The Game of GO & Shogi - Oriental Wealth

[Anonymous]

I have read some of the material at Bamboo-delight.com and in particular one book is the hidden secrets of Oriental wealth. It mentions the jews, the japanese (author also states that japanese have used subversive tactics to undermine USA) and the tactics which the asians and jews have used to beat the USA. In particular are some board games that Asian children play which gives them an advantage as it teaches them how to think in a business sense. The two main games are GO (vaguely similar to chinese checkers) & Shogi (Japanese Chess). I have begun to play these games on my iphone, they are quite interesting and fun, in particular GO, Shogi is like Chess but more complicated and cut throat than western chess. Play these games and you will have an insight into the mind of Asian business men. I will quote about the board games from THSOOW (The Hidden Secrets Of Oriental Wealth).

Chapter II
Games and Strategy
One of the most jealously guarded of the Hidden Secrets of Oriental Wealth has been the martial secrets of warfare and strategy. While I can say that the Chinese consider such applications as ungentlemanly, the Japanese use these methods on friend and enemy alike in all aspects of their dealings with other cultures. The Japanese are especially expert at undermining the United States since the people and leaders of the United States are peaceable players of children's games and are not of a military mind. Thus, American people are naive children when it comes to deception and trickery on both the battlefield and in the business world.....

http://www.bamboo-delight.com/download/ ... Wealth.pdf

To learn about these board games have a look at this 40 page + book, very eye opening and has many great tips on how to make money thinking like a chinese. You will soon discover how they think.

[Anonymous]

That is the book cover.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Most Asians sell alcohol and spicy greasy carbs... it's a winning combination in the USA... always remember, that there are people that can out program the best players... and they are European...or North Korean... if it wasn't for Europeans...Asians would still be drawing their "Go" games in dry dust with walking sticks like they did for 1000s of years.    --CSR

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North Korea's Artificial Intelligence Go Software

The World Best: Eunbyul 2010
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011


Eunbyul 2010 is a "Go" game, or commonly known as baduk in Korean; a software program developed by North Korea and played in North and South Korea. Winner of the third Computer Go Competition UED Cup in 2009, defeating so many outstanding programs from all over the world, Eunbyul 2010 is maintaining 3-dan at cyberoro.com and also ranks number one in sales in Japanese computer Go program market.
Eunbyul 2006

Go was invented by Chinese emperor Yao around 2300 BC, and has been widely played in the three countries in Far East: Korea, Japan, and China. In North Korea, the game was previously considered 'the bourgeoisie game,' thus a taboo; however since the 1990's, the government has promoted Go as a traditional game that dates back to the Three States era; in addition it highlights the game as a brain exerciser that helps children develop their intelligence and old people keep their brains from aging. North Korea classifies Go - also called brain combat or brain fight in the country- as a type of martial arts just like Taekwondo or Ssireum, the Korean wrestling. North Korea's Go was controlled by Chosun Sports Association, but under the command from Kim Jeong-il in 1990s; it was transferred to Chosun Martial Arts Federation that haf better training environment, and subsequently categorized as public sport; now Taekwondo Commission is in charge of the game. Cho Daewon, 22 and MunYoungsam, 33, both amateur 7-dan, are noted as the top players in the country.

The estimated number of Go players in North Korea was around 10,000 in 1994, and is currently over 30,000. North Korean government encourages children to play Go as they believe the game has a significant effect on improving many brain activities such as concentration, observation, memory, imagination, and structure perception. Go classes are organized at kindergarten and the government tries to promote the game by holding various Go competitions for children.

Along with their passion for the game, North Korea is also regarded as one of the world's best developer of computer Go game. Since early 1990s, the university computer development group composed of Kim Ilseong University, Kim Chek Engineering College, etc. - has developed computer Go programs. In 1995, Eunbyul Computer Technology Trade Center which is now called Korea Computer Center (KCC) focused on making software programs for Go, chess, Janggi and the like. The Go software 'Eunbyul 2010 (see the picture above)'-http://www.i-silverstar.com - was imported into South Korea and is now available to the public consumers.

