Life In 19x19

My experience with European committees in general is that their list of "objectives" is not a literal list of objectives to be pursued with an optimization strategy, but a list of all conceivable desiderata to preempt discussions of the sort: "You didn't consider the importance of A, which I judge ...

It's used in both ways in English, ez4u is being slightly silly

It's now under "quick links" in the upper lefthand corner

Was it only the first game in Hawaii? I thought several were

That Japanese golf scoreboard has the top 20 competitors each participating in about ~20 tournaments, and 14 of them appear to have won at least 1 tournament outright. So it's not the case (as I think you're implying, Pajaro?) that golf rewards 2nd place, 3rd place, etc. more generously than Go; the ...

Yes, my vote is to keep on phpBB forum style, please. I find the newer styles of forums/chat servers unreadable.

If she did return to Japan, she would already be competitive with the top two adult female players for the women's titles (according to GoRatings).

Thanks Adrian. You really are outstanding.

Checking to see what date it is...

"L19 is alive in ko"

I doubt Edward Lasker said this (or reported it). His books are pretty brief, they're all in English as far as I know, there are multiple reports about him published in English from friends who knew him personally, and according to the AGA they've all been pored over and no one can find the quote ...

Was worried there for a second...!

Ah yes, I see now that I misread John's bullet points as a rank ordering

Surprised Yamashita is doing better than Shibano. No one is surprised that Ichiriki and Iyama are #1 and #2, but I would have guessed those two play Shibano more often than anyone else besides each other.

One factor that seems to weigh heavily in the minds of these associations is whether the person who is cheating has the potential to develop into a top-level champion. I sympathize more with the zero-tolerance policy, but there seems to be a serious reluctance in many nations/sports to lower the ...