Life In 19x19

From June 2020 on, we are restarting the NGD online league which we ran in 2019 (and further back in 2011–2015 as Nordic Go Academy).
We have made a few small modifications to our earlier service, namely:

we've cut down participation fees to €40 and €80 (from €50 and €90), we're making our ...

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The next season of our online teaching program will start in one week, on October 1, and the registration is open until September 30. If you are looking for affordable high-quality teaching, please consider joining us! You can find more information about NGD here and register for the program ...

There is now also a pdf version of the book on sale for a price of 11.90 euro! m

That was an insta-buy.

Thank you for writing this book; I hope it to be an expansion of your articles on gooften.net.

Thank you! As you have probably already seen, yes, the book is more or less 'more of gooften ...

Review: Rational Endgame
The following major mistake has little impact on the reader while reading this book but hurts his potential improvement of endgame evaluation and seems to indicate a knowledge gap of the author. The mistake is to automatically treat every long alternating sequence as if it ...

There is now also a pdf version of the book on sale for a price of 11.90 euro! https://gum.co/wynlf

'Rational Endgame'

Ordered:) It is great to see more books about the very under-represented but essential endgame topic.

Thank you!

is the fourth iteration of an endgame theory book I first envisioned in 2014. One version of the book I even finished in 2014, but I then scrapped it because I ...

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'Rational Endgame' is the fourth iteration of an endgame theory book I first envisioned in 2014. One version of the book I even finished in 2014, but I then scrapped it because I wasn’t happy enough with ...

By the current rules of the Nihon Ki-in, foreign insei applicants must be at most 25 years of age at the time of application .

Foreign insei, once they have started as insei, can continue until they are 30 years of age (based on hearsay; I found no official document supporting this).

The biggest ...

That essay is badly outdated though—nowadays I see no need to explain kikashi beyond translating it as a "good exchange".

Hushfield
I guess is not as good because it metaphorically bumps your (stone's) head against the wall (costing you liberties) and indirectly leading to a situation where you ...

What sort of approach towards the research is he taking (case studies, analysis of traditional training techniques, formal research on learning, something else...)?

First post on l19 for me!

The thesis is a mere literary research on expertise, with emphasis on those approaches to expertise ...