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The middle black stone is one of a kind. And what's funny is that I always assumed that it had to be intentional, since it was only one and it was black and Go sets typically have one more black than white. I assumed it filled the purpose of indicating where the first move was placed. I even created a false memory of reading a book that confirmed my belief.

See the funny thing is that since Grade 4, when I started playing Go, I never once even considered that it might not actually be intentional. But when I showed it to people at my Go club, they'd never heard of the "pointy black stone". Neither had Google AI. Then I showed it to people in a Discord server and none of them believed it was intentional either. It was like finding out Santa Claus isn't real.

None of my family plays Go but they all like my set on account of the mutant stone. And I will say this, if I ever play people with this set, I will force them to use the mutant stone as the first stone. But unfortunately, no one at my Go club likes mini boards, so I don't think I'll have any actual luck there.

That's all, folks!

What a slaughter. Another "I deny you to have any territory" kind of player. They're even kind of funny.

Again I blundered a corner, but captured some of his stones, and got a huge moyo. I managed to capture his suicidal invasion and in the end, likely kind of "tilted" he mismanaged my reduction and blundered his corner.

She said die

Found this publishing mistake in the Fundamental Principles of Go. White to play, book says to take the directionally correct 3-4 point as shown. Instead Black took the 3-3, and any continuation is missing.

Seems shogi took everything: sente, gote, shape, joseki, tsumeshogi etc.

It's sad, but Hikaru no go couldn't happen in real life, because in real life briliant players don't have children which are also briliant in the same discipline. This just doesn't happen. So somebody like Akira coudn't exist in real life.

I think it's quite widespread that children of distinguished chess players etc. also try to play chess etc. and are arguably decent at it, but not outstanding. I haven't heard about any such example either in chess or go or in other discipline. The nature just strives for the average.

Hey everyone – if you remember the wonderful Go-centric comic “Aji’s Quest” then you also should remember Colette Bezio (aka “Inkwolf”), the creator of comic.

Now there’s been a fire in her apartment, and she lost almost everything, including her two cats.

Her sister put up a GoFundMe for her where you can donate for Colette so that she can rebuild at least part of what she lost:

https://gofund.me/ce5ec1473

It would be awesome if the community could help her.

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“Aji’s Quest” online: https://www.deviantart.com/inkwolf/gallery/74369340/aji-s-quest

Gunnar Dickfeld of Board N' Stones has published the printed book:

Original English: http://www.boardnstones.com/09-All_Titles-87-BSV87.php

German translation: https://www.brett-und-stein.de/09-Alle_Titel-88-BSV88.php