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uranus posted:I need to learn to read the score better
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We can all thank Richard Bozulich for settling once and for all what japanese terms we were going to use and which we weren't Reading old go books is sometimes excruciating for that reason
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uranus posted:I need to learn to read the score better Apparently so does Gu Li. 
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Feb 24, 2014 02:58
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Why are French players so bad?
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Feb 24, 2014 14:10
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Kheldragar posted:Why are French players so bad? The Maginot Fuseki leaves too much aji. 
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Feb 24, 2014 15:00
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xopods posted:The Maginot Fuseki leaves too much aji.
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Feb 24, 2014 15:56
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gonna drop a link to this bitcoins go server here - https://bitcoingo.io/ if you play games here in the weekly tournament and win any of them, you get some free internet money the guy who wrote the site plays there as steve and is reasonably strong (5d?) and there are some stronger players there as well. you can check previous tournament results to see who they are - all the games are played on even, so disregarding the free internet money it's nice place to get schooled if you can get a game
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Feb 24, 2014 17:24
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I beat Xom, bwahaha barely, with a 6 stone handicap
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Feb 24, 2014 18:12
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guys guys, check this out, guys seriously. Its go, ok? Right? Its go.... but with bitcoins
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Feb 24, 2014 18:46
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sensual donkey punching posted:gonna drop a link to this bitcoins go server here - https://bitcoingo.io/ So I can use this to get games with higher ranked people, essentially? 
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Feb 24, 2014 19:15
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Gogameguru accepts Bitcoins.
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Feb 24, 2014 19:18
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BTEAM bitcoin taints everything around me
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Feb 24, 2014 19:29
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D.O.G.E. rules everything around me
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Feb 24, 2014 19:49
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its an easy way to mix money with competitive play. sumimasen, my goon companions...,
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Feb 24, 2014 21:17
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If you can win buttcoin prizes from playing go and then immediately exchange them for free books from GGG, that's fine to me.
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Feb 25, 2014 00:08
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I thought they used MtGox or something for processing which has been in a weird place lately. Its probably easier to win money at an AGA tournament than win there and try to convert to USD.
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The second book of go arrived today!  I skimmed through it and liked its explanation on the definition of liberties.
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Feb 25, 2014 23:59
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 (as usual) Black to play.
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Feb 26, 2014 00:10
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Xom posted:
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Xom posted:
b1? If white c1, then black atari at d1, white captures at e1, black atari at e2. White connects, and black can atari at c3, ruining the eyeshape. I'm not reading this anymore. I'm sure if white doesn't connect and tries to make eyes there's something in c1 that's false.
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Xom posted:
C4. If W C1, then C3 and W is dead. If W B1, then D1 kills
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Kheldragar posted:b1? If white c1, then black atari at d1, white captures at e1, black atari at e2. White connects, and black can atari at c3, ruining the eyeshape. White lives because of E4
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I lost by 21.5 to an 11k this morning, and 22.5 to a 6k just now. The 6k was one point stronger. 
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Feb 26, 2014 01:25
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Me and Pander's most recent game, it was a lot closer than it looks with some of the battles where i barely escaped intact. http://online-go.com/game/506244
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Feb 26, 2014 04:28
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White to play on this terrible diagram I made and screenshotted with my phone.
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Feb 26, 2014 14:54
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White is stronger than me because I want to tenuki or resign.
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Feb 26, 2014 20:29
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Kheldragar posted:White to play
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Feb 26, 2014 20:30
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 (as usual) Black to play. Ko?
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Xom posted:
if black just plays c1 what can white do about it? feel like i'm missing something
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pointsofdata posted:if black just plays c1 what can white do about it? feel like i'm missing something
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pointsofdata posted:if black just plays c1 what can white do about it? feel like i'm missing something
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I've been meaning to get into "Go" for sometime. Glad to see a fully intensive thread on it all! Looking forward to playing a game or two with you folks in the future!
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Feb 26, 2014 21:22
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In case you missed it in the OP:sensual donkey punching posted:
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Kheldragar posted:White to play on this terrible diagram I made and screenshotted with my phone. I can get ko... do you know if W needs to live outright? The keys to the problem are: (1) That after B plays R18, the push and cut of O15 and N16 are sente against the top Black group because of the aji of of O17. (2) That after B defends that top group, the strike-through-the-knight's-move tesuji of R13 will guarantee that White can capture either S14 or O14 or the blocking stone that B will play at N15... provided that Black can't just capture R13. However, B can capture R13 as it stands. (3) If B is forced to throw in at T16 to prevent White from living in the corner, then after W T15 and B S15 to falsify the eye, the B S14 stone is one liberty shorter than before and R13 works. However, the only way I can see to force that is by playing T18 instead of S18 after the hane of R18 (and B Q18 of course). That invites ko. If B backs down from the ko and White connects it, then if B tries to kill with T16 everything else works for W to escape.
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I'm sure all the problems in there should be outight, but if you can get ko out of that then  .
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Kheldragar posted:I'm sure all the problems in there should be outight, but if you can get ko out of that then I think I've got it! The key is sagari to R19. If this is the right answer, it's quite clever and I'm very happy to have http://eidogo.com/#Fg1D7ku2
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Nice! That looks like it works. It's still a bit unsatisfying to me though, because if black plays s15 where the paths branch, white is running out to the center with only one eye, and his group on the top has become much weaker. I guess you could fight a ko instead if you wanted to, but that's not great either...
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ThePineapple posted:Nice! That looks like it works. It's still a bit unsatisfying to me though, because if black plays s15 where the paths branch, white is running out to the center with only one eye, and his group on the top has become much weaker. I guess you could fight a ko instead if you wanted to, but that's not great either... Well, strategically it is not very good but the convention in tsumego is that escape is as good as life. Kheldragar says that this is from Igo Hatsuyoron though and it seems to me that solution is too simple given that collection's reputation, so there must be something wrong with it.
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