Life In 19x19

It appears to work for chess, I see no reason why it shouldn't for Go.

There is a research paper that uses the interpretation of a game as a Markovian model and a comparison with Stockfish to analyse all 26'000 games that the world champions played. The prediction of the winning chances for the ...

I'd contact the Paulista Go Center
https://www.facebook.com/paulistagocenter
their email appears to be nihonkiinbrasil at hotmail dot com

It's not the one founded by Iwamoto Kaoru, but it is in São Paulo, exists since 2012 and seems well established. I am sure, one of them knows somebody who knows ...

Great to see you back! And with such an improved mindset. Congrats for having overcome the agony. I hope the same happens to Fedya.

Enjoy the ride, it will take you further!

I'm pretty sure some aspects of my game have been improved. Spotting corner shapes for example. I find 9x9 very enjoyable on a mobile device. I'd play it even if there were no transferable skills to 19x19.

I like how they turned a Japanese(?) table board into a western one.

edit: oops, I can't count to ten. My post doesn't make sense.


I believe the miraculous stuff already happens within Chinese rules: Without komi, the score difference between the players is usually odd, so it should not make a difference, whether komi 7.5 or 8.5 is used.

Since it does make a ...

Amazing stuff. Thanks John for keeping this project going!

How do these old games get discovered? Are they included in ancient game commentaries, hardly anybody has seen?

There is sometimes a tacit cascade:
1) Find a solution to live with points
2) Find a solution to live with seki
3) Find a solution to live with ko where you take the ko first
4) Find a solution to live with ko where the opponent takes the ko first

If there is no solutions for 1) you have to find ...

Get a second hiba board. Or put a cardboard box next to it. Or put a cardboard box over it, if nothing else helps.

@xela: your stats are biased because if I counted correctly,

The two players have an identical rating in 62% of the games.
White is at least 1 rank stronger in 24% of the games.
Black is at least 1 rang stronger in 14% of the games.

(And sorry for derailing the thread further.)

When OGS was ...

I remember! Thanks for bringing back some childhood memories.

And I was secretly hoping that someone analyses this with a bot (the same with Lee Sedol's ladder game).

Hurray for the big avalanche! I can't make sense of the move order though.

I prefer white for the following reasons:
+ Black's cutting group is heavy and cuts two rather strong white groups. It can be attacked for benefit and profit, turning the top into territory, getting rid of the bad aji of F17 and wrecking blacks right side. Maybe white doesn't get all of these, but ...

Vesa wrote:Knives Out!

No further explanation.

Cheers,
Vesa

Wow, it even features in the trailer!

A pity nobody showed them how to hold the stones (I kind of hope it is deliberate, but I doubt it). And I don't think that that bump was a good move. On the other hand, everybody makes mistakes..

A single 40:60 statement isn't worth a lot in my understanding. The question is what happens if you lower the komi. If you lower the komi by one and end up with 70:30, the original komi was a fairer one.

I don't think it is possible to achieve 50:50 winning chance anyway. And the stronger the bots ...