Life In 19x19

Go accommodates many playing styles - that is one of its beauties. The talk appears to mandate that dan players must know dozens or hundreds of joseki. Yet joseki is just one component of games. Does a limited knowledge of joseki prevent one from becoming a dan player?

If you play with a good feel ...

John,
Many thanks for enlightening me.

My experience is based on laying and observing KGS games. I have seen only very basic joseki used in most kyu games I have watched. It may simply be that upon reaching 1 dan that most player study joseki intensely. But I strongly feel that there are many also ...

If it helps, it is worth noting that I plan to buy volume 2 (non 3-4 joseki) when it is released in 2012.

I apologise.

It was, in hindsight, flippant of me to point out the minor error, and make it out to be seen by some as catastrophic. I underestimated the nature of the audience.

I too have written Go books and know the difficulties involved. My reviewers are all too happy to point out mistakes such ...

Gosh my post incited a lot of assertive responses.

If I am looking at diagram 63 and want to know what it relates to, it is far easier in a myriad of diagrams to have a clue. So I defend the numbering as supplying that. Of course, it will not suit everyone.

'As early as page 8' is in no way ...

I am KGS 3k and have been very fortunate to have been asked by the British Go Association to review this book.

So far, I am immensely impressed by the information contained. It really looks in depth at joseki, explaining the meaning of the moves and why sub-joseki sequences fail.

But it could have ...

It is both a shame but not a surprise that Internet Explorer 7 does not support the HTML 5 Canvas. Once again, Microsoft drag their heals - the other major browsers do support it. But this is itself a surprise, since the HTML5 syntax has yet to be fully ratified I believe. Certainly when I started ...

One other matter is that of concurrency. If only one game record is recorded, and multiple users are editing the same game, then how do the changes each make get preserved?

Timing problems may ensue even if each changed/added move was user- and time-stamped.

Thanks, you raise a good point here.

But the first user who tried out the feature made a typo - he had to go back and correct. True, this is not a variation change, but he could have realised a better way afterwards - leaving his first variation and adding it again with a correction would have been ...

Thanks for your feedback. And thanks to lavalamp for contributing to my forum. Much appreciated.

Design is often a compromise - there is no 'perfect' car for example, as it depends on your needs; speed, economy, load capacity, aesthetics etc.

The design I chose allows players to revisit the ...

I have contacted Life in 19x19 by email but received no reply. So I felt that a post here would be the next step.

I designed, coded, and wrote the m web site as an outlet for my Go teaching. On the games page (m), I list games that can be viewed using an HTML5 Canvas/Javascript game viewer of my ...