After Ke Jie lost to Shen Zhenchen in the Nongshim Cup on the 25th, some of Ke Jie's remarks after the game were widely disseminated, causing a bad impact. Personally, I take a closer look at the origin and end of the middle, and see how we should look at this game of chess and look at Shen Zhenchen as a chess player. Here are a few questions:
Did Ke Jie say that Shen Zhenchen cheated?
This one certainly doesn't. First of all, Ke Jie repeatedly stressed in the live broadcast that he was not a hammer Shen Zhenchen cheating, and secondly, although Ke Jie had some yin and yang weirdness and the remarks on the top, he did not talk about it positively, as Chinese chess fans, we still have to believe that these remarks are just Ke Jie's lost catharsis after the game, he is not really suspicious of Xiao Shen Kai dog, or that after two days, he forgot about it, "the past goes with the wind".
But even if Ke Jie didn't say it, his behavior did have a very bad impact (including Mi Yuting also jumped out and said hints), and as a professional Go player and the first person in China, Ke Jie should be responsible for what he said. Ke Jie's words and deeds of "breaking defenses" after the game have been widely circulated, and Shen Zhenchen has also replied to this: "I think famous chess players should pay attention to their words and deeds. Ke Jie Jiu Duan may not have any other meaning, but when this kind of words are said, fans may have ideas beyond the original words. Hope it's good to start paying attention next time. ”
In addition, after the yili Liao match yesterday, he also specifically emphasized that he believed that "There is not much gap between Shen Zhenchen and others", and it is estimated that 80% of them know Ke Jie's statement that "Shen Zhenchen can make the world first". On japan's Go website, after South Korea won the championship yesterday, the vast majority of comments praised Shin Jin-jin and ridiculed Ke Jie for not being able to afford to lose and not having quality. This Po Kejie failed to control his emotions, and his face was at least clean.
Why did Ke Jie say this?
Due to Ke Jie's irrationality plus some hearsay from fans, the rumors about Shin Jin-chan going to the toilet are getting darker and darker, starting with 6 times, and finally spreading more than 20 times...
On foreign video websites, there are all the videos of Shen Zhenchen and Mi Yuting and Ke Jie playing against each other. Shin went to the toilet twice in the first innings with Mi Yuting, and only three times in the rematch. As for Ke Jie's questioning of Shen Zhenchen's "always going to the toilet when he plays chess", in fact, Shen Zhenchen only goes after he has finished his son every time, including Ke Jie's 76th hand.
Why did Ke Jie say that? A few years ago, a master who relied on his advanced understanding of the world of single-step chess, in just a few years because of the emergence of AI, he was once ridiculed by the descendants who could not find the north, Ke Jie's Empire State Building collapsed in an instant, perhaps he still had a little fantasy before, but the time for reality to accept him was too short. Therefore, Ke Jie often expresses his view that he does not recognize AI, and such a result can only be gradually surpassed.
Ke Jie said after the game that he had been preparing for a long time, and that he felt good about his 23 consecutive wins before the game. However, from the perspective of the chess score reaction, the bottom right change 38 clips will suffer losses, and the disadvantages in the middle and back games are obvious but there is no fighting spirit... Ke Jie's own condition was really terrible. Tang Weixing, Lian Xiao, and Cao Dayuan, who explained on various platforms, all said that Ke Jie was completely out of state, and he was the only one who felt that "there is no problem under himself, it is that the opponent is too strong." And 23 consecutive wins, the vast majority of opponents are not first-class masters, or random net chess, Ke Jie is really paralyzed himself.
And Shen Zhenchen was obviously prepared. In view of Ke Jie's unchanged layout of the wrong small eyes and big jumps for thousands of years, Shen Zhenchen had obviously studied it. The first 36 hands only took 33 seconds, and the two moves of 38 and 46 made Ke Jie lose money locally. What about what Ke Jie prepared? Even Yili Liao was on par with Shen Zhenchen in the top 70 hands, and the lower right part also made Xiao Shen lose money.
There is another point that Ke Jie has repeatedly emphasized - the degree of coincidence. Let's take a look at the coincidence of the two sides of this game:
The coincidence of Shen Zhenchen's overall situation is 65.8%, is this data high? high. Is it normal? It's all within the normal category. Previously, when Kim Eun-chan was caught using AI, the coincidence was more than 9, and the coincidence of top professional chess players at 6-70% was often seen.
There is also Ke Jie's incomparable admiration, called "ear red hand" 108. If you look at the chess game, you can find that this chess hand cannot reach the point of ear redness at all. In fact, when Ke Jie calmed down, he himself could completely think of this step.
Did Shin Jin-chan cheat?
The three biggest reasons for some skeptics are: going to the toilet, coincidence, and sudden outbursts. The first two have already been mentioned above, and now let's talk about the third one. Many people who don't often pay attention to Go shout shen zhenchen as soon as they come in, "It is impossible to progress so fast", so let's take a closer look at Shen Zhenchen's achievements in recent years.
