Life In 19x19

Thanks for taking the time to continue the development of Quarry.

Any chance of adding a tournament feature like the Arena GUI does for chess? (You can run a tournament between many game engines, view the games as they are played, see the results table, see the engine rankings / ratings.)

Hmm ...

I (would like to learn enough to be able to) consider myself an armchair linguist, and I'm always interested in the etymology of words, so I didn't feel at all offended by the discussion of gradus and ji .

I used to take Aikido, so I'm already familiar with the kyu/dan ranking system. I don't ...

The other interesting thing (to me) is that when you push the blitz settings past a certain value, the bots lose again. Intuition counts for a LOT in this game.

Now, I don't have 24 cores available at home, but I know that on my computer shrinking the time per move below 10 seconds gives me huge ...

Redundant wrote:I know the quote. I was facetiously (and rather poorly) referencing a meme.

My bad - I still haven't played either Portal game, so while I know the common meme from Portal, Portal 2's stuff hasn't trickled its way down the wall of pop culture into my brain yet.

Heard this on NPR last week and said "I've heard this before... what is it... OH! It's the OTHER song from Excalibur!" (the first being O Fortuna, of course -- the soundtrack lists 5 songs, but if you've ever seen the movie, you know what I meant. I don't remember the other three at all, though I'd ...

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Uh... true. I'll go with true.

"Who guards the guardians?" (or watches the watchers, or polices the police, if you prefer)

It's a rhetorical question, usually used to point out some sort of injustice perpetrated by those in positions of authority. The quote is ...

You don't actually need to swing with a creature to deal damage with Goblin Grenade, but... the creature you sacrifice must be a Goblin, so unless it's a Tuktuk the Returned token, I don't know of many things that you can sac to both Atog and Goblin Grenade.


Or one of my favorite new cards ...

EDIT: I read lamentation above about the new combat damage system resolving as instants... wasn't it always like that? That's why my Atog deck even worked, as instant effects resolve in reverse order - otherwise it would die before you could pump it up.

Or am I misreading, and rather than ...

So in other words maybe an interesting thing to do would be to look at unlabeled life and death problems and -- without solving them first -- quickly jot down things like "under the stones" or "nakade" or "seki" or "ko" or "death in the hane." Then go back, solve them, and see if the first instinct ...

Been a long long time... last I heard Lightning Bolt was restricted in tournament play, being non-existent in 4th edition. But I'd pretty much stopped playing by then anyway.

Somewhere in a box I might be able to find my favorite deck of all time - a Red/Artifact deck based on Atog from 3rd Ed ...

slightly off topic, but can your new version play against MoGo?

The one shipped with Ubuntu (0.2.0) fails on the GTP properties query. I didn't notice any comment on that on the git web page. So far I have been far from successful in finding a working frontend for mogo.

Quarry 0.3.0.1 is up, and ...

For me, ladders which bend are really difficult to read correctly

You probably already have a copy of The Treasure-Chest Enigma in your collection? The essays in the first half are great for motivation, but the second half is nothing but bending ladder problems. I used to practice reading those ...

Marcus does not even have to win the ko. He can lose the ko like this:

$$Bc
$$ ---------------------------------------
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . O O . . . . . . . . . . . O O |
$$ | . . . . . X O O X X . . X O O O O X . |
$$ | . . . O O X X X O , . . X . X O X . X ...

My suggestion: $$Wc
$$ ---------------------------------------
$$ | . X . X . X . X . X . X . X . X . X . |
$$ | X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | X . . , . . . . . , . . . . . , . . X |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | X ...

SpongeBob wrote:I contacted a local company, but they are already sponsoring an upcoming Go tournament.

I'm guessing you don't live in the U.S.? From my perspective that's GREAT news!