Judgement, reading, and shape.

1.) Positional Judgement
2.) Reading
3.) Arguing on go forums

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I'm going to add one because I think it has never been mentioned before. Not sure if you guys will agree though.

- Creativity

I think it is not strictly required to be creative BUT if you look at some pro or ama games I notice that sometimes they will adapt to certain situations in very creative way. I'm not saying that they did not read it but just that they required quit some creativity in order to come up with a move that is different from where you would normaly start to read.

Because lots of times this result could better than the "normal" response, I think creativity is a real asset in go.

Cheers,
Otenki

I agree with creativity being valuable, but I feel it tends to get run out by the narrow minded 4-4 handicap conventional approach crowd.

way i look at it is that creativity is a part of reading.

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The greater the unknown"
Words by neil peart, music by geddy lee and alex lifeson

There is more to creativity. Creativity, also has to do with working out the variations and lines of play to novel moves, not simply reading out one game.