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Amateurish
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Everyone makes mistakes in playing go. Beginners make few correct moves ... amateur dan players probably make some, since otherwise they'd be losing more than 100 points per game to best play (which seems unlikely).

It seems useful to separate out early mistakes everyone has to get past in learning the game, from those that persist certainly in all kyu-level players. That is, we need a category for mistakes that aren't novice errors (running out of liberties, being cut, groups dying of neglect of eyes and territories broken into). It therefore makes sense to reserve 'amateurish' for these remaining, tenaciously-rooted mistakes.

Examples are certainly:

Charles Matthews


Confused: One could add to the list:

  • playing shape-ish looking moves while ignoring the simple efficient ones.
  • playing the wrong joseki or not knowing when to deviate from the joseki.


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