Life In 19x19

I kind of regretted to push so positively on OGS. Recently there has been lots of server stability issue due to upgrade. If OGS does not resolve this issue quickly, the only good choice would be KGS and DGS.

Don't regret it. It was certainly true until recently and it might well be true again in ...

I kind of regretted to push so positively on OGS. Recently there has been lots of server stability issue due to upgrade. If OGS does not resolve this issue quickly, the only good choice would be KGS and DGS.

Don't regret it. It was certainly true until recently and it might well be true again in ...

Well, playing slowly *can* be intentionally annoying (read the chess novella by Zweig), but nagging your opponent on is always impolite.

For the review of a won game, you might try something like: "I will review the game now, join me if you like, I would welcome your point of view."

I am playing ...

daal wrote:One thing that a club has to offer is the guarantee of a bot-free game.

I have no trouble finding bot-free games on the internet. No bot plays like my regular opponents.

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I would expect the difference not to be as big as you think.

15 years or so ago, the scoring rules of volleyball were changed so that all sets were now scored like a tie-breaker set in the old rules. Before the change, people would change their strategy for the tie-breaker set ostensibly due to the ...

doubleoverflow wrote:Modern games may seem free. But people seldom play opposite corner openings these days.

Apart from putting the stones there before the game, opposite corner openings should almost never be the right strategy because they have to be worse for one of the players and both can easily avoid them.

Do you want to become stronger? Why?


I think that this is a very strange question as a desire for mastery and control is one of the basic human drives. There is the story of a severely handicapped toddler who could just move her head a little bit and nothing else, no smiles, no interactions ...

If you want to reach children and pensioners (the two demographics I eye for the spread of Go) using a foreign language is not a good idea.

I really think that this is completely irrelevant as long as you keep the number of words low. It is not my experience that people are loanword-averse when ...

They don't bring result because go is not chess. In Chess if you solve thousands of problems you can be very good because chess is very limited. In go, you can lose large groups of stones and still win the game with the right strategy.

I don't do much go problems, but focus on strategy and theory ...

Looking at tesuji problems these days have me looking for a way to use them in my games. In reality, how much should I be thinking about them in my games? All the time? Once every 20 moves? Don't even worry about it at my level?

Are tesuji problems useful to a kyu player or is this one of those ...

One thing that bothers me about the AlphaGo reviews:

So ok, AlphaGo clearly plays better than the pros, and AlphaGo occasionally makes uncommon moves. Now everyone focusses on these uncommon moves and new fuseki and joseki are discussed. But what if AlphaGo's dominance comes from all the other ...

Also, I introduced two children to go this Christmas. I just showed them on my tablet how you take stones off and told them that the goal was to put as many stones as possible while not being eaten. Since they played on my tablet, they simply could not do illegal moves and they did not play any ko ...

I played a (slow correspondence) game as Black against an opponent who started with a mirror phase. I really, really hate it because I think that it really changes the game (just like a couple of handicap stones or a sunjang baduk opening) and it takes away the normal opening and I felt that my time ...

I am not stronger than you, but I would have taken the corner at 41 when offered (which is an obvious fix for your complaint ). And since you decided to run out, you should have done so at least at 63 ( I would have done it earlier).

69, 71 and 73 don't seem to be doing a lot.

I am not at ease ...