Life In 19x19

Hi,

I've been building a solver for small boards and reached a knot: I don't how to score seki with certainty (I'm using area scoring). I've been looking the Sensei's pages but still feel confused.

Let me give you an example

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I started playing chess at 3 and I used to think that was pretty good!

Coincidentally, so did I... And I beat my Dad at it first when I was 4. Then I gave it up entirely after my 5th B-day---dashing my father's hopes that I'd become the world's next Bobby Fischer. It just wasn't fun anymore ...

As a professional educator I can attest that people do not learn at a linear rate; so, it is impossible to make accurate projections... Especially since emotional factors usually complicate matters. He may shoot up to a very high-level very quickly, and then either plateau for a long time or even ...

I presume those games were coached by daddy riding "over-watch" on the keyboard


If by this you mean i tell him where to go, Thats something i have been refraining to do. as a father i want him to win. but as a teacher i dont want to "cheat" so usually i type at the start of the game "im sorry ...

By "runners" I presume you mean "escapers"?

Anyway, I really liked the moyo minipogo was building in the first game here, and the complete control of the board he established in the fuseki in the second game!

He really does play better than you do!

My advice to you now: lay off the 'instruction ...

I think he plays better than you do, my padawan!

Well as a few of you guys saw, This is Adrians Newest game (spare the one that the guest left)

I was away for half of the game (begining) so i also reviewed it afterwards to myself (those comments are not on this sgf)

Also we will be away this ...

I presume those games were coached by daddy riding "over-watch" on the keyboard Still, an impressive outing for a sub-2yo.

Both my daughters asked me to play Go with them while they were 2-yo, and enjoyed he Hikaru-no-Go stories I had in Anime-form. My older daughter started reading the manga on ...