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mrgoodcatdate change04:15
mrgoodcatI can't tell if it's twisted or sqlalchemy but something is giving me a giant headache12:26
wolfgermorning12:31
brouschmrgoodcat: Um, do those even work together?12:32
brouschI recall twisted core working with sqlalchemy recently, but not all of sqlalchemy12:33
mrgoodcatnot really12:33
brouschnot all of twisted I mean12:33
mrgoodcatits more of a headache than its worth clearly12:33
brouschor was it sqlalchemy core?12:33
mrgoodcatno i'm using sqlalchemy protocols too12:33
mrgoodcater twisted12:33
mrgoodcatgah12:34
mrgoodcatforget everything i just said12:34
brouschAh, this is what I'm thinking of https://pypi.python.org/pypi/alchimia12:34
mrgoodcatoh cool12:34
mrgoodcatyes i am using the sqlalchemy core12:34
mrgoodcati'm going to stop though12:34
mrgoodcati'm going to switch to twisted.enterprise.adbapi while its still early enough to do that12:35
mrgoodcatwish twisted supported python313:03
ColonelPanic001DGS is bad about not reminding me of games13:44
ColonelPanic001and so I forget13:44
brouschI just leave the tab open in my browser and check it regularly13:46
cmaloneyGood morning13:52
cmaloneyYeah, I check my DGS from time to time13:53
cmaloneyI know brousch is taken his turn likely 24 hours ago13:53
brouschI don't tend to go long stretches except at night or when I'm driving13:54
cmaloneyI do when I'm working. :)13:55
mrgoodcatstretches of what? not checking13:55
brouschMobile reminds me, and computer has tab up13:55
brouschmrgoodcat: right13:55
mrgoodcatwish there was a way to learn go without getting your ass kicked over and over13:55
wolfgerI don't think learning works like that.13:56
cmaloneyLearning is pretty much a series of ass-kickings.13:56
mrgoodcatlol13:57
mrgoodcati know13:57
brouschOh shoot, I forgot handicap13:57
mrgoodcatthis is my first game with a person13:57
cmaloneymrgoodcat: Don't worry. I'm pretty low-level as well13:58
cmaloneybrousch is going to be the first person in here to hit 1dan13:58
cmaloneymark my words13:58
brouschSo few people are ranked13:59
cmaloneyYeah, the ramking system is similar to the chess ranking system13:59
cmaloneypretty impenetrable until you hit tournament-range13:59
mrgoodcatoh good. at least brouch picked a small board for my first game. cmaloney went full-size14:00
cmaloneyI went with a 13x13 board14:00
mrgoodcatalso, i have no idea what to do in either of these games lol14:00
mrgoodcats/full-size/bigger14:00
cmaloneyI thought you'd played go before?14:00
mrgoodcatyea14:00
mrgoodcati have14:00
mrgoodcatjust not much14:00
mrgoodcatand with a computer only14:00
cmaloneyWell, brousch will teach you the capturing game14:00
cmaloneyand I'll teach you territory.14:01
mrgoodcatoh and some random dudes on the internet. but i don't count them as real people because i never talked to them14:01
mrgoodcatand got my ass handed to me14:01
cmaloneyYeah, computer opponents are pretty focused14:01
cmaloneywhereas human opponents can see a broader picture14:02
cmaloneyok, head-down. see you on the other side.14:02
brouschmrgoodcat: Do you want comments as we go?14:02
mrgoodcati think that would be helpful14:04
mrgoodcatbut keep in mind that i've only ever played a computer and only a few times so i'm still pretty shaky on terms and stuff like that14:04
brouschDon't worry, I make up my own terms since I can never remember the foreign ones14:05
mrgoodcatlol14:06
wolfgerwoot14:08
mrgoodcaton dgs where do you typically go to see if you have games waiting? I've been going to status but scrolling down is hard14:08
wolfgerOK, I just made an account on dgs if anybody wants to kick me around. I think I've played Go before. Years ago.14:09
brouschI go to Status. What do you have to scroll past?14:10
brouschwolfger: name?14:10
mrgoodcatthere are a bunch of messages14:12
mrgoodcatjust marked them all as read to make them go away14:12
mrgoodcattournament updates14:12
mrgoodcatas if i'm masochistic enough to join a tournament14:13
