∩╗┐1 00: 00: 01,084 -> 00: 00: 05,005 [soft instrumental music]
[Speaking in a foreign language] If you see the point
from this tree,
there are many lines that radiate.
You can only get it from large trees.
Each ring represents one year.
From here to there, it's a hundred years.
Do you see how slowly this tree grows?
But his life continues.
That's why this is so fitting for Go boards made of trees.
The board is a window to the human mind.
Do we want or not
it draws a picture of our mind
and express what is in us [playing dance music]
[Computer] Nine, eight, seven, six,
five, four, three, two, one.
The game has started.
The key is not to lose the game
or else the top players might not play you.
[Friends] I don't care about that.
Who wants to play the best pro?
Who wants to be kicked?
me.
So Andy decided he would be crazy,
more than usual.
He will try to win 40 consecutive matches
playing against other people online.
He has 21 hours left.
No, I need four.
[dinging]
[Friend] So what is the winning number?
Two.
There are two ways you can do very well in this game.
First, you study very hard and take many good lessons,
think hard, study, do your homework.
Others, you play crazy
for days without stopping.
[optimistic instrumental music]
Every time I go to the Go club in Flushing
I always meet Andy Liu.
He is around 8 years old
and has become very strong.
I would say he is a genius.
He may have some mutations.
[woman] I don't know how her social abilities
but on the Go board, he is clearly a monster.
He has 18 wins, zero losses,
so he has to win 22 again without losing anything to be on time.
[boy] Andy, he doesn't practice.
He only plays 20 games every day online.
But doing that, he is now the strongest player
in North America I think.
I think he is stronger than me now
because of his weird style.
You have five minutes.
It all comes down to this [laugh].
Yes!
[cheering]
[Friend] Here it is, 60 dollars in a bag.
I don't think you will succeed.
I have never seen someone play this much in my entire life.
[optimistic instrumental music]
[wailing sirens]
[soft instrumental music]
[Ben] After you reach a certain level,
if you live in the United States,
You don't have anyone to play directly.
I mean there is a small handful of people
who are really serious about that.
And actually if the bar is serious about it
means going to Asia and training,
then maybe I'm the only one.
If you win a match, you feel great,
You think about living in Korea, you know how great it is
it's,
and when you lose you think about you know,
back to the US, go home [laughs],
give everything, it's only the highest, the lowest.
All day, every day for years.
I've experienced times like this,
I live my life with these little Asian boys and girls and I like [cry] where am I?
I have no choice, to remember things that I care about,
and remember the speed I want to increase.
Yes, I don't have many choices.
[soft instrumental music]
[wailing sirens]
[humming]
Where does my wife install filters?
So we got coffee here, cake if someone wants it.
Good.
In 1975, walking on 57th Street,
I went with a small game shop and I noticed
that there are two people who play Go.
I'm in, I say, hi, you play Go.
And they said, "Do you know this, Go?"
And I said, of course.
Go rules are very simple.
This is played on a grid of lines.
Two players take turns laying stones at the intersection.
After the stones are played on the board, they don't move.
But stones can be captured and removed if all empty intersections around them
occupied by their opponents.
[soft instrumental music]
The purpose of this game is to surround the area
with your stones.
At the end of the game, whoever controls
more council wins.
When you play Go, you often like that
enlarged to one of the corners of the board
and you think about what will happen
locally as a result of this step.
So I will go here and go here
and then white goes here and black goes there.
Oh I see, what if I go here and there and blah, blah, blah.
So you are really enlarged and you focus.
But the thing about Go is that it happened across the board at the same time right.
This small situation appears here and here
and here and each of them is his own tactical puzzle.
But they are all connected subtly because of the results of this tactical situation
will have an influence on this one.
You have these rules and they are simple and by the way,
it's clear, but they point to this rich person,
ambiguous, complicated, smooth, difficult to predict,
and it is difficult to understand a series of possibilities.
Go is very complex and very open that it requires intuitiveness and aesthetics
part of the brain as much as the analytical part
so it respects creativity and analysis together.
And it's never boring, every game is different.
Go is the toughest strategy game for computers.
In chess there are about 35 legal steps
on the board at one time.
[man] In Go there are more than 200 and so if you want the program
to see four steps ahead, it should look at 35
then 35 for each,
and 35 for each in chess.
In this Go 200 times 200 times 200 times.
There is no rough search for Go
and there will never be.
The only way to simplify it is to be able to manage it,
is having feelings for the game
and that's the right side of the game.
Where do you go, hmm, I don't know but this feels right.
Go is a game that fits perfectly with the human mind,
matches who we are, it is according to our abilities to take lots of different information
and make a pattern from it.
[soft instrumental music]
[Men speak foreign languages] To be a person
Players Go Professional
You have to walk on a very difficult road.
You have to give up ordinary school
leave home when you are around ten years old
and practice every day from 8am to 10pm.
They start at the age of five or six.
