https://online-go.com/game/88507287
In this game I was playing white. While I did come out as the winner, by more than I'm used to, I still know I could have played this game better. I feel like where I probably could have played better is the late early game/start of the mid game. but I do feel like after move 85 I was mostly in control this game
I've been using Tsumego Pro and have completed the 300 beginner tsumego which were pretty manageable but am currently struggling with the beginner tesuji puzzles. It just seems so much harder to read through the variations but I'm improving slowly.
I'm curious though, do these two types of puzzles train different specific skills? I remember seeing a Go Magic post saying tesuji puzzles are good for learning shapes although I don't really see it myself yet.
Hello,
I would like to share some of my games for reviews on this sub, but I am not sure how to?
I thought about sending kifus, but maybe not everyone wants to invest the time to read/spread them. And most of my late games were set as private on OGS so I cannot share them easily.
Which site should I use? What would be the most convenient way for everyone?
I use apps like Badukpop where i can play matches. But, it gives me a handicap of 2-3 stones at the start which, playing on a 9x9 board is more or less an advantage only extremely skilled and experienced players or an algorithm can overcome.
all i need to do is to keep taking the opponent’s stones and after a few turns, it becomes harder for the opponent to survive.
how do i overcome that, cuz it has for sure taught me a big lesson in real life where i know someone with even basic skills can do extremely well with a good headstart, and trying to fight in such an area is a losing cause but i feel stuck.
On of the most basic rules of Go is in order to capture a stone you must surround the oppositions stone with stones, so in order to capture one stone for example, you must place a stone above, below, and on either side of it (corners are not necessary). They often capture stones without removing them, or the entire board is a mess and there is no specific complaint that can be made, everything is wrong!
I get not knowing how to play but when they zoom in on the board like that and the game is always paired with such language as "You're trapped, the game is over, oh wow! How did you think of that move!" And I'm looking at these strange boards...
Some of these boards I saved because the context to the game was that they had suddenly made a winning move when they were most definitely not winning and in fact were losing very badly. Others because they were just wonderfully terrible.
I wonder if anyone else finds this very funny.
The worst Go board game I ever saw was in a Thai advert where they were in a Chess club and they were advertising a Soy milk that would make you very smart and they show him winning the board game and they had all the stones inside the grid, instead of on the points!
Hello everyone,
I would like a review of a game I played recently. I was Black, komi was 0.
I started playing in February and cannot go to a club at the moment but I am planning to in October. An estimate of my level atm would be appreciated.
Any suggestion welcome. Thanks!
Even if you’re resting on seashore and don’t have a Go Board, this game still gives you a possibility to have a calm evening with your friends : http://youtube.com/post/UgkxVqIszdFVAvekUBLsYtYeyXx8jycoxRnY?si=jRC\_NVnK1dGG-cT7
Which white stones, and how many of them, must be removed so that black can capture all remaining white stones?
Bonus: Can the answer be extrapolated to any n x n board?
Asking for my brother, I don't know much myself, this might be more advanced, but my brother said the top left was a famous shape called the carpenter's square and he knew it had a ko in it. He said he was going to play A, but instead chose 1 and 3, he felt like a genius grabbing a stone and ending all possible life and death problems with the famous top left shape. But better players still pointed out that 1 and 3 were still mistakes. As for me, I only know you can't get a group killed in the opening, my brother also thinks if a ko happens in the opening there will not be enough ko threats.
Thanks!
Okay, I have a most ridiculous example from one of the games. I was black and played wrong. Advice for ddk like me -- protect those kind of weakness in advance!
I know go is largely a community run environment. And I surely don't contribute. But it seems a little crazy that such an important tournament doesn't have a dedicated webpage (like they had in previous years) and no consistent game records being relayed. For an event with such importance I would consider solving these as prerequisites to running the event--ie. I wouldn't run the event until we had solved where the daily results including game records would be published. Very strange to me.
Good luck to all the players!
I let ChatGPT (Black) play against Katago (White). I had to stop the game though because ChatGPT kept reading the coordinates wrong. But it seems like the result has already been determined anyway, I don't think ChatGPT could create any living group if the game kept continuing. Maybe I should give it 25 stones next time (until I figure out how to make it read the coordinate right).
SGF:(;GM[1]FF[4]SZ[19]KM[6.5];B[jj];W[qd];B[dd];W[dp];B[pp];W[oc];B[pd];W[pc];B[od];W[nd];B[qe];W[rd];B[qc];W[mc];B[nc];W[nb];B[md];W[ne];B[me];W[qq];B[pq];W[qp];B[po];W[rn];B[qo];W[ro];B[sp];W[pr];B[oq];W[or];B[nq];W[pm];B[on];W[fq];B[cd];W[gd];B[fd];W[fc];B[gc];W[ec];B[ed];W[hc];B[hd];W[ge];B[he];W[gf];B[fe];W[gb];B[hb];W[ic];B[jd];W[lq];B[lp];W[kp];B[jq];W[lo];B[mp];W[kq];B[lr];W[jp])
Conservation with ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a483ddc-c394-83ec-a85b-c79ebbf5821b
In one of my recent games, I played a big mistake. But, my opponent responded to my move, which was also a mistake, so it worked out, and I captured their entire group.
However, a few seconds later, they requested an undo for their move, which I accepted. It went from having their stones captured, to having my stones captured instead.
I generally accept all undo requests as I want to face the strongest moves, but I would never ask for an undo myself. When I learned the game, it was accepted that once you played a move, you couldn't take it back. And, I suppose it has something to do with pride, as well.
I'm wondering if people feel differently about undo's depending on how they learned the game or what the Go culture is like in their part of the world. For reference, this player was not from a western country, and I learned how to play in the United States.
Black to play. White groups on the left side have many weaknesses, how can Black make effective use of them?
I have just two quick questions about kurokigoishiten that I would appreciate any help with, I will start with them then give an explanation after for anyone that cares.
TLDR:
What if any are the differences between Go 3-Piece Set and Manager's Recommended 3-Piece Go Set? They list the exact same items but the Go 3-Peice set with the cherry bowl is $417 on sale compared to $499 of the Manager's recommended. Is this just a upcharge for the recommended set?
What does 'screen-printed' mean for the go boards (example) and are the lines raised? I would imagine they are just painted on but the description seems to imply they use a similar lacquer so are they actually raised like the tachi-mori boards?
Ok now for an explanation for anyone that cares, I have been playing go on a nice set of slate and shell stones that a friend of mine bought long ago (the go stone company went out of business years ago) but I am moving away in a few months and am thus considering buying my own set. He has offered to gift me an old set of glass stones he has but I feel better about buying my own set which I can afford (at least nothing crazy, just a budget set).
My original plan was to wait till closer when I move to buy my set but it seems like kurokigoishiten is currently running a sale where the sets I am looking at are about 20% listed as 20% less than the normal listing price. So I am considering buying my set before July 20 when I think the sale ends, because this would probably let me get a set of size 34 instead of size 30 stones.
I will also preemptively apologize if these questions are obvious or if I missed a previous post here that answered these questions, this is my first time buying go related items. Also unsure If I should have tagged this with 'newbie question' flair, did not because I feel that is more about game advice than this.
Thank you in advance!
