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helopticor posted:Has anyone in here ever read Mathematical Go? Supposedly it gives an algorithm for perfect late endgames (which I hear from my Go playing friends are not as significant in Go as in Chess). I've studied the math (combinatorial game theory) behind it, and I'd love to hear from a Go player who read the book. I haven't read it, but I did flip through it in a university library and I thought it was really dry. If you're interested in mathematical endgame there's some interesting content on it at sensei's library mostly written by Bill Spight.
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Foggy posted:along with a 1908 (!) book called "The Game of Go" which was interesting but not especially useful) I'd love to meet someone who learned to play using that book. Its totally useless and confusing as hell too.
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Under 15 posted:The first month of trying to learn go is like having someone stomp all over your dick, but the second month has been very good for my stat-whoring soul. Sandbagging all the way to your first real barrier after you get over the horrible initial learning curve is pretty fun. Its like the first taste of crack. I feel like learning chess or bridge or something just to experience it again.
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Ego Piano posted:You'd think that a 3000 year old asian board game would be free of trolling bullshit, but that's the wonder of the internet, I guess. I wish KGS wasn't so full of dumb teenagers. Goons and 2ch are really the only good communities I've found.
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Sep 17, 2008 10:58
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To keep this thread from repeatedly dying, does anyone want to play a turn based game in the thread to maybe interest some people?
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Oct 6, 2008 04:41
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hope this works edit: it didn't 
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Oct 6, 2008 06:35
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sensual donkey punching posted:people idle a great deal in SA, particularly around hours that are not 9pm - 5am EST. better chance of getting teaching games then I just thought I'd emphasise this. The SA channel is really just for idling, say something in the channel though and someone should show up.
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Oct 26, 2008 12:23
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sensual donkey punching posted:http://senseis.xmp.net/?GNUGo I suspect the ranks in that KGS article are under the old KGS kyu system before they compressed it down. Playing Mogo or any monte carlo program really feels different from Gnu go. It doesn't throw away the game by ignoring threats to its groups as often, but in addition to the dan level framework building and life and death it does play weird influence moves a ton.
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Dec 13, 2008 04:21
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Foggy posted:I was at my college library yesterday looking for a useful go book. While I didn't find any, I did come across something called The Protracted Game; A Wei-chʻi Interpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy by Scott A. Boorman. It's (as you might expect) a detailed analysis of Mao's military strategy and how it uses various go techniques, complete with illustrated go games opposite military maps of occupied territory in China with analogous situations. Worth picking up if you're into completely insane board-game-based military history. Some of the stuff in that book was just wacky. Donald Rumsfeld's ideal of "network centric warfare" actually bears a resemblance to how you might interpret go as a military strategy (a minimal number of fast moving troops using superior communications to surround and annihilate opponents).
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Can I get added to ITGO please? username saa
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