And then become a pro like 13, 14.
From our experience, the younger the better.
[speaking in a foreign language] As you can see this table
set
to be your own.
I can only go back to my hometown like once a year or twice a year.
And I remember like when I was, every time when my parents
call me I cry and I say oh I miss you
and I want to go back and my father always says,
"If you want to fulfill your dreams, you have to stay there,
" You have to study, you have to work harder. "
[soft instrumental music]
Most people want to be professional,
they submit education because they don't have
enough time to learn both.
Being professional is their dream so they can give up everything.
[soft instrumental music]
[Men speak foreign languages] Only people
who have entered deep into their souls will run on this path.
[Terry in English] It's very different when you try
grab something
which is not part of the culture and adds it to a
culture.
So here.
These are all old photos.
I mean, I always like it and I always play it,
but I can't find anyone else to play with
most of the time, that's the way.
In the 50s and 60s, I rarely met other Go players.
If I meet someone who is Asian, I ask
and usually they don't play either.
There was a time when I thought of AGA membership is in significant danger just out of existence.
Terry Benson took over and he served
as President for 10 years.
My belief is that he might save AGA.
AGA has fallen to 200 members
and nobody does anything
and there are checks left in the drawer,
so they immediately pulled me into a circle,
I started playing the Go tournament and within eight months
I am editing the American Go Journal.
We sit around just talking,
"We have to have a big tournament,
" invite everyone from all over the country. "
Γ¬ I build big white groups with points by a dozen Γ¬
ΓÖ¬ Right in the middle of the board ΓÖ¬
= = ¬ ¬ I can move here Γ ¬ ¬
[cheering]
I want to see Go become a culture
normal thing in America.
It will take time for that to happen in America
but I think someday if someone says,
"Oh yes and I am a Go player," they don't need to explain. I have dreamed and preached and debated
for growth and promotion as number one priority
for AGA for years. We are 75 years old and have a membership of 2,100
or 2,200 after 75 years, that's really sad honestly.
[clacking]
[Announcer] Bags and other large containers
subject to random search by police.
[Andy] What do college graduates usually do?
I mean, who wants to work in a company?
As everyone follows the rules, there are booths,
like you have to work in a booth,
every morning you receive a memo that you know,
that kind of environment and me a little
afraid of that.
I can try to play Go better but that doesn't mean
in the sense that it can be a career or whatever.
This is not a career path.
This is every pro who becomes a professional from one of three schools,
back to the first one, my teacher.
There, you don't go.
You don't go to A, you don't breathe clear air A.
But that's it, it's professional
study groups basically
and this door, I don't know what you think?
Can I open it, can I sign in?
I heard people there.
[slamming the door]
[dramatic instrumental music]
[buzzing]
[twang]
[speaking in a foreign language] We are always called
to China, Korea and Japan
as the Three Kingdoms of Go.
This has been passed down from generation to generation each is stronger than the last.
- [soft instrumental music] - [camera window clicking]
[Speaking in a foreign language] There is chess in the West
But Go is much more subtle.
This is the most difficult game
ever made by humans.
[Japanese speaking] Decreasing the beauty of Go to many people
is professional responsibility.
Submit this beauty
is as important as winning prize money.
[Japanese speaking] Level of the whole world Go...
... increasing global Go levels is the most important.
That is everyone's direction especially professionals must move towards.
[In English] At the highest level, what are the advantages? think about is
some more fold
from what amateurs think.
Everyone starts as a beginner where you know how to put stones on the board,
how to capture, how to get to the end of the game.
But each level above that you are learning something.
The ranking system starts at 30 kyu.
When you increase you go up, 20 kyu, 10 kyu, one kyu.
Then you enter the black belt master rank:
one and, two and, up to nine and.
And above that are professionals:
pro one and, pro two and, all the way to pro nine and.
I am Gregory Marshall and I am at 16 kyu.
My name is Rachel Small.
I play nine kyu.
My name is Larry Morningvey.
I am theoretically six kyu.
About five kyu, at least in my experience,
starts to become rather thick,
it will be a little harder to ride.
Oh God, I've been four kyu for a long time [laughs].
Among the level and players, we are kyu,
haven't started studying.
You almost certainly play at least
closer to 1,000 games to become a player and.
After that you're on the road playing Go seriously.
[man] When I was around four kyu, three kyu, there,
I am sure I will have this game, you know.
And then you get one Dan, two and
and you begin to realize, oh shit, I don't know anything.
[Terry] For top and all amateur players
professional,
what they think, what they think
almost beyond my understanding.
They will think of 20 and 30 moving sequences,
use their knowledge base about shapes and patterns.
At the top they are in a different world frankly.
[soft instrumental music]
[man] You know in the last 20 years, many AGA organizers,
they spend a lot of time and lots of effort
into youth activities.
We have built collections
very strong children's players.
And we have to be in a position
to give them the next step.
[dramatic instrumental music]
[man] My name is Myungwan Kim.
