Flogging dead horses

kirkmc · Post by **kirkmc** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:11 am

Are dead horses flogged enough on this forum? Too much?

topazg · Post by **topazg** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:13 am

Too much in the last few days, thanks to some very enthusiastic recent flogging.

ChradH · Post by **ChradH** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 4:46 am

Can't be too careful with those. Maybe they're only playing dead. Keep on floggin'!

Post by **Joaz Banbeck** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:41 am

I'll offer my opinion in a year or so...just to keep the thread alive.

Gresil · Post by **Gresil** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:04 am

I have no idea what you're talking about. If the dead horse is part of a semeai situation, you want to make sure it stays dead.

xed_over · Post by **xed_over** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:50 am

Gresil wrote: If the dead horse is part of a semeai situation, you want to make sure it stays dead.

but some people (beginners usually) often don't realize its dead, so they keep trying to save it -- throwing good stones after bad

SpongeBob · Post by **SpongeBob** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:50 pm

xed_over wrote:but some people (beginners usually) often don't realize its dead, so they keep trying to save it -- throwing good stones after bad

For people who like to do that, I recommend this excellent book (remind me that I shall create a review thread about it later):

: dying_in_gote.jpg (33.8 KiB) Viewed 16283 times

kirkmc · Post by **kirkmc** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:51 pm

Bad example; it's not so much gote as a mistake. B could have lived.

SpongeBob · Post by **SpongeBob** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:01 pm

kirkmc wrote:Bad example; it's not so much gote as a mistake. B could have lived.

Which would have been gote, too. Don't you agree that the shown move is much stronger?

kirkmc · Post by **kirkmc** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:04 pm

If he played T18 he'd live at least; here he dies in gote, which is the worst possible way. Living in gote is still better than that.

terraform · Post by **terraform** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:17 pm

I agree with SpongeBob. Black has successfully tricked white into taking the corner for points and sente. White will soon fall into black's trap of W+R.

deja · Post by **deja** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:36 pm

A rundown of the problem...

Our attempts to present our favorite flogger (OFF, hereafter) with the horse's death certificate are almost always met with OFF increasing his corpse-beating activities. Realizing that OFF has no interest in such declarations, we mistakenly attempt to demonstrate to OFF that the corpse is indeed:

no more!, ceased to be!, expired and gone to meet its maker!, a stiff!, bereft of life!, pushing up the daisies!, off the farm!, kicked the bucket!, shuffled off its mortal coil!, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!

Alas, such pleas only invigorate OFF's dismembering activities and resolve that the horse is nowhere near dead enough. Noticing that all this morbid activity has drawn a crowd, OFF starts to rearrange the dismembered body parts into odd and unimaginable configurations, hoping that such Frankenstein creations will show that life and death is merely a matter of proper replacement of body parts.

By this time the crowd is chanting, "it's dead already!" and waving "stop the madness!" placards. The police are standing by to make sure the crowd doesn't get too unruly. Members of the ASPCA are investigating but realize that filing any charges against OFF would only support his contention that the horse, which has now been reduced to fertilizer, is not quite dead. Amnesty International, however, may have a case.

Eventually, only microbes are left for OFF to dissect and he moves on to other would-be decedents. The crowd feels silly about the whole ordeal, goes home to reflect on how they could've ever participated in such a spectacle, and vows never to be duped by OFF's enchantments again.

Three days later, the crowd has gathering around another dead horse with OFF once again vigorously beating the mutilated corpse into utter submission.

appleseeds · Post by **appleseeds** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 1:50 pm

deja wrote:A rundown of the problem...

Great stuff! :clap:

SpongeBob · Post by **SpongeBob** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 2:18 pm

no more!, ceased to be!, expired and gone to meet its maker!, a stiff!, bereft of life!, pushing up the daisies!, off the farm!, kicked the bucket!, shuffled off its mortal coil!, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!

Have only seen it in German, but recognized it immediately: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE

quantumf · Post by **quantumf** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 2:51 pm

kirkmc wrote:If he played T18 he'd live at least; here he dies in gote, which is the worst possible way. Living in gote is still better than that.

Living in gote is easy, you don't need a book for that. This book aims to get you STRONG at gote.

Life In 19x19

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