Life In 19x19

The unwritten rule is probably called winter.

I looked at the temp for korea now, I think I would be sweating in that kind of clothe...

The kid looks about ready to quit baduk forever! Maybe sedol could have been no so severe and dance in front of him at 0.5 point...

tchan001 wrote:The unwritten rule is probably called winter.

Check out any Korean schools in March.

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It's official. Lee Sedol is the biggest 0.5 troll of the century.

Those pictures are hilarious, lovelove.

That right side with the unfinished 34 joseki bottom combined with the probe on the keima looked like an exact study out of Lee Changho's novel plays and shapes. I would conclude that the weakness is due to people studying their games and styles in depth.

SmoothOper wrote:That right side with the unfinished 34 joseki bottom combined with the probe on the keima looked like an exact study out of Lee Changho's novel plays and shapes. I would conclude that the weakness is due to people studying their games and styles in depth.

game of go is so profound that studying their game doesnt make much difference....may be some effect on fuseki.
I think it has more to do with their concentration level. I am 45 years old and i have noticed that my concentration level went down significantly past 10 years. you can have 99% moves correct but missing 1% will result in you losing.

the right side is kind of joseki (104 games in my search in GoGoD, with a surprising,imh, 58,7% win for w)

gasana wrote:the right side is kind of joseki (104 games in my search in GoGoD, with a surprising,imh, 58,7% win for w)

That sequence is indeed a standard opening, though I have heard that recently it is considered slightly good for white. I was interested that when Remi Coulom used CrazyStone to analyse a game of mine that featured this opening, it thought that it was good for white (Black wins 45%). This is an objective result from Monte Carlo analysis rather than pro judgement, but they seem to agree, as does the GoGoD win rate.

Here's the CrazyStone analysis:

http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/~coulo ... is-21.html

Magicwand wrote:

SmoothOper wrote:That right side with the unfinished 34 joseki bottom combined with the probe on the keima looked like an exact study out of Lee Changho's novel plays and shapes. I would conclude that the weakness is due to people studying their games and styles in depth.

game of go is so profound that studying their game doesnt make much difference....may be some effect on fuseki.
I think it has more to do with their concentration level. I am 45 years old and i have noticed that my concentration level went down significantly past 10 years. you can have 99% moves correct but missing 1% will result in you losing.

I thought multitasking went before focus and concentration.

Here's a commentary of the game between Lee Changho and Shin Jinseo, for those who are curious.