Life In 19x19

Yes, AGA announced that the 2021 US e-Go Congress will be held online July 17-24
https://www.usgo.org/news/2021/02/mark- ... is-coming/

It can be bought in the US for $20 on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/394056379X

The 20-page sample includes the TOC

And wrote:6 July "New version released !!"

Was that 6 July 2016? I downloaded and installed and got v1.01, the same as from 2016.

I second the recommendation for Yang's "Black Book." This book was recommended to me at the vendor's table at the 2010 Congress when I was 5k. I eventually also acquired his workbook series.

Yang says he hates memorization. His books teaches principals so the you can figure out a good play yourself ...

Go World commented on nearly 100 of his games of which 22 look to be at least five pages long.

You can read it on iPad, iPhone, and/or Macintosh via GoBooks

UnclMartin wrote:I was told WMS, at one time, added a user name check to block new usernames that were visually similar to existing usernames. If true, that would explain the mystery.

Indeed, username 'darreII' (capital-i's instead of lower-case-L's) is not available.

Go_Japan wrote: If they just registered it and used it, no one would really care.

If a 24 kyu registered 'Allah' and played honestly, yet ineptly, no one would really care? No one would think it disrespectful?

Well, you might be right. You might also be wrong. I am not confident that you are right.

Personally, I think the rules should ... not arbitrarily decided by a single member of the community. As you wish, I have arbitrarily decided that 'meat' may unsettle vegetarians and pre-emptively registered it. Now two members have registered a extra few names in addition to the 57,190 that have ...

I would like to suggest though that the decisions about what names are allowable be in the hands of the people who actually run KGS I dislike this suggestion. We are a community run by volunteers. Instead of complaining that somebody really ought to fix that, the anonymous censor took proactive ...

TheStarker wrote:I've been recommended these two books, consequently if they take the dust on your shelves I can help!

Hello Martin,

Sorry if you already knew this, but these books have been reprinted and are available from Amazon.

Regards,
Darrell

I am confused by the warning to others about the TOS... Charles was addressing the ideas being discussed and I do not see how the comment would lead to locking the thread.
I know you are fairly new to this board so I hope you will take my suggestion as constructive. When the original poster ...

The fact that "conflict of interest" in its multifarious forms bleeds over into sectors where the voluntary ethic is supposed to predominate is no small thing.
Which is the greater danger to our go forum: conflict of interest by creators or bullying by the self-righteous?

The admin has no problem ...

I, too, once thought a 'self-review' was ridiculous. Then one time I was researching books on a particular topic and remembered that Robert wrote one. I searched for a review and found only his self-review.

Of course, being a self-review I was entirely aware of the lack of objectivity. Of course, I ...

By coincidence, I am reading a book that touches on this subject. The author talks about how psychologist Daniel Kahneman separates decision making into two systems - a fast, intuitive one and a slow, analytical one. While the analytical system may be the one used to choose the final decision, the ...