Me getting destroyed by an artificial intelligence
This is me (black) against the Many Faces of Go version 12 which now is apparently ranked 2 kyu even on a 19x19 board!
To make matters worse, I haven’t played 19x19 for a good long time, so I’ve forgotten a LOT. This is an 80 point loss: check out the embarassing dumpling centre left, and the way black seems to have a LOT of fatalities scattered all over the board…
It seems that new developments in computer Go may mean that Go will eventually go the way of chess… something that computers can beat pretty much anyone soundly at, even on consumer hardware.
But in the cases of both Go and chess, that doesn’t make the challenge of getting good at them any less worthwhile! In fact, computers can be a very useful tool for acquiring strength rapidly… that’s the hope anyway :)