 
Choi Sung, Professor of computer science at Namseoul University

Choi Sung, Professor of computer science at Namseoul University

Eunbyul 2010 is the latest version of Eunbyul 2006, which was released in 2006 drawing attention to the industry. It integrated Monte Carlo Method into the algorithm of the original 2006 version, substantially improving the level of performance. While Eunbyul 2006 was rated level 6 according to Korea Baduk Association's system, its 2010 counterpart attained 2-dan after the battles with random user at Cyber Oro, the internet Go match website. The user won 54 and lost 46games - 31 victories and 25 defeats in 1-dan battles and 23 victories and 21 defeats in 2-dan battles -hence, with 54 percent of winning rate. The software also won the International Computer Go Tournament held last year in Japan, sweeping all the matches and, thus, proving to be the best of its kind in the world.

There are two types of engines in Go programs. Tree search system, in theory, takes more than 361 (factorial) searches for one match because it has to create a move by move searching tool to explore every path. There is Monte Carlo method engine, which randomly selects one of the undefeated moves after proceeding hundreds of thousands of simulated battles to the end. Despite the relatively higher performance (on amateur beginner's levels), this method was difficult to be adopted for commercial use because it required computation by either supercomputer or tens of CPUs from parallel wired computers.

4OneBiz, the sales rights holder in South Korea, signed the contract with North Korea in June 2006 before beginning the sales in the South. In September the same year, the company held an 8-day workshop in which an engineer who spent over a decade on developing Go programs at KCC and a professional5-dan Go player participated in the activities. The main objective of the workshop was to decide whether they should improve the performance of the existing Eunbyul program or develop a completely new engine from the design. Ultimately, they chose the latter.

 
Baduk master matches against AI baduk master, Eunbyul

Baduk master matches against AI baduk master, Eunbyul

 

North and South Korea agreed to develop a whole new level of Go program engine that contains tactical data, which narrows down the potential moves to only a few, so as to make the next move in a simpler way. They also aim to make a program with optimal performance that is light and fast enough to be installed in a mobile device. South Korea provides an expert-levelalgorithm design whereas North Korean developers will take charge of creating a program based on the theory and basic algorithm. This new expert-level Go engine is already completed, and its automatic evaluator and situation-determination module are currently being supplied to a popular Korean Go website. Further use is currently under negotiation. One engineer who specialized in expert-level Go engine and gave up after spending more than 10 years on developing the engine once contended that "it is beyond human capability to develop an amateur-expert level of Go engine."

However, the recent success can be largely contributed to the thoughtful collaboration between South and North Korea: i.e., the North Korean engineers spent more than a decade focused and devoted to Go engine development, and South Korea's  also has well-known competence in Go game. The incredible synergy was all thanks to the socialist system of North Korea where the engineers could stick to the Go engine development project for nearly 20 years regardless of its profitability; and also the capitalist South fostered the best Go players with its wealth and the professional Go player system. For those reasons, North Korea could have developed Eunbyul 2010, the best artificial intelligence Go program in the world.

http://www.koreaittimes.com/story/12367 ... o-software

BTW, interesting book...

[Yo Mama]

if it wasn't for Europeans...Asians would still be drawing their "Go" games in dry dust with walking sticks like they did for 1000s of years.    --CSR

RACIST!!!

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

if it wasn't for Europeans...Asians would still be drawing their "Go" games in dry dust with walking sticks like they did for 1000s of years.    --CSR

RACIST!!!

My bad Y.M., actually they would be using crafted boards with polished stones... the drawings would be for strategy sessions ...

[Anonymous]

An example of how incredibly selfish and individualistically conceited the average Westerner is, can be seen everyday on the streets and highways of the United States. This phenomenon is in the form of the average pedestrian crossing
the road. These silly people will step right out in front of a long line of cars not caring that they are stopping perhaps fifty or more automobiles just so that they can cross the street. Even to wait a tiny moment for a break in the traffic or to run across the street instead of slowly ambling like cattle, is beyond their mental faculties.

