Life In 19x19

Sounds great. Looking forward to it!

The regular invasion would be Q5 for white. Since black stone J4 is relatively far, it won't be difficult for white to make a living group or sabaki.

That's why recently pros started to play N4 extension for black so that why could not easily settle his group.

2 Magicwand
I think it's the best ...

(;CA[utf-8]ST[2]RU[Japanese]GM[1]AP[CGoban:3]SZ[19]FF[4]EV[39th Myeongin]RO[Round of 16]
DT[2011-10-18]PB[Cho Insun]BR[1d]PW[Lee Changho]WR[9d]KM[6.5]RE[W+Resign]
MULTIGOGM[1]
;B[pd];W[dd];B[pq];W[dp];B[qk];W[nc];B[pf];W[pb];B[qc];W[kc];B[fq];W[dn];B[ip];W[cj]
;B[ld];W[lc];B[nd];W[pp];B[oq];W ...

But as long as I remember both Iliya Shkshin and Alexander Dinnerchtein participated in the previous World Mind games. And also it makes no sense to let players participate in prelimaries and not accept them to the main event. Why don't they check USA team which consists of players of chinese origin ...

added 3 reviews of my games by KimSungRae 8p in Insei league in November group B:

aguilar [6d]-Stevenson- review by KimSungRae 8p
AmonAmarth [4d]-stevenson- review by KimSungRae 8p
Stevenson-faith[4d] - review by KimSungRae 8p

Send me invitation and I will add you to group members.

2 Araban
Xie He is 16, why you counted him as 11?

My team:
China
Gu Li 49
Kong Jie 21
Chen Yaoye 23
Tuo Jiaxi 6

Korea
Lee Sedol 40
Won Sungjin 23
Cho Hanseung 14
Kim Kiyoung 7
Mok Jinseok 8
Lee Younggu 7

Japan
Iyama Yuta 44
Takao Shinji 26
Hane Naki 29

Hey guys,

I made Insei study Group on baduk.pro. If you have access to Insei League room on KGS, please send me a request and I'll add you to the group.

I hope we can share our studies, game reviews, new moves. Post your games, ask your questions, and we will try to help you.
I already posted 2 ...

I believe the problem is not just show interest. A teacher, KGS 7-9d, may be a very strong player but doesn't have the right approach to the student. While learning Go there are plenty of "boring" things (for most people) such as studying joseki, or solving L&D problems. But without it a student can ...

Hi,

I've been playing Go since 2006 and had a lot of teachers both in life and in the internet. To tell the truth I have never been with the same teacher more than 2-3 months. It's not that each time I wanted to try something new, it's just because I never met the correct approach from the teacher ...

Hey,

I was reading an article about Starcraft pro player Lim Yo-Hwan, and the author said: "Lim has managed to stay competitive by constantly changing his style". I was curious if this applies to Go as well. I remember that Lee Changho definitively changed his style of playing.

As for myself, I'm ...

Hey, all.

Since justplaygo is not updated for a relatively long time I decided to start a similar blog about world go news (mostly news about pros).

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Feel free to express your thoughts, what you'd like to see on the blog. My premium task now is to keep updating it as often as possible to keep ...

Hey, guys.
I rejoined the league this month and found interesting news that Cristian Pop 7d aka solaris will be new teacher instead of roln111. I could never win against roln, his style is very powerful, perfect for handi games. In previous months In-seong Hwang was a teacher, his style was peaceful ...

I personally think it's right time to make changes in the League as the number of players has declined drastically.

Main reasons that stop me from rejoining League are:

1. Entrance fee - I think it should be definitely less than 50$, in my opinion 30$ a month

2. Tournament system should be ...

On the second thought I now realize that random pairings really make sense. As I read a lot that before important games pros study a lot of their opponent's games. Maybe to avoid this random pairings are used.

There was only one mention about this: "In the quarter finals, Lee Sedol and Gu Li 9P ...