Life In 19x19

Then on Sunday I had a bike accident and suffered a concussion, so will be less active for a bit.

In the spirit of unqualified good intentions, can I seriously suggest that you go carefully to avoid a second bang on the head for at least a month. Avoid sports or other situations where you could ...

Opening theory made easy is a great choice of book.

I would suggest [sl=GradedGoProblemsForBeginners]Graded Go Problems for Beginners vols 2 & 3[/sl] and [sl=TesujiTheBook]James Davies' Tesuji[/sl]

I would steer well clear of memorising games at your level. Not an efficient use of your time.

Or is Gimp so intelligent that it can interpolate data?


Gimp isn't 'intelligent' in the way implied. It can't interpolate the data for a raster image.
Have a look at:
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Then you will see the trade-off of advantages and disadvantages. For the particular image characteristics of go board ...

Idea 1.

Command to convert a directory of .eps to .svg files from a windows batch file:
FOR %%G IN ( *.eps ) DO CMD /C "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\inkscape.exe" --file=%%G --export-plain-svg=%%~nG.svg --without-gui

Idea 2. ( more advanced & vague)

Could do sgf -> eps -> svg -> doc for all 1000 ...

The 1960s original is out of print.
The 2008 lower quality reprint is out of print.
The Tokyo book shop for used books.
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Item 3593 前田詰碁集 全３巻揃

That appears to be the 3 volume 2008 lower quality reprint mentioned from:
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Having said that, at 6000 yen, and then shipping on top, is way too much money ...

Bill,

A practical suggestion that may not have occurred to you is to move to Apple mail. I hadn't realized before that you had Apple devices and therefore an Apple ID. Apple take IT security and reliability seriously. There is a webmail interface in their icloud (m) . That isn't encrypted email ...

I have had protonmail for a long time. Works fine. Fits the 'best you can do when worried about security' use case. Run by people who have displayed the right attitude of not treating you badly over a long period.

For the more paranoid scenarios ( i.e. a government agency wants to read your mail ...

1. Games where you win don't teach you how to improve. They just confirm that your current habits work against people of your own level. If you want to learn, study the games you lose. Then after studying the games where you lose, if you still can't understand why you lost, ask stronger players for ...

Your list is about balancing opportunities to reduce risk against practical engagement in society.

It is quite a good list of environmental factors people need to take a view on, though I do think you should have included smoking.

The answer is I do avoid your list, where practical.

That ...

Coming to lead, the exposition risk is only through ingestion and inhalation: both are not likely to happen with Go stones.
Galation

Sweaty or licked fingers wiping lead off the stones. Later the fingers go in mouths or on food that goes in mouths. Nobody is perfect about washing their hands ...

Sorry for your loss. Feel strengthened by the positive memories of the way she added to your life.

... I assume(d) that anything that could have been done to avoid a ban was done...

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Yes, other attempts were made: multiple warnings and a temporary ban a month or so back. None of those worked.
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This is the important bit for me. I'm in favour of trusting admins to attempt to ...

Araldite might fix that old lid for you.

( The 3D printed lid is fun, but I'm not sure about the aesthetic of the colour contrast ).

Thanks

There is a formula for finding good Fischer Time parameters:

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[*] Identify a desired total game time. For example: 1 hour or 60 minutes or 3600 seconds.
[*] Decide on a main-time length: perhaps 10 minutes or 600 seconds.
[*] Subtract twice the main-time length (there are two players ...