Life In 19x19

I have noticed in my Daily games, there is a large variance of strength between ranks. People 3-4 stones weaker than me play surprisingly even, and if they don’t make a huge jodeki or fighting error in the first half of the game, I have to rely of beating them in endgame. On the flip side, I also ...

Wouldn't he be the first western to win any kind of professional title? If that's what he's going for, I wish him luck!

And I wonder if the AGA can get him to do a Redmond Reviews video discussing his current win streak.

Redmond won a professional tournament in Japan. If you look at his record ...

Michael Redmond is on a 5 game streak with wins against some of the past title holders--Otake Hideo, Ishida Yoshio, Kobayashi Satoru, as well as one of the strong players in Japan right now, Takao Shinji. Seems like Redmond is having a good resurgence. He has a lot of YouTube videos with the AGA on ...

I use reddit quite a bit, following many different pages. They do it to me sometimes too, especially I think after I post in certain pages. They try to keep you from spamming a bunch on reddit. It can be annoying though, when you think you are just being an active member in many different ...

OGS review tool is complicated, because it is being run through an application, but rather through a webpage. So it opens a new webpage, which can make it hard to join in reviews for both players. Tygem has an odd review tool until you get used to it as well. KGS and IGS feel the most user friendly ...

First update: I have decided to go through Cho Chikun's Encyclopedia of Life and Death, the elementary set this week. I am currently on problem 725 out of 899. I'm using the posted ones on OGS. They are fairly easy for someone around 1k or 1D. I have heard the Intermediate set is a little more ...

I feel as if I have disrespected the old Japanese greats by not studying their games. Dosaku amazes me. The strongest aspect of his play is what I would consider "timing" and using aji. If you play the correct move, but your timing is off, you ruin a sequence. Move 39 is the first example of Dosaku ...

Wow that's insane improvement. This makes me wonder if I should use LeelaZero to help self-review games myself.


Edit - actually going up 4 stones in the dan ranges in 3-4 years is impressive but not impossible. a bit less surprised now lol

4 stones in 3-4 years isn't impossible. The 2k is now ...

I also feel Leela and other AI are god send, now you don't have to wait for a stronger player to be around, why didn't XY work? Why is Z the better move?

Yeah, it eliminates the confusion. Two players at 1D strength could be thinking about 3 or 4 possible moves in a situation. They both could ...

I played at a go club in my area for a year and a half. I went from 9K to 3K. I stopped playing there. When I left the club, there was a 1 Dan, a 2 kyu, and a 4 kyu. The 1D had been at the same rank for ten years with no progress. The 4 kyu was the same. The 2K, my rival, had been steadily ...

https://twitter.com/Hangzhou_Spark/status/1159687069788078080
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Pretty sweet poster art. Anyone know if this is some well known game? Looks kind of strange to me typically meaning it's either a lower level game or just way beyond me and played between pros haha (I ...

I think your last game was very decisive. You had a calm level of play. Keep it up and you will be back to shodan.

3) For financial support, I believe a donation of money to Go Associations would be a better for spreading information of the game as that money would be put into youth tournaments, more public events, and building of better infrastructure.

To wrap this up, I'm not endorsing piracy in any way ...

Thank you for this write up. Golaxy is incredibly interesting, due to its emphasis on points. As we see from your write up, black at one point had a 70% win chance and then fell to 40% win chance. But as we can see, this huge swing is only due to a couple of points on the board. This is why in the ...

How old is Yann? Such rapid improvement could stem from a younger player, who is going to grow naturally at a much faster rate, combined with a lot of study.