Interview with Jeff Chang

[quantumf]

A lengthy and entertaining interview with Jeff Chang: http://gosensations.com/?id=2&server_id=1&new_id=1343

[ez4u]

Great read. Thanks for posting the link quantumf!

[xed_over]

I think this is the most interesting part of the whole interview (emphasis mine):

compared to the Asian players, we may notice the phenomenon that we Europeans (also Americans) in general play relatively passively. At least that is the case for most players. How come? From my observation, that is mostly due to not having a correct guide from the beginning of our Go career. We often foster bad habits because of this. One notable bad habit is that we tend to care about our own stones, while not caring enough about the opponent's stones. I have described to many of my students that they are being "selfish on the Go board", because one should always treat their own stones and the opponent's stones equally. An example of this is when you have a weakness and protect it, but your opponent has the same or a similar weakness, but you do nothing to take advantage of it, or vice versa.

[Fedya]

My experience is that if I have a weakness but tenuki to try to exploit an opponent's weakness, things start to go wrong. Obviously I'm not doing things properly.