Life In 19x19

So no word since end of July? Just installed KGS on a new laptop, and no sound. Using an outdated, less secure Java version really isn't an option for this machine. I wonder if we chipped in, we could pay wms to sit down a couple hours and fix this? C.Blue posted a solution in a different thread.

I have anxiety issues when it comes to Go for some reason.

This is probably intimately related to:

This quote seems odd to me though. I've always seen tournaments, in any game/event, to be competitive and winning and losing are important in a competition by nature.

If you shift your thoughts ...

Magicwand wrote:Robert: people who write book are professionals. They are much stronger than you.

Many Go books are written by ghost writers, not by the professional whose name is on the cover.

You could always say, "I'm terribly sorry that I'm playing a style that isn't convenient for you. Next time, I shall make every attempt to accommodate to your preferences. Please, accept my apologies." And then put down your stone on Tengen.

I’ve just ordered the First Fundamentals, and I tell you, I am very curious. And I’m especially curious in what way it may change the way I teach the kids at the regular Go workshop that I instruct at the local school!

I think you'll be happy with the book. The biggest difference to most other ...

What a thorough and helpful review. Question: have you seen the Second Book of Go? To what extent does First Fundamentals dominate SBG as a book to recommend to new players?

Sorry for the late response. My plane of life has gotten a bit in turbulences lately, so that kept me on my toes (or rather ...

This isn't a review (I may post one in a few months when I know better how effective the study was), just my first impressions after spending some time with Robert's latest work.

I believe "First Fundamentals" is an important book. It contains a huge amount of material in form of bite-sized pieces ...

I'm just pointing out I think studying joseki is less efficient. I understand you want to sell books, but I just disagree on when people need to study joseki.

I don't have any books to sell, and I still agree with (what I think) Robert is saying. When I was a DDK, familiarizing myself with a ...

I'm surprised you can use GnuGo in a closed source, commercial app. Or does it need to be downloaded separately?

Does the monkey jump?

I'm a bit torn on this issue, and I'm not consistent in how I feel about it.

On one hand, I do feel like a sluggish procrastinator when it comes to actually playing the game, and I know it hinders or slows down my progress. I'd like to make it to shodan some day, but I'm uncertain if I'm willing to ...

You will improve much faster if you play against stronger players. The benefit from playing people who are 20-30k is very limited and in many ways counter-productive. Sure, for the ego it is nice to find someone who knows as little, or less, than you, but usually that means you will play something ...

Nagilum wrote:I vote for 1001 Life-and-Death-problems.

I can't disagree with that. Would be nice to have that title in SmartGo Books for the convenience of doing the problems interactively.

To answer the original question, I feel that Igowin HD plays less like a bot at mid-high SDK levels. CrazyStone (Champion Go HD) plays "more obviously" like a machine. But this is really subjective.

I do tsumego like other people do sudoku. (In fact, I enjoy doing problems much more than actually playing the game, and rarely play compared to doing tsumego.)