Life In 19x19

John Fairbairn wrote:the famous quote often attributed to world chess champion Emanuel Lasker, that if intelligent aliens exist on another planet, the game they would play would be go.

As far as I know it wasn't Emanuel Lasker quoting this, but Edward Lasker, who is only distantly related to Emanuel.

Go got an honorable mentioning in an article about string theory in the Quanta Magazine :

When researchers at the artificial intelligence company DeepMind created the AlphaGo algorithm, which in 2016 bested a top human Go player, the physicist Fabian Ruehle took notice.

“I thought, if this thing ...

It seems not a lot of his followers are reading on L19.

Regarding the book, there has been a review by Triton Baduk on Youtube.

2) Reddit - Slightly less ethereal than twitter ( a low bar, indeed ). But a great place for quick discussions.
FWIW, probably not a lot of people know this, but Reddit is not available in all countries. Here in Indonesia it's blocked by the government. I am grateful to have L19, and even though I ...

I don't know if anyone here does chess tactics and remembers chess.emrald.net from back in the day, but it's basically that. They got it exactly right, I think

I never knew chess.emrald.net but it seems https://chesspuzzle.net/ is using pretty much the concept that you have in mind.

My first book was "In the Beginning", too, and (together with some practice on 321go.org) it brought me from nothing to around 16k (KGS).

As for your other questions, "Attack and Defense" is a bit advanced, it is most beneficial around 9k, but you might start enjoying this at around 12k.

"Tesuji ...

Probably no need to add another thread, since this one fits well.

Recently I stumbled upon the youtube channel Contraband Go. It's been active for about two years and already has quite a few videos. Does anybody know who he is?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNtDyEjzIgyMHAX8NegFr3w/featured ...

Already a few years ago, but there are two episodes of PBS Space Time that explain entropy with a goban
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfffy12uQ7g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR23aMjIHIY

Also Carlo Metta, the Italian accused and convicted of cheating with Leela in the pandanet league, beat current French champion Ben DG 6d so that's more evidence he has improved significantly.

According to information from the German discussion board (via Benjamin Teuber, the German participant ...

tapir wrote:Using your rating is a form of sandbagging.

What do you mean by that? And what is the connection to my >5 year old posting that you quote? Please elaborate.

Hi all,
since I had an account there (though not used for years), I have extracted the files, combined them and attached them to this posting.

Hi rifqi,

yeah, unfortunately the "Igo Indonesia" webpage closed down a few years back.
Since then the Indonesian go community has been gathering within 'Fesbuk' . You may find someone to help you there.

Thanks, daal. Trying to connect with the client also timed out
That's the jnlp file though... I would probably need the cgoban.jar fille locally on my computer and start it from there. But the download does not work

Edit: got the jar file from alternative website (an old version obviously ...

Hi all,
I haven't been on KGS for some time and was trying to connect now, but failed. Accessing (from Germany) the website at m leads to timeout.
The servercheck at m tells me that the KGS website is up.
It is not a browser issue (I tried Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Edge) and not an OS issue (I tried ...