Life In 19x19

Bill: I wouldn't play :w6: precisely because I think black's approach is important. (Then again, apparently I'm wrong, if Inseong recommended it.) It just seems to me that after :w6: is played white is forced to reply on the right -- rushing back to the lower left seems to be the worse of the two ...

On the newest game:

:w18: is asking for trouble. The two stones are weak, but both the stone you just played and your O3 stones are also weak.

What do you do after :b27: @ N5? (I don't think I know the right answer -- it's just something you might want to look at.)

From :w30: to :b37:, K5 was ...

Bill, I've got a question: you say "really?" on :w8:, but it's joseki as far as I know and doesn't seem worse than anything else in this position. Why don't you like it? (Of course, the joseki responses to :b9: don't include tenuki.)

Also, a question for Kirby: were you trying to avoid the ...

24: If you're going to run, you've got to run. My gut feeling is another one point jump here, to stay ahead.
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That would probably depend on just what 'flaw' you put forward. I can't help notice that you did not do so. In the analogy we don't know the player's strengths before the tournament, so we have no idea what is improbable, so we don't know what is remarkable. Treating something as remarkable in ...

Ah, sorry. I took "One example of this rationalization is the feeling that two sides should be equal" as the general statement that modern Westerners with their rationalized thinking feel that two sides should be equal.

While I'm posting, let me voice a vague concern about speaking about western ...

I feel like posting a bunch of art. Maybe it will support Nyanjilla's point some more. I am not an art connoisseur or anything, I have slow nights at work and browse Wikipedia. These are mostly fairly famous people.

Anders Zorn: one , two . Maria Fortuny: one , two . Degas: one , two . Hunt ...

Krama wrote:IlovewalkingmydogWolfie4865 4865-being some numbers that mean something to you.

So, yeah only god can crack that password using bruteforce methods.

This seems to be false.

Also you should bear in mind the stronger player may find an even game rather unchallenging and hence boring This is what does it, for me. Of the five (?) even games I've played where there was a large rank difference, zero were fun. I expect a resignation when one side can win without really ...

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