That is a passage from the book. I must admit I feel guilty using pedestrian buttons, I feel it is wrong to use them in many circumstances but where I live it is illegal to cross the road without using one if you are in reasonable distance of one.  

I have been playing GO (weiqi) it is darn hard, the computer beats me every time.

I want to get better and beat it, been playing on a 9x9 board too.

[Anonymous]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPMxAYMwet8

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

The Way of the Samurai... bluejelly.... Corporate businessmen are wooses... in deed, in fact and in society... Thick Face/Black Heart is training in 'Jewry'...and without Honor. Should help immigrants in the USA...but "Talmudic Faces" will roll...they will..  --CSR

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The Park Chung Hee Regime in South Korea


Park Chung Hee was born in 1917 in the village of Sonsangun near Taegu in southeastern Korea. He was the seventh child of a poor family; his father sometimes served as a magistrate under the Japanese occupation. Park won admission to high school through a competitive examination. After high school he taught school for a while before entering the Japanese army. He won admission to a two-year training program in Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in Manchuria, and graduated at the top of his class. Park was then selected for another two years of training at the Tokyo Military Academy. Park's experience with the Japanese government's program of economic development in Manchukuo strongly affected his thinking when he ruled South Korea. Park adopted the Japanese name Okamoto Minoru and was in many respect essentially Japanese.

Park's political ideology was mixed. After the end of World War II he participated in a communist cell organized within the South Korean army and was sentenced to death but gained a reprieve as a result of his cooperation with the authorities. Park served with distinction in the South Korean Army during the Korean War and became an expert at logistics. He received a year of special training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

In May of 1960, Park and a group of other officers of the South Korean army took control of the government. The U.S. government was uncertain of what had taken place in South Korea. There was strong suspicions that Park was a crypto-communist and the media sometimes referred to him as "Parkov," a Russianized version of his name. Although Park did not have affiliations with the communist movement, his thinking and ideological orientation was decidedly Stalinist. However his predeliction for central planning and autocratic control probably came from his experiences in the Japanese army. The Japanese army had no sympathy for notions of free markets and in Manchukuo undertook a Stalinist-style development program. Park's program for the economic development was modeled more on Meiji-era Japan than the Soviet Union.

One of the first things Park did after assuming power was to persecute South Korean business leaders for profiting from the corruption in the South Korean government. Twenty four of the leading businessmen were arrested. The founder of Samsung, Lee Byung Chull, escaped this treatment only because he was out of the country at the time. When Lee Byung Chull returned to Korea he met with Park and agreed to cooperate with Park's economic development program. Later Lee and other prominent business leaders offered to donate all or a substantial portion of their fortunes to the government. They ended up paying fines but not giving up their businesses. The Park regime morality campaign was probably less about corruption than asserting the traditional Confucian social system in which "merchants" had to recognize their status at the bottom of the social hierarchy. There was a campaign against foreign products such as cigarets and foreign cultural influences such as dancing.

Although the Park regime did not takeover all of the business holdings of those labelled "illicit profiteers," it did nationalize the banks. The motivation for this was to gain control of the flow of capital in the country so it could be directed into the sectors that the government wanted to develop.

Park set up three powerful agencies of oversee his development program:

    The Economic Planning Board (EPB)
    The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI)
    The Ministry of Finance (MoF)

There is an obvious similarity to the Japan's agencies for economic development. As in the case of Japan these agencies are important components of what might be called Korea, Inc. A fourth agency, the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA), was the instrument of political control which went along with the centralization of economic decision-making.

One of the first projects of the Park regime was the building of the Seoul-Pusan highway. This highway connected the two largest cities of South Korea but at the time of its construction it served more of a symbolic purpose than a transportation need based upon benefits versus costs.