brouschAh, right14:14
brouschOnce they're read it's not bad14:14
brouschThat configuration you used on the left is a good one, but I have no figured out how to use it well yet14:15
brouschGood players use it against me14:15
wolfger<- name  (brousch)14:15
mrgoodcatbottom left?14:16
brouschYes, the stones separated by 1,2 spaces14:18
brouschI don't know how to use that though14:18
mrgoodcatidk you said to spread out but it seems smart to not spread them too far just in case one can help the other in a pinch14:19
mrgoodcati'm probably thinking about it all wrong but i guess that's how you learn14:19
brouschright14:19
brouschNo, it's a balance14:20
brouschI assume finding the right balance takes decades14:20
mrgoodcatbrousch is a lot faster than cmaloney14:24
brouschhah, cmaloney playes 2 moves/day14:24
brousch"work" he whines14:25
brouschmrgoodcat: Your last move was better than I gave you credit for14:25
mrgoodcatthe top is now fairly well protected as far as i can see14:26
brouschYeah, that made it much harder to get around the back14:27
mrgoodcatthat was less of a retreat and more of a guard. like the diagonal pawn configuration in chess. at least in my head. we'll see how it plays you14:27
mrgoodcatout*14:27
brouschI see that now14:28
brouschTo get the top of that structure I need a lot of busy work now14:29
mrgoodcatwe're playing a pretty symmetric game14:32
brouschIt happens. You get long runs of diagonal and straight sometimes14:32
brouschThose early singles sometimes break it up14:33
mrgoodcatyou said "mobile notifies me". what app do you use for dgs?14:34
brouschhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mco.prj.app.bwgofree with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mco.prj.srv.bwdgs14:36
bookiebothttp://goo.gl/rEwujE - BW-Go Free - Android Apps on Google Play14:36
bookiebothttp://goo.gl/i0DLf1 - BW-DGS - Android Apps on Google Play14:37
brouschActually i use the paid, but it doesn't matter14:37
brouschmrgoodcat: Do you know about "eyes"?14:37
mrgoodcata little14:40
mrgoodcati know if you have 2 eyes in a chain it's essentially uncapturable14:40
brouschNot essentially, it is invulnerable14:40
mrgoodcatbut i'm unclear on what constitutes an eye. can it be only one free space? or if there's multiple spaces is it not an eye?14:40
brouschIt is a completely enclosed (by all your stones) space14:41
mrgoodcatok. well that clears it up a little14:41
brouschYou can get away with 1 corner of it not being yours14:41
mrgoodcatI think i even understand why it's invulnerable14:41
brouschYou have space in your upper right corner to make 2 eyes, so it would be very difficult for me to attack it14:42
mrgoodcatit would be suicide to play in an eye, but if you had surrounded the entire structure it would be legal because you would capture the whole thing, but if there are 2 eyes there are 2 suicide moves so no way possible to play them both and suicide without capture is illegal14:42
mrgoodcatunless i missed something14:43
brouschCorrect14:44
brouschSo with 2 eyes, it's impossible to surround them both14:44
mrgoodcatcan an eye be against a side/corner?14:44
brouschIn your current structure, g8, h789, j789 could all become eyes. So if I attack I will try to disrupt that14:45
brouschyes14:45
brouschThe good players can look at a structure like yours and determine whether it's possible to capture it even as early as now. I am not that good14:46
mrgoodcati don't feel all that confident in my ability to protect it even if a skilled player would consider it impossible to take14:47
mrgoodcatit still depends on me making the right moves14:48
brouschRight14:48
mrgoodcator not the wrong ones anyways14:48
mrgoodcatfor instance on that last one i was unsure if i should have gone at h7 instead, but then you could have captured h5. I don't yet have the skill/experience to determine what is a worthwhile sacrifice14:49
brouschI think you made the right move there. I forced you into it14:50
