Life In 19x19

In an effort to promote Go to youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, I am announcing the Bay Area High School Go Tournament.

2012 Bay Area High School Go Tournament
Come out and compete in a half-day contest between high school clubs and all all K-12 players in the Bay Area! Get to know other ...

I was wondering if anyone had some know of any sites for free stock go image?
I've tried searching "Free stock images" but came up with many results for "royalty-free" images. One still has to pay a fee to use.

For now I"m just using Wikimedia Commons .

I think I've found a way to make a cool ...

My friend sent me this link to a history channel program about the Art of War.
Not only does it talk about Go, it also makes comparisons to Chess.
Art of War Reference on Youtube

The ranking system is also briefly discussed on Go Game Guru.
http://gogameguru.com/top-20-pro-go-2010/

For the world ranking, Dr. Bae researched the winning percentage of the nationalities’ against other countries amongst Korea, China, Japan, and Taiwan, and he adjusts the points ...

The best online Mandarin language training resource happens to be free, but unfortunately it isn't for beginners:

http://www.slow-chinese.com

Aside from the usual books, I'd suggest using your local library to get your hands on some Pimsleur and/or Rosetta Stone if possible until ...

Yeah. I'm excited!

thanks for the clarification ethanb

Thanks gowan and shaddy for the advice. I'm not sure if I'm seeing the same ko.

Follow up question:
$$W What is the due punishment if black plays 2 rather than connecting at A? Where is the ko?
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I was reading the page 48 chapter 5 in Basics of Go strategy titled Light Stones and Sabaki and was wondering about a sequence.



Here is the current situation.
$$B "Black has mapped out a huge territorial framework in the upper right quadrant. The two Standard ways for white to reduce it are to ...

http://igokisen.web.fc2.com/news.html

You can find full schedules for many tournaments here. I usually visit nihonkiin and wbaduk sites to get an idea if I want to watch anything in the evening.

Thanks. Do you use google translate when using nihonkiin and wbaduk sites? I'm guessing the games are ...

Just curious, emeraldemon, how do you keep up with the title tournaments such as the Kisei and the kuksu?

I have subscribed to the RSS feeds of justplaygo.com and Biondy's unlimitedgo.blogspot.com.

What resources do you use?

Here is a huge collection by Minoru Hirada http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Sp/tsumego/index-e.html . I think the problems are suitable for sdk.

I have not read finished too many go books but I found that the Get Strong Series by Kiseido is very good. Even as a 2k, I found get books ...

I agree with chew terr that it is important to review joseki mistakes. I think that it is more important to understand the theory behind joseki and how to attack the opponent. Sometime the joseki is not the best choice, and when I watch high dan games on kgs, i notice that some dans tenuki a lot ...

1. I think studying tsumego is your best bet.
http://gochild2009.appspot.com/ Good review for sdk.
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Sp/tsumego/index-e.html Minoru Harada's 8d tsumego collection. Easy and Intermediate problems. These problems are still challenging for me ...

Dusk Eagle wrote:To dts:

This might help. Scroll down to "Detailed steps for adding SGF files as attachments".

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.