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As a weak SDK I'm comfortable with 10-20 min + 30 sec byoyomi as well, though I've heard second hand that many Korean players play blitz exclusively until 1 dan. I tried that for a while and it just made me very frustrated.
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I was thinking Fischer might be better than byo-yomi for medium-length online games, but I guess it's silly for a timesuji to actually net you more time than you had before the move. Absolute time control would be really dubious in Go, yeah. I'll continue playing slow games then. I had heard that playing blitz as a new player is bad for you, but I had never really believed that; it's interesting to hear that some Korean players do the opposite, and play only blitz until they become strong amateurs.
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i played only blitz until i was 1d, it gave me hella bad habits but at least it got me there
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Question: Does it make sense to try play Go with my 4½ year old son? I'm not aiming at him being the next child prodigy, but for fun and company's sake. I am a complete newbie also, so to speak.
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Pilsner posted:Question: Does it make sense to try play Go with my 4½ year old son? I'm not aiming at him being the next child prodigy, but for fun and company's sake. I am a complete newbie also, so to speak. I'd peruse http://senseis.xmp.net/?TeachingMethods#toc12
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The supposed 6k level of crazy stone ai played out an obvious ladder all the way across the board. Starting to have doubts about this thing
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derp posted:The supposed 6k level of crazy stone ai played out an obvious ladder all the way across the board. Starting to have doubts about this thing Maybe it thought it was a ladder game.
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So I got my set of stones from Go Game Guru (just their cheaper ~$40 set), and although I'm still waiting on the board to land, I've been playing with friends and doing tsumego on a 9x9 printout taped to cardboard  . This is way better then doing it online, I must say. There's just something about the look and tactile feel of actual stones that makes it easier for me to concentrate. I would totally recommend getting stones even just for tsumego if you find you get distracted or uninterested in online/mobile app variants of it.This poo poo is totally expanding my visual memory though, I'm kinda surprised at how poor mine is. I can practically feel my brain stretching when going through tricky tsumego
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derp posted:The supposed 6k level of crazy stone ai played out an obvious ladder all the way across the board. Starting to have doubts about this thing you say that like real 6ks never play out obvious ladders hell, i've seen 3ds play out obvious ladders
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Didn't Lee Sedol dunk on some dude by playing a corner-to-corner ladder? Yup, here it is. Apparently he didn't trick his opponent into falling for it, but simply made it so that he didn't have a choice but to go along. Overwined fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Nov 30, 2016 |
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Well, just played my first real games of Go with the Chicago Go Club (which is to say, a half dozen people in a tea shop). It was pretty fun. My thoughts on the experience are a little scattershot, but I definitely think I enjoyed the game, so I may be appearing in this thread somewhat regularly for a while. I guess I did fairly well in my first couple games where I had big handicaps on the 9x9 board (but... isn't that easy?) and then got overestimated and got decimated on the 13x13 board. I'm about a ~1500 chess player, which I know is a very different game, but it has taught me the value of getting destroyed, looking stuff up, rinsing and repeating, until things start to make sense. I tend to process new information pretty slowly, so I had a hard time understanding some of the advice and tactical pointers I was being given, but I'll take a look at online resources soon to get the basics. It should be fun having a new mountain to try to climb!
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Finally saw a game that was remotely my skill level and relatively useful (19x19, 10 minutes plus 30sx5, 23k). Completely obliterated him, and I don't think I was playing especially well, just reading a little and making mostly okay moves while he made useless or worse ones. Still, it's a good indication that 18k is probably a decent estimate, which I got from a couple of live games with some friends at a boardgame con. Enjoyable, to say the least, though live is so much better. I should probably play against some lower ddk and see how badly I lose by.
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in case you guys dont know, there's a discord that's been pretty active recently, there's a link in the first post of this thread
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I can never decide if Go is super elegant for its small ruleset or super clunky for being played on a giant board. So I was trying to think about more minimal go. In a 2x2 game, as far as I can tell there are two lines: a) play adjacent. This loses: code:b) play opposite. Here the players seem to get into a loop: code:
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Ko prevents the last move in your list, repeating the opening position, and white wins.
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In case anyone hasn't seen it: from https://www.bamsoftware.com/go/board.html
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Update: I lost like 7/8 of my last blitz games, so I've decided blitz is a dumb game format with no correlation to skill. Edit: 8/9, I ran into time trouble and blundered in early endgame nrook fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Dec 3, 2016 |
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Meanwhile all the guys who beat you are like 'Hell yeah blitz is the way to go!'
