Original Address:https://www.sankei.com/article/20211223-C22E2RC4DVK2RNVKUCMYNZ6UJQ/
Hara: 20-year-old Kotaro Seki: Making progress in the Go world
Excerpt from: Sankei Shimbun
Author: Yoichi Ito
Translation and Collation: Make excuses for quiet Christmas Eve
A new title holder has been born in the Japanese Go world. In the 47th tengen battle of the five pieces of chess that ended on December 6, Kwan Hang Taro won the title of Tengen with 3 wins and 1 loss. He won tianyuan at the age of 20 and 0 months, and after 10 periods, he refreshed the record of the youngest tianyuan set by Yuta Iyama in 2011 in the 37th tengen war of 22 years and 5 months. He is also the second youngest chess player to win the title of celebrity at the age of 19 and 11 months in 2019. After becoming a professional chess player, he won seven major titles in 4 years and 8 months, breaking Shimono Tiger Maru's record of 5 years and 1 month. Kwan Hang Taro is also known as an "AI sommelier" because of his proficiency in Go AI, which is why he has achieved this year's achievements.
Shocking "turned out"
"I didn't expect to have such a result. This result was also very unexpected, and there was also a content beyond the original strength."
After the game, Guan Hangtaro calmly reviewed the five chess pieces. After 35 players entered the Tengen Battle of the tournament, defeated Ryūhei Ōnishi Ryūhei Shichidan and Tsuneyoshi Motoki Yadan and other powerful chess players who were older than him, they defeated the Shibano Tiger Maru Throne (at that time) in the Challenger Decision Battle. After defeating his opponent on September 9, he analyzed himself: "I thought that there was still a certain gap between myself and the top chess players, but after winning this game, I felt that the gap was actually not big." After 3 months, Kwan Hang Taro got the title. "Although I had expected to get the title for a long time, I didn't expect it to be so fast," said Kyaw Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Chess Academy, who was also shocked by Kwan Hang Taro's appearance.
The cultivation of famous teachers
At the age of 5, Kwan Hang Taro, who was almost a beginner, came to the Shinjuku Children's Go Dojo hosted by Fujisawa Ichiichi Hachidan. "Even if they are still ranked, as long as there is motivation, I will start cultivating them as soon as possible", Fujisawa held this idea, so he asked Kwan Hangtaro and his contemporaries Hirose Yuichi go-do and Ueno Aisami Ryugi to arrange in the same class of professional chess players. After the 3rd grade of elementary school became a student of the Japanese chess academy, the 6th grade of elementary school participated in the junior group of the YingShi Cup World Junior Go Championship in 2013, becoming the first Japanese to win the championship in the tournament. It was Shibano Tiger Maru who finished second in the youth group that year. The players who won the tournament are now the top players in China and South Korea, and they have achieved such a record in this competition.
Kwan Hang Taro, who gradually improved his strength, became a professional chess player in 2017 at the age of 15. At that time, Go AI had just begun to spread, and Kwan Hang Taro had begun to use AI. Like most players, they often play chess with AI, then evaluate their own games with AI, and then adjust their own way of playing chess in the future. Those of us who study wine are collectively called "sommeliers," and Kan's reached the level of an expert who can be called an "AI sommelier." Although many chess players are studying AI, most chess players have encountered bottlenecks in the stage of studying the layout.
Mutant power map
Since then, Kwan Hang Taro has adjusted his method. "Later, I often watched ai wrestling left and right, and at this time I could often see means that humans could not imagine, which was very interesting." Many chess players because of the existence of fixed concepts, many human beings can not shoot, unimaginable dozens or even hundreds of hands of means, Guan Hangtaro as a "not so much learning, I think this is a hobby of mine", over time to cultivate their own sense of chess.
Earlier, it was considered that ai software was more familiar with yili liaojiuduan, so much so that a book was published with the subtitle "New Stereotypes in the Age of AI". Last year, Yili Liao, who used AI to enhance his strength, won the titles of Qi Sheng and Tianyuan in a row, but this year a new star defeated himself. Kobayashi Kyaw said: "Yili Liao may not be able to win after 7 rounds of celebrity battles, and then directly face the game of Tianyuan War, and Yi Li Liao's morale has come down." Although Ichigo Liao has such a situation, Kwan Hang Taro's performance is still outstanding.
The current seven main titles of Japanese Go are completely different from 1 year ago. Entering the year of establishment, the number of Titles of Yuta Iyama gradually decreased to three crowns, and it was still expected that Shibano Tiger Maru and Ichiri liao, who held two crowns, would attack Iyama Yuta. But not only did the two men fail to add titles at the end of the year, but they both lost their titles. Yuta Iyama returned to the Five Crowns, and then there was Guan Hangtaro, who was younger than Xu Jiayuan, Ichirio, and Shibano Tiger Maru. Perhaps the AI did not guess that there would be such a big change in 1 year.