Non standard 9 or 10 stones handicap placement

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Re: Non standard 9 or 10 stones handicap placement

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oca wrote:finally, just this one...
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IfYouHaveLostFourCornersResign, so Thanks you for the game :mrgreen:


I remember also reading or hearing somewhere: If you have four corners resign (as in "your opp is so thick in the center you are already lost")
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Re: Non standard 9 or 10 stones handicap placement

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RBerenguel wrote:I remember also reading or hearing somewhere: If you have four corners resign (as in "your opp is so thick in the center you are already lost")


Yes, I read that somewhere in a book too (but I don't remember which one...). if I remember well, a pro (but I don't remember which one too ;) ) was winning a lot without having any corner and that lead to "If you have four corners resign"...
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ok found it again... the book is "The Nihon Ki-in Hanbook of Proverbs" and the pro is "Takemiya Masaki"
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oca wrote:ok found it again... the book is "The Nihon Ki-in Hanbook of Proverbs" and the pro is "Takemiya Masaki"


I didn't read it there, though (don't have this book). I'd bet for Kageyama, maybe. Or Sensei's, sure :D
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As it is said that Go proverbs only hold for Black, shouldn’t it rather be so that BLACK should resign if Black either lost or won all four corners?

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Ah, there it is: Black should resign if one player has four corners

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A bit off topic, but as we are with proverbs... In french, we have these two proverbs :

- 2 c'est assez 3 c'est trop (2 is enougth, 3 is too much)
- Jamais 2, sans 3 (never 2 without 3)

That's really convinent as you can choose the one that best fit the situation :lol:
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oca wrote:A bit off topic, but has we are with proverbs... In french, we have these two proverbs :

- 2 c'est assez 3 c'est trop (2 is enougth, 3 is too much)
- Jamais 2, sans 3 (never 2 without 3)

That's really convinent as you can choose the one that best fit the situation :lol:


Funny: both these exist almost literally in Spanish! (Well, not surprising I guess, but I don't know many French proverbs)
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RBerenguel wrote:
oca wrote:A bit off topic, but has we are with proverbs... In french, we have these two proverbs :

- 2 c'est assez 3 c'est trop (2 is enougth, 3 is too much)
- Jamais 2, sans 3 (never 2 without 3)

That's really convinent as you can choose the one that best fit the situation :lol:


Funny: both these exist almost literally in Spanish! (Well, not surprising I guess, but I don't know many French proverbs)


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