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So thanks to this thread I finally decided to try playing some Go. Some people might be turned off by the fact, that you might be the only person of your rank bracket on the server in some timezones. So the automatch will give you the same opponent several times in succession.  After his eighth loss in half an hour, our pubbie here displayed the proper attitude.   My only regret is that I forgot to screenshot those resignation popups.https://www.dropbox.com/s/qav4l6ro0p2kjor/tears.zip
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Can anybody recommend good Go programs for Android. I am mainly looking for a go problems display. I tried almost all of the free ones by now. Until now WeGoIgo lite is my favorite, but it has some minor problems which annoy me. Has anybody tried any of those non free tsumego apps? Can somebody give recommendations? e: also, most of the programmer's sites recommend some collections that lead to forests of dead links, anybody know any good digital problem collections that are still being offered? VictualSquid fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Nov 16, 2012 |
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Nov 16, 2012 17:56
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Blendy posted:Magic Baduk Go is a collection of problems. It's got 4 levels of life and death problems and a collection of tesuji. I'm not sure how many programs are there in total but it seems like a decent amount for a free app. Unless you have tied it already, and experienced no surprises?
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Nov 16, 2012 19:07
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uXs posted:So I joined KGS again today. Apparently the sound is broken and WMS is too lazy to fix it. To be honest, I've kind of had it with WMS since he refused to fix another bug several years ago. There is a manual somewhere on the KGS-help sites.
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Dec 30, 2012 18:31
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"Solution" is pretty well defined in game analysis. It means that you know who would win in a perfect game. Even with chess we are still pretty far from even that, even though chess programms started beating top players around 10 years ago.
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Oct 20, 2013 14:26
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So I tried out OGS. Couldn't even figure out how to mute the stone sound. Also, could someone add me to the group? I use the same name as here.
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Oct 30, 2013 01:09
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Nice. Doesn't Tygem have all this already? Fuseki/Joseki helper and live score estimator at least.
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Dec 4, 2013 13:38
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I got a laminated-wood folding board and glass stones for 40 Euros. I think in the US you get something like this even cheaper. http://www.amazon.de/Hebsacker-Verlag-Go-Spiel-Studenten-Go-Set-Master/dp/B001GXUKTG/
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Dec 8, 2013 17:26
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So, I have decided to give you some reviews of the current Go-apps for android. Gogrinder is probably the best tsumego app around. + Very nice interface for problems. - Can't do anything else. - the input method for full boards is pretty bad. - You need to bring your own problems. - Costs 1$ WeGoIgo Lite usable multi purpose app. + Good interface for playing and reviewing. + Optional Gnugo opponent. + Support for Kogo's. - Tsumego mode is terrible. - Ad supported. There is a paid version without ads. ElyGo is pretty much a clone of WeGoIgo. + Added IGS support + Actually actively developed, and the developer is receptive about bugreports. - Costs 6€ KGS-Client + You can play and chat on KGS. - Lots of annoying limitations ( Can't make custom games, can't listen to audio-lectures ). - Input method is annoying. - Costs  Pachi + Strongest free computer player for android. ( The pc version is 2d KGS). + Pretty good interface - Eats your battery like crazy. I would recommend getting WeGoIgo Lite, Grogrinder, Pachi and maybe the KGS-Client.
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Jan 4, 2014 21:33
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Drewski posted:I'm so excited to find this thread! I was introduced to Go about 3 weeks ago and I've been going crazy thinking about it every day since. I've created a profile on Pandanet and downloaded Panda Tetsuki on my iPhone, which uses IGS. I don't think there are any KGS iPhone apps, is that correct? But there is a Tygem iPhone app, I think. Which is the server people actually play on. While KGS is used mainly for chatting.
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Jan 9, 2014 01:34
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I think if you are meeting up with people from somewhere else, instead of looking for random people on a server, ogs is a lot better then kgs.
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Jan 14, 2014 16:35
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Did you try reducing your java security settings?
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Jan 16, 2014 15:17
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oiseaux morts 1994 posted:Can we have a jubango watching party or something.... someone should provide a commentary as the games emerge
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Jan 24, 2014 13:58
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I just noticed that the game starts at 2 am for me. Pretty annoying. I will probably get up early the next day to try to watch the end. If anybody notices a nice livestream with commentary. Could you try to record it?
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Jan 24, 2014 14:25
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How the game of go looks in our minds:
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Jan 27, 2014 21:55
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uranus posted:Just finished a 13x game with Pander http://online-go.com/game/483457
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Feb 2, 2014 23:08
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Kheldragar posted:The 4-4 kick and descent so you don't get hane'd is joseki!? http://www.josekipedia.com/#path:pdqfqepfre
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Feb 19, 2014 20:29
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Kheldragar posted:Xopods, can you tell me how you're supposed to live when you invade the 3-3 and there's one enclosing stone? The sequence always goes like this for me (Even if that's already "dead" after white 6), and if Black plays A, I play D, and if black plays B, I play C which means there's lots of ladders and stuff to consider if black just blocks. I've never seen a game where black let me connect underneath yet.
