The Reign of Ke Jie

Uberdude · Post by **Uberdude** » Mon Jan 15, 2018 2:49 am

Lee Sedol was the local boy: the Haevichi Resort is on Jeju island off the south coast of Korea, where Lee was born and grew up (until he went to baduk school in Seoul, there's stories from his early life in his commented games books).

Edit: wrong island!

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Mon Jan 15, 2018 7:30 am

Uberdude wrote:Lee Sedol was the local boy: the Haevichi Resort is on Jeju island off the south coast of Korea, where Lee was born and grew up (until he went to baduk school in Seoul, there's stories from his early life in his commented games books).

Lee Sedol was certainly more local than Ke Jie, but he wasn’t born on Jeju island. He was born on an island called Bigeumdo (which may be redundant since the “do” part means island). Bigeumdo is in the southwest part of Korea, and is more of a rural farming area than the tourist attraction that Jeju island has become.

bugcat · Post by **bugcat** » Mon Jan 15, 2018 11:43 pm

Is there a kifu available on online? It sounds like one of the more interesting games of this month.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Tue Jan 16, 2018 1:28 am

Gomoto · Post by **Gomoto** » Tue Jan 16, 2018 10:58 am

There was a question on reddit a few days ago about the strength of Zen 7 (commercial version) compared to top pros.

Zen 7 is really struggeling to understand this interesting fighting game!

Conclusion: Ke Jie and Lee Sedol are way stronger than Zen 7. (Yeah, Captain Obvious. But if anybody is interested he can try to run his own analysis of this game with Zen or Leela and he can experience the difference first hand :lol:

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xiayun · Post by **xiayun** » Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:04 pm

Ke Jie lost to Fan Tingyu in the quarterfinal of Chinese Qisheng (Kisei) competition.

One thing to note for this competition is that Lian Xiao has advanced to the semifinal for the right to challenge the current Qisheng holder Zhou Ruiyang, and Lian Xiao is already holding both Tianyuan and Mingren titles at the moment. Gu Zihao is also continuing his recent form to advance by beating Shi Yue and Tuo Jiaxi.

pookpooi · Post by **pookpooi** » Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:02 am

What do you think of this game?

Uberdude · Post by **Uberdude** » Thu Jan 25, 2018 6:47 am

Not much discussion here, but the game pookpooi posted without explanation was Ke Jie losing online with 2 stones (but giving komi) against the latest version of the Chinese program Fine Art.

Over on reddit there was an interesting translation of some of his comments, a few highlights below.

Ke Jie translated by u/warmbookworm wrote:Actually, when talking about this topic, my heart feels really heavy. You guys understand just how much I trauma I received from AI - it's the only one that managed to make me cry because of a match!

But, after slowly accepting this fact, this is a question that I have to face...

I often recall the me from two years ago, the me that thought he was a hot blooded manga protagonist, the youth that was highly infected with chuunibyou. All the opponents in the finals were BOSSes, and AlphaGo was the final big BOSS from the darkness! He is a bad guy! (lol) A hot blooded manga protagonist will definitely defeat the final boss. I will definitely win! Alas... I did not win. The youth with chuunibyou did not win. I lost, and it was a complete defeat.

Of course it's not like I'm old now, but my perspective has really changed. I've matured enough that I can let go of my pride and humbly learn from AI.

But to get back to the point, just how big a difference is there between us pro players and AI?

The most important thing is mentality.

I feel that, when I am playing against other humans, I am brave and fearless. Because I (he used a really arrogant way of saying I) am the strongest! (lol)

But when playing against AI, I keep thinking, am I going to collapse here? Ah, why is my position so thin? Ah, why do I have so little territory? Like a 60 year old mother worrying about her child living far away, the end result is usually, ah, I can't do this anymore, I don't have enough, I have to resign...

Before playing, my mentality has already been broken.

djhbrown · Post by **djhbrown** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 12:11 am

pookpooi wrote:What do you think of this game?

i think black 29 sets a very bad bullying example to younger players, so they do that sort of stubborn belligerence against me... and it usually works for them! (boo hoo). So i'm very pleased to see Fine Art giving the bully a taste of his own medicine

Uberdude · Post by **Uberdude** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:17 am

Ke Jie won a (even shorter) rematch on 2 stones (before those comments), these games are not high quality with such misreads leading to early resignation!

