordinary people.

So when a reporter came to interview Tian Minze about his views on this game, Tian Minze talked to the camera.

"I feel that no matter who wins or loses, it is not humanity that loses, but humanity that wins. Humanity's development and exploration of science and technology have gradually exceeded the limits of the human brain. We are no longer trapped in the shell of the body, allowing others to An intelligence has become an extension of human thought, which I think is extremely gratifying.”