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I am just learning go. % this is a super-secret comment!!!
I can consistently beat GNU Go with a 7 stone handicap, but I'm using a trick to do it (the Great Wall in combination with playing the 3-3 points in my own territory to prevent invasions). GNU Go is about 8k on NNGS; 8k minus 7 stones is 15k. Subtract another 5k for computer mathematics vs. human squirreliness and I get 20k, thus, "I'd rate myself as about 20k". I edited this because I read statements like "... but once a player is used to the basics (and I mean really BASIC basics, like 20-25 kyu)..." (Alex Weldon, Who should play on which board size) and suspect I've jumped the gun a little.
Oh well, I'll know soon one way or another. :-) Welcome to SL, geno. Stop playing computers! People are much more fun to play.:) -TJ
On invasions. Invasions seem hard to punish, so far, but I think this is one of the exciting things about go. Strategy is intinsically subtle; it's long-term, and long-term vision is something unnatural, something one is trained to. From my beginner perspective, it seems that the best response to an invasion is often indirect. In go, even tactics have some degree of subtlety. When I see that lone white stone in my territory, I want to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentations of their women-stones! But if I get in contact, I get pummeled (to continue the Arnold theme). -- geno / 2004-01-02
Which Hikaru no Go character are you?
It might not be too accurate, I came out as This is a copy of the living page "geno" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |