Chapter 1134
Chapter 1134: Zhang Ye's Hand of God!
Translator: Legge Editor: Legge
There was laughter all around Weibo.
"Pfft!"
"This is cracking me up!"
"Why is Zhang Ye always spouting nonsense like that!"
"Hahahaha, hasn't he always been this way?"
"His Go skills are really just like him! Full of rubbish and not adhering to convention!"
"Only he could have a mouth like that. Why are you arguing with a computer? This guy is really too annoying! But today, we must support him. We have no choice!"
"Go for it!"
"We can't afford to lose any more!"
"Yeah, if we lose this game, it's over for us!"
"It all rests on Zhang Ye!"
"As long as we win, I'll be his braindead fan forever!"
"I am already turning from just a passerby to a fan! He's playing amazingly!"
"Fuck, is Zhang Ye on steroids today? Why is he playing so well?"
"Yeah, he's like a completely different person from yesterday! It's like he gained a 'great empowerment' overnight? Just what kind of weird moves are these!"
In the game room.
The Americans finally blew up. Their representative lodged a stern protest to the international referees, accusing Zhang Ye of interfering with Peter's play.
The international referees considered it for a moment before deciding to give Zhang Ye a warning.
Zhang Ye put up his hands to express his innocence.
Peter was still "considering" its next move.
Those on humanity's side were getting excited and enthusiastic!
On the live broadcast.
Yu Yingyi said excitedly, "Today's Zhang Ye is totally different from yesterday's!"
Chen Ying 7-dan suddenly said, "Now, I can reveal a secret to everyone who is watching on our live broadcast. Just last night, Professor Zhang suddenly came to the Qiyuan to search for some information. Some of us helped him find all the game records of top players in recent years from both national and international matches. Professor Zhang ended up looking through all of them for the entire night!"
Yu Yingyi said in shock, "Teacher Chen, do you mean that Professor Zhang only used one night's of research to improve his Go skill to the point where he seems like a totally different person from yesterday?"
Chen Ying reflected, then said, "I don't know."
"That doesn't make sense!" Yu Yingyi was in disbelief.
When home viewers heard that, they were stunned speechless!
Chen Ying thought for a bit before giving a wry smile. "Perhaps that's the difference between a genius and a normal person. Peter has completely underestimated humanity. It probably never thought that there would be a person like Professor Zhang who exists amongst us humans!" Her tone changed as she remembered the lesson from yesterday. "But Peter has not lost yet. I think it might still have a chance. The next move it makes will be an extremely crucial one! Let's see how it's going to respond!"
The clock was ticking.
Zhang Ye still had plenty of time on the clock, while Peter had already used up much of its allocated time. In this "war between humans and machines," the game rules followed the Chinese rules 1 of Go, with a compensation of 7.5 points being used. Each player would be given two hours of game time, as well as three 60-second blocks, with any player automatically given a loss if they exceeded the time limit 2 . Zhang Ye had used just over 30 minutes in total for his thinking time, while Peter had already used up one hour and twenty minutes.
Zhang Ye astutely realized that Peter had yet another weakness. It had an advantage in data processing and analytical power as a computer, and it did those at a meticulous level that humans would never be able to achieve. But when it was faced with a complex board state, this became a burden on the artificial intelligence. The precision of the program seemingly did not allow it to commit any errors, so a slightly more complex board state would immediately cause it to enter into a long state of processing. This state had happened several times, and Peter would only make its move after having considered all possible scenarios. Of course, the American developer of Peter would have set some rules for Peter's time allocation function. But even so, between itself committing errors and the choice of time usage, the artificial intelligence would never be able to have the same determination and judgment as a human player!
Finally, Peter made its move!
On the computer screen, Peter's stone was played!
Chen Ying said loudly, "Oh, Peter has played its move! This is a very profound choice! The position that it played on is actually right within the 'net' that Professor Zhang has cast!"
Zhang Ye took a look and responded with a move of his own.
This time, Peter did not hesitate—horizontal stretch!
Zhang Ye forcefully attacked.
Peter bumped.
Zhang Ye smiled. That was a good one, that was a really good one!
It was well worth it to use that long period to think through all the variations, even though it paid for it with time. It looked like Peter has seen some of the mysteries behind Zhang Ye's Cosmic Style. As the opening sequence was not played in the Cosmic Style, this had become the weak point in Zhang Ye's "net". And it was precisely here that Peter came attacking, with the fight imminent the moment it made that move. Peter had successfully forced Zhang Ye into a direct confrontation. He could no longer peacefully build up his frameworks!
Zhang Ye responded with a move.
Peter played a pincer 3 move.
Zhang Ye played an approach.
Peter forced an atari.
Zhang Ye thought for a bit and decided to let go of the black stone.
Peter captured it.
With that, the board state immediately changed!
Yu Yingyi exclaimed, "This is bad! His stone has been captured!"
Chen Ying also said, "That's not good. The board state seems rather bad now. With that black stone captured, the entire framework has been messed up. If Peter wins the battle on this side, the entire corner will be surrounded. If it chooses to use that as a base to attack down the middle, even with the two sides that Professor Zhang has, it'll be very difficult to predict who wins. Professor Zhang was the first to move, so he has to deduct 7.5 points for the compensation. It's really difficult to say how the board state will swing!"
The board state developed tension yet again!
Peter used its powerful analytical functions to fight its way out!
The Americans were all applauding this internally. As expected, they knew that Peter would not lose!
Alright!
Well done!
Finish him!
Don't give him any more chances!
Attack him down the middle!
Zhang Ye blocked!
Peter continued pushing in!
Zhang Ye played a counter pincer 4 !
Peter approached on the right side!
The people in the spectator room felt discouraged and downhearted!
They felt like they were falling from Heaven to Hell!
Hu Liang cried out, "The corner has been taken by Peter!
Xu Han said in disbelief, "The framework in the middle has been invaded too! It's over, this time it's really over!"
"Professor Zhang should never have allowed that black stone to be captured!" a professional 5-dan Go player shouted.
But Li Yi 9-dan said, "He had to allow it! He had no choice!"
Liu Hong 9-dan facepalmed and expressed in frustration, "Professor Zhang's structure has been broken through!"
On the two sides at the bottom of the board, Peter's stones were actually not dead yet. Zhang Ye's stones hadn't fully surrounded the white stones and only held a large influence over the area by spreading out across the board. But if play went on like this, once Zhang Ye lost to Peter at the top of the board, the center would be broken through as well! Then territory at the bottom would, as a result, have its influence stripped away. This was what was often called a "domino effect" in Go. Right now, Zhang Ye was faced with a very dangerous board state!
The netizens were getting anxious.
"Are we going to lose?"
"We were still unable to do it after all?"
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