What is your Goal in Go?

BaghwanB · **#41**

Currently? To greatly reduce the # of times I find I've misread a whole section of the board and straightforward plays against me change the whole game.

In other words, less "D'oh!" moments.

Bruce "Competence before Creativity" Young

RobertJasiek · **#42**

quantumf wrote:

As Robert has pointed out, which I agree with, the idea of "normal" is basically a fantasy.

Have I?! ;)

quantumf · **#43**

RobertJasiek wrote:

quantumf wrote:

As Robert has pointed out, which I agree with, the idea of "normal" is basically a fantasy.

Have I?!

Sorry, no

I changed the 2nd part of my sentence without changing the 1st. The question you asked was something along the lines of what makes a normal move and how do you determine it is normal? As I reflected on this I believed you were making a deeper point that if such were possible Go would probably be solved - but that is my opinion/thought, and I'm sorry for clumsily attributing it to you.

Javaness2 · **#44**

Don't have one anymore :'(

TMark · **#45**

To come onto the forum and not read the title of a thread as "What is your goat in Go?".

Best wishes.

TheBigH · **#46**

So that's something that gets your goat in Go?

tundra · **#47**

To be like this man, from a Camel cigarette advertisement from 1976:

http://www.usgo.org/files/pdf/go_1976_camel_ad.pdf

Well, I could do without the cigarettes. But everything else should be just as it is in the picture. This is my goal ;-)

Btw, he seems to be playing Black. How is the position on the board, for either player?

jts · **#48**

I would like to get the ratio of playing : studying : watching other amateurs/forum/miscellaneous bs, in terms of time, down to 10:8:1, or something similar. For now I imagine it's the reverse.

TheBigH · **#49**

tundra wrote:

Well, I could do without the cigarettes. But everything else should be just as it is in the picture.

Even the atrocious moustache? Well, it is Movember.

golem7 · **#50**

After I became sdk, I wanted to reach 4d egf. I figured this was my max as I only started playing go at 25. But after 2 years of hovering around 1d, I set myself a new goal recently: to participate in the german championship once. will still have to gain at least 2 stones for that. wish me luck

Kirby · **#51**

golem7 wrote:

After I became sdk, I wanted to reach 4d egf. I figured this was my max as I only started playing go at 25. But after 2 years of hovering around 1d, I set myself a new goal recently: to participate in the german championship once. will still have to gain at least 2 stones for that. wish me luck

Good luck.

p2501 · **#52**

golem7 wrote:

After I became sdk, I wanted to reach 4d egf. I figured this was my max as I only started playing go at 25. But after 2 years of hovering around 1d, I set myself a new goal recently: to participate in the german championship once. will still have to gain at least 2 stones for that. wish me luck

I started at 27

cdybeijing · **#53**

tundra wrote:

To be like this man, from a Camel cigarette advertisement from 1976:

http://www.usgo.org/files/pdf/go_1976_camel_ad.pdf

Well, I could do without the cigarettes. But everything else should be just as it is in the picture. This is my goal ;-)

Btw, he seems to be playing Black. How is the position on the board, for either player?

This is probably the best post ever made to L19x19.

:clap:

cdybeijing · **#54**

TheBigH wrote:

tundra wrote:

Well, I could do without the cigarettes. But everything else should be just as it is in the picture.

Even the atrocious moustache? Well, it is Movember.

I don't know what you're talking about, that moustache is dapper.

ez4u · **#55**

tundra wrote:

To be like this man, from a Camel cigarette advertisement from 1976:

http://www.usgo.org/files/pdf/go_1976_camel_ad.pdf

Well, I could do without the cigarettes. But everything else should be just as it is in the picture. This is my goal ;-)

Btw, he seems to be playing Black. How is the position on the board, for either player?

Per GoGoD the board in the picture shows Iwamoto Kaoru - Harry Gonshor with the information:
"B+3 {moves beyond 200 not known} (Hcp 6) 6-stone teaching game, Published 1961-12". The most interesting thing is that the picture shows more stones than the game file in GoGoD, so the source was perhaps a more complete record of the game than that published fifty years ago.
:study:

logan · **#56**

Wait. I think I have a solution for the extra stones and the fact that the 'stouched man is holding the wrong color...

The game has now finished and he is teaching the dilettante the error of his ways. It seems he has a mind of steel as well as a heart of a philosopher king.

ez4u · **#57**

logan wrote:

Wait. I think I have a solution for the extra stones and the fact that the 'stouched man is holding the wrong color...

The game has now finished and he is teaching the dilettante the error of his ways. It seems he has a mind of steel as well as a heart of a philosopher king.

Sheesh. Get a grip! His opponent is the iconic white-haired, oriental gentleman in traditional robes. There's even the obligatory 'hot' granddaughter bringing the tea! Don't you know anything about the traditions of romance and adventure? This is no dilittante that our hero is facing with his dapper 'stache, his mind of steel, and his pack of smokes... it's the Master himself!!! :blackeye:

gowan · **#58**

ez4u wrote:

tundra wrote:

To be like this man, from a Camel cigarette advertisement from 1976:

http://www.usgo.org/files/pdf/go_1976_camel_ad.pdf

Well, I could do without the cigarettes. But everything else should be just as it is in the picture. This is my goal ;-)

Btw, he seems to be playing Black. How is the position on the board, for either player?

Per GoGoD the board in the picture shows Iwamoto Kaoru - Harry Gonshor with the information:
"B+3 {moves beyond 200 not known} (Hcp 6) 6-stone teaching game, Published 1961-12". The most interesting thing is that the picture shows more stones than the game file in GoGoD, so the source was perhaps a more complete record of the game than that published fifty years ago.
:study:

I doubt that the white-haired old gentleman in the picture was Iwamoto. As I recall he was bald. And Harry Gonshor was, to quote an online description, "an oddball who wore Coke-bottle glasses, looked as if he were floating on air ...", hardly the macho moustachioed guy in the ad.

LocoRon · **#59**

ez4u wrote:

the board in the picture shows Iwamoto Kaoru - Harry Gonshor

I'm guessing this means the people who originally played the game pictured, not the people in the ad.

Insane · **#60**

My goal in Go is mainly to continuously learn new and fascinating things.
However, I also want to gloat as my enemies suffer humiliating defeat. :rambo:

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