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We've just started to play, and would like some advice.

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We think we've got the names right... :D

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... but we might need a bit of help with our fuseki.

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(Following on from this: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=847&start=0 )

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Very cute!

I'm assuming that Sente was born first and Gote second ...
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gowan wrote:I'm assuming that Sente was born first and Gote second ...


You assume correctly. :)
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Congrats!

There goes your go playing for a few years...
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But surely white should have sente.
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I can see a case for Child Safety here... The children cry, Sente is answered and Gote is not.
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My daughter is nine months, and what I've found is that DGS is my friend. After the second time I had to leave a KGS game because of her, I decided that it wasn't worth trying to play except when I really could guarantee that I would not need to tend to her in the next 75 minutes. That happens rarely, usually after she and my wife are both asleep.

They're both really cute, but I love Gote's expression in the fuskei pic.
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hyperpape wrote:My daughter is nine months, and what I've found is that DGS is my friend. After the second time I had to leave a KGS game because of her, I decided that it wasn't worth trying to play except when I really could guarantee that I would not need to tend to her in the next 75 minutes. That happens rarely, usually after she and my wife are both asleep.

They're both really cute, but I love Gote's expression in the fuskei pic.


I know the feeling well. The idea of doing anything I want to do before my kids are asleep is a distant memory.
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At your level studying Fuseki isn't the most efficient way to improve. I suggest you work through this beginners book of Life and Death problems.
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CnP wrote:
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At your level studying Fuseki isn't the most efficient way to improve. I suggest you work through this beginners book of Life and Death problems.


I am not sure that tsumego is really fit for begginers...
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Your babies are very cute! I wish have children someday as cute as yours.
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My daughter is even more cute .. she's 3 and says things like "Daddy you're ridiculous" and "Beards are for weirds" :D :D
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CnP wrote:My daughter is even more cute .. she's 3 and says things like "Daddy you're ridiculous" and "Beards are for weirds" :D :D



At least she doesn't say '' Beards are for bears :D
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