Life In 19x19

They produced many: manuals, poems, essays. It is the lack in English you are noticing. They go back up to 2,000 years. In the pre-modern period, the production of go manuals (some massive: over 1,000 pages) outnumbers Japanese production by at least 50 to 1.

Thought so, I'm glad it is that way ...

I am very much interested in this topic, and I am not sure if I've been looking in the wrong direction, but I haven't found much,
For starters, I believe much of what is learned on the board can be applied to real life, such as not clinging to a group that's clearly dead, but instead try to use it ...

In my limited experience, 9x9 is good practice for fighting. And for local fighting in the corners.
It may be insightful to know how 9x9 relates to 19x19. Here's my take: in 9x9 everything is a corner , actually, it's quite cramped.
As for the differences, you are missing out on having groups ...

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you don't need to be very bright to reach a decent level but you need time, effort and motivation.

You can play correpondence games on OGS, you might want to create a challenge and explain your goal in the description of the challenge. Or you might be interested in a ...

Hello everybody!
I'd played go in the past and to be honest I didn't get very far because I'm not exaxtly a bright person. But very often I remember it, it has some sort of philosophical appeal to me.
I can consider myself a beginner, even though I've played a number of games.
I want to try ...