brouschIt strengthened your structure and you lost no stones14:50
brouschThis move for you now will take some thought14:51
mrgoodcati'd say you are very unlikely to win this battle14:52
brouschI probably wouldn't even try against anyone else ;)14:59
mrgoodcatlol14:59
mrgoodcatone advantage of playing with a computer is that i don't have to wait for it to make moves15:01
brouschI think you've secured it properly now15:02
brouschYes, I can't stop you from making 2 eyes in there. Well done15:03
mrgoodcatthat was the move i had in mind a while ago but i had to stop you from infiltrating first15:03
mrgoodcatand thank you15:03
mrgoodcatmove 23 was a mistake on my part for sure15:05
brouschIt took me a while to learn a move like that. My instinct is to protect the outer wall, lik f915:05
brouschBut that gives the opponent a chance to get behind15:06
mrgoodcatlol i just played f915:07
mrgoodcati'm unsure if i should be following through on the eyes or leaving the structure as it is15:08
brouschF9 was not necessary. It was essentially a no-point space for anyone15:09
brouschUnless you are planning to attack me ;)15:09
wolfgerWell, why would anybody not attack you? ;-)15:19
brouschRight, he should be thinking about that now15:20
brouschwolfger: Are you going to play?15:20
wolfgerHadn't noticed the invites. I assumed I would be notified.15:24
brouschNo, it doesn't send emails15:36
brouschYou have to manually check it for everything15:36
brouschIt's like 20 year old web15:36
brouschYou have to clock on "status" to see any updates of any kind15:40
brouschwolfger goes right for the battle15:44
cmaloneyIt'll notify you but the notifications are buried in the interface somewhere.15:49
wolfgerbrousch: it wasn't a battle until you decided to come at me. :-)16:08
wolfgerI was peacefully exercising my right to keep and bear arms is all. Didn't infringe on any of your liberties. That was your move.16:09
wolfgerAh, found the Android app. Much nicer than the website.17:03
brouschYes17:12
brousch19x19 boards are little cramped depending on your phone size17:13
mrgoodcat.echo test18:05
bookiebottest18:05
wolfgertest18:05
mrgoodcatbookiebot: where were you on those usc notices?18:05
mrgoodcathttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2371-1/ USN-2371-1: Exuberant Ctags vulnerability18:06
bookiebothttp://goo.gl/eJrv3K - USN-2371-1: Exuberant Ctags vulnerability | Ubuntu18:06
mrgoodcathttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2370-1/ USN-2370-1: APT vulnerability18:06
bookiebothttp://goo.gl/jsWGtr - USN-2370-1: APT vulnerability | Ubuntu18:06
_stink_exuberant ctags18:15
_stink_hah18:15
mrgoodcatbrousch: i think you're stronger in this one18:23
brouschThe power of foam!18:23
wolfgerfoam?18:23
brouschThat's what I call it when the stones are connected diagonally18:23
brouschHas little holes in between like foam18:24
mrgoodcatit gives you good defense18:24
brouschRight, you always have 2 ways to connect18:27
brouschSo you go in one part, I connect the other and suddenly have a 3 piece structure with ~6 degrees of freedom18:28
mrgoodcat>degrees of freedom18:29
mrgoodcatwhat is this?18:29
brouschThat's how many ways you can expand your structure. When a stone has 0 degrees of freedom it is dead18:30
brousch"surrounded"18:30
brouschA stone by itself in the middle of the board has 4 degrees of freedom18:31
wolfgerah. I've been seeing it called liberties18:31
brouschCould be18:32
brouschliberties seems more common18:33
mrgoodcati'm less sure what to do now18:33
brouschHm, I guess I would try to secure that lower left corner18:35
brouschMy stones will be difficult to attack, but if you can defend the corner you'll have good territory18:35
brouschNow i have to decide whether to fight your defense-building or clean out your crud in the upper left18:37
mrgoodcatdecisions decisions18:38
mrgoodcathope i havent been a boring newbie18:38
brouschNo, you are challenging, and this game is close18:39
brouschRevealing my thoughts makes it harder for me18:39
