Life In 19x19

It is not random. In fact, it is easy to show a diagram where it matters. Outer stones alive, per convention.
Imagine a board at the start of endgame, with many intersections that are dame and will stay dame, because there were a lot of running groups. At this board, number of dame is not only ...

First, the argument is exactly the same under any ruleset : you can't predict the final score of any game with a precision of 0.5 points unless you have a supercomputer in your brain. This have nothing to do with dame.
Second, there is a sound and easy strategy about dame : they are the moves that ...

People, can we please not feed the troll?
He's not a troll, as he has 79 posts, most of which don't try to create controversy. If he was one, he would've shown behaviour of one. Also, he would've probably put more thought into this thread, as you're not going to get much trolling done when 50% of ...

Various pros favor Lee Sedol at the moment, so they clearly see significant difference between his level and what AlphaGo showed in its match against Fan Hui. The only unknown quantity is AlphaGo's improvement between October and March. It brings us to question of how long DeepMind team waited and ...

tapia, I suggest not making a habit of using japanese terms too much. Most go terms have equivalents in English, and these equivalents are known to most players, unlike the japanese ones. Mixing languages unless absolutely necessary is usually not a good idea.
You may want to check these pages on ...

Mostly it is about people disconnecting when the position gets complex. They do their reading offline and then come back with very accurate plays.

By "treating people like bots" I meant that even the "hi-thx" is inexistent.
Strange, I meet "unspeakables" even rarer than escapers. And escaping to ...

I recently play less on KGS than before because I've noticed that people there are less polite than I used to remember. Opponents are treated like bots, cheating has become widespread and all of this gives me an uneasy feeling. Of course the wisest course of action would have been to learn from ...