Many readers may not be familiar with the name Lee Sedol, but players of the game of Go, also known as Baduk in Korea or Wei Chi in China, know him as one of the greatest players ever. Go is a game played with black… Read More
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Attack to Build
He described his private life as a mess but….
Excellent video about a great Japanese Go player, Fujisawa.
Can the new bots teach us to play better Go?
Ever since Alpha Go and the other uber-bots arrived on the scene and started trashing top pro Go players, their influence on the Go world has been huge. Strong pros have been adopting numerous plays innovated by the bots, and it’s clear why that’s happening… Read More
A most unusual game of Go
I’ve been playing go almost weekly with my old friend Vox for over 3 decades now. The more we play the more interesting the game gets. I rarely write about individual games though. Go has few rules but it is very complex and each game… Read More
The Surrounding Game
The Surrounding Game is a documentary film by Will Lockhart about the game of Go, which follows some young American Go players as they begin the first ever American professional Go qualifying tournament in 2012. The film is available for download from the website, either… Read More
Teaching tool for Go openings
The folks at Deep Mind are at it again. Recently they turned their attention to chess and came up with an AI which very quickly beat up on the previously best chess computers. Now they’ve come up with a Go teaching tool, focusing on the… Read More
AlphaGo Zero
The folks at Deep Mind are at it again. From their website: Artificial intelligence research has made rapid progress in a wide variety of domains from speech recognition and image classification to genomics and drug discovery. In many cases, these are specialist systems that leverage… Read More
Fatal flaw in a large shape
White had a fantastic territory on the bottom left but trouble was brewing above. I poked at his large centre group and exposed the heartbreaking false eye in the middle of the shape. With just one eye, the whole group collapsed and White resigned the… Read More
Drama over the board
From a Go game last evening: the large white group on the right side is dead. White was doing OK with a good territory in the lower left and another along the top, but I poked at his shape on the right side and my… Read More
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