Life In 19x19

I would like to register what I thinked at move 19, when the board was like this:

$$Bc
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$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . O O . O . . .
$$ | . . . X . X . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ ------------------

C3 looked absolutely ...

Thank you, great revision!

Just a note: I never play like I did this time. I would have played at D14, as always in this joseki. I don't know how I forgot when playing this game.

Now I will study your comments!

After some time, I'm back to the log.

Things didn't go even close to the plan. A lot of factors are responsible for this: the old fear to play against humans (I still played a lot against Many Faces, and now Crazy Stone too); watch Zen19 play all the time on KGS in December; a lot of time spent on ...

I've read "How Not to Play Go" and the 2 volumes analysing games by SDK players. As a DDK the books were invaluabe, at least for inculcating in my mind the "Don't follow the opponent" and the "Playing where the big points are available" principles all the time.

But they probably would sound silly ...

Seja bem-vindo!

I think the idea is that people have always wanted to play on KGS through college/corporate firewalls, or systems that can't use java. An HTML client would work for that. I don't know if he ever gave reasons.
By the way, I think he had a page on google plus detailing the progress on that, but don't ...

Oh, I didn't know that Igowin HD could not being using MC in the lower levels. I think this fact debunks my theory.

Anyway, one time I played an even game set as 3kyu, it was a pacific game where I lost by 11.5 points. I don't know if this helps my theory or not. Needs more experiments.

In the beginning, I was shy of play with humans, afraid of being a too weak player. So, I started in Go playing against Igowin HD (Many Faces of Go for iPad) hundreds of games. My experience is that you learn to avoid a lot of basic mistakes, mostly about patterns in fights in the first 3 lines of ...

As I got it, the nirensei is good for white because it is a flexible opening to deal with any black plan (white starts in gote), and you can afford to avoid complications because of komi.

It makes sense, thank you all!

Ok, I admit that I don't have hard facts, but my subjective impression is that pretty much everybody play the nirensei (two 4-4 stones on adjacent corners) almost always when playing as white. There is a reason for this (like komi), or is it just a wrong impression?

Mine would either have to be Cantor's diagonalization proof for uncountable sets, or Gödel's first incompleteness theorem.

Seconded!

I deem the distinction between countable and uncountable infinity as high point on the history of humankind's intelligence. And Turing's and Gödel's theorems on ...

Wow, Go was the 197th last week!

And ahead of Miley Cyrus!

Yes, I was in doubt about mutual eyes being counted or not. But as it doesn't change the difference in points, I think it is ok any way.

And with perfect play black always win by 9 point on the 3x3 board, so the komi would be 9 points, I think. But I am interested in solve small board "tsumegos ...

As I understand, Robert is trying to classify things that arise from the rules and that are not self-evident. Despite the simple rules, Go looks to have a lot of emergent phenomena, and they obviously can be analysed mathematically/computationally.

I have a lot of interest in combinatorial and ...

Thank you!