Yoon Young-Sun was awarded the pro 8-dan honorary for her great services to the spread of Baduk in Europe.

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Igo Hatsuyōron #120 (really solved by KataGo)

I don't know the author, but I do know that this thread is being monitored. What I would say, though, is that the book has relatively little text and so would be a good candidate for the above suggestion.

I can't say why neither the pdf solution nor the Amazon on-demand solution was used. But I can think of several good reasons. One, which is often ignored or underestimated by the typical go freebie collector, is that many authors like to make corrections or updates to their work. This becomes frustrating when there are copies floating round from various sources.

As it stands today, I've literally devised entire philosophical concepts based on 바둑.

It depends on how you learn it.

Most people trying to learn a skill use the method that will take you there as fast as possible, memorisation of patterns. Indeed, this it's why it's dumb for adults to think they're that much wiser or smarter than children. 80% of the difference is simply rote memorisation rather than any increase in the profoundness of their thinking.

However, these days I'm trying to learn 바둑 from a first-principles basis. I don't solve easy problems to memorise they're shapes or study opening patterns in a conscious way, instead just watching lots of 바둑TV, so I am getting the osmosis but I'm not going out of my way to memorise them. And it forces me to use higher level philosophical concepts that apply to wider areas of life, in pretty much every subject I encounter. I'd have to write a moderately sized book to collect everything,

It would take me longer to improve in the short term, but in the long-term, having a foundation of critical thinking has raised my peak ability in not just 바둑 but other things. In fact, if it were not for a type of anxiety making me feel I have ti play poorly, I'd probably be EGF 1d by now, but I tend to have wild swings in performance since I feel guilty about winning. The stronger I ger, the more I will incorporate traditional memerisation-focused approaches, but my higher critical thinkng abilities mean I can do more with the same amount of domain-specific knowledge.

I've written about something alluding to this before in the random ramblings thread, something like there being a bottle representing interdisciplinary knowledge and abilities and you can put different discipline-specific caps on it.

A note on children, if you aren't lucky to have a major tournament. The absolute #1 priority for every mindsport/棋 association is to make it accessable for poor families including the privilege of attending tournaments and getting teaching from the pros that attend. Number two is that while it seems enough people in 棋院's are so normalised to the privilege of having parents quite interested, perhaps even pro parents, to the degree that there seems to be a general blindspots to how difficult it must be for those children and in fact 棋院's do not seem to care or do much to solve specifically that issue or vastly underestimate how difficult or widespread.

I mean I find it absolutely astonishing that people can theorise genetic reasons to the average and peak differences in performance in mindsports between sexes in homosapiens, yet those same people would never be caught dead prescribing genetic reasons to why Japanese igo players could not match Chinese weiqi players cannot match they're Korean counterparts even though that would be a more logically sound opinion at least. I mean, you had debates on L19 about sex differences in playing ability when during that very time, if you just looked at the fact that population of Japanese males is 10 times that of Korean females, then Korean females are stronger, except that Korean women are getting stronger while Japanese players were in decline. See, it's all about what you focus on. Which makes the entire so-called 'debate' a farce, and also the fake neutrality people who can't seem to think of these obvious points a farce, it's highly arrogant and prideful to even be theorising, most humans claim that they care about intelligence and use it as pretty weak reasoning as to why human life is superior to other species, yet in reality they do not care about intelligence itself but only the power that comes with it, otherwise mindsports would be more popular. Yes, western civilization is especially guilty of this. At least run experiments with other simian and bird species to test if there are any actual consistent sex differences, duh, and even then the experiments might be biased by the experimenter towards how the know males in that species likely thinks compared ti females. That being said, my personality type makes me feel that if you decide, you never wanted or deserved to be able to do it in the first place. When things are important to you do it on faith even if there is a 1% chance. I like the book the bell curve, but for me it encourages me, because when I was 8 I didn't want to be smart but instead had ideal of being a person with average intelligence and pretty much average in every other respect who achieves extraordinary things through PASSION AND INTEREST, and the hardwork that naturally arises from it, more thsn innate abilty. More of a 최정先生 or Naruto and Hinata philosophy. It's a meaning of life, and since my sisters forced me to watch the first 70-something episodes of Naruto I can say it's my 棋道/Kiidou, my 棋士/Kishi way.

My suggestion is that homeschooling groups the ones who would be most forthcoming to any mindsports activity, indeed the parents would themselves relative critical thinkers relative to the general population and having children. In addition, any way to enable socialising isn't taken for granted compared to families with children. Thirdly, they are more skeptical to mainstream approaches to education and more likely to be open to alternative methods of education and see alternative subjects such as mindsports as possibly effective alternatives.

I really want to note that 윤영선先生 really did say 'Master' both the book and the video which to my mind means that seriously and intentionally studied to book and the video at least 3 times or more untily you know the right moves for every singke problem instantaneously. Considering proverbs like mastering the carpenters square makes you one dan pro by 20th century standards, probably EGF 6 dan or so today, I think the two difference between pro opinion and Robert Jaseiiek is that he is looking at shape and pattern knowledge on a wider scale of points on the board, two shapes Robert Jaseiiek would classify as different, a pro would classify as shapes with perhaps a shared smaller shape within them, and see that as what's learned. It perhaps could also be a culturally conditioned way to see things; the native speaker of a language that uses chinese characters can see all the shared radicals in the Kanji westerners who don't speak the language think are completely different, and even westerners who are learning may not use the same radicals.

