Life In 19x19

I'm not even sure I can read 1 move ahead, but there are players who can read 100 moves ahead.


I don't remember where I read that your number of dans is the number of moves you can read properly.

And if you are a kyu, your number of kyus is the number of mistakes you make before reading ...

I played this game against a 6k (I checked, he oscillates between 3k and 5k KGS) quite aggressive. I was so sure he was making overplays that I did some myself (especially the last moves, which are a big mistake that costed me the game, but maybe I put myself in a bad situation far before), and got ...

$$Wcm40
$$ +--------------------------------------+
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . .|
$$ | . . O . . . . . . . O . . O . . X . .|
$$ | . . . O . . . . . , . . . . . X ...

There's a book by Kageyama on the subject.

$$Wcm38
$$ +--------------------------------------+
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . .|
$$ | . . O . . . . . . . O . . O . . X . .|
$$ | . . . O . . . . . , . . . . . X ...

$$Wcm36
$$ +--------------------------------------+
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . .|
$$ | . . O . . . . . . . O . . O . . X . .|
$$ | . . . O . . . . . , . . . . . X ...

Here's the first moves of the game (comments are from the book, in French, I may translate later if wanted) :

(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2]
RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[0.00]
PW[LEE Chang-Ho]PB[CHO Hun-Hyun]
;B[pd]
;W[dp]
;B[fq]
;W[cn]
;B[qp]
;W[dd]
;B[kq]
;W[qj]
;B[qh]
;W[qm]
;B[pn]
;W[ro ...

... Apparently my intuition needs work

You and me both
If it didn't, we'd be professional

I remember having seen a game by Lee Chang Ho where he shows a refutation of this (game 1 from "Invasion et Réduction, tome 1", sorry, I have not the english title). The game was against his master, whose ...

Oh, terribly sorry. I had lots of busy days recently that left me exhausted, and forgot about our game.


$$Wcm34
$$ +--------------------------------------+
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . .|
$$ | . . O . . . . . . . O . . O . . X ...

The fatest is to know the following by heart : 1.414213562373, if I'm not mistaken

Emeraldemon idea seems fine. Since b^2 is of order 10^18, we should be able not to take it into account in the calcul and just solve 2ab = 2 - a^2.

I recall too that Newton's method leads to iterating : u_{n + 1 ...

I forgot Xenogears, a strange, but sometimes really enjoyable thing...

The best RPG I ever played is with no doubt Phantasy Star 2. It's an old one now, old graphics, old battle system, but its story is certainly still among the best one. I'd really like the PS2 remix to be translated.

I think I'm older than most of you...

More commonly played comes Final Fantasy 6 ...

I'm currently reading Axiomatic by Greg Egan, which is a really good SF novels book, and deals with some of ideas expressed here. Just an advertising for a great book.

Okay, problem solved, there was an old version in my download folder that I've mistaken with the new one, and I can save now !

I tried to install a more recent version of cgoban3. I downloaded m, but it seems to be version 3.4.5, which is obsolete (I have an error message when trying to connect to KGS).
you downloaded it recently?

I downloaded it just now and got version 3.5.0

Around five minutes ago.

Did you download ...