I come from Korea and I am a Certified Nine-and Professional
from the Korean Go Association.
[Allan] Myungwan came as ambassador
for the Korean Baduk Association.
The first thing he said to me was,
we need a pro system in the United States.
You need to have a professional system to have geniuses.
Only one or two people
one or two geniuses can change the image.
He returned and said, "I found you a sponsor.
"They agreed to support the qualifying tournament."
And I said, oh well, now it might be different.
[Allan] Good evening and welcome to all of us
Dear visitors as we saw the first qualifying tournament
for the AGA Professional Certification System.
[audience applauds]
[Myungwan] There will be 16 finalists, and they will play
choose 2 professionals.
The first time outside Asia an organization
is a professional certification, but we will have it
our own unique American brand.
This is very early for us because we really don't
know what Americans
a professional system will look like.
[Driver] So what do you get?
Did you get me anything?
Uh, I have Pringles, jerky, Doritos, and Naked juice.
[overlapping chat]
Welcome, we will play three rounds today,
two rounds tomorrow.
Winners of this tournament will have the chance
went to North Carolina this summer
compete to be one of the first two
Pro homegrown and homemade Americans.
At the meeting I made fun of the idea
that this country is ready for a pro system.
That said, it was an opportunity it's hard to say no.
[optimistic instrumental music]
[Ben] Back in America to play in this Professional
Tournament.
Not Asian seriousness but I think this is the first time in 10 years
where I saw some serious punctures.
[optimistic instrumental music]
Easy work... easy work.
Because of lack of freedom.
But here he doesn't want to.
He hasn't changed so now he will only push and play here.
Ready to kill him!
[optimistic instrumental music]
It becomes ugly.
I like bad games.
[Andy] The playing style is very aggressive,
without regard to its own safety
or his enemies.
[optimistic instrumental music]
[Announcer] For AGA Pro Selection Tournament
the winner is Benjamin Lockhart.
[audience applauds]
And first place, invincible is Liu Zhi Yuan
Invitation to the first AGA Professional
Selection Tournament.
[cheering]
The tournament is very good.
I think the muffins are good,
chocolate cakes, coffee [laughs].
[optimistic instrumental music]
All right, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.
Actually I need a container so I will only do this.
Do you want to help yourself?
[Friend] Sure.
How much is it?
780.
[Curtis] Andy, he is a big favorite.
What did you say?
Do you know who I think is the second favorite?
Dude, I think you're number two, that's my opinion.
I think Calvin Sun, there's no Calvin Sun.
Do you know where I really have confidence?
I am confident in my poker skills.
[laughs]
Yes dude, we will play a lot of poker,
we will be careful about getting enough sleep and the like.
I mean, I will take it seriously.
Oh, you will take it seriously for Pro
Qualifications?
Yes, man, do you understand that I have practiced
for a long time in Korea?
-Do you know what I've been-- -Wait, how long, how long?
You won't go to college?
Seriously?
Yes, no, I don't think I'm going to college.
I think it will only be too much time in my life.
I just hope you don't fall into the old way of thinking
playing Go.
Oh man, me.
I mean the most important thing for me is the victory period.
I don't care anymore about the beauty of this game.
You have to fight, you always have to fight,
always compete against, I mean it's gone.
Oh shit, oh shit, I think Ben got the concept now.
[laughs]
[soft instrumental music]
[Mandarin-speaking man] The origin of Go is very
magical.
Chinese history returns 5000 years
but many ancient records are basically legends.
About the origin of Go, there is one story.
People who want to observe the universe
will use a net to cover the sky
and note the location of the stars
at the thread intersection.
[soft instrumental music]
[In English] The oldest evidence we have is sixth
B.C century
We currently have a Korean Go
game but we still don't know how big the Go board was at that time.
[soft instrumental music]
[man] Traditionally in China, Go is one of the four pure arts.
There is music, painting, and calligraphy, and Go.
And when Japan acquired games in the eighth century,
it is considered as art.
[soft instrumental music]
[Zhou Gang in Chinese] By the Tang dynasty, Go has
reach Japan.
Very advanced in Japan
they left China and other countries far behind.
[Japanese speaking] This is the official Go archive.
This room is used to present the history of Go.
[soft instrumental music]
In the story of Genji, the game Go is mentioned so we know that Go is played by Buddhist priests.
It was played in the palace.
[Zhou Gang in Chinese] In ancient times, Japan was a
very rigid hierarchies.
But Go gave the layman
how to climb the social ladder.
If someone plays, go very well they can talk to top government officials!
[male in English] During the 17th and 18th and 19th
century,
Japan is the center of the world playing Go
and it was considered very high so they decided
to subsidize Go and throughout the entire Edo shogunate
from 1612 for more than 200 years,
the best Go players enjoy salary from the government
and that only produced a series of extraordinary players.
[soft instrumental music]
Go Seigen is a Go China player found
when some Japanese players visited China
and taken to Japan.
