Life In 19x19

As a beginner, I also had the same frustration a little while ago. For me, the moment of realisation was learning about false eyes in the level up series. What appears initially (to mere beginners like us) as a live group with two eyes can be misleading. If the attacker can make a false eye or you ...

No, the female fertility drugs like clomid and arimidex and the like are taken by bodybuilders as an anti-aromatase substance (the process by which excess testosterone gets converted in the body to estrogen, which can give side effects like man boobs). He was obviously taking the steroids ...

My favourite band is Queens of the Stoneage. But it's not really the kind of music you can relax to, let alone concentrate in a game of go with. But 'Memories of Alhambra' and 'Capricho Arabe' by Francisco Tárrega never fail at getting me relaxed. I'm not sure if I would ever play a game of go to my ...

currently reading and enjoying the level up series, but there is one problem in book four that seems impossible to find a solution to, it is in book four chapter 18, problem number 12.

https://online-go.com/puzzle/14406

Its black to move as usual. Is this problem a mistake in the book, or am I ...

Ian Butler wrote:

Just Go already wrote:Of course, nothing is black and white

What game are you playing?

Yeah, I laughed after reading that back too

I do like Lee Chang Ho's no nonsense style of playing, he just consistently plays by the book and he has an amazing endgame. It's probably the same reason why I don't care too much for Lee Sedol's style of play, he makes too many unnecessary risky moves which would just be complicated to learn an ...

I'm thinking of using go4go or a similar site to download Professional games to make my own collection of 100 or so kifu so that I can study and get a feel for direction of play from the best. Of Course, at around 20 kyu my level of understanding from replaying their games will be lacking, but at ...

Opening Theory Made Easy (1) - all you need on the opening in the beginning
Graded Go Problems For Beginners Series (4) - basic and intermediate reading training
Attack and Defense (1) - all you need on the middlegame for a long time
Tesuji (1) - primer on Tesuji
1001 Life-and-Death Problems (1 ...

If the EGF ever get a movie based around them, I hope it isn't anything like the first half of The Surrounding game. I did enjoy the movie as a whole but it was obvious to me that they were being quite rude and unfair towards American go players from the onset. (deliberately portraying go players as ...

Imagine that you are ddk, sailing the oceans and after an intense storm your boat becomes wrecked beyond repair on a small uninhabited island. After a week you manage to shield yourself from the elements and manage to find food and a way to collect water. Your basic needs to sustain life have been ...

Yes, ggpb seem very good so far. I'm reading the first one after level up 1-5 to ensure that I don't have any gaps or bad habits before I move onto the 10kyu stuff. The problem I am having with 1001 life and death book is that the book only has a few hundred problems at any one level before the ...

In both go and in other aspects of life, good reading is essential.
He wants to sell it as a collection, as a whole.

Sadly I don't have thousands available to spend on go. I can't imagine what the complete list is worth easily 20-30k I would imagine. Anyone that serious about go to buy the ...

If you would be willing to ship to the Uk, I would be interested in:

-- Lee Changho's Selected Life and Death Go Problems (6 vol.) / 李昌镐精讲围棋死活 by 李昌鎬
-- Lee Changho's Selected Tesuji Go Problems (6 vol.) / 李昌镐精讲围棋手筋 by 李昌鎬
-- Weiqi Life and Death 1000 Problems by Wang Zhi Peng and He Jun Ping ...

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Hi, I've been hanging around this Forum for a while now and I've also just started playing Go recently too. I'm ranked at 20kyu on OGS (albeit against bots). I read your post and decided to register here in order to reply to you in case you wanted someone around your rank to play against. I'm ...