hello to all.. signed up over the weekend but i only had time to introduce myself today.. i live (and work) in brazil as an english/ spanish teacher (yeah, forgive the lack of correct punctuation here).. although i played "atari-go" as a child with my parents i dropped go at a young age.. the way i "came back" to go was this: i like to supplement the classes with audio/ video.. one student asked if she could bring in a dvd for us to watch in class and she brought the english dub of hikaru.. she lent me the series and i brought back great memories of my childhood.. so with that i started playing, this time "for real"..

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"Hell if you understand everything I said, you’d be me." ~ Miles Davis ~

Great to see you at L19 and hope you have a great time here meeting new friends and learning more about the game of go together with all of us here.

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A blog on Asian go books, go sightings, and interesting tidbits
Go is such a beautiful game.

Welcome.

thanks for the welcome!

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Welcome.

May your groups live and your attacks be sharp!
Welcome

Welcome to L19!

Do you ever go to the São Paulo Go Center? I am very curious to hear how the club is doing, but no one I speak to has any news.

Redbeard: I have not visited. While I live in the state of São Paulo, I live in Campinas, a smaller city, about an hour or so away.

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Do you want a bunch of unranked 9x9 or 13x13 games on OGS for practice? I can't teach you really but I can help you get a lot more games in which is one of the key ways of getting better.

Ah, I see. Well, if you ever get the chance to visit let us know what it's like.

sure, i'd go for that..

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will do!! i am going to check out the japanese cultural center here in a few weeks, hoping they have players there.. i will report back..

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Hello, and welcome,

I simply added you to my KGS buddy list, maybe we meet each other there

Hailing from Germany,
Tom

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“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” — Salvador Dali ★ Play a slooooow correspondence game with me on OGS?

I promised you a review. Probably one of the stronger players can give you a better one but this explains why I won:



Apologies for any mistakes or errors. None of my ideas should be taken as the way to play. For instance I don't mention it but d3 or f3 would be fine opening responses to a tengen opening on 9x9.


The shapes I talked about:

Bent four in the corner: http://senseis.xmp.net/?BentFourInTheCorner
Rectangualar six in the corner: http://senseis.xmp.net/?RectangularSixInTheCorner
Straight three: http://senseis.xmp.net/?path=LifeAndDea ... eEyeshapes (part of this list. Get to know these, it's very helpful!)

Boidhre,

Good thing I apologised for any errors eh?

I didn't read that out fully. :/

Basic shape -- you want to get to the point where you don't need to read it, and just know it by sight.
Also, if you didn't read it out fully, then why say W cannot connect?

Because I thought W couldn't connect when I looked at it.

Eh, useful to see these horrendous flaws in my thinking pointed out though!

thank you, however, what would "scare" me from connecting, is (and maybe this is one of those things you hear around Go boards but isn't true) that when you connect you make the opponents stone stronger, IF your stone is not strong. I would be afraid to attack before building myself up.

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