Life In 19x19

Thanks for the confirmation, we managed to get to the W+0.5 score in the end (luckily each group ended up with one eye so the extra points cancelled out)

I think any decision that implies 100% win/lose for one side or the other would be quite an unsatisfactory. Even flipping a coin would be better than that.

I feel "Rematch. Void the game and play it again" is the best solution. We can watch another exciting game and the stronger player naturally ...

One of my games on LittleGolem is in the final score counting stage: http://littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=1966165

However, I think both snapshots are not the correct score. With Japanese rule, it seems white might need to capture the two stones and black needs to place one more in it, so ...

Uberdude wrote:gamesorry, but then black o5 kills.

Oops, didn't realize there was L&D problem for white's group ..

$$Wc
$$ ---------------------------------------
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . O O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . X O . O . . . . . . . X . . . . . |
$$ | . . O X O X . . . , . . . . . X . . . |
$$ | . . O X O O . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O X X X ...

3. White to move Game Info:

Looks like the group names come from the Four Symbols:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Symbols_(China)

Have you considered sponsoring players to attend Go schools in China/Korea/Japan for a few months/weeks? That might help build up the first batch of strong players, and then they can teach others

pnprog wrote:

gamesorry wrote:This event happens within 2 km from my home ... It's a pity that I'm not there at the time.

You live in Fujian/Fuzhou? I was working there from 2009 to 2015

I grew up there, and now I’m working in some other place, but my home is still there

This event happens within 2 km from my home ... It's a pity that I'm not there at the time.

残念でした is more like "too bad, better luck next time!"

The machines might be better than us at go now, but machine translation still has a long way to go. Good for me, I might be able to keep my job for few more years!

I use Google translation (twitter use Microsoft Bing which is worse)
Both ...

mhlepore wrote:Move 238?

and 239?

I have a question on the third game of Li Zhe's 7x7 optimal solutions above:

When black plays :b1: , why can't white resist at a?

$$Bc
$$ -----------------
$$ | . X . 1 O . . |
$$ | . . X O X 2 . |
$$ | . a O O X O . |
$$ | . . X X O O . |
$$ | . . X . X O . |
$$ | . . . X . X ...

China: Ke Jie, Chen Yaoye, Zhou Ruiyang, Fan Tingyu, Dang Yifei

China is trotting out Fan, who won 7 straight last year, with Ke Jie and a random combination of 3 other players

They are not totally random though: Chen Yaoye won the last Bailing Cup, Dang Yifei won the LG Cup, and Zhou Ruiyang ...