Life In 19x19

I appreciate the sidekicks!

It's fun when you see them ask a ddk question (as discussed, on behalf of the audience) and then shortly after, assist in quickly putting a fighting variation on the board that seems to show a strong pro level of understanding.

Ali J also does a great job when sharing ...

I would even question the description of this sequence as joseki these days:

$$W
$$ -----------------
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . a . . .
$$ | . . O O c b . . .
$$ | . . . X X . . . .
$$ | . O . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . B ...

Very minor trivia:
I Believe Chris Bryant (3d? UK) is a pretty serious snooker player as well as a serious go player.
Some time back I think he mentioned either a sponsorship or winning some reasonable amount in competition (you'd have to ask him to be sure.)

In contrast, my top break is probably a ...

Thanks for setting this up.
There's some really nice content on the sub that's often tough to find in English.

If it's not too late to add to the discussion of the specific 3-3 pattern, I have some analysis of what katago thinks is the best move in a range of cases:

At this point:
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$$ ----------------------
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . 1 3 . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . 2 a b ...

Re 3-3: I really like this pattern as a starting point:
$$B
$$ . . . . . . . |
$$ . . . . . . . |
$$ . . . . . . . |
$$ . . . . . . . |
$$ . . 5 1 3 . . |
$$ . . . 4 2 . . |
$$ . 6 . . . . . |
$$ . . . . . . . |
$$ -------------

Has a lot of interesting talking points around the possible follow ...

differences between os.popen2 and subprocess.Popen, solution in go_assistant program (Russian)
https://www.sql.ru/forum/1254184/python-tonkie-otlichiya-os-popen2-i-subprocess-popen
https://github.com/zztrilobit/go_assistant/blob/master/goban.py

I have no Russian skills but from the code and some ...

Thanks :)

twogtp was written in 2007, Python 3 appeared later. but why do goreviewpartner and Gomill use Python 2, this is interesting, can ask the authors?

That is a solid excuse for twogtp at least.
Looks like grp was based on Gomill to some extent?
Interesting that SGFmill seems to have ...

My level of expertise is poor in both but I quite enjoy messing around with go and python.

I want to be able to interact with bots and have found some great code for handling the GTP commands in projects such as:
goreviewpartner
Gomill
twogtp

But I have some Python 3 code that I'd quite like to ...

Yeah. I've hit my head.
I've broke my arm. I've broke my brain[sic]. I've smashed my teeth. But you know what?
It doesn't really matter, 'cause I love it. And I'm ready to do it all over again. But much more.
You got to love it, otherwise you're gonna hate it.


I used to think that this ...

I always assumed that even the most frequently playing pro with the longest career would not play enough games for an ai built using current techniques to learn from. Pleased to hear that I may be wrong.

I've often wondered about making a takemiya-style centre-oriented bot by training using ...

I really like the Lee Sedol ladder game but it seems to me that the common description is a bit off? (maybe I'm just a pedant)

$$B Valid ladder capture?
$$ ---------------------------------------
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . O X O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . O X ...

I recently remembered that this happened.
I think I'm going to attempt to recall the game one more time blind and then review it to see how sensible it really was.

First, it is not such an "exciting" triple ko.

I kind of know what you mean, but I still think this is a pretty exciting situation. Thanks for sharing.

I was wondering - does anyone have any experience of tripple ko in the west?

My understanding is that western tournaments typically use ...

Here's one that I feel like I learned something from:

$$c A 35% of the time \nB 17%\nC 13%\nD 13%..
$$ ------------------
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . X . . g
$$ | . e d X b . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . O . c . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . X ...