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Go (board game)

shays860shays860
edited October 2011 in General Banter
Anyone here play?

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  • riverflowriverflow Veteran
    I've tried but ugh I'm absolutely no good at it at all. I enjoy chess, though I am just a passable player.

    Have you read Yasunari Kawabata's novel, The Master of Go? Its a really good novel, even though I didn't understand all the ins-and-outs of go.
  • shays860shays860
    Yeah, it seems to be a very deep game. I still suck after a few months of practice and a bit of reading but I think it's something I want to pursue. It seems to be a great compliment to reading and Buddhist practice. I never could quite get into Chess but Go somehow seems to fit me a bit better.

    I have not read the novel... I might watch the movie. I'm sure the book is much better but I already have a lot on my reading list.
  • riverflowriverflow Veteran
    I didn't know there was a movie, but I just looked it up and that film is not based on Kawabata' novel (though it certainly looks interesting).

    The novel is a bit different from Kawabata's other work (though all of his books are good). It's divided up into short chapters and has a peculiar "reportage" quality about it that is uncharacteristic of Kawabata's work.

    I remember reading a couple years ago about chess, go and artificial intelligence that was very interesting. Computer programmers have been able to come up with a chess program as good as, if not better than, master chess players. But there is nothing comparable with go-- the programmers are light years behind. Even the best they've come up with can still be beat by average schoolchildren! The article(s) I read went on to talk about how go involves a deeper kind of intuitive thinking than chess.


  • riverflowriverflow Veteran
    Ah, here:

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article2002699.ece
  • shays860shays860
    Oh. I just assumed having pretty much the exact same name that the movie would have been based on the book.

    I have heard a bit about the difficulty of making go programs. I believe one problem is that there are many more possible moves at most points in a go game than in chess.
  • shays860shays860
    Ah. Nice article. I didn't know Einstein played.
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