Short AI article

[kokiri]

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are there computers that can be played online?

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if you play on KGS, there are quite a accounts that are bots - and displayed as such. There certainly used to be free to download computer opponents....

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... http://www.britgo.org/gopcres/playit.html mentions a few few applications, I think

[Neil S]

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Sensei's Library is an interesting wiki on Go.

[/ QUOTE ]I used to read SL but eventually got turned off by the obsession of the community there with using Japanese words as frequently as possible. There was a bit of a KGS invasion too, if I recall.

KGS I do NOT recommend because of poor moderation/poisonous culture. Far too cliquish for someone just trying to have fun with the game.

Anyway, SL is not a BAD resource but it's not the best I think. All the foreign words just get in the way.

[kokiri]

hmmm, I play on KGS not IGS because when I last looked the software was much better (albeit 4+ years ago). I don't mind the culture, but I do kinda know what you mean.

Sensei's Library contains a lot of very interesting stuff, IMO, but it can be hard to find.

Oriental (esp Japanese) language does get used unnecessarily a fair amount in Go, although I wouldn't say that Sensei's Library was particularly worse than anywhere else. (Full disclosure, I learned to play Go in Japanese, so perhaps I am part of the problem [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] )