Chapter 235 The Battle Begins

Rickard and Olena took the lead and walked into the Tianyu Xinghai Building.

The special Western faces of the two foreigners immediately attracted the attention of the media present, who flocked to them for interviews.

"Is this Mr. Rickard from Google? Can I call on you with a question?"

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"Mr. Olena, I saw your photo on Twitter. Are you confident about today's game?"

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A group of reporters were interviewing each other. Tianyu Xinghai did not dare to interview because Ma Tian could not get the lawyer's letter.

When facing the two foreigners, he had no scruples and attacked them casually.

Their move was misunderstood by Olena and Rickard as enthusiasm, thinking that they were very popular and respected.

The usual arrogance of Westerners was suddenly revealed on their faces.

"Sorry, please don't disturb us!" Olena refused with a cold face.

Rickard also nodded arrogantly and supported his friend Olena's refusal.

He doesn't take too kindly to these hot faces, or in other words, he is just putting on airs. He prefers to be interviewed after winning the competition, and simply says:

“Today was a bit disappointing for me, we won so easily!”

The way the two foreigners refused to let people go thousands of miles away actually made some media who were not afraid of big trouble retreat and silently let people go, instead of blocking the way like they used to do when interviewing domestic celebrities, and would not let people go without interviewing something.

Otherwise, some people in China are just weak-natured. They always maintain what they consider to be "gentleness and politeness" to some foreigners, and they can't wait to show their brightest smiles to their international friends.

Being able to speak some English makes me feel superior to others, rushing to entertain people, making me feel "invincible".

This kind of people are not easy for Ma Tian to evaluate. In Ma Tian's opinion, they are not here to give money, so why should they be treated with courtesy?

Therefore, no one from Tianyu Xinghai even came to welcome Google. Olena, Rickard and others were entertained by their colleagues from the branch company who came from Pengcheng, because there was no Google branch company stationed in Xiang City.

However, in the face of Tianyu Xinghai's attitude, which could be said to be a bit arrogant, the foreigners did not say anything.

A huge conference hall was set up as a temporary competition venue, and the layout was quite simple.

There is a huge LED screen with some warning lines and more than a dozen rows of seats. During the game, strong and weak players from both sides will access the chess battle software specially developed by Tianyu Xinghai, and the game situation will be presented on the big screen.

At that time, as long as engineers from Tianyu Xinghai and Google each bring in their own artificial intelligence players, Tianyu Xinghai will send Xiaodi, and Google will send AlphaGo.

Because AlphaGo's backend server is in the United States, there is a 30ms delay in transmitting information here. Tianyu Xinghai did not bully them and let the referee subtract it from the final result of the game.

Regarding this matter, Rickard and Olena at Google are also very satisfied. The 30ms delay does not seem like much, but they do not dare to neglect it in a strong-soft showdown.

Especially when I first debugged the equipment, I had a glimpse of the caliber of Tianyu Xinghai engineers.

They are all real masters, and they can roughly figure out the level of their opponents through some small details.

For example, the battle software compiled by Tianyu Xinghai, in order to show that it is fair and does not cheat, Tianyu Xinghai directly gave all the software code to Google as open source.

Google engineers can see some of Tianyu Xinghai’s skills from the front-end and back-end code of the battle software.

While the engineers on both sides were preparing to connect the strong and soft players of each company, the guests watching also entered the venue one after another and took their seats.

Many of them are celebrities in the chess field, such as grandmasters Zhao Jinjin and Wang Tianyi. Yes, the number one chess player, Wang Tianyi, is here.

According to his temper, he must have always refused to come to games without money, but the official asked him to explain this time and gave him a fee, so Wang Tianyi came conscientiously.

There is also the female grandmaster Tang Dan, the female super Dan in the chess world. She and Wang Tianyi will jointly represent the top human chess masters to dismantle the moves between software.

There were also some amateur chess enthusiasts who participated in the viewing. Ma Tian even gave some admission tickets to some students from Hu University and let Yang Jinli draw them on a meager basis. Many students came.

The competition also started as the two companies debugged the equipment and decided to start at 10.30 am.

The rules of the duel are 10 rounds of chess. Each player plays 5 games first. The winner is whoever wins the most games in the end. If there is a tie, the winner is determined by who takes less time in the end.

The chess official also set up a live broadcast room for this match. Many netizens who could not come to watch the game also squatted in the live broadcast room on time to watch this strong-soft battle.

The number of people in the live broadcast room quickly reached 1 million, which was more popular than any previous chess competition. It also made the chess officials a little embarrassed. Good guy, they used to hold live broadcasts of competitions, and it would be great to have 100,000 people. .

Unlike now, the number of people exceeded 1 million before the game even started.

"When does the game start? I want to see if Alpha Dog is really a dog!"

"Are you stupid upstairs? Alpha dog is translated from the English alphago, and it is a machine."

"The showdown between strong players is so exciting!"

"Everyone join me to support Xiaodi and smash Alpha Dog to pieces!"

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The comments in the live broadcast room were soaring. Netizens were looking forward to a thrilling game. Although they were not very good at playing chess, they could still watch chess.

The time soon came to 10:30, and two figures began to appear on the big screen. Xiaodi's was a blue cartoon smiling face avatar, exactly the same as the one on Tianming Didi.

A pair of big eyes of Carslan rolled around, just like the animated picture.

And AlphaGo had a symbolic robot face, arrogant and cold.

The female host also came to the front of the stage and gave a general opening speech, welcoming all the audience and netizens in the live broadcast room, and then introduced several special guests.

She emphasized Wang Tianyi and Tang Dan, who were responsible for disassembling the software game:

"The two are currently the strongest active men's individual chess champion and women's individual chess champion. I believe that with the explanations of the two, we can better understand the subtlety of the software's moves. Thank you very much for coming!"

Both of them are heavyweights in the chess world, and many people in the live broadcast room still know them. Even those who don't pay much attention to the chess world are very supportive when they hear that both of them are champions.

After all, it may be easier to understand with the explanations of two masters.

With the end of the host, the countdown to the game finally began.

Wang Tianyi and Tangdan, two chess masters, also stared at the chessboard intently to see the moves of the two strong and soft players.

But soon all the audience were collectively deceived, because with the beginning of the last second, AlphaGo took the first step with red.

Then on the big screen, the red and black chess pieces moved very quickly, like swords and shadows!

In less than 15 seconds, the two sides fought 10 rounds, just like two top swords fighting, a set of operations.

The spectators didn't even see the afterimage of the sword, and the game reached the late stage of 30 seconds.

The main force of the red side AlphaGo only had one horse, while the black side Xiaodi had one horse and one cannon.

At this time, AlphaGo's chess moves slowed down, and it would take 3 seconds to think before making the next move. But Xiaodi still left in seconds as usual.