You are go-addicted when...?

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Re: You are go-addicted when...?

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karaklis wrote:
Nikolas73 wrote:When you are reading musical notation and try to find a way for the quarter notes to put the whole notes in atari... Bach to play and kill (I know, terrible...).

Not as bad as it seems on the first sight. There seems to be a connection between go and music. When I was around 15k I was dreaming while listening to music, and the quarter notes appeared to me as one point jumps and the half notes as two point jumps.


Several weeks ago I actually dreamt that I was playing Lee Sedol in a casual game. I don't remember much except that we were talking to one another as if we were life-long friends. Very weird and his English was impeccable. :mrgreen:
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Re: You are go-addicted when...?

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... when you are noticing that more then half of your go books are not in your bookshelf but are piled up besides the toilet.
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Jonas wrote:... when you are noticing that more then half of your go books are not in your bookshelf but are piled up besides the toilet.


Addiction or constipation, that is the question - which brings us back to the thread: How much time do you spend studying go? :o
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Araban wrote:When you type "l" in the address bar and the first result that comes up is this forum. :-|


When you type "w" (as in www.) in the address bar and the first result that comes up is this forum :P

(Actually, on my PC it's GD right now. I guess it just takes a while to adjust ;)).
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Araban wrote:When you type "l" in the address bar and the first result that comes up is this forum. :-|



I thought it wa worse when gd showed up before google or gmail.
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When the first time you hear about large news events such as Michael Jackson's death is on KGS.

karaklis wrote:There seems to be a connection between go and music.

I agree - make me wonder how many Go players are musicians.
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Re: You are go-addicted when...?

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When you wake up to your son jumping on your head saying "dgo dgo". And your wife sighing then pulling out the goban under the bed.

When you play go within 5 min's of waking up, BEFORE you get out of your night ware
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When other people are reading, sleeping or doing work on the bus, you are solving tsumego.

POGO wrote:When you play go within 5 min's of waking up, BEFORE you get out of your night ware

-I've done that during the KGS Iron Man tournament...
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Jordus wrote:... you check L19 and your turned based dgs/boardz game during class breaks and find yourself fighting to not try to check them in the middle of class?.... then since it was a math class, you start seeing Go games in the graphs.....


What's your boardz handle? You're going to get some challenges in 5x5 shogi and go from me :D
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Hagios wrote:
Jordus wrote:... you check L19 and your turned based dgs/boardz game during class breaks and find yourself fighting to not try to check them in the middle of class?.... then since it was a math class, you start seeing Go games in the graphs.....


What's your boardz handle? You're going to get some challenges in 5x5 shogi and go from me :D


username: jordus :lol:

i dont know how to play shogi though.... so easy wins for you
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Nikolas73 wrote:When other people are reading, sleeping or doing work on the bus, you are solving tsumego.

POGO wrote:When you play go within 5 min's of waking up, BEFORE you get out of your night ware

-I've done that during the KGS Iron Man tournament...


please dont remind me of that, i was in my work clothed for 5 days xD
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Jordus wrote:
Hagios wrote:
Jordus wrote:... you check L19 and your turned based dgs/boardz game during class breaks and find yourself fighting to not try to check them in the middle of class?.... then since it was a math class, you start seeing Go games in the graphs.....


What's your boardz handle? You're going to get some challenges in 5x5 shogi and go from me :D


username: jordus :lol:

i dont know how to play shogi though.... so easy wins for you


haha, boardz is the reason I learned! I've been getting clobbered by Ludwig (another go player--not sure if he's on L19 yet or not) for the last couple of months :lol:
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flOvermind wrote:When you type "w" (as in www.) in the address bar and the first result that comes up is this forum :P

(Actually, on my PC it's GD right now. I guess it just takes a while to adjust ;)).


My first is GD, second is L19...on my work computer.

When other people are reading, sleeping or doing work on the bus, you are solving tsumego.


Don't forget watching go video lectures while on the bus, or playing against the computer. Only have WiFi on my smartdevice, so I can't play online while moving.
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When you consider buying an iphone (or other smartdevice) just to be able to note down go games.

Now I'm considering an android for kgs. ;)
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Re: You are go-addicted when...?

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You're basically addicted to Go when it distracts you from the mindless web surfing that used to distract you from everything else.

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