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Playing Styles And Player Types
Playing Styles
- The Bizarre Style: We've all played against people using this style before. They open on the 5-5 point and 3-6 point. Every move they make seems to defy convention. Yet for some reason finding a suitable play against it is always impossible. You end up losing by 20 points and are at a loss to see how you got so far behind. Not to be confused with the "Beginner Style" where bizarre moves are played, yet in the end, they are left with a couple small barely living groups.
- The Belligerent Style: Players using this can't seem to stay away from a fight. Forget any concept of a fuseki, two stones are plonked down in two random corners, then a violent fight is started. Every time you free yourself from one violent agressive mess, another is started. The position on the board never grows evenly, always in huge amorphous blobs marking the site of each bitter struggle.
Player Types
- The Oblivious Genius: This guy has an incredible talent and understanding of the game and often plays sparkling moves that completely dumbfound his opponent. His attention to detail is severely lacking however and in almost every game, he will make one or two enormous oversights that allow him to lose the game. This guy is often accused of Sand Bagging on IGS, as he will play games brilliantly only to get his rating smashed down by the most ridiculous mistakes. A close cousin of "Mr. Inconsistant", a player whose skill can vary by 10 or more stones depending on how he is feeling that day.
- The Postman: (the one that always rings twice). In the endgame he plays a dame. "Huh ? The guy plays dame ... Oh, right, yeah, next comes a sente dame. Let's play elsewhere." So the postman rings twice and plays the sente dame, to which you respond. He looks at you, bemused: "Hm, you saw it, ay ?"
Ellegon: I'd like to add a playing style that I am "guilty" of. I would call it the text-book style. You recognize that type when you see bits of good shape interspersed by huge and obvious cutting points, and heavy useless chains. It's when a beginner has started reading go books and reading lessons on the internet, but hasn't figured out how to use them yet. It's mostly a transitional state, during wihch the player in question is left wondering what he did wrong when his whole moyo on the left side is gone... not that it ever happened to me though:)
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