Life In 19x19

I haven't been following go forums in a while, but that's mostly because I've been preoccupied with other things and not playing go. There are so many online go resources now. I would not attempt to keep up with more than a couple of them or even one. I was an SL Recent Changes Junkie TM at one time ...

I admire Bonobo's advocacy. I think about it more in terms of promoting the game where people are rather than viewing it as a risk of fragmenting the community.

Yes, you do have to get the sign-up experience right and set up the privacy options correctly.

The demo board looks good and the two-step placement is intuitive. Some option for zoom would be appreciated on smaller devices, though this is tricky to get right.

The biggest challenge is getting new ...

Well I have to fight more and don't exactly know how to begin with that, so I could ask that question of you. :)

Some of the workshop lectures Bill Cobb published of Yilun Yang's workshops covers these styles: fighting, territorial, and moyo. I got to ask Mr. Yang about this in person once and he ...

What's your impression of Direction of Play and Positional Judgement High Speed Game Evaluation, what were your thoughts, are they still relevant in the AI era, what do you think of them for my level? Which one should I read first?

I think those are good questions. As for level, you're fine. That ...

If putting fake flies in urinals alters the aim of those who use them, it is not unreasonable to suspect the same of star points on go boards.

The only question in my mind is is whether putting small tsumego in urinals would have an effect.


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Something about the background makes me expect a Gorn will appear soon. It looks fun. Good luck!

How ever did I get by with just Korschelt and a couple of patient people at a club?

There is so much. But ultimately you have to take your fingers and place stones on the board. It's easy to forget that.

I spent about 30 seconds looking in vain mentally at liberty situations in the wrong part of the board, then sat back just saw it.



Once I was in a car with with some friends and I spotted someone far ahead and said she's attractive. After we past my friends were amazed. "How did you know? Your ...

I have some broken ones. There is a lead weight in the center.

Ah, so your RTX device ids are 1 and 2, not 0 and 1. Try this instead, then:

"engine-command": "./leela-zero/leelaz --gtp --lagbuffer 0 --weights %network-file --gpu 1 --gpu 2",

Remove the entry that says "--gpu 0 --gpu 1 --gpu 2 --gpu 3": true, as that is not a valid parameter to Lizzie and try again.

If that does not work, then we need to see the output of running leelaz by itself. To show that, do this from a a command prompt the same directory Lizzie.jar resides:

If ...

Ali makes an important point. In general, things should be done in a way that players want to participate in similar events in the future. That includes not just better processes and technical robustness, but touches on current behavior. Players should be able to enter tournaments without fear of ...

Oh, and welcome back to L19, Violence.