Life In 19x19

Of course, an interesting related question to "where would god play the first move" is the question "what would the appropriate number of handicap stones be if god plays our best pros" ?

I'd also like to respond to this:

>>>my most educated guess would be that a black play at the 3-4 or 4-4 would ...

>>> surrounding board game with stones" always struck me as a logical translation of 囲碁, which would naturally get shortened to its last word

Hmmm, I think such a phrase might more likely get shorted to "the surrounding game" . However, this name may be anathema to some go teachers who stress that ...

aha maybe that's why it didn't accept it. oh, and I thought go was the japanese word, and that we didn't have an english word, that we merely often used the japanese word.

Hi,

This looks like a fun forum. I just registered, after having been alerted to it by the aga ejournal.

I was a bit disappointed that during registration, the "filter out spambots" question would not accept weichi but forced me to type go. I would imagine you chinese members should object to that ...