Life In 19x19

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2013 ... -counting/




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Nice article. Thanks for posting it.

Good article... though it probably does no wonders to the image of go that the only two club members described in the article have ages 66 and 90, and one of them is a nuclear reactor programmer and an experienced chess player. I would feel both too young and too inadequate to show up and learn to play.

I love his home-made board and the drop-glass craft stones

Thank-you for sharing.

It's a bit strange to call Michael Redmond the Bobby Fischer of Go. Unless he was drawing the parallel of an American guy rising up to play against top players of the East (Russians in Fischer's case, East Asians in Redmond's case).

Arms Longfellow wrote:Unless he was drawing the parallel of an American guy rising up to play against top players of the East...

I think that's kind of what he meant, yes, and not about the dark sides of Fischer.

Article in question wrote:A computer can barely beat me, and I am nowhere in the hierarchy of great Go players ... I am a 5 Kyu

I had to double-check the date of the news, but it is from 2013.
So he'd better ask a better computer next time to beat him.

I dislike praising our beloved game of Go giving false impressions.
Face it: computers are getting better rapidly. Watching Zen
and CrazyStone on KGS is great fun. Watching them kill 5k with
inappropriate handicap is boring.

There is another wrong statement which is not helpful, but ridiculos:

Article in question wrote:The game of Go is ... according to the American Go Association (AGA), the most popular game in the world.

Why on earth is such an exaggeration necessary?

Nonetheless I say thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Rainer

"In Go, you have 361 possible first moves to pick from."

55, actually, if you take into account the rotational symmetry of the empty board.