Re: tlug: Any TLUGgers interested in Go?

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

>I've been spending much of what little free time I have the past several
>months engrossed in the game of go ("igo").  To date I've played nearly
>all of my games on "IGS", the internet go server (http://igs.nuri.net/)

I work semi-full-time (is that a word?) on writing a go program, so I know
the game fairly well.

IGS will charge you if you have a Japanese email address, but luckily there
are other servers. I normally use:
 wing.brlnet.net 1515

Wing is a Japan-based server, and supports Japanese and Chinese (though most
people use English, or write Japanese in romaji).

The rec.games.go newsgroup is active, but 80% or more messages are people
argueing about political issues like which server is best, or whether chess
or go is harder. So be prepared to hit delete a lot.

>Sadly, I've spent very little time playing with people I actually know
>(either on igs or *gasp* honest-to-gosh in-the-flesh face-to-face with
>real stones on a real board).

Me too. I spend a lot more time programming go than actually playing it.
Actually the main reason I rejoined this mailing list last month was so I
could ask about doing distributed processing over a network of linux
machines for the purpose of giving my program a supercomputer to run on.
I'll give more details in a new thread.

Scott Stone suggested:
>Hey, maybe we could do a games/emulation theme for the next meeting?  I
>can bring emulators/games for:

I like this idea.

Darren


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