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In the first answer, Black can save the larger group of his stones. He'll still lose some, but the guaranteed capture isn't as big.
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Urban Renewal whats your ranking and on what server?(just curious)
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Mar 10, 2009 06:26
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I'm Pyrography, 8k on KGS.
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I won some free lectures to http://internetgoschool.com/ in a tournament on saturday. I get five, what do you lunks think I should pick?
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Mar 31, 2009 07:27
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Opening B lectures 1 thru 5 imo
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Awesome april fools joke on KGS
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L:ordSilent posted:Awesome april fools joke on KGS Haha that's pretty good. It's funny how people have to deal with it.
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Man Go is awesome. I bought a board and stones when I had a back problem for a few months and boned up on it, but I've only just started playing on KGS and getting my first 50 losses out of the way. This level of play is really weird, either I get completely crushed or I crush them, wins by over 50 moku are pretty common just because one of us will miss something vital and lose a huge wall of stones. I'm about 20 kyu, but having a blast. The thing I like about it is that it has very simple rules that let it be played in very complex ways. Where in Chess each piece moves in a different way, Go you just plonk your stones down anywhere, but the way you place them has a huge impact on how things turn out. Zahki fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Apr 2, 2009 |
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Just womped some dude by like 60 points, I'm a go master.
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go owns, welcome new players, what was the KGS prank
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Everyone was 9d
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will my rank graph reflect this, I would be really happy, my rank is very important to me
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Urban Renewal posted:will my rank graph reflect this, I would be really happy, my rank is very important to me It showed your graph how it always looks but all the numbers on the left read 9d.
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I've finally hopped in and played my first game with VincentD, who then stepped me through common openings and commentated our whole game after the fact. Thanks for making newcomers feel welcome - I've only sat and watched games for a while just because it's looked so intimidating. If there's more lurkers out there on the fence, jump in and get learning - you won't regret it.
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if it makes you feel better your first game didn't look like half the clusterfuck that most first games do you also did the tutorial before playing instead of just "learning by doing" I see a promising future
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So I was at the go club in real life and I beat a shodan with three stones for the third time in a row, entitling me to move up to two, where I come one very hard-fought liberty away from making him resign again. Then, I come home to my shitbox kgs account that I got to 5 kyu for about fifteen minutes before dropping two games in a row and putting it safely back in 6k where it belongs gently caress internet go (everyone should play internet go get on kgs)
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I haven't played in over a month  I got my rear end kicked by a 22k and got discouraged I guess
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Foggy posted:I haven't played in over a month you did not even complete basic go training I remember blendy was like "oh man foggy is gonna be my RIVAL" and I told him "sorry son foggy's gonna crap out any day now just you watch" and he was all 
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Under 15 posted:you did not even complete basic go training That totally was me! I wanted a rival so bad. Also Foggy: Fight on! A loss means nothing in internet go! Blendy fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Apr 10, 2009 |
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the japanese say you have to lose 100 games before you can start to really play but they also have a tendency to fetishize suffering so I guess what I'm saying here is that Go is a retarded game and anyone who plays it (me) is retarded
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Urban Renewal posted:the japanese say you have to lose 100 games before you can start to really play but they also have a tendency to fetishize suffering so I guess what I'm saying here is that Go is a retarded game and anyone who plays it (me) is retarded I 2nd this on all counts. I need to start playing again. Daily.
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go is literally keeping me from killing myself with a hanzo sword in a snow field
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That sounds like a kick rear end wood block print in the making.
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Urban Renewal posted:go is literally keeping me from killing myself with a hanzo sword in a snow field anger, and more specifically spite is a critical quality in internet go if you dont pass muster you will sink under the weight of your own cowardice
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I played my first two games on KGS last night (I lost, of course) and I was surprised by how friendly and helpful even the pubbies were.
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Had my first ranked game last night after being on break for 3 weeks. I lost at the most stupid point in the game. That will teach me for going awol
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Kinuven posted:I played my first two games on KGS last night (I lost, of course) and I was surprised by how friendly and helpful even the pubbies were. One of the guys I played against, a fellow 19kyu, reviewed the game with me and asked a buddy of his to do a tute game with me, it was pretty rad. I need to do more life and death problems, I make some kick rear end huge territory and the other guy puts a single stone in the middle of it and I'm all "Whoa what the gently caress, how do I kill this poo poo"
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go players are usually pretty hard up for new interested players, so we tend to be pretty nice and encouraging to them. We don't want you to quit!
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Good times - I actually managed to create one of these in a real game. Click here for the full 848x851 image. The upper middle-left fight is a three-way ko that will never end.
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haha awesome. so does that void the game or is it a tie?
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exar said that you would leave the whole thing as seki but he made a ko threat and I took the whole shebang. His ko threat was bigger than I thought though and I lost
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Urban Renewal posted:exar said that you would leave the whole thing as seki but he made a ko threat and I took the whole shebang. His ko threat was bigger than I thought though and I lost
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 I finally did it! I bought a go set. Got it off ebay for only 39.50 after shipping w/ insurance. The guy didn't really know what he was selling so I'm not sure what kind of wood it is, his guess was maple. Anyway it looks good enough to me and it's hard to find a decent set for under $50 before shipping. Now if only I knew some locals that played... Fake Edit: Sorry for the double post
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Blendy posted:
That is the exact set my aunt gave me last year (which piqued my interest in the game). Blendy you were meant to be my rival! I'm really sorry I haven't been on
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Blendy posted:
Nice. I always thought playing on a physical board beat the hell out of playing on the internet. You probably find better competition on the net, but a lazy afternoon playing Go with a friend face to face, much nicer I think.
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Foggy posted:That is the exact set my aunt gave me last year (which piqued my interest in the game). Blendy you were meant to be my rival! I'm really sorry I haven't been on What do you think of the board? It's a good price but I want to save up for a shin-kaya board.
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It's not gonna blow any hats off but its better than the poo poo boards you'd get at Toys R' Us and I wouldn't be embarrassed to bring it to a club. In my opinion, it's better to have a sub-par board then to have a really great board and be a not-so-great player. I knew a guy who had $2000 bowls but couldn't beat me regularly several years ago, and I wouldn't feel comfortable having equipment of that level at my current level of skill. Plus its a big faux pas to have equipment mismatched with each other, his board was 100$ at most and his stones were glass.
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Yeah no table boards for this guy until past shodan. at least.
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This thread makes me happy. I haven't played Go in a while (quit playing regularly maybe a year ago now), but if anyone is interested, I'm toastcrumb on KGS. At my high point, I was 1k, but I'm probably 3-4k now.
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stab stabby posted:This thread makes me happy. Join us in the SA room!
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