Life In 19x19

pragmaticleas wrote:Does anyone know what corner positions vol. 2 covers? From what I gathered, vol. 1 is all about 3-4. Does that mean vol. 2 would have 4-4, 3-5, 4-5, 3-3 etc. all crammed together?

I believe that is the idea.

Another thing to consider: IGS uses a half-stone ranking system. Instead of a full-stone system where you are awarded one handicap stone for each integer rank difference, on IGS, you get half-stones. I hypothesize that it makes it tougher to progress through the ranks - particularly those that are ...

It seems that the KGS server has been down for the last 3 hours. It is 11 am East Coast time in the US (EST), so that is a little unusual. (11:00am EST is 15:00pm GMT.)

Both the normal portal, http://www.gokgs.com/ , and the secure portal, https://www.gokgs.com/ , give the ...

karaklis wrote:

DeaconJohn wrote:The Ishida edition is available on-line for free.

Are you sure this is a legal copy? If yes, would you mind to put a link here? Thank you.

Apparently, I misinterpreted the tone of your post. Please accept my apology. dj

daal wrote:
I don't quite understand your huffy tone. I did a search, and found the books being offered by Kiseido for 25$ /volume.

Daal,

My mistake. I took Karaklis post the wrong way. Glad you pointed that out to me.

dj

No need to be angry I think it's not obvious - even to someone with access to the google search
engine.

I mean - you're talking about the English language translation of Ishida? i.e. Kiseido's web page:

http://www.kiseido.com/Dictionary.htm



Yes, that is the page that I had ...

The Ishida edition is available on-line for free.
Are you sure this is a legal copy? If yes, would you mind to put a link here? Thank you.

Karaklis,

Last time I checked, the Ishida edition could be downloaded from the publisher's web site without charge. That makes me about 99.99% sure that the ...

Robert,

Thank you for you interesting review of the kyu-level joseki literature.

Also, thank you for mentioning your joseki dictionary. I was not previously aware of its nature and I appreciate the information. It is definitely on my "to buy" list. In case anybody else wants more information ...

Interesting review, but, can you replace all of Takeo with Takao?

Done. Thank you for pointing out this misspelling. I also added author's names and corrected typos in the titles of the other books that I mentioned. My impression that the translation was a "labor of love" comes both from the very ...

I'd be interested to know how the new book by Takao compares with Jungsuk in Our Time by Seo Bong-soo?
Quite different aim for the books. The Junsuk one focuses only in few lines of some josekis giving some "new" moves (now not so new) while the Takao volumes a wide horizon of possible joseki ...

John ... says he takes issue with several comments. In particular he would like to refute the idea that the Takao text is in any way a cut and paste version or otherwise a copy of the Ishida book ...


John, please convey my apology to John if I have in any way offended him. I would be glad to ...

John, I agree that if it were indeed the case, it would not be very surprising, nor would it necessarily be a bad thing.
After all, if a variation was deemed "bad for White" 400 years ago and the current assessment remains unchanged, it is still "bad for White".

But my concern is (again, my ...

There are also more advanced and more complete joseki dictionaries than the Ishida/Takao dictionary that stand between the Ishida/Takao dictionary and the study of joseki through the study of their use in pro games.
Really? Could you give me an example? I've never heard of any other dictionary ...

Most of the positional evaluation has been copied word for word from the previous edition. Could you use Chapter 1 from both editions (Ishida pages 2-15; Takao pages 2-10) to illustrate this?
I'm not sure I'm seeing what you meant.

Hmmm, I will comply with your request for some concrete examples ...

The 1k KGS player... seems to know ... over 350 joseki.
I'll bet it is a lot more than that. (I am talking about "fully fledged" joseki here.
And, I am not counting the variations you have to know to really know the joseki.) (My emphases.)
So he does not really know them.

I apologize for being ...