Life In 19x19

At this café there are go players every weekend:

闵行区畹町路99弄247号万科假日风景小区苏豪街弈咖啡

A relaxed atmosphere and quite a few English speakers.

Hi, cdybeijing, and/or others, I'm here in Shanghai for a visit and am curious to check out the go scene. Do you know if that Sunday thing is still happening? Also, has anyone ever been to this place: m ? I think it's mostly a guqin place, but apparently they have go on Saturdays.

They are still ...

I'm going! Looking forward to meeting old and new friends there!

All I could think of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOG2

Too much WoT I guess

Greetings! I am a new member and I have been wondering about these two 9x9 openings. Who has the advantage from these two positions, black or white (with 5.5 komi)? I have tried playing against myself and various programs, and my instincts say that on the left white has better positioning, and on ...

Back row, left to right: Dusan Mitic, Ali Jabarin, Pavol Lisy, Jan Simara
Front row, left to right: Lukas Podpera, Andrij Kravec

Fun pic

There is this paper from last year:

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And in PDF-format:
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I remember there was a website where you could post a link to your KGS-account in the archives and it would give you statistics for shape and style. And also give you some names of pros who had similar style. They would also estimate your ...

phillip1882 wrote:so which would you perfer, identity but no free will, or free will but no identity?

No free will and no identity?

You could try and "crowdsource" continuations from strong players.

A lot of times, the most interesting projects are those that let a technical or algorithmic tool enable collaboration.


Yes, I suggested this earlier, especially for 'highly contested positions' i.e. positions where many people ...

Kirby wrote:Like I said, the feature serves a single purpose - hiding one's rank from other people (and, presumably, to keep one's rank out of server calculations).

I use it to hide my rank from myself in order to not think too much about my rank.

When I was participating in the World Amateur Pair-Go Championships in Tokyo a few years ago I had a moving dream.

I dreamed that at that tournament a professional player, while discussing a tactical position, came up with an aphoristic way of describing a certain principle that was so full of ...

I really love this initiative, and it's a great tool already. Thanks.

I had an idea as I was browsing through the discussion about some 'wrong' moves that might actually be not so bad. You could create a system where 'highly contested' positions will be saved somewhere for your viewing. Like, let's ...

Megalife (alt. Mega Life, Mega-Life) - Life that cannot be undone even with the opponent playing two moves in a row (i.e. you ignored one move).

This is a great tool for finding killing moves in life and death problems.

Conjecture: "If you can find a move that secures megalife for the opponent ...

There is always this clear and concise guide to studying go at Go Game World: http://www.gogameworld.com/2013/03/30/h ... go-series/

Good luck!

I am serious about Go, and I want to be the best I possibly can. I was wondering if anyone had any tips, info, ideas, etc. on how to be able to study Go in Japan, China, or Korea. How can I apply for classes, and other things like that? How do I go about at doing this?


If you have a true passion ...