Life In 19x19

daal wrote:Ok, I spent three minutes teaching the strategy to a 16k. Here is the game:

Heh, thank you for that nice experiment, it exceeds my expectations.

I hope that convinces Mike

I'm 6k and I just beat gnugo following the above strategy and otherwise playing mindlessly. I am sure that it would take less than 1 hour to teach a 16k to beat it.

Cool, thank you for your report. I'm looking forward to reports of even weaker players, how they could deal with that strategy. My ...

Ah! What about trying it with Black? First move pass, then apply the same strategy.

My client hangs when I pass on my first turn with black, so I played Ten Gen instead. Here's the outcome:

(;FF[1]GM[1]SZ[19]AP[Jago:Version 4.53]GN[GloFish vs GnuGo 4];B[jj];W[dp];B[eo];W[do];B[en];W[cm];B ...

Wow, awesome work tj86430, thank you very much! I'm new to this forum, I didn't know we can include a web based Go client here

And special greetings to Robert, funny to meet you here. Thank you for your appreciation, I feel flattered. I'm not in a state of pride though, I'm just amused. And I sure had a great laugh when reading the responses to my post today
(my real name is Thomas Frech)

And hereby I answer the request of tj86430 for some example games. I just played 3 games right now for this post, the outcome is quite typical. I don't claim that I played a particularly strong end-game, I just made very basic moves without much thinking, to illustrate how easily it works. (copy ...

I'm very amused about the philosophical discussion that arised from my simple finding. Actually I was just fooling around with GnuGo in a moment of boredom, asking it one of those "hmm, what happens if...?" questions, without any intention of finding a sure win strategy or anything else which is ...

I found an amazingly simple sure win strategy for a white human player versus GnuGo 3.8, without handicap. So far I always won when applying an ultimate cosmic style, playing a shoulder hit to every black move in the opening. If black answers with keima, play keima too. If black attaches, just ...