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I've been steadily sinking deeper into Go (the board game, not the PL) for the last few years. I keep thinking that my enthusiasm for it will dry up soon, but i
by gpaul 5y ago
I've been steadily sinking deeper into Go (the board game, not the PL) for the last few years. I keep thinking that my enthusiasm for it will dry up soon, but it just keeps increasing. The depth is immense, every few months I feel like I'm swimming along the bottom of the ocean, then I come to a continental shelf and as I stare into the depths below, I realize that I've only explored the shallows, I dive, and leave the surface behind even further.
- hairui 5y agowhat levels have those "shelves" occurred at?
- gustavpaul 5y agoHmm - well I still feel relatively n00b as a 3k. For me the most prominent ones were 15/16k: I think that's the moment I started evaluating different moves instead of just playing what looked best and hoping I pick better ones than my opponent. 12k: discover first bits of wholeboard thinking 9k: discover first vague ideas around direction of play 6k: discover tenuki / sacrificing locally for global benefit, leaning attacks 6k-4k: reading, basic haengma (moving with shape and speed) 4k-3k: life&death, reading 3k-: I'm approaching 2k mainly by making my group strong before attacking, attacking to push around not kill
- hairui 5y agoya pretty similar progression for me -- I remember leaning attacks being pretty eye-opening
- melenaos 5y agoI was in love with Go when i was younger, i have even created an AI that played using some rules, not an algorithm. But when i created again the same game with AlphaBeta algorithm, i just quit the game. No matter how good you are the computer can predict all the moves, and win you no matter how good you become.
- gustavpaul 5y agoI don't really find that to be an issue - regardless of how good computers get, there would always be thousands of people better than me anyway. It is a personal discovery journey for me, like exploring a new mountain that others know well already.