Perplexed comments on Rationality Lessons in the Game of Go - Less Wrong

40 Post author: GreenRoot 21 August 2010 02:33PM

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Comment author: Perplexed 22 August 2010 07:08:43PM 5 points [-]

Which may point to another lesson. More than once, after making a move, I have had my opponent say with a frown, "I was afraid you would play there. Now I have to read[1]. This may take a while. Why don't you take a smoke break, or buy coffee, or something." An important skill in Go is to recognize when intuition becomes insufficient, and careful analysis essential.

[1] "Read" is Go jargon for careful analysis - what the computer geeks might call exhaustive tree search.