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Go
I am amazingly slow on the uptake!
PROOF Michiel's user icon displays an illegal operation in the game of Go. I did not know this back when the user last posted here (January...), but I do know this now. In the last six months or so, I've become mildly to moderately obsessed with the game. ANYWAY It can be inferred that Michiel is a fan of the game. And it can be inferred that Zeke is at least moderately knowledgable of its workings since he knew enough to offer a clever user title. THEREFORE I am going to assume that there are at least a few people around here who play the game. Yes, I am basing this on a poster who no longer posts and the perhaps trivial knowledge of the site's founder. DEAL WITH IT. So... uh... anyone want to play sometime? No? THAT'S OKAY I WAS JUST CHECKING THANKS.
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I first learned to play go when I was a student at the annual math camp I now run. I haven't played it a whole lot, but enough to appreciate its depth. The ko rule is one I find particularly interesting, so I understood Michiel's avatar right away.
Emanuel and Edward Lasker, two of the greatest chess players who ever lived, were fascinated with go; one of them observed that while chess is probably limited to this planet, an intelligent alien civilization would surely know go. (I say one of them because I can't confirm which. It seems to be credited to both of them in various wordings. Incidentally, they weren't brothers, but were related.) The Andromeda staff must have agreed, because go was Dylan Hunt's favourite game.
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Hmm... for some reason I find it hard to reconcile Kevin Sorbo with Go. But fictional representations of Go are rare enough to always be cool Particularly that scene from the Chinese flick Hero.
I'm fascinated (and frustrated) by how computer-proof Go is. It's such a complicated game to grasp and excel at, and nobody seems to really have any good way of programming a computer to do it. A computer beat Kasparov, but it'll be a while before somebody makes a program that'll take out the world's top Go players. The frustration lies in the necessity of finding a human opponent to play against.
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'Atari' is a polite way of telling someone that one of their pieces is about to be consumed in 'Go', IIRC.
Used to play it a bit, but I haven't done so in years...
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My brother was about to get addicted to it once, and then we played till very late at night. But only once, so I guess he gave up.
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I remember reading an SF novel once where Go was rather heavily featured; aside from that I really don't know anything about it.
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