Yesterday while cruising the internet at lunch I stumbled across a website called Your Turn My Turn where people can play online games for free without having to be online all the time. Basically, its turn-based games like Chess and Checkers where you make a move and then go away and sometime later your opponent makes a move so that when you come back to the website it may be your turn again. This is exactly like the Chess games I play on Gameknot with a simpler format and more games.
What caught my eye was that they supported the game Go. Last year my chess buddies at work got me into this game and I loved it, but was better than them at it so we went back to chess. Then they left for new jobs. So I was intrigued by this new website and the thought of playing people again. Even better I saw it had a practice function so I could remind myself of the rules and get warmed up. Last year when I looked around there was no good free Go programs able to provide a challenge so I was not expecting a challenge.
First game, got wiped out. Oh yeah, I remember this game now.
Second game, still lost. Hmmm, ok, time to try.
Third game, killed. Wow, this AI program is not bad and this is only the easy level. Maybe I need a handicap to get going so I set the handicap to 9, the highest it can be. Basically I start with 9 pieces already on the board to his none.
Lost badly. Crap! I suck! Ok, I see my mistake, I'll try again.
LOST again! But at least this time it was close.
So I expect I'll spend a few lunch breaks getting practice against this program before I embarrass myself against real people.
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