Life In 19x19

Yes, I mean the pro game feed, not the joseki dictionary.

For me, my opponent played the marked black stone and got captured. The feeling is great because one (or at least I) seldom get to see an actual ladder being played out in a game of mine - that usually means someone has made a reading mistake and the game is about to end soon.

It's like realizing ...

Eidogo was one of the best accessible databases of recent pro games - it stopped updating on 29.09.2010.
Any ideas why it happened and if it is coming back?

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The impression he gave was pretty didactic. Pretty much, he suggested there are only two moves for black in the first empty corner: 4-4 and 3-4. Others are really played less than 1% of the time.
OK, so my gut feeling based on the limited number of games I saw was spot on

Now, the question is ...

Thanks snorri, that's an interesting insight. I guess the explanation concerning komi is one that could be expected, as komi is the only major factor in go that has been changing since its introduction in the 20s-30s. How exactly this relates to 3-3 and 3-5 being no longer optimal is too subtle for ...

Hi,

I have by no means any comprehensive knowledge about trends in pro games, but based on the limited knowledge I do have, skimming
through most recent pro games and several dozen Go World issues from years 1999 - 2010, I can't help but notice the absence of
3-3 and 3-5 plays in the opening ...

This idea is so awesome. Maybe it's a first small step towards the global go-society getting less virtual.