Life In 19x19

Getting a dan to give a higher level dan a 4 handicap will not make the higher level dan stronger. lol

Think you misunderstood idk...
Breakthrough to shodan talks suggests a way to get stronger is to use a 4 stone handi against a dan presuming your lower than 3-4k.
Why would you want to give ...

Someone once mentioned something from a book about getting a dan to give you a 4 handicap as a way to get stronger.
Could the same thing be done with people of equal strength? ie. a 7k gives another 7k a 4 stone handicap.
Would this be profitable?

Lets see if I can answer a few questions.

@Kaliwan
I know what advice your trying to give me, I feel as though I have gotten what I can out of the books untill I possibly get stronger. Some games I'll recite the fundamentals everymove I play and see if it acheives a fundamental. But it is usually ...

my advice do not waste time with josekis spend that hour in tsumegos
for 250 tsumegos in 1.5 hours its average 21 seconds per problem so you should focus on doing less but reading all the possible variations since the key point is reading and not feeling.
Do not study pro games since at this level ...

Greetings,
I think it is well time that I adopt a course of study. My rank seemingly flaots from 6-9k depending on the means of life I am deling with during that time.

Currently on average I usually do about 200-300 go problems a day at about 3 days a week, most of which are Life and Death. I am ...

Hmmm... Well I have had increasingly good luck by playing in such a way, if its considered a bad move to a high player then, I probably use it against people around my level because I know that they do not know how to deal with it properly and thus use that to my advantage. But even then when I do ...

As the subject says who knows about it.. m
Obviously apart of Pandanet but I do not think it is networked with IGS even though they look to be the same program.

There is a course thing you can sign up with dont know much about that... m
Navigating through the courses by clicking on the more ...

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Well in most of my games at my level people rarely play ...

How do you punish the 4-4 approach to the 3-5 opening?

When I started playing go I played the 3-5 all the time and it still is my favorite opening.
When I started go a few years ago, I played a game where my opponent approached at the 4-4 against the 3-5, I answered something like the 3-3 and ...

I never cared much for the 3-3 invasion mostly because it fells like a cheap way to get territory, So I rarely play it.

What do you mean by cheap? You feel it gives you an unfair advantage sometimes? Why wouldn't you play it then?



Cheap was probably the wrong term.
Im more in dislike of the ...

CSamurai wrote:How often do you reach max level? Is it common to steamroll a game before level 15?

I think the earliest win Ive been in was lvl 12-13 on all team members and thats been in about 3 games total. All the rest of the games seem to be 50/50 between 15 and 18.

I never cared much for the 3-3 invasion mostly because it fells like a cheap way to get territory, So I rarely play it.

I haven't played in a while.
I run Swain the most, oh glorious Swain lol.
Twisted Fate or Vladimir are my second preffered, I heal with Sona alot when a healer is needed and Miss Fortune and Veigar are other two that I use often.

A little Rant here but, My most disliked problem of the game are team ...

Yea I understand the outer influence, in a few of the var. it a bit thin and probably could be fought against but I was looking at it that it puts more pressure on whites stone in the corner also. But also shows the difference in my level comparied to a pro.

Hazushi, what are the levels of the players?
I dont really know I would Imagine 4-6k.. I can do 7k at best and I lose to them at about 20-30points average. But I dont really know they are friends and are guys that went to japan when they were in the military and came back knowing how to play the ...