Life In 19x19

I was surprised to see that the bots are ok with the 4-4 shoulder hit in the lower left. That move is one that I would have played pre-AI but thought I had learned was generally poor.

I'm also using one thread and getting almost exactly 2sec/move. I would have expected the vega 56 to be faster than that, but the mac opencl drivers are not supposed to be great so perhaps it is reasonable.

I finally managed to get leela zero working, and have autogtp running to contribute. I'm not seeing the speed I expected, is about 5 minutes/game what one would expect from a fairly fast machine? Is it possible I missed an option in compiling and it is running CPU only?

I've been able to get the CPU only version of Leela running, but that doesn't really play to the iMac pro's real strengths. I'm looking for something that will take advantage of the quality GPU. The OpenCL version of Leela will run but crashes as soon as it starts trying to analyze anything.

I have access to an imac pro, which I think has the right kind of hardware to be quite strong. I tried Leela with GPU but it just crashes. I also looked into AQ but tensorflow doesn't support GPU on mac anymore. What is the strongest option?

I think the net will first learn to trust that all unclear ladders work. It is a much worse mistake to run out of a long ladder then eventually works than to chase stones in a long ladder that eventually fails. It is true that the next step of a ladder is always likely to be somewhat likely in quasi ...

:b9: Alpha seems to agree with most humans that the 4-4 and 3-4 points in the corners are key. So I decided to look at the openings where each side takes two corners at 3-4 or 4-4 in the first four moves and see what the extremes are. In other words, how badly can either side go wrong if they do ...

I just watched Redmond's analysis of the first four games and they are even more impressive and confusing than I expected. Unlike the 60 "master" games, I'm not even sure I learned anything I could try to apply. Still a lot of fun to watch. It sounds like he plans to go through all 50 which is a ...

I've recently become re-energized about go, but can't seem to find any local clubs. I know there are some clubs on the North side of Chicago/Evanston, but these are quite far from me. There used to be a club at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and another in Oak Park, but both seem to be gone ...

Thanks. That's actually where I bought the board from in the first place. It's about the same price to send it back to be fixed as to buy a new board from them of similar quality. I'm hoping someone knows of a more efficient option.

There were some complications during a recent move, and what was supposed to be in boxes only for the moving truck ended up in a storage unit for over a year. Unfortunately this included by go board, a nice kaya table board I bought back when I had more time and money. It came out slightly warped ...

I've been playing a bit more recently (all online) and am interested in finding somewhere to play in person. I'm just west of Chicago, so pretty much anywhere around downtown ( or to the west) would be fine. I know there is ( or was ) a group in Evanston, but that's too far north. Ideally there'd be ...

Thanks. I wonder what I did with volume 2?

I'm going through my go books, planning to sell a bunch since I rarely read them anymore. I found two I can't even identify - they're in Japanese, and clearly some kind of tesuji problems. Can anyone identify these for me?

Still going all out when ahead is only part of what I mean - equally it means not making even overplays even when behind. This is usually the pro advice for playing white in handicap games : just play the normal move and black's inferior play will show itself. This is complicated by the fact that ...