Life In 19x19

Helel wrote:

tj86430 wrote:
PS Do you mean Talisker?

Trust a Finn to know how to spell the booze.

Correct. Just ask me

I know a german 4-dan player who drinks every evening at the go-club (once or twice a week) 2x 0,5L beer. When playing him I somehow have the feeling that the more he drinks the better he plays

Maybe we should all drop the drinker-discussion and try to have some entertaining conversation. I still have an ace-story up in my sleeves but it feels to embarassing to tell

Jonas wrote:I know a german 4-dan player who drinks every evening at the go-club (once or twice a week) 2x 0,5L beer. When playing him I somehow have the feeling that the more he drinks the better he plays

Maybe we should all drop the drinker-discussion and try to have some entertaining conversation. I still have an ace-story up in my sleeves but it feels to embarassing to tell

Do tell, do tell!

Jonas wrote:I still have an ace-story up in my sleeves but it feels to embarassing to tell

Hey, you make us curious

No, kinda depressing sitting in front of the PC playing baduk drunk! I rather drink when going out or something.

I don't think I ever played while drunk, but I've played while high and all the concepts like thickness and influence seemed much more intuitive and visually obvious. I'm pretty sure I played above my usual level.

I have lost in a drinking contest to a fellow Go player though. Next time I'll be better prepared!

I don't get drunk often, but when I am drunk I often do the following:
1.) Try to get the attention of other people.
2.) Try to say funny things.
3.) Do pushups. I'm not sure why I do this. Maybe it's because it doesn't hurt as much when I do them for awhile(?).

If I do anything related to go, it is typically kibitzing.

Maybe I will have to try playing the next time I drink.

Kirby wrote:I don't get drunk often, but when I am drunk I often do the following:
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3.) Do pushups. I'm not sure why I do this. Maybe it's because it doesn't hurt as much when I do them for awhile(?).

I really really want to like this for some reason

Inspired by this thread i went and bought myself a bottle of whiskey. When it's empty i'll come to the kgs godiscussions room and throw out a challenge to whoever is online and interested

hoohoo wrote:Inspired by this thread i went and bought myself a bottle of whiskey. When it's empty i'll come to the kgs godiscussions room and throw out a challenge to whoever is online and interested

Any prediction when that might happen?

Well im savouring it while playing some guitar so hopefully in a couple of hours. Usually when im drunk i can blitz pretty well, around 1k-1d. Ive never tried playing a slow game intoxicated.

Well since noone wanted to play me in the kgs room i went and played a game on Wbaduk. After around 4dl of Whiskey and two beers, so i was not wasted but atleast drunk.

Horrible play .. btw im black

I played drunk on KGS last night just for kicks, since I remembered this thread, and already had the prerequisite (being drunk) filled.

I put up free game offers, and indicated that I was drunk. A few people decided to play me.

Maybe my chat is more interesting than my play, but that's probably not that funny, either :-p

Game 1: Random unranked person. Maybe a beginner.



Game 2: Random guest. Maybe he's also a beginner.


Game 3: Game against someone ranked 5k

I've never liked alcohol and I've never been drunk, but when I was a teenager (~15 years ago) I used to play video games stoned out of my head, and the results were pathetic. I can only imagine how sad it would have been if I'd attempted to play Go in that state.

In retrospect, I'm glad I didn't waste my time and money on alcohol, but I wish I hadn't had so many pothead friends. Fortunately I only dabbled with the herb for maybe six months before deciding it was really dumb

wms wrote:I often go to a bar with friends after the go club meeting. I usually drink two beers (these are pints of microbrew, so that's probably about the same as 3 or so cans of budweiser). I'm not sure how much that affects my game, but I enjoy drinking beer, and I enjoy drinking go, so I don't worry about whether I'm playing as well as I can.

(Emphasis added by editor.)

Let us all pause a moment in this acrimonious thread and take careful note: never, ever, ever play Bill using a decent set of stones. He might drink them.

Back when I used to play Bar Billiards a lot - before the fiendish landlord sold the table to someone who exported it to Australia, and I carelessly moved 300 miles away - I established that there was an optimal amount of alcohol (around 3/4th of a pint of cider, or one and a half vodka-and-oranges) which enabled me to play best. I was relaxed enough to not worry about the fact that I was diabolically bad at the game, while still sober enough to not be clumsy.

I have found that something similar applies, to an extent, in Go. I get ... game anxiety. During tournaments especially; I get incredibly tense and shaky. Mostly, I deal with this by walking around and stuff. But at one particular tournament I was sufficiently tense that I went out to look for some aromatherapy to relax me, something smelling of lavender or something. I went into a rather fancy French smelly-things-shop, where they said "And would you like a glass of champagne while you're browsing, madame?" to which I quite naturally said "Why yes, thank you!" (As a sales technique, it worked: I might have bought the stuff I bought there anyway, but the champagne was a definite extra incentive.)

I got back to the venue feeling cheerful and relaxed, and was duly drawn against an eminent professor of cryptography (or something), who was ranked at least two stones stronger than me, and whose 4d son, originally his pupil, had founded my Go club. "Well," I said to myself: "the only way this can end is with me getting a really good lesson. So, relax, have fun, enjoy the game." And I did. And I won. And I won the next two rounds as well. Against people I'd never even hoped to be strong enough to be drawn against, let alone to actually beat.

I don't, per se, advocate drunken Go. But if you're stressed, a gentle dose of a legal relaxing agent, once in a while, is IMO perfectly reasonable. And one day, perhaps I'll be rich enough to order champagne during all my games.