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Hi, I'm new to this thread (why is it in A/T? I never go here. Put in Games?) Used to be 7k, but haven't played much in a couple years. Now I'm working on getting a solid ranking again. I look forward to playing with goons! Tarezax fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Oct 6, 2010 |
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My friend keeps babbling about Chess and he keeps making me want to play Go instead. Gah I need to get back into this. I never really got anywhere skill-wise. Maybe around 17kyu at some point. But otherwise I just need to shut up and play games. Or, at least, watch others. Go is fun  Also, there is an goon group on KGS? Awesome.
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Reading through a tutorial on this. I love chess, and am decent enough at it, but this blows my mind.
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Verr posted:Reading through a tutorial on this. I love chess, and am decent enough at it, but this blows my mind. I like Go a lot because it's so free and open in comparison to chess. After Go, chess feels a lot like two football teams trying to fight in a back alley. It's a great game, of course, but I don't have the deep calculation capacity for it just yet.
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Oct 8, 2010 00:52
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Hipster Scumbag posted:I like Go a lot because it's so free and open in comparison to chess. After Go, chess feels a lot like two football teams trying to fight in a back alley. It's a great game, of course, but I don't have the deep calculation capacity for it just yet. If you want to get that feeling in go, just play 9x9. It has all the read-all-the-way-to-endgame from chess that we know and love.
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Oct 8, 2010 04:37
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Under 15 posted:If you want to get that feeling in go, just play 9x9. It has all the read-all-the-way-to-endgame from chess that we know and love. When I'm bored sometimes I'll doodles a 7x7 in the margins of whatever I'm doing and it seems impossible for white to win or even survive on a 5x5
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I've started playing go recently, still extremely inexperienced and I've only played against robots. I'm on KGS as medusoid; it'd be great to play against some other low-level goons out there. Are there more people in the private room? SA seemed pretty dead, but maybe it's my timezone.
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Discomedusae posted:I've started playing go recently, still extremely inexperienced and I've only played against robots. I'm on KGS as medusoid; it'd be great to play against some other low-level goons out there. Ya, the private room is where people are active. Just keep askin'
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Oct 8, 2010 08:57
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oiseaux morts 1994 posted:Ya, the private room is where people are active. Just keep askin' People always join, and then say nothing. Maybe try saying hi?
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Oct 8, 2010 17:06
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Hipster Scumbag posted:it seems impossible for white to win or even survive on a 5x5  This is true, although white can often (always?) survive if white is really smart if black doesn't play tengen first even when black plays perfectly afterwards.
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Oct 8, 2010 17:46
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helopticor posted:
I always lead with tengen on 9x9 or smaller It's like getting tengen and four corner enclosures at the same time!
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Oct 8, 2010 19:09
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Just made it to 10k... by the end of the year I may even be a single-digit kyu Becoming one stone stronger is the supreme enjoyment. - Go Seigen
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Hipster Scumbag posted:Just made it to 10k... by the end of the year I may even be a single-digit kyu Hipster I am roughly half a rank away from 9k, I think this month we should play lots of Go and achieve that enjoyment
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Oct 12, 2010 16:55
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oiseaux morts 1994 posted:Hipster I am roughly half a rank away from 9k, I think this month we should play lots of Go and achieve that enjoyment Make a new account KGS is slow to increase ranks.
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Oct 29, 2010 09:32
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Elby posted:Make a new account KGS is slow to increase ranks. Nah, it's fine. It's based on your last 50 games provided they are within a certain reasonable time period. If I win games my rank increases, if I lose them my rank decreases.
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Oct 29, 2010 12:09
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oiseaux morts 1994 posted:Nah, it's fine. It's based on your last 50 games provided they are within a certain reasonable time period. If I win games my rank increases, if I lose them my rank decreases. It's based on all the ranked games that your opponents in the past six months have played in the last six months
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Oct 30, 2010 04:05
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Ah, thanks Hels. In other news, I'm now SDK (KGS ranking)- it took almost 7 months from knowing nothing about Go at 30k in March. I expect to reach my goal of 1d by 2015!!! ahahaha
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Nov 1, 2010 12:43
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This means I have to Read Books now.
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oiseaux morts 1994 posted:Ah, thanks Hels. In other news, I'm now SDK (KGS ranking)- it took almost 7 months from knowing nothing about Go at 30k in March. I expect to reach my goal of 1d by 2015!!! ahahaha Congratulations! I'm hoping to make SDK by the end of the year, maybe - depends how much time I have to play. IWantHam has also been shooting up through the ranks with surprising rapidity. I looked at his last 10k game and was pretty impressed by his victory by 35 points.
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Nov 1, 2010 14:29
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If IWantHam had no prior knowledge of Go before he started playing on KGS then goddamn that's fast learning. One should expect to see him at 1d in a year provided he doesn't melt down first! Ahaha! ah!
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My goal is to be 3kyu by the end of the year, which should be possible. Currently 5k, was 10k in April.
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Nov 1, 2010 17:38
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wossname put this picture in the OP
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Under 15 posted:wossname put this picture in the OP What a terrible shape.
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Under 15 posted:wossname put this picture in the OP Looks good for Black
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White still has some power in the bottom.
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Nov 3, 2010 16:36
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Black could have made better use of his handicap, I think.
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Nov 3, 2010 18:19
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I've started realizing that at least 50% of my lost games are due to me playing really lovely endgame moves. I should probably stop playing for a while and just lock myself in a dark room with a bunch of yose books or something...
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Nov 7, 2010 15:50
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First time I've ever seen this error in KGS: http://i.imgur.com/4qiZJ.png
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Nov 14, 2010 21:39
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Buffis posted:First time I've ever seen this error in KGS: It happens from time to time if things are "complicated"
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Nov 14, 2010 23:25
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I have seen it a few times, but mostly in dan games. So congrats!
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It seems to happen more in complicated midgames, so yeah, mostly dan-level games. Lower level players tend to play less complex games and deplete aji a lot faster, so it's usually not a problem for the estimator to figure out. With that board, though, I don't really see why it is having trouble - maybe it's the group on the right and it can't decide if its a seki.
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Just a heads up for people wanting into the room, you might want to actually stay there for awhile. Sometimes we are going other things. BestGOer, you were kind of in the right room.
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Under 15 posted:It seems to happen more in complicated midgames, so yeah, mostly dan-level games. Lower level players tend to play less complex games and deplete aji a lot faster, so it's usually not a problem for the estimator to figure out. With that board, though, I don't really see why it is having trouble - maybe it's the group on the right and it can't decide if its a seki. Yeah, that was my guess as well.
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Elby posted:Just a heads up for people wanting into the room, you might want to actually stay there for awhile. Sometimes we are going other things. BestGOer, you were kind of in the right room. Yeah depending on the time of day there may not be very many people on or perhaps nobody at all. I would recommend just coming to the room a lot and spamming the poo poo out of it/the people in it
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Buffis posted:First time I've ever seen this error in KGS: textures off bitch Edit: Can we start a new thread or something to get people interested because I'm still the worst player in the room. o.m. 94 fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Nov 15, 2010 |
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Nov 15, 2010 21:36
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oiseaux morts 1994 posted:textures off bitch Hey, you were at least sdk for a little while... me, I went 10k and lost 3 out of 4 of my last games by -30 or worse
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No girls allowed in the secret room.
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 I liked playing this squeeze tesuji a lot.
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Buffis posted:
More of a clamp tesuji than a squeeze, right? The idea is that black can't play L1, or else wK4, bK3, wJ4, bJ3, and wJ6 captures two stones, correct? What's black's best reply?
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