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Post #21 Posted: Mon May 18, 2020 3:28 pm 
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Post #22 Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 5:55 pm 
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79: you deliberately let a weak group life for the challenge.
80: you go back in time to play Shusaku.
81: you imagine playing a game on a tiled floor.
82: you try to give aji to people you don't like.
83: you learn Japanese/Chinese so you can affirm your strength in their language.
84: you've won a world title more than once.
85: you've left your opponent with no living groups.

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Post #23 Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 7:07 pm 
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You start winning against the latest Leela Zero weights on a regular basis.

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Post #24 Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 11:05 pm 
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86: you win a game against Chuck Norris.


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Post #25 Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 11:38 pm 
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87: You try to figure out how the black elevator buttons can live.

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Post #26 Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 1:38 pm 
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88: you have a go board worth more than 1000 dollars.
89: you wonder if group tax affects actual taxes.
90: you play 3D go because normal go is easy.
91: you use sente to ask some one out.
92: you drive a black car because black gets the initiative.
93: you win a 13x13 with giving your opponent a 9 stone handi.
94: you win a 9x9 with giving your opponent a 6 stone handi.
95: you fall asleep half way through the game and dream the rest.

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Post #27 Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2020 5:04 am 
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96: you write a comprehensive dictionary that translates Robert Jasiek's terminology into John Fairbairn's and vice-versa.


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Post #28 Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 8:53 am 
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97: your cheer is: push and cut, push and cut, push cut!
98: you use a go board to do math calculations.
99: you like ternary because that's the number of states a intersection can be in.
100: you flip a coin for a miai position.
101: you capture more than 30 stones in a game.
102: your fingers glow as you play a stone.

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Post #29 Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2020 8:12 am 
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103: you play 9 stones around the center to attack everything.
104: you smack the stones on the board as hard as you can.
105: you read more than 25 moves ahead.
106: you use a mirror to reflect on the position.
107: you play the "back in black" song when you take black.
108: you've played at more than 10 go salons.

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Post #30 Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2020 10:35 am 
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109: you dream about go.
110: you play go like there's no tomorrow.
111: you solve life and death problems for life.
112: you switch from a winning position to your opponent's color, and he takes yours, and you still win.
113: you play against a 17 stone handicap and still win.


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Post #31 Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 1:35 am 
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114: you buy a high end computer dedicated to analyzing your Go games

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Post #32 Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 12:33 pm 
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115: you make pictures with the stones.
116: your games are reviewed by pro players.
117: you carry go stones in your pocket so you'll never be apart from go.
118: you laser etch a go board.
119: you wash go stones every day.
120: you get a go tattoo.

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Post #33 Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 12:39 pm 
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121: you deliberately play a poor move to test your opponent.
122: you have a ghost that you teach go.
123: you use terms like cutting, killing, poking out eyes, and aji in normal conversation.
124: you know several magic tricks involving go.

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Post #34 Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:11 am 
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125: you've accurately guessed jigo more than 10 times in a row.
126: you crawl on the second line in preparation for a center attack.
127: you think the bloodier the game is, the better.
128: you fall asleep on a game you clearly won.

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Post #35 Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 3:50 pm 
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129: you play out a failing ladder for strategic purposes.
130: you beat the cpu that beat lee sedol.
131: you never need score estimate software, as you are perfect in that regard.
132: the only go variant you play is on a bigger board.

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Post #36 Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 10:56 am 
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133: you play go on more than two servers.
134: you created more than two go salons.
135: you create jokes about go.

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Post #37 Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2020 12:20 pm 
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136. ...you can think of more than 100 reasons why you have played too much go :blackeye:

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Post #38 Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2021 1:40 pm 
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137: you write a poem about go.
138: you use the game result for a trade of goods.
139: you write a comprehensive book about go.
140: you can find the flaw in any move.
141: the first game you teach your children is go.

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Post #39 Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:56 pm 
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141: you use lego pieces to emphasize building.
142: you can play 100 moves in under a minute.
143: insei is too weak for you.
144: you've watched hikaru no go more than 10 times.

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Post #40 Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 12:08 pm 
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145: you've tried every possible opening.
146: you know the best opening response to each opening possibility.
147: you hurl a black stone at someone for initiative.
148: you pray for a tougher opponent.

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