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Sliding Stones On The Board
To the extent that you cannot slide a stone around on the board unless you are actually playing it and considering that you should not disturb the already played stones, this cannot be much of a bad habit, no? Actually, when the goban is starting to be filled up, I quite like to SlamTheStoneDown and then slide it into place. Since I do like to SlamTheStoneDown, at least I don't upset the other stones if my aim is off - but I do sometimes have to slide it 2-3 places to get it into the desired spot. Then again, my SlamTheStoneDown force and frequency is inversely proportional to the strength of my opponent :-) -- MortenPahle The problem is that there are two kinds of sliding stones, one good (or at least unobjectionable), the other really bad behaviour. To choose an intersection, let the stone come down on some nearby point (perhaps more in the open) and move it to that place is not bad behaviour. But it is bad behaviour to make a decision as to what to play, or change one's mind, after the stone has hit the board. One should not be moving the stone back and forth, or have it touch the board, stay at a spot for a while, then go somewhere else. -- AndreEngels Does anyone do this? I can see how it'd be annoying, but I've never seen it done. BTW, I just thought of yet another Go variant: SlidingGo ;^) -- MortenPahle It is not very common, but there are players who do this - they decide on a move, put the stone on the board, and with their finger still on the stone but the stone already on the board they start doubting again. -- AndreEngels I find this habit, of keeping a finger on the stone and seeing if one still likes the move, to be common among newbies who have a memory of playing Chess in childhood. There seems to be a common convention with teaching Chess that "once your finger leaves the piece, it is played". This leads, of course, to young players trying out a move on the board, then weaving their hand about with a finger still attached to the piece to see if the move is any good. I find that placing my own stone immediately, while their hand is still on the board, is a good way of demonstrating that their efforts at amnesty-through-continued-contact are fruitless :-) Actually, this seems to manifest as a set of BadHabits, which must be stripped away in layers:
Some of these habits tend to stick for the rest of the player's career; my hypothesis is that they weren't taught not to do it early enough :-) -- BenFinney I went to a go club for the first time a week and a half ago and I had a weird problem with an opponent who had an extremely loose shirt. Every time he reached across the board to play near where I was sitting, he would end up disturbing the stones on the board, but he never seemed to notice. I have just came back from my Go Association, after playing a game where I have to keep reminding my opponent about his shirt disturbing the stones on my upper-right corner. :-) --unkx80 This is a copy of the living page "Sliding Stones On The Board" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |