Capture the stones, or have mercy?

[hiyayang]

...a momentary blunder can suddenly erase everything you've been building up. Fortunately, once you reach a certain level (say, SDK), this is essentially no longer a factor.

I don't think I agree with this. I think that momentary blunders that mess up everything you've been building up exist at dan levels, too.

Pros are not immune to it either. This Chinese article (http://sports.sina.com.cn/go/2010-05-24 ... 9844.shtml) listed a few past incidents during dame filling period.

[GoCat]

Yes, if it is the biggest move, irregardless of it being about winning.

Agreed, regardless of the grammatical error.

Two points: 1) the result of a game is the end product of our good plays and bad, so a bad move by my opponent is simply part of the game, and if I'm clever enough (not often) to take advantage of it, that's part of the game, too; and 2) I play for fun so being captured doesn't bother me, and I hope the same is true for my opponents.

[topazg]

Agreed, regardless of the grammatical error.

Hehe, but it's such a fun and interesting "error". I defend my right to use a non-word that possibly combines "irrespective" and "regardless" to accentuate the lack of regard for the final result in a given Go game

[GoCat]

Hehe, but it's such a fun and interesting "error".

Okay... I give up; if it has its own entry in Wikipedia, I throw in the towel on this one. I hereby will never complain about this word, again.

(But if I'm ever forced to do the same for "a whole nother", I will simply stop using verbal language and instead speak only with my Go stones.)

...or something like that.

[judicata]

Hehe, but it's such a fun and interesting "error".

Okay... I give up; if it has its own entry in Wikipedia, I throw in the towel on this one. I hereby will never complain about this word, again.

(But if I'm ever forced to do the same for "a whole nother", I will simply stop using verbal language and instead speak only with my Go stones.)

...or something like that.

I will continue to complain, but knowing that the author using the word does it fully aware that it is a non-word does ease the sting.