Life In 19x19

Holy cow. I've got no problem with providing a service to get people to the US for the Go Congress and grossly over-charging for the luxury, but the stuff about misusing the copyrights, misrepresenting yourself as an organization rep, violating policies for minors, abusing convention staff, and ...

jeromie wrote:Kurokigoishi has a no-hinge folding go board that may fit your budget even with international shipping: http://shop.kurokigoishi.co.jp/en/item/166.

I'm just going to chime in here to say that I've bough the above-mentioned product and am very pleased with the purchase.

For me it's always been rank / embarrassment.

When I play at the Go Club in person there's level of socializing and sportsmanship that doesn't exist for me on IGS or KGS. I make less blunders on a physical board than a digital one, and when there is a silly, game-destroying blunder on either side ...

Congratulations! Great job!

Marty Lund

I don't see anything here about zen or philosophy. Rather I see a very practical and hard-headed reply to the OP. Thanks for posting your off-topic game Uberdude, it led me to go back and read mlund's post carefully, which I hadn't done before.

To be less hard-headed about the OP's question, I ...

We play on a 13x13. It had been just atari Go (first capture Go) but recently I've been explaining to him the idea of territory and now he has a lot of fun surrounding little areas. It's funny, he'll make a territory and be like "look I made a territory!", then he'll make a wall going down the ...

It seems like he's ready to play Capture Go on a 9 x 9 board, no? The concept of living groups, ladders, cutting, etc. all evolve pretty naturally in capture go. My 3-year-old likes the "Wonder Go" set we got through the American Go Foundation program and the AGA. m (bottom of the page). He's not ...

If you can be relatively certain of a kill, then by all means go for it, but it takes experience to tell when one can be relatively certain of a good result without being able to read to the end of the sequences.

Boiled down to the most basic game theory, it's an exercise in risk and reward. This ...

You're right. It's just that the rankings also is useful is showing whether I'm going in the right direction or moving backwards...

In my learning experience, the process of improving a weakness in my Go always started with losing 2 stones.

If I wasn't dropping those ranks then I wasn't leaving ...

1. Nice to meet another Hikaru no Go fan. After watching the whole anime, I realize it covered almost the entire aspect of the Go game, ranging from Go cafe's, Internet Go, Insei system etc. Only thing it missed out was on helpful Go forums like this one and Internet Go schools. Hikaru didn't need ...

If there's a likelihood of a kill that you can't read and you don't think your opponent can read it either, then the primary question left is not "can I kill my opponent's group?" - since the answer is already: "maybe." The question is: "What can I get if I force my opponent to live ?"

If the game ...

When I was 30 years old my wife took our oldest son (then 1) out to visit my mother-in-law over the summer break. I suddenly had a lot of free time on my hands like I used to in my college days. I wasn't really looking for a video game. I was not thrilled with the state of card games and miniature ...

quantumf wrote:Thanks for posting. Move 122 has a strong similarity to the recent post by John on Margarine. A good move to study and apply.

Someone should totally write the book, "Get Strong At Empty Triangles." It would be awesome.

Marty Lund

should be played at O4. This is classic fuseki in the Chinese Opening. Having someone approach your 3-4 stones is one of the scenarios the Chinese Opening is built around. You want to apply pressure against that approaching stone and use it to develop your position. O4 is a shared vital point for ...

Thanks for comment..Looking at p5 advice effectively leads to a larger influence both in the center and in the corner, starting to squeeze white. I discarded the shoulder hit on his low placement preferring gaining some ground for the moyo on the upper side. Isn't that move bigger?

I think Bill's ...