Life In 19x19

thank you both, nice ideas.

hi, i will be visiting japan from oct. 3 to nov. 13, and i thought it would be fun to see the commentary on a match, or get a few lessons, hopefully in a local community center or something, so inexpensive. i'm only a 12 kyu, so lessons from a pro would be pearls before swine (oink!). yes, these ...

It's pretty clear that women in general have less time than men, because they are the ones who mostly take care of children and the house, along with working outside the home. So maybe women do 2/3 of the world's work? Anyway, that won't change until men take their fair share of the childcare ...

Heh, I've just started playing again after stopping for 8 years or so, and I'm rereading (or reading) those books. I like "Tesuji", and also 2 books that give strategies in handicap games, which I play a lot since I'm only 12k: The Second Book of Go, and Basic Techniques of Go. I think reading is ...

One example of encouraging women to do quite challenging intellectual effort, such as go, is the GWU summer program in math, where they bring in women college juniors and have them listen to exceptional women mathematicians, participate in problem sessions and beginning research, and just get used ...

Hi, does anyone have details about the women's Guyun-Jishou Cup? It's on the guru calendar. Some photos are at m (translated). I saw the Rui Naiwei vs Li He game this morning on gokifu, won by Rui by 1/2 point. It seems a bit strange to see Rui as Korean on gokifu, presumably because that is her ...

Thanks illluck, just great! Btw, I had to change the encoding to gb2312 to work on my machine (cgoban3 on windows 7). I thought the whole round was amazing, Lee, Lee, and Li all losing, 2 half-point games.

So this is actually a second translation, from Han Sanghoo 6p in Korean to Chinese to English ...

The encoding at least I can help with: go into the sgf file in notepad++ and add "CA[gb2312]" right after the first semicolon. That tells cgoban what character encoding to use.
Oh, that looks so nice! Now I can try to cut and paste the comments into online Chinese dictionaries. But the one I'm ...

On a perhaps related note, there is a quirk in translating (mainly by Chinese speakers, I think?) that sometimes shows up in gogameworld commented games, where the comment is that "White is DANGEROUS", but from context you see that the intended meaning is "White is IN DANGER" (my caps).

Since ...

Is fansubbing being done of commented games in Japanese, Chinese, or Korean? I was just looking at the commented game at tom's kifu site m (the top game -- commented games are marked in red) and wishing I could read it. Actually, I wish I could even see it in cgoban3 -- it's in simplified Chinese ...

Laman wrote:i usually keep myself from struggling for more attention than i deserve, but if you check my post #34, it already brought some of the facts and guesses repeated on this page.

Ah, sorry, you're quite right. Missed your post.

The cumulative odds of all of this happening are 3/5 * 8/13 * 7/11 * 2/3 * 5/7 * 4/5 = 6720/75075 or slightly less than 9 percent.

Ok, it could be random.
Well, since the same thing happened in the first round (15 non-Chinese players were paired in EVERY CASE with a Chinese player), I think Joaz ...

The tom.com site seems to show that the games start at 9:00 am on 6/20 (they show Lee Sedol's game, and Gu Li's then), which is 9:00 pm on the east coast of the U.S. tonight, Tuesday the 19th. I think Baduk TV will broadcast a game, or maybe cut between 2 games, but is there any place that has all ...

i don't know, do they repeat the random pairing in subsequent rounds? i was under impression that it is done only once at the beginning.


My understanding is that the initial pairing determines your spot in games 1 through 16, and so determines the entire draw. For example, you get the ...

I was slightly surprised by the apparenty superficiality of their thinking process. They look maybe 1 or 2 moves ahead, think, naah, that's too complicated, I'll go with this simpler move. I presume this is to keep it simple enough for a wide audience, but even so, it gives the impression that they ...