Life In 19x19

Thank you for everyone's insights so far!

As far as I could remember, a typical game for me often goes this way: I'd have used up all 30-40 minutes of my main time trying to read well every move while my opponent would still have 20-29 minutes of theirs by around move 100 (maybe give or take 50 moves).

Does anyone have tips on ways (maybe ...

The new Tetris movie has Go in it.

I don’t think such a show exists yet, but just had this thought as titled and wondering if it could be moderately successful as a Netflix series/movie and for bringing Western and Eastern mainstream attention to Go.

Not everyone can manage the feat of Michael Redmond in studying Go, climbing the ...

I am not sure if you are aware but there will be a netflix Movie about the Rivalry of Lee Changho and Cho Hunhyoen,"The Matcb" it will be published this year, it seems to have a good cast, it surely will get some attention!

I think I have recently heard about that movie. I certainly hope it’ll ...

I don’t think such a show exists yet, but just had this thought as titled and wondering if it could be moderately successful as a Netflix series/movie and for bringing Western and Eastern mainstream attention to Go.

Not everyone can manage the feat of Michael Redmond in studying Go, climbing the ...

Go Books and SmartGo One are separate apps, and thus their in-app purchases are separate too – no way to get them automatically from one app to the other, unfortunately. To get around this, you need to associate your book purchases with your email in each app, and then the purchases sync. See https ...

Do you think the AI will ever be beaten?

I am optimistic. It happened once. Go is vast enough that even Alphago can't brute force calculate out every possible future... which means it must play based on a conception of things within a given paradigm, which is hard coded into it by a person. As ...

Thank you jlt and Knotwilg for your comments!

Yeah, after :b35:, I finally realized the black group on the right side was hard if not impossible to kill cleanly without letting it escape to the centre. After :b39:, I got jealous of black’s bottom side ‘territory’ and left whatever weakness there ...

I recently played as white in a quick match normal game on OGS after taking a very long break from playing go. My opponent was supposedly 12k while I was [?] in rank, but I was last told by a go club member a long time ago that I might be around 6k though I often just think I’m between 9k and 5k ...