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| Author: | phillip1882 [ Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
i would have aga rules, play one board as white, one board as black, and mimic his moves. cheating? maybe, but would be a great game i'm sure. |
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| Author: | EdLee [ Sat Feb 21, 2015 9:49 pm ] |
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If you play against a being who already knows the solution to Go, it has a few options:
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| Author: | Bantari [ Sat Feb 21, 2015 11:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
Get Her drunk first! |
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| Author: | palapiku [ Sun Feb 22, 2015 12:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
Pretty sure God would refuse to play with AGA rules. |
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| Author: | Darsey [ Sun Feb 22, 2015 5:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
You can try say him that you don't believe in him. He will lose a power and you can win if he doesn't destroy you. |
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| Author: | tentano [ Sun Feb 22, 2015 5:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
What's the point of playing if none are your own moves? That sounds like non-participation. It's like playing a game of mirror go to the bitter end. You'd be watching your deity play an elaborate version of solitaire. |
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| Author: | ez4u [ Sun Feb 22, 2015 8:08 am ] |
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EdLee wrote: If you play against a being who already knows the solution to Go, it has a few options:
Don't forget, "...you can do what you want Abe but the next time you see me comin' you better run..." God speaking to Abraham in Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited. |
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| Author: | kaimat [ Sun Feb 22, 2015 2:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
What if god opened with tengen? |
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| Author: | phillip1882 [ Sun Feb 22, 2015 6:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
I'd play tengen on the opposite board as black. |
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| Author: | Unusedname [ Sun Feb 22, 2015 10:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
Because you didn't specify time settings it would probably play in a way that stalls out your time until you die causing you to lose by default. Under blitz time settings I think the same strategy using an n amount of ko to avoid the super ko rule, again abusing byo yomi until you die of age. Also the use of passes could double the length of the game. Though if there was a strategy to beat a deity, yours is certainly close. |
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| Author: | Joaz Banbeck [ Sun Feb 22, 2015 11:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
tentano wrote: ... You'd be watching your deity play an elaborate version of solitaire. Aren't we doing that already - without go? |
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| Author: | perceval [ Wed Mar 11, 2015 11:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
i have my own technique: 1) (hardest) find god and make Him (Her ?) talk to me. 2) ask for a game of go, let God have white out of respect of course 3) appeal to His (Her ?) infinite mercy to ask first for a game on a smaller board because i am a puny mortal sinner 4) |
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| Author: | Pippen [ Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
What if Go is undecidable, i.e. neither White nor Black can win? It is possible to my understand that a Go game could be infinitely long.... BTW: If God is omnipotent then he could win by the very definition of omnipotence. If not, then he's not God. |
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| Author: | Pippen [ Fri Mar 13, 2015 1:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
perceval wrote: I'd not give God too many chances, so:  |
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| Author: | Joelnelsonb [ Fri Mar 13, 2015 4:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
Darsey wrote: You can try say him that you don't believe in him. He will lose a power and you can win if he doesn't destroy you. Yes, because the almighty power of God is dependent on the belief of some silly little human. Sounds right! I would add a stipulation that God has to write down all of his moves ahead of time before seeing mine and then I would choose my moves based on his (and yet I still wouldnt have a living stone on the board by the end). |
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| Author: | angliknight4 [ Wed Apr 01, 2015 3:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
I'm pretty sure god would give you his own rules. 
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| Author: | tiger314 [ Wed Apr 01, 2015 6:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
There is a much simpler way. Prepare the board and stones and start the clock. Now wait if you are white or play your first move if you are black. I am pretty certain your opponent will time out. Since God "is" omnipresent, nobody can say your opponent wasn't there. Since (s)he "knows" everything, nobody can say he didn't know about the game. Since (s)he "is" omnipotent nobody can say anything prevented him/her from placing a stone and pressing the clock. You just won against someone who was in the room, knew you were playing him/her and had every chance to play as well. That is a fair win, unlike some other suggestions in this forum 
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| Author: | topazg [ Wed Apr 01, 2015 6:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: how i would beat god in an even game of go. |
I'm pretty sure if you're doing that, God's actually scoring 1:1 against him/her self regardless. If they aren't your moves, you aren't playing 
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