weiqi is military. The black and white armies are against each other, and the two sides have equal effective forces, vying for the territory of 3.61 million square kilometers. How many military strategists in history loved Go?
Go is math. What is the measure of the size of a chess game and the gains and losses of a local campaign? Obviously, it is inseparable from mathematical concepts. At least the winning or losing of each game should be expressed by numbers. Needless to say, the number of changes in a game of Weiqi is itself a difficult math problem. Although there are different opinions about this, there is no doubt that the answer is astronomical. It is said that the deep blue computer that defeated Kasparov, the world chess champion, runs at an amazing speed, but it will take more than a year to play chess. Go and computer seem to have nothing to do with each other. Go is the oldest game and computer is the most advanced scientific and technological achievement. But it is the bond of mathematics that connects the two. Nowadays, it is nothing new to input, save, extract, retrieve and so on the chess score by computer, and the traditional tattooing is also becoming a screen sitting through the computer network. Weiqi will also contribute its potential to the development of computers. Everyone knows that the development goal of computers is intelligence. And how to measure the IQ of a computer? Go is not unique, but it is obviously a persuasive ruler.
Go is a philosophy. In the process of the game, the real benefit and the thick potential, the attack and the defense, the big and the small, etc. are pairs of living contradictions. With the progress of the chess game, the two aspects of contradiction are changing all the time. In my opinion. There are few solid and static things on the chess board, but all kinds of factors are constantly changing like liquid flow. In this respect, the players who are sensitive and insightful are the real strong players. There are subtle differences in the overall understanding of Go between Westerners and Orientals, and I am afraid there is also a problem of cosmology here. Westerners like to get to the bottom of the matter and seek the "best". They often habitually bring this way of thinking to the chess board. Faced with comments and explanations such as "this is also a game of chess", they will hold on to it: "So where do you think it is best to play?" The orientals hold the doctrine of the mean. In the face of the vast chessboard, if you can't figure it out, you can't see through it, and you can't find the best, then the second good and the second good will be very good. In short, you must master it yourself.
weiqi is a competition. I just said that Go is art, both art and competition. How do you understand it? I want to say that Go is the art of competition. There is no doubt that the overall situation, the efficiency and beauty of local chess shapes, and the idea of improvisation make people feel beautiful, in other words, this is an art. However, its purpose is neither for self-appreciation nor for people to appreciate, and it must be linked to winning chess in the end, and all this will become meaningful and convincing. In a word, the game of Go is to distinguish the strong from the weak in the form of winning or losing, and the victory of one side is set off by the failure of the other side. Therefore, the art of Go is very different from the art in general. The long and continuous experience of winning or losing is a great challenge to people's spirit. A chess player who is a little salty and named is bound to be battle-hardened and tempered by victory and defeat, especially the frustration education of losing chess, which is beneficial to cultivate a tough personality, which is one of the functions of Go.