And indeed, you are more likely too consider the smaller shapes the actual units of knowledge if you're idea of knowing a shape means being able to see it instantaneously after sudying it 20 times rather than it coming to mind after a few seconds because you've studied it twice before.

I determined that according to my system based not only on intelligence but also morality and scarcity, that on average bonobo life is most valueble. Perhaps other people's superstitions like living in chosei is more valueble than living triple ko, if by value you don't mean territory but luck outside the board. Again, the bell curve means there will still be many males who are more interested in students than themselves or are low-key–Bill Spight comes to mind? And females who put on a show. And there will also be males more excited about . The cause for why I like festivals and 바둑 tournaments but don't understand parties, and realised I want to be a teacher and is more excited about being a househusband putting all my focus strategically than some corporate or business career which seems dreadfully to me even if it made me a millionare. My social interpretation style of prefontoral cortex, U think being of (the are three types of overall patterns, mine is least common one). Or perhaps it just that Ewe people are naturally interested in raising the next generation, male or female. Actually. In fact, Ewes are quite similar to Chinese and Koreans in that respect, especially Koreans with the similar sounding tonal language and obsession with seniority by age and traditionally counting age from before birth, although the view is different; what's actually seen as rude isn't as much lack of deferrence to elders as much as something like saying 'how are you' to elders as a greeting, since it's seen as almost saying you think the elder is not uo to the obvious task of being the one to be seeing to whether the younger one is fine. A bit weird but hey. Cultural Bell curves. The variety among people who will read the book means that some will actually study it, and you never know, just as a blue moon might occur, some westerners may actually go through the process to master it.

This afternoon, I came across in this regard something that surprised me a lot. It was a dance class, and part of the instruction was to proceed clockwise. This had to be explained to some people. They all knew what was meant but had to stop and retrieve it from their deeper memory. Such delay, tiny though it is, in a moving dance causes hiccups for everyone. Then the instructor explained why she felt obliged to mention it. Most people now mostly look at their phones to tell the time, and the word 'clockwise' has apparently lost a lot of intuitiveness for them.

There is a related problem with anti-clockwise. Leaving aside those woke idiots who ban "anti" as negative, it does seem that in cases where quick-thinking is needed (as in dancing), when people hear 'anti-clockwise' they react mostly to the clockwise part. Which is not very helpful.

We therefore often say either widdershins or deasil. German speakers will recognise widdershins as wieder + Sinn, and deasil (pronounced jessil) is one of quite a few words from Gaelic used in English. But both these words seem to be dying out, possibly for the same iPhone reason.

A similar funny thing to do with the way the brain works is that, in practice, left is not the opposite of right. Again in quick-moving situations, 'the other right' is often a better option get, er, the right result.

Remember: L19 is the culture channel, not the AI channel!

Elom0, since you like shapes so much, learn ie and look at my name:)

I can't believe I did that, I'm very sorry, memory was never a strong point of mine and I'm dtill not quite as sharp as I was I was 15 or so and am still making slips of thought like this, my sincere apologies, thanks for being nice about it, but I stand 100% corrected on that part! Another reason you're 5 dan and I'm not, natural ability !

Interestingly, speakers of East Asian Languages seem to know how to pronounce the name Elom correctly, like Michael Redmond 先生、but not so much English speakers, and I'm sure about those who speak other latin-germanic languages . . . Ewe name Elom is a short form of both Mauelom = 神愛 Selom = 運命愛. And yes, that's not coincidental, Of course ewe is related to hebrew so elom is indeed to the word elohim.

It is absolutely mind boggling that . I'm definitely not in the wokeness for wokeness' sake camp but in this case the only possible explaination. Anything to do with helping women's, but if women's 바둑 could be one that helps western 바둑 in general is dismissed because it's not as much of an ego-boosting narrative for the western national mindsport associations. The west starts a pro exam yet don't incorporate the 바둑 mum program, I wonder how serious they are about it or if it's just for show

Maybe we should do an experiment, we should find EGF single digit kyus to study nothing but this book and accompanying videos 5 times and run an experiment to see how many reach EGF 5 dan. Yes I do agree that the lack of variations does imply it's for EGF single digit kyu UNLESS the book was specifically designed to be as lightweight as possible and to be a revision supplement to videos with more variations. Indeed, if a European teacher is more likely to know how westerners are more likely to study whereas 윤영선先生 still has the idea of Aaian students who are more likely to actually try to master the book and videos by going over it multiple times, then teacher Robert Jasiek may have a practical point regarding how 80% of westerners are likely to consume the book, although a maths teacher once said that you really teach for the 20% knowing the other 80% won't manage .

The limited edition of 300 volumes is almost used up but a certain number will be made available at the EGC 2023 in Leipzig.
If you are interested to get a remaining copy, please pm me, mentioning your strength and country of origin as we want to give feedback to KIBA. If there are more people interested than we have books available, a lottery is considered.

Paul Schmit, co-author