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WCDT: 2281-85 (24-28 September 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Akima:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 01 Oct 2012, 07:01 ---And are you saying that the young go/weiqi players do not aspire to beat their father/elder brother/sensei/whatever at the game? With or without handicap stones?
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Absolutely not! It's just that Go is devoid of the sexual symbolism. Mind you, that symbolism is very Western (just like Freud :wink:). The Queen is the "adviser" or "vizier" in many languages, I believe, and in xiangqi (Chinese chess), the General (the King equivalent) has two advisers, but no girlfriend.
--- Quote ---Also, following Sun Tzu's advice "To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape" is a non-starter in go.
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"In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory." Sun Tzu.
"The satisfaction of toying with an enemy group – not attacking it directly but circling around it, away from it, and forcing the enemy to concede stones and territory while protecting it – can be just as great as the satisfaction of killing it through brute force." Ishida Akira 9-dan.
It is often desirable to give your enemy a local escape route, or opportunity to otherwise shore up their position in one part of the board, in order to gain sente and develop your territory or influence elsewhere. It is a classic mistake of weaker players to focus on the battle and lose the war. I have often made it myself...
Is it cold in here?:
Wikipedia cites a figure of 1E123 for leaf count in the tree of all possible chess games. Alpha-beta pruning would allow ignoring almost all of them.
Hypster:
I love that Marigold grabs her hair when she's stressed. I can't remember what other strips she does it in, but she has. I think it's adorable.
Near Lurker:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 01 Oct 2012, 15:17 ---Why wouldn't it be possible?
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It literally would not fit in the observable universe.
--- Quote from: jmucchiello on 01 Oct 2012, 10:34 ---The point is, we do not teach Chess programs HOW to play Chess. We teach them to solve solutions to the current board state that result in victory for a given side based on a breadth first search of what might happen next and how much that something benefits or harms both sides.
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"You don't drive a car, you accelerate, brake, signal, and steer."
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 01 Oct 2012, 22:09 ---It literally would not fit in the observable universe.
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That's what she said.
Seriously though, that's an obstacle, but not an eternally insurmountable one.
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