Life In 19x19

This is not a "fuseki or joseki" problem, it's an issue of your mastery of fundamentals. After you have two moves, one of them breaks black shape apart, other one doesn't. That's all there is to it, you should play R15 and let black figure out how to deal with his broken shape.

P.s. Regarding your ...

Anzu, did you start with your King and 7 pawns ?

Here's a picture -

FYI, this is a huge handicap, comparable to 9 stones in 9x9 go. Only suitable for playing complete beginners.

I play chess at a decent level (2000 ELO, roughly equivalent to 1d in go) and I have never seen or played a handicap ...

"How long will it take me to get to 1dan?" You probably heard this before OP, but your question is almost the same. If you're extremely motivated and talented you can do it in a year. Maybe 3-4 years if you take it at a more relaxed pace. Maybe you won't ever achieve 1dan, there are plenty of people ...

Not more than 2000 Elo i'd guess. Although playing worlds #1 would make most players look dumb ... But then again one guy blundered a piece in one move, so he's at most 1500.

Hi. I decided to create this journal to share games I play. I plan on posting all of my games (I don't play that much) and commenting the ones I lost. Hopefully someone will find this interesting and we'll get some discussion going, so all questions and comments are welcome.

First time I tried go ...

I do use Kombilo, which doesn't allow mass-renaming of the files.
You are right to say it does display the tags, but my original files names are kinda nonsense sometimes, so I'd like to rename them all.

If it were just for me, I wouldn't mind using nonsensical names for those files, as I can view ...

I have tried to reconstruct the chess game from the video:

1.e4 Nc6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Bd3 Nf6 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.Nc3 Qh5 6.O-O Bg4 7.h3 Ne5 8.hxg4 Nfxg4 9.Nxe5 Qh2#

BTW, he played horribly - probably (hopefully) far below his potential.

Well, 3 Bd3 looks weird but it is at least not a direct blunder. In ...

... Since he also said his chess rating was about 1600 ELO ...

He played horribly? 1600 is around sdk level no? Grab an sdk and get them to play blitz with Lee Sedol. They won't look like an sdk

Gates is a complete beginner in chess (think 25-30K in go terms). No one who has any idea about the ...

... Since he also said his chess rating was about 1600 ELO ...

He played horribly? 1600 is around sdk level no? Grab an sdk and get them to play blitz with Lee Sedol. They won't look like an sdk

Gates is a complete beginner in chess (think 25-30K in go terms). No one who has any idea about the ...