The development of Go has a long history of 4,000 years. Go was first invented in China and reached its peak during the Kangqian period. And emerged three major chess saints represented by Huang Longshi, Fan Xiping, and Shi Xiangxia. Represented by the pinnacle. Around the time of the Tang Dynasty, Go was exchanged to Japan and flourished in Japan. It can be said that after Kangqian, the center of gravity of the world's Go turned to Japan. After the 1980s, the world's Go feng shui flowed again, first the rise of Chinese Go, and then Korean Go came to the top. Now Chinese Go is once again ahead. In this process, three incredible miracles occurred, and posterity has been puzzled.
The first miracle was Wu Qingyuan. Wu Qingyuan was born in the early years of the Republic of China, when China's national strength was weak and the economy was withering, and the level of Go lagged behind Japan by a lot. Wu Qingyuan crossed to Japan at the age of 14, challenged the Japanese Hideya celebrity at the age of 19, and made a layout of stars, three thirds, and tianyuan, shocking the world. In the subsequent juban chess match, Wu Qingyuan defeated all the Japanese Go masters and beat them all to relegation. Why is Wu Qingyuan's level so much higher than theirs? This is a matter of great concern to everyone, and it is also a mystery. No one has been able to say for sure.
The second miracle was Nie Weiping. In 1961, 54-year-old Japanese old lady Ito Tomoe Godan won all eight battles in the Sino-Japanese Go exchange competition, sweeping all the masters of the Chinese Go world at that time. This scene deeply stimulated Chen Zude, who was 18 years old at the time, and the gap between Chinese and Japanese Go was so big at that time. But in 1963 and 1965, Chen Zude defeated the Japanese professional Kudan Sugita Masao and Tatsuaki Iwata, becoming the first Chinese chess player to defeat the Japanese professional Kudan. The Chinese flow layout invented by Chen Zude Jiudan is popular in the world and is one of the most popular layouts in the world chess world. At the end of the 1970s, Nie Weiping rose to prominence, not only swept the Japanese Go masters in the visit to Japan, won the title of "Nie Whirlwind", and also defeated Japan's super-first-class chess players in three consecutive Go tournaments, achieved three team victories for the Chinese team, and won 11 consecutive wins with such an incredible high gold content. Chinese Go seems to have suddenly risen, suddenly entered the top of the world's Go, and suddenly gave birth to super masters such as Chen Zude and Nie Weiping. This is completely inconsistent with the low level of Chinese Go at that time, in popular parlance: this is not scientific.
The third miracle is the rise of Go in Korea. In the 1980s, the world of Go was still the world of Japanese Go, and Korean Go was not valued. As the most outstanding representative of Korean Go, Cho Hyun Hyun defeated China's Nie Weiping 3:2 in the final of the 1989 Ying's Cup and won the first Ying's Cup World Go Championship. The sudden rise of Korean Go, in the next 20 years, the four kings represented by Cao Xuanxuan, Liu Changhe, Seo Bong-so, and Lee Chang-ho swept the world chess world. Why did Korean Go suddenly rise? It's also a mystery.
After the emergence of AI, many professionals began to use AI to assist teaching, improve their own level, and also began to use AI to deduce the ancient chess scores of China and Japan, and a very unexpected and shocking result was discovered! We suddenly find that the above three mysteries may have been solved. It turns out that the world of Go has always been in the arrangement dominated by the chess soul.
Who is the protagonist of chess soul? It is the ancient Chinese chess saint Huang Longshi, Fan Xiping and Shi Xiangxia. Their chess souls have been passed down through their chess scores, especially "Ten Games of Danghu".
Cui Canwuduan once wrote a paper on the AI coincidence rate of ancient Chinese chess saints, and the results were shocking!
Measured by the Cata dog's 20B weight + 1000k calculation, from 1988 to 2000, the level of chess players in the final of the World Go Championship, the AI coincidence degree was between 53.9% and 56.2%, which was not much different from Huang Longshi, Fan Xiping, and Shi Xiangxia, or even worse. In "Ten Bureaus of Danghu Lake", Fan Xiping reached 62.38%, and Shi Xiangxia reached 59.73%.
What is this concept? That is to say, if Huang Longshi, Fan Xiping and Shi Xiangxia crossed back to the present, they did not have to be too familiar with learning, they could defeat the many world champions from 1988 to 2000, at least on a par.
This is undoubtedly very shocking! Fan Xiping's score in the middle of "Ten Games of Danghu" was even slightly higher than that of Ke Jie, who was once considered the strongest chess player in human history.
Master Wu Qingyuan said: Go is dead and alive and official. To put it bluntly, it's computing power and logical power. This is also a good explanation of why even in the AI era, the strongest chess players are still Ke Jie, Park Tinghuan, Shin Jin-chan these chess players, other chess players are still obviously different. Because, although AI provides ideas for solving problems, it cannot really improve the player's computing ability and logic ability, which is limited by the player's own talent.
After Kangqian, the country weakened, and the level of chess players also plummeted, giving people the illusion that the level of ancient Chinese chess players was very poor. Without AI data, who would dare to believe it? Fan Xiping's amateur six-dan argument was also once popular.
Now think about it carefully, Wu Qingyuan, Chen Zude and Nie Weiping all beat "Ten Rounds of Danghu" when they were young. Although Master Wu Qingyuan has created a new layout, what is really impressive about Master Wu is the endless means of mid-game, and many of his 21st century Go theory moves, such as bumping and shoulder punching, are close to AI.
Chen Zude Jiudan is the representative of Liqi, and Liqi is the style of ancient Chinese chess. Chen Zude Jiudan's professional golden period was interrupted by force majeure, and by the time the Go game resumed, he was already older, which was also the place where Chen Zude Jiudan regretted his life.
Nie Qisheng has always believed that he is invincible in the first 50 moves, but according to later AI analysis, Nie Qisheng's strength is not the layout, but the vagaries of the means in the middle game, and Japanese chess players are generally unable to adapt and resist.
Although Cao Xuanxuan Jiudan was trained by Master Se YueXian as a master, he was actually trained by Master Wu Qingyuan, and Cao Xuanxuan was also famous for his mid-game strength and flip technique.
The above figure is a chart of the overall level of world Go made by AI based on a large number of chess scores, and does not include ancient Chinese chess scores. It can be seen that after the emergence of AI, the overall level of Go has increased significantly, and before that, it is also a spiral development, and the level of Go is not necessarily more than the previous generation.
The reason may be found, that is, in "When the Lake Ten Rounds", these genius teenagers had a divine friendship with Fan Xiping Shi Xiangxia when playing scores, and got a deep understanding! This is the power of the chess soul! When he was alive, people at the time highly praised the "Ten Bureaus of Danghu" and considered it to be the work of the gods, not the products of the mortal world.
After the defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was exiled and imprisoned on the island of St. Helena. Napoleon, who was depressed all day, one day accidentally got a copy of Sun Tzu's Art of War. Napoleon burst into tears after reading it. He said that if he had gotten the book sooner, he would never have lost the war.
"Danghu Ten Rounds" can be handed down, which is really the luck of Chinese Go and world Go!