Life In 19x19

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Hello, I thought I'd post an update here.

There's been a death in my family and I have some new, time-consuming responsibilities.

I'm playing a few correspondence games and starting to play a few live games a week, but it will be a while before I get back to actually studying Go. I plan to resume ...

Bless you

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I posted a reply to this thread this morning. Now can't access the thread at all, though I can read others.

Help!?

a definition of “bad contact play”, which I didn't find.

You have searched for the wrong thing. The stated principle on p. 80 is:

"Do not use bad contact plays for attack."

The used phrase is 'bad contact plays for attack'. The following paragraph defines 'contact play', usually recommends non ...

Chapter 7. Shape

This is another dense chapter. I found new insights here. Like not pushing your opponent into the center where he wants to be. Do I do that? I'm not sure so probably. Some examples were over my head, though that's been true for the entire book. I especially enjoyed the joseki ...

Chapter 6. Do Not Help Your Opponent

You could be forgiven, if you thought about this thread at all, for thinking I've given up on this project. I haven't, but there were definitely some interruptions in my progress. I have also found that playing a live game every day is too much of a time sink ...

Must to show Go equipment with cat.

Chapter 5. Disobey Your Opponent

This chapter made me feel good about what I've learned from my 20 months of playing so far, while still providing value in the problems. Several of the problems showed alternatives to what I would have thought were good moves. I could not necessarily see these ...

Some of the best ways to learn are to fall into the holes many times. You shouldn't avoid real time games.[/quote]

Not avoiding, just life happening.

Chapter 4. Avoid the Impossible

If a scantily dressed woman walks into a crime-ridden neighborhood to hang out, is she attacking herself? If she leaves her cellphone lying on the edge of her table, is she double-attacking herself?

So what's an alternative to the description “attacking myself”? “Do ...

Chapter 3. Do Not Be Afraid Without Reason

To a point, I've discovered the Chapter 3 principles on my own. The examples are helpful, though, and they point to the degree to which reading the board underlies the ability to follow any of these principles. Some examples were easy for me to read ...

Chapter 2. Notice Weakness. First principle: I definitely would fail to notice the weakness in about half of the examples. Second principle: oh yeah. It's especially easy for me to to overlook “big” cutting opportunities. I am deliberately not listing all of the principles so that I don't flesh out ...

However, the variance is bigger on the mens side, so that more men are hyper intelligent (and extremely low-intelligent) than women.

very interesting ... as is tapir's post about statistics:

If you take a random 10% of Go players, the top 100 of these 10% will be weaker on average than the top ...