Life In 19x19

Sorry for the thread necromancy but Segway reminded me that bigdoug eventually returned to whatever fetid, steaming bog that he spawned from and that makes me happy

The passage of time does not dull my feelings about this in the least

Here is a himountain game where he went on a second-line rampage after black opened on tengen

The Orthodox opening is getting a lot more play in recent pro games too, so you can look to those to get some good [horrible] ideas

Does anyone know what the GP number means in your profile? The RP total is clear enough, since it just indicates your rank with every thousand points being a stone over 18k, but I haven't been able to figure out what the GP score has to do with anything.

Li Kao wrote:There are some political issues related to the Taiwanese flag. Perhaps tygem wants to avoid them.

Well, the OP was asking about issues arising from having so many chinese nationals on the server, and I thought I would point out one clear example of Tygem having to cater to their peculiarities.

One thing that is pretty laffo about Tygem is that despite having a Taiwan server, there is no accompanying flag - I've seen flags for all sorts of small, ill-represented nations but I wonder if we'll ever see a ROC one