Even before he was 20 years old,
he is one of the top players in Japan
and they held a series of 10 match matches
between him and other Japanese players
and he won almost all of these matches.
Over time, he defeated all the others
strongest Japanese player.
He kind of changes the flow of the game.
[in Japanese] When I was little I have the opportunity to see one of the Go Seigen games.
This was in the past.
when it's not easy to approach the players.
I see Go Seigen's back
and I see an aura, a radiant aura.
I don't know if anyone else saw it but I feel like that.
For us Go Seigen is not human
but there are ways above.
Different levels.
[soft instrumental music]
[Chinese speaking] This board is signed by the master
Go Seigen.
This is from 70 years ago, I believe.
[Ben] Alright, everyone enter?
Now, all we have to do is let each other show off
by putting something very simple
so that other people show off like that.
[beatboxing]
Andy is on the track.
Is Andy on the track?
ΓÖ¬ Is Andy on the ΓÖ¬
track [beatboxing]
And is Andy on the track?
[laughs]
[optimistic instrumental music]
[man] Go Congress is a national meeting
for 400 Go players who are dedicated.
If you play Go, this is the place for a week.
This is the Go board in the form of the United States.
This is Go blind and the white pieces are flat be a blindfolded player
can know what they are doing.
This is a Go spiral, this is 3,4,6,4 tessellation.
Oh, someone just got arrested.
Two gold stones have just been captured by red,
green, and blue.
This is my 26th Congress in a row.
Go have to take sex for me for a year and it's kind of scary how good it is.
Well I have a tattoo on my back.
Even though the stones don't move
once they are on board, they sort of evolve a kind of cloud form forming and reforming.
This is an iconic Congress because someone goes Pro,
First US Pro, that's amazing.
Outside of our first Asia
Western countries do this.
We will find our Bobby Fischer who will energize the whole country,
and we will be internationally competitive.
[cheering]
[rustling of paper]
So the main thing about the tournament is
that we have several obstacles.
First we only have a week to do it,
but two, we must be sure that we have chosen
strongest person.
So it's one of the best ways to do that is a double elimination tournament.
So people come in, they start playing here,
and when they win, they pass this parenthesis,
if you lose you stop here,
and if you succeed in defeating others,
You can still manage to appear as one of the pros.
[soft instrumental music]
I need everyone to come here and get started indicates that you agree with the ranking displayed.
[man] I really want to thank you all for coming here.
When we decided to try this difficult experiment,
we put American Go in a new header
and we don't know exactly where it will end.
We try to make the Go America community
where when someone decides to put a lot of time
and as much effort and enthusiasm for the game
like you have, they can go this far
because hard work and talent will take them.
[audience applauds]
All right, this is an official start.
[soft instrumental music]
How can I lose the game?
Amazing.
So you lose, Dillon loses, Ben loses.
He threw it away, you kicked your ass.
I'm very angry now.
[sighs]
I know, but I really threw it,
really whooping his ass all games.
I think I'm like, I have the whole game,
like I thought I was only in control of the whole game
and finally I finally lost that much.
How much?
7.5.
[Ben] Damn.
Dude, that's the biggest upset in Go's history, I guess.
[Andy] You're arrogant, you're both arrogant.
This game is too big.
You can't lose the first dude game.
[Ben] Dude, you really can't.
[man] One of the surprising things is that time just disappeared.
You are very absorbed in the game
and that's just the most refreshing thing.
Instead of having all this mess in your head and worry about the things you just absorbed in the ideal world of this Go board.
But this is a long process and somewhere in the middle
from the game that must be found,
or people come to terms with someone's imperfection,
certain types of impatience or fear or greed
and it's like some beautiful elements from Go
suddenly becomes closed with all other emotions.
[laughs]
[Frank] At the heart of Go is a concept called emergence.
How do you go from something that's already clear
for something that's not clear right?
How do you switch from something simple
for something complicated.
So empty stone neighbors are called their freedom and I can capture groups by filling out
all of his freedom.
When there is one freedom left,
we say that the group is atari.
Then with one more movement I can catch the group.
Now this group is more difficult to capture Because if I try to put the white stone in the middle,
actually captured first.
So instead I have to circle the outside first
put black on atari.
Only then can I play in the middle and catch them.
Now, what about this group?
Even after I go outside,
wherever white plays next, white will be captured first.
So actually, black can never be captured
because it has these two internal freedoms
what we call eyes.
And any group with two eyes can never be captured.
The fundamental strategic concept in Go is to make two eyes when your group is attacked.
Now there are no rules in Go that say
You cannot capture a group with two eyes.
It only follows from the rules,
and this is a very simple example
from what we mean by appearance.
So there are many examples of this in the world.
How do we get from atoms that interact
according to the rules of physics, to think?
How do we get from material goods
gray matter in your head on the sensation of life, on consciousness?
And it's hard to see how that is possible
that they can emerge from operations
simple rules, deterministic.
