Life In 19x19

Not yet available at USA Amazon.com. Looking forward to it.

A while ago, translators of Japanese go materials into English used to translate suji as style. Some players, usually amateurs, are said to have a crude or brutish way of playing. Some amateur players fight all over the place, attaching and invading, and often win because their opponents don't ...

I am one of the world's anti-number people. To give an example of what that means for mindset, I was learning a dance some time ago in which two couples approach each other and one has to give way to the other. Couples are numbered 1 to 5. I was in couple 2 and the teacher was in couple 1. It was ...

Yoda's explanation of one of the examples looks a lot like tewari, making me wonder whether tewari is a way of finding the sujiba.

As for Fox 9-dan rank, it seems to be comparable to low pro dan. As a sample of one I'll mention Badudoctor who plays fast games on Fox and apparently broadcasts them real-time on his Youtube channel. He often wins games from pro players and also plays with Fox 9-dans. He runs a go salon or go ...

Don't know anything specific about the Chiba area. The large train stations have Tourist Information kiosks where you might learn where a go kaisho might be.

As for out of print go books the best place is here: https://en.jimbou.info/bookstores/ab0001/ This has contact info for Akashiya Shoten, the ...

I have enjoyed owning and using slate and shell stones mulberry bowls, and a kaya board, bought many years ago in Japan. Now these materials of go equipment are threatened in Japan, due to overuse, of course. Apparently the Mexican shell stones are also becoming difficult to obtain, and all of this ...

But how thick were the "thin" stones? Or the "thick" ones?

In Kawabata's novel Meijin or in English The Master of Go , there are some remarks on the thickness of the white stones used in the game. In my copy of Seidensticker's translation it is towards the end of chapter 9, page 36. It is on page ...

There was a game involving Ishida Yoshio, maybe in a Honinbo title match, in which Ishida played a 3-3 invasion very early. I saw the game record in Go World (Ishi Press) magazine. If I recall correctly the commentator opined that Ishida played it as a yosu miru

I wonder whether it is relevant to consider whether online ratings are inherently different from in-real-life ratings? There seem to be cases of people with in-person, tournament determined ratings that are several steps lower than online ratings. Without any systematic study, I've noticed in-person ...

"Female" refers to a sex or gender quite generally. We even have male and female trees! Woman/Women only refers to people. When I see in go writings expressions like female honinbo I immediately assume the author is not a native speaker of English. Using female instead of woman seems somewhat crude ...

Go proverbs are not iron clad rules, they just give easily understood suggestions. For many proverbs there are positions for which following the proverb works out badly. For that reason discussing a specific position is a good idea. As John Fairbairn mentioned, in a situation described by Pippen ...

I don't use Katago much. I agree with the comments above regarding being careful making local interpretations of Katago move choices. It seems to me that moving one stone one space in the diagonally opposite corner can affect evaluation locally. I imagine, given a corner sequence, it would be ...

The AGA is a volunteer organization so I suppose there might be a feeling that fixing (reworking) something that works is not worth the money it would cost to carry it out. As was mentioned in Knotwilg's post, the format of the website is not a determiner of the success. I think most go players ...

Issues of warping and cracking also depend on the grain of the wood. Quarter sawn or rift sawn (masame board) cups, twists, or cracks less than plain sawn (itame board). SInce the original poster says he has an itame board that would indicate a greater need to take care with adapting to change of ...