Chapter 1128
Chapter 1128: Found its weakness!
Translator: Legge Editor: Legge
At night.
"The Americans are too arrogant!"
"Damn, you even claimed that that was all Teacher Zhang could do?"
"That's because you people haven't witnessed how he awesome he can be when he's in form!"
"When Teacher Zhang was out there slaughtering everyone, was he not better than you?"
"You only scored a victory over Teacher Zhang in Go! What's so great about that! Do you have to get this arrogant? If you're so great, why don't we compete in other categories! Teacher Zhang was not a pro Go player to begin with anyway!"
"That's right!"
"Do you dare compete in math?"
"Do you dare compete in calligraphy?"
"Do you dare compete in piloting a plane?"
"Face-smacking Zhang would be able to demolish you people in any other aspect! Fuck!"
There was a heated discussion about this topic and all kinds of noisy chatter in the news.
Some of the people who were angered by the foreigners gradually started cheering for Zhang Ye.
Others were still as pessimistic as before regarding the match. Whatever reason there was now, it could not erase the fact that Zhang Ye had indeed lost the first game.
…
At home.
Zhang Ye ate three bowls of rice in one sitting for dinner.
His father said, "Eat more to replenish your stamina!"
His mother said, "Right, you still have to fight it out with Peter tomorrow!"
His eldest younger sister scooped some food for him. "Brother, have more meat."
"Thanks." Zhang Ye did not refuse whatever they offered.
His fighting spirit had been reignited. Wasn't it just a lousy computer? He always believed that this was just something that was created by humans. No matter how good it was, it wouldn't possibly have the same wisdom as humans did. Even if it was better in many aspects and possessed a computational and analytical ability that humans could never reach, it would definitely still have a weakness somewhere. So all he had to do was find out what PeterGo's weakness was and score a victory in tomorrow's game. He could not afford to lose and had to at least even the score tomorrow so that he would stand a chance of winning!
Weakness?
What was it?
What was the weakness?
After dinner, he received a few calls from his friends.
Yao Jiancai: "Zhang'er, finish off that Peter!"
Zhang Ye: "I will."
Yao Jiancai: "You can do it, we're all standing behind you!"
There were also some friends who tried to persuade him to throw in the towel. They told him that since he was not a part of the world of Go, it was nothing disgraceful even if he had lost the game. It was already a very great result that he could play against PeterGo as well as he did!
But Zhang Ye did not say anything.
Throw in the towel? There was no such phrase as "throw in the towel" in his vocabulary!
Back in his bedroom, Zhang Ye turned on his computer and again studied the day's game against the artificial intelligence. He recreated the entire game three times over! From the looks of it, there were indeed some inaccuracies in his moves that ought to have much better alternatives to handle Peter's play. Of course, it was useless to say all this in retrospect since whatever mentioned wouldn't change anything. It was impossible for humans to have a foolproof plan while playing under such intense circumstances.
Besides, there was no such thing as a foolproof plan in Go since the game was just too complicated. There would be times when you think that a move would be great after taking everything into consideration. But a dozen moves later, it might turn out to be a bad one. Conversely, you might have played a bad move earlier which would turn out to be a good move by the middlegame when you suddenly realize that it had a decisive effect on the overall board state. All of it was possible due to the complexity of Go!
He studied the game for a full two hours.
The more he analyzed it, the more he could not find any weakness in Peter's game. It seemed like every move it made was done to restrict Zhang Ye's play. It always held a slight advantage over him across the whole board and was always a step ahead of Zhang Ye. With the exception of one move made early in the game, which was the only time that Zhang Ye had managed to restrict PeterGo's play. Hence, Zhang Ye focused on this move for a very long time.
Why did I go into the lead at this move?
Why couldn't Peter predict this move?
The more that Zhang Ye thought about it, the more he wondered why. Logically, it shouldn't have happened. The AI's computational power was so strong and could predict so many moves ahead, shouldn't it be able to predict that move of his as well?
Zhang Ye's keen sense of awareness told him that the breakthrough might lie right here!
After some thought, Zhang Ye called Wu Changhe's house.
It was Li Qinqin who answered the call. "Hello?"
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