Film and Television: Starting with Using AI to Solve the Rare Chess Puzzle

"We've finally arrived. Whether we succeed or not depends on this!"

On a boulder in the valley, Lu Ming looked tense, glancing ahead every now and then. His hands tapped his phone repeatedly, his movements slow and cautious. However, his pale face and slightly trembling legs made him appear very weak.

This isn't from being tired from climbing mountains, it's from being genuinely exhausted!

Lu Ming wasn't from this world, but a time traveler. In this era where one could travel to another world and obtain a system simply by being hit by a lucky charm, he also obtained a system—the Film and Television Time Travel System—because of a lucky charm. Unlike those powerful systems that grant invincibility through signing contracts or winning lotteries, the Film and Television Time Travel System only has three functions: time travel, granting an identity, and storage space.

Furthermore, the worlds one can travel to can only be film and television worlds, including but not limited to movies, TV series, anime, and short dramas...

Of course, there might be some bonuses along the way. For example, after binding with the system, Lu Ming found that his mind was clear and his learning and comprehension abilities had greatly increased. The storage space provided by the system started at only one cubic meter, and it would double in size for each additional world he traversed.

The initial worlds provided by the system are "Short Drama Comprehensive World" and "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils".

As a modern person, a seasoned "smartphone addict," and someone addicted to their phone, coupled with the fact that the Tianlong world's timeline is set in the Northern Song Dynasty, a martial arts world where human life is cheap, even with the allure of martial arts, he gritted his teeth and chose the short drama world of "Short Drama Comprehensive World" as his first choice.

Although the system gave him the identity of an ordinary college student, he was able to switch between the modern world and the short drama world thanks to the system. He also accumulated a lot of wealth by plagiarizing. He stayed away from the few characters in the plot that he knew and successfully won over the school beauty. At the same time, he was also ambiguous with several beauties. He lived a life of indulgence and decadence every day, squandering his seed.

However, as time went by, he found that his body was deteriorating day by day, and in just over a year he had become the frail person he is today. This made him realize that the system did not seem to have given him the ability to live forever or reincarnate.

So, he made a difficult decision that went against his ancestors' wishes: he wanted to make a change, at least to have an immortal and healthy body. So he asked someone on the black market to buy a pistol and came to the world of Tianlong.

Not far ahead, in front of a stone wall, an elderly man with disheveled white hair sat cross-legged in front of a stone table, deep in thought.

On the stone wall next to the old man, there was a rough, huge chessboard, with a large number of stone chess pieces scattered on it like stars, occupying about two-thirds of the space.

The old man's name was Su Xinghe, the eldest disciple of Wu Yazi, the current leader of the Xiaoyao Sect. The mountain where the two were located was called Leigu Mountain, and the valley they were in was called Deaf-Mute Valley. The chessboard on the stone wall was the Zhenlong Chessboard.

At this moment, Lu Ming was using his mobile phone to input the exact positions of the black and white pieces on the Zhenlong Chess Game into the Go software he had already prepared, intending to use AI to crack the Zhenlong Chess Game and seek Wu Yazi's nearly 100 years of refined internal energy and the martial arts of the Xiaoyao Sect.

The Northern Darkness Divine Skill, the Lingbo Steps, the Lesser Formless Skill, the Six Yang Palms of Tianshan... each one is a top-tier martial art in the world of Jin-style martial arts. If you can master them all, you might not be invincible in this world of Tianlong, but you can at least walk sideways.

Before long, Lu Ming had perfectly copied the intricate chess game on the stone wall into his phone. After checking it several times and testing it a couple of times to make sure there were no problems, he straightened his clothes and came to the opposite side of Su Xinghe with a respectful expression.

"Sir, would you allow me to try and solve this puzzle?"

Upon hearing this, Su Xinghe looked up at Lu Ming, who had a humble, even somewhat obsequious, expression, and was slightly surprised. He could see that the young man before him was unsteady on his feet and pale-faced, clearly showing signs of excessive indulgence. However, his appearance did meet the standards for accepting disciples of the Xiaoyao Sect: sword-like eyebrows, bright eyes, and a handsome face, making him a standard handsome man.

He nodded and gestured.

A look of delight flashed in Lu Ming's eyes. He quickly sat down opposite Su Xinghe. After Su Xinghe placed a black piece, he quickly picked up a white piece from the table and started playing according to the AI's move on his phone.

Su Xinghe didn't know what Lu Ming was holding, but he didn't care. He didn't think the young man in front of him could solve the Zhenlong Chess Game, because in his opinion, Lu Ming's moves were completely amateurish. He didn't even seem to be thinking. Usually, Lu Ming would place a piece, and the young man would just tap the black box in his hand and place his piece as well.

In just a short while, his expression changed from relaxed to serious, and he took longer and longer to place his pieces.

As Lu Ming placed his piece, Su Xinghe was surprised to find that Lu Ming's white dragon, which was originally doomed, had miraculously gained a glimmer of hope and was gradually expanding.

"Modern Go has long had solutions to endgame problems like the Zhenlong Chess Game, and not just one. Furthermore, modern AI algorithms have thoroughly studied the rules of Go. No matter if you're a Go master or a grandmaster, you absolutely cannot win against these AI algorithms!"

Seeing the change in Su Xinghe's expression, Lu Mingxin was filled with smugness. You see, in order to solve this intricate chess puzzle, he had paid for the most powerful AI Go software on the market and selected the highest difficulty level where he was guaranteed to lose.

At this moment, he seemed to see the Northern Darkness Divine Art, the Lesser Formless Art, and so on beckoning to him.

"clatter!"

As Lu Ming placed his black piece, Su Xinghe's raised right hand hesitated to fall. Finally, he sighed deeply, put the black piece back into the chess box, and looked at Lu Ming's handsome face with a somewhat disappointed expression.

"I, Su Xinghe, have dedicated most of my life to studying chess, even neglecting my martial arts for it. I thought I had reached the pinnacle of chess, no less than my mentor. But now I've been defeated so easily by Young Master Lu!"

Lu Ming was not surprised by Su Xinghe's sudden remark. He knew that the other party was pretending to be deaf and dumb, and even named the valley Deaf and Dumb Valley.

He gently waved his phone in front of Su Xinghe's eyes and chuckled, "Senior is too kind. I don't actually know anything about Go. I won entirely because of what I had in my hand; it's practically cheating!"

"Cheating?!"

Su Xinghe looked puzzled, took the phone from Lu Ming, looked at the chess game on the screen, then at the chess game on the stone table, and found it to be exactly the same. His eyes widened in even more confusion: "Young Master Lu, I wonder about this..."

"Senior, this tool is called a mobile phone. If you can see ten steps ahead while taking one step, it can see a hundred or a thousand steps ahead while taking one step... So you didn't lose to me, you lost to it!"

Lu Ming smiled and stepped forward, took the phone back, and explained the principle behind it to him with a smile.

Then, in front of Su Xinghe, he started a new game, setting the difficulty to the highest level, and handed the phone back to Su Xinghe, indicating that he should play a game of Go on the phone.

Holding his phone, Su Xinghe played black and made the first move, following Lu Ming's instructions. After placing his piece, he noticed a white piece suddenly appear next to his black piece, which immediately piqued his interest. He then began playing chess on his phone.