Chapter 583
Another 55-50 split?
This undoubtedly provided Lin Ruo with an opportunity to showcase his abilities.
On the AI win rate curve, as Shin Jinseo made this rather reckless attack, the win rate ratio also dropped to the starting point of 91.
Although Black still holds an overwhelming advantage, White now has a slight chance to counterattack.
Shin Jinseo's sudden, inexplicable act was like a general demanding a duel with the emperor after his army stormed the palace, rather than a mass attack.
Even if Lin Ruo were completely powerless at that moment, she would definitely fight you.
Moreover, Lin Ruo is not some powerless emperor; he is strong enough to fight, so it's hard to say who will win or lose.
Therefore, Lin Ruo immediately accepted the challenge and decisively went down to fight to the death.
Shin Jinseo could at least grit his teeth and fight from below; he definitely couldn't just go in and stay still.
The current situation isn't that he's out of the game once he's in; it's still a 50/50 situation, and because of his strong position in the center, Black still has a better chance in a fierce battle.
If he wins the fight down here, the match will naturally end on the spot.
However, if you can't win, you're giving White too many opportunities, and that's the biggest risk of playing this way.
That is, it gave White a chance to turn the tide when victory was assured.
Lin Ruo is finally going to make her move.
Next, Black cuts, and White extends.
Black plays again.
If White extends its stones further, Black will connect them.
After a few moves, Shin Jinseo realized that he seemed to lack offensive capabilities.
Or perhaps it shouldn't be said that way, but rather that Lin Ruo, as the white player, had already figured out how to play in the lower left area, since the lower left was now his only hope.
Therefore, Lin Ruo had simulated all the situations in the lower left corner countless times.
Therefore, Shin Jinseo's sudden and reckless intrusion is like stepping into someone else's trap.
His judgment of the lower left was not optimal.
Followed by.
White blocks, Black turns, White captures.
After these few exchanges, the situation finally reached a fairly even stage.
That means Black's attempt to solidify his position in the lower left corner completely failed. Shin Jinseo did not make any significant moves in his confrontation with Lin Ruo, thus failing to complete his threatening opening in the lower left corner.
While Lin Ruo manipulated the white stones in various ways, the black stones found themselves in the same major problem that the white stones had in the upper right corner.
I don't have enough eyes.
Yes, Black currently has only one eye in the lower left area.
What does this tell us?
This indicates that Black's chances of survival are extremely slim, and Shin Jinseo's large group is also in danger of being captured.
To avoid such a crisis, Black must add another eye in the lower left corner as a continuation.
That makes it clear.
White's biggest opportunity has arrived.
That is, to destroy the only remaining eye before Black makes an eye, so that the situation can still be turned around.
From this moment on, the game has become suspenseful with its ups and downs.
In the Fox Live room, watching the AI's win rate curve drop from 91% to 82%, Zhang Xuebin, who had been sitting helplessly just moments before, suddenly stood up.
"Shin Jinseo made a rather rash move. He actually tried to kill the white stones in the lower left corner to end the game, but Lin Ruo reacted quickly in the collision in the lower left corner and managed to suppress the opponent with her moves."
What could Zhang Xuebin say at this point?
You're saying Shin Jinseo made a bad move? Well, that doesn't really make much sense.
First of all, this is not an obvious mistake, but simply a choice of offensive strategy.
This result simply means that, given a slight chance and a very low probability of success, Lin Ruo executed six flawless steps to block the attack.
At the same time, he anticipated all of Shin Jin-seo's next moves, rendering him completely ineffective.
So after all that trouble, Black only has one eye left, which naturally makes the situation very complicated.
Therefore, White now has a chance.
Having seized the opportunity, Lin Ruo did not take any further action to continue the fight.
Are you really going to break your eye?
He wasn't playing as the black player, so even when he made mistakes, he was generally able to maintain his composure.
He's playing as the white player; one more mistake and he'll be out of the game.
Therefore, it is not advisable to attack rashly like the black stones just now. Although the black stones in the lower left corner only have one eye, they still have the ability to break out and continue to entangle the enemy.
In other words.
With the support in the center, it is almost impossible for White to completely encircle and kill Black in the lower left corner.
