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If I didn't work in the morning I'd be down for drunken Go!
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AdorableStar posted:I just used tsumego.tasuki.org and it's actually the best free life and death you can do. I've been working through Cho Chikun's elementary over the past week or so, I really like the way it's organized and how the problems build on themselves. I've definitely learned more from these problems than from other sites or apps I've tried.
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Apr 15, 2016 16:12
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HummedExplosions posted:I've been working through Cho Chikun's elementary over the past week or so, I really like the way it's organized and how the problems build on themselves. I've definitely learned more from these problems than from other sites or apps I've tried. And since there's no answers you really have to force yourself to read through the problem more completely. If you can't solve one, ask in here though.
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Apr 15, 2016 16:15
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Do you normally try to read it on the page, or put the stones out and read it on-board, or either? I kinda want to start setting up stones because it's so much easier for me to read l&d on an actual board.
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Apr 15, 2016 16:25
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silvergoose posted:Do you normally try to read it on the page, or put the stones out and read it on-board, or either? I kinda want to start setting up stones because it's so much easier for me to read l&d on an actual board. I started doing it on a virtual board and now I do it on my real board. Either way, it definitely makes it easier to see and I assume this is the intent. In other news, holy poo poo I am playing the game of my life right now in an OGS tournament game against a 6k. I am 12k. I'm playing well and keeping up with him and he's super aggressive and has been trying to shut me down from the get-go. Right now he just forced a 3- (or 4-) step ko that I'm currently on the good side of. The ko is something he forced to make an invasion live, but I think I can take the 2 or 3 free moves and get more points elsewhere while he tries to live. It's super complicated and easily the most difficult game I've ever played. I'll link to it once it's done. I would love feedback on it if anyone is willing.
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Apr 15, 2016 17:20
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I did it a lot on the go so I did it on my phone screen.
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Apr 15, 2016 22:56
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AdorableStar posted:I did it a lot on the go so I did it on my phone screen. I see what you did there. Thanks, I might set up my board just to, y'know, feel the pieces once in a while. Just staring at the problems were making me feel like I couldn't go through all the variations in my head.
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Apr 16, 2016 00:57
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I go on-call tomorrow so I won't be able to drink, but I'll do plenty of marijuanas and play with folks almost any night this week, OGS/KGS!
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Apr 17, 2016 20:41
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coooool, hit me up im jonasd everywhere else but here
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Apr 17, 2016 20:44
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Johnny Truant posted:I go on-call tomorrow so I won't be able to drink, but I'll do plenty of marijuanas and play with folks almost any night this week, OGS/KGS! I am confused about your response to oncall duties Also somebody should add me on OGS, on which I am nrook
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Apr 17, 2016 23:39
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Here's an excerpt from a 2d vs 2d tournament game on KGS What is the status of the black group in this corner? (Both players misread the situation)
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Apr 18, 2016 00:11
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p1 q1 r1 t1 t4 q1 take, r1 ko, b takes first
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Apr 18, 2016 02:27
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Apr 18, 2016 06:16
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Getting lumped in with randos in these OGS tournaments has a benefit, you get some experience with some wacko openings and you get to see why they might be a terrible idea. Some guy I was playing in a amll tournament played tengen on his first move as white. That game is still going and I'm behind by about 20 points, so maybe that tengen as white thing really does work. I also noticed the same guy (who is 12k) beat a 4k guy in the tournament, so naturally I decided to check the game out. This time he was black and he played offset 6-4s for his first two moves, while white played offset 4-3s. And I guess that worked for him too, because he roundly thrashed the 4k dude. This guy is Russian too, so he probably doesn't care about popular opinion on territory-taking strategies  .Speaking of that 4k dude, I've noticed that when strong players play weaker players in these tournaments, they seek to put the weaker player down quickly with a "killing blow" and sort of ignore territory. I was able to stay ahead of that 4k dude through about 100 moves because all he did was try to kill my groups and never sought to build territory. Ultimately he won through an odd invasion (2-3) underneath a thick corner group of mine and I made a mistep or two that allowed him to live.
