Life In 19x19

I have studied a number of professionals but have yet to find one that really synergizes with my play style.

I am looking for a player who focuses on good solid territory in the beginning and then due to the safety of their groups is able to viciously attack.

Does this remind you of any ...

I was talking to a friend today about the AlphaGo games, and I had a thought that the Go community isn't really getting much out of this. I'm not saying it isn't amazing, or entertaining. And I'm not upset or anything.

It's my understanding that Google is using Go as a jumping off point for an AI ...

The point might be that many white players will play the top left corner as their 2nd move regardless of which 3-4 black plays in the top right, in which case the resulting positions are very different in terms of how white's approach is related to the top left corner.
YES! That's it exactly. If ...

EDIT: I guess I should expand on this a little further. Let's say the game has gone a few more moves on both of our imaginary boards. White played the D-4 and black played the Q-4 on both boards.......

Stop. You asked about the FIRST move, what was different between those two choices FOR FIRST ...

For the FIRST move of the game, you need to understand the symmetries of the go board. All moves that would be the same under reflection or rotation are equivalent, not really different moves.

The relationship between Q17 and R16 is a reflection followed by a rotation. They are NOT (in effect ...

For me its Go>International Chess/Xianqi>shogi

My ratings for these are different for most in this thread. I put Go first because it's my favorite game, and that will contradict what I'm about to say next.

The rest of the ratings are based not so much how I like them, but how likely I am to find ...

I've been watching a lot of Dwyrin's lectures on youtube lately, and I noticed that he seems to favor Q-17 as black's first move instead of R-16 and I can't seem to find any study materials for why people would like this move best.

My best DDK guess would be that the direction of play is better ...

I bought my Go set from YMI in around 2007 or so. It is a Chinese Standard size board with double convex size 33 Yunzis. I always thought it was kind of odd that the board was Chinese standard and the stones were double convex. A weird clash of China and Japan. It was probably just their inventory ...

So it looks like my thinking of "let the women compete and they will rise to the level of the men" is not correct?

I was just wondering if anyone could explain why Go is gender segregated in Japan (maybe Korea and China too, I don't know much about the pro systems there.) I won't bother typing out all the benefits of having men and women competing together, because I feel like we could all come up with a sizable ...

I havent posted on this site in a few years. The reason is simple. I take multiple year breaks from Go. As a result, I've been playing for probably 7 years and play at about 17k on a good day if I brush up my study. I say this not to discourage you, just to let you know that playing Go doesn't have ...

Looks like Iyama defeated Cho U with straight wins. He is now Honinbo, Oza, Tengen, Gosei and Judan!

I think that is good advice, but it is not helpful if the grandmaster does not know the differences in learning. In chess, you're basically a computer that calculates everything but doesn't need to know why, you only need to know what to play. To understand the beginning, middle, and endgame in ...

Obviously it's a more honte move to buy a Kiseido book which is in print directly from Kiseido especially during periods when they are on sale.
Oh I do buy them direct from Kiseido, I was just confused as to why a book that is 18 dollars on Kiseido could wind up being 300 dollars on Amazon. I was ...

It basically means "the books are not available, but if you are stupid enough to buy one nevertheless, you have to pay whichever unreasonable price is being asked for". It is the same with scarce CDs or any other old books on Amazon. There are those funny collector item sellers for a bargain for ...