Life In 19x19

Also it is fascinating to see how Kim Jiseok pulled himself together after devastating three losses to Sin Jinseo just a few days before.

Yeah, up to now it is the most interesting tournament in years. In semi I would like to see Ke Jie vs Sin Jinseo and Park Junghwan vs Chen Yaoye. I believe they are the strongest at the moment.

Good round for Japan!

We can always switch to blitz games. In chess it works. You cannot use a bot if there is little time.

I knew it! Humans still can beat bests bots. And they played only 20 min main time. Well done!

I'd like to raise some attention to a strange move that wasn't mentioned before: e2

I think any strong player knows that g2's purpose is to get sente - you make this exchange and then play away (or you just descend in gote to c2). No pro, and I think no strong amateur, would add e2 immediately. It ...

I guess there are no restriction on hardware. At least it never was in past. And I doubt that DeepZen team can compete with Tencent company on this. FineArt never published the hardware they are using.

I preferred black after the trade top side: FA's result is so clean (and top left corner to side became solid, I feel like white should have some skillful play to probe there are make some aji before black got so solid) whilst white's corner is full of bad aji. I wouldn't have found FA's sacrifice ...

I guess the ko went well. He messed up in the center trying to cut black group. According to FineArt it was enough to just take the stone

It wouldn't hurt those guys behind define go program to mention hardware as many programs on CGOS did. To not confuse spectators.

No, we can't. It just not working in that way. There is a specific branch in NN learning called "Transfer Learning" and the main outcome it is very difficult.

What's the tournament Ke Jie play Park?

There is a limit for any improvement. The question will be if pros can find keys to that best version of AI. And I guess the will.

Again rather strange loss by DeepZen. When a bot lose 0.5 point it feels like it just misread the score.

In case DeepZen go to the next round which will be held in November will they use the current version and hardware?