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Go Spotting: “The Passions of the Mind,” and "1636: The Ottoman Onslaught"

Stone's "Passions of the Mind: In Irving Stone's biographic novel about Sigmund Freud, “The Passions of the Mind,” there is the following sentence, reports David Matson: "Sigmund stayed until one in the morning, playing Japanese Go." It occurs in Section 9 of Book Two: The Longing Soul.

"1636: The Ottoman Onslaught": "Go is mentioned briefly in '1636: The Ottoman Onslaught" by Eric Flint," writes  Mike Goerss. "The novel is in a series of an alternate history where a small American town finds itself in the middle of Germany in 1632. Third to last page, speaking about fighting the Turks as they invade Austria: 'It is more like a game of go than chess. . . It is more of a game of position than maneuver.'" 

"The Next Move": "AlphaGo Zero, Google's experimental AI, exists to play Go. There is no awareness, only intelligence." So begins John Cooper Hamilton's "The Next Move," a very short story about AlphaGo in Daily Science Fiction, sent along by Paul Celmer, who published a non-go story in DSF last July, “Spooky Action at a Distance.” 

"The Incredible Inventions of Intuitive AI": Maurice Conti's "The Incredible Inventions of Intuitive AI" TED talk video mentions AlphaGo beating Lee Sedol, reports Shawn Ray.