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Re: Friendly Advice Thread!
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:22 pm
by Kirby
jts wrote:...
I guess I could accept the advice at the most general level as, "make meaningful moves" or "Have a plan". But I don't think this has anything to do with knowing exactly where your points are going to be. After all, moves that make points can be meaningless too. (As in "that capture looks big, but it's meaningless.")
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Sure. I guess that's not how I took the quote, but he did mention points, so maybe I misinterpreted the meaning.
Re: Friendly Advice Thread!
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:46 pm
by Loons
An observation.
I think "Is this dame?" is functionally equivalent to asking "Am I playing a single purpose reduction?" Which is a very useful heuristic- single purpose reductions can feel very big as you erase a lot of your opponent's moyo, but may often be smaller than an apparently more restrained move that would gain you points at the same time (eg. Knight's move at the edge of two moyo rather than shoulder hitting a stone of your opponent's moyo...)