> 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.
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
Anyone out there standing next to a nerd. I would like you to try a tic tac toe variant and tell me if it's interesting:
Kriegspiel tic tac toe
You can’t see your opponent’s moves. But, if you try to take a space they’re already on, you lose your turn, and the space they’ve taken is revealed. Goal remains 3 in a row.
@ZachWeinersmith When you teach the game of Go to mathy types, they inevitably come up with variations. What if we played on a hex grid instead of a square grid? What if the board was a torus that wrapped around? What if the board was 3D?
At the annual US Go Congress, one of the standard events is "crazy go", which tries out some of these variants.
The most bananapants was Team Kriegspiel Go, involving two teams of two players, plus a referee. On your turn, you submit your move to the referee and find out if it's legal. Not only do you not know your opponent's moves, you don't know half of your own moves!
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:
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I currently work at Google as a software engineer but I'm starting to think about retirement. (Shhh, don't tell my manager.)
(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.)
According to ai-sensei.com, black's mistake at 138 was the only time that I (white) was ahead in this entire 3 stone handicap game. Unfortunately, white 139 was an even bigger blunder, from which I never recovered. #go#igo#weiqi#baduk
From the announcement: “The aim of this site is to publish a series of short, easy-to-read, one-point lessons on various go techniques, interesting positions from recent professional games, and pertinent news items.”
Three interesting articles so far. Ignore the slightly dated look; when I’m 85+ years old, my website might not be up to the newest standards either.
Well, it had to happen. Like that first scratch on a new car. A reader discovered a mistake in “Essential Go Proverbs” that’s also in the print edition.
On page 121, answer to problem 8, dia 2, the move at 10 doesn’t actually kill, as White can make two eyes by playing just to the right of 10. 6 should be at 8, forcing 7 to be played to the right of 7, then 8 at 6 kills.
Easy to update the digital version, but still waiting on John Power for the right fix.