Are you a crab or a monkey?

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Re: Are you a crab or a monkey?

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What about a player like Lee Changho? I've heard him described as a very calm player, with emphasis on the endgame, as opposed to a combative style like Lee Sedol. But is that a different axis from the "crab-monkey" contrast?
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Lee Changho is a monkey and Sedol is a crab ?
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lovely wrote:Cho U is another Japanese player who loves him some territory. By comparison, someone like Hane Naoki or Yamashita Keigo would be Cho's crabs.

Cho has crabs? :o
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Re: Are you a crab or a monkey?

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I played the symbolic role of the persimmon tree.
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