Chapter 1131
Chapter 1131: A strange opening that dumbfounds everyone!
Translator: Legge Editor: Legge
During the live broadcast.
Central TV Sports Channel's host, Yu Yingyi, announced loudly, "The match has begun. Professor Zhang is going to play first as the black stones while Peter takes White. Now then, let me introduce our guest commentator for today, the currently highest ranked female Go player in the world, Chen Ying 7-dan. Let's welcome her."
Chen Ying said, "Hello, everyone."
Yu Yingyi said, "For today's game, do you, Teacher Chen, have any predictions on how it'll turn out?"
Chen Ying said, "It's hard to predict, but this is a do-or-die battle for Professor Zhang."
Yu Yingyi looked at the screen curiously. "We can see that even though Professor Zhang is playing as Black, he has not made his first move yet. No one knows what he's thinking about right now. Teacher Chen, does Professor Zhang have a strategy in place for today's game?"
Chen Ying said, "I don't know what Professor Zhang's strategy is, but according to our earlier analysis, he should mainly be adopting a careful and steady approach. After all, his opponent is a machine and its computational power is too strong. It doesn't allow us any room for mistakes. If we want to win the game, we'll first have to make sure that every one of our moves can stand up to scrutiny. Otherwise…"
At this moment, Zhang Ye took control of the mouse and clicked on the Go board on the computer screen with a smile.
Yu Yingyi said, "Professor Zhang has made his move!"
When Chen Ying saw it, she exclaimed, "What?!"
The Americans were stunned!
Those in the spectator room were also stunned!
Wu Changhe nearly cursed out loud. "What the heck is he doing!"
"This, this…" Li Yi 9-dan gasped!
Hu Liang was close to tears. "What kind of a blunder is that?"
Xu Han panicked. "Isn't Professor Zhang messing around this way! What in the world is this?"
A female pro player shrieked, "Is Professor Zhang not fully awake yet? How could he make a move like that?"
Even Xiang Rong 9-dan was stunned!
The home viewers who knew how to play Go were all scared out of their wits!
In the focus of the live broadcast camera, Yu Yingyi exclaimed in surprise, "Teacher Chen, w-why haven't I seen an opening like this before? What kind of playstyle is this? What kind of strategy does he have?"
Chen Ying nearly fell out of her chair. She was thinking to herself how it was not only Yu Yingyi who hadn't seen this before, even she herself had never fucking come across something like it either. "For this opening, we'll have to watch and see how it goes from here. From the looks of it, Professor Zhang did not make a mistake with that move. But as for what kind of opening 1 this is, I do not know. In the entire development of Go up until now, there shouldn't be anything left to talk about when it comes to openings. The conventional ways of playing and board shapes have been generalized. For anything that falls outside of those, we just call them unconventional openings. But I can confirm that there isn't this type of opening in the consolidated list of unconventional openings either. Professor Zhang's first move was played slightly above the board side star point at 11-5. Th-This is just too unexpected."
Yu Yingyi said, "Look, Peter is also clearly wondering about that move. It still hasn't responded with a move yet."
Zhang Ye's first move had shocked everyone!
However, he didn't seem like he was aware. Instead, he crossed his legs and wiggled his toes carefreely. He was even tapping his finger rhythmically without a care in the world against the mouse in his hand. It didn't feel like this was a critical match that would decide the life and death of the Go world. It was as though he was playing the game from home or something.
The Americans started laughing mockingly after the sense of shock faded!
What a layman!
He is totally such a layman!
Do you even know how to play Go? Making a move in that position for your opening?
What kind of playstyle is this? Are you trying out a suicidal opening? Ha!
Soon, Peter replied with a move!
Yu Yingyi quickly said, "Peter has made its move!"
Chen Ying 7-dan explained, "Peter has made a move at the bottom of the board. This is a very good response. If Professor Zhang does not take defensive action, he'll immediately fall very far behind right from the start of the game. I still don't understand why his first move was placed there. But what I know for sure is that Black's second move definitely won't repeat the same—"
Before she finished.
Zhang Ye lightly clicked the mouse and placed another stone!
Chen Ying was dumbstruck. "This...a 6-4 point? What kind of playstyle is this?"
Some of the Go players on the Internet were going crazy!
"Holy shit!"
"Is this even a coherent opening?"
"This has got to be a fucking suicidal opening!"
"What is Professor Zhang thinking?"
"He's making blunders right at the start?"
"This opening of his is just too goddamn unconventional! It's the fucking most unconventional opening of unconventional openings there are! What on earth is he trying to do?"
"I'm gonna cry!"
"This is just too unconventional!"
"He's going to lose this game as well! If Peter grabs hold of the position, it'll be over!"
If even the amateur Go players could see it, then the pro players understood even better!
Wu Changhe was ready to curse. "Did this kid forget to take his medicine?"
Li Qinqin said, "Who knows if Little Zhang might have a purpose?"
Liu Hong 9-dan said, "What purpose could he possibly have? He's walking on a knife's edge! Besides, there has never been such a way of playing ever before in the many centuries of Go!"
Hu Liang paled. "Peter has played its stone!"
"It's over!"
"It really played at that position as expected!"
"Professor Zhang has been forced into passive play!"
But when they looked at Zhang Ye, they noticed that he did not have an expression that looked like he had made the wrong moves. Instead, he was grinning. Almost without needing to think, he played his third stone.
The Americans were smirking and sneering, but those smirks quickly froze!
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