Life In 19x19

Ok, when I post a game, I say +/- 1 stone, no guests. Yet I get plenty of people challenging me who do not meet those requirements. I thought it was because they were getting my posted game via automatch. So they're not? They're just stupid (or can't read)?
You can set your automatch preferences ...

There was a case just a few years ago in the London Open where, I believe, two Russians in contention for the top prizes and drawn together in the final round allegedly contrived a draw to ensure the money stayed in Russian hands. They were disqualified, though I can't remember how their complicity ...

Peter Hansmeier wrote:My "quick" translation of an article posted to weiqi.tom.com.

Thank you; that's very interesting and informative. Out of sheer curiosity, how quick is "quick" ...?

El Teboso wrote:I am a weak player.

By the time I was your KGS grade, I'd been recruiting and teaching for about five years! Sure, you're a weak player; so am I, and so is almost everyone on the forum. That doesn't mean we can't teach those even weaker than ourselves.

I forgot about this one: m

What cracks me up more than the comic is that I can really picture some of my fellow classmates from college talking like this.

(Note for people too lazy to click: that's the "real programmers" version of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.)

On Saturday we had a meeting of ...

Just prepare enough for 50 ppl if you know you will have 25. Thats how we do it in Croatia. Did you ever see a overcrowded tournament here? No. Did you ever see tournament with more than 50 ppl. here? No, but thats another question

Yes, I had 54 at Durham this year.

In the UK we transport kit ...

It's quite nice if you get too many, rather than too few, participants though.

Hm, I supposed that was spoken ironically.

No indeed; the "arg, I'm not going to have enough tables or enough equipment" crisis is very real! Rare, but very real - Go players (at least in the UK) are very bad at ...

BTW You do like having a go at me, don't you? (Jenny has several times said rude things about me on the BGA forum. We've never met.)

No, I don't. On the contrary. I have enormous amounts of respect for you and your knowledge, which I find extremely educational, useful and interesting (and which ...

If you're aware of an action that offends someone, if it's important to you, you can adjust your actions.

Has anyone ever heard of PC wallahs expressing remorse or changing their behaviour because they offended millions more people than they were supposedly trying to defend?

That's not trying to ...

So, it is polite, please, to call me "a person with asthma", not "an asthmatic". And as someone has already mentioned on this thread - please say that "Nie Weiping is Chinese", not "Nie Weiping is a Chinaman".

I normally agree with you on lots of things, so I'm assuming I'm missing something here ...

If you say "Jenny is an asthmatic" you are describing and defining me solely and exclusively through my disability. If you say "Jenny has asthma" or "Jenny is a person with asthma", you are acknowledging first that I am a human being and merely noting my disability as one of potentially many ...

The whole "PC" thing is often ridiculous. I have to laugh that. in the USA, it is wrong to call someone "colored" but OK to say "person of color"

That's not "PC". It's one thing to be "noun"; it's quite another to be a person who has a characteristic.

If you say "Jenny is an asthmatic" you are ...

What's more, I have just spoke with a few Chinese scientists we have working for us, and the consensus was that they were ok with the words 'Orient' and 'Oriental'. My wife also does not have any problems with that. As a matter of fact, they all seem surprised that its even an issue.

I mean - I am ...

When I was living in London, someone told me that in the 80s (if I recall correctly) there was a particular streak of idiotic political correctness:

You weren't allowed to say "black coffee", you had to say "coffee without milk" or some such nonsense.

Those idiots and do-gooders are also at work ...

The use of the term is considered pretty politically incorrect in the U.S. Since it defines a people based on where they live, "orient" meaning, I think, from the east, it is hard to deny that it is somewhat Eurocentric.

Of course the Americans are entitled to their view, but when we write in ...