However, this is Go to show us that it is all part.
That things can exist, that which is mysterious
and what is clear can be in the same square.
So I played against Justin Tang, a good key name.
Good, who?
Dude, I'll play Matthew Burrall.
That means they will protect me
in an unofficial white men's championship.
[man] I think he's the strongest white man in America.
But that doesn't say anything.
We will bet on that game.
I'll bet on Matthew.
[suspenseful music]
[Chinese Speaking] We created these things
because we have seen hidden treasures in Go.
This wood is in the process of drying.
They must be dry in the shade
up to ten years
because they are quite thick.
This is my second brother.
She's a craftsman.
Forty nine years!
I have been making Go boards since I was 13 years old.
First I put this on the board.
And then with a draft machine.
Up and down, up and down.
I draw all of these lines by hand.
[in English] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine.
[in Chinese] This is a shell for making stones.
Shells must be dead and submerged under water
for decades before you can get this.
This board is made of Ginko trees.
The tree is 500 years old.
Everything is made with purpose.
Baby turtles hold rocks.
Why do we make the board out of the trees?
We use wood because it represents Earth
to express what is happening in this world on the board.
As we protect our territory we built what happened before.
We position ourselves stronger
on the road we have chosen.
Yes, he just called at the corner of Calvin so Calvin is still struggling but he might be finished.
I rather want to go further
but I mean these people are too strong.
[Computer] 60 seconds.
You have 60 seconds.
That is the white one down.
[Friend] The last place to stand.
White Palace helps.
I'm just happy that I'm not, I'm not out.
[sighs]
You can see the competition between them,
and you can see how the games seem to inspire them and push them further.
And that's what you can expect
and now this is a dream.
In America, yes it might be very difficult to encourage children to study more than 10 hours,
they don't learn much, unlike Asia,
but still I think that might happen
a very good professional.
There are always pros and cons,
if you want to get something
You have to sacrifice others.
[soft instrumental music]
[Ben] I grew up doing a few puzzles and math games.
I thought you took me, I brought you,
then, I will go there or there.
I guess.
From the age of nine to 15 years, Go is the right thing
I am always the best and most talented at.
There were times like this, I was 16 years old,
I spent my time studying Go, walking in the park.
But my priority is always outside of school and outside must be somewhere.
Andy and I will stay there all night play online or fight each other for six or seven hours
and get fast food or any food that is open at 4 in the morning.
You know, both skipped school the next day [laughs].
You develop too many relationships with something and then especially if you don't suck it,
it becomes impossible to withdraw.
[soft instrumental music]
[Zhou Gang in Chinese] There is a saying in China:
one movement is wrong and the world collapses.
The first time Japan sent a Go delegation to China
in 1960.
But they have no chance against Japanese players.
They are far behind.
[man in English] For a long time, China tried to catch
up
with Japan and Korea too, and finally they did it.
And for historical reasons, in China and especially Korea,
defeating Japan is very big.
[Zhou Gang in Chinese] In 1960 we entered New
Chinese era.
After the establishment of the People's Republic of China
the biggest Go development appears because the government gave it an unprecedented interest.
[men in English] They started producing some strong players.
In the 1970s China had Nie Weiping
and he can beat most Japanese players
and he did it repeatedly and this of course,
caused a sensation in China.
[in Chinese] My happiest memory is
Super Go China-Japan Tournament.
which I won three times in a row. That's magical!
And after that I got a call from Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping
congratulate me.
[man in English] As for Korea, one of their strongest players
is Cho Hunhyun who made a pro at the age of nine.
Then when they started playing international games
professionally, he won the first Ing Cup.
[Chinese speaking]
[In Korean] After winning the match...
... they told me to enter convertible
Because I am a winner, I have to enter.
And we boarded the parade from Gimpo airport.
before I even knew what was happening.
[Nie Weiping in Chinese] After Cho Hunhyun won
Ing Cup
the media began covering the game extensively.
[Chinese speaking]
The attitude towards Go changed completely.
We think like Go is not a philosophy
but games or sports.
[Chinese-speaking man] Early age is lower
and lower.
Today we start
as young as kindergarten.
[woman in English] If you become a professional at the age of 13,
then you can have a good chance
to become the World's Best Player,
but if you are 15 years old, you will not have a chance.
At that time it was not considered late
but these days it's too late.
[Women in Chinese] When I'm studying we
learn Japanese style.
which focuses on pleasant aesthetics.
Today it's impossible to win with that style.
Because now winning is everything.
[soft instrumental music]
I won.
Ben is black.
[Curtis] Black didn't witness too much freedom.
There are seven, yes there is one, yes.
Black I don't think.
[soft instrumental music]
Oh my goodness, it looks like he's not a clutch.
What do you mean, he died?
I say Ben is not a clutch.
Ben will be very angry.
He will be very angry.
So, did he resign?
He resigned.
It runs very fast.
