Play This Game Now. Play Classic Backgammon as a stand alone web app. This is a beautiful classic backgammon game where players compete to be first to move all their checkers off the board. It is a game where each player has fifteen pieces that move between twenty-four triangles governed by the roll of two dice. Play against an opponent or the computer. Children and adults can play this free online backgammon game by clicking in the window below. Alternatively kids and adults can play this online backgammon game for free as a web application here.
Move your checkers in turn. When you remove all fifteen of your checkers before your opponent and they have one or more checkers in your home board or on the bar, you win the game. This game is rendered in mobile-friendly HTML5, so it offers cross-device gameplay. You can play it on mobile devices like Apple iPhones, Google Android powered cell phones from manufactures like Samsung, tablets like the iPad or Kindle Fire, laptops, and Windows-powered desktop computers.
All game files are stored locally in your web browser cache. Hui, however, is not among the top world players —and among the upper echelons of players, differences in their abilities are so pronounced that even a lifetime of training would not enable Hui to beat somebody like Lee Sedol.
Thus, based on the five publicly available games between AlphaGo and Hui, Sedol confidently predicted that he would dominate AlphaGo, winning five games to nothing or, perhaps on a bad day, four games to one.
What he did not reckon is that the program he was facing in Seoul was a vastly improved version of the one Hui had encountered six months earlier, optimized by relentless self-play.
An interesting difference between Deep Blue and AlphaGo is that the evaluation engine of the former, assigning a positive good or a negative bad value to any one chessboard position, was explicitly programmed. Deep Blue represented a triumph of machine brawn over a single human brain. Its success was almost completely predicated on very fast processors, built for this purpose.
Although its victory over Kasparov was a historic event, the triumph did not lead to any practical application or to any spin-off. Indeed, IBM retired the machine soon thereafter. The same situation is not likely to occur for AlphaGo. The program runs on off-the-shelf processors. Giving it access to more computational power by distributing it over a network of 1, CPUs and GPUs only improved its performance marginally. At this point it is not clear whether there is any limitation to the improvement AlphaGo is capable of.
If only the same could be said of our old-fashioned brains. It may be that this constitutes the beating heart of any intelligent system, the Holy Grail that researchers are pursuing—general artificial intelligence, rivaling human intelligence in its power and flexibility. In a very commendable move, Hassabis and his colleagues described in exhausting details the algorithms and parameter settings the DeepMind team used to generate AlphaGo in the accompanying Nature publication.
This further accelerates the frenetic pace of AI research in academic and industrial laboratories worldwide. For reinforcement, algorithms based on trial and error learning can be applied to myriad problems with sufficient labeled data, be they financial markets, medical diagnostic, robotics, warfare and so on. A new era has begun with unknown but potential monumental medium- and long-term consequences for employment patterns, large-scale surveillance and growing political and economic inequity.
What of the effects of AlphaGo on go itself? Despite doomsayers to the contrary, the rise of ubiquitous chess programs revitalized chess, helping to train a generation of ever more powerful players. The same may well happen to the go community. After all, the fact that any car or motorcycle can speed faster than any runner did not eliminate running for fun. More people run marathons than ever. Indeed, it could be argued that by removing the need to continually prove oneself to be the best, humans may now more enjoy the nature of this supremely aesthetic and intellectual game in its austere splendor for its own sake.
Indeed, in ancient China one of the four arts any cultivated scholar and gentleman was expected to master was the game of go. Just as a meaningful life must be lived and justified for its own intrinsic reasons, so should go be played for its intrinsic value—for the joy it gives.
As the philosopher Mark Rowlands puts it, this joy can assume many forms:. There is the joy of dedication, the experience of being dedicated to the deed and not the outcome, the activity and not the goal.
There is the joy of enduring, the experience of playing the game as hard as you can play it, of giving everything you have to the game and leaving nothing in the tank, no matter the experiential toll this exacts.
This is the joy of defiance, wild and fierce: No, you will not break me, not here, not today. In his battle against a new and superior go force, Lee Sedol, representative for all of us, has shown this joy.
This article is dedicated to him. Credit: Nick Higgins. Already a subscriber? Sign in. Thanks for reading Scientific American. Create your free account or Sign in to continue.
I don't know how much adults will enjoy playing it, but I think hope kids will find it fun. At least my son does :. All the graphics used for the game I found at OpenClipArt , a great site with free graphics.
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Holiday themes. Hide Multiplayer button. Customize opponents Blocked users Go Fish Multiplayer Lobby Click a table to join a multiplayer game. Leave table Private table created The code for the table is: Give that code to whoever you want to play with, they can use it to join. Or send the link below to them, if they click it they'll join automatically: OK. Join private table Please enter the code for the table: OK Cancel.
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