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Prodigious posted:Here's an excerpt from a 2d vs 2d tournament game on KGS Shadonra posted:p1 q1 r1 t1 t4 q1 take, r1 ko, b takes first Yeah, seems about right. I really like this problem! It's also worth it to mention that: After white plays r1 to start the ko, black can't try to avoid it by playing r2 then s1. White connects and lets black capture his stones, then makes a placement again at Q1. Managed to read this myself without tinkering on a board! http://eidogo.com/#17PZuKqt7:0,1
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Apr 18, 2016 21:27
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So over in forums Survivor, we're playing a modified variant of Connect 4, and I'm having to use my goban to track board state. It feels SO WRONG to put stone inside the boxes...
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Apr 19, 2016 01:26
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it never feels good to win on time a game you're losing badly
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Apr 19, 2016 02:11
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if I win one more game I'll be IGS 8k, and knowing that is seriously making me hesitant to play lol e: just had the easiest game ever and ranked up  this is my first marked improvement in years, granted I haven't been playing very much until just lately
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Apr 19, 2016 02:24
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i just signed up for this http://www.seattlego.org/li-hai-workshop/ be jelly
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Apr 19, 2016 20:58
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mycophobia posted:it never feels good to win on time a game you're losing badly On the contrary, it feels even better to cheese all your games. 
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Apr 19, 2016 23:25
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If anyone is jonesing for some Michael Redmond, he released a full commentary of one of his games versus a fellow 9p for free of the AGA site recently. Find it here.
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I'll probably be balling on some OGS later tonight since I've only really been doing tsumego recently, if anybody wants to school me drop me a line!
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Can I get an invite to the OGS group? @tigernbutts Edit: Can anyone recommend me some books that are available on Kindle? Unfortunately the Second Book of Go is not. Tigern fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Apr 24, 2016 |
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Apr 23, 2016 20:22
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Graded go problems for beginners volumes 1-4.
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anybody get to 1d yet?
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Apr 28, 2016 18:40
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I have a 5d account on kgs does that count
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Apr 28, 2016 20:10
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yes, that should be about 1d
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Apr 28, 2016 20:23
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I hit 8k+ on igs yesterday
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Apr 28, 2016 20:35
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mycophobia posted:I hit 8k+ on igs yesterday 
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Yeah I read Attack and Defense and now I'm reading Tesuji so I've been pwning n00bs left and right
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Is there a decent go set for small children? I'm thinking of a go equivalent to the Cracker Barrel oversized checkers rug.
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PerniciousKnid posted:Is there a decent go set for small children? I'm thinking of a go equivalent to the Cracker Barrel oversized checkers rug. There's those small magnetic travelling boards but if it's for children like 5 then they're probably going to eat the pieces.
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Hmm, look at this guy. Specifically, look at his rank graph. He played over 300 games in the 13k-15k range, then literally overnight he's 5k.
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Overwined posted:Hmm, look at this guy. Specifically, look at his rank graph. He played over 300 games in the 13k-15k range, then literally overnight he's 5k. I might be missing something but it looks like he was moved there by a mod. 
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OGS ranks are bad. The fact that mods subjectively do that is worse.
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AdorableStar posted:There's those small magnetic travelling boards but if it's for children like 5 then they're probably going to eat the pieces. Yeah, that's basically the opposite of what I want, for that reason.
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In today's episode of "oh, that's why that isn't joseki", by nrook 17k Don't be me, folks.
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I decided to pick up my old go set recently, last time I played I was around 20K on KGS, probably a lot worse than that now. I want to make a concerted effort to improve my game, so I'm looking forwards to getting murdered by ya'll. Could someone invite me into the SA room on OGS? Username is Spellbound_Dogfighter.
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