[Speaking Chinese] throw it away.
No, I don't think you are evil. I just think so.
Why are you connected? Do you want to kill more?
I don't know. I am hallucinating.
I think well the way I live.
But why is Andy, wait. [Ben] Of course Andy.
[Curtis] Dude, why don't you play so fast?
You have plenty of time left.
When he goes down why don't you take 30 minutes
and find out almost all variations?
Careless person.
I became careless.
[soft instrumental music]
I won.
Andy won?
I spent several hours in front of the Go
board every day for the past two years.
I mean the first time I didn't sit in front of the Go
board for 24 hours is my plane
returned from Korea one and a half weeks ago.
And then the first thing I did when I landed
in New York going up.
I never, I mean it's the only one
where I have just been given 100% you know.
[splashing water]
[soft instrumental music]
[sighs]
My idea of life is all, the only consistent pattern is that the way you have to spend your life
is playing with your brain.
What else will you do?
You will run like trying to be super rich
and only kind of involved in all sorts of [sighs]
like worldly pleasures and that's what
Will you spend your life trying to do it?
I don't even know if it is, it's very disgusting to me.
I just say it's not easy to feel,
it's not easy for me to feel fine with things in this world.
- [Thunder rumbles] - [splashing water]
[Ben] I want to spend all of my time in the world of Go
and I don't really want to spend a lot of time
dealing with the real world.
He won.
[mumbling]
On a scale of one to 10 now, I'm like 7.5 upset.
Dude, I think I should stop, go with you.
As before I thought I had a chance to beat Andy,
now I can't even beat them.
I'm lucky for that game. I'm not playing well.
I don't play well.
[Curtis] I just want Andy to lose the game.
[Ben] That can't happen.
Andy can't lose unless he wants to.
No, that's definitely not true.
Gansheng.
[Andy] Gansheng, please win, so I can play with you.
I know your style.
- Oh shit, oh shit. -Is that a challenge?
[Curtis] If you beat Andy two to zero,
I will finally admit.
[soft instrumental music]
I will be in the final playing Andy Liu
and you know, he's a strong opponent.
I just think he has a different mindset
and he doesn't play normal movements
and I think I have to play solidly with it,
You don't make too many mistakes and try as hard as possible.
[Computer] Nine, eight, seven, six,
five, four, three, two, one.
[dramatic instrumental music]
I'm like a perfectionist, so I think
our brain's ability is not enough.
I mean, multiplying our brain power by one million and our imagination is still not rich enough.
Take every possible configuration
material in the universe,
set the universe to all possible configurations
and you can come up with some pretty intelligent creatures.
Hyperintelligent creatures who only see the world
and then the ability to predict everything
it will happen afterwards.
The purpose of my life is reincarnation
in a much higher creature.
Imagine intelligent beings who have no ego.
It won't have emotions, all that can be done
only does endless calculations.
And yes, that would be the computer I thought.
[dramatic instrumental music]
[overlapping chat]
[soft instrumental music] [soft instrumental music]
I won with 10.
[Curtis] Andy and me, we have been friends since 2000 maybe.
We have known each other for 12 years and we are like rivals, as you know he returned to China sometimes to study Go.
I returned to China and we continue to do that.
Andy doesn't care about the prize money.
Andy cares about his theories and thoughts
and it's like me too.
[laughs]
The more I think about it, he's not a normal person.
[Ben] No, you have to be like that person.
To be good at Go.
Learn about the game and be a normal person.
I really am, I think I'm pretty normal.
You know who is normal like--
Do you think I'm normal?
Gansheng is quite normal, he tries to attack girls,
he likes women while Andy, Andy, you know what,
I don't think Andy likes women.
I think of him, maybe he knows, I don't know.
When you really ask him, he is like, "No, I don't care."
But Gansheng and I, we are clear like almost exactly the same.
We do many of the same things.
Our thinking is the same as playing Go,
try your best, if we can't lose, we go back to campus,
You know having fun with some girls,
and then you know studying, get a degree,
and then you know start working, live well.
That's our thinking but I don't know about Ben
but Andy's mind isn't, it's all messed up,
he doesn't know what he wants.
[man] Andy succeeded in not being defeated
in all the games along the way.
And he is in the final, best of three,
and he goes up one game so if he wins this game
then he will be our first certified professional.
One minute to settle down and find your place.
Please wait a moment.
[Gansheng] How long did you use?
-Fifty. - Damn it.
I made Andy use more than 30 minutes.
[soft instrumental music]
I think Gansheng Shi is playing this game much better.
Andy, on the other hand
play fast at the beginning
so he made a few mistakes.
Maybe he is too confident?
It seems like she's confident
about what he did, he played very fast.
This thing in the lower left corner blew my mind.
He just put stones everywhere.
Isn't that Andy normal even though just playing fast and super confident?
[soft instrumental music]
[Mandarin-speaking man] The last thing I can do
see is Go.