The Seoul-Pusan Highway

To achieve the industrialization of South Korea that he thought was necessary for defense and prosperity Park Chung Hee generally relied upon private businesses, the chaebol. But in some cases, notably the Pohang Iron and Steel Company (POSCO), Park chose to use public enterprises. In the case of steel he opted for a public enterprise only after years of the failure of private enterprise to develop a successful steel industry. The story of the success of POSCO under the direction of the general Park Tae Joon is told elsewhere. The story of enterprises such as Hyundai's shipbuilding is also told elsewhere. The important thing is that the Park regime initiated a successful program of industrialization for South Korea based upon export-oriented industries which were guided and aided by the government.

The next development of the Park strategy for the economic development of South Korea was the Heavy and Chemical Industries (HCI) Plan. This was a shift in orientation. The HCI Plan formulated in the early 1970's, in addition to calling for the development of heavy industries and chemical industries, involved a more centralized, import-substitution orientation of the economy. The HCI plan followed the creation of a new constitution, the Yushin Constitution, that increased the power of the government and suppressed political opposition. Although the HCI plan achieved increased industrialization it was at the cost of distorting the economy and ultimately the plan was a failure.

The regime of Park Chung Hee ended with his assassination by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. The assassination was apparently provoked by Park's demand that protests and riots currently occurring be suppressed "even if it cost 30,000 lives." Park Chung Hee was meeting with the top level leadership of South Korea in the headquarters of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA). He criticized the head of the KCIA, Kim Jae-kyu, for not completely suppressing the riots and protests in the Cholla region. Kim as head of the KCIA told Park that it would cost 3,000 lives to carry out that suppression. Park replied that he did not care if it cost 30,000 lives, he wanted it done. Another member of the Park regime supported Park's criticisms of Kim. Kim then went into a restroom where he retrieved a pistol hidden there. With the pistol concealed on his person, Kim returned to the meeting. He then said to Park, "Your Excellency, how can you govern the country with insects like this as part of your government?" He then pulled out the pistol and shot the other member of the group that has supported Park's criticisms of him. He then turned to Park and shot him in the head. Park did not die instantly but after a very short period.

The assassination was probably not pre-planned. The evidence for this is that Kim Jae-kyu did not have an escape arranged. When he fled the building he tried to escape by taking a taxi. He was captured and executed.

There had been an attempt to assassinate Park about five years earlier. At the time Park was was scheduled to give a public speech. His wife was with him on the platform. The assassin's shot missed Park and fatally wounded his wife. Park, ever disciplined, gave his scheduled speech despite the wounding of his wife. Park was probably more vigilant about his personal safety after that, but he would never had thought that Kim, his long time friend, would be a threat to him. With Park Chung Hee's assassination the technocrats in the government convinced Park's successors that the economic program would have to be revised and redirected.

Park Chung Hee

Sources:

    Mark L. Clifford, Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats, and Generals in South Korea, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York, 1994.
    Park Chung Hee, To Build a Nation, Acropolis Books, Washington, D.C., 1971.
    Park Chung Hee, The Country, The Revolution and I, Hollym Corporation Publishers, Seoul, Korea, 1970.
    Park Chung Hee, Our Nation's Path: Ideology of Social Reconstruction, Hollym Corporation Publishers, Seoul, Korea, 1970.

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/park.htm

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Architect of Modern Korea

Park Chung-hee (1917-1979) was a standard-bearer for Korea's industrialization. He was the builder of modern Korea. He had an unusually strong sense of history. He had a great vision called the "modernization of the fatherland" and promoted the exported-oriented industrialization of Korea, which lacks in natural resources.

Park Chung-hee was born on Nov. 14, 1917, in a small village, 60 miles northwest of Daegu, North Gyeongsang Province. He was the youngest child among five boys and two girls of an impoverished farming family. After graduation from Daegu Normal School in 1937, he became a teacher at a small primary school near Mungyeong, North Gyeongsang Province.

His military career began in Manchuria and continued in the Korean Army, being promoted to major general at the time of the coup in 1961, which made him the ruler of Korea. Korea became an economic powerhouse and a dynamic democracy in a single generation under never-ending social disturbances.

