Life In 19x19

Thank you gowan. I feel honored getting help from a 5d. I will try soap and then talcum powder. I might try wax first. I used to have some stuff called "drawer wax" for lubricating wooden drawers. Haven't been able to find any recently.

BTW: this board looks a lot like mine.

Thanks for the quick response. I had always heard that slotted gobans were designed for travel. For example, Sensei's says: Foldable and Slotted (non magnetic)

These are the same as a normal board, except they are cut in half, and either have slots to get the two halves together, or have a hinge ...

I just bought a slotted Katsura goban. It is very difficult to slide the two halves together or to take them apart. I haven't been able to slide them together completely. There is a gap of a few millimeters and even then, it seemed like one of the tongues could easily break when I tried to wrestle ...

I've noticed this streakiness when playing the computer or working on problems. My explanation is that Go requires a different way of looking at things. A high level pattern recognition that humans can do (easily?) but is hard to program into a computer. It seems that when I'm trying too hard I do ...