Life In 19x19

I plan to carry my new 6cm Shin Kaya board to the Go club to show off... show others how beautiful the sound of putting stones on it is. But I need a bag for this beforehand and I have only found one suitable at Yellow Mountains but shipping cost makes it unaffordable. Need to think of something.

Other than that I use my board everyday to replay professional games and (irregulary) to study Joseki. I don't find clicking through a .sgf-file beneficial either. I think you can get a much better feeling for the game when you actively replay it. (And the sound of putting stones on my new Shin Kaya board is so beautiful :o)
Furthermore at one tournament I played a Daidaigeima monkey-jump because I was so used to see this semi-translucent stone at KGS before I make a move. And I can also sympathize with everyone trying to kill a group because he thought it was disconnected. Stone placement is not that accurate on a real board ^^

SoDesuNe wrote:I plan to carry my new 6cm Shin Kaya board to the Go club to show off... show others how beautiful the sound of putting stones on it is. But I need a bag for this beforehand and I have only found one suitable at Yellow Mountains but shipping cost makes it unaffordable. Need to think of something.

You don't say where you are. Here's a post on bags to carry your board (and one case) mostly available in the US.

Edit: The post above the one linked suggests a pizza bag. It seems like that might be available worldwide.

Kirby wrote:Thanks for all of the responses so far. There are two quotes that I was hoping to get elaboration on:

gowan wrote:...I also find that using a board and stones to study works better than just reading a book or looking at a computer screen.

Shaddy wrote:...It's also good for playing out pro games; it's just not the same clicking through the games online.

These quotes seem to suggest that studying can be better using a real go board than using computers or books.

I like to use a board for playing pro games or for following along when watching badukTV (I'm imagine it would work for online lectures like KGS+ as well). The difference I see for how well I retain things is pretty dramatic. I would say it's basically the equivalent between taking notes in a class vs. not taking notes. Of course I am also the kind of person who is much more likely to remember something if I wrote it down (even if I never read the writing) than if I just hear it, so your mileage may vary.

I sometimes put positions from my OGS games out on my board and vaguely wonder where to play when I glance at it, but it doesn't get much use except when I have friends staying for a Go tournament and we stay up analysing our games late into the night.

msgreg wrote:

SoDesuNe wrote:I plan to carry my new 6cm Shin Kaya board to the Go club to show off... show others how beautiful the sound of putting stones on it is. But I need a bag for this beforehand and I have only found one suitable at Yellow Mountains but shipping cost makes it unaffordable. Need to think of something.

You don't say where you are. Here's a post on bags to carry your board (and one case) mostly available in the US.

Edit: The post above the one linked suggests a pizza bag. It seems like that might be available worldwide.

Hey, thanks! I'm in Europe, so everything from the US is pretty costly. But a pizza bag is really a nice idea : ) I'll keep my eyes open.