TPL Chess Players

Oddjob27

Greetings all, anyone play chess online? I've been on Lichess.org. Wanted to see about adding anyone and maybe getting in a game?

motie2

Not chess, but Go, the Japanese board game.

Oddjob27

Oh very nice! I've tried playing that for a while. My fiance's father plays for days!

motie2

Back in seminary, I was the best non-Asian Go player in the community. The advent of the internet exposed me to players that wiped me out game after game.... to say nothing of being beaten constantly by the computer.

Oddjob27

I know the feeling.... I'm struggling against the computer as well. I'm sure then you must've enjoyed the Alpha Go challenge?

motie2

Oh, hell yes. What an adventure.....

Charles

Love Chess!  Learned in high school, was in the Chess club, and have played ever since.  I have also tried to play the computer version and figured out that it is impossible to beat the computer.  Played a few games that I should have won but the computer wouldn't let me move.  

As an experiment, I played some games using a chess playbook to which tell computer would not permit certain moves, even though the playbook showed them As valid.

Much prefer playing chess the old fashioned way.   

BlueCollarBastard

@Oddjob27 Haven't played chess in years. Went to that site you mentioned and got royally annihilated!! Gonna have to get my game back up.

motie2

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/alphago-zero-the-ai-that-taught-itself-go/543450/

Oddjob27

@BlueCollarBastard Feel free to add me and we can learn together to improve haha. Lichess username is Kwaktastic

BlueCollarBastard

@Oddjob27 will do

Oddjob27

@motie2 Just watched the AlphaGo documentary... the most profound statement to me was that even though AlphaGo is as advanced as it is... we've barely even scratched the surface of AI and that the AlphaGo technology is very simple and infant.

BlueCollarBastard

@Oddjob27 my username is justwanttoplay123. Nice username by the way

motie2

@Oddjob27 -- Is AlphaGo Really Such a Big Deal?

The Go-playing program captures elements of human intuition, an advance that promises far-reaching consequences.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-alphago-really-such-a-big-deal-20160329

motie2

Why is the above text so large?

Oddjob27

@motie2 "Big" ? Haha

motie2

@Oddjob27 -- "I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!"   (Do you have a dog? Otherwise, stop at the comma.)

BlueCollarBastard

@Oddjob27