Two days later, it was the 19th day of the first lunar month. According to the almanac, this was a very unlucky day and everything was unfavorable. However, on such a day, it was the time for a decisive battle between Li Xiangping and Google's third-generation dog "Afa Yuan".

Li Xiangping got up early today, did morning exercises, took a shower, and felt refreshed after breakfast. The competition started at 10 a.m., and he set off from the hotel where he stayed at 8:30, and then took a walk to the stadium.

This time, because of the man-machine battle, the small town of Pinghu was bustling with activity, attracting many chess fans and media reporters from all over the world.

"Brother Ding'an, do you think that when you and senior Xiping played in the Tenth Game of Danghu, were the crowds like this now?"

"Haha, little friend from Xiangping is joking, such a grand gathering is the most prosperous scene in the world. How could we have such a grand gathering at our time?"

"Haha, by the way, I remember that brother Ding'an was also born in the prosperous age. Haha, the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong in "my Qing Dynasty"."

"Little friend Xiangping, stop joking. How dare you claim to be prosperous under the rule of the Tatars and make people laugh so hard. Come on little friend Xiangping, you see reporters are coming around, so go and deal with them."

When Li Xiangping arrived at the arena half an hour early, he was naturally surrounded by reporters from all walks of life. At this moment, Li Xiangping also made a rare high-profile appearance, showing his strong confidence in defeating the dogs.

Today, he even took the initiative to mention the victory the day before yesterday:

"I would like to thank Dr. Huang and others on the Google team for their tolerance and understanding. They said that there is no problem with my victory, but I want to tell you the truth. In fact, deep down in my heart, I think some chess fans are right. I It is indeed a bit too much to win, or to put it simply, a victory like the day before yesterday is not the victory that I really want in my heart. Thank you again for giving me the opportunity, so I will go all out today to try to win a victory that I want in my heart. of true victory.”

Since the deciding game had to be re-guessed, and of course it was inconvenient for reporters to conduct more detailed interviews before the game, so after expressing his strong desire to win, Li Xiangping politely said goodbye to everyone, and then walked into the game. room.

The referee today is Lao Nie who just arrived from the capital. At 9:50 a.m. BJ time, Lao Nie presided over the first guess again. Dr. Huang grabbed a large handful of chess pieces on behalf of the dog. Li Xiangping guessed the odd number. After Lao Nie After a few seconds, Dr. Huang caught a total of 16 pieces. Because Li Xiangping guessed wrong, the final game was decided by the dog.

I didn’t expect that just a guess would become a topic. In the first four games, the black side actually won. So the dog guessed the black piece again. Is it “black will win” this time? Or is it a matter of probability? Effect? ​​You will see the results by the afternoon.

Of course, topics like this are only popular among human chess players. Dogs definitely don't care about this. Li Xiangping also doesn't care about this. In his opinion, if the black sticker is 6 and a half eyes, it doesn't matter whether it is black or white. As for the fact that the first four games were all played by black players, this is purely a coincidence, and it is still the kind of "coincidence" whose probability is not small.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, under the spotlight of everyone, Dr. Huang placed the first chess piece on behalf of the dog, and the game officially began.

The dog starts with "Wrong Eye", Li Xiangping should start with "Two Stars".

In this series, "Wrong Eyes" appeared quite often. The dog used it once before, and Li Xiangping himself also used it once.

When Li Xiangping saw "Wrong Eyes", just when he thought the dog was going to replicate the same start as the first game, the dog changed its move in the fifth move.

In the first game, the dog played "Wrong Small Eyes, Flying Dijiao", but today, the dog raised the chess piece all the way, and it became "Wrong Small Eyes, Two High Jumps, Dijiao".

Well, this opening routine has appeared before, that is, in the 4th game that just ended, Li Xiangping used this opening as the black player.

Li Xiangping still implemented the established policy. As long as he did not encounter a particularly unusual opening, he would try not to ink in the prologue stage, or leave more thinking time to the middle and late games. In this way, both sides would play quickly in the opening stage.

By 10 minutes, there were already more than 20 moves on the board, which was the fastest in this series.

However, when the dog made the 22nd move of the game, Li Xiangping had to slow down his move speed -------

It wasn't that he encountered a new move that he had never seen before. On the contrary, this kind of opening was very familiar to Li Xiangping. For example, in the game of chess the day before yesterday, the first 24 moves were exactly the same as today, except that the black and white sides lost everything.

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"Hey, brother Ding'an, this dog seems to be a psychic. We dismantled this opening in detail yesterday. I think the black chess piece is satisfactory. Domestic Jueyi also thinks that the black chess piece has opened up the situation. I didn't think about it.

The third-generation dog has quickly learned it, and it actually used the moves we studied to deal with us. What should we do next?"

Of course Li Xiangping’s above was a joke. What really made Li Xiangping stop was:

Regarding today's opening, what he studied most deeply and thoroughly was actually the game in which the second-generation dog defeated the third-generation dog in the previous life.

The core of that game of chess was a calamity. Judging from Li Xiangping's research, in that game of chess, the second-generation dog seemed to have used a more sophisticated "global play" to defeat the "local play" of the third-generation dog.

”, this is a rare victory in one of only 19 sets.

Today, the prototype of the calamity battle has arrived again as promised, and the initiative to choose the time to start the calamity has fallen into Li Xiangping's hands. So of course, how to play the next move requires careful consideration.

If the three generations of dogs from the day before yesterday continued to play---because there were examples of its defeat in the previous life, and even in the game of chess the day before yesterday, Li Xiangping had a slight advantage within 130 moves, so that

Definitely not going down.

If we follow the thinking of the second-generation dog in the previous life, now Othello has been exchanged, and more importantly, the initiative to open the robbery is now in the hands of Li Xiangping.

Faced with such a situation, Li Xiangping was in a bit of a dilemma. He was forced to stop and he felt that he needed to discuss it with Lao Shi, at least to clarify the next move.

"Haha, today's game is indeed a bit difficult, but little friend Xiangping, I think that although we can't learn the specific tactics of the second-generation dog, we must stick to the overall thinking he showed in that game. You think so.

no."

"You don't need to talk nonsense, but today we need to take the initiative to plan when to start the robbery. To be honest, I actually think that proactive planning for this situation is much more difficult than the seemingly passive defense. I think

Think about how the third-generation dog lost chess. Even its active thinking was problematic. Do you think we can do better than it?"

But there was nothing he could do if he didn't want to face this situation. Since the dog had tried to "retaliate in kind", Li Xiangping had to find a way to break it.

So just like that, starting from the 24th move, Li Xiangping's plan to save time in the prologue stage came to nothing. What followed was more than ten moves. He groaned almost every move, but the dog almost every move

Like a second shot, the game between the two sides spreads out quickly.

An hour and a half after the game, when the dog made the 41st move of the game, Li Xiangping listened again.

He really wants to play a game of chess now.

But this move was once denied by dogs.

Not only did Gou Gou deny it, but Li Xiangping himself had also done in-depth research before. For example, he wrote the "Mysterious Prologue" and spent considerable space criticizing that chess move.

But just today, Li Xiangping suddenly wanted to make the move that he had criticized, because he felt that since there was a potential disaster on the chessboard, that move seemed to be feasible.

"Will it work or not..."
Chapter completed!