In 1997, as long as it was a chess sport, whether it was Go, Chess, or Chess, it received unprecedented attention from all walks of life, and the cause was a duel-

On May 11, world chess champion Gary Kasparov lost to the artificial intelligence system "Deep Blue" developed by ibm with one win, two losses and three draws.

The whole world was shocked by it.

"Teacher Chihara, do you think 'Deep Blue' can defeat humans' top chess players in the Go field?"

Tokyo, Japan, faced with the microphones coming over, Chihara Hiroshi had to stop and quip with a smile:

"You are asking if you can defeat me?"

The reporter who asked the question smiled awkwardly, but did not refute it.

Chihara Hiroshi's face turned up and his expression became serious:

"Impossible, at least it is impossible at this stage. Go and chess are different. Whether it is complexity or calculation difficulty, the former is much greater than the latter!"

At this moment, a shout came from the crowd:

"You have never fought with 'Deep Blue', how can you know you can't defeat you!"

Faced with this provocative sentence, Hiroshi Chihara smiled indifferently and said:

"If you can convince the senior executives of ibm, I don't mind the next game with 'Deep Blue'."

The other party immediately stopped.

Another reporter then asked:

"You just said 'It's impossible at this stage', so when do you think the artificial intelligence system can defeat humans?"

Hiroshi Chihara estimated the time of Aiphago's appearance and said a period of time:

"After twenty years, after twenty years of development, artificial intelligence can probably defeat top chess players."

He deliberately said it for a year. This was not an negligence, but his confidence in his own strength. After all, with his current chess skills, it may be difficult for the first generation Aiphago to defeat him.

"Twenty years, that's that long?"

The reporters below were all shocked.

...

"If you want me to tell me, you are still too conservative! In Go, machines want to defeat humans? It's simply a fool! How can a simple game like chess be compared with Go?"

At the Tokyo headquarters of Kansai Chess Institute, there was an old man sitting in Hiroshi Chihara's office, which was Hideyuki Fujisawa. He was shaking his head at this time and was very dissatisfied with Chihara's statement of "Twenty Years".

This is also the view of most chess players. After all, Go is called the "game representing the peak of human intelligence". It is hard for them to imagine that there are more than 200 possibilities in each next step. How can a machine simulate it?

Hiroshi Chihara said:

"Before the invention of cars, it was hard for humans to imagine that machines would actually run faster than carriages; before the invention of planes, humans also believed that only birds could fly in the sky; it would not be impossible for machines to defeat humans in the future."

"It's still hard for me to imagine," sighed Fujisawa Hideyuki, "probably I can't keep up with the young people's ideas."

"I should only think so among the young people you mentioned, especially professional chess players." Chihara Hiroshi said something comforting or not, and glanced at the panel in his eyes:

"Name: Hiroshi Chihara.

Chess realm: enter the gods.

Skill: Chess soul"

As early as last year, he had already completed the promotion of the 'chess realm', and the system panel also underwent a drastic change, which was so simplified that there were only three columns left.

The new skill "chess soul" that appears after all skills disappears does not need to be activated, or he is activated at any time.

Just like the word "entering the god" in the "chess realm", now he seems to have truly transformed into the god of Go. As long as he sees the chess record, he can deduce it to the most perfect state.

When playing chess with people, you don’t need to think too much. Every move is as easy and natural as mercury.

He has long lost his sense of expectation when playing chess with humans. To be honest, he hopes that Aiphago will appear earlier. He also wants to see which generation of Aiphago can defeat him.

Then, Hiroshi Chihara asked again, "How are you thinking about returning to Japan's Chess Academy?"

Recently, the chairman of the Japanese Chess Academy who had served for two and a half years finally made moves, and the range of movement was extremely large. He set up a fund reduction committee at the beginning. Despite the numerous oppositions, he completely reduced the match-up costs of the big-handed team.

That is to say, in the future, the players of the Japanese Chess Academy will no longer be rewarded when they perform a big hand.

He then issued a statement of apology to Hideyuki Fujisawa and invited the other party to return to the chess academy, which was in line with the wishes of most chess players.

However, Hideyuki Fujisawa did not respond immediately, and he said to Chihara:

"When I was asked to leave, I would kick it. Now I want me to come back, so I just come back casually? Do you really think I have no temper?"

