Life In 19x19

I'm not sure what the best place to put this is. Ideally I would have made a new thread, but that doesn't seem appropriate in this forum, and the topic doesn't seem appropriate for another forum. So here it is.

I had this idea of a Malkovich-based teaching game. The idea would be to get one ...

Today, at our local Go playing evening I told the other players that I had found out how to place the stones above 9 HC … and then another player and I played a 21-Handicap game, just for the fun of it.


To our great astonishment White won by resign after Black made a big mistake involving a huge ...

Keep playing! Remember the 100 games rule. If you can't prune the tree at all when reading, you'll benefit more from practice than from anything else. Easy tsumego will help too; try the beginner collection on sensei's library.

It may seem insulting when people go on about what a liberty is and ...

Because there appears to be a strange GUI bug where the resign button isn't clickable for any of my opponents.

The resign button only appears when you're ready to go to counting :p
Joking aside, the only bug I see sometimes is the bug where the opponent resigns and leaves immediately but the ...

Play on Tygem. Every game is just a huge massive fight. Practice makes perfect, I guess?

I just played on it for the first time the other day, and I don't understand why it doesn't have a stronger US community. The client is great, it has a native iPad client (!) that doesn't require you to jump through hoops like KGS does, and most importantly, it's got developers who actually seem to ...

This doesn't answer the question though. What we really want to know is what Slate and Shell is hinting about for a cross platform solution.

What I found curious is that I don't see how a cross-platform go playing "program" would help in any way with reading a book. There are plenty of cross ...

That's better than what I found, but I wonder if L13 would be a better response for white than L12. Your sequence would then become:

N13, N14, M12, L13, L12, K12.

from here, I think white will be able to finish the cut, although there are quite a few variations.

Splatted wrote:O14 doesn't work.

92. O14 N14 N13 P14 O12 P13 P12 appears to kill black's entire center group. Do you have a better line of play for black?

This is a game I played against an unranked player who I believe to be somewhere around 2-4k based on his game history. I hate listing my ranking as 7-9k because I play really sporadically. In this game, I feel like I played at a strength close to that of my opponent until somewhere in the midgame ...

Depending on how terribly obvious (or unobvious) it is that that the group cannot be invaded in any meaningful way, sometimes people just aren't strong enough to know with 100% certainty that a group is fully secure.

The entire basis of the rating system is based on the handicap system. The definition of a strength difference of "2" (e.g. 6k vs 8k, 7d vs 5d) is that with a 2-stone handicap you will win 50% of the time.

So sure, you can play with more relaxed handicap rules and there's nothing wrong with that ...

And before someones says: "Jeez, Joaz! Are you really that simple-minded and trite?", I should mention that the quote above is a composite generated from an amalgam of managers and owners in my and other's businesses over the years.

going to agree with everything you said, based on my own ...

On go servers like KGS, the system defaults to giving you full handicaps--a 3d player gives a 1d two stones (I believe that on either OGS or DGS, the system goes further, adjusting komi up or down to give handicaps that are even more accurate).

In contrast, at the go clubs I've played in, we're ...

In terms of the game, I prefer Internet go. I feel I can concentrate better.

If I want a social experience, then I prefer face-to-face playing. But for some reason, it's harder for me to take that as seriously.

I'm the exact opposite. I feel my internet strength is about 2-3 stones weaker than ...