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:
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.
@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.
"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
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.)
(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.)
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.
@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.