He also said honestly and bluntly:

"Let him go for a few days first, and I'll see the situation then."

The old man is just arrogant and probably will agree. After all, the monthly pension given by the Japanese Chess Institute is a considerable amount. Even if it is not for the face of the Chess Institute, it still depends on the face of "Fukuzawa Yukiki".

...

At the introduction meeting of "Deep Blue", the person in charge of the project responded to the words of Hiroshi Chihara and expressed his expectation of the match between "Deep Blue" and Hiroshi Chihara.

To this end, ibm even spent half a year upgrading and renovating the "Deep Blue".

However, when the upgraded "Dark Blue" lost to an amateur three-stage under the condition of letting the boy, people have never heard of "Dark Blue" related news about Go.

However, there are still people looking forward to this game where professional chess players sneer at it, but it took them a long 19 years...

In October 2015, something happened that shocked the entire Go circle:

The artificial intelligence aiphago developed by Google defeated the European championship with an absolute advantage of 5:0 for the first time without letting the child down!

However, almost instantly, people remembered another person, that is Hiroshi Chihara, who is currently the president of the International Go Association.

Today, Qianhara is still the number one person in the world chess world. Although there are only three titles at present, they are all three titles. As for the other four titles, he voluntarily gave up ten years ago.

In international competitions, China, Japan and South Korea each chose one event, and he has not given up the championship yet, especially the Samsung Cup in South Korea, which is even more excessive. Since the founding of the Samsung Cup in 1996, he has dominated for twenty years.

Every time I go to South Korea to participate in a competition, the face of the chairman of the Korean Chess Academy is green; when it comes to awarding the prize, the face of the president Samsung, who is in charge of awards, also turns green.

Although nearly twenty years have passed, older chess fans still remember the game that was not possible and the saying "twenty years". Now it is the nineteenth year. Is this game that has been late for nearly twenty years finally coming?

In February 2016, four months later, the long-awaited news for many chess fans finally came:

A month later, aiphago will play against Hiroshi Chihara!

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March 9, Tokyo, Japan.

Hiroshi Chihara was sitting at the chess table, opposite a young man in his twenties, with a laptop computer connected to several large and small cables.

Of course, the computing work does not rely on the chips of this computer, but on the Google supercomputer thousands of miles away, which is Aiphago's brain.

"Teacher Qianyuan, I have been your chess fan since I was a child! Unfortunately, I didn't have the material of Go, so I went to be an engineer!" The other party seemed a little excited, but very restrained.

Chihara Hiroshi responded with a smile:

"You have made more contributions to Go than most professional players who can develop a machine of this level."

"You are too polite," the other party smiled shyly, then thought for a while, and said, "Teacher Qianhara, no matter what, people have limits, and machines do not. If you see unexpected results later, you don't have to be too frustrated."

"Thank you then."

...

This game is based on Chinese rules, and each side takes 2 hours and each has a chance to count down three times a minute.

The guessing part first is that Chihara Hiroshi holds black, and Aiphago holds white.

The competition begins!

...

Before each move, aiphago engineers would enter Qianyuan's hand into the computer for analysis. The result could be obtained in about ten seconds and the computer would confirm.

This way, one move will take about thirty seconds.

What surprised him was that the frequency of Chihara Hiroshi's moves on the opposite side was also very regular, probably one move in thirty seconds, and sometimes even dropping in more than ten seconds.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have thought he was playing chess with another artificial intelligence...

An hour later, many people found that the move speed of white chess was much slower. On average, each move took about one minute.

‘Is this a disadvantage?’ This is what many people think.

Another hour passed, almost abruptly, aiphago announced his concession.

Hiroshi Chihara won the middle game!

"How could this happen?" The engineer involved in the development of Aiphago was a little distressed and seemed to be unable to believe the result.

Hiroshi Chihara "comforts" said:

"Although people have their limits, your machine obviously has not reached my limits. Even if it is an unexpected result, you don't have to be too frustrated."

When I heard this familiar sentence, the other party felt awkward.

...

The showdown between the two sides is a five-game game. In addition to today's game, there are four games on the 10th, 12th, 13th and 15th.
To be continued...