Life In 19x19

At this café there are go players every weekend:

闵行区畹町路99弄247号万科假日风景小区苏豪街弈咖啡

A relaxed atmosphere and quite a few English speakers.

Hi, cdybeijing, and/or others, I'm here in Shanghai for a visit and am curious to check out the go scene. Do you know if that Sunday thing is still happening? Also, has anyone ever been to this place: http://www.youhuangli.cn/ ? I think it's mostly a guqin place, but apparently they have go on ...

I'm going! Looking forward to meeting old and new friends there!

All I could think of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOG2

Too much WoT I guess

Greetings! I am a new member and I have been wondering about these two 9x9 openings. Who has the advantage from these two positions, black or white (with 5.5 komi)? I have tried playing against myself and various programs, and my instincts say that on the left white has better positioning, and on ...

Back row, left to right: Dusan Mitic, Ali Jabarin, Pavol Lisy, Jan Simara
Front row, left to right: Lukas Podpera, Andrij Kravec

Fun pic

There is this paper from last year:

http://gostyle.j2m.cz/PAPERS/2013-07-Evaluating_Go_Game_Records/

And in PDF-format:
http://gostyle.j2m.cz/FILES/2013-07-Evaluating_Go_Game_Records.pdf

I remember there was a website where you could post a link to your KGS-account in the archives and it would ...

phillip1882 wrote:so which would you perfer, identity but no free will, or free will but no identity?

No free will and no identity?

You could try and "crowdsource" continuations from strong players.

A lot of times, the most interesting projects are those that let a technical or algorithmic tool enable collaboration.


Yes, I suggested this earlier, especially for 'highly contested positions' i.e. positions where many people ...

Kirby wrote:Like I said, the feature serves a single purpose - hiding one's rank from other people (and, presumably, to keep one's rank out of server calculations).

I use it to hide my rank from myself in order to not think too much about my rank.

When I was participating in the World Amateur Pair-Go Championships in Tokyo a few years ago I had a moving dream.

I dreamed that at that tournament a professional player, while discussing a tactical position, came up with an aphoristic way of describing a certain principle that was so full of ...

I really love this initiative, and it's a great tool already. Thanks.

I had an idea as I was browsing through the discussion about some 'wrong' moves that might actually be not so bad. You could create a system where 'highly contested' positions will be saved somewhere for your viewing. Like, let's ...

Megalife (alt. Mega Life, Mega-Life) - Life that cannot be undone even with the opponent playing two moves in a row (i.e. you ignored one move).

This is a great tool for finding killing moves in life and death problems.

Conjecture: "If you can find a move that secures megalife for the opponent ...

There is always this clear and concise guide to studying go at Go Game World: http://www.gogameworld.com/2013/03/30/h ... go-series/

Good luck!

I am serious about Go, and I want to be the best I possibly can. I was wondering if anyone had any tips, info, ideas, etc. on how to be able to study Go in Japan, China, or Korea. How can I apply for classes, and other things like that? How do I go about at doing this?


If you have a true passion ...