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• motie2 Master

  March 2018

  Not chess, but Go, the Japanese board game.

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• Oddjob27 Master

  March 2018

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

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• motie2 Master

  March 2018

  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.

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• Oddjob27 Master

  March 2018

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

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• motie2 Master

  March 2018

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

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• Charles Master

  March 2018

  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.   

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• BlueCollarBastard Master

  March 2018

  @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.

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• motie2 Master

  March 2018

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

  
  

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• Oddjob27 Master

  March 2018

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

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• BlueCollarBastard Master

  March 2018

  @Oddjob27 will do
  
  

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• Oddjob27 Master

  March 2018

  @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.
  

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• BlueCollarBastard Master

  March 2018

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

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• motie2 Master

  March 2018

  @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
  

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• motie2 Master

  March 2018

  Why is the above text so large?

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• Oddjob27 Master

  March 2018

  @motie2 "Big" ? Haha
  

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• motie2 Master

  March 2018 edited March 2018

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

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• BlueCollarBastard Master

  March 2018

  @Oddjob27

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