At the end of 2018, when Shin was 18 years old, he had already reached the finals of two World Series, and when he was young, he lost to Ke Jie and Chen Yaoye respectively. In 2019, he won the Asian Cup championship with honors comparable to the World Series, and reached the LG Cup final (the top 16 face chess eliminated Ke Jie), and won the first title in early 2020 against Park Tinghuan. This was followed by Xiao Shen's terror win rate for the whole year of 2020, when he almost broke Lee Chang-ho's 90% winning rate record held for many years. In October, Shen Zhenchen reached the final of the Samsung Cup and finally lost 0:2 to Ke Jie, who said the classic thank you remarks. In 21 years, Xiao Shen made a comeback, successively reaching the finals of the Ying's Cup and Chunlan Cup, winning five consecutive victories over Qingtai in the Nongshim Cup, and sweeping the domestic championships in four domestic competitions in the middle of the year (all of which were face chess). In September, Shin Jin-hyun defeated Tang Weixing to win the second crown, and then lost to Park Tinghuan in the Samsung Cup to get the runner-up; in February this year, he won the triple crown 2:0 Yang Dingxin.
Where did such a step-by-step rise in achievements suddenly erupt?
Let's look at the so-called "no mistakes". There is a saying that has been circulated in the chess circle that says it well: For Lee Chang-ho, the desperate thing is that he does not make mistakes; for Shangshen Zhenchen, the desperate one is always the last one who makes a mistake.
Let's see how many of Shen Zhenchen's 23 consecutive wins against the national chess players were almost lost: in the first set of the Chunlan Cup, Tang Weixing led the whole game, with a winning rate of up to 95%, and the official was reversed and lost half an eye; in the second half of the game, Tang Weixing had the opportunity to hammer the final, and the opportunity to miss the greed was also reversed; the Samsung Cup semi-final against Yang Dingxin, Yang Dingxin missed 90 wins in 188, and the official was reversed; in the first game of the LG Cup final, Yang Dingxin's long-term winning rate of more than 95% in the middle game was overturned; the second set was smoothed out by Yang Dingxin At the last moment, Yang Dingxin miscalculated the loss of chess. This is not counting the Chunlan Cup quarterfinals Fan Tingyu to see the leakage of a point, the top 4 even laughed at the final game spoon, the Ying Cup semi-final 1% win rate reversed Zhao Chenyu... It is not Shen Zhenchen's humanoid dog, but the last mistake that Chinese chess players will always make, so there is no need to praise Shen Zhenchen as a god.
Shen Zhenchen is well known for his hard work, studying AI for an average of 10 hours a day. We don't know the specific time for Ke Jie to practice chess and study AI, but most of them can't even reach half of Xiao Shen, especially in the AI piece, Ke Jie can be said to use very little. Ke Jie attended classes, prepared for exams, and took exams at Tsinghua University, but also had to go on variety shows, open live broadcasts, play games, etc. Shen Zhenchen did not have so many things, he only played chess. Under such circumstances, why couldn't Shen Zhenchen crush Ke Jie?
In addition to these reasons, the chess academy is also hard to blame. Let's take a look at the matchups between Ke Jie and Shen Zhenchen in recent years: in 2021, Ke Jie won 33 wins and 16 losses, 49 sets, Shen Zhenchen 80 wins and 17 losses, 97 sets; in 2020, Ke Jie won 39 wins and 10 losses, 49 sets, Shen Zhenchen 76 wins, 10 losses, 86 sets; almost doubled. Ke Jie's number of matches in 14-19 was 77, 96, 81, 69, 63 and 59, which decreased year by year. Without the guarantee of the game to maintain the status, can the player win the game as soon as he plays? Shin Jin-chan has a ox-knee claw cup and a Korean armor in front of the Nongshim Cup, and Ke Jie is only embarrassed with fans except for two sets of Tianyuan Competition.
And the Korean Chess Academy has specifically studied Ke Jie, Yang Dingxin and other chess players, and the Chinese Chess Academy has organized a wave of research on shen Zhenchen and Park Tinghuan at the end of last year, and the specific research is not known, the LG Cup also gave Yang Dingxin a special training before the game, and the Nongshim Cup was completely laissez-faire. Moreover, the unified training and psychological counseling of chess players in the chess academy during the epidemic period were basically absent, which also indirectly led to the tragedy of Dafan.
Did Shin Jin-chan reach the level of Lee Chang-ho?
This author personally believes that it has not yet been achieved, in addition to the "mistakes" mentioned above, Shen Zhenchen is not the same as the old predecessors in terms of the age of the first crown, the number of championships and the dominance on the chessboard. It is necessary to admit that Shen Zhenchen is strong, but as Yi Liliao said: "He is not much different from other chess players, and I am weaker at this stage." We have to face up to the gap and then chase it back stage by stage.
I hope this article can let chess fans take a more comprehensive view of this matter, and then let it calm down, it is okay to lose chess, don't lose confidence and decency.