Life In 19x19

I'm not sure if this falls into the realm of possibility for you, but I've thought for quite some time about a website or server where two players would not play go directly against each other, but each get the same set of tsumego and a fixed amount of time to complete them. Whoever scores best ...

AkiraToya92 is quickly becoming reknowned worldwide for his awesome feat that definitely serves as a major landmark for humanity.

Lijun Yi stated that this is the pinnacle of a long journey started years ago and can be considered an important point of division between the past and the future.

...which have no relevance whatsoever.

Chinese thinking about games is different from the west's, and how this is reflected in styles.

That is an interesting post I have always thought that the contrast between east and west was simplicity vs. precision, but applying that to games I could see how it could come across as passive but ...

I think I missed this post the first time around. Well, I believe that fun isn't useless. It depends on if you're focused on improving your game, or enjoying the game.
My favorite Go book so far has to be The Treasure Chest Enigma(by Nakayama Noriyuki), although the content it has that would help ...

The level of your reading is simply the factor that defines probably around 90% of your playing strength. I made the mistake of studying high level strategy, fuseki, etc. from books at around 5k and I think it was a waste of time. The almost the only books needed until maybe kgs 3d are problem books ...

During my whole go playing career I have never missclicked in any of my games. How can it be so difficult to put the mouse in the square you want to play and click it?

If everyone would pay sufficient attention to what they are doing, there would be no missclicks of any kind. KGS even has the anti ...

I do experience it, I usually find that it's a consequence of trying to use your stones to their utmost potential. Unfortunately, consistent play saps my inspiration, leading me to occasionally (read: often) eschew the "good" for the "new".

I also find that if I play too much, I tend to make ...

I have studied years of piano playing before I started Go, and have noticed that improving in either one of them comes with similar problems.

The main problem is that in order to rapidly improve, you need a very high degree of mental effort. It actually seems that brain is like a muscle. There is ...

HermanHiddema, you got the right answers for the one I posted. Many great tsumego already in this thread. Nice!

In my problem, it is not particularly challenging to read how white would kill black. If it was white to play, more or less every move by white will kill black instantly

I was just thinking what would be the most retarded way for white to kill black. In this case white can kill black by playing C5

Since solving life and death is one of the primary ways of improving your game, I would like to have a thread of inspirational tsumegos. Those that left you with a particularly satisfied feeling when you finally managed to solve it. I will start by posting the tsumego that inspired me to start this ...