If Lin Ruo wants to establish a significant advantage in the counterattack, he can only take a different approach. Maintaining his dominant position in the lower left corner is one thing, but gaining the initiative and the ability to act is another.
The lower left corner is now basically stable.
As long as Black doesn't find a way to revitalize the large group on this side, White's hope of turning the game around remains.
Therefore, Lin Ruo had no intention of doing anything that would damage her eyes; it was too troublesome.
He could only cripple the black pieces, but he couldn't completely strangle them; that was practically impossible.
Therefore, stabilizing the last stronghold in the lower left corner and then seizing the opportunity to expand the stronghold from other places is the most effective method.
Otherwise, if Black holds the lower left corner, and Black sends a large army from other places to press in, Black will be doomed because he has no other options.
Next, we'll start from move 128.
Lin Ruo made a bold move, pushing out with white stones, intending to take advantage of the newly stabilized support in the lower left corner and seize opportunities in the lower right corner to gain territory.
The black piece followed and blocked it.
Starting with this move, Shin Jinseo's winning percentage for Black dropped by another five percent on the AI curve.
This caused the commentators in the Korean online live stream to start imitating the roaring voices of the League of Legends streamer.
It's almost 73% done.
The drop from nearly 100% to 73% is a huge blow.
"That shouldn't be the case. Shin Jinseo shouldn't have gone with them."
The Korean commentator, as an observer, easily saw the reason for the AI's declining win rate: Black followed White's move to the lower right.
At this point, the AI's best move for Black is to ignore the lower right corner and try to resurrect the large group of stones that has already been lost on the left side. Once the large group of stones is alive, White has no chance no matter what they do.
Shin Jinseo, who pays great attention to details, had also considered this point. Holding the lower left corner to save the dragon was indeed a way to wait for the enemy to tire themselves out.
But he was scared by Lin Ruo's beating just now.
In the dozen or so rounds they fought in the lower left corner, Shin Jinseo saw Lin Ruo again, the same Lin Ruo from the Mlily Cup who had full offensive capabilities and was always looking for weaknesses to break through.
The lower right corner is not as well-organized as the black pieces' layout above, which is why Lin Ruo wanted to gain a territorial advantage there.
Shin Jinseo then naturally believed that if he insisted on defending his large group of stones in the lower left corner, and then fell behind and didn't care about the second move, Lin Ruo would make a big move in the lower right corner in a few moves and cause chaos.
Does that mean he hasn't been saved on the left side yet, and the right side is going to explode too?
At this point, Shin Jinseo had clearly reverted to his simpler, more conservative mindset; he didn't want anyone causing trouble in his house.
Shin Jinseo thought he should go back and check it out. Anyway, he would just defend for a bit and then it would be over. If you attacked my lower right, I would just go back and adjust my defense line as I pleased.
Once the bottom right corner is also solidified, where do you want to go then?
Then you'll just have to squat obediently in the lower left corner.
At that time, I will use my external influence to slowly save the large group of stones. White will not be able to cause any big waves.
In short, Shin Jinseo's current idea is to prevent Lin Ruo from having too much initiative in other areas, and he needs to keep a close eye on the moves of the white pieces.
He didn't quite believe that I already had a certain defensive line on the right, and that I was also wholeheartedly managing it.
You think you can overthrow me?
Shin Jinseo later discovered that Lin Ruo seemed to actually be able to do this.
After all, don't forget that the initial curve was L-shaped. White still had some influence at the bottom, and Lin Ruo used this influence to maneuver and infiltrate, seemingly moving through every nook and cranny.
The situation became increasingly different afterward.
White made several brilliant moves in succession and quickly broke through Black's barrier in the lower right corner.
Lin Ruo first used a feint to mislead Black into making a wrong move and playing a useless piece. Then, he used a roundabout approach to unexpectedly attack Black's blind spot and successfully connected the four white pieces to establish a position.
After taking those few steps, Shin Jinseo, who seemed a little overwhelmed, adjusted his glasses and started pulling at his hair.
He suddenly felt something was off.
Why didn't he effectively predict Lin Ruo's two steps?
Moreover, Lin Ruo's move speed seemed to be getting faster and faster. When his opponent made such a quick move without much thought, Shin Jinseo, who was eager to respond, couldn't help but panic.
He felt he needed a few minutes to calm his mind and clear his head.
