Life In 19x19

The first time I heard "joseki" mentioned, I thought it was a reference to Kzinti slaves, but then I remembered that was Jotoki.

It's not so much what I hate about Go, as what I hate about the way I play Go.

Go itself is not at fault. It is what it is.

I want to play it well. I've tried. I can't seem to get the hang of it. Part of it is that I haven't played enough, and I know it. But when I do play, I get somewhere into ...

Here's another webcomic with a Go sighting. http://blipcomic.com/908/ It's not my comic, it's one in my daily reading bookmarks. I saw that, and said to myself "SELF! There's some GO!"

I wonder if the artist plays? I'll have to ask.

I'm not posting this as a Shameless Plug(tm), just to share it. I did a mid-week installment of my webcomic as a part of the Comics For Japan initiative that includes a Go reference. It was created as part of a project for webcomic artists to suggest where their readers could donate to the Japan ...

I took judo as a child, then briefly took a goofy korean fake art called "chung moo quan" that turned out to be a scam run by a tax cheating ex-janitor who cribbed a lot from a half-dozen arts and set up a school. It became more of a cult than a school, and I was only there a month. Later, I took ...

I'm new to Go, and it's both an addiction and a frustration to me. I don't know why, exactly, I decided to start learning it. I wasn't inspired initially by Hikaru no Go -- I found that *later*. I used to play chess, but haven't played in years. Just one day, I said to myself, "SELF! Let's learn to ...