Life In 19x19

Interesting thread, thank you all for sharing!

Here are my thoughts:

I think playing (live) games is the most important thing. Your 2-3 games per week sound not enough to me to progress in a timely fashion. Though, I'm not at your rank yet and I expect progress to be a lot slower up there. I'm ...

An update! After some reconsideration I decided to return it (I kept the stones though since I already owned them before I purchased the bamboo set). While that bamboo set was really nice, it was not really that portable after all. The whole set was somewhat heavy at about 6kg and with the bag it ...

Bonobo wrote:Very nice!

Where did you get this from? You know this is required information, no?

I've got it from go-spiele.de.

I already have one of the nicest stationary sets that I could wish for and I'm really happy with it. But I want to be able to take a set with me on vacations and when I visit the family over holidays etc. and I don't want to take my precious set with me. Not is it kind of delicate and fragile, it is ...

mhlepore wrote:Once you take the plunge, these purchases become less ridiculous over time.

I've experienced that with electric guitars in particular.

I just wanted to share my Go set.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50121518383_5a5b7780ed_c.jpg

After a lot back and forth, some restless nights and some mental gymnastics to justify such a ridiculous, only emotionally driven purchase I decided to get this set.

Here is the full album: https ...