Those outside the arena may also need to reflect on this.
For example, Yang Dingxin and his team had only been playing for a short time when, upon returning to the game, the situation suddenly changed dramatically, and White had a much better chance.
That's outrageous.
They only made their move when they saw that the black pieces had an almost 100% chance of winning.
Seeing the black piece's move in the lower left corner, they naturally couldn't help but think that Shin Jinseo himself had given them the opportunity.
But to be able to make the most of this opportunity, one must have used it very well.
Obviously.
Compared to Shin Jinseo giving up an empty space, what amazed them even more was that after Black moved down, White's subsequent moves were almost all divine moves, thus bringing the situation to its best possible state.
The situation remained the same after they moved to the right side. While Yang Dingxin and the others were marveling at Shin Jinseo's somewhat timid and hesitant play, they couldn't help but be amazed by the rhythm of the white pieces.
This is an excellent finding! Lin Ruo has completely cleared out all the loopholes in the lower right corner, thus significantly reducing the number of points on both sides in terms of actual territory.
Even more alarming is that this actual number of targets continues to shrink.
In particular, with Lin Ruo's subsequent luring strategy, when Black made a counterattack, Lin Ruo used a brilliant move to lure Black into continuing to enter the game, thus subtly surrounding and killing the four pieces on the right side.
Shin Jinseo hadn't expected to play like this. Lin Ruo actually used his moves as a last line of defense, alternating and coordinating with other moves before placing white pieces, thus forming a rather regular and solid defensive line.
This defensive line surrounds the four black stones near the center.
It's very inexplicable.
Shin Jinseo then discovered that he had actually helped the white team to capture four of his own pieces.
This is a bit incomprehensible, and the bottom right corner is also in trouble.
The South Korean commentators found this situation even more incomprehensible, as their national team player Shin Jinseo was suddenly beaten so badly in these few rounds that he was completely powerless to fight back.
The AI's win rate curve also dropped to 60/40 at one point.
Yes, Lin Ruo now has a 40% win rate, and the situation is gradually being pulled back to the starting line.
It seems like winning won't be so easy now.
The Korean commentator was sweating profusely, and Korean netizens were also in a bad mood, typing rows of big question marks in the live stream chat.
[What's going on with this, Xiba? Weren't they supposed to win soon? Why isn't it over yet, and why has their win rate improved so much?]
To be honest, as someone who knows a little about Go, I really don't understand what happened during this period. All I see is that Lin Ruo's winning percentage seems to increase with every move he makes.
[We should be asking Shin Jinseo what he's doing. Siba, you need to stay calm! We can't give the other side an opening right now.]
[I just don't understand why you didn't reinforce the large group on the left? Rescuing it would have made the game much easier. How could you ignore it? The large group on the lower left is the most important right now. Why did you follow it to the right side, which you haven't even defended yet?]
[They weren't lost at first, but suddenly became somewhat lost with such a huge advantage. This just doesn't make sense; I really can't understand it.]
That's true.
At this moment, any audience member familiar with Go unanimously believed that the large group of stones on the left side needed to be saved. However, they were clearly unaware of Shin Jinseo's inner thoughts at that moment.
When someone actually sits in the game and plays against their opponent from start to finish, their actions will inevitably differ from those of an observer. This is the effect of being there in person.
Shin Jinseo's experience of playing chess while sitting on the board is definitely different from watching others play.
Shin Jinseo is under immense pressure right now.
He did feel that he had played a bit poorly in the second half, but compared to that, he thought that his poor performance was not the main reason. The main reason was that Lin Ruo played exceptionally well.
So much so that he revealed a tiny, insignificant direction of attack, and his opponent pulled off an unprecedented comeback.
While the current situation is still favorable to Shin Jinseo, it is no longer the overwhelming force of the past.
While White was encircling and killing his four stones on the top side, it also subtly set up a buffer, forcing Shin Jinseo to launch the fastest attack upwards to strangle White's stones.
However, at this very moment, White played a brilliant flying move, which landed in the lower center and smoothly completed a major connection in the central area.
White's previously scarce central area suddenly seemed to have a lifeline, regaining its vitality.
Shin Jinseo's mind went blank for a moment, then he took another step and climbed up.
He wanted to capture the three pieces above him to solidify his defensive line. (End of Chapter)