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Singing Praise To The Library
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I think that these 7 or 8 months with the library increased my strength significantly. I learned a lot of useful things, first of all the fundamentals of the L group and the art of survival in the corners. I recommend all newcomers to read this material. It makes decision making in the fight so much easier.

My tsumego improved as well owing to the problems, which means that the opponents die more frequently, I survive a little bit more often. This in general gives more wins.


From Toriyamaworld, the "Go" section:

"Another, interactive way to study strategy and help you improve is to go to the Beginner Study Section at Sensei's Library. Not only are the pages at Sensei's highly informative, but you can edit the pages yourself to ask your own questions and answer the questions of others. The people at Sensei's are very nice and it's a fun site to visit for any Go player looking to learn more about the game, certain terminology, and a little history."

Nice words indeed, and it means we get a lot of visitors redirected from the internet epicentre of Hikaru No Go. Let's make it worth their while, folks!

--Stefan


I'd like to add a diagram to this page because a page without a diagram loses its point. This might have happened in one of my games on IGS. It did not happen because I made a sente move elsewhere, the opponent defended wrongly, his group died and he had to resign.

[Diagram]
How to defend?

White played yose moves on the right and now Black comes with a counterattack with a marked stone. Defending at a is a natural move, it is as efficient as anything else but it looks tasteless. Defending at b is even worse. So I planned to play as in the next diagram.


[Diagram]
Setting a trap

White 1 actually does not give more points than a at the previous diagram and leaves a ko-threat, but it sets a trap for the opponent. I wonder how many would buy it.


[Diagram]
White captures a stone

And now if Black takes three stones the corner dies. We know that already.

I think that since this position may happen in any game, everybody should learn how to kill the corner.



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