Life In 19x19

All the cool kids use Discord . I do like forums however (searching in Discord would be a pita, and it's just not the same). That being said, the UI is quite archaic...but functional, sort of.

Not sure how "mainstream" it is, but David Nolen gave a talk at Strange Loop, a tech conference, on Go that wasn't Golang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2yJ3FBtU4Y

Dennis Wheeler (xedover KGS, xed_over L19) passed away last April: https://www.usgo.org/content.aspx?page_ ... m_id=88090

Separate L19 thread from earlier: https://lifein19x19.com/viewtopic.php?f ... le#p277371

Fox uses SGFs.

Replay clearly shows he clicked (several times) before the clock ran out: https://youtu.be/rqahsISlIXY

It looks like the ruling is a rematch tomorrow.

SoDesuNe wrote:lichess.org for go, simple as that ; )

100% this.

Several of the problems from this source are matched with problems from Xuanxuan Qijing, which is for low to mid-dan players, so I would say it's around that level.

I mean some of the problems are for low to mid dan, but some are even easier and some are very hard. I wouldn't call it for low to ...

Is it just me, or did they make it kinda difficult to find the analysis of the problems? Here it is in their old layout: https://codejam.withgoogle.com/2018/cha ... 000008830b

Also, agreed that A and B were much simpler than I expected, feel like the bar to reach round 1 is a low lower this year.

Locking this thread because it's derailed from talking about Lee Changho to talking about something very unrelated.

I was in your exact shoes, was 5k on KGS and getting frustrated with lack of improvement and about to quit. That was when my parents let me go (was 16 at the time) on a 2-month Go program in Beijing, which aside from letting me improve 3-4 stones, had me come back to the US with a huge amount of ...

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Such a tease Solomon, what are those openings?! Is this armpit hit that goes against normal full board principles such an opening?

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Something that helped me go from 1800 to 2000+ on GoQuest was to just get out of the 19x19 mindset and be willing to play moves you wouldn't even consider on a full-sized board. I would go to the leaderboard and study the games of 2600+ players, and learn all of the funny-named openings like "Hand ...

Contest Link: https://open.kattis.com/contests/ad4q3r

Start Time: 2017-09-15 17:00:00 UTC (Fri September 15 2017 10am PST, 19:00 CEST)
Duration: 168 hours
Problems: 5

Past Rounds:

⋅  Round 10 (August 25 2017)
⋅  Round 9 (August 11 2017)
⋅  Round 8 (August 4 ...

This week I'll be a bit busy to set up the contest, so look forward to Round 11 next week!