EPTi wonder how much a giant go board would cost and youd have to move the pieces with giant sticks >_<
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kevisyum
Israel105 Posts
i wonder how much a giant go board would cost and youd have to move the pieces with giant sticks >_< | ||
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Zalfor
United States1035 Posts
the thing ur talking about is like, part of ur house... <_< i'm on KGS btw. fav. go player is Wu Qing Yuan. =) | ||
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IIICodeIIIIIII
China1101 Posts
With that being said. All sports are equally competative, but are so in different ways. A spelling be is just as competative as wrestling, but to be the best, you are spending more time memorizing rote memory. And for chess, to be the best, you are spending more time analyzing variations and remembering ways to think. Time commitment is the same for any competative sport. For people who are competent, everything else fades away and the real strata is determined by person A spends 40 hours a week practicing for 10 years. person B spends 20 hours a week practicing for 10 years. foregone conclusion. A vs B, 5-0. not good game, no rematch noob. | ||
Arbiter[frolix]
United Kingdom2674 Posts
On July 14 2006 19:33 IIICodeIIIIIII wrote: people who talk about one sport being harder than another sport is retarded. same goes for anything competative including video games and school and jobs. All competative things are equally hard because you aren't competing against the chess pieces or the go pieces or your teachers. you are competing against the other people. Actually, I disagree. Isn't it true that some games and sports are easier to become proficient at than others? So in some sense at least, chess is much 'harder' than, for example, noughts and crosses. | ||
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tenbagger
United States1289 Posts
http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/news.html euqivalent of ygclan for go, has replays of every major tourney. great way to improve is to go over pro games and try to predict each move. Then after you see the move, try to figure out why they played it that way. http://gobase.org/ I guess you can say its like the TL of go. Has replays, although not as thorough or timely as the site above. However, it has many articles, joseki database and many other go resources. I didn't realize so many TL members were also go players. I'm 1dan on IGS, pm me here if you would like a game. Even if you're not so good, I can offer a teaching game. FA, if you read this, I'm sorry I wasn't able to give you that game before. Something came up and I was busy for a few weeks, and then I kinda forgot about it. If you're still interested, I can give you that teaching game we talked about. And my favorite player is Lee Sedol, kinda reminds me of nada for some reason. His play is a little more unorthodox than Lee Changho for example, and a lot of his games involve huge fights. | ||
Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
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maoam
United Kingdom444 Posts
On July 14 2006 20:31 tenbagger wrote: And my favorite player is Lee Sedol, kinda reminds me of nada for some reason. His play is a little more unorthodox than Lee Changho for example, and a lot of his games involve huge fights. I love his nickname: "boy, the unbeatable." | ||
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Zalfor
United States1035 Posts
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hasuprotoss
United States4612 Posts
Edit: And you would also have to teach me some of the vocabulary... I don't understand most of it T_T. | ||
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maoam
United Kingdom444 Posts
When you've played a few games, I suggest you submit your best effort to the Go Teaching ladder to see what you can improve on. The best way to learn how to play the middle game is studying professional games. Get a game collection book, or find some annotated games online, and play over them. Solve as many tesuji and tsumego problems as you can! I don't recommend studying joseki at first, just learn general principles in the opening (Otake Hideo wrote a very good book on this). The endgame is best studied once you have a firm grasp of tsumego (life and death). | ||
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tenbagger
United States1289 Posts
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maoam
United Kingdom444 Posts
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kevisyum
Israel105 Posts
is pandanet the main server for playing go and climbing up the kyus? | ||
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hasuprotoss
United States4612 Posts
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rawrx
United States380 Posts
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NpG)Explosive
France994 Posts
On July 17 2006 08:30 kevisyum wrote: cool those sites look awesome >_< is pandanet the main server for playing go and climbing up the kyus? KGS (kgs.kiseido.com) has more players than IGS. It's the best place to find beginners to play with. It's also the server thaht has the most western player, not many Asian players there. IGS (pandanet) does not have many weak players, mainly high kyu and dan players. Also it's the server thaht has the most Japanese players. Oro (sensei's library explains how to download the client and get an account) is another place to play. It has Japanese, Chinese and Korean servers. I played some games on the Korean server, almost only Asian players (I'd say at least 95%). The style is very specific there (they fight well, but they are usually bad at everything else, so they fight whenever they can). DGS (www.dragongoserver.net) is a turn based server. There is also a Chinese server called TOM but the client is all in Chinese so I did not tried it at all. You can find more information about it on sensei's library. In my opinion, KGS is the best place to start, climbing to about 15 kyu. You will easily find opponents of your strength, and it's the best client to review your games. | ||
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kevisyum
Israel105 Posts
anyone wanna play me jsut msg me - msn kevisyum@hotmail.com A funny thing I've noticed about GO over my year of playing it is the more I play go, the better I get at thinking- especially if what I'm thinking about involves trying to think in 3D and how different parts will relate to each other- For example my chess has become stronger than ever- And my martial arts choreography abilities have gone through the roof- As now I can imagine and mold the fight scenes in my head. >_< Of course I still have a very very long way to go- I just thought that was an interesting phenomena with me- any one else have a similar expierence? Also, based on this, what do you think the chances are that GO can help people play better STarcraft, be better doctors, better prograhmers etc?... or am I running away with this game? >_< | ||
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