_stink_do we really want brousch's thought to be revealed?18:40
_stink_s18:40
brouschmrgoodcat: Do you see the key to your success in holding the corner?18:40
mrgoodcatyea i do18:40
mrgoodcatyour center structure is pretty well impenetrable though18:41
brouschI'm not sure it's possible. Too many moves out18:41
mrgoodcatyea you'd have way to long to defend it18:41
mrgoodcattoo*18:41
mrgoodcatthis game is going to be over soon i think18:41
mrgoodcatover half the board is locked18:41
brouschRight, your hope is to hold that lower left corner and maybe you'll have more territory than I do. Right now is the critical fight for the corner18:42
brouschIf i can keep your two parts separated, I will win. If you can connect them, you will probably get the corner18:43
brousch2 parts being your c3,4 and 2d,e structures18:44
mrgoodcatunfortunately for you, i think i'm advantaged here18:44
brouschyes18:44
mrgoodcati'm trying to think of ways for you to stop me connecting them and i'm running short of ideas. you don't have enough time to get around them. My android game tells me when spaces are untakeable based on the number of moves. wish DGS had similar functionality18:45
brouschEssentially, I need to beat on you just enough that you cannot form 2 eyes18:45
mrgoodcatyou may be able to do that. the best you can hope for in this corner is probably a break-even. but that still gives you the majority of the board18:46
brouschThe thing is, if I prevent you from getting 2 eyes, the rest of the stones are dead18:47
brouschI had to play a lot of games before I was convinced of that18:48
mrgoodcatbut good luck with that. i think i'm still significantly stronger in this corner18:50
mrgoodcatif i beat you though it will only be because you were helping me18:50
mrgoodcateven if i salvage a close defeat18:51
mrgoodcatintense finish though18:52
mrgoodcatbrousch: you're making an "up" arrow18:57
mrgoodcatare those officially eyes?18:57
brouschI have 0 complete eyes on the board. For you, 1a is an eye and c1 or c2 is an eye19:00
brouschNow I have 1 eye on the right19:01
brouschSo you have that lower left corner, but it's only 3 pieces of territory19:02
brouschRemember that's what counts in scoring19:02
mrgoodcatc1,2 is an eye? i was under the impression an eye could only be one space19:05
brouschIt will be an eye once you fill either of those spaces19:06
brouschIt's not technically an eye yet, but damn near impossible to attack.19:06
brouschI would e1 f2 e3, then c1 and then have you go to sleep so I could take c219:08
brouschmrgoodcat: Are you thinking about the upper left?19:10
mrgoodcatyea a little19:10
mrgoodcatbut it looks pretty impossible atm19:10
mrgoodcati was more thinking about the possiblity of salvaging some territory there19:11
brouschYou cannot get 2 eyes there, so whatever you play will become my prisoners19:11
brouschI always find that hard to accept though19:11
mrgoodcati'm running out of ideas19:12
mrgoodcathow do you determine when to end the game?19:12
brouschHeh, usually when the other guy tells me "we're done here" and I convince myself he is right19:13
mrgoodcatlol well you're the other guy now19:14
brouschTechnically they want to you to close all the holes, but you can mark stones as dead without that in the end-game19:15
brouschThe bottom middle/right is pretty loose. We should play that out to see how many spots you can keep there19:15
mrgoodcatif its obvious they can't be saved19:15
mrgoodcatlike the top left19:15
mrgoodcatdo you count the stones themselves as territory?19:16
mrgoodcator just the spaces?19:16
brouschNo, you are connected to the 2 eye bottom left, so you could gain some territory19:16
brouschjust the spaces19:16
mrgoodcatno i'm not saying its obvious, i'm saying if it is obvious, they can be marked dead19:16
mrgoodcati was just repeating what you said to show i understood19:17
brouschRight, the upper left will be marked as dead at end-game19:17
brouschHm, that's actually a very troublesome move for me19:19
