On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 10:03:04 AM UTC+8, Quadibloc wrote:
> The human player noted that he made a mistake during that first game, so
> presumably he will be more careful during the rest of the match.
>
No, he lost the second game too.
> Still, for the Go champion to be defeated by a giant machine, like Deep Thought
> was, at a time when the world chess champion can be beaten by any ordinary PC
> still shows that Go is indeed harder than Chess.
You're spacing out again. "Giant machine"? Like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAbZzdalZh4
or (best, start at 38:18):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwqLWGibwDY
They might be Giants! boy... (best sung after Super Bowls XLII and XLVI)
>
> As to people still playing either game - well, it depends on one's tastes, and
> in Japan, at least, Go is an acquired cultural taste.
Says the tasteless man.
>
> Also, with _komidashi_, Go recovered from what *its* Steinitz, Shusaku, had
> done to it. Chess still hasn't bounced back, and so with rare exceptions, chess
> is not much of a spectator sport. Yes, Go matches are actually exciting to
> people who like that sort of thing - the way chess matches were in the days of Anderssen and Kieseritzky.
You mean unsound sacrifices?
>
> John Savard
I can practically hear the food falling out of your mouth as you speak.
RL
"They might be fake, they might be lies, they might be big, big fake fake lies"....They might be giants (boy) [repeating]