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Re:Impact of Go AI on the professional Go world by SenoraRaton on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:55PM (#24312978)
You don't actually spend 100,000s of hours memorizing openings. You study the basic opening principles and key variants, but for the most part it comes very naturally. You play 100,000s of hours of chess, and EVERY chess game has an opening.
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Re:Impact of Go AI on the professional Go world by csa on Saturday August 29, 2020 @12:02AM (#24313367)
> You play 100,000s of hours of chess

100k hours is 11.4 years straight.

Just sayin’...

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Re:Impact of Go AI on the professional Go world by __s on Saturday August 29, 2020 @07:11AM (#24315272)
They said "hundreds or thousands" not "hundreds of thousands"
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