HermanHiddema wrote:
Uberdude wrote:
Because this and your previous questions here are very much those of a Chess-player who wants to learn opening books for Go like one does in Chess. But Go is a different game with much more flexibility in the opening (and 9x9 is not studied as much as 19x19). Humanity does not know the best for for white in this position. Just play some reasonable move (not on the first or second line) and enjoying creating your own unique game that no one else has played before.
To be fair, if you asked a chess player something like "If white opens 1.e4, what is black's best response?", he'd probably also tell you there is no single best answer, but that there are at least 10 different moves that are all viable responses.
No, a HELPFUL chess player would say something like: "The most common responses are c5 (sicilian defense), e5 (kings pawn opening), and e6 (french defense). Then they would tell you a little about the idea behind each move.
Likewise a HELPFUL Go player would respond "the most common responses are a, b, and c" and then tell you a little bit about what each one of them does.
An unhelpful player of either game will give you the reply that there are tons of possible responses and then give you no useful information at all about what any of them are.
Even a response like "this move here is one possible response, and the idea behind it is X" would be helpful.
I am sure that the OP was not simply looking to memorize responses with no understanding of why those moves were good, but was looking for stronger players to provide him some insight. The response he got was very dismissive.
, but it would be useless to you as the continuations are too complex.
