Life In 19x19

Today i was cleaning old files from my messy desktop.

After finishing, the first thing that came to my mind was that FIRST_GO.pdf was the vital point for good shape.

Somebody's submitting to a conference whose proceedings is published by Springer.

Okay, this one may take a small explanation.


I was playing DJMax a few minutes ago - a rhythm game where you have small bars falling down with music playing. When the bars hit the red line at the bottom, you have to press the corresponding button at the right time.


Suddenly, in a rather fast track, something struck my mind.




Just when will Go stop following me?

I played a little too much plants vs. zombies. Yesterday while falling asleep I started to play go in a dream-- with pumpkins and pea-shooters as the pieces...

karaklis wrote:You know you're addicted to go when you play chess and ponder on how to keep sente.

I've done this. In fact, quite recently, it was last night. During the chess game I said to myself, "Okay now this sequence of moves helps me keep sente." I didn't realize I said it that way until I thought about it.

daniel_the_smith wrote:I played a little too much plants vs. zombies. Yesterday while falling asleep I started to play go in a dream-- with pumpkins and pea-shooters as the pieces...

Haha! I've played that game so many times. Playing a 9x9 with bucket zombies for black and pea-shooters for uhm, green, would be a cool idea for one of the mini-games.

LR24 wrote:Suddenly, in a rather fast track, something struck my mind.

I don't remember that shape ever occurring in one of my games.

But I recently noticed that the Glider from game-of-life occurs in the crane's nest sequence:

...when you start counting during the games you play in your dreams.

daniel_the_smith wrote:...when you start counting during the games you play in your dreams.

Now that is dedication!

I have been compiling a photographic "portrait of my life" for a great-uncle's forthcoming 80th birthday - he keeps asking about what I do and how I live and so on. So, fine, a big collection of photos. And according to my database, this representative sample of 130 photos of the last two years of my life has 34 taken at Go tournaments. And all the photos of "places" (this is a pretty bit of Edinburgh; here is a picturesque bit of Chester; this is a lovely beach in Wales) are ... taken when I went there for Go tournaments. Something's taken over my life a bit, hasn't it?

Nikolas73 wrote:
When you get a new computer and the first thing you do is install Go software.

Just did this! Caught a laptop on clearance the other day...first two apps loaded were KGS and SmartGo.

shawbee wrote:Today i was cleaning old files from my messy desktop.

After finishing, the first thing that came to my mind was that FIRST_GO.pdf was the vital point for good shape.

That is brilliant.

psk31 wrote:

Nikolas73 wrote:
When you get a new computer and the first thing you do is install Go software.

Just did this! Caught a laptop on clearance the other day...first two apps loaded were KGS and SmartGo.

Second that. I got rid of windows altogether and am now running Ubuntu 10.04, First thing installed (after the required java packages of course) was cgoban. ^^

... you realize that the start menu on your windows computer doesn't contain anything besides 5 Go-related programs (CGoban 3, Moyo Go Studio, WBaduk, GoWrite and Panda-glGo).

....you have been hanging around in KGS and the next thing you know its 4:30am......

... 6:36 8 ) you know your go addicted when you play 21 games in two days on kgs to get the next rank. what am I doing with my life???