Life In 19x19

Chess Grandmaster Larry Kaufman (chess grandmaster, one of best wester shogi players) wrote his own opinion: http://www.shogi.net/shogi-l/Archive/1999/Nfeb07-06.txt

There is game from LittleGolem 37x37 ongoing tournament: http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=1593030

In Slovakia are two archaeological discovery. Both are from 4th century. First are only stones (photo is from book):

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8427919/stones.png


Second discovery is in tomb:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8427919/stones2.jpg ...

This is problem No. 56 from Ending problems. Why is B better than A ?

I bought whole collection of Level Up (http://baduktopia.com/eng/) for my children. It is very good collection of problems.

By the way, today finished 4 game match between Pachi and Fuego (both last versions) with cca 20 min per move on LittleGolem. Pachi won all 4 games:

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/gam ... id=1582850
http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/gam ... id=1582851
http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/gam ... id=1582852
http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/gam ... id=1582853

On end of every book (from Level Up Series) are three tests. Every with 20 problems.

What is best practice for test children ? Done all three test or only one ? When advance to next level - when I pass all three tests ? What happen when I do not pass some test - repeat all book ?

Yes. Lines (and stars) are only engraved (no black color). He has a big laser engraving machine for it.

I want a smaller board for children, My skilful friend created one for me from cherry wood.

http://rio.vsco.co/media/52265004586808272b000000

I suggest play it with Chinese rules.

LGolem, after only 5 rounds you do not know the best player but the one to have been lucky to win the 5 games.


1. This is GO. There is no luck. A lot of more important events are played as KO tournaments. For increase importance of games, players could play with longer time. (BTW They can began ...

I suggest do not change tournament system and only change some pairings for first 5 round:

1st round 32 best european citizenships according to rating will be paired 1-32, 2-16...
2nd round 16 ...
3rd round 8
4th round 4
5th round 2 players will be play in final

After 5 days - first week - will be ...

@Yertle: You are true Yertle. I bought SmartGo Kifu and it is great.

I am very disappointed with SmartGo business idea, to sold SmartGo Pro for iPhone and SmartGo Kifu for iPad as two independent applications.