I’ve read that Go, called baduk in Korea and wei chi in China, is the world’s oldest board-game. Although I’ve been playing for many years, it only gets increasingly interesting along the way. At home I have a go table complete with stools created for… Read More
The AlphaGo whiz-bang Go-playing computer, which decisively beat Lee Sedol (one of the best players of our time) in a challenge match, has very recently played 60 online games against top players. I’ve read online that the human opponents were aware their opponent was AlphaGo,… Read More
I tried to stay up late last night to watch game 3 of the Google DeepMind million dollar challenge – Go great Lee Sedol vs the bot, AlphaGo. The match started at 11 PM our time. I lasted until 1:30 AM after which I needed… Read More
I suppose just about everyone in North America knows the John Henry story. In the annals of American folk tales in general and African-American folk tales more specifically it’s a big one. It’s a big one because it’s the story of the underdog. John Henry… Read More
For years there have been chess programs that have beaten top players, but computers playing the game of Go haven’t fared so well – until now. Check out this article. This morning, Nature published a paper describing DeepMind’s system, which makes clever use of, among other… Read More
Go is perhaps not a game for everyone, but I love it, and have been playing for many years. Tonight I stumbled across the Sunday Go Lessons YouTube channel, which has some actual games with commentary. In this game, we get to see one of… Read More
As many of you know, I play the game of Go. I’ve been playing with my friend Vox in particular, since sometime in the 80s. We’ve played thousands of games against one another over the years . Last night we played 6 games and I… Read More
Played 6 games of Go last night with Vox. I won 4 of the 6 games but one of them was by just half a point, so overall we were close. I did well exploiting weaknesses and was able to kill a number of groups… Read More
Vox and I have been playing Go together since sometime in the mid-80s. It started as a chess game, and then eventually we tried go, just to see what it was all about. We would play a few games of chess and then perhaps one… Read More
Off to play Go with my buddy Vox tonight. He’d better watch out too, because I’m going to play all the right stones.
