Life In 19x19

Let's take it to the extreme: you keep playing the game, despite not winning any games. Do you get enjoyment from claiming some understanding? If you're not winning, what's the difference between now and when you were 20k? You're putting stones on a board in both cases. Is it just because you're ...

When I bought crazy stone three years ago (what a huge waste of money by the way - I was not smart enough to predict the impact of deep learning on go), I made a KGS account to test the strengh of the program at Level 7 and Level 8. Of course I manually relayed the moves without telling my opponents ...

Now here are 3 of my wins against LeelaZSlow (I think I beat it 6-7 times), so I'm currently having like a 70% to 80% win-rate over the latest network c99f1ae0 running LeelaZSlow's very powerful computer. Some of these wins will show up as losses on my account because I will either timeout or resign ...

Over the past two days I played a bunch of games with LeelaZSlow on KGS under the username lowiq50. My rank of 11k? comes from one win over GnuGo 12k - so don't take it too seriously. I have had both wins and losses against this program. ( but more wins than losses, so dare I say that maybe I am ...

yup, m shows that more people who go in for its official competitions are 1d than any other rank.

as for new blood draining away, the Hikaru rush may be past it's prime, and the alpha wonder has demonstrated clearly to anyone with half a brain that it's not worth the bother unless you're as ...

I was under the impression that most people end up at around 1d by definition, 1d is where most people don't get, which is why Nihon Ki-in chose that name for that level, similar to 1d black belt in Judo.

Well for the local go clubs that I have participated in, it seems like 1k - 1d is pretty ...

After one year of playing I was around KGS 7kyu, and after two years KGS 4kyu. which is what happens to most people - so that makes you normal.
... comments like "you have no reading power or global awareness", "you play really slow, and even after a lot of time you still make s*** moves", "you ...

Here is another one of my many losses against Nicaso (happened before my first win against Nicaso).

After losing a bunch of games to Nicaso in the past two days, I finally got a win! I think Nicaso got a bit greedy in the bottom right corner, wanted everything, and paid a heavy price for it. I nearly blundered the game away later though(died from a missed atari) but managed to hold on the lead and ...

A game that I played against Nicaso (2d on OGS), and I was convincingly beaten.

This time I got a little rematch against "Ephiphany", and got to a much better start. I told him I'm somewhere in the SDK range and at the end of the game he thought I was lying/sandbagging (which is all too strange since just a week ago Ephiphany crushed me).

Anyways here is the game (it really ...

Uberdude: it seems like K15 works. Thanks for pointing that out (I definitely missed it in actual game), and yeah I would not have played this way if the cutting stones can be captured easily.

EdLee wrote:
, I feel if you lose that group, W+.

I think it was W+ at move 70 already - all moves after move 70 were pretty much meaningless.

In fact it very well might have been W+ at move 58 - white clearly pulled ahead there.

I played a game on KGS under a guest account. My opponent is a 1k on KGS. Because I think I am relatively better at simple peaceful games, I have decided to play aggressive to get into complicated fighting situations. The end result was utter destruction for me.

(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban ...

This past week I have been helping the Leela Zero project (for more details see m) by running self-play games and submitting them to an online server to train Leela Zero's neural network.

I had to review/learn a bit of programming to slightly modify the source code to keep sgf files of leela's ...