runjaj, Spanish
timotheegoguely, French Ça y est c'est le grand jour, me voilà officiellement inscrit au tournoi de go de Strasbourg ! Il y a beaucoup de monde, plus de 80 personnes de tous niveaux et toute l'Europe !
http://tournoi.gostrasbourg.fr
Je vais jouer 2 parties cet après-midi et 2 autres demain. J'espère au moins en gagner une sur les 4 😅
À la fin du tournoi, j'aurai enfin un classement officiel au niveau de la fédération, je vous dirai ce que ça a donné !
timotheegoguely, > The tactics used by Pelrine involved slowly stringing together a large “loop” of stones to encircle one of his opponent’s own groups, while distracting the AI with moves in other corners of the board. The Go-playing bot did not notice its vulnerability, even when the encirclement was nearly complete, Pelrine said.
> “It shows once again we’ve been far too hasty to ascribe superhuman levels of intelligence to machines,” Russell said.
peterdrake, Doing the counting problems in chapter 2 of Ogawa & Davies's "The Endgame". I'm getting correct or close to it on most of them, but the thought of doing this under the time pressure of a game, remembering (without pencil and paper) the results of several local searches so I don't have to re-read them every turn, and still having the mental capacity to explore the main tree of play? shudder
peterdrake, Registration for the 2024 US Go Congress (July 13-21 in Portland, Oregon) is now open!
peterdrake, I beat a 2 dan! I (black) had five handicap stones and was very, very careful to hang onto my ever-shrinking lead until the game was over.
https://ai-sensei.com/game/6HhIL50SU1YUwtfnxeT5kTMrG0z1/wYabZhGn0gtpIeS3GTya
peterdrake, If you're interested in learning the classical Asian game of Go, widely regarded as the pinnacle of elegant game design, the Portland (Oregon) Go Club is teaching beginners are local libraries:
peterdrake, @nyrath I've got DVDs of the anime.
Movies where people play games usually get it deeply wrong. For example, the Go board in A Beautiful Mind makes no sense. Hikaru no Go did a clever thing: the games shown are historical games between experts.
michael_w_busch, @nyrath @peterdrake "The Queen's Gambit" brought in Kasparov and a couple of other chess masters to consult; then wrote some of their favorite games into the script.
peterdrake, We both missed big moves in the upper right corner for a long time.
https://ai-sensei.com/game/6HhIL50SU1YUwtfnxeT5kTMrG0z1/7yYFHZchzEogTA2lYjKL
erictleung, "My guess is that AlphaGo’s success forced the humans to reevaluate certain moves and abandon weak heuristics. This let them see possibilities that had been missed before."
a hopeful take on what AI can do to push us to innovate
zenorogue, A game of Go on a hyperbolic manifold, played in the HyperRogue discord server, ended like this.
#noneuclidean #noneuclideangeometry #rogueviz #bringsurface #baduk
henryseg, @zenorogue Aesthetically, I’d want the stones to be a bit bigger, almost or even touching, to make it easier to see the groups. Also, even toroidal go is very different from standard go due to the lack of boundary. It would be interesting to see a game played on a hyperbolic board in the shape of a suitable right angled polygon.
zenorogue, An animation of this game. (In the end, dead groups are removed for scoring purposes.)
Thanks to tres14159 on Twitter for the idea of the animation, and to @henryseg for the suggestion to make the stones larger. This is not a regular tiling, so some stones touch, but in some cases the distances between intersections are larger.
#noneuclidean #noneuclideangeometry #rogueviz #bringsurface #baduk #mathart
timotheegoguely, 🏁 Well, I just finished this 19×19 go course on Go Magic with a 86% grade! I feel like I’ve understood a lot of new subtleties and consolidated some of my skills. I highly recommend it!
https://gomagic.org/courses/deeper-into-the-game-of-go-on-19x19/
I need to practice now, and take the time to go back to my town’s go club to play more against real people on a 19×19.
peterdrake, I (black, 3 stone handicap) lost by 1.5 It was a game of inches with no blunders on either side. #go #igo #weiqi #baduk https://ai-sensei.com/game/6HhIL50SU1YUwtfnxeT5kTMrG0z1/Dc9aDEHA4M6uIsO3GGH6
enigma, German
Leisureguy, Go Magic has a very nice introductory article about the game of Go (aka Baduk).
timotheegoguely, ⚫ As I had promised myself, I just registered for the 12th Strasbourg International Go Tournament 2024! It will be my first go tournament ever, so I’m both scared and excited, but I still have 5 months to improve my game.
peterdrake,
peterdrake,
Bonobo, Here, for your #Go #Baduk #Weiqi nightmares :-)
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sigue, Hi all. I'm also sigue@mastodon.social. I created this account because universeodon.com has a higher character limit than mastodon.social and sometimes you just need to Use Your Words!
I currently work at Google as a software engineer but I'm starting to think about retirement. (Shhh, don't tell my manager.)
I like playing #Go / #Weiqi / #Baduk and hacking #DylanLang. I recently became a grandpa!
peterdrake, Locked blades
Grinding together
Until the tips press into our chests
And the blood begins to drip
As we inch toward the cliff(Lost my first game of the tournament when, with both of us in overtime, I noticed too late that a chain of false eyes leading to safety was one liberty too short.)
wesleyt, Well, crap. It happens. I hope there were other games and they went better.
peterdrake,
peterdrake, @Dyonn The AI recommends o9.
Dyonn, @peterdrake Ah yes, the same idea, but slightly better
peterdrake,
peterdrake, The 2024 US Go Congress will be in Portland, Oregon.
https://usgo.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=454497&module_id=614707
peterdrake,
peterdrake,