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Mar 31, 2014 12:21
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uranus posted:there's lots of beginners on ogs (online-go.com), pretty quick to get a game there. Last time I was on ogs it was full with sandbaggers with 30k rank.
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Zekky posted:Thanks, uploaded here http://eidogo.com/#2uq4HriqI. http://eidogo.com/#25A0LcK1r
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Apr 15, 2014 16:02
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I found a pretty great video where Elwyn Berlekamp talks about go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puK3qYiMKpQ Has a nice segment on the history of go, and why go is awesome. A basic explanation of the rules. And a long segment on endgame and counting. E: he also talks quite a bit about rule systems in the Q&A portion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qya14k8IfA VictualSquid fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Apr 20, 2014 |
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Apr 20, 2014 16:04
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oiseaux morts 1994 posted:Re: KGS in decline, it begs the question then: Where have those players gone? They hear that Kgs is terrible so they start playing on some other server that is even worse in all of xopods' categories. Then they give up.
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Apr 23, 2014 12:28
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xopods posted:So it's not the obnoxious behavior of internet players that turns people off of Go, but the people who criticize obnoxious behavior? Which server would you recommend as one that is better then KGS in any of your points?
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Apr 23, 2014 13:31
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The Problem I have with this is that the attitude and sportsmanship on KGS compared to almost all other gaming communities is also positively astounding. The few times I was at the only Go-club in my area, it was an experience pretty much like KGS. Mostly encouraging to beginners, but after a bit half the club only wanted to practice for the upcoming tournament and the other half was having heated discussions about some other boardgames.
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Apr 23, 2014 14:39
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areyoucontagious posted:Do you guys have a preferred YouTube lesson series? Someone both entertaining and knowledge? I've watched a few of Nick Sibicky and he seems alright.
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Apr 23, 2014 23:58
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areyoucontagious posted:So I'm getting a little discouraged. I know you're supposed to lose 100 games, but I feel like after 10-20 I'm not learning anything. I'm studying webpages about go and things like that but the concepts seem to just fly out of my head when I start playing. Is this just perseverance at this point, or do some people (like me) just not get it? Just ask a stronger player for a review/teaching game. He will tell you what to focus on next.
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areyoucontagious posted:Thanks for the replies. I play on http://online-go.com/, which I guess used to be nova.gs? I've been on KGS before, but that was a long time ago and a false start. I've only recently been taking the game more seriously. Also what is ITGO? Is that the ITGO league thing? I can't really figure out what to do with that. :/
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Apr 25, 2014 23:56
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yehdawg posted:Hey guys, You need to lower the default security level for java in the global java settings, or add an exception for kgs. I don't actually know how to do that on windows.
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Jun 21, 2014 11:34
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So, I tried to play again for a bit. And in my second game I had this crap: http://eidogo.com/#4dmvUquHI:0,14 Seems like I have totally forgotten how to fight. Can't even find a good way out of this even when I am reviewing. How would you guys play here?
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AdorableStar posted:Has Kgs been down all morning for anyone else?
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Aug 12, 2014 18:29
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I suppose Baduk-Knifefighting is the logical follow up to Chess-Boxing.
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bollig posted:Okay well i tried to take on a bot but now it left the room (KGS). Can I leave the room now without being penalized.
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Fortuitous Bumble posted:I've been trying to learn this for a couple days, I lost a few games on KGS and one player was nice enough to explain some of the places I screwed up. Not sure when or how to start playing rated games, I seem to have achieved the lowest rating possible after challenging a bot on some sort of blitz settings. If you run out of time you still get a few seconds per move instead of losing immediately. You can also imagine that your time remaining gets rounded up to 30 seconds if it is below that. Well, Go games do speed up at the endgame but not because of the time system.
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Sep 25, 2014 10:12
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AdorableStar posted:You mean where you should be counting the values of every move and trying to find some good tesuji?
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Sep 25, 2014 14:05
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PaganGoatPants posted:I want to learn how to play this game. Are there are any recommended videos that explain the rules/moves etc before I jump into the tutorial? http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/ http://www.gokgs.com/tutorial/
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Oct 19, 2014 17:53
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I have been wondering about the endgame for the L+2 group recently. Normally white will hane in from the side because it is massively sente. But what is black's best local move here, and how large is it actually? The group you get if black plays the hane on both ends is actually seki for example, so that can't really be the best outcome.
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Oct 21, 2014 14:43
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My ideas: 1) resign 2) tenuki 3) try for some crazy desperate capturing race. Maybe starting at f15.
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Oct 28, 2014 13:07
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The most unexpected surprise to ever surprise the go world happened. Soon hell will freeze over and Winds of Winter will be released. Stone-sound is back on KGS.
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