brouschI didn't realize how vulnerable my 1 eye lower right is19:20
mrgoodcatthat was the intended effect :)19:20
mrgoodcatnot sure if you aren't making a move because i've troubled you or because you have real work to do....19:25
brouschI was thinking hard19:25
brouschFound the simple solution ;)19:26
mrgoodcatdarn19:27
mrgoodcatnow i'm stuck just trying to contain it the best i can19:27
mrgoodcatwish i had a notification for when my turn comes19:27
mrgoodcatsettled for a 5s auto-refresh on the status page19:28
mrgoodcatgoing to have to make a chrome app for this maybe19:28
* mrgoodcat is one of those impatient ones19:28
brouschheh19:30
cmaloneymrgoodcat: That is not a site that should be reloaded often19:32
cmaloneyYou'll probably overload it.19:32
mrgoodcatorly19:32
mrgoodcati'll keep that in mind19:32
mrgoodcatswitched it to 1min19:32
cmaloneyTehre is an email notification you can receive19:32
cmaloneyand the android client can give you a notification as well19:32
brouschmrgoodcat: I mist say this part has not gone as I saw it19:33
brouschVery interesting19:33
mrgoodcatthanks19:33
mrgoodcati assume thats a good thing anyways...19:34
mrgoodcatalso thanks cmaloney19:34
brouschIt's always interesting when an opponent does not think like me19:34
brouschLot's of "oh crap, I didn't even think about that"19:34
cmaloneybrousch: Yeah, I know the feeling.19:35
mrgoodcatbrousch: it seems like you were a little too confident in your big fortress in the middle.19:36
brouschYes, too much foam ;)19:36
mrgoodcatvery interesting late game19:38
mrgoodcatdevelopments in a lot of areas19:39
brouschYeah, it kind of bothers me when the good guys go "we're done" when there's still a lot to play. I usually ask them to play it out with me to see what develops19:40
mrgoodcati think this game is over though. i can't get your f1,2 without you connecting it to your 2 eye bottom right. the top right is mine, the top left is yours, the bottom left is mine19:41
mrgoodcatnow that you actually have 2 real eyes in your middle structure19:42
mrgoodcatyou also can't stop me from connecting the bottom left and top right structures19:42
mrgoodcatin fact i just did19:43
brouschBut I can make you fill in territory to do so19:44
brouschEach time I do that without losing a stone is basically a point19:44
brouschA very close game. I will not win by much more than komi19:47
mrgoodcata lot closer than my other online games. they were on bigger boards though19:47
mrgoodcatand i didn't have help19:47
brouschnow we have to mark dead stones19:48
mrgoodcati'd be interested in playing in person. i don't like waiting for online turn based games19:48
brouschYeah, finishing a game like this in 1 day is rare online19:48
brouschmaybe during tournaments19:48
cmaloney.np squeekyhoho19:49
bookiebotsqueekyhoho's current track - Tres Brujas by The Sword on Warp Riders19:49
mrgoodcatwhat is the color code here?19:49
mrgoodcaton the finish19:49
* cmaloney <3s The Sword - Warp Riders19:50
cmaloneymrgoodcat: I have a Goban if you want to come over and play some time19:50
mrgoodcati'm not quite sure how this is supposed to work19:50
cmaloney9x9 and 13x1319:50
mrgoodcatcmaloney: i'd enjoy that19:50
* cmaloney doesn't have a big 19x19 board.19:50
mrgoodcatbrousch: i'm going to assume that white are your territory, black is mine, pink is no-mans-land?19:51
brouschI think when white is on a black stone it's marked as dead19:51
cmaloneypink is contested iic.19:51
mrgoodcatbrousch: what am i supposed to do here?19:52
brouschI think if white box is on black stone it is dead19:52
cmaloneyThe algorithm considers it dead19:53
cmaloneyit's up to you to determine if it is dead or not19:53
cmaloneythough at this point I'd say that anywhere it considers dead is probably legit19:53
mrgoodcatso am i determining my dead stones as well as yours?19:53
mrgoodcator just yours (none)19:53
brouschI don't think I have any dead19:54
mrgoodcatyou don't19:54
