Are dead horses flogged enough on this forum? Too much?

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Too much in the last few days, thanks to some very enthusiastic recent flogging.

Can't be too careful with those. Maybe they're only playing dead. Keep on floggin'!

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To sig or not to sig, that is the question.

I'll offer my opinion in a year or so...just to keep the thread alive.

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I have no idea what you're talking about. If the dead horse is part of a semeai situation, you want to make sure it stays dead.

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So you've got an eye?
That don't impress me much

but some people (beginners usually) often don't realize its dead, so they keep trying to save it -- throwing good stones after bad

For people who like to do that, I recommend this excellent book (remind me that I shall create a review thread about it later):

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Stay out of my territory! (W. White, aka Heisenberg)

Bad example; it's not so much gote as a mistake. B could have lived.

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Which would have been gote, too. Don't you agree that the shown move is much stronger?

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Stay out of my territory! (W. White, aka Heisenberg)

If he played T18 he'd live at least; here he dies in gote, which is the worst possible way. Living in gote is still better than that.

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I agree with SpongeBob. Black has successfully tricked white into taking the corner for points and sente. White will soon fall into black's trap of W+R.

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??/10,000

Don't know! Haven't been counting. Will count eventually...

A rundown of the problem...

Our attempts to present our favorite flogger (OFF, hereafter) with the horse's death certificate are almost always met with OFF increasing his corpse-beating activities. Realizing that OFF has no interest in such declarations, we mistakenly attempt to demonstrate to OFF that the corpse is indeed:



Alas, such pleas only invigorate OFF's dismembering activities and resolve that the horse is nowhere near dead enough. Noticing that all this morbid activity has drawn a crowd, OFF starts to rearrange the dismembered body parts into odd and unimaginable configurations, hoping that such Frankenstein creations will show that life and death is merely a matter of proper replacement of body parts.

By this time the crowd is chanting, "it's dead already!" and waving "stop the madness!" placards. The police are standing by to make sure the crowd doesn't get too unruly. Members of the ASPCA are investigating but realize that filing any charges against OFF would only support his contention that the horse, which has now been reduced to fertilizer, is not quite dead. Amnesty International, however, may have a case.

Eventually, only microbes are left for OFF to dissect and he moves on to other would-be decedents. The crowd feels silly about the whole ordeal, goes home to reflect on how they could've ever participated in such a spectacle, and vows never to be duped by OFF's enchantments again.

Three days later, the crowd has gathering around another dead horse with OFF once again vigorously beating the mutilated corpse into utter submission.

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"This is a game that rewards patience and balance. You must think like a man of action and act like a man of thought."
-Jonas Skarssen

Great stuff!

Have only seen it in German, but recognized it immediately: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE

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Stay out of my territory! (W. White, aka Heisenberg)

Living in gote is easy, you don't need a book for that. This book aims to get you STRONG at gote.

Let's not flog another dead horse here.

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