Mysterious Tartrate Conquers All At Go

Rubyflame writes "As noted on the Sensei's Library resource for the ancient Chinese boardgame Go, Tartrate, a very strong and mysterious Go player, has recently returned to the Kiseido Go Server (KGS) after a long absence. The game records can be found here. Tartrate first appeared in March, and has yet to be defeated - his identity is unknown." This intriguing story is a little reminiscent of Bobby Fischer's online chess appearances - the Go players on KGS even log their Tartrate number: "tartrate has a tartrate number of 0. If you have played a game with tartrate, your tartrate number is 1. If you have played a game with someone whose number is 1, your number is 2, and so on."

Is that you, Sai?

[Firehawke]

At least he isn't going by the name "Sai".. that'd be downright scary. Still amusing that life mirrors art..

Tartrate is a jerk...

[clambake]

He uses cheat codes!

I, for one...

[MyDixieWrecked]

Welcome our new Go overlord.

Re:AI?

[cgenman]

Anyhow, if it's some AI, then it almost has to be some undergraduate/researcher with some new algorithm, so they probably have quite enough CPU power at hand.

I KNEW those SETI @ Home guys were up to something!

Tartrates' Identity Revealed! That's right...

[Braintrust]

... you guessed it!

Frank Stallone.

Re:AI?

[edbarrett]

'someone is running a good Go bot'

Is he a mighty Go bot?

Is he a mighty vehicle?

Am I an idiot?

Nominations

[scrytch]

Mysterious Tartrate Conquers All At Go

I nominate this article title for "Most Surreal Slashdot Title Ever".

six

[Scrameustache]

Kevin Bacon's Tartrate number is, of course, 6.

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