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I played in person today, against a shodan. Here's our game with his comments: http://eidogo.com/#vWFnErMM
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So GoGameGuru just shut down their store and their access to Baduk TV
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jivjov posted:So GoGameGuru just shut down their store and their access to Baduk TV Holy poo poo
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drat. i got my copy of invincible just in time it seems
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I'm surprised they didn't announce it a week in advance or something to try to clear out excess inventory
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Huh. What's the story here? I know it wasn't exactly yesterday, but they sold out of a ton of different items during the Lee Sedol v AlphaGo boom days. Maybe they have always been in the red and that got them in the black or close enough to say "eh, gently caress it".
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Overwined posted:Huh. What's the story here? I know it wasn't exactly yesterday, but they sold out of a ton of different items during the Lee Sedol v AlphaGo boom days. Here's a big ol article saying why: https://gogameguru.com/roots/
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Closing the shop is the worst thing
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Glad I got my board and stones in time
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I played Go one time over 14 years ago. I'm not necessarily interested in learning or playing the game, but I do like to make Perler designs (bead sprites and such). Have any of you considered playing a game of Go over a Perler or Hama pegboard? Perhaps use the large beads as the stones, and tape an image of a Go board under the pegboard (you'd have to scale the image so that the grid intersections line up with the pegs). Once the game is complete, add clear beads in any of the empty spaces, iron the beads, and give the immortalized victory board to the winner? Another option would be to simply take an image of a completed game, and match the stone placements on a Perler board. Maybe one day I'll learn how to play again (since I've long forgotten the rules), and try it.
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Is the KGS channel ITGO still a thing? If so, please invite "buffis" again.
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Xom posted:ITGO is dead. Long live ITGO.
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Oh... ok That seems quite a bunch shittier though. The nice thing about ITGO was that it was super easy to just load one of your latest games in there, and randomly have Prod or someone jump in and review, which was amazing and helped me a ton with my improvement. Still better than nothing I guess. Gonna give getting to 1K a shot again. Seem to be about 3K at KGS right now, winning against 2K's sometimes so just about 1.5 stones to go or something.
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I mainly use the Discord to bother Shadonra for reviews.
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I'm stunned that the next round of the SA tourney is underway. I just kinda forgot it existed. I guess that's one way to prompt me to play more.
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So this just happened on Twitter https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/816660463282954240
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Pander posted:I'm stunned that the next round of the SA tourney is underway. a lot of goons abandoned it because it was created as a public tournament and full of non-goons who are taking forever to respond the somethingawful securities cup is the canonical one - someone should make one for 2017 but remember to think carefully about the settings to ensure only group members are invited and the scoring and time settings is not poo poo!!
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I have a terrible, dark confession to make. When I see someone on OGS or KGS who uses as their avatar a shadowy, soft monochrome photo (likely taken through an instragram filter) of themselves, I want to crush them so loving bad. EDIT: I've also done it again, which is to say got outplayed badly by a weaker opponent then came back with an absurd invasion that shouldn't have worked. Invasion starts at move 106. Overwined fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Jan 10, 2017 |
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Overwined posted:I have a terrible, dark confession to make. When I see someone on OGS or KGS who uses as their avatar a shadowy, soft monochrome photo (likely taken through an instragram filter) of themselves, I want to crush them so loving bad. Yowch. He probably should have extended move 109 instead of taking the stone. Let you get some connectivity going. Looked too eager to cut and kill, played too close to you, let you build strength.
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Gonna go ahead and resurrect this thread to say, I'm on the gopanda2 pandanet go server as 'littleprof,' I've managed to go 5-5 with players from 9k-11k since joining. Anyone in here still playing? Wouldn't mind some goon games. (this place: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/gopanda2) The client seems to have no 'undo' button, so....place your stones carefully! I've also played a bunch of games with my dad, who seems to inexplicably have my number despite rating as 14k so far on the server. Literally everyone else I have played and defeated has been 9k-11k. No fair using fatherly knowledge to your advantage 
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In case it's of any use to anyone, having picked up a board and stones over the holidays, I've been trying to learn how to play (more or less on my own at this point) and having read through a few beginners' guides, I've found Learn to Play Go, Vol. 1: A Master's Guide to be very clear and helpful. SmartGo (for iPhone) has also been useful.
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Observe lots of games, and not just high level ones. Observing lower ranked players can be a great way to get yourself tuned up too. I observe 5-10 games for every game I actually play.
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