@djhbrown: What would you suggest as a non-bullying move? Extend there is important to get some liberties and strengthen the stones.

djhbrown · Post by **djhbrown** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 3:46 pm

Uberdude wrote:@djhbrown: What would you suggest as a non-bullying move? Extend there is important to get some liberties and strengthen the stones.

Time dims the memory, so i can't give chapter and verse, but as a young man i was much taken by the observations of Ishii Press writers that Go was a game of delicate beauty, in which patience is a virtue.

Both of those 2-stones games between Fine Art and Ke Jie are the antithesis of that aesthetic, both sides manifesting thuggish, impatient, violent belligerence: kill or be killed.

In the second game (call that a game? it's more like Sumo wrestling!), i was dismayed to see Fine Art acting like a bully too; so it was good to see Ke Jie getting his revenge.

In marked contrast to the school-bully playing styles displayed by both sides in both those two games, Alfie0 manifests a more studied approach, a Monet of the board with a refined sense of the aesthetic, dancing around Master with the grace of Mohammed Ali: float like a butterfly; sting like a bee.

In the first game, what should black do instead of stubbornly trying to kill both sides by descending to the second line - the line of defeat? And only succeeding in making himself heavier than he already was, even if it gained a couple of liberties and looks underneath to both left and right.

Were i a boxer able to issue a knockout uppercut, i would be up there with them, instead of skulking around the back of a small room at the back, muttering to myself.

i don't know much about art, but i know what i like.

Instead of trying to set me up for a fall, if you were a scholar of Go and really wanted to know what's better, you would ask the Moon Goddess Alfie0 - i expect she knows.

Uberdude · Post by **Uberdude** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 4:07 pm

djhbrown wrote:Instead of trying to set me up for a fall,

I did not. I was puzzled that you picked out move 29 as the bully move (I would have said the aggression or bullying started a few moves earlier) so wanted to know what you thought was a reasonable move. I thought you might suggest p18, get the corner and sacrifice the 2 stones. It's inconsistent with the previous aggressive play, but does at least achieve something in a more peaceful way, though you probably need to add another move at s15 to consolidate the corner.

If black wanted to live he could have done so instead of playing r18, but then white can live comfortably at r18 and black's play doesn't really make sense and hurts his top left corner.

djhbrown · Post by **djhbrown** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:14 pm

djhbrown · Post by **djhbrown** » Sun Jan 28, 2018 3:06 am

Ke Jie enters the scene at 6m44s in:

i am frankly amazed that a champ can be such a chump - but not as big a chump as the rest of us - the real sting in the tail starts at 9m45s, after the fat ladies stop singing (if you can call that singing!).

let's see if Swim can help out Ke Jie:

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white's naked aggression seems to be working for him (i call Fine Art "him" because he is Jue Yi = Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle), for the shadow of the stone he just added to the cut reaches out to just touch the shadow of the white wall - and where shadows just meet, their clusters are working efficiently.

black's 4 stones in the top right don't look right to me either (too thin), especially as the sole white stone on the right has plenty of room for manouevre, but hey, what do i know??

let's pretend that both they and the white stone can survive, and that overall the game is fairly balanced. So black should playsafe.

as black, i would be looking to try to keep sente (which in my dictionary means "the initiative" and doesn't mean "forcing" like everyone else seems to think) so i can hop in between white's two too-uncoordinated stones at the bottom.

Black has more prospective territory already, so it would be a matter of hanging on to that advantage by denying white the chance to catch up, so neutralising the bottom would be a safe strategy.

Swim, on the other hand, sees it a little differently to me; she reckons the focus is on reducing white's top left moyo by playing on or across the green line.

But we both agree that Ke Jie's idea of chucking away the sente he has to try and save two worthless stones, presumably in the vain hope of attacking white's 3 stronger ones on the top right is worse than a complete waste of time, it's sticking his Rs into his own face.

Vanity comes before a fall, except when you're playing me, when it's me that trips over his own feet because i was never any good at details so am hopeless at Go. Even after falling down to the same tactic in this game: https://www.lifein19x19.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=15395, i (black) still don't know whether white was being a bully or a donkey. I suspect the latter, but as he succeeded, that makes me an even bigger donkey to let him get away with it. Help!

bugcat · Post by **bugcat** » Fri Feb 09, 2018 4:22 pm

To the complaints about "violence", "bullying", and "thuggishness" in Go, I can only repeat the well-known saying "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

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