surc posted:

If you're fine without the lines being laid down properly as lacquer applied from a katana then YEAH I GUESS YOU COULD RUIN THE WHOLE THING GOD YOU USELESS GAIJIN.

(That is actually the traditional Japanese way to do it, and as a result the lines are slightly raised from the board. I have not seen any chinese or korean goban makers, but I assume it is similar processes because tradition. I'm having trouble finding it at the moment, but there's an old japanese book that details the process. I've been trying to pick it up for a while just for the nifty factor --it's in japanese, so hard for me to use as instructions--, but amazon.jp sellers won't ship it outside of japan )

oiseaux morts 1994 posted:

Yeah the japanese have this aesthetic thing for poo poo that's broken so they don't much care for a totally ordered board with all the stones equally placed, something to do with this or some poo poo

quote:

Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, asperity (roughness or irregularity), simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes.

"[Wabi-sabi] nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect."

quote:

Kheldragar: That's a lot of Go
Xombar: 520 hours is kind of pitiful compared to how much DotA some of my friends have played though
Xombar: according to Steam
Kheldragar: And those people who have hundreds of hours on TF2 or so
Kheldragar: Kind of funny how playing Go all those hours seem so much more longer than other games

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Xombar: You might even call it... the Hell Ban

Kheldragar: New Zealand rules says I can play at Tengen
Xombar: in that case instead of Tengen that move would be called Tenbux

Xombar: wait
Xombar: do NZ rules count captured stones
Xombar: otherwise that joke doesn't work
Xombar: nope
Xombar: NZ rules is area scoring
Xombar: oh well

C-BOX posted:

so does playing go refine my ability to use psychic powers or is this thread title a lie

Deep Winter posted:

Okay but where do the pawns and knights and poo poo come into play?

C-BOX posted:

so does playing go refine my ability to use psychic powers or is this thread title a lie

C-BOX posted:

so does playing go refine my ability to use psychic powers or is this thread title a lie

Kheldragar posted:

2014 Go Superbowl Between The Sedol Hawks and The Li Tarantulas is LIVE! - ITGO MOTD

oiseaux morts 1994 posted:

This thread title is a complete lie. Playing Go only refines your ability to play Go

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How to learn go without quitting like a bitch

If you want to learn to play go and get strong as heck and beat the crap out of everyone, you don't have to be a genius or anything, you just have to be persistent. If you aren't persistent, you probably aren't going to be very good at this game. I have seen a lot of people come in with big aspirations, and while most of them get lost along the way, here are some things that the successful ones did:

1. They got a rank...

If you don't have a rank on KGS people are going to treat you like a piece of poo poo. You'll only play guests and other people with [?] ranks, so it's going to be like you're in the kowloon walled city or some poo poo. People with ranks, however low they are, are matched with other people who are trying to get ranked correctly too. The intention makes all the difference in the world in terms of game quality.

2. ...and played ranked, 19x19 games.

There's nothing special in particular about playing ranked games. If you really want to get strong at go, you'll do a lot of problems and 9x9 before even thinking about the big board, but problems are boring and it's hard to find 9x9 games at all, let alone quality ones. Anyone who did any good at this game probably played a lot of ranked games early on. Go has a pretty brutal learning curve, especially in the first month, and it's important to play ranked so you can at least see your progress.

3. They played a lot of those, ranked, 19x19 games.

Some people get all terrified of ranked games and would rather play free. Those people all quit before they get to 12k. They ALL quit. Make every game you play (when possible) a ranked game and you'll have a good, accurate rank. If you wind up only playing three or so ranked games a month, your rank will wind up inflated and you'll lose, making you an even huger pussy. Then you'll only play two next month, and pretty shortly you'll just quit. Maybe after six or nine months you will come back, but you will never get past 12k or so. Play like five ranked games a week at least and you will make good progress without backsliding.

4. They got a lot of reviews.

Whenever you lose a game try to convince someone to review it. Even if they are only a few stones stronger, they usually have some kind of insight to provide. You shouldn't hold out for someone good to review, because even if someone tells you something that is objectively wrong in a review, it's not worth worrying about because those mistakes are indicitive of their rank and you should be so lucky to gently caress up like that as their junior. If you won, a review is probably less valuable, but you should have plenty of losses to show.

If you do those four things and keep it up for about 3-5 months you will make it to at least 9k. Once you're there, you can decide on your own how you want to improve, but for the 20k-10k stretch this is the most realistic way of making it across in one piece.

tentative8e8op posted:

Under 15 posted:

Writing aside, diagram 17 is pretty outrageous. What book is that from?

E Equals MC Hammer posted:

what is this, necro thread night???

giogadi posted:

This game is really good I just started playing please join and then we can be fierce rivals get all the way to the top and then have to face off after the elite four