Life In 19x19

I love the fact that Bill doesn't indicate his playing strength in his post.

I've been selling books online for about 15 years and in a brick and mortar store since paper was invented.

Wow - am I parsing this incorrectly. I thought you were a mere dilettante

Your efforts made American go stronger.

Only America? Perhaps this type of narrow thinking is part of the problem, though I suspect it is much deeper.

Go World's demise is shocking and sobering. A hobby without a literature (however sparse) is a lifeless beast. John Fairbairn's work is always ...

Mood is simply a neurochemical process activated by your thoughts. The best way to change or transition your state is to change the qualities (submodalities) and perhaps the content of your thoughts. You can only do this after identifying what goes on in your head, of course, which is a step on ...

I've only ever asked for an undo once. I was playing on a tablet on KGS and managed to press pass rather than confirm (for those unfamiliar, you click an intersection and then press confirm). I've never understood why the pass button is so large and placed where it is.

More amusingly, I managed a ...

Try adding "in my opinion" or "in my experience". A statement that says someone else is not correct in this instance can only be an opinion and not fact. This will help you in your communication with others in the future I hope.

Surely you mean:

Try adding "in my opinion" or "in my experience ...

There’s a thing called “rapport” in NLP and modern psychotherapy.

There's a thing called rapport in plain English, but it probably means the same.

jts wrote:Actually, if you read what I wrote

... really, that spoils the fun.

jts wrote: Dunno what it's like where y'all are from.

Fair do's, I only ever played Yorkshire chess.

jts wrote: American chess

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I'd like to join/watch.

Betfair, the exchange site, used to be a place to get positive odds on the coin toss in cricket Tests occasionally. I haven't seen it recently though.

How about playing a round robin or similar, where the point difference in each game is your score: ie territory scoring 94-86 gives the players a +8 & -8 respectively. If a resignation counts as, say, -100, then the 'too good to double' works too.

Also to note, the correct doubling point in ...

I presume the 7 time zones that cover half the earth were those stretched and created by some dodgy particles at CERN?