Life In 19x19

In-Seong recently had a lecture on just this shape.

$$B
$$ . . . . . . . . .
$$ . . . . . a . . .
$$ . . . . . . . . .
$$ . . . . . 7 X . .
$$ . . . . . 6 . 5 .
$$ . . . . . O 1 . .
$$ . . . O . . 2 3 .
$$ . . . . . 4 b . .
$$ . . . . . . . . .
$$ -----------------


One reason he mentioned ...

OGS supports Chinese rules. It's all web based, so works without any problems on Linux.

I don't think that club list is very up to date.

The only clubs in the southern part of Norway would be in Oslo, Bergen and Grimstad. Unsure if the Grimstad club is meeting during the summer though.

Asking in the KGS room is probably the safest option, that should give you up to date information ...

Since Caissa + r -> Carissa , I wonder if she was named in honor of chess. Is her father a chess nut?

Wouldn't that be Cheressa?

I have a feeling he is referring to Caïssa , the goddess of chess. And with her turning out to be a great chess player I'm sure he'll at least claim the goddess was ...

Depends on the board, but seems simpler to just do this as black:

$$Wc
$$ ---------------------------------------
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . 1 3 5 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . 2 X 6 ...

Interesting hearing the commentator there say that the biggest weakness of European pros is the fundamental knowledge/memorization of "basic" situations. Was at a tournament in Luxembourg last autumn where Laurent Heiser mentioned the exact same thing in one of his lectures.

The posts seems to have been moved to the the thread named Uberdude vs RoseDuke

Uberdude has posted the SGF as well with a few of his own comments in another thread. Very interesting to read his view on the game.

I remember once trying to play blind go on a bus where we didn't have a board available. We played a 9x9 game and just gave numerical coordinates from the bottom-left corner. We managed to finish the first game, since we played nicely and just divided the board in two. The second game became chaos ...

Nyanjilla wrote:But it's nearly seven hours long...

That just means we have seven hours of entertainment in front of us

Seems like that book has been talked about here before, found an old thread about: http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=8328
Selectively quoted from a post on my private blog:
Title: Long Yuan – Gu Li vs. Yi Sedol 28 Dogfights with Detailed Explanation
龙渊·古力李世石28番激斗详解
Author ...

According to the Korean Baduk site the current top 3 there are:
1. Park Junghwan
2. Kim Ji Suk
3. Lee Sedol

From what I can see Lee Sedol was ranked as nr 1 in November, but fell down to 3. place in the December rankings.

How about if the reply is e2 ? (note that 6 cannot be played at f1)
eg:

$$Bc
$$ - . . . . . . .
$$ - . . X . . . .
$$ - . . . . . . .
$$ - . . X . . O .
$$ - . . X O . O .
$$ - . . . . O . X
$$ - . . X . . . X
$$ - . . X O 2 . X
$$ - . . X 1 O 8 X
$$ - . . 9 4 3 O X
$$ - . . . 6 5 7 X ...

Looks to me like this works as a refutation for that

I think it went wrong on move 18, up to that point you had played it out correctly. Instead of connecting at D6 I would have connected at D11. That would give the wall nice shape and influence towards both the centre and the top.

Connecting the C6 stone isn't that important since the black stones ...