Life In 19x19

Zen managed to give a decent performance, but it really exploded spectacularly in the endgame with Park Jeong Hwan.

Anyway, my pick came in last place.

I just wonder how time handicaps could be done. What if computers were really short-timed, such as one second per move? Of course the human players might have five minutes per move. Would that equalize the playing field?

Why are we trying so hard to handicap the computers? If we don't like losing ...

Japanese has a much higher chance of being pronounced correctly by the uninitiated than Chinese, as without tones every word without exception is automatically wrong.

I have also felt the "everything you do is wrong". The proverb to find bravery is "even a 9dan can't live with one eye". Maybe now the proverb is " even AlphaGo can't live with one eye".

What is the premise of the question?

The strength of the players during their first game against modern pros? Or after some adaptation period?

Isn't it conceivable that some of the "bad joseki" of early games would trick a modern pro during this first game because those moves have been discarded ...

While go is ancient in its origins, we have no good reason to assume the rules were the same. So "a few hundred years from its beginning, not going to be the same game as now.



The fundamental object of the game has always been to get more stones on the board than your opponent. The only ...

How many stones has humanity gained since the invention of Go? That is, if you took the masters of old (not like Dousaku, but really old, within a hundred years of the creation of Go) how would they fair against today's professionals? Of course, there are no records from this time, so it's all ...

I wonder if it is rank based at all. If you play 10000 games over the course of 100 years but can't get passed 10 kyuu, are you still a beginner? Or conversely, someone on their first day that doesn't know what a kou is but plays 8 dan moves...

Bill Spight wrote: One annoying thing: he calls sente leading hand.

That is literally what sente means, though.

If ko is a draw then someone can start a one point endgame ko to tie a game where they are 70 points behind on the board.

Can they? It seems that the other player would just pass.

hmmm....I guess so. But, at the very least, in the middle game every threat to make a kou would be sente to end the ...

If ko is a draw then someone can start a one point endgame ko to tie a game where they are 70 points behind on the board.

The rules do not phase in and out of effect when playing. Black's play in the above digraph does not "activate" the ko rule.

Also, describing "auxiliary rules" as ones that aren't a factor on every move means that the liberty rule is auxiliary whenever something isn't being captured.

Furthermore ...

You never have too much of a lead to self atari

I would have gone with black.... seems my counting is still faulty.

Gotraskhalana wrote:Somehow, the fact that not everyone can get shodan in an ELO system is completely absent from this thread.

Dan levels are supposed to measure skill, not rating.