Life In 19x19

Some youtubers pronounce 5700 as "fifty seven hundred" etc. I expect "five thousand seven hundred" or would understand "five [...] seven hundred". Is the first pronunciation, which should represent 50700, a common mistake, American slang or something else? If it is slang, then how do they pronounce ...

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How do you compare handicap and komi, for example 2 stones handicap vs. 20 points komi?
Results from pro games and bot games suggest that the advantage for the first move is close to 7 points. 2 handicap stones should be approximately equal to 21 points of komi.

The sorted list of possible ...

The world has changed a bit since this thread began. I think that the interesting approach today would be to use an engine like Katago to determine a handicap/komi combination that gives Black a 66.7% chance of winning (let's guess it is something like a 2-stone game with a 17 point komi). So then ...

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Just a compendium of the most common L&D shapes, with a few words of explanation how to attack/defend them.
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https://www.go-spiele.de/en/ishi-press- ... h-1-2.html

apetresc wrote:(By the way, I wonder if anyone recognizes the position on the board? It's not, as far as I can tell, any of the AlphaGo games against Sedol or Ke Jie, though maybe it's one of the hundreds of Master games)

The position is from game 1 AlphaGo vs Fan Hui.

given what happened in the upper right, i don't think the position is from a pro game, but i suppose it could be... can someone who can look up databases of pro games tell us?

The position is from a game Ota Yuzo vs. Yasuda Shusaku played in 1842.

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I am interested in the sequenze 8-32 purely for White.

1. Where is the first time Leela would have played differently as White.
2. After 32, if Black plays F8 White cannot kill the 6 black stones inside IMO. What sequenze would Leela play to F8 and how does it see White then?
Starting with move ...

From the engines menu you can select the command "Toggle GTP Console". Maybe you can see there a useful hint what's going wrong. E.g. you would see if the program couldn't open the file with the weights.

bohemian65 wrote:What am I doing wrong here?

Try using two minus signs like this:
--threads

This is an interesting discussion. Could someone who owns this book post a few snapshots of the content?
You can have a "look inside" at https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Go-Principles-Mastering-Basics/dp/4906574793/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539761237&sr=8-1&keywords=encyclopedia+of+go ...

The most general time control considerations I know can be found on the Arimaa website.
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/learn/matchRules.html

On second thought there is at least one particular problem with bot winrates, if used for anything else outside the bot's search. Because of the way pure MCTS works (averaging), winrates can only change slowly (the later in the search the slower potential changes are).

In peaceful positions this ...

pandora wrote:I can't open file .jar although has loaded new version java (who can help?)

From the readme.txt file:

Download the best network from http://zero.sjeng.org/best-network, save it in the lizzie directory as "network"

I wouldn't mind it, if it would beep at the end of each period.

You're right, it doesn't beep until the last period... that's a drawback indeed.

The DGT1005 Byo-yomi uses beeping sounds to indicate the intervals, with a long beep towards the end of the period in similar fashion of the calling ...