The second round of the "Electronic Shogi War" was held at Nijo Castle in Kyoto. Signs of exhaustion were clear on Ōki's face as he played the 1102nd move. The match began with both sides exchanging the "Ranging Rook" (Sofuribisha) strategy, and after each side whittled down the other's camp, the game headed toward a "Draw by Impsse" (Jishogi)—a state where both kings enter the opponent's camp (the rear area), making checkmate impossible, so points are counted to determine the winner or a draw. Ōki had never seen panic grip Ai as it did in that moment.
(Is it possible that he is seeking a draw by points while he is the first player (Sente)?! Does he really intend to use next week to perform another update?) (Ai)
(...But in terms of points, aren't we the ones leading?) (Ōki)
(Certainly. We lead by two Pawn pieces.) (Ai)
After the "AlphaZero" program lost any hope of winning as the starting player, it resorted to the Draw by Impasse strategy. If the match ended in a draw, it could update itself again before the next round.
However, Ai realized this at the last moment and sought to capture more pieces to reduce AlphaZero's points as much as possible. Thus, both Kings succeeded in entering the opponent's camp (Nyugyoku), but the match did not end in a draw. The reason was that AlphaZero—the software side—refused to agree to the draw.
It is very rare for a draw not to be agreed upon after both sides have promoted numerous pieces. Afterward, Ōki and AlphaZero continued to play "Hell Shogi," which consisted of promoting Pawns into Gold Generals (Tokin) and dragging them slowly back to the rear camp endlessly. In the end, Ōki succeeded in stripping the opponent of its defensive pieces one by one with the patience of Job, achieving victory on the 1102nd move. The previous postwar record for the longest match, held by Kuzuryu against Ayumu with 402 moves, was shattered by more than double.
Ōki, who rarely shows fatigue whether he wins or loses, was utterly exhausted today.
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220: What in the blazing hell is this? More than a thousand moves?!
221: If Ōki hadn't been the player, the match would have continued until the next morning.
222: A crushing victory over AlphaZero?
223: Thanks to AlphaZero, we got to see the scene of Ōki eating dinner for the first time in ages.
224: Is it possible he managed to win from that position...?
225: In the end, it would have been better for it to agree to the draw.
226: I want to know Ōki Haruo's home address. Someone tell me the address.
227: Die, Ōki.
228: His ability to win against a monstrous program like this means he doesn't usually play seriously, right? He really is human scum.
229: Giving a diamond necklace to an elementary school student is disgusting.
230: Are there still idiots causing chaos in the support forum? He said himself he doesn't mind insults in the "Haters' Forum" (Anti-thread), so go there, you morons.
231: The forum for Ōki haters is here: [Triple Crown by Cheating] Ōki Haruo Haters Forum - Part 9 [The Pedophile Criminal]
232: Ōki Haruo, who recently got addicted to "World of Warships" (WoWs) @haruo ooki "I don't read haters' forums, so write whatever you want there. But the people who entered the support forums and visible places to cause chaos caused me annoyance, so I submitted a request to disclose their identities and filed a lawsuit. In the end, it turned out the chaos was the work of only two people using 11 devices to write, and a settlement was reached with them paying the costs + a reconciliation sum. Ah, that is all I have to report."
233: >> 232 Thanks as always. Many threaten trolls and end up inflaming the situation against themselves, but his use of the past tense "filed a lawsuit and a settlement was reached" is a powerful and terrifying move.
234: The insults all come from new accounts, which reveals everything.
235: But giving a diamond necklace to an elementary school student is...
236: >> 235 Kuzuryu gifted his disciple a Shogi board worth 5 million yen, just for your information.
237: Isn't there anyone here who can discuss the content of the match itself?
238: Impossible, because it was from another dimension right from the opening. It wasn't Shogi played by humans.
239: It was fun watching the process of converting Pawns into Generals and pulling them back over and over. Although it was hell for the one playing.
240: I always think about this; he consumes almost no time thinking, right?
241: But he used nearly an hour today. Because of "Häagen-Dazs."
242: The way he went to the bathroom suggested he had diarrhea in the middle of the match, no doubt.
243: Could it be that he reviews software analyses inside the bathroom?
244: >> 243 If he is developing his own software capable of defeating AlphaZero, that makes him a terrifying person in a different way.
245: The robot who raised "Häagen-Dazs" sales by 30%.
246: Ōki is definitely a robot using "Häagen-Dazs" as fuel. A normal human cannot eat all that amount of "Häagen-Dazs" continuously.
247: Didn't he eat 4 tubs today? His stomach will definitely suffer damage.
248: The truth is that the regulars of the "Electronic Shogi" forum stopped thinking and settled for repeating "Ōki is terrifying." No one expected he would play to win after reaching the Draw by Impasse state.
249: Please. Let me marry Miss Yashajin.
250: ◆ Triple Crown Ōki Triumphs in the Second Round of the "Electronic Shogi War" After a Heated Battle!! (April 30) The second round of the "Electronic Shogi War" was held at Nijo Castle, where Ōki achieved a hard-fought victory over the strongest program in history, "AlphaZero." By the 320th move, both Kings had already reached the deepest point in the opponent's camp, and the match seemed to be heading toward a Draw by Impasse (Jishogi), but the software side flatly refused the draw. The program faced criticism from several quarters for its style of refusing to resign illogically. ▼ Comment by Triple Crown Ōki (Win in 1102 moves. In response to being asked how he felt after the draw was refused twice): "It didn't seem the opponent was good at playing in the 'Draw by Impasse' position, so his refusal worked in my favor. I realized then that it would require an enormous number of moves, but since it was a match requiring the patience of Job, I felt tired."
251: Summing up that match with just "I felt tired" is strange in many ways.
252: By the way, when I saw him eating Katsudon (rice with deep-fried pork cutlet) and a full hamburger meal for dinner, I suddenly remembered: "Ah, he is a high school student at the peak of his growth phase."
253: Since he announced on Twitter that he would double his food intake morning, noon, and night, I feel his body has started gradually returning to its normal size. Professional players usually don't eat until they are full during dinner at matches.
254: To say "I will eat double" and actually start eating double, that's madness. >> 252 Ōki doesn't go to high school in the first place.
255: If he weren't crazy, he wouldn't be able to play Shogi like that; this is a fixed rule.
256: I thought about replaying the match on the board, but I got full and had enough after only 100 moves.
257: Even the professionals couldn't give a logical commentary, that's funny.
(Most likely, the person who pastes copies of Twitter tweets every time, and the person who writes comments belittling Kuzuryu, are agents of the Yashajin family.) (Ai)
(Are you serious? I noticed that topics were being changed and discussions diverted often, but is it possible there is "covert work" to prevent flames from igniting against me?) (Ōki)
After the match ended, while Ōki was fiddling with his smartphone on his way home, he checked the forum and then examined the results of the Sandan League (3-Dan League). There were matches today in the Kansai region, and Konogi had lost two consecutive games against both Karaka and Kagamizu.
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