Life In 19x19

But simply having a server-assigned rank is not a lie in itself, even if you have lost on purpose.

Yeah I just would see a distinction between someone manipulating their server assigned rank to keep it weak and someone ranking up. Is the former lying? Eh, depends how literal one wants to be but ...

Is sandbagging really lying? It's even a necessity to get a rank on some servers...

If someone is deliberately maintaining a weaker rating then they are misrepresenting their strength to opponents at minimum. It's related to but different to starting a climb from the highest declarable rank on ...

I think for humans it not only matters how many points a move gains or loses if you can play almost perfectly.
Many positions will be hard to play for a human, even though the AI says it's even. And this matters a lot to humans.

I think it's hard to quantify how easy or difficult a position is to ...

Second though on using these things for training. For kyu players especially, figuring out why some mistakes here are considering much worse than others is perhaps quite valuable. Why is P2 so much worse than N2 or P3? Or better why is P2 so much worse than L3? I think there's some value in trying ...

How many playouts did you do? I did 10k playouts for that position in KaTrain (Katago Engine) and the corner move evaluation looks like this: With Passing as -11 as a kind of floor on how bad a move can be here. I find it useful with early game moves like this to think of them in terms of fractions ...

And this is where I disagree. I'm 2 dan and unable to carry a favorable opening into a dominant middle game. As a 2d, showing joseki and fuseki to a beginner would have me pretend I understand things, while I don't. At any point in time they can choose exposing themselves to openings and corner ...

I equally object to Jose being portrayed as someone who knows it all and is teaching Davy to walk before he can run. That's the old paradigm of teaching Go, which I'm arguing AI should have humbled us out of. Jose is better at running than Davy but perhaps not because of his deep understanding of ...

As an aside, something that annoys me about some "take no BS" people is that some of them occasionally seem to end up in a mode where their goal is to outlogic and prove the other person wrong, rather than having a conversation in good faith. But the ones who are aware of the above (*) and who do ...

I can't really fathom using a term like "slow" with an opening move for a beginner. There's just *so* much in that single word that presumes so much more familiarity with the game than someone would have who is being showing the 4-4 move for the first time in a lesson.

This is something I've been wondering for a while now. Back in the day, everything was much simpler. The first two joseki a beginner learned were usually the oldschool 3-3 invasion and the keima approach to a 4-4 stone followed by a slide. Now these two joseki are considered subpar and the new AI ...

Sgians-dubha being the compromise plural?

No dumbing down here, please. This is a go forum: sgianan-dubha. And we're at it. let's not overlook the genitive singular: sgèine-duibhe.

You're playing with fire. In a few months time you'll hear people using "sgeines-dhuba" and crediting you as the ...

John Fairbairn wrote:The correct word to use in western texts is, of course, sgian-dubh.

Sgians-dubha being the compromise plural?

I had to play a (serious league) game against a much stronger player just last week (EGF 4dan). I knew I had very little chance going in, but well tried my best, learned something both from the game and the review and case closed. Now, I would not have appreciated him claiming to be my level and ...

I think if you tell someone it's a teaching game and that you're recording it for youtube or that they're live on Twitch it probably would affect the play of many or most people. Just as a hunch. Whether this matters or not I'm not sure.

It's incredible to me that it doesn't sound like the testing was being done blind. Which is an enormous issue with something like this where there is no appeal or similar. Beyond methods used, time spent and everything else, this on its own would cause very serious problems.