Life In 19x19

Hi imabuddha,

Thanks for the reply! I think moriental has changed their policy, though. When creating an account, you're given the option of choosing a retail or a wholesale account. The wholesale account does have the minimum you speak of, but not the retail one. So would you say that in terms of ...

After having flirted with the idea of purchasing a more expensive go board, I have decided to look for a bamboo board, which should be good enough for my needs.

I have seen a few places online selling what seems to me to be very similar 1" bamboo go boards. YMI, of which I have already heard lots ...

I'm interested in the last volume available of Segoe's Tesuji Dictionary. Sent you a PM. Thanks!

Thanks, guys.

A while after I posed the message I decided to message Mr. Kuroki, and in his reply he emphasized the same points as tchan001 and gowan.

Hi all,

I am looking into buying my first decent go board, even though "decent" must be qualified in view of a relatively tight budget.

After a brief research online, I've seen it is possible to find (through places such as yellow mountain imports) a one-piece shin-kaya 2" board for around US$200 ...

Thanks a lot for the replies. I think Gogameguru (David?) is right -- after reading the thread he pointed to, I believe sabaki is only one instance of the kind of skillful play that I am trying to learn more about (advancing in my reading of Sakata's "Tesuji and Anti-suji of Go" only helped to ...

This is extremely helpful, everyone. Thanks so much.

While it may be too early to grasp it well, given my level, I've also been recently trying to understand the concept (and the use) of "sabaki". I came across it when reading Sakata Eio's "Tesuji and Anti-Suji of Go", and have checked other ...

Thanks, everyone. This is the kind of reply I needed.

Hi all,

As I move along in my go studies, and gain a stone or two here and there, I am beginning to appreciate pro games a little more, though of course being around 11k there is still so much in their games that is way above me. (Please don't reply to this post by saying there are other things I ...

Edit: your best move in this game, of course, was marking the white's top center group as dead! Very clever

Jts: I guess this is another good example of a "double-reverse blunder" in the game...

Seriously, though -- I begin to see a pattern here among the comments. I get that the lesson from ...

Lindentree: I had actually not seen that during the game. Now that you point it out it is obvious. There you have it, a blunder... I need to do more tsumego. Thanks for pointing this out.

Hi all,

I've spent the last week or so trying to get experience by playing, while at the same time trying to focus on my fundamentals. Thanks to Ed Lee's comments in KGS, I've been paying particular attention to my shapes-- or at least trying to. After a playing one or two games every other day on ...

jts: thanks for explaining the reasoning behind R15, and why my move was not the best choice. After reading your post, I searched some online databases (sl's etc) -- and that alone has made me learn a lot.

Edlee: shape is one of those concepts that, in the abstract, fascinate me, but in concrete ...

Hey all,

Thanks so much for the comments. Going over the game now, I see the many opportunities I missed for cutting and/or connecting. Hyperpape: I realize (only now, after the fact) how big connecting at H12 on move 88 was. Same goes for the connection at S11 on move 104. Joaz: the many examples ...

Hi all,

As I said in the introduction area of the forum, I am trying to get back to the game after a pause of two years, and have been trying to brush up on my fundamentals, which got a bit rusty after this interval without playing...

Last night I played a very interesting game on KGS, and would ...