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Xopods Played a Go Game with Xom and You Won't BELIEVE What Happened Next! (SPOILERS: Not a masterpiece of Go by either of us, but a masterpiece of Go comedy, perhaps.)
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Jan 1, 2015 23:36
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xopods posted:Xopods Played a Go Game with Xom and You Won't BELIEVE What Happened Next! I had fun browsing through this one. It kept looking like it was on the way to ending in absolute tragedy and resignation for somebody so I was surprised when it leveled out and got to be so close.
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Jan 2, 2015 01:49
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WuChou posted:I had fun browsing through this one. It kept looking like it was on the way to ending in absolute tragedy and resignation for somebody so I was surprised when it leveled out and got to be so close. I'm glad it's entertaining, at least. Just before my first big error, I was feeling like it was going to be a really instructive one to review. And then it just went off the deep end.
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Jan 2, 2015 02:38
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Get rid of the komi, Xom is now 3 dan. I knew it.
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Jan 2, 2015 05:07
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Can someone accept my request to join SA group at online-go.com? I've been playing there during work.
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Jan 2, 2015 09:12
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xopods posted:The reason that facing komoku are considered to favor Black is that a Chinese style formation with a stone at C11 and C5 is a pretty strong opening, but if White plays like this to prevent it, a pincer tends to support C5 while simultaneously attacking White. xopods posted:
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Jan 2, 2015 09:21
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 I reasoned that b8 and {s10|s11} were miai for 8 points in double gote, so I should play a 4-point reverse sente such as b18. This has two problems. The more damning one (which became irrelevant after Black made the big capture on the left) is that Black can exchange B s11, W s10 in sente, then take b8. The other one relates to the following sequence:  This was actually the only sequence I had read out ahead of time involving the aji in that area. AFAICT Black does have to take gote all the way up to 17, which was why I hadn't reinforced. The value of the h15 string is rather beyond me to calculate, but W b18 devalued White's potential compensating capture. Even so, I'm not sure Black even gains in this exchange.
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Jan 2, 2015 10:04
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 In the game, crosscutting at A got a ko, but AFAICT instead clamping at B would've lived unconditionally?
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Jan 2, 2015 10:09
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AdorableStar posted:Get rid of the komi, Xom is now 3 dan. I knew it. IMlemon posted:Can someone accept my request to join SA group at online-go.com? I've been playing there during work.
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Jan 2, 2015 10:18
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Xom posted:I was White in the game. For some reason I thought Xopods as black had komi. I'm not sure how I came to that conclusion.
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Jan 2, 2015 11:48
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Xom posted:In the game, crosscutting at A got a ko, but AFAICT instead clamping at B would've lived unconditionally? Seems like it, yeah. If Black connects at B8 before starting this whole sequence, a capturing race arises, but White still wins it by one move. So yeah, I guess that peep isn't as severe as in the game, though it still leads to a fairly substantial reduction in sente, which is all I though it was going to be when I played it. Anyway, you played a much better game than I did overall.
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Jan 2, 2015 15:15
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so i was going to try to get into chess as well because its very frustrating trying to find human people to play go with in real life, and i thought maybe i could enjoy chess too. but, uh, the chess thread here is even deader than this one and has only 17 pages over 2 years with the most recent post being 3 weeks ago. so. uh. i thought i'd ask here. any thoughts on chess and learning enough about it for it to be interesting? i hope i am not violating some go vs chess rule here. just thought you folks might be good people to ask.
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Jan 4, 2015 22:04
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I used to play chess a lot (and I'm way better at that game than go...) so I probably qualify to answer this. If you want to get good fast, you should be solving at tactics problems because chess, just like go is all about tactics. There are couple of very basic strategic principles that you should have in mind while playing, but otherwise, just try to capture poo poo to start out and see where it goes. You can also probably find many tutorials or videos for beginners, there's tons of material for chess on the web. For inspiration - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upQ4RKHMQGg.
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Jan 4, 2015 22:18
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uranus posted:so i was going to try to get into chess as well because its very frustrating trying to find human people to play go with in real life, and i thought maybe i could enjoy chess too. but, uh, the chess thread here is even deader than this one and has only 17 pages over 2 years with the most recent post being 3 weeks ago. so. uh. i thought i'd ask here. any thoughts on chess and learning enough about it for it to be interesting? i hope i am not violating some go vs chess rule here. just thought you folks might be good people to ask. Beware of assholes bringing out their queen and bishop really early.
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Jan 4, 2015 23:11
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uranus posted:so i was going to try to get into chess as well because its very frustrating trying to find human people to play go with in real life, There's not a local Go club where you are? If you're in the states, the AGA website list is usually pretty up-to-date.