So Go is my last memory and final image.
Being unable to see makes me concentrate more
and read more carefully.
[soft instrumental music]
[Mandarin-speaking man] This game is endless.
I don't think humans can master it.
[soft instrumental music]
Andy looks upset,
he does not seem to predict what has begun to happen.
[Curtis] If he connects the two stones.
- Do you talk about this in Q12?
- [Curtis] Yes.
Then it will be one big eye
and why he needs to look for another eye.
I really beat Andy in the New Jersey Open
when he was four down so I really won against him
so it would be rather cool if he became the first pro.
Then I can say, both I am one and oh against it myself.
[laughs]
He is very young [laughs].
[soft instrumental music]
[Friend] Does the group wear a tie?
What is the group, yes, I mean, I think of him.
[soft instrumental music]
Good game.
It's over, he resigned! It is over.
Andy resigns.
He died?
He's dead, that's the wrong eye.
Ooh, those people were cut off.
Those people are dead.
He's late, he has a chance to connect.
Yup, yes those people are always targeted.
Well, I would say 50-50 now right?
Anyone who takes the next game is the first pro.
-Andy, what happened? -I do not know.
You are very territorial.
Like territory.
Yes, yes!
Look, I told you, Andy is not stronger than us.
[laughs]
Let's go.
[soft instrumental music]
[Andy] Average human life is rather short,
I prefer to live like about 3,000 years or more
like that would be enough to learn many things
I want to learn.
I prefer not to put myself in thick things but just look at our evolution from or like,
ideally I want to be blessed with extraordinary
imagination and just create my own world in my mind.
You will become the master of your own imaginary world without really subjecting others to your wishes.
As long as you don't feel stupid just live
in your own imaginary world it's quite interesting.
[Mandarin-speaking man] This game is very difficult only part of it has been conquered.
When I sit in front of the board
I really fell into the game.
When I lost my passion I have endless dreams...
dreaming of a movement that cannot be trusted
which I never thought of before.
But once I reach a certain level
the more I play
the more I feel the difficulty.
Even the best players in history their level is low
remember the sheer complexity of the game.
[woman in Chinese] Many top famous players...
they will sometimes sit on the board
all night long.
[Female 2 in Chinese] Only a blank board?
[Women in Chinese] Yes.
They will not play,
they will not read books,
they just sit there and think.
[man in Japanese] Since I was young
I have learned the game Go Seigen.
That changes the way you play.
After every move, the world is unknown.
[speaks Korean] You are not Picasso or Monet
just because you imitate their paintings.
Art is formed by putting your own color into something.
Legendary players are not only remembered to win.
They changed the game paradigm.
That's what I want to do too
but my road is still long.
[Japanese speaking] More than forty years ago
because the computer is getting bigger
a computer expert told me
computers will become more and more powerful.
However, consider the amount of space on the board 19x19
as wide as the universe
if the computer successfully wins
many things will be different...
the age we live in will change.
Anyway, today is about you.
Today about you and how you will lose to Gansheng
and make lots of reasons about it.
I mean he played well against me,
but can he repeat every game?
I don't know.
It's in the bag.
[laughs]
[soft instrumental music]
[Interviewer] What do you think about this game?
-No idea. -I pushed Gansheng...
Beat him!
He must issue the group,
it's only a matter of whether the group is another
strong enough to get any type of double attack
between two white groups, right?
Yes, that's about this,
The last 10 steps have occurred.
Here he is blocking.
This white group does not have many areas
so I will say in this exchange
Andy has scored a small victory.
[soft instrumental music]
I'm afraid Andy will attack again
and it will bite it.
I have no basis for this opinion about him.
What will he do?
He will attack again
and losing something like he did yesterday,
Oh Boy.
They jostle for positions in the middle
So now it's like arm wrestling
in the middle if who drives other people away
will have a big advantage.
[soft instrumental music]
[Curtis] White has won the arm wrestling competition,
she's like being surrounded by blacks now.
Looks like a white goal, Gansheng scored
a very big victory in this fight.
He is clearly completely closed but if he can survive, the game is good for white.
[man] Black is quite ready for that,
threatens double atari on one side
and grave arrests on the other side.
Now it's Andy's mind.
[soft instrumental music]
There are already three times
when Andy is most confident,
and other people managed to throw a wrench in the work.
I think he's still fine.
[Computer] 30 seconds.
[soft instrumental music]
Of course, Gansheng tried to kill the whole group.
This is very interesting.
Now black has no way to live, he doesn't have enough eyes.
Now the only thing he can do is he can push
and cut the white group fighting,
and the white corner group,
no one lives well.
[soft instrumental music]
This is a bad race.
[soft instrumental music]
[Curtis] So now, Andy must have won
because Gansheng's middle group is dead.
God, this is terrible.
I think Gansheng might make a mistake in reading.
That's the end of the universe.
[soft instrumental music]
If you still play the game,
please pause your mind for a moment.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to be present The first US Certified Professional, Andy Liu.
