Life In 19x19

too difficult for me. But it's a nice book, from the little bit that i could understand.

Still possible in Korea, considering that they got 3 gold this time.

Instead of punishing the many loses players, you should award the many wins! This gives the same result but better feeling for those who play actively.

On how to do it, you can do as how goverment taxes you. If someone's win points is higher than 10 then they have 20% bonus for points above 10 ...

Language is for communication. If people understand what does it want to express, that's ok then. If many people use it in daily life, some years later, it may be listed as one the the defination in dictionary.

How non-native speakers use the words is not the main topic of this thread. Nothing can ...

And sorry for being slow last week. A bit busy

$$Wcm6 Kokomi/Menezes
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if the tournament defines the rule and you are playing by that rule you should be ok.
how can you fault players for following the rule and trying to win.


Yes, you may be right.
But the problem in the case was that the two players did not follow the rules.

The Korean coach has claimed that ...

lee sedol's online account, according to an interview with him, is 1d.
So it doesn't mean anything.

this doesn't look like a Dan game for me
But it's interesting

So many comments for only 4 moves

I rolled up again to check my last move, and made sure that I did not place my stone in wrong place by accident

comments are always welcomed just curious...

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Were the masks voluntary or compelled?
voluntary, of course.

As to the talking rule, I don't know the specifics for this event but I think it's usually the rule that no talking is allowed except for the purpose of conferring whether to resign.
Just for fun , even just say resign, people may ...

there is something that smells in asian game.

in the mixed pair game Park jung hwan - lee selah vs ryusing - tangyi ref declared chinese pair won the game.
chinese players only had 1 min left in the game and having taugh time making move. (if time runout they lose)
ref interfere and made decision ...

I think Asian Games has its own rules, in the discussion we should refer to the Asian Games rules.

Let's find something fun in Asian games.

One of Japanese pairs wore breathing masks in pair go to prevent speaking to each other by accident

Can players not speak anything to his/her partner during the game, even like 'it's your turn'?