Life In 19x19

I have actually done this with Anki (a spaced repetition program) and the intermediate problems from Cho's L&D.

Observations:

⋅ It helped my L&D reading, partly because I was doing a lot of problems every day and worked my way through the entire set.

⋅ There is a constant ...

Loving this game already

What animal are you if your 'strategy' is just to start fights and try and kill everything?

Interesting quote from an online Lee Changho-ho interview (or at least the exerpts of one):

Q: How many moves ahead you read before you play a move?
A: Usually professional players, including me, read around 100 moves ahead. But that's not the case for every move. First select 10 candidate moves ...

Thanks, missed that

$$c Ko ...

$$Wc Ko?
$$ ---------------------------------------
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . 5 . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . O O 2 1 X . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . X 4 W X |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . O O X . X . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O O O ...

It might have just been a case of not taking my time or tiredness. However, without thinking through the board first I ended up interpreting clues overly-literally. For instance hint on move 31: "Is White's focus now the lower side or the left side?" started me deliberating between plays at M3 and ...

I think something like this has promise. I actually gave up on self-scoring because I was doing atrociously - the game felt like quite a difficult one for me. One thing I noticed though was that if I read the hint first and then looked at the board I tended to start looking in the wrong place - I ...

Well, assuming a no-limits game, if you don't have enough cash to match the current bet, you can go all-in (bet your remaining cash) - this lets you play out that hand, but the size of the pot will be limited to what you can meet. If there are other players any further bets would go into a separate ...

I personally like the ring of 'Go Seigen's Goban: The Jubango Kifus'

Not sure you can make a meaningful comparison:

Some 1p's are stronger than 9p's, so what is 1p strength?
9d is the limit on KGS, so if Lee Sedol played on KGS he would be 9d, so what is 9d strength?.

If you are asking whether a player who made it to 9d would be strong enough to make 1p. Possibly ...

Wow, this kid sounds like one to watch out for.

Btw, if people are looking for good coverage of a complex fighting game by Gu Li or Lee Sedol, then, if you haven't already seen it, I highly recommend this youtube series on a game between the two. Really shows the depth of thinking pro's are capable ...

Urgent moves affect the flow of the game; if you ignore an urgent move on the board to play a big move and then I play the urgent move, the rhythm or the dynamic shifts to my favor. Big moves just give you $ and because it doesn't affect the flow of the game, is usually gote as well. The hard part ...

I found these problems interesting, not least because my first instinct is often wrong. What I often wonder about these choose-the-next-move multiple choice questions is the difference in playability between the answers. Is it like night and day, so the wrong answer is incontrovertably wrong, or is ...