mrgoodcatare my top-left dead?19:54
brouschIf you know they will die if play continues, they are dead20:02
brouschSo, yes20:02
mrgoodcati think i did that right20:03
brouschmrgoodcat: g2 is the only dead one you missed20:04
mrgoodcatoh yea20:04
mrgoodcatoops20:04
mrgoodcati meant to click that20:04
brouschNo problem, it let me select it20:05
mrgoodcatso it goes back and forth until there is agreement it seems20:06
mrgoodcatso when i clicked done without marking any stones, the game ended20:06
brouschthat makes sense20:07
mrgoodcatwant to play another 9x9 or a 13x13 this time?20:07
brouschI wonder if it lets you resume play if you can't agree20:08
mrgoodcati dont know20:08
mrgoodcati didn't really look too close at the options at the bottom20:08
mrgoodcateach dead stone counts as 2 points?20:10
brouschSeems to. I guess technically it's a capture and a territory20:12
brouschBut if played out it would not be as much territory, so that seems weird20:12
mrgoodcati think it is to prevent someone from trying to fill up your territory before the end game20:13
mrgoodcatyou are giving them spaces if you can't save your stones20:13
mrgoodcater points20:13
brouschSo for g1,2, If I played at g1, I would get a point for capture and a point for territory, so it would only come to 2 points for that area instead of the 3 I got20:15
brouschSimilar in upper left. Played out to a ridiculous level would get my 8pts instead of the 10 I got20:17
brouschinsteresting20:17
mrgoodcata prisoner is also a point though20:18
mrgoodcatoh wait thats what you said20:19
mrgoodcatwe'll play out the next one until it's done then?20:19
mrgoodcatunless someone is just filling in their own territory or the game is clearly lost20:19
brouschIn this case 3 points would not have made a diference20:20
brouschI guess if the game is close enough you'd keep going20:20
mrgoodcatsimilar thing would have happened to my territory too20:21
brouschtrue20:22
mrgoodcatnot sure what the numbers would have ended up being but my top left had a lot of empty space to fill up20:22
mrgoodcater right20:22
mrgoodcatanother game?20:22
brouschYeah, won't be as intense though due to end of work day stuff20:24
mrgoodcatyea ok20:24
mrgoodcat9 or 13?20:24
brouschUp to you20:24
brousch9 goes faster, but 13 becomes a different game20:25
brouschFewer walls to bump into20:25
mrgoodcati think i'd like another 9 to get used to it. you make it or me20:27
mrgoodcat?20:27
mrgoodcatwoah.... too many settings. you can make it20:27
brouschheh, just set the board size and leave the rest20:46
brouschinvited20:47
cmaloneyGenerally speaking if you don't know what the drop-down does, dont' worry about it.20:51
mrgoodcatsorry i had to walk away for a second. i'm going to try to get the android app working20:51
cmaloneyhttp://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/adobes-e-book-reader-sends-your-reading-logs-back-to-adobe-in-plain-text/ <- The sooner Adobe gets out of the content distribution business the happier I'll be20:55
bookiebothttp://goo.gl/UtjKDY - Adobe’s e-book reader sends your reading logs back to Adobe—in plain text [Updated] | Ars Technica20:55
cmaloneylove their formats, hate their stupid DE.20:56
cmaloney(digital editions)20:56
brouschmrgoodcat: No problem. I'm handing out master passwords to work big wigs in case I die during my colonoscopy tomorrow20:57
mrgoodcatrelated: please don't die during your colonoscopy tomorrow21:00
mrgoodcatthen the only person i'll have to play Go with will be cmaloney21:01
cmaloneybrousch: livestream?21:09
mrgoodcatof colonoscopy?21:10
cmaloneyWhat else?21:18
mrgoodcatD:21:19
brousch:p21:27
mrgoodcati have no opening strategy21:32
brouschNeither do I21:33
brouschI still haven't read a guide on it21:34
mrgoodcatlol21:37
mrgoodcathow i feel during early game http://hellogiggles.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/04/dog-on-computer.jpg21:45
bookiebothttp://goo.gl/LvZvgc - image/jpeg21:45

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