For fans of the game of Go (wei chi in China, baduk in Korea), there is some news, and surprise surprise, it has to do with Alpha Go, the AI go master who whupped Lee Sedol last year, then whupped top pro players in 60… Read More
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Learning Go with some online help
One of the barriers to learning the game of Go is that even though the game has simple rules, play can be incredibly complex and there are so many facets and concepts it can easily be overwhelming and discouraging. Becoming a Go player takes time… Read More
Go – baduk – wei chi
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
AlphaGo plays online
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
Oh no…3 in a row!
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
Lee Sedol, modern-day John Henry
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
Go computer beats top player
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
Sunday Go lessons on the YouTube
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
Carnage over the Go board
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
Go last night….
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
