Life In 19x19

Thank you very much lightvector for the detailed explanation. My bad for not distinguishing between bot preferences and move quality. Seems that I was more or less on the right track, at least with respect to win rates being a good measure, but thanks for clearing up the details. My "sweeping a lot ...

I have just begun reading up on how the new amazing Go bots work, so please correct me if anything I write here is misguided or outright wrong.

In the thread "How much do strong bots agree on moves? Case study", the quality of moves in the AlphaGo Master games is discussed primarily in terms of ...

Interesting info! Sounds like there is a real possibility that he actually is dan level. But do honorary diplomas have any correlation with real world skill? For instance, can we at least assume that he is a better player than the astronaut?

To the others: I didn't mean to insinuate that he is a ...

When Bill Gates recently appeared on the Norwegian/Swedish talk show Skavlan and was crushed by Magnus Carlsen in a chess game, he claimed to be pretty good at Go. Since he also said his chess rating was about 1600 ELO, I became curious about his go ranking. Could he be a dan-level player? Does ...

I'm trying to estimate shipping costs of a complete go set, and I'm hoping some of you in this thread can help me. If you recently ordered a complete set of board, stones and bowls from Japan:

What was the approximate shipping weight of the whole package? Or how much did you pay for shipping (and ...

I just noticed that each Amazon page for the Hikaru no Go manga series features a "I’d like to read this book on Kindle"-link. So I thought, hey, if hundreds of people on this forum requested a Kindle/iPad/AndroidTablet-version of the manga, they might actually make it available - and that would ...