{"id":26183,"date":"2007-07-02T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/07\/02\/the-conversations-backstage-at-computer-go-tournaments\/"},"modified":"2007-07-02T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T10:00:01","slug":"the-conversations-backstage-at-computer-go-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070702-01\/?p=26183","title":{"rendered":"The conversations backstage at computer Go tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/steverowe\/\"> Steve Rowe<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/steverowe\/archive\/2007\/06\/30\/why-computers-can-t-play-go.aspx\"> linked to<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/ben_macintyre\/article2002699.ece\"> an essay on why computers can&#8217;t play Go well<\/a> even though they&#8217;ve mastered other &#8220;difficult&#8221; games like chess. I was reminded of a description I received of what happens backstage at computer Go tournaments (i.e., tournaments that pit Go-playing computers against each other). (&#8220;Backstage&#8221; is a bit of a misnomer, of course; since the contestants are computers, you can talk all you want as loud as you want without worrying about distracting the players.) <\/p>\n<p> At computer Go tournaments, the programmers are like parents watching their children compete in a hockey game where they&#8217;ve only just barely learned how to skate. It&#8217;s not so much a matter of who plays better as it is a matter of who sucks less. One programmer will lean over to the other and say something like &#8220;I hope my program realizes its left-hand-side is vulnerable before your program takes advantage of it.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Rowe linked to an essay on why computers can&#8217;t play Go well even though they&#8217;ve mastered other &#8220;difficult&#8221; games like chess. I was reminded of a description I received of what happens backstage at computer Go tournaments (i.e., tournaments that pit Go-playing computers against each other). (&#8220;Backstage&#8221; is a bit of a misnomer, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-26183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Steve Rowe linked to an essay on why computers can&#8217;t play Go well even though they&#8217;ve mastered other &#8220;difficult&#8221; games like chess. I was reminded of a description I received of what happens backstage at computer Go tournaments (i.e., tournaments that pit Go-playing computers against each other). (&#8220;Backstage&#8221; is a bit of a misnomer, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}