Life In 19x19

Sad news indeed. I only met Richard once. The first time that I visited the Nihon Kiin main building (c. late 1979 or early 1980), I was peacefully browsing the bookstore when I was set upon by a crazy foreigner, absolutely full of energy, who walked up and started shaking my hand. He claimed that ...

pajaro wrote: Wed Mar 25, 2026 1:04 am ...
In short, what I meant, is that we can't compare the earnings in go and in golf.

Uh... I think you just did a great job of exactly that!

GREAT to have you (all!) back! It was a long, lonely wait. For years L19 unread posts was the start page on my browser. I switched away after a few months and have been slowly losing hope that the best Go site on the web would ever come back. I only clicked here today out of nostalgia rather than ...

To put the earnings in perspective, here are the top ten in earnings on the Japanese pro golf circuit in 2024.
Japanese Pro Golf Top Ten 2024.jpg
These are from https://www.jgto.org/en/stats/tour/money_ranking_all?year=2024 . The tenth-ranked person is earning more than in Go, indicating a deeper ...

Every Friday morning we get a sales flyer from the clothing chain Uniqlo tucked into the Yomiuri Shinbun (along with lots of other stores, etc.). Since most of my clothes come from Uniqlo, I diligently check what is on sale every week while sipping my morning coffee. Yesterday, I got the following ...

Is the overall position in the link from Michael Redmond's book? GoGoD has no example from professional play of White playing such an early inside approach. In the Shin Fuseki period there were many people who played on the star point on the left side (about a hundred games). Later people almost ...

I've never watched any Chinese games. Do Chinese players ever put their captured stones in the lid? They don't need them for area scoring but they could do so if they are using a form of territory scoring to track the situation during the game. If they don't, is the new rule aimed at "cleaning up ...

Sorry, but I couldn't resist butting in. :)

It is difficult to take this discussion seriously.
This part I can agree with. Let's not let it get too "loud".


It is a great collection that I was told wasn't really authored by Segoe and Go. If you want to convince me that it was then you can look ...

I'm looking at https://www.101weiqi.com/q/39312/:

I can see three different first moves for black to live or escape. Which one is best, and why? I'm asking because the site marks two of those as incorrect, and I don't agree. I can see why one of the three options is less good than the other two ...

S0nge wrote:Hello again,

I am just wondering if we can hope for a summer 2024 edition ?...

Second this!

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Also, I have a question about how practicioners thought about progress prior to AlphaGo. Was anyone here involved in implementing computer go programs prior to AlphaGo, or alternately have a recommendation for people to ask (I of course have names, but I don't know if they're names of people ...

Yeah, you got it...

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The solution in the book was odd. It is like some moves were misplaced by a zealous copy editor.

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ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF CLASSICAL GO PROBLEMS
Volume 1: "Wangyou Qingle Ji" and "Xuanxuan Qijing"

by John Fairbairn

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The book is in a large and well illustrated "coffee-table" format of 500 pages, and employs colour...

Available worldwide on demand from Amazon/Kindle Publishing from May 2024...

I ...

RobertJasiek wrote:Now, I have refined everything and put it on one webpage:

https://home.snafu.de/jasiek/AI_Computer.html

THANK YOU ROBERT!!!

I finally upgraded my gpu to a more modern model (4060 in my case). I had no idea what to do. Your extremely detailed instructions worked great!

One of the things that strikes me about studying with Katago is that we can never really justify starting in the middle of things.

I think you have really hit the nail on the head here. All too often discussion about computer variations devolves into hypotheticals — KataGo won't play it and any ...