Since the epidemic swept the world, most of the sports events have been stranded, Go has been struggling to survive in the cracks of the unique way of playing, and after the joint efforts of many parties, it has finally opened up a new competition method of competitive sports - online competition.
In line with the good intentions of chess players playing chess and chess fans having chess to see, on April 27, 2020, a Sino-Japanese battle in the quarterfinals of the 4th "Mlily Dream Lily 0 Pressed Mattress Cup" World Go Open Tournament opened online, and the Chinese chess player Xie Ke and the Japanese chess player worked together to play in the air at the end of the net, which was the first time that the world series was played in a network match, and the first shot of the international tournament online match was fired. The two players sat in the Chinese Chess Academy and the Japanese Chess Academy to play through the Internet, and the staff of the Chinese Weiqi Association and the Japan Weiqi Academy supervised on the spot.
The pioneers who bravely took this first step probably did not expect these ridiculous things that would happen in the future.
As the precedent was set, the World Series followed suit. At first, whether it is the head of the national team, chess players, chess fans or Go workers, they are happy to see it, but over time, the drawbacks of online competitions gradually surface. The so-called often walk by the river, where there are not wet shoes, I believe that the chess fans who have experienced the network game are not unfamiliar with the word "slider", when the "sliding mark tragedy" and the double rattling appeared in the professional chess player's online game game, the chess fans are not strange, after all, it is a step of chess, as long as it is not a key moment to fly, no matter where it is always put there is its use, chess can still continue to play.
After everyone got used to the "slider", a more serious situation emerged. On August 20, 2020, in the 12th game of the 21st Nongshim Sim Ramen Cup World Go Team Championship, the third general of the Chinese team, Fan Tingyu, attacked South Korea's main player Park Tinghuan nine dan, the two sides played to the 157th hand, the chess game suddenly did not move, and then came the on-site news, showing that Park Tinghuan was timed out.
South Korea said that the network and server is no problem, may be the mouse failure, Park Tinghuan clicked the mouse can not fall, after watching the video footage, after the emergency negotiation between the Chinese and Korean chess academy, it was determined that there was no victory or defeat, and it was determined that Fan Tingyu and Park Tinghuan replayed the next morning. According to the rules, if the game is stopped due to equipment, it will be replayed according to the remaining race time.
Well, things have developed to this point, it seems that the problems that have arisen in the online game have been solved, but unfortunately, it is not a coincidence, when it has not yet become the rule on the surface, it is the Nongshim Cup, and the same timeout event happened again on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, the most loving day of the century.
In the just-concluded 11th round of the 23rd Nongshim Shin Ramen Cup World Go Team Tournament, South Korean coach Shin Jin-hyun challenged Chinese vice-marshal Mi Yu-ting, and the two sides reached 167 hands, and Mi Yuting systematically prompted a timeout when he landed.
Unlike the first time, in the case of already having a precedent, it seems that all problems can be solved better and faster, when all chess fans are determined to be the result of the replay, but there is an official notice, and finally after watching the video, the two sides have no results in negotiations, the South Korean side decided to sentence Mi Yuting to overtime and lose, and then the Chinese side protested.
As soon as this article came out, there was a sudden uproar.
What's going on here? The same nongshim cup, the same overtime negative, why are the results of the judgment so different before and after?
Originally, there were 3 members of the Nongshim Cup Arbitration Committee, namely the referee on duty between the two countries and a referee appointed by the International Go Federation. Since the International Go Federation is currently on duty in South Korea, the Korean side won 2 votes to 1 vote, and Mi Yuting was sentenced to overtime loss in this game.
It is okay not to explain, this explanation, chess fans can not sit still, insults one after another.
Some chess fans will ask, then why didn't Park Tinghuan lose the last time? In fact, Park Tinghuan's overtime was a negotiation between the two sides, both agreed to re-enact, there is no need to rule, and this time the two sides do not agree, and finally the arbitration decision was launched.
So let's take a closer look at the situation twice. Carefully observe the playback video, Park Tinghuan and Mi Yuting have clicked the mouse many times in the second reading sound, if it is possible to artificially change the result of the system's judgment, it is difficult to say who is 0.01 seconds faster, who is slower than 0.01 seconds, so it is not valid to use this reason to distinguish the results of the two times.
Then from the content of the chess game, the match between Park Tinghuan and Fan Tingyu was overtime in a situation where Park Tinghuan's advantage and even victory were recognized, and in the spirit of competitive sportsmanship, the Chinese side agreed to replay; and although the match between Mi Yuting and Shen Zhenchen seemed to have an advantage, in fact, it was still far from winning the game, at least it was a chaotic situation, so "compassion" and "empathy" may not be so strong.
Considering such "comprehensive factors", it is the biggest controversy.
At 19:00 p.m., the national Go team finally made a final statement on the matter, and the two sides re-settled tomorrow, and all the dust settled.
The matter ended here, but the problem is still not resolved, and there is no convincing statement, why is there a controversy? How to solve the same problem in the future? What are the harmonized standards? Are there rules that everyone agrees on and is willing to follow?
The cause of all this is because of the imperfection of the rules of Go, the world of Go to this day does not have a unified Rules of Go, China's latest Rules of Go was revised 20 years ago. Since the online competition, two years is not long, it is not short, after countless "accidents" have not been introduced, there has not been any official reasonable interpretation of the rules and hard regulations, it seems that as long as you add a sentence of "negotiated settlement" or "the organizer has the final interpretation" can blur everything.
For now, the normalization of the epidemic has become a trend, and no one knows how long it will take to completely bid farewell to the new crown virus. Then, the Go network game is bound to become the mainstream way at this stage, can not always encounter a problem, the parties or arbitration to a temporary meeting to decide how to decide today, tomorrow and then the problem tomorrow to decide. Over time, the human factor will override the rules, once there is an accident, as long as you can get your own satisfactory results according to reason, then Go, will it lose a lot of its own charm?
Due to the difficulty of unifying the rules of world Go, the solution of this problem has been postponed indefinitely, and at first it is possible to "whoever runs the game has the final say", and once the network is added to this more uncertain thing, the problems that have been suppressed and hidden before will gradually erupt, and the problem plus the problem, like a snowball, will only become more and more difficult to solve.
Difficulties are not an excuse to escape and inaction, everything is difficult at the beginning, I hope to give an account to people who love and pay attention to Go as soon as possible.