Last evening I won 5 of 6 games, playing Go online with Vox. The games were mostly scrappy and competitive, but I was able to retain an edge over the evening. Next time out, Vox will take a 2 stone handicap and we’ll put that… Read More
Last evening I played 6 games of go with Vox online, and won 5. He beat me in the second game by 2.5 points. I was white and komi just wasn’t quite enough. As well he had a good shot at defeating me in game… Read More
Last evening I played some online Go with my friend Vox for the first time since I had my knee repaired. I was worried about two things. First, would I be able to sit at the computer for a sustained period of time? Earlier in… Read More
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 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
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
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
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
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