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I see illluck. That is what I was wondering.

Hello.

I started playing on Tygem, and I am often disconnected. I am able to log back in right away.

Last time I was disconnected, when I logged back in, there wasn't a prompt to resume the game. I am guessing that my opponent left the server after I disconnected. I had just killed a couple of his ...

Cheating with AIs must be prevented at all costs and I don't think that bots are any good for analyses. Firstly, they can't explain their reasoning, and, secondly, in kyu or low dan games, there are probably many moves that win the game and AlphaGo inherently doesn't choose the "best" move - it ...

I agree that Garlock was playing the humble facilitator and think he did a good job. I also enjoyed hearing some of the history, little tidbits about origins of words and ideas, from Redmond. This has been an extraordinary event, and great fun to watch live.

I did discover that when everything is ...

Very nice. As someone once told me, "Don't ever stop playing."

Where does 85 points per rank come from?

That number has been created because it kinda works with the first assumption of 3kyu=1700 as you go up in rank.

Trust me, I have a degree in Science.

(You could calculate the ELO difference in chess ratings between one go rank by looking at the ...

What exactly are we trying to compare? Amount of work? Brute reading ability? Prestige? Probability of beating a pro in an even game?

I was interested in a generic comparison. A general rule of thumb type of thing.

Despite my last entry that compares the ratings graphs for chess and go (those ...

palapiku, I like your approach. What about the comparison between USCF and AGA ratings?

Comparing this graph for chess http://www.eddins.net/steve/chess/2008/06/06/131 with this graph for go http://senseis.xmp.net/?AGARatingHistogram is interesting!

Not just looking at ...

This topic comes up often in discussions I have with chess players. I tell them I am 3kyu in go, and they say, "Well, what would that be if it were a chess rating?"

I would love to have a table similar to the world-wide rank comparison at http://senseis.xmp.net/?RankWorldwideComparison ...

Ok, I think I didn't apply it right in the game I played. I'll have to try again.

Wait, that strategy doesn't work in general at all. Filling internal liberties not only takes a move, it also reduces the total liberties of the group. It works in this situation to assume those stones are there because there are two internal liberties, and filling those internal liberties actually ...

That's interesting, Splatted. So one way of calculating a fight is to calculate the total liberties of the opponent's group, and the liberties of your group after all of the moves are made on the inside, and then compare.

That seems like a sound strategy. I'll have to try it out.

Thanks for the ...

W clearly has 7 liberties. Counting B liberties is slightly trickier. In order to capture, B needs to play moves at N19 and N15, so imagine those stones are already on the board. Now how many liberties does B have? The answer is 7 liberties. It might look like only 6, but to play those 6 moves, W ...

a 9x9 game size can yield up to 10x120th power number of games - the same number western chess can theoretically offer... -- Alberich

It seems to me this initial post is suggesting that the board should be smaller than 9x9, not bigger.

oren's post noting a 4x4 board used by Cho U is interesting ...

I am somewhat new to L19x19, but I saw a recent post where wms discusses the financial situation at KGS:
http://lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=111229#p111229

Another post of interest from 2010 I encountered was Bill Spight discussing why not to run in go:
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