Life In 19x19

Thanks RobertJasiek for those helpful documents.

I see that 1. Positions Related to Article 7, Clause 1, Life-and-Death Example 1 in your first document (the 1989 rules), is EXACTLY the position we are discussing, right? Therefore, by these 1989 rules, "If the game ends as shown in the diagram, the ...

Thanks for the quick reply! I know you are an expert on Japanese rules and have appreciated some of your writings on rules. How would this be scored under current Japanese rules?

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As for me, I have lived in Niger for many years, but I'm not originally from here. I first learned the game in ...

So, I was looking at the Zugzwang article in Sensei's Library ( https://senseis.xmp.net/?Zugzwang ), and I was startled by the top example.
https://senseis.xmp.net/diagrams/27/f7b57987b9c704c3fa8aa0ed0a72e462.sgf

User helopticor commented: "If white moves first, they get behind by three. If black ...

Bill Spight wrote:Chess is mostly tactics, it seems.

There was some discussion about this on Reddit not too long ago. Several people pointed out that even chess.com frequently claims that tactics are more important than strategy in chess.

Like you, I like the Tsumego Pro app and use it daily.

I used to use goproblems.com and gochild2009.appspot.com, but since they're not completely free, I haven't used them lately. I'm also working through the book series "Graded Go Problems for Beginners."

Recently I discovered Tsumego Hero ...

The same article cites John Fairbairn as a source of komi history (but no specific citation).

I vastly expanded this into a longish chapter in The Go Companion, a book published by Slate & Shell. But S&S have ceased their own publication of paper books. I plan to re-issue an on-demand version ...

It's been way too long since I took a Myers-Briggs assessment. I think I was INTJ or INTP, but I'm not sure.

Furthermore, the Wikipedia article on the history of komidashi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komidashi#History) specifically says:

The compensation (komi) system was introduced into professional Go in Japan as a gradual process of innovation, beginning in the 1930s.

What reference could be ...

Furthermore, the Wikipedia article on the history of komidashi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komidashi#History) specifically says:

The compensation (komi) system was introduced into professional Go in Japan as a gradual process of innovation, beginning in the 1930s.

What reference could be used ...

The use of komi (mainly in trying to determine what an even game means - and that's varied a lot in the last 100 years) is likewise mainly an Japanese amateur idea, from 1751. Pros tried it a few times from the early 19th century, starting at 5 points and gradually reducing over the decades until ...

If the method seems awkward, I suppose you should avoid it. Go is a game and you should be enjoying it.

To me, the thumb and forefinger method seems awkward and it feels like the stone might slip. I got used to the two-fingered method very quickly the first time I played and it feels easier and ...

Traditionally, rank differences were determined by handicap differences. In theory, one stone difference was equivalent to one rank difference. But handicap differences (at least for amateurs) gave an advantage to White, an advantage equivalent to komi (i.e., ½ stone). So a player two ranks ...

It seems however difficult to convert Elo points into handicap stones. We can read on the same website
Statistics of Handicap Games - strong side dan (wins for weak side)

Gr. H 1 H 2 H 3 H 4 H 5 H 6 H 7 H 8 H 9
Diff Wins Tot % Wins Tot % Wins Tot % Wins Tot % Wins Tot % Wins Tot % Wins Tot ...

100 Elo points = 1 rank is not so great a rule of thumb to begin with.

Thanks, that was very helpful.

Ok, see if I'm understanding better. The EGF rating system, for example, has modified the Elo system so as to force 100 rating points to be equivalent to one rank. If the table here ( https ...

I wouldn't try to convert those Elo differences to handicap, it's like converting apples to volts. To take the example of LeelaZero vs Haylee a while ago (a bit weaker than Fan Hui I suppose), it absolutely demolished her on even and 2 stones, in a manner that if a human (e.g. Lee Sedol) did that I ...