One good thing about playing Go online as opposed to over-the-board is that, by eliminating travel time, it’s easy to get a few games in. Tonight I played 6 games with my friend Vox. We’ve been using a generous time limit of 20 minutes for… Read More
I usually play Go over the board with Vox weekly, but with the Covid-19 virus, we’re staying isolated. Fortunately, we can play online. There are a number of Go servers available, and in fact there are a lot of players who rarely play with actual… Read More
Vox got off to a great start in this game, with 3 corners, included a really good one in the bottom right. I had the top right corner and a position against his top left corner. I’d say at this stage – still early on… Read More
Last night, I played 9 games of Go with Vox, once again winning 5 of them. Most of my wins were by the narrowest of margins, although I did pull off one win on the strength of a huge kill. Here is one of the… Read More
Last night, Vox and I sat down for 9 games of Go. We were quite evenly matched – I won 5 of the 9 but it could just as easily gone the other way. Here’s the final game of the evening. I played the black… Read More
Vox and I played 9 games of Go last evening. Some were very close, tight battles. Some others were much more one-sided. I played black and tried various openings, including san-ren-sai (3 star-point) fuseki and Chinese fuseki, as well as beginning with 3-4 points. Here’s… Read More
I played 9 games of Go last night with Vox. He had an edge overall, winning 5 to my 4. I’m sure he was happy with that result after last week losing 6 of 9. I’m going to try to remember to photograph at least… Read More
The third and last game of go (baduk) between Lee Sedol and the Korean bot, Handol ended with Lee Sedol’s resignation. It was a beautiful game. Once again I’ll defer to the excellent commentary done by Go Pro Yeonwoo. Wishing Lee Sedol fulfilling adventures in… Read More
The second game of Lee Sedol’s retirement go (baduk) match against the Korean AI known as Handol, was an even game with 7.5 points komi. This was a tough game for the human player and Handol won by resignation. Once again, Go Pro Yeonwoo did… Read More
In the first game of his retirement baduk (go) match with Korean AI Handol, Lee Sedol found a bug in the AI – it failed to read a net and was forced to resign. Yay, Lee Sedol! You can watch game analysis on Go Pro… Read More
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