Life In 19x19

Do they have lead?

Many of the books & lists I've seen are backwards, starting with the least-urgent plays first.

Instead, the last chapters should be the tiniest and meaningleast things like filling dame.

That's why cards would be good, you could shuffle them up

Winning is fun

It's not fun. Especially if it involved doing boring things.

and more winning eventually also requires calculations!

I'm not talking about those "eventually" situations.

I know how to calculate it. It's just too boring to do it midgame. Or ever.

Doing these calculations for ...

Valueless endgame study (such as sente before gote) can be good for kyus but it brings you only so far and then value calculations cannot be avoided whenever decisions at a glance are impossible, sente or gote might be correct and the initiative on the rest of the board must be taken into account ...

Robert, I wanna get a good-enough intuition for the most common things like teire and ko and crawl and the descend "double sente" that shows up twenty times per week.

I don't plan to calculate it in mid game, making a full tree and summing up and divide and stuff, for the same situations that show ...

Now that the people on Sensei's Library have done such a good job figuring out miai values of endgame plays, I'd love to an endgame study tool based on those relative values.

For example, if there were cards with positions/moves on the front and miai values on the back, the following could be a fun ...

but my suggestion is to change it so that Chris started playing after David I have the opposite feeling: have Chris introduce David to Go only a year ago;
while Chris has been stuck at 10k for the past 4 years, David made 1 Dan in only a year.

Yes, this.
I got the names Chris & David mixed up ...

David became 1 dan in a year and is now 1 dan.
David introduced Chris to Go.
Chris has been 10 kyu for four years.

This isn’t impossible—for example, David might have been stuck at 1 dan for a long time, too—but my suggestion is to change it so that Chris started playing after David.

Thanks for ...