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All posts tagged “The Game of Go”
He described his private life as a mess but….
Excellent video about a great Japanese Go player, Fujisawa.
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
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
Life and Death over the board
The game of Go is all about surrounding territory and surrounding your opponent but sometimes the result of a whole game hinges on the status of a single group. Is it alive or is it dead? In this game, I harassed a weak white group… Read More
AlphaGo has retired
After defeating the top human players at Go – the most difficult and challenging of human games – the whiz-bang AI bot called AlphaGo has retired from competitive play. From the Tech Crunch article: This week’s series of thrilling games with the world’s best players,… Read More
Alpha Go beats Ke Jie again
I stayed up late last night to watch as much as I could of the second game between the world’s top Go player Ke Jie and the whiz-bang AI bot Alpha Go. Once again the game was streamed on the American Go Association YouTube channel,… Read More
Ke Jie vs Alpha Go
Late last night (our time) the number 1 ranked human Go player, Ke Jie, played the first of a 3 game match against super-bot Alpha Go in China. This was a much-anticipated match in the Go world, after Alpha Go won 60 online games in… Read More
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