President Park launched an ambitious "New Village Movement (Saemaul Undong)" to develop the countryside areas which had remained the lands of poverty. Park himself mingled with farmers in the rice paddies and drank Korean rice wine (makgeolli) with them, wearing a straw hat. Visible first and foremost in the Saemaul Undong was the elimination of centuries-old thatched roofs that dotted the rural areas and had been the symbol of Korea's poverty and their replacement with concrete tiles and metal structures.

Saemaul Undong is based on the spirit of "self-reliance," "self-help" and "mutual cooperation" which Park hoped would lead to a popular "spiritual revolution" for advancing industrialization. A massive facelift was under way for bridges, roads, dikes, wells, reservoirs and irrigation facilities. As a result of Saemaul Undong, farming households were mostly electrified and televisions were installed for seven years (1972-1979). A most valuable lesson learned from Saemaul Undong was the cultivating of the "can-do" spirit and restoration of self-confidence, which has remained a driving force for uplifting Korea to a prosperous state. Saemaul Undong was surely a milestone in the modernization of Korea.

Another stimulus which prompted the industrialization was the construction of the Seoul-Busan Expressway, a symbol of Park's long-dreamed-of modernization aimed at achieving "A Miracle on the Han River." Park got the idea for the cross-country highway from German Chancellor Erhard during his 1964 visit to West Germany. Park traveled from Bonn to Cologne on the autobahn. During his 160-kilometer per hour drive, Park twice stopped the car and asked about details related to its civil engineering works.

The 428-km route, linking Seoul, the capital of Korea, with the largest port city of Busan, was opened to traffic on June 27, 1970. The construction which took two years and five months is seen as the largest civil engineering project ever launched in Korean history. The successful construction of the expressway gave the Korean people a new confidence they could do whatever they wanted. (Park Chung-hee, ``To Build a Nation''). The route, often called "the bloodline of the Korean transportation system," transformed Korea's entire socio-economic structure and was a tangible product of the so-called ``Korean Miracle'' which accelerated the advancement of its heavy industries such as steel and automobiles.

Korea and Japan signed a Treaty on Basic Relations on June 22, 1965, normalizing diplomatic relations between the neighboring countries. The bilateral normalization injected fresh air into promoting economic cooperation and exchanges in all sectors. A tangible change was the activation of Korea's takeover of Japan's advanced technologies and management skills through increased Japanese training of Korean workers. The bilateral normalization remains a great boon to the Korean development.

Under Park's governance, the Korean economy made phenomenal progress, growing at an annual rate of 9.6 percent, with heavy industry accounting for 70 percent of total output. Korea became an industrial power and a model for third world countries. Korea's gross national product (GNP) grew 27 times from $2.3 billion in 1962 to $62.7 billion by 1979 when he died, pushing up the average personal income from $87 to $1,640 during this period.

The South's economic superiority over the North helped the South gain an upper hand in the inter-Korean relations, which in turn led to the declaration of a historic South-North Joint Communique on July 4, 1972, under which the two Koreas agreed on a package of epochal measures to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula and work for peaceful reunification. The July 4 South-North Communique still remains a basis for inter-Korean relations.

By the end of the 1970s, South Korea had become the number one third-world exporter of manufactured goods to developed countries. The rapid industrialization brought about an advancement of the nation's self-defense capability which enabled Korea to produce such military hardware as rifles, machine guns, tanks, helicopters and other tactical weapons.

During Park's presidency, Korea nearly topped the world's growth charts. Park's nation-building strategy has become a textbook for development among other developing nations. South Korea and Japan are listed as two Asian countries which have succeeded in achieving political democratization and economic prosperity from war devastation. In surveys conducted over the last decades, Park Chung-hee was listed as the "greatest president" since the birth of the Republic, receiving the votes of more than two-thirds of those polled across age and generation. For Park Chung-hee, politics was not the art of the possible but the art of will.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/bi ... 61527.html

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Actually, bluejelly, I think the "West" will win hands down if we can get cute white American girls to do this:


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