Life In 19x19

wow. thanks to all of you, that was very informative. 8 and 26 make a lot more sense to me now, and i couldnt have picekd those out of a lineup of bad moves before doing this on my own.

marcel, a few questions. i had thought that running towards the center, providing a lifeline, was a decent strategy for a pincer. incorrect? and with 26, isnt that just a part of staking out some of the side? i realize it makes 11 stronger, but what would have been a better move?

Thanks Bhoidre (which is an anagram for Brodie H.), at the risk of sounding like an idiot, I swear that's what I did, but the first time it gave me a different URL. No matter, fixed now.

And thanks, Marcel, that makes sense.

hello all, thanks in advance.
this is a recent game with another 13ish k on DGS. To be honest I haven't really played over the last 8 months, and have forgotten all my strategy and joseki. I felt a little scattered in the beginning of the game, confident in mid-game, and then confounded in the ...

I've been improving lately, i feel, after playing more and taking lessons from a guy here. however, i can't seem to crack the sdk threshold. this game was a particularly depressing game. in the beginning, i was a little confused by his non-joseki fuseki, but felt like i had a decent opening. as we ...

Definitely for old men here in Taiwan. Every young person I have talked to has said they know of it but don't play it. Weiqi is what old men play in the park. Video games are cooler. At the go salon its me and all old men (alright, some of them are in their forties, which I don't consider "old ...

Some players on IGS seem to have a truly enormous number of wins and losses on their account. I have seen several with thousands of wins and thousands of losses, ranked double-digit kyu.

I have wondered this question from several different perspectives. Most of my games are on DGS, and many of ...

ooooh, time manipulation tesuji. can we start a study group on that topic?

Seems to have happened again, but under the Tygem section, and this time with the signature of Anonymous. Unless, of course, this is an April Fool's joke by Go Sensations lampooning their security problems a little while back. I'm not sure, neither of them quite seem to make sense...

I realize that my comment was a little too strong. Obviously I realize that go is social, and more than that, it is a way of life for a lot of folks. No one becomes a dan by being an occasional player. And I'm sure that, as in every walk of life, there are admins that wield their new-found power ...

But its a go server. Its not the town square. You aren't entitled to free speech. I think of it like walking into someone's home.

Really, it isn't. "It's like being in someone's home" has a long and distinguished tradition on the internet, but it's still a horrible simile. If I forget to take my ...

I realize that my comment was a little too strong. Obviously I realize that go is social, and more than that, it is a way of life for a lot of folks. No one becomes a dan by being an occasional player. And I'm sure that, as in every walk of life, there are admins that wield their new-found power ...

Its a GO SERVER. Go there to play go. Go to a forum or a bathroom stall to write inane crap. I just kept reading this thread thinking how on earth I would ever manage to get banned from a go server, no matter how "insane" a moderator is. Political forum? Maybe. The mall? Sure. But if you get banned ...

pretty interesting. i can't even keep up on watching the games, i just don't get how he can play all 5... Against a 6 dan, 4d, 1d, 2k, and 4k. Still trying to figure out who's winning...

actually, illluck, thats excatly what i was looking for. the example you gave is great, where could i learn about more "ko shapes"?

Also, i dont understand the following:

I'm actually not entirely sure about that - often the situation is such that unconditional life is not possible/desirable ...