- [audience applauds] - [soft instrumental music]
[All] Andy!
-Other times you have to play teaching games!
- [laughs]
Please pause your mind for a moment.
I want to present the second
US Certified Professionals, Gansheng Shi.
[audience applauds]
Both appear as the top of the stack
and achieve the first AGA certificate as a professional.
And they deserve all of our respect and respect.
We have high hopes for their future.
Green tea, five types of green tea.
And when you make this tea and drink this tea
You can remember this experience.
[laughs]
So the AGA will send you to the five biggest tournaments in
Korea.
You are not just an individual Go player anymore.
You represent the American Go Association too
and the overall Go America community.
So if you become strong and a hero
and make lots of money
there will be thousands of children
who wants to learn to go because of you.
They want to be like you.
This might look the same as a few days ago,
everything changes.
It turns out we got our own business card.
[Friend] Oh, alright.
Where is Gansheng?
Oh, here [laughs].
Is that a weed?
No.
[Andy] Card BC, LG card, Samsung card.
There are two more.
Invited?
Like you don't even have to play or pre-qualify?
This is our prerequisite.
Main tournament?
Of the 32 people there will be two American players?
Yes, they invited our association.
And we got our own business card.
[laughs]
With AGA.
God.
I don't know what to say.
What was your question?
[Gansheng] Like when do you think we can go to Korea
to play in this tournament?
I'm not sure.
[laughs]
I'm actually... my concern
is being taken away by this game.
[clattering]
[soft instrumental music]
[Ben] I will not leave a good thing in Korea.
When I say it's a good thing, what is the opposite?
You get one adventure when you are alive.
Like what will I do?
This is the thing I like most,
take your talent to the fullest
and see where it goes.
Factoring all that, I don't even care,
whatever, better, worse,
I have to live in a studio apartment for
the rest of my life like that doesn't change anything about that fact
everything is what you make and like
treats my brain like I want to be treated,
do what is requested and make me happy
as opposed to lying to myself and
stay in a setting that doesn't fit.
I don't know, I'm a little afraid of him.
I don't know, he won't develop,
he won't survive in company settings, I know that.
Will he be fine if he spends the rest of his life
not as exiles but only unusual members of society
same as [sighs].
None of you fits the community well.
None of us?
[Curtis] I think I have the ability to adjust.
Do you do it?
Good.
I will try to watch my stutter, for example.
The only reason I did that was because I was looking for...
words that are more appropriate to describe myself.
But that's not the way most people talk.
If you don't want to work, what will you do?
[Andy] What do you mean?
Now if you won't go and do work carelessly.
I will, just in time.
[Curtis] Oh, are you?
Yes.
[Curtis] Okay.
Work is important.
[Andy] I agree.
[Ben] Hi.
So we have to find, I think if we go down,
there will be more shops and you can get cakes.
Yes, I want to get a cake with 99 on it.
I expect green hills,
like he lives on a mountain top or something like that.
[laughs]
Hopefully he likes the cake.
[Speaking Japanese] We will bring it in.
This is approaching your birthday on the old calendar.
So we will have a birthday party.
ΓΓ¬ Happy Birthday to you ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ Anda Happy Birthday to you ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ Selamat Happy Birthday Go Seigen ΓÖ¬
ΓΓ¬ Happy Birthday to you ΓÖ¬
[Japanese speaking] Everything together!
One two three!
[in Japanese] This is strong.
An amateur might cut here
but this is a vital point.
[Michael] Better about key points.
[Japanese speaking] Even if you catch two stones
this isn't good!
This is big.
That's big.
- [Ben in English] What year? - [Michael] 1942.
That was his first game at Jubango.
[in Japanese] I often played with Kitani sensei last night.
I will get tired when it's late
but then I will be more awake in the morning and follow.
We used to play swimming pools
near the center of Go.
Kitani will take off her glasses and it will bring it
five minutes
to hit the ball.
[Michael in English] He talked about the time when he was
still young.
Sometimes they have no time limit,
sometimes the deadline is very much,
and the game will continue throughout the night.
[Go Seigen in Japanese] He is a kind person.
Once I went to a temple in Kyoto
I play a very good game.
But with one move
an atari
the game is spoiled.
Mr. Segoe and the priests
all disappointed.
It's very close to perfect
but that's one...
[soft instrumental music]
[in Japanese] Go can bring happiness
to people all over the world.
That's the best.
I'm glad I played Go.
[Michael in English] He is tired.
[soft instrumental music]
[Curtis] What do you think of Andy?
Wasting too much time on Go?
- [Andy] Me? - [Curtis] Yes.
[Andy] Maybe, yes.
I mean, I imagined myself
do something other than Go.
Haven't studied Go and...
[Curtis] I think you can still do all these things
because you are still very young.
[Andy] That's not true, I mean...
The problem is once you make a commitment You're good, you're good Are you committed?
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