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Jan 5, 2015 01:21
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youre telling me i have to MAKE NEW FRIENDS???/?
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Jan 5, 2015 01:30
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uranus posted:youre telling me i have to MAKE NEW FRIENDS???/? Who said anything about friends? Victims is the word you're looking for, I think.
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Jan 5, 2015 04:02
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You could post in the chess thread, too, people do have it bookmarked even if there isn't much discussion.
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Jan 5, 2015 15:09
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"A true revolutionary pwning a dumb idiot baby", Pyongyang Institute For Noble Pursuit, Oil On Woodboard (190"x300")
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Jan 7, 2015 09:48
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Although in honesty it's kind of a subversive painting, the style is really roughly stroked compared to a lot of earlier NK propaganda but the little girl is obviously NK in a battle of wills against the shameful cowards in South Korea and their allies in the west, while the world's media looks on????
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Jan 7, 2015 09:51
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It's not propaganda if it depicts a real situation.
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Jan 7, 2015 16:57
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that situation being: black captures every stone on the board
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Jan 7, 2015 17:33
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if he wins, he gets to adopt her.
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Jan 8, 2015 01:58
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well i dont think im going to be getting into chess. its just not grabbing me. oh well i tried.
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Jan 8, 2015 19:07
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My kid cousin keeps making me play Chess against him and I'm absolutely terrible at it. Do they do Chess Problems like they do for Go? It took 2 games before he told me I couldn't capture by jumping over things!
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Jan 8, 2015 19:41
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Yes, and you can totally use your knights to jump over; no other pieces. You should play xiangqi with him, the cannons must capture by jumping over! But yeah there's tons of chess problems, mostly "mate in x" or "win the piece!" for the simpler ones. Lots of newspapers have a one-per-day sort of thing, and obviously there's plenty of books and just googling "chess problems online".
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Jan 8, 2015 19:43
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silvergoose posted:Yes, and you can totally use your knights to jump over; no other pieces. You should play xiangqi with him, the cannons must capture by jumping over! Maybe he was already playing that because you can't jump over things with elephants/horses 
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Jan 8, 2015 19:54
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Here's my 1000-Elo guide to chess:
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Jan 8, 2015 20:44
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IMO Shogi is a lot cooler than Chess because you can drop pieces back onto the battlefield.
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Jan 8, 2015 22:07
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AdorableStar posted:IMO Shogi is a lot cooler than Chess because you can drop pieces back onto the battlefield. Agreed, and I grew up on chess. Shogi is fabulous, everyone should learn it. Mating nets become so loving cool with pieces in hand, and cracking a well built castle is a beautiful thing. Plus, all out attacks resulting in just barely failing to mate resulting in an all out attack on the other side can lead to amazing defenses, too.
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Jan 8, 2015 22:13
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Thanks for the tips! I was attempting to play it like draughts. Either way, I've rediscovered don't like Chess half as much as Go. Maybe I'll look into Shogi and totally confuse him.
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Jan 8, 2015 22:19
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hmm shogi seems cool. but i have a feeling its going to be even worse than go in regards of anyone knowing wtf it is ever.
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Jan 8, 2015 22:25
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uranus posted:hmm shogi seems cool. but i have a feeling its going to be even worse than go in regards of anyone knowing wtf it is ever. This is entirely true, yeah. I got a friend to learn it with me and we're both pretty solidly equal, and I found someone at a con who plays both go and shogi. That's...kinda it, though! You can play online. Or found a shogi club, start a movement! (that movement being climbing silver, of course)
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Jan 8, 2015 22:28
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a friend and i have been playing go for a few months now, but he's leaving town and likely won't be near a computer a lot of the time. is there a way we can play one another via ios? he prefers something that uses kgs, for what it's worth. abelwingnut fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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Jan 17, 2015 18:28
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what happened to all the posting in here? i won a league game finally, woo, yay me hooray! whats up with you, go friends?
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Jan 24, 2015 09:16
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uranus posted:what happened to all the posting in here? I got okay at osu by playing 4+ hours a day everyday for the last month. What if that applied to Go...
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Jan 24, 2015 14:52
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go is dead
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Jan 28, 2015 01:45
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I finished reading through BGG's Caylus strategy subforum today. (Best post was this IMO.)
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Jan 28, 2015 02:26
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i recently finished a game where i didnt do an invasion that i could have because i was already ahead by around 20 points and just wanted to end the game. then i felt bad afterward and wished i had killed what i could. i must kill all things. killl kill killl
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Jan 30, 2015 01:22
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