Life In 19x19

Helel wrote:

Harleqin wrote:Perhaps you could get a faster reply if you asked for someone who knows Korean.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learn ... v313.shtml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY

Some bots continue to make the same type of mistakes - playing against them too often may result in you developing a habit of playing bad moves that work against the bot.
But so do human players. I think the suggestion of not playing bots should be replaced with not wholly playing against a single ...

Joaz Banbeck wrote:I second Suji's suggestion to not play computers when you are SDK. They teach you bad habits.

How would playing an opponent who is weaker than a computer teach you less bad habits?

Maths troll

A hard tesumego
$$Bcm1 Black to play and win ...

I would like to be a team player.

Also, komi does not make the sides equal. The roles of Black and White are still fundamentally different. If you want true fairness, you need simultaneous play (cumbersome but feasible with a board; trivial with computers). Surely some game with simultaneous play is "more perfect" than Go?
What if ...

nagano wrote:They may be most popular, but they are all fatally flawed at the moment because they have arbitrary rules, and it may not be possible to fix that. (But go ahead and try!)

Go has arbitrary rules too (e.g. the rule which disallows suicide).

When I teach go I give them a 9x9 board and 41 stones each. I explain about capturing, about no repitition and that the one who has all his stones on the board has won the game. After they both have passed in succession they are allowed to place stones on the empty positions completely surrounded ...