Life In 19x19

Database curation doesn't sound like much fun to me, that's why I went for datamining pro games with dailyjoseki.com. dailyjoseki.com's latency problem is pretty easily fixable, just haven't had time to do it. Nearly all the time is spent in schlepping stuff across the internet to your browser. I ...

Imagine a player realizes a cycle has occurred and claims no result, and the opponent thinks a cycle hasn't yet occurred and wants to continue (believing they can still win if they deviate from the cycle and give up the triple ko). The TD has to rewind the game to figure out who is correct.

Or ...

In practice, unwinding games is equally difficult for superko and Japanese style long cycle rules, because the same kind of move sequences are the basis for rules applications.

There is no need to unwind for Japanese long cycles. Both players realize there is no method to break out of cycle, and ...

Hm. I don't remember it being that bad. Maybe I broke something last time I changed it? Anyway, this is definitely a case where you're getting what you're paying for.

I really want to work more on this, but I just haven't had time and it doesn't really look like that's going to change much soon.

Thoughts on this variation?

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[go]$$B
$$ +-------------+
$$ | . . X . . . |
$$ | O X . . X . |
$$ | O X X X X . |
$$ | O O O O X X |
$$ | O . O . O X |
$$ | . O . . O X |
$$ +-------------+[/go]

Black to play and win. Komi is 2.5.

cyclops wrote:

daniel_the_smith wrote:
Give it a shot:

http://daily-joseki.appspot.com/score

Hi Daniel.

I was sort of disappointed that your tool seems to give random scores for the same position. Are you still developing it?

It is a bit of a work in progress.

What position were you putting in?

Unfortunately, I don't have much time to work on this lately.

There was a lot of confusion this year at the US Go Congress in Tacoma.

...

At the very least, something should have been written in each language highlighting the main differences of the AGA rule set. And eventually, we should also have the Rules themselves published in each of these languages ...

I suppose one could argue that territory counting encourages laziness by not requiring you to determine if it's safe to fill in dame (since the game could end before dame are filled)... But I think we stray from the point.

With AGA rules, it doesn't matter if the players use area or territory counting; the effect of the pass stone/white pass last combo is that they'll get the same winner no matter how they count.

It's important to realize that--if you happen to have one of those rare games in which (without pass ...

There was a lot of confusion this year at the US Go Congress in Tacoma.

...

At the very least, something should have been written in each language highlighting the main differences of the AGA rule set. And eventually, we should also have the Rules themselves published in each of these languages ...

There's only one case where it's rude to play out a game.

You know you've lost, and you can tell your opponent thinks it's rude to play out a lost game.

The first part is easy, just ask yourself if you think you've lost.


I don't think this is so easy, because there isn't a binary true/false ...

Yeah, check out the Schaumburg Go Club, which I ran until I moved away about 6 months ago.

jdl wrote:

daniel_the_smith wrote:after the (excessively terrible) awards banquet.

What's this about?

It's always bad, but this was like previous years, only more so.

There's only one case where it's rude to play out a game.

You know you've lost, and you can tell your opponent thinks it's rude to play out a lost game.

The first part is easy, just ask yourself if you think you've lost. Maybe this will cause you to count the board. Counting is good. You should ...

Top memories in no particular order:

3-2 in lightening, beating everyone older than me and one person younger than me (IIRC, the winner of my section of the open!). Winning in the open vs. one half of the winning pairgo team. Winning a 2 stone self-pair vs. a 4